ooh! he's been to Prom!
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Jul 07, 2006 4:29:21 am PDT #5708 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Nutty - Jul 07, 2006 4:29:36 am PDT #5709 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
My flatmate had a problem with her Dell laptop -- you know, it was something wrong with the motherboard, so that it couldn't charge up despite benig plugged in properly! -- and the guy came to our house on a Saturday to take it apart and put it back together. But:
a) Replacing a motherboard in a computer less than six months old sounds like a Really Big Problem.
a-1) Especially if that happens a lot.
b) The first replacement of the motherboard didn't work, and had to be re-done.
c) In the year since she's had her laptop, and despite numerous corrections by mail and by phone, Dell has never fixed the misspelling of Flatmate's name.
c-1) On the upside, now she can always tell to whom Dell has sold her personal information, because it all comes with the same misspelling.
Overall, not impressed with Dell all that much, as a tech company. (I bought my most recent desktop at a local company, so I can go on down and yell at somebody in person if I have to. Which I haven't had to. Knock wood.)
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2006 4:30:50 am PDT #5710 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Two men were arrested in Berlin on suspicion of filling soccer balls with concrete and then placing them in public areas with signs encouraging people to kick the balls.
Police said they had identified a 26-year-old and a 29-year-old and had found a workshop in their apartment where they made the balls. The two are accused of causing serious physical injury, dangerous obstruction of traffic and causing injury through negligence, police said.
That's just... mean.
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2006 4:34:39 am PDT #5711 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They never offered a Saturday visit, and most of Saturday (up through 5, I realise) is already eaten.
Nutty--that sounds like the problem this unit was having.
Now I have to find (on Sunday, looks like) a laptop in meatspace with similar specs.
Man, this is too complicated.
Jesse - Jul 07, 2006 4:37:25 am PDT #5712 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
a) Replacing a motherboard in a computer less than six months old sounds like a Really Big Problem.
That sounds like what I had, too.
Fred Pete - Jul 07, 2006 4:40:06 am PDT #5713 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I think Mr. Faulkner has needs that haven't been properly attended to.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2006 4:42:45 am PDT #5714 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think Mr. Faulkner has needs that haven't been properly attended to.
I bet he eventually settled down and founded that town that Footloose takes place in....
Ailleann - Jul 07, 2006 4:43:18 am PDT #5715 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I think I want to go to the parties that Mr. Faulkner's been attending...
Emily - Jul 07, 2006 5:00:24 am PDT #5716 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Up for hivemind consideration: is it acceptable to throw one's own birthday party?
Nutty - Jul 07, 2006 5:00:40 am PDT #5717 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
In sum: don't buy a laptop from Dell, unless you enjoy replacnig motherboards.
Wow, I hope somebody at Dell got fired over that particular flaw. Not exactly a thriving business plan, irritating your customers. You know?