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I hate daylight savings time changes. I'm now back to 9 hours ahead of CST, when I was so used to being only 8 hours ahead. That's one more hour before everyone wakes up back home and on the forums, and one more hour I have to wait before the stock market opens. Why can't they just abolish the practice already? It served its purpose.
I heard some dumb stat on the radio today concerning daylight savings time changes. Supposedly because of the 1 hour change, some percentage of people die more often around the solstices or some dumb shit like that. Sheesh, way to use statistics to improve our lives, scientists.
What about the statistics that say how many people would die if there was no daylight savings time? Getting up in the morning was becoming so much harder before the time fell back an hour. I'd be half asleep on my drive to work.
My bedroom clock didn't reset automatically. My phone and computer say it's 6:32 and my clock says it's 7:30.
Now it's both slow and fast at the same time. What the hell??
welcome to the clubQuote:
Originally Posted by python862
I could make an essay also...but meh...Im lazy.Worked sucked today for me as well. A lot.
Ok... I'll write it anyway...
2 months ago I sent some test cases to Marketing and Billing...
Today I see they forgot to add them to the project and I told them that I was not accepting their test cases, nor would give our acceptance to install it.
Now they are whining about that they need to release it fast.
Fuck em.
So my mom owns a 4 family house that she rents out. And there's this one tenant that's a huge problem. Frequently late with rent, calls us to tell us she has rent then doesn't have it, does drugs, gets into fights with people, noisy, the list just goes on and on. So now she's 3 months late on rent and we're trying to evict her through a lawyer. But she refuses.
Now the crazy bitch, who frequently gets into fights and arguments calls us one day to tell us that she's planning to sue us for $50,000 because she hurt her foot or some shit on a stray brick in our hallway (wtf?) and was in the hospital for 2 days. Or we can pay her $20,000 and she'll forget the law suit. Even if she was hurt, chances are it's from one of her scuffles and she's just using that shit to extort money out of us. Fuck that shit. Fucking dumbass bitch.
That completely sucks Animus...
You guys should gather proof that she is always getting into fights, its a drug addict and doesn't pay so if she tries anything she gets finally kicked and pays or goes to jail...
I hate that people...
You should record your conversations with this idiot woman so you can prove she's extorting you. Even if it's not legal to do so, it can scare her away.
Seems like there's a lot to bitch about lately. Vuze decided to mess up their perfectly good torrent client with an update that looks terrible and isn't as intuitive or usable as the previous. And of course, utorrent.com is blocked on my network so I'll have to find the installer elsewhere.
Minor bitch: Mark Forums Read is inconveniently right below Today's Posts under GW quick links. I've clumsily pressed that many times :p.
That used to happen to me all the time. It was very annoying.
all the WoW realms are down....
They say there is a problem w\ the mail system and rumors are that all mail islost.
I made a bank charactor last night and mailed her a bunch of gems and other stuff... plus i had a ton of stuff in my mailbox : (
im now resorting to counterstrike to get some kind of game going
Same here, but my game of choice is CoD4. I wanted to hit 69 so bad tonight, but I guess it isn't happening :(. Oh well, I still have tomorrow to get as far as I can. I already know I'm not hitting 70 by Lich King, but I've accepted that now, and at least I got to 68.
My ISP capped me even though I didn't use up all my quota :(
Funny thing was, I rang them and they tried to help me diagnose the problem. They told me to try this and that, then said it was something to do with my browser. Then I told them to try this and that, and they said they'll get back to me when they're finished :p
Meh.
I hate it when you help someone out and they use what you helped them with to annoy the shit out of you. For example, I gave some movies to someone at work. Next thing I know, he's goofing off watching movies when he should be working, and I have to yell at him to get him back to work.
I helped this goober get media player classic working on his PC and now he sits and watches shit all day, laughing as loud as he can. Makes me want to punch myself for helping him to annoy me. I have admin rights on his PC so I want to backdoor him and make the program no longer work, but then he'll hit me up for tech support to fix the problem, and I could lose my job for unauthorized access.
As the Merovingian would say..... "Cause and effect, my dear."
My stomach is being a bitch again. Nuff said.
Happily these sorts of problems encourage you to learn new things. I just learned about the taskkill command for remote administration. Now I just need to verify that my activity on the remote PC is not discernible beyond a recorded blip on the security log in event viewer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psyke
Yeah, that guy brought this on himself. Just hope you can set things straight without getting fired. Would it do anything to lodge a complaint to your superiors?Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
We just did Ulcerative Colitus this semester. Nasty shit dude. Meds not working for you or something? Hope you get better Ryouga.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyougaZell
One of those days....
Dad decides I'm "spending too much time on the net", so decides to pull the phone cable out of the modem in his room whenever he's sleeping or gone out. He goes on to say depending on how things go, he might cancel the internet.
Fuck.
Anyway, I brainstormed 4 options I could take depending on how things turned out, two of which were not legally possible. I confirmed with our ISP.
So basically, my two options are:
1) Purchase another wireless ADSL modem/router and place it hidden behind a cupboard where there's also a phone socket. I've got full access to our ISP account and all, as well as admin rights to all the computers and routers, so during downtimes, I can activate this connection while the other's down.
If a) option 1 fails, or b) household internet is taken off, then I'll have to resort to a more costly alternative.
Option 2) Start up an ADSL account at uni using the UNI's ISP. I can link this additional quota with my regular Student Quota, so I don't need an address. Problem is I need to access this at school. Given school computers all have program access rights and restrictions, I'll also have to purchase a laptop for downloading stuff. I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to use my account for non-educational use as long as I purchased an ADSL account. I almost got filed in for misconduct one time because of that :p
Thing is, Uni's ISP charges are ridiculous, and I'm not sure how reliable P2P is through their proxy, so depending on how things go, I may have to resort to IRC. And then I still have the issue of internet at home. If it all goes down this way, I may be spending a LOT of time at uni soon :p
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On the other hand, I have a few movies I want to download. My ISP gives us free traffic on Christmas, so that's all good. Problem is the torrents go so slowly that they won't finish in a day, and I don't think I'll have enough spare quota to finish them if that happens. I rarely have spare quota at the end of the month after all the anime downloads.
So my only solution is to spend my quota downloading those movies now, and hold off a large portion of the current airing shows till Christmas. That ensures I'll have enough quota to do both, and hopefully the anime seeds will be much healthier than the movie ones, ensuring I max out my line during Xmas, finishing all my tasks.
Bitch is, Naruto just got good, I need my mecha action, Tomoya humour, Mintato fix, Chaos;Head brain scrambler, Index magic, Soul Resonance.......
These are all HD too, making my method less effective if I download them over others. *sigh*
Oh well, there's my whining for the day.
That's like....something I'd expect from someone trying to parent a 12 year old. You're old enough to be able to make your own decisions on how to spend your time. You should move out and get your own place. Problem solved!
Dear Bill,
You are welcome to come to America. Our internet sucks too (compared to the so-called "third world") but at least we don't have quotas that are unbearably low, if at all. There is plenty of low-cost food (made from 90% corn/corn syrup) to make you fat and your intestines cry. We also have a blatant disrespect for others in nearly every situation. Fortunately, we don't usually have to shut down deserts to prevent tourists from killing themselves in the heat, but we do have rough weather, and more natural disasters than any other country on Earth.
All of our drivers are morons, when it gets dark and when it rains, except for me ;) .
Rent can be had for cheap, because our economy is headed towards the toilet.
We also neighbor Canada, known for hockey and nicer people, and Mexico, known for...party destinations for the people mentioned above with a blatant disrespect for all others.
Best wishes,
Ryll
- ad hoc Embassador to the American Empire
PS: The only reason I learned IRC was because my university started to ban torrents (and eventually succeeded, we couldn't connect to the trackers).
EDIT:
Did I forget to mention that we too have an oppressively morally conservative nanny-state of a goverment?
@Kitkat: Moving out...that's happening as soon as I graduate and get a decent job that's stable and pays decent. If home's not too bad then, I might even consider staying at home for a while longer to build up some cash.
I can't afford to be impulsive. In fact, I can't afford much of anything right now :o
@Ryll: Ah, the American Empire. It's a very tempting offer, and I'd seriously consider it if I had all the connections and money to do it. What am I saying, the ad hoc Embassador's got my back, all that's left's the money :D
From what I heard, the US is going more and more towards capped plans, so it's only a matter of time I think. Perhaps the only good thing that's come out of having capped accounts is that we pay for everything, and the companies know it. I haven't heard of anyone doing P2P traffic shaping, and they're generally unco-operative with handing out customer details to copyright activists.
After all, in a world where we pay for downloads, businesses want us to download. What better way to make money than from torrent overheads :D
As for my earlier bitch, it's going to be wait and see. Dad's always been all bark and no bite, but this time he bit. Once.
Wait and see......
Well, I can understand that. I would probably live at my parents' house too if they weren't on the other side of the continent. As it stands, I can't afford my tuition for next semester. My sister has given me some really good tips on dumpster diving for groceries, so I'm going to give that a try. And no, I'm not joking. If I find some good dumpstering spots, I'm hoping to bring my monthly food bill down to $20.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Just tell your parents the story of Brandon Crisp
I read this my freshman year of college. Perhaps you'll find it useful?Quote:
Originally Posted by KitKat
On Dumpster Diving
Really amazing how much good food gets thrown away.
my brother is so goddamn suffocating...
The caps here aren't really that bad. They've always been there, they are just finally admitting that they are using them, which is a better thing. I've been locked down few times, and my ISP isn't even one the ones publically accused of traffic shaping. 250 gigs is a lot today, and they will get a lot of hell from angry customers if they don't scale that when the time comes, but for the average user, they'll never reach it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
At least we don't have any intentions of a nationwide plan for internet censorship in order to "save the children."
I know it is the wrong thread, but the response from the head of iiNet, 'Sure, we'll use it, and report each and every time how much it consistently sucks,' made me smile.
Wow, I couldn't help cringing repeatedly while reading this article. I've always wondered how an otherwise sane person could let themselves fall into homelessness and living on the streets. Before it gets that bad, maybe get a job at McDonald's?Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
Sadly with the current economic problems we're facing, this dumpster diving article will come in handy for more and more people. Of course, conversely it will lead to more people being less wasteful when throwing food out. It's a catch-22 situation that's best avoided by sound financial planning and living within your means.
wow, I'm speechless. I can't imagine myself doing so, but this guy makes it sound so reasonable..
also, can I pass an opportunity to link a webcomic? NoQuote:
I am horrified to discover the kind of paper that now merits an A in an undergraduate course
Jesus Christ, literally half of those panels didn't need to be there.
I kept waiting for the punchline to come, and it wouldn't.
Ha, I was thinking the same thing. He really milked it to death. None of it was really clever or funny either.
Reading about dumpster diving is making me feel guilty for the vast amount of good stuff I throw out all the time. Unfortunately that's the result of constant electronics/PC hardware upgrades and tinkering. Plus, it's either trash it or pack-rat it, and with my mobile lifestyle, pack-ratting isn't really an option.
I do however, clean my plate when eating. Bad side-effect is being overweight, but at least I'm not wasting food.
I love how the otaku fanboy at the end of the strip has a Japanese flag on the wall. Classic.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Ah... the good old Spring Breakers... always willing to leave dollars on our land, all the while acting like the total morons they are, and can't show while on their suppresive land.
Not that I care, since I never go there :D
I ordered a package last Tuesday (11/11). Books, a game, some manga, etc. The package shipped Friday morning (11/14). It still hasn't gotten here.
Now, that alone is not much of a reason to bitch. The US Postal Service isn't particularly known for speedy package delivery when you get free shipping. They don't really move anything of note around on Saturday or Sunday.
But...the origin of shipping was within my own state. That for reference, is less than 200 miles. I travel half of that to work and back each day. In 3 and a half days, the package has not apparently moved one fucking mile.
I keep looking for it when I get back home every day and it's not there. I am absolutely confounded how it is possible to not be here by now. Every day it isn't there, I get more and more pissed off. I have ordered sets of speakers and gotten free shipping from the same company [Amazon]...and they've come from China faster.
LOL. Story of my life Ryll.
I ofter order Figures from Japan (HLJ). They arrive at Mexico City, all the way from Japan, in 4 days. Then from Mexico City to Monterrey they take another 7 days... amazing! not...
So Ryllharu, do you have some sort of false sense of entitlement, or are you just a hopeless cynic?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Ryll - at least your package will be delivered, compared to polish postal system. Packages often goes "missing", and post-guy just deliver notice that package has arrived(the one that should be put when there in no one home) and you have to go to nearest postal office and wait 1h in queue.
And i envy you guys, paypal works for your countries and you can buy stuff directly from japan. I would love to get some anime-gear, but only way to do this is to have friends in other countries, UK would be best or US, and make the order it and send it to you(of course you will pay them for it). In Poland is only 1 internet shop with anime figures, and if there is only one shop of its own kind prices go sky-high... in fact I'm more interested in other stuff than figures but still...
There is more then just paypal... play-asia uses moneybookers as well
I experienced a technological cascade failure today at work.
My computer died first. Definite hardware failure. Two of the diagnostic lights blazing fiercely, and beep code blaring. So I call the outside contractor (actually a division of our parent company...) that handles our IT at around 8:30. They give me a ticket number and I wait for a tech to show up.
So with little else to do, I ask my cubemate to print me out some documents so I can read through them, better than nothing.
And I wait.
So, after lunch, I decide to give them another call and see why no one has been by to check out my computer.
Phone's dead.
Somewhere between 8:30 and 12:45, my phone died. Not the phone (checked by plugging into a nearby line) but the line. I make another call from an unused phone and get my service ticket expedited. A nearby secretary puts in a service request on my phone for me.
Apparently, the techs had been calling me to see if I was available all morning. Guy shows up at 3pm, right around when I was going to leave, but I'm happy as hell to see him. We check out the beep codes with my cubemate's functional computer.
Motherboard is toast. Fantastic.
Dead computer and dead phone.
You sure your boss is not trying to 'tell' you something? Lol. Just kidding.
That sure sucks Ryll.
I've been there. My computer had to be formatted 4 months ago because it crashed. Fortunately my data was saveable. But damn it... if I had free access I know I could have repaired the laptop without formatting... stupid support.
Haha, I actually asked the secretary if I was being fired, half in jest (she has access to some of the HR databases).
I was still in the Time Management System (like a time clock, but manages budget charge numbers as well), so I hadn't been fired.:p
Just started watching Macross Frontier and I'm very disappointed after all the rave reviews, mostly from viewers here on GW. It's typical Japanimation these days, using a familiar world and archetypal characters with little character development. I guess they assume you already know the characters, like the brooding diamond in the rough, the mega super starlet who is completely accessible to her fans, the sweet kid sister who is 18 but looks and acts 12, etc. The animation is a mix of CGI mechs and poorly drawn characters that lack detail. At least the backgrounds are somewhat detailed.
I think it's even worse because these are bastardizations of the original characters, but completely unlikeable. The storyline feels like you've been dropped into the middle of the story with no reference points and random events that won't make sense until episode 20.
I'm on episode 3 and I doubt I'll finish past 4.
I wasn't too keen on the animation and plot as well, but I loved the songs, which were awesome.
I liked mostly the space battles. The songs started to get old after they have been replayed 85 times. And the plot certainly wasn't the strong point of the show.
Until you watch the very last episode, and you realize how awesome it looks that the rest of the series didn't even matter!Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Looks like my 1TB external hard drive is dying. Doesn't make many sounds and appears to be working fine, but randomly stops a few select files when I watch them off it, especially the recently downloaded ones. Downloading is never a problem. Most of the files are easily downloadable(tv series and anime), I doubt I'll bother copying it to another drive, not to mention I don't have space for it anywhere. Sometimes it starts making sounds, but just restarting it removes the problem. 200Gb left of space on it. Bought it two and a half years ago or something. Still sad though.
Lucky you, I have 2 old ass drives that total 150 gigs only =(
What brand is it? I've been looking into a 1TB external drive myself, and the reviews for MyBooks seems to be split 50/50 between ultra-reliability and uber-fail. Wondered what your make was?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrlderek
It was a Fantom Drives Gforce Megadisk. It has worked great up to now. It wasn't as bad as I thought, it still works now.. just randomly disconnecting, which is extremely annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
http://www.fantomdrives.com/general/...19&Cat=Product Didn't buy it from there, but that's the one.
My exam today was a triple anal raping.
OMFG
<...Visualises triple anal raping...>
<....OMGF....>
What subject was it BoC?
Linear Systems and Signals
Fourier Transforms, Laplace transforms, Z-transforms, filter designs, magnitude/phase sketching...etc.
Most of my classmates feel the same way. The prof made this year's exam way harder than before. I studied a lot and felt ready, but it turns out that nothing could have prepared me for that ordeal. It was ridiculous.
O_O
Reminds me of Algorythm Analysis... (programming languages wise...)
Algorithm-wise, you probably did Fast Fourier Transforms. We only did the standard stuff.
Two hours ago I ate 3 mega-heaped plates of pasta.
I feel like I'm going to burst (>o<)"
Learning German is pain in ass for me, especially when there is guitar near me and 3 episodes and half series of anime waiting.
Art teachers: they have become far too rude for their position. they actually make kids bring A3 pictures of themselves and tell their students to buy the 'blue' brand of drawing pencils and not the 'red' brand. back in my days, art-class was the time where you goof around for two hours, and then the teacher leaves the room crying in the third one, because she has realized that she'll never amount to be neither an influential artist nor an inspiring teacher, and she'll always be sub-mediocre. and that would happen every week, every year until high-school.
also, people who buy shitty Mp3\4 players. what's wrong with them? is a 30$ discount a good enough reason to buy a complete shit player? sure, for the price of Sansa-clip you can buy an mp4 in the local language that promises the moon, but you're going to come to the store twice a week with complains, and have it spend at least two months a year shipping...
just put out a few more NIS and get something decent, dumbasses. and those are the people who buy an IPhone just to be 'IN!'. dumb cunts.
Edit: beer. spell check.
My mom wanted an Ipod for her birthday, but my brother and I didn't want to spend the money on one that we knew she wouldn't use. We bought her a Samsung MP3 player for almost literally half the price and she never used it again after about 2 months. Money well saved, in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
yeah! how dare teachers try to take their subjects seriously and actually attempt to make something meaningful out of their careers! and they are getting very particular about what they want. i mean, it's not like the rest of the teachers are doing the exact same thing or anything!Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
:rolleyes:
The last art teacher I remember was a real artist. He had an opinion in everything and ruined some student works because he apparently couldn't swallow a student coming up with something he wouldn't have suggested (happened to me as well). At one point it was found out he had used the town hall's colour photocopier (this was before really good personal colour printers were that common) to make clones of some of his paintings and sold them as originals to different people for easy extra money. Shortly after he drove his tractor to a river with final consequences.
Lemme tell ya, that shit sounds like high school art class to me... you know, with the teachers being all like "you should use this type of pencil". In fact, back in high school I remember the teacher for drawing class insisted that we go out and get those Ebony pencils for the class. Of course, they were like less than a buck each, and had a nice wide semisoft lead that was just amazingly good for shading, but .... damn that teacher for making me spend a buck on the right tools for the job!
At my university, art classes were serious business though. You take the basic freshman-level art and design class and you just signed up for 10-15 hours of homework a week and about $250 in supplies. Lots of people who take that class end up taking a GPA hit because of it because they think "oh, art classes are easy A's like they were in high school"...
I've always felt that if a teacher or company has particular requirements of its students or employees that they provide the tools needed.
Art is a tricky subject to place requirements on the tools you use to create with, particularly if they demand you use a particular company's products. If the desired effect is shading then the true test of artistic ability should be able to create the effect using whatever tool is at hand, not a particular brand or type of tool.
Since it seems we're talking about low level art classes for beginners, it's even more ludicrous to require they purchase specific art supplies.
it is ludicrous. but the thing is, it's not just art teachers. all teachers are getting like that, even in elementary school. you should see some of the school supply lists we at staples get from schools during back to school. you have to get the "venus" brand of pencil, and it has to be a 2" blue binder, not a 3" or a red one, and only smilemaker crayons will do, etc etc. my point was that it's unfair to come down on only art teachers for something they're not alone in doing.
hmmm, i started to agree that university art teachers should supply the tools needed for their courses, but then i realized that med and biochem and organic chem students have to buy their own lab coats and scrubs and dissection kits and molecular model kits, and not to mention the cost of textbooks, so i think the point is moot.
I think university level anything requires you buy your own stuff, like textbooks and supplies. But high school and below, especially elementary school, shouldn't require specific anything for any class. That's what we pay local taxes for, so schools can afford the materials they need for students, among other things.
Wow, teacers demand that in US? Thank god that its not the same in Poland.
Getting back to that god damned annoying and uninteresting German language... God i hate it.
I've always wanted to learn the German language. Along with Japanese, it has this authoritative quality to it that can make it command and terrify without raising your voice or waving a gun. Also similar to Japanese, it has words that embody concepts, like spannungsbogen and fahrvergnugen. We need more of those in the English language.
I've got the "how to speak German" mp3s somewhere.. I could never take the time listening to all of them.
just to make myself clear, I couldn't care less if art teachers asked their students to use endangered species feathers as paintbrushes. I just wish the students wouldn't come at the middle of the rush hour and make me spend ten minutes looking for the right 'red' pencil and the good level of brightness in the A3 copy (stupid photocopy! I wish the damn machine was destroyed!). one of my co-workers is an art student herself, and she says that higher level art classes are even bigger douches. but that's acceptable, since that's what they're paid for.
my biff is with elementary school art teachers that make their student (most of them still single digits in age) buy all sorts of crap.
also, I'm annoyed by people who don't realize that when you pay for a product of a brand that costs half the price of the brand you've heard about. you're going to get that kind of quality. jerk fucks. don't believe the salesman. he has no idea what he's talking about.
I guess this is the week of non-stop bitching for me.
English has plenty of words that embody concepts which are not present in other languages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Also you forgot to mention Schadenfreude.
You mean like douche?
Name 25 or your argument has no merit.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
As a Polish guy i have something like "mental blockade" against German language, well you know, 2 world wars, 3 complete occupation of our country, Teutonic order wars etc. have took its toll on our minds and influence our hate for this language.
Now I wish I took Spanish(I played tibia that time(don't kill me please) and had a very big aversion for Spanish, and now I'm paying for it.
I would give a lot to have my school let me take my additional Japanese lessons(not in school) into account instead of German.
Man...just...
relationships
:(
I know that several indigenous American languages don't have certain familiar terms, like "cousin" or "aunt". Obviously I don't know every language so I can't give you a list, but if I find more examples consider them posted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
So, my 360 red ringed for the 2nd time already. Jesus christ, these boxes are so fucking poorly made. I hardly even play the damn thing. I probably clocked in like an hour in the last 2 weeks.
Well, since they are easily modable they must have some flaw to have legitimate reason for microsoft to check for mods.
Is it an older version 360 produced before 2007? I just got mine in the mail so I'm just wondering if the newer ones still have problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by animus
Not sure tbh, but I did buy it last year, September '07. It was the Premium, but who knows it could've been back in the store for a long time or some crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
And people wonder how Microsoft has sold over 5 millon more units than Sony's PS3.
Half of the units have red-ringed probably :o
Indeed, and warranty is void because of modding, but those guys had some xbox games and they want to play it online so they got another one...
I knew something was up when Microsoft first announced the original XBox. It's taken them nearly a decade, but finally their insidious business plan comes to light. I say we have not seen the end of this...
Devious, indeed.
Decided to finally finish eternal sonata, booted it up, load game.....load failed............................................ ......................25 hours in, lvl 50, right at the end of the game..............
This fucking sucks.
Can't even copy or move the save game to my mem unit, it fails right at the last 90%, giving me a simple "cannot perform action". UGH
O Shi... that is just evil, i would not wish this to anyone, and i know the pain(i lost my FF VII save just at beginning of disk 3)
a woman came into the store today and asked for a diary, she then asked if we have monthly diaries.
I told her that around these parts we call thing a calendar.
I don't know why you're bitching about it... some funny shit though.
I just my old job back since I'm going back to school, which I have to commute an hour to everyday. I was hoping to find a roommate and it's getting really irritating that I can't.
I pretty much kept myself on lockdown for the last 2 weeks or so.
The reason? I was unfortunate enough to pick an accounting teacher that decided to notify us about the project 1 1/2 weeks before finals. The project required us to use Peachtree (an accounting program) and it must never occurred to him that most college students never even heard of this program before, let alone use it.
The program isn't exactly hard to use, but the issue was learning to use it on top of having to study for all of the finals at the same time. The "tutorial" session on how to use the program was conducted by the librarian who probably looked at the instruction manual an hour before said session.
Needless to say, it took me forever to complete this project which consist 2 accounting period with approximately 80 transactions per period and 10 other items that is required (half of which had to be done manually since we're not allow to use the version that the program produce). By the time i was done with this, there was about 3 days left until finals which left me just enough time to cram for it.
Fast forward to Wednesday of this week. I woke up, ate and then went out with some friends to celebrate finals being over. At around 5 PM i came home and was planning to relax, do some web-surfing and maybe play a few games. I went to turn on my computer and the light came on for 1 second before shutting off again. The reason that this happened was because my Power Supply shorted out, right on the first day of my winter break.
The best place that i could think of to get a replacement with my local directron since they happen to have a good Power Supply unit on sale. Unfortunately with my luck, the unit i wanted was out of stock so i had to wait for them to restock unless i wanted to spend an extra 40$ for one just as good.
Three days of waiting, 80 dollars and an extra day of stress testing for over-clocking later i am finally back online. Normally this wouldn't be worthy of a bitch but it had to happen right after that crappy 2 weeks and with Christmas coming up, i probably won't have anytime to myself until well after new year. I really hate it when bad stuff just decide to happen at the worst possible time
My home system's bluescreening about once a week, at times that are unpredictable and uncorrelated to any specific activity on the system, but only happen when there's some activity on the system. Pretty sure it's either the video card or the motherboard, because hdd-induced bluescreens tend to leave error messages in the system event log and these aren't. Then, it could be the proc failing in some way or another, or could be a function of some other new-ish but persistent behavior, like running several torrents off a network share instead of the local disk. Network driver bugs are also conceivable.
This annoys me because the debug process for a recurring non-inducible issue like this is tedious and uncertain.
Or maybe your memory's going bad.
Ugh... my computer has also been having random blue screens while on screensaver mode... to make things wierdier (sp?) they don't happen if I switch to the 'log on screen' without logging off before turning off the monitor...
Why the hell is there not a stickied thread to wish people happy birthdays in?
People's birthdays are not important to me. Make a single, official thread for that crap.
I don't think people care enough about the feelings of user from jul 2008 and 52 posts. ;o
Especially the opinions of blatant assclowns like Stitch here. And getting called an assclown by someone like Animeniax, that means something.Quote:
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That is quite true Ani. :D
Well, i'm not the one to say so but with neg rep too...
Don't you hate it when you run into some glitches in a video game? Some are avoidable, some are not. Those unavoidable ones tend to get in your way to enjoy the game. :(
Of course - we hate it. everyone does, Fallout 3, buggerfall, Dungeon Lords - great examples of annoying buggy games.
I really hate it when I can't tell if it's a bug or if I'm just doing something wrong. It's usually 50/50, and looking at a walkthrough shows me what I'm doing wrong half the time.Quote:
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Hate singstar... honestly really hate it
Our refrigerator just broke. I think it's 15 years old, so we got good use out of it. I'm checking prices for a new fridge and damn these things are expensive. What's worse is the number of bad reviews for brands with good reputations like Kenmore and Whirlpool.
Kenmore and Whirlpool often re-brand refrigerators and other large appliances (washers, dryers, stove tops) from other manufacturers and call them there own. I've seen several models somewhere else with Amana or LG or one of the other less famous brands and everything else is exactly the same (even the model number).
Sears and other large retailers all do this because Kenmore and Whirlpool are "signature" brands. It's not like they really make all of the products with their name stamped on it anymore.
You should try a retailer that still runs on salespeople and commissions. There's a good chance you can make out on a deal by driving the price down (especially by telling one of them what the other is offering). It might help a bit.
Thanks for the info. That sucks that you can't depend on name branding anymore. The folks bought a Whirlpool washer over a year ago and it's already on the fritz.
It's the fridge at the parents' house so it's their decision, but since the current one is kaput we didn't have time to shop around or risk having to throw out a fridge full of food when it all spoils. Currently we've placed 7 bags of ice in the fridge to keep things cool until the new one is delivered in 2 days. We went with Kenmore. They only come with 1 year warranties now.
$390 electric bill....
WTF! OMFG!
seriously though... I want to call and bitch to them but the last time that happened I had some lady on the other end of the phone repeatedly try to explain to me that they come and read the meter, then they come again and subtract the difference. I explained to her that I was well aware of the simple math but that it wasn't possible for 2 people to use 1500 kwh in 2 weeks in a 600 sq foot apartment.
last months was like... $190 - around 1000-1100 kwh. insanity.
seriously... we're not running a grow operation in the closet... no 500w bulbs burning 12 hours a day... not happening.
I got fallout 3 for christmas for PS3 and it wants to update before it will play and then it fails to update after a few minutes stuck midway on the update download screen.Quote:
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i messed w\ my router for a few minutes and it didn't help so i haven't touched it since.