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Comment Re:Jeremy Clarkson? (Score 1) 662

by tompaulco (#49345923) Attached to: Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear
Yes, you must, but I'm not sure why. I've heard of those three. Ferrara is an actor who has appeared in one movie of note. Foust is a race car driver of little note, and Wood is a guy that is on Top Gear US. Their attempts to mimic the UK capers fall flat, they had guests on for maybe a season before the guest starts realized it wasn't worth it, even for two bit reality show idiots. The shows are week after week of station wagons and SUVs. I still watch it, but it has nothing on the original.

Comment Re:Kitsap County resident here... (Score 1) 536

Yeah, Comcast is incompetent, but there's more to the story than meets the summary. I took a look at his website, and found his resume, and a couple of things leapt out at me...

- All of his previous employment was in Southern California. To residents here on the Peninsula that's almost always a huge warning sign with flashing red letters. We've all seen too many folk move here from big cities who don't grasp that despite the apparent nearness of Seattle and Tacoma, Kitsap County is still pretty much country/rural. Not so much as it was when the Navy brought me out here nearly thirty years ago, but it's still not a city. It's not even close.

- His address turns out to be out in the boonies, in the kind of place big city folk like to buy houses and then complain that it's not like living in the cheek-by-jowl suburbs. Sorry dude, but when you live at the end of a quarter mile long shared driveway off of a back country road, it should be pretty obvious that you don't live in Palo Alto or Mountain View anymore.

You are exactly right. However, if someone tells you multiple times that they can provide you a service and then reneges, they are responsible for damages, whether it is in downtown L.A., Kitsap County, or Timbuktu Michigan.

Comment Re:Not faultless (Score 2) 536

Nope. All the fault is comcast. They lied. Plain and simple. If you have to go on the assumption that everybody is always lying to you all the time and double and triple check everything then you will get zero things done in your lifetime. At some point, you have to trust that after a reasonable amount of research has resulted in a company claiming to provide a service, and then they renege on you, that is the fault of the company and they shoulder 100% of the blame.

Comment Re:homeowner fail (Score 3, Informative) 536

Well, then he simply needs to sue the company for the cost of relocating him to another home of equal value in an area where they do provide service, plus court costs, time and expenses and mental anguish.
I certainly believe this could happen. I once signed up for a long distance plan with AT&T and month later I got a bill for $600. It turns out that they did not offer that plan in my area, despite the fact that their representative sold it to me. Apparently after having determined that the plan was not available, they did not call and discuss other options with me but just defaulted me to "no plan" with charges approximately 10 times the amount of the plan that I had purchased from them. Not only would they not honor the contract which I and they had signed, but they would not even retroact the first month to that plan, and would only agree to reducing the bill by half. I told them I would only pay what the plan that I had purchased would cost and they said that would be fine and they would report the difference to the credit agencies and send the bill to collections. They claimed no responsibility for what the agent under their employ and trained by them had sold me and apparently it was entirely MY responsibility to figure out what plans AT&T offered in my area, despite the fact that finding that out would have also broken computer hacking laws.

Comment Re: How many minutes until this is mandatory? (Score 1) 287

by tompaulco (#49335671) Attached to: Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding

>legal limit is 75 >whines that you fall just short of hitting it

Do you know what a goddamn LIMIT is, fool? You are not supposed to ever reach it, much fucking less go past it!

You are speaking from a mathematical perspective. You simply can't go past a limit in math. In real life, you can go past arbitrary assigned numbers easily and usually safely. If the speed limit were really a hard and fast number then the people who travel 20 mph under the minimum speed are far more a danger than the people going 5 mph over it, and the people going to be slow should be singled out more frequently for tickets.

Comment Who is going to buy all their stuff? (Score 1) 108

by tompaulco (#49326291) Attached to: IBM Will Share Tech With China To Help Build IT Industry There
After all of the American workers are fired, who is going to buy all the cheap stuff they make in China? The Chinese? Well, first you would have to pay them more. So the goods would cost more to produce. Doesn't seem to make much sense from a business point of view. Maybe from a charity point of view. On the other hand, hurting 1/3 of a billion in order to help 1 billion is not really a great ratio for a charity either.

Comment Re:Moving Parts (Score 2) 307

Yes, definitely fans, followed shortly by the components the fans were trying to protect.
Recently (like the last 5 years), I have had memory go bad in both a laptop and a desktop. In the case of my desktop, it had been running about 8 years and had probably given me about what I could expect for it's lifetime. In the case of my laptop it was only 4 years old. I had asked work for more memory, and the IT people opened the system up to check what type of memory it was. At that point, the system stopped working. Lesson learned: never trust your equipment to the IT department.
Back in 1994, when I was in charge of equipment, I wanted to purchase Dell equipment, but was overruled by the management, and they bought Gateways. I believe we had to replace at least one part on every single machine ordered. Things that broke included fans, CPU, and CRTs. The CPU which the management had to have (but not us lowly software developers), had the Pentium bug. That wasn't the only Instant Karma at that office. The Manager chose the only office with a view, and the view was down an alley ( we were on the 10th floor). My view was of a big old abandoned building. Shortly after we moved in, they tore down the building and I was able to see all the way up Wacker drive.

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