MSDN – Goddamnit, Microsoft. You’re the biggest software company on the planet and you could probably afford some decent servers. So why is MSDN – primary documentation for all your products – the slowest piece of offal on the internet? No shit, the SDMB is lightning fast compared to MSDN. I could drive over to Barnes and Noble and buy “An Idiot’s Guide to Microsoft’s APIs” in the time it takes for the pages I need to load.
And why is the documentation so jaw-droppingly awful? It takes me 10 minutes to navigate to a page which, according to the index, should be apropos and it’s just a shower of uselessness.
I got a serious infection on Dec 23rd. Went into the emergency room on the night of the 24th and 25th, my insurance wont cover it. Even today I’m still in rough shape and have not really been able to leave the apartment, not that it mattered for New Years, the antibiotics kept me from drinking the new year in anyway.
You didn’t see all the signs that said IMPEACH? Lucky you. There was a big clump of people that the camera kept passing.
New salesguy: listening to you hork up and spit every half hour is really, really, really nasty. Can’t you take something? (I know, I know, maybe, maybe not. And no, doing it in the restroom isn’t a solution, because I can still hear him. Ick.)
Mom: YES, your new sewing machine includes the manual in Spanish. Why the hell is that a big deal? You fucking grew up in California. EVERYTHING includes instructions in Spanish. Yes, I agree that when people move to the US they should learn English. That doesn’t mean they have to completely give up their own language. So just SHUT UP about it. (As far as I’ve ever been able to tell, my mom isn’t racist. This seems to be a pet peeve. And a stupid one.)
I actually like this feature of American politics, because it doesn’t allow the candidate to squirm out of taking responsibility for their own campaign. About 15 years ago here in Canada, one party ran an infamous ad that mocked the opposing candidate’s disability(his face was partially paralyzed). The candidate who ran the ad tried to claim that she’d never seen them before. She’d never have been able to try that had the ad finished with “I’m Kim Campbell and I approved this message.”
Since I live on the East Coast, I have to get a network telecast. If there were others besides the Kuchinich crew, I didn’t see them. Either they were asked to move along or the NBC cameramen just shot around them.
Try telling her that’s so they can ship them to Mexico and sell them in the stores there too, without having to make and pack separate manuals. (Not to mention it’s probably the truth.)
A wholly separate Spanish manual,and/ or French manual for French Canadians is fine. I can keep just the English and recycle the rest.
It’s these huge, thick manuals that use two or more languages that are my gripe. Not only do they take up too much drawer space, but it seems that whenever you really,really need help in a hurry with the product, the book falls open to the wrong language first.
Partial solution: a portable air pump that runs off the cigarette lighter.
They don’t take up much room and since most overnight flats are due to slow leaks around embedded nails and other small crap, you can get 20 psi into the tire quickly and limp to the nearest tire repair facility on a tire that’ll still be somewhat round by the time you get there.
In the past 10 years, I’ve had dozens of flats, but have only had to change tires for 3 of them,two of them with huge irreparable holes and one of which I changed because I took the pump out while packing the car for vacation and forgot to re-pack it :smack: .
Yes, they did. It’s required by law. Whoever is paying for the political message must reveal that in the ad. That’s why you sometimes see, “Paid for by the Society to Kill Puppies and Drown Kittens” for candidates. That way you know the candidate isn’t running the ad, someone who supports (or opposes) them is.
It’s all about the transparency of the political process, baby.
I know you all went to school- most of you even have degrees, from what I understand.
So why can’t you understand that it’s simply insanity to insist on a 25% increase on last year’s sales figures when you’ve also cut the wage budget back to the point where we can’t actually staff the store properly?
It shouldn’t be rocket science to understand that having $1,000 a day in lost sales walking out the door for want of $100 in wages to pay someone to serve those customers is not a desireable state of affairs, especially for an industry like ours where the competition is fierce and every sale counts.
After you’ve wisely decided to give us more money to pay our staff, feel free to start telling [del]peasants[/del] customers to go fuck themselves when they’re clearly in the wrong, instead of giving us a list of Policies That Must Be Obeyed Or Else! and then biting our heads off when we follow them instead of giving people refunds on $300 phones that have clearly been dropped into swimming pools.
And they wonder why no-one wants to work in Electronics Retail anymore? :smack:
Where in the world do you do your driving?
I’ve had one flat in 25 years of driving. And that was because I took a corner a little too tight and there was some exposed concrete or asphalt that sliced the tire. When the tempurature was in the teens. At night. On a deserted road in the middle of FuckAll.
Look, Mom - you may know what you’re talking about, but…
When the whole extent of your verbiage on the topic is: “Oh, wait. I’ve got a box. Loki, go down to the basement and bring up the the box,” we don’t. Do not stare at me as though I’m being needlessly obstructionist, when I don’t immediately run off for the box. Especially since you and Dad recycle shipping boxes. (Something I approve of, but with, at a bare guess about 25 boxes of various sizes down in the basement, don’t expect me to guess which box you mean, if you don’t give me more information.)
