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BillWoodruff wrote: you either learn to laugh at the inevitable surreal confusions, and backfires, (the way Thais do) and "laugh it off," and not to expect anything but that
Seems that that is the way if a Thai is responsible. Just watch the happy faces turn into sad or angry faces if a Farang is involved.
Unfortunately, Farangs don't have the choice and must laugh it off in any situation.
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Bill,
Your posts are like a Salvador Dali print translated into words.
-MehGerbil
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Roger Wright wrote: I guess I'll have to wait until Wednesday to find out what's going to happen.
But I'm tempted to send the entire email transcript of my interactions with
Samsclub.com Customer Service to the CEO, just so he can properly reward those
involved for their excellent performance. It just happens that I saved a copy...
Try it, but don't expect too much to happen. Once or twice I had to take a typical student's job, like sitting in a call center for endless hours. The people you have on the phone do not know what's going on and have little to no chance to find anything out. Their bosses do that deliberately to buy time. As long as you spend time talking to totally unimportant people (and possibly keep paying the charges for their service number), they have your money and they will try to keep it as long as possible. In that case the 'incompetence' is deliberate, you will have a hard time to finally get to talk to someone who could clear this up, if they wanted to. And you may discover that they already expect complaints and deal with them in a very routine manner.
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So I just ordered this bed from SamsClub... 
You could send it to there CEO but he would probably do nothing but piss you off further and it will probably be resolved before he even gets a chance to look at it.
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Try not to lose any sleep over it -- stick an old comfy armchair in the shed; that and a bottle of rum should do you nicely.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was just debugging a query in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and got an error that said something like:
Unable to create window handle.
Because it was a (SQL) cursor with a bunch of SELECT statements, each of them displayed as a grid in the results window. Evidently, there is a limit to the number of grids you can create... had to restart my computer. 
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Hi, this is Microsoft Support, please follow the following...
1. Go to Options > Query Results
2. Change Default Destination for results: to Result to text
3. If your insane cursor query still producing crazy amount of data, please change it to Result to file
4. And even that overflows, please buy a new hard drive
* Above solution only work once you open new query window.
And how do you expect us to open a window without handle, please try this at your home to understand the practicality of the situation.
Yours truly,
Microsoft Support 
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Pointer Pointer[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ha, nice. My initial reaction was "how'd they find that many pictures to point at each spot!?" Then I realized they'd only need a couple images, so long as they are big enough that they can be moved around (to adjust where they are pointing to). For a very general implementation, all you'd need to do is indicate a focal point (or focal line) and indicate which portion of the image should be shown at a minimum.
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Ah you burst my bubble I thought they were taking a picture and displaying it in real time.
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Typical developer! I do the same sometimes. When I see a nice piece of software I think, hmm, how did they code that or how would I code that?
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Quote: Sorry, I don't support Internet Explorer
Sorry, I don't support morons who don't know how to write web pages.
(I have both Chrome and Firefox sitting here, too, and I may have opened one of them to see the page if it had been a case of the content being displayed better in them. But this? Feels more like being told to use a separate drinking fountain. FOAD)
(Not the OP. The website moron. Just to be clear.)
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GenJerDan wrote: I have both Chrome and Firefox
Sorry, I don't talk to morons who don't use decent browsers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Software bloat. Use to be able to run Microsoft Word and Excel on a 128 kB Mac.
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You probably could have a bought a windows laptop with 32GB ram for a pittance and then changed it when the hard disk filled up and still have change from an Apple. (I'm not Apple-bashing here, just stating the bleeding obvious - Apple make great kit - it's just over priced).
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Indeed. I'm sure I could build a desktop PC for under $1,000 (probably around $500) that has 32GB of RAM. Just annoyed that any individual program would have such an insane minimum requirement.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Just annoyed that any individual program would have such an insane minimum requirement.
Can't argue with that!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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..Did you guys just have a non-flaming argument that involved Apple AND Microsoft? 
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A guy with the nick 'AspDotNetDev' buying a Macbook Pro? Come on...
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Well, when the VS2012 and Win8 teams inexplicably refused to pick up Intel's latest gauntlet someone had to step up...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Well, when the VS2012 and Win8 teams inexplicably refused to pick up Intel's latest gauntlet someone had to step up
Hi Dan, I find this a very intriguing statement; if you care to say a few more words about what you mean by this, I would really enjoy being able to read them.
thanks, Bill
~
Confused by Windows 8 ? This may help: [ ^] !
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Previous versions of windows and visual studio always appear to've taken Moore's Law as a challenge and tried to add enough stuff that the faster hardware didn't result in a faster experience.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The more thing's change...
Quote:
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
... seems like you may find yourself gargling sooner than you expected[^]. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If there were an Apple laptop that had more than 16GB, I totally would. 
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