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SK Genius wrote:
When will it end?
When it goes too far and something serious happens and suddenly everyone realises it was a bit of a sick idea all along. (Anyone seen that episode of Judge John Deed where someone gets killed in a big bro style reality TV show because the producers push them too far an cause an accident. Don't normally watch it, but It was pretty interesting, and worryingly what big bro is like, I really could see it happening)
Simon
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I hate them.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
My last home build was an Asus board with an Intel Core 2 Duo, my first move away from an Abit mobo with AMD CPU. Although it said it supported RAIDed SATA, the RAIDed drives had to be one on the special internal RAID SATA socket, and the other on the external SATA socket. WFT? Needless to say it'll be Abit again next time.
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Things I hate: People who use excel like a database. Bad/rude customer service in shops. That it's taken until 2008 for SQL server to get a proper 'time' data type. I've got to wait another few years until the company starts to move to 2008 before I can even think about using it. Mussels, and any similarly slimy seafood. Companies who call me up and ask 'security questions' that require me to give out personal information to a stranger. ;) Celebrity gossip magazines.
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
People who use excel like a database.
People who use the spreadsheet view in Access and call it a database. :mad: Took me soooo long to break them of that habit, and slightly longer to wean them off Access.
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I hate them.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
I love them, never had any issues with their products for what must be going on a decade now, of course I've never bought a notebook from them, just motherboards and video cards mainly.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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I'll second all of those apart from slimy seafood, especially muscles, yum yum!
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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I hate them.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
I curse them too, but because I have an older computer that keeps on running. The damn thing won't die. I discovered a capacitor at the bottom of the case the other day and it still keeps on running. The bastards.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Christian Graus wrote:
the power supply snapped internally
That exact same problem happened with my laptop (Advent). The socket that the power cable goes into literally fell off inside the laptop. I whipped the case off, found the part rattling around, pulled out my soldering iron from it's quick access belt holster while trying to act like some kind of cool techy version of Indiana Jones, waited 10 minutes for it to heat up, reattached the bit and put the case back on. It worked for a while, but that was towards the end of it's life anyway. :)
Simon
I haven't had the power plug snap off of the contacts yet, but my wife's Aspire 1680 has already lost one hard drive and is having some intermittent problems with its replacement. This past weekend it somehow locked kernel32.dll on the disk; it blue screened on boot naming that file as inaccessible and when I tried to repair Windows, it locked trying to overwrite that file. However, this turned out to be the perfect time to try to convert to Ubuntu, which seems to have picked up all of the laptop hardware with no problems. Now I just have to worry about her learning how to use apt-get...
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer
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I hate them.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I hate them.
But... but... they are "Heart Touching" Worst advertising tag line ever
They have ads then ? Perhaps they should have spent that money on customer service staff...
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
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They have ads then ? Perhaps they should have spent that money on customer service staff...
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
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I haven't had the power plug snap off of the contacts yet, but my wife's Aspire 1680 has already lost one hard drive and is having some intermittent problems with its replacement. This past weekend it somehow locked kernel32.dll on the disk; it blue screened on boot naming that file as inaccessible and when I tried to repair Windows, it locked trying to overwrite that file. However, this turned out to be the perfect time to try to convert to Ubuntu, which seems to have picked up all of the laptop hardware with no problems. Now I just have to worry about her learning how to use apt-get...
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer
Look, I'm just going to come out and say it. I hate laptops, I've owned 1 and it was the biggest pain in the ares I've ever come across. I will probably never ever buy one again. :cool:
Simon