dequeued commented on Meet United Airlines' Less-Valued Customers!

"Once I was on plane, and this girl sitting next to me gets ejected from the plane to make room for a premium elitist platinum customer. She had a valid ticket and everything, but she wasn't as important and the plane was full, and a storm was coming and there wouldn't be anymore flights for over a day, so the airline ejected her and gave her seat to this higher paying customer."

dequeued commented on Verizon Wireless Roadside Assistance Apologizes For Sucking

"@Bladefist: Agreed. She clearly didn't value her job or take her assigned task seriously. If I was in her place, and wasn't sure what the procedure was, I would do my very best to help the customer. I would make a sincere effort to find out what I could do to rectify the situation. Instead, this CSR was clearly doing the absolute minimum required."

dequeued commented on Gmail Labs Adds Advanced IMAP Controls

"While I am glad they did this, most imap clients will let you "locally unsubscribe" to server side folders. It is really annoying on clients that can't or aren't configured though, because usually email is counted twice, once in your "all mail" folder, and once in your inbox."

dequeued commented on Microsoft Wants You To Know That They're Proud To Be "A PC"

"@Bladefist: You want something to think about? Okay, how about this. Just because windows is popular doesn't make it better. Popularity seems to be the only thing Windows fanboys cite as being better about Windows. I can tell you why windows sucks, point by point. No software Software installation on windows is a joke. Linux is way ahead of Windows here. With a few keystrokes or clicks, I can have nearly anything I want installed and configured on my computer, the only bottleneck being my connection speed. OSX doesn't come with a repository system by default, but it's method of installing and de-installing apps is ellegant and powerful. It also works with the filesystem metaphore a lot better. Want to install Photoshop?"

dequeued commented on Microsoft Wants You To Know That They're Proud To Be "A PC"

"I work in IT, deploying windows into hundreds of workstations at a time, and I can tell you it SUUUUCKS. It's complex, but only in a way that makes it more delecate and fussy. I have 400 Dell Optiplex 755s. I tried for a about 8 hours to get it so that I could install windows once, and then push the image of the installed instance of windows onto all of the computers, and then have a landing script that would generate the required unique ids and whatnot. But nooo. Windows will bluescreen if you meddle with it's poorly organized system32 folder. I had to settle for letting our customized ximage installer get 98% done, then pull the plug, and push *that* image to our workstations. The client would power on the workstations, the installer would pick up where it left off, and finish. If these workstations were Linux, or Mac, it would be easy as pie, and there would be a large well organized community there to help me. But windows is an undocumented binary blob of an OS. And if you want to do anything useful with it, you're pretty much on your own. Get ready to sift through page after page of broken English on sleazy ad ridden sites like experts-exchange.com!"

dequeued commented on Comcast Officially Informs Customers Of The 250 GB Bandwidth Cap

"Wow, people in the rest of the world are getting higher speeds for cheaper every month, while here in America we are going backwards. How long till we are paying through the noses for dialup speeds?"

dequeued commented on Microsoft Wants You To Know That They're Proud To Be "A PC"

"Windows sucks, and the only reason it's successful is that most people simply aren't very demanding with their computers. Is anyone going to defend that assinine "You have unused icons on your desktop" bubble that keeps popping up? That prettymuch encapsulates Microsoft's philosophy about operating systems: Help the user just enough to confuse or annoy them. I switched to linux as my main operating system almost a decade ago and I haven't looked back. When I want to install the latest software, it's a couple of clicks away in my package manager, when you want to install something on windows, you have to download some bloated self extracting binary shareware piece of crap. You can always always spot the dozens of "leftover" installer packages on any windows user's desktop. It's little things like that, that Microsoft hasn't tried to fix for the last 10 years that are so annoying."

dequeued commented on Triple Monitor Plus TV Synergy

"Can't recommend synergy enough. It's often better than having one computer with two screens. @Alucardo: Synergy is open source, just rebuild it for x64 if the binaries are not available."

dequeued commented on Apple: MacBooks Can't Handle GarageBand

"When I took my uncle shopping for a new computer at the Apple store, they tried pulling this crap on me. They said that regular macbooks couldn't handle Adobe Photoshop, well they could handle it, they would just crash a lot because it ran a different architecture, and he needed to buy a powerbook."

dequeued commented on Congress Asks Wireless Carriers To Justify Text Message Rate Increases

"@ZukeZuke: Except that Starbucks isn't providing a public utility."