Some pinball machines also have bugs in their software...

And pinball for me it is also, that's why I have them at home :) :)

"Lack" implies you have deficinecy.

You can not say you lack third arm, because you would not have third arm.

Telling people they "lack faith" implies you think less of them for not being religious. Not a way to win hearts and minds, but good way to get people adversarial (as your exchange nicely illustrates).

If people come to conclusion that "there is no god" is rational answer with no contrary evidence, you can not disreard it as a belief and be done with it.

Simply put, using word "lack of faith" makes you insulting asshat.

As reciever of packages, I have to agree.

Both Fed-Ex and UPS failed to call on cellphone or write email or basically have any attempt at contacting sendee at all.

Case 1:

FedEx, street address. There are no nameplates on house to show who lives in flats, because there is supposed to be some amount of privacy. Fed Ex Employee sees he can not get into house nor can he ring bell and enters "undeliverable address" a continues on.

Sendee had to call them up.

Package is returned to business even if support on phone claimed it will he held on for picking it up on in person for whole month. Turns out FedEx office is 45 minutes drive away, upon arrival dead adresee was infromed that package was returned to sender with invalid address after day.

Fuck fedex. How much is a phone call?

Case 2:

UPS Failed to transcribe address properly to computer system. And misspells phone number too. They are quite happy with undeliverable address even if it contains way too obvious typo. No phonecall, not even email. Customer is obviously supposed to babysit tracker.

They attempt to return it in one week, no one with single braincell noticing anything. It took very angry phonecall to get it back. Then I learn that they only do deliveries between 9:00 and 17:00 and only in working days and cant guarantee time of arrival. How fuckign useless is that? Am I supposed to take day off to get package?

Of course, they have their facility also 45 minutes drive from city.

Fuck UPS.

Next time I ecnounter eshop that will not use standard mail, i will mail them and go do my shopping elsewhere.

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National mail system?

Never-ever had a issue. I can pick package up pretty much anytime, 5 minutes walk away from me.

UPS and FedEx? Here, they have reputation of intentionally "loosing" packages or "delivering" them. I have defninitelly learned my lessing.

Have you ever put your cellphone into your poket?

No where in TFA does it say just what the hell CyanogenMod is, or what an Oppo N1 is. I watched the video and it appears to be a cell phone, but it doesn't say anywhere in the article what it is, what it does, or why it's special.

There should have been extremely clear training on that. This is the fault of the people who were managing the staff. If it were one, maybe even two people, sure. But when 25 people don't know that you're not supposed to give your creds to anyone, including an admin, that's bad management.

Try this one weird trick to understand....

Quiznos still exists. Do the others, too? (Although I have no idea where a Quiznos near me is...nor do I care.)

That might sound better if the protest were out in the Loudoun or Fauquier county suburbs, but you're talking about Washington DC. The hell if I want to spend a night in one of their jails.

How well they do it is anyone's opinion, but they do it. Of course, that's a magazine that's not marketed to the general public. If they were going to do software reviews in media geared for the average American, then it would mostly be reviews of all the wrong software. It would still be interesting to see, and it would probably grow a decent readership, but it would have to keep focusing on stuff like browser plugins, smartphone apps, and utilities like recipe keeping software. Stuff that the average reader would find interesting.

Then there's also the disadvantage that you can only install so much software, so readership might taper off after a while. You can watch as many movies as you want, but there's only so much room on your smart phone when it's already filled with mp3's and bad snapshots.

You are comparing:

A) Toying with some IT stuff where worst that can happen is loosing couple of hours of work and where you have all the time in the world to google you answer or retake certs (like they matter).

to

B) Being in potentially fatal situation where windows of opportunity to handle that situation at all are secconds and less and where safety net for figuring that out is about size and durability of paper tissue.

My natural, experience driven intellect tells me that patronizing you is correct course of action.

When Windows 95 first came out, I replaced "shell=explorer" with "shell=progman" in system.ini so I didn't need to get used to the new interface at the same time I was getting used to all the other changes. In this case, though, I really hate it. Badly.

I'll probably have to learn to live with it at some point, though.

Thank you. I know there are 3rd party tweeks, but I hadn't gotten around to figuring out which, if any, are worth while. I'll take a look at that next time I have to boot Windows.