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08-23-2010, 12:55 PM
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Your Bartender
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My favorite was the eyeball flopping around on the optic nerve.
Gravdigr, that was excellent. I've always said I'd rather troubleshoot/fix 20 computers than one printer. |
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08-23-2010, 03:08 PM
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Professor
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Yes, Im a computer programmer... And proud of it! 
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08-23-2010, 04:24 PM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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I have no issues with programmers.
 Just the printer that works only when it feels like it. Pretty much as described above.
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08-23-2010, 04:53 PM
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Professor
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I do have issue with printers too...
Or may be with the guys who devellop the printer drivers... Why can't they come up with printers that have the same margins (top, left, right, bottom)? Nearly every time I create a report, the costumer is unhappy because it doesn't print right.
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08-23-2010, 05:52 PM
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Your Bartender
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It seems obvious that more time is spent on things like checking how much ink is left in the printer and giving you a handy menu so you can click whether you need to print a photo, or a powerpoint presentation, or an email, etc. than is spent making sure you can actually send stuff out to the printer. It's almost enough to make me nostalgic for the bad old days of the Epson ESC codes. At least you could tell exactly how things were fucked up. |
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08-23-2010, 06:03 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Talk about nostalgia...
MS Word 5.0 back in the early days was about 100k and just about as good as the current version. No bells-n-whistles, but a easy-to-use word processor. But then, things were always better back in the dark recesses of my mind. |
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08-23-2010, 06:39 PM
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08-23-2010, 07:17 PM
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The future is unwritten
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
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08-23-2010, 08:06 PM
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changed his status to single
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08-23-2010, 10:56 PM
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has a second hand user title
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08-24-2010, 02:50 AM
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I had trouble with my printer for months. Eventually, when I replaced the USB cable, all the troubles were gone  Quote:
Oh, and I'm a programmer too. 
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08-24-2010, 12:27 PM
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Since MS Word replaced the WYSIWYG interface to create headers with an "easier" and "better" menu of canned options, it now takes me about half an hour to figure out how to create a headers as extravagant as the title centered at the top of the page and the page number right justified. Once they start making it "easier" it becomes impossible.
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08-27-2010, 12:08 AM
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Let me state for the record, a bunch of poor Chilean miners being trapped underground for 2-4 months while they wait for rescue is not funny.
However, this MSNBC article about said miners has been absolutely cracking me up this evening. Scroll down to the bottom (you may have to click "show more text" to see the whole article first) and find the section where they display all the miners' photos, including little personal blurbs about each one underneath. I don't know who wrote these things, but some of them are very, very weird: Quote:
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08-27-2010, 01:21 AM
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The future is unwritten
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