I always get esoteric batteries from Battery Bob. My first order never came and when he sent me an ad asking if I wanted to purchase anything else, I fired back an angry e-mail along the lines of "Why don't you ship my last order and then we'll talk?"
The phone rang 3 minutes later. It was Battery Bob himself (an old guy from Florida). He apologized profusely for me not getting my ($5) order, and sent me $10 worth of batteries to make up for it. About 2 weeks later, I received a completely mangled envelope that had been retaped numerous times. It was my first order. I called him back and asked him if I could make it good. He said, "Just order all your unique batteries from me from now on and tell a friend." I've ordered lots of batteries from him since without a problem and his prices are pretty good.
Anyway, I don't have any connection to him except for extremely satisfied customer, but since overpriced esoteric batteries from Radio Shack were mentioned, I thought I would give some well-deserved props.
One time I was at a Radio Shack and I just needed to buy one $18.50 item really quick. The sole employee was going on and on, first helping a clueless woman and then arguing with the guy behind her (in front of me) that he HAD to provide his information in order to ring him up. At that moment, I just set $20 on the counter and walked out. The female employee was screaming that I had to come back, but I just kept going. As I exited the store, I was surprised to see the other customer right behind me. He saw what I had done and just pulled out some cash himself. That was the last time they asked me for personal information, thank God.
Actually, many open-source drivers do not have hardware support for playing video on the graphics chip.
Regardless of the reason for this (and it may be impossible to fix if they are closed up), Ubuntu is very poor at playing Flash video depending on the chip. On one machine at home, they emulate hardware speedup in the driver using software, but Flash actually does better with it turned off.
Sounds like a good way to get rid of co-workers you don't like anonymously...
What's to stop somebody making a Twitter account in someone else's name and then Tweeting about their struggles at work and criticizing their boss and calling him an idiot?
That's the way to have a scientific debate: state that the other side has an agenda, attack them as being dishonest, and ignore any analysis they attempt to present.
Yep, that's a much better way to do "science".
Sounds like everything I read about Creation Science.
No, the identity of your "victim" doesn't change simply because some busy bodies in a church decide they know what the definition of a "human" is.
Actually, you have it backward. It changed when a busybody outside the church decided that it was NO LONGER a human being, because they cared too much about their selfish lifestyle to care about killing another person.
Yes, because instead of Repetitive Stress Injuries on our hands and fingers, we'll all speak with a hoarse smokers voice from all the talking we'll do.;-)
You joke, but I used to be really interested in voice recognition until I sat on a plane next to a Dragon employee. He assured me that his laryngitis was because he had a cold... Riiiiight.
This just hasn't been my experience with CDs and DVDs (even the burnable ones) at all.
I still have games for Windows 3.1 where the physical disc works just fine. It's a very good Monopoly game (with 3D video animations) written for Windows 3.1/95 in 1994. I just installed it on a computer again the other day. That's already 15 years old and it's perfect in every way. No signs of degradation.
I have some of the first music CDs that came out in the 80s. Much of it is irreplaceable. But I can still play discs as old as 1983 with no problems at all. That's already 26 years with no signs of wearing out at all.
I have CD-Rs from that same era that I made for my car CD player in say, 1992 or so. I had one of the first Ricoh 1X CD burners at work. Nobody had ever heard of such a thing and the discs were $1 each back then. I found one the other day and it still played just fine. I was able to rip everything off it just fine (it was one I had made from a tape and was very convenient for making MP3s of a tape-only album.) That's 18 years already.
I wouldn't doubt that current discs will last 100 years or more based on my experience.
I oversaw a Windows 95 migration at a large company, and we didn't give the users ANY training. Sure, we had about a 10-20% increase of support calls saying, "How do I do X in Windows 95?", but that was offset greatly by the reduction in "I got 'out of memory' again" or "this large processed crashed, corrupting this huge file" calls, which had been 50% of the helpdesk calls, prior to the migration.
Contrast that with now. There AREN'T any XP related support calls. It's not broken. It's not low on memory (for most people). If there is any set of calls that would be reduced it would be virus cleanup calls. But, because of the radically different (and confusing) interface changes in Vista and 7, I doubt the offset is there.
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I worked at Radio Shack. There was no commission. Only for managers.
I always get esoteric batteries from Battery Bob. My first order never came and when he sent me an ad asking if I wanted to purchase anything else, I fired back an angry e-mail along the lines of "Why don't you ship my last order and then we'll talk?"
The phone rang 3 minutes later. It was Battery Bob himself (an old guy from Florida). He apologized profusely for me not getting my ($5) order, and sent me $10 worth of batteries to make up for it. About 2 weeks later, I received a completely mangled envelope that had been retaped numerous times. It was my first order. I called him back and asked him if I could make it good. He said, "Just order all your unique batteries from me from now on and tell a friend." I've ordered lots of batteries from him since without a problem and his prices are pretty good.
Anyway, I don't have any connection to him except for extremely satisfied customer, but since overpriced esoteric batteries from Radio Shack were mentioned, I thought I would give some well-deserved props.
One time I was at a Radio Shack and I just needed to buy one $18.50 item really quick. The sole employee was going on and on, first helping a clueless woman and then arguing with the guy behind her (in front of me) that he HAD to provide his information in order to ring him up. At that moment, I just set $20 on the counter and walked out. The female employee was screaming that I had to come back, but I just kept going. As I exited the store, I was surprised to see the other customer right behind me. He saw what I had done and just pulled out some cash himself. That was the last time they asked me for personal information, thank God.
Ironically, they appear to have been very self-aware. Goldstar products were not very good at all, but LG products are mostly great.
I expect no such turnaround from The Shack.
FTFY
99.9% of people would rather go bankrupt than die waiting for surgery.
If you were trying to convince me that national health care is better, it really didn't work.
Just saying...
Even better. Have a blanket ban on P2P except for a single IT employee that can download things for the IT staff. Problem solved.
Actually, many open-source drivers do not have hardware support for playing video on the graphics chip.
Regardless of the reason for this (and it may be impossible to fix if they are closed up), Ubuntu is very poor at playing Flash video depending on the chip. On one machine at home, they emulate hardware speedup in the driver using software, but Flash actually does better with it turned off.
Sounds like a good way to get rid of co-workers you don't like anonymously...
What's to stop somebody making a Twitter account in someone else's name and then Tweeting about their struggles at work and criticizing their boss and calling him an idiot?
Boom! Person you hate just got fired...
That's why Star Wars is better. Transparisteel!
Transparent aluminum. Bah! Might as well use plexiglass. That's Star Trek for you...
The migraines and the throwing up on the floor would have made it obvious to them if I was in the room, but only if they waited about 4 hours.
Since when?
Sounds like everything I read about Creation Science.
Actually, you have it backward. It changed when a busybody outside the church decided that it was NO LONGER a human being, because they cared too much about their selfish lifestyle to care about killing another person.
You joke, but I used to be really interested in voice recognition until I sat on a plane next to a Dragon employee. He assured me that his laryngitis was because he had a cold... Riiiiight.
Simple example.
PG movies on average outearn R movies, but there are more R movies made than PG movies.
What sense does that make? Because you can't be a "gritty" filmmaker without "pushing the limits", whatever that means.
Meanwhile, Disney is a giant corporation and, other than that, my kids have very little to watch.
Tell that to Gavrotte's RAMDisk!
This just hasn't been my experience with CDs and DVDs (even the burnable ones) at all.
I still have games for Windows 3.1 where the physical disc works just fine. It's a very good Monopoly game (with 3D video animations) written for Windows 3.1/95 in 1994. I just installed it on a computer again the other day. That's already 15 years old and it's perfect in every way. No signs of degradation.
I have some of the first music CDs that came out in the 80s. Much of it is irreplaceable. But I can still play discs as old as 1983 with no problems at all. That's already 26 years with no signs of wearing out at all.
I have CD-Rs from that same era that I made for my car CD player in say, 1992 or so. I had one of the first Ricoh 1X CD burners at work. Nobody had ever heard of such a thing and the discs were $1 each back then. I found one the other day and it still played just fine. I was able to rip everything off it just fine (it was one I had made from a tape and was very convenient for making MP3s of a tape-only album.) That's 18 years already.
I wouldn't doubt that current discs will last 100 years or more based on my experience.
And people say "Security by Obscurity" doesn't work...
We really need (-1, Whoosh)...
This time in HD!
I oversaw a Windows 95 migration at a large company, and we didn't give the users ANY training. Sure, we had about a 10-20% increase of support calls saying, "How do I do X in Windows 95?", but that was offset greatly by the reduction in "I got 'out of memory' again" or "this large processed crashed, corrupting this huge file" calls, which had been 50% of the helpdesk calls, prior to the migration.
Contrast that with now. There AREN'T any XP related support calls. It's not broken. It's not low on memory (for most people). If there is any set of calls that would be reduced it would be virus cleanup calls. But, because of the radically different (and confusing) interface changes in Vista and 7, I doubt the offset is there.
According to the Bible, it's inevitable...
Definitely more games than Ubuntu. Well, better games with more realistic 3D action... ;-)
Yeah, but it types much slower than you do.