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J4amieC wrote: I hate to break it to you but, these stories are ......
...? I don't get it  . am I also not the brighest bulb on the tree?
I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")
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The France/UK thing is not as stupid as it sounds. There are countries that have banned LHD/RHD vehicles.
Cheers, Vıkram.
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Mushq wrote: Caller: 'Because there's a power failure.'
I've heard this a number of times and it always reminds me of an "ideas" meeting we had with a customer. It was many years ago, in the 90's (early), and the customer was trying to find alternatives to the expense of UPS. He didn't think it was necessary to buy a UPS because all we had to do was display a message on the computer screen to warn the user that the power was out and not panic. This way the user would see the message, and just wait patiently until the power returned.
I was relatively new at the time, but the other programmer in the meeting took the ball and ran with it. He started drawing a Rube Goldberg Machine that was keyed by the loss of power and eventually dropped a flag in front of the user terminal that said "don't panic, power is out" and a flashlight pointed at it to illuminate it. At first the customer was excited but quickly realized as the complexity of the "machine" grew that his leg was being pulled. He then approved the purchase of a UPS.
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El Corazon wrote: ...his leg was being pulled.
Was that a feature of the machine (after the power went out)?
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With a company with a large call center I was called in one-day to retrieve call records because a customer called complaining the call center manager has mouthed off. For the 12 months we had recordings only three were missing, those three. Guess who else had the key to the door and an access password?
While call center callers may not be the best and the brightest at times they are not always dealing with the best and the brightest either.
To share a funny anecdote, however, I was a call center guy once and I had a woman yelling at me over the cost of our software and how we were incompetent for not including the manual. When I asked her to check the product box for the "warranty card" I imagine she found it because she promptly hung up on me.
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Shall we all drop them an email and ask then what they are plating at...
Most of the articles have been ripped off CP website and posted as their own.
(Asked whois.melbourneit.com:43 about buzzycode.com)
Domain Name.......... buzzycode.com
Creation Date........ 2005-09-27
Registration Date.... 2005-09-27
Expiry Date.......... 2007-09-27
Organisation Name.... Logic Logic Software Labs
Organisation Address. Logic towers St.Alberts College Lane Banerji Road
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Cochin
Organisation Address. 682018
Organisation Address. KE
Organisation Address. INDIA
Admin Name........... Paul V Joseph
Admin Address........ Logic towers St.Alberts College Lane Banerji Road
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Cochin
Admin Address........ 682018
Admin Address........ KE
Admin Address........ INDIA
Admin Email.......... paulj@logicslab.com
Admin Phone.......... 91.4842393141
Admin Fax............
Tech Name............ Paul V Joseph
Tech Address......... Logic towers St.Alberts College Lane Banerji Road
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Cochin
Tech Address......... 682018
Tech Address......... KE
Tech Address......... INDIA
Tech Email........... paulj@logicslab.com
Tech Phone........... 91.4842393141
Tech Fax.............
Name Server.......... ns1.qtechost.com
Name Server.......... ns2.qtechost.com
-- modified at 9:49 Wednesday 29th August, 2007
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Thanks. I actually read that thread but didn't put 2 and 2 together. I guess the (long) weekend can't come soon enough.  
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I think something should be said to them. Posting CP member's articles, without linking to the original or citing the OA shouldn't go unpunished.
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Fair enough.
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repost in the bugs and suggestions forum to bring this to Chris's attention.
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Even otherwise, the amount of threads that the Lounge has seen would have brought this to the attention of Chris Team. They should have started thier investigation efforts on that anyway.
Nevertheless, it is better to post it there to expedite the recovery operation.
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Frank Kerrigan wrote: Shall we all drop them an email
That would just fall into deaf ears. My doubt is that they are trying to spruce up thier website by hook or by crook.
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I think that much of the site is just articles from CP (check out the coloring scheme of the articles) with phony author names. I found at least 7 different articles (each from different "real" authors here) associated to three different authors on the Buzzycode site...
Punks!
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Who in the f*** is voting you a 1 for saying that? I will say it again:
I think that much of the site is just articles from CP (check out the coloring scheme of the articles) with phony author names. I found at least 7 different articles (each from different "real" authors here) associated to three different authors on the Buzzycode site...
Punks!
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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Kerala is Nish Bot's home state. Maybe he can send a few of his friends over there to politely dissuade them. 
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: to politely dissuade them.
Almost politely, I think.
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Maybe put some cattle in their lobby?
Like pigs?
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And some food for the pig in their web servers;P
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}
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Frank Kerrigan wrote: Expiry Date.......... 2007-09-27
They're coming up on a deadline and want to show progress maybe?
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