I left the rest of the quote out because it's absolutely irrelevant. If somebody calls to cancel their account, their mind is made up, for better or worse. Any "well if that's your problem you could try" is not helpful to them and will only make them angry.
Asking why is certainly good business sense, but by no means is it in the interest of the customer.
Perhaps its just frustration that can be mitigated with some service discounts
The only people who ever say shit like that are phone reps. Apparently the only people who actually believe it are in consumerist.com
The victim is probably Vincent who was just doing what his supervisor told him to do.
AOL customer Vincent Ferrari
If we're gonna cancel this acccount, you're gonna let me speak, and give this paragraph, okay? Cos if not we can stall you all day. I really don't care, to be honest with you.
Link to mp3 recording. Putfile's proper site for this requires a proprietary download just to run the file, so have this link instead. They'll probably move it though to make us look at their annoying page.
Rep: I don't know what anybody's done to you...
VF: You're annoying the shit out of me
Rep: Well that goes both ways
Here's link to Vincent's blog. He's been dugg and farked and all the other usuals by now (which is why the file is now on putfile), so be gentle with the poor bastard's bandwidth. He's just come out of a very rough breakup, after all!
Also, this isn't a new tactic at all. That spin isn't in the linked article or anywhere else, so I guess 'Jhon' is to blame.
Also, consider some loon that really, really wants something public domain and goes out to shoot the author to do so.
This sounds like it could be the reasoning behind the life + $number system. You can kill the guy, but chances are you'll be in jail by the time his stuff's gone PD.
But even then it's just a hack on a system with much deeper flaws.
You Linux Zealots never cease to amaze... with your incessant baseless criticism of Microsoft's stuff.
For your information, zealot, not that you'll listen, this is one area that Microsoft is well known for its reliability in. In fact, they even announce up to a month in advance that their next cycle will produce compatibility issues with some of the newer extensions. This gives the dev teams behind the extensions plenty of time to prepare themselves for the changes and get a patched version ready for the next cycle.
Why else would they release security fixes in a cycle, anyway? Their entire development process is based around this open standard and you continue to criticise?
It's totally free -- but the best part is that because it's Flash-based
RMS must be spinning in his grave...
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Odd that a Linux user savvy enough to run top and spot memory leaks could be so completely ignorant of a concept as simple as Firefox extensions.
You're right about it being unstable though. But the memory usage is for a reason. It's wasting a lot of memory to track how much time you've spent typing a textarea. It then takes this data and uses even more memory working out the exact right moment to crash and lose all your work on you, for maximum psychological effect. Bastards.
Any Slashdotters reading this also frequent Fark.com? If so, I'd like to know which you think is worse in terms of lame clichés being wheeled out at every opportunity.
Those space shuttle tiles will protect your legs alright. Now, what about your chest, arms and face? Those will take the exact same amount of damage as if you were using it on a desk.
The truth is that there is no point in worrying about this unless you happen to run a similar model to the one that went bang. Using your laptop on your lap or not is a mere detail (though sensationalised by the author of the linked page). The explosion itself is the real issue.
All the high-end laptops in the world will never replace your destroyed manhood!!
Did you even read the title of this story? Laptop EXPLODES!! After an experience like that, the last thing on my mind would be buying thousands of laptops with all the money I'd save on kids!
Having just looked at pictures of an exploding laptop, and been warned to "avoid actually using a laptop on your lap", here I am happily typing away with my laptop sat in my lap as ever (with the usual book underneath to keep the CPU from burning out).
But then mine is a fairly old thinkpad that runs quite cool, usually ~45 degrees. The one that exploded looks more modern (it is a Dell, after all).
There, nicely rationalised away so as I can get back to my life
Plus, one should not forget to mention that they spent all that time redesigning their website without tables only to figure out that in order to get any of that neat stuff like, catalogs, forums, search results, product lists, address books, etc. you got to have tabular data,.i.e. TABLES.
No, most of us are smart enough to know which tool to use for which job. It's not CSS's fault if one person happens not to be.
Some of the links:
macedition.com CSS sucks CSS doesn't work anywhere any way consistently so why bother pushing its use? Point what doesn't work, tell web browser companies what they are doing wrong and beg/plead/demand they fix it.
Some idiot that can't tell the difference between a browser issue and a CSS issue.
soulthought.org Okay...CSS sucks...well, browsers do, anyway...
I spent the entire weekend wasting my time trying to get a CSS-based three-panel layout to work properly. I finally digressed to a two-panel layout, and now it looks okay in IE and sucks in Mozilla Firebird. If you people would follow the standards, this would be easy!!!!!!
Someone who can tell the difference. Doesn't support the original site's flawed argument at all.
nuketown.com When I re-designed Nuketown last year, I went to a CSS-only layout and I regret it; while the design works for the most part, there's really no way to make sure all three columns are automatically the same length (as is the case with tables). I have to resort to hacks
Misses the point of CSS.
fishbowl.pastiche.org Cascading Style-Sheets Suck I loathe CSS with a passion. Correction. I loathe the fact that every web browser supports a different, incompatible subset of CSS2. W3C standards were supposed to save us from having to test pages in every single browser under the sun, but we're travelling at high speed in the opposite direction.
Someone who can tell the difference between the two issues but still wrote two titles damning CSS before acknowledging the real issue. Doesn't support any argument against CSS.
globalcoordinate.com I'm sorry but I think that the designers of the CSS stylesheet spec should be shot. Why does simple layout have to such a black art?
Hmmm.
/* double, double, toil and trouble */ #left { float: left;/* fire burn and caldron bubble */ width: 15%; } /* macbeth! macbeth! macbeth! */ #middle { margin: 0 16% 0 16%;/* to be replaced with eye of newt */ } #right { float: right; width: 15%; }
And finally, Barry:
barry.pearson.name
CSS positioning is so fragile that I can publish simple material, conforming to specifications published many years ago, and not have a clue about what people "out there" can see or not see. It isn't just about whether it has the intended colour. It might not appear at the right place on the page. It might not appear at all!
That's a link to a browser bug, Barry you big failure. More from Barry:
There is a mention of something resembling page layout in the CSS2 Recommendation. "9.6.1 Fixed positio
Perspective: Microsoft's forgotten monopoly
By Hakon Wium Lie .... Microsoft's fonts are used to display most Web pages on the planet. Even Linux and Mac users, who often have fled Windows to avoid dependence on Microsoft, read most of their content using Microsoft fonts.
Hehe, they'd know it they got hacked by a Brazilian, since all he'd do would be to replace their interface code with shoutz!
Seriously though, I know that it's easy to see patterns in videos. What I don't know is whether there is anything else to be found beyond that. It's worth looking, especially for a team who could count their country's world cup qualifications on a hand with most of the fingers missing.
On one hand
A long anonymous post on Slashdot rubbishing a new technological idea.
On the other:
The real-life decisions and actions of professional world-class coaches.
Every single time anyone ever does anything new, you can come to Slashdot and see a million reasons why it'll crash and burn. Dozens of nerds get to feel like kings for a day because they rubbished the actions of someone successful and a few of their peers agreed with them.
And it's complete and utter bullshit. How the fuck do you think you know? How is it that you believe you know in advance of these more knowledgeable people, who by the way have put way more thought into this than you did when you penned your anonymous post, whether or not their ideas are of value? How is it that you already know whether there are any useful patterns or data to be found? Have you already done something similar and found nothing of use?
Not to be presumptious - if you have, or you know of some historic precedent, please tell us. What you said is nothing more than a self-reliant statement:
and ultimately this will serve them better on the pitch than the highest of tech off it in terms of tactics (technology is a far greater determining factor in the gym and physical conditioning aspects of tournament preparation).
This is based on the premise that there is no precedent of people getting useful data from computer analysis of games. But is that because it has been tried and failed? You don't say. Has it been tried at all? I seem to recall that Formula 1 teams actively include computers in their race-day strategisation.
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I left the rest of the quote out because it's absolutely irrelevant. If somebody calls to cancel their account, their mind is made up, for better or worse. Any "well if that's your problem you could try" is not helpful to them and will only make them angry.
Asking why is certainly good business sense, but by no means is it in the interest of the customer.
The only people who ever say shit like that are phone reps. Apparently the only people who actually believe it are in consumerist.comLink to mp3 recording. Putfile's proper site for this requires a proprietary download just to run the file, so have this link instead. They'll probably move it though to make us look at their annoying page.
Here's link to Vincent's blog. He's been dugg and farked and all the other usuals by now (which is why the file is now on putfile), so be gentle with the poor bastard's bandwidth. He's just come out of a very rough breakup, after all!
Also, this isn't a new tactic at all. That spin isn't in the linked article or anywhere else, so I guess 'Jhon' is to blame.
Opinions on this practice aren't as one-way as you might expect. It's kind of surprising to see a site called 'consumerist.com' reply to
withPricks.And the same would be true of the Paedophile Party, the Terrorist Party and the Communist Party.
My question to you is: What does any of this have to do with the Pirate Party?
Faggotry of the worst kind.
This sounds like it could be the reasoning behind the life + $number system. You can kill the guy, but chances are you'll be in jail by the time his stuff's gone PD.
But even then it's just a hack on a system with much deeper flaws.
Thanks for that patronising lesson in how to spot a subtle joke. I'd return the favour if I wasn't busy recovering from laughing my ass off at you.
Whooooooooooosh
- OS independance
- Mostly open standards and open source
- World peace
- A cure for AIDS
Bad:My Pentium III can still handle KDE + Firefox + Extensions, so I'm not complaining yet. And at 4 - 2, it's a net win for Good Thing.
You Linux Zealots never cease to amaze... with your incessant baseless criticism of Microsoft's stuff.
For your information, zealot, not that you'll listen, this is one area that Microsoft is well known for its reliability in. In fact, they even announce up to a month in advance that their next cycle will produce compatibility issues with some of the newer extensions. This gives the dev teams behind the extensions plenty of time to prepare themselves for the changes and get a patched version ready for the next cycle.
Why else would they release security fixes in a cycle, anyway? Their entire development process is based around this open standard and you continue to criticise?
Odd that a Linux user savvy enough to run top and spot memory leaks could be so completely ignorant of a concept as simple as Firefox extensions.
You're right about it being unstable though. But the memory usage is for a reason. It's wasting a lot of memory to track how much time you've spent typing a textarea. It then takes this data and uses even more memory working out the exact right moment to crash and lose all your work on you, for maximum psychological effect. Bastards.
Any Slashdotters reading this also frequent Fark.com? If so, I'd like to know which you think is worse in terms of lame clichés being wheeled out at every opportunity.
Those space shuttle tiles will protect your legs alright. Now, what about your chest, arms and face? Those will take the exact same amount of damage as if you were using it on a desk.
The truth is that there is no point in worrying about this unless you happen to run a similar model to the one that went bang. Using your laptop on your lap or not is a mere detail (though sensationalised by the author of the linked page). The explosion itself is the real issue.
All the high-end laptops in the world will never replace your destroyed manhood!!
Did you even read the title of this story? Laptop EXPLODES!! After an experience like that, the last thing on my mind would be buying thousands of laptops with all the money I'd save on kids!
Having just looked at pictures of an exploding laptop, and been warned to "avoid actually using a laptop on your lap", here I am happily typing away with my laptop sat in my lap as ever (with the usual book underneath to keep the CPU from burning out).
But then mine is a fairly old thinkpad that runs quite cool, usually ~45 degrees. The one that exploded looks more modern (it is a Dell, after all).
There, nicely rationalised away so as I can get back to my life
No, most of us are smart enough to know which tool to use for which job. It's not CSS's fault if one person happens not to be.
Some of the links:
Some idiot that can't tell the difference between a browser issue and a CSS issue.
Someone who can tell the difference. Doesn't support the original site's flawed argument at all.
Misses the point of CSS.
Someone who can tell the difference between the two issues but still wrote two titles damning CSS before acknowledging the real issue. Doesn't support any argument against CSS.
Hmmm.
And finally, Barry:
That's a link to a browser bug, Barry you big failure.
More from Barry:
Why do you love Free Software so much?
Hehe, they'd know it they got hacked by a Brazilian, since all he'd do would be to replace their interface code with shoutz!
Seriously though, I know that it's easy to see patterns in videos. What I don't know is whether there is anything else to be found beyond that. It's worth looking, especially for a team who could count their country's world cup qualifications on a hand with most of the fingers missing.
Let's compare:
On one hand
A long anonymous post on Slashdot rubbishing a new technological idea.
On the other:
The real-life decisions and actions of professional world-class coaches.
Every single time anyone ever does anything new, you can come to Slashdot and see a million reasons why it'll crash and burn. Dozens of nerds get to feel like kings for a day because they rubbished the actions of someone successful and a few of their peers agreed with them.
And it's complete and utter bullshit. How the fuck do you think you know? How is it that you believe you know in advance of these more knowledgeable people, who by the way have put way more thought into this than you did when you penned your anonymous post, whether or not their ideas are of value? How is it that you already know whether there are any useful patterns or data to be found? Have you already done something similar and found nothing of use?
Not to be presumptious - if you have, or you know of some historic precedent, please tell us. What you said is nothing more than a self-reliant statement:
This is based on the premise that there is no precedent of people getting useful data from computer analysis of games. But is that because it has been tried and failed? You don't say. Has it been tried at all? I seem to recall that Formula 1 teams actively include computers in their race-day strategisation.