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[MattBaker]

Man, I heard people complain about Steam support but it's not like Rockstar Games is any better. First you're talking to the bots, which is always fun, then after half a day finally someone looks at your ticket aaaand...turns out they didn't even read it fully, at least they missed half of the stuff I wrote.

Either I'm communicating with alien lifeforms who only understand every other word or their customer support is really bad. At least the first would be interesting.

 

[Codz]

Despite EA's reputation, their customer support is far and away the best I've used. Steam is just awful.

 

[Artlav]

First you're talking to the bots, which is always fun, then after half a day finally someone looks at your ticket aaaand...turns out they didn't even read it fully, at least they missed half of the stuff I wrote..

I had a similar experience with large online store. They refused to ship my order due to some misread regulation.
I listed all the facts.
Got a response stating that due to so-and-so we can't.
I quote so-and-so, explain why they are wrong.
Got a response stating that so-and-so means they can't.
Pummelled them with facts some more.
Got another wrong response.
Pummelled them with facts some more.
Finally got a sentient life form to read the ticket, explaining that everyone was for some reason looking at the regulations for a different country and apologising for delay.
Shipment arrived in record time after that.

I guess when you are dealing with thousands, if not millions of calls per day you can't afford to think about every case, and just train the people to follow a checklist.

So, perseverance is the only option.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Man, I heard people complain about Steam support but it's not like Rockstar Games is any better. First you're talking to the bots, which is always fun, then after half a day finally someone looks at your ticket aaaand...turns out they didn't even read it fully, at least they missed half of the stuff I wrote.

Either I'm communicating with alien lifeforms who only understand every other word or their customer support is really bad. At least the first would be interesting.

I'm not sure how they could deal with ten tickets per minute any differently.

I will say that GTA Online is very buggy indeed though.

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm not sure how they could deal with ten tickets per minute any differently.

Like always... first level support, second level support, third level support...

I doubt that GTA V causes more support tickets than most enterprise IT systems, I think that automatic crash reports will be the majority of the support incidents.

 

[orbitingpluto]

Two shuttles met nose to nose, three years ago today:

How about a random challenge?

No points for knowing which two shuttles are meeting, but correctly guessing the location off the top of your head nets you picture of a thing. Rules are:

1) Guess of the top of your head. No poking about online or using reference materials, like scrapbooks or magzines.

2)Post your guess, and what thing you would like a picture of(check rule 7).

4)Find out whether you were right by traveling to this link. Check the comments, as the tweet isn't explicit about the location.

5)You should now know whether or not you were right, edit you post and simply say if you were right or not. Don't change your guess, and don't give away the answer if you were wrong. Say something like, "aww, I didn't get it" instead of "It was Area 51*, who would have guessed"

*The answer isn't Area 51.

6)There's a limit of five winners, because I'm the one finding the reward pictures.

7) Things requested are to be safe for work, so don't request obscene things. If you can't think of a specific thing, I can come up with something from descriptions like "a red thing", "a fast thing", "not a space thing" etc.

Good luck with your guesses!:tiphat:

 

[DaveS]

That is a photo of the hand-over ceremony of OV-103 Discovery from NASA to the National Air & Space Museum just outside the NASM's Udvar-Hazy McDonnell Space Hangar at Dulles International Airport.

Edit:

 

[orbitingpluto]

I should have reasoned that DaveS would absolutely dominate any Shuttle trivia, but I went forth with my challenge without thinking that it would be over in less than ten minutes.:lol:

Ah well, DaveS, in recognition of your quick and complete answer to the challenge, you win all five pictures of things. You get a choice of what things will be pictured, or you can leave it up to semi-random picks by me.

 

[Andy44]

You can always tell Enterprise from a distance by looking at the black and white color scheme on the nose; on spaceworthy orbiters the black tiles cover over the nose RCS, and on Enterprise the bay where the RCS should go is all white. Also, Enterprise doesn't have the black patterns around the windshield. All because Enterprise's tiles are fake.

Also, Enterprise still has the NASA worm logo.

The other easy-to-spot-from-a-distance orbiter was Columbia, which had the extra black heat shielding on the chines and that unsightly sensor pod on top of the vertical stabilizer, which was used for early test flights and never removed.

 

[mojoey]

I like to think the Sensor pod was a secret laser, used to ward off alien attacks, and that the foam strike was faked, and the real reason Columbia broke up was due to sustained fire from alien marauders. Or it could just be a sensor pod.

 

[Linguofreak]

You can always tell Enterprise from a distance by looking at the black and white color scheme on the nose; on spaceworthy orbiters the black tiles cover over the nose RCS, and on Enterprise the bay where the RCS should go is all white. Also, Enterprise doesn't have the black patterns around the windshield. All because Enterprise's tiles are fake.

One other feature of Enterprise that stands out when it's shown with another shuttle, if not so well on its own, is its pristine condition. In the nose-to-nose photo you can definitely see a difference in wear and tear.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Looks like the Mrs. Cruiser and I are taking a little girl as a foster kid, with pretty decent odds of adoption (depends on the State). We've petitioned the court, and we see the judge on the 30th.

We've known her for some time (she's 4 yrs old) and both parents are meth dealers (and users). The bio-mom has lost 2 previous children to the State. And this time she (and the dad) are going to prison for a very long time.

Hopefully there' be a little red-headed Jr. Orbinuat shortly!

 

[mojoey]

Sounds like the poor kid's had a rough life so far. Hope everything works out for the best.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Hope everything works out for the best.

With the 'Cruiser as a guardian? That's a given. Nothing scares me more than someone like him when you mess with someone under his care.

 

[mojoey]

With the 'Cruiser as a guardian? That's a given. Nothing scares me more than someone like him when you mess with someone under his care.

Ol' PC don't sit on the front porch cleaning his shotgun when his kid brings the boyfriend home, no no. He's out front giving the Leopard II a scrub down.

 

[Urwumpe]

Ol' PC don't sit on the front porch cleaning his shotgun when his kid brings the boyfriend home, no no. He's out front giving the Leopard II a scrub down.

When PC makes a "I am watching you"-gesture, he means: I will be watching you with a Mk 48 rangefinder.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Yep. With the Jr. 'Cruiser's first boyfriend I didn't do the typical gun cleaning routine (I figured it for a stereotype). Instead I was sharpening a machete.

The wife and I wanted to get this girl years ago, but the bio-mom managed to somehow stay out of trouble. Shortly after Brooklyn's birthday last year (Dec 27th) we got her and took her out for a b-day dinner. When some family members took her back home, one said the smell of meth was overpowering (I've no idea what it smells like, but, whatev). Anyway, child services was called and chaos followed. Bio-mom and dad somehow sqeaked out of that one, but were busted recently for selling the stuff. Both swung their third strike, and the kid was removed.

Once we get her settled it'll be lots of time getting her "caught up". She doesn't know any letters or numbers, so here comes Mr. & Mrs. 'Cruiser with a ton of books to read to her (and liberal application of Sesame Street). There'll be some pains initially, she didn't get told "No" a lot so, there's some discipline issues that we'll have to get through. Probably a rough go at first, but our own kiddo turned out pretty awesome, it'll just take some time.

 

[jedidia]

Looks like the Mrs. Cruiser and I are taking a little girl as a foster kid, with pretty decent odds of adoption

Probably a rough go at first

It'll be a rough ride all the way. Many basic personality traits already are well in the process of being solidified at that age. I'm not saying it's hopeless, not at all, and the start will certainly be the roughest, but you (and she) will be dealing with the effects of the past four years for a loooong time.

My hat's off to you, in any case. My two boys are already 3 years old, and I'm still not really adjusted to parenting. To be honest, it's not something I'd do again, much less with an increased difficulty level. Maybe that'll change when they grow up, who knows... for now, I'm having my hands full, and could fill two more if I had them. But it's great of you to give her the opportunity of a happy childhood. :tiphat:

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Hmmm... I just noticed a security issue with DropBox. If the password is changed, any client connected to the account previously automatically adapts the change and you don't have to re-enter the password. In effect that would mean that if you lost your phone or laptop, you would pretty much have to set up an all-new account and migrate your data to be sure that noone else has access to your entire box. It seems rather surprising that there's no complaints about that.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I agree, when I was just a little cruiser my mother went through a divorce, and there's things that she says I couldn't possibly remember (I was 3 yrs old), but I remember some of them as if they were yesterday.

One of my female teacher friends was telling me that I'm getting her before it's too late. Tons of personality traits are ingrained (indoctrinated?) between 4 and 7.

You'll never adjust to parenting. You want to teach them to avoid the same mistakes that you made growing up. Not realizing that they have a whole new, heretofore unimagined set of mistakes for you to deal with. And what worked with you (or me, or that guy lurking over there (we can see you) may not work with this one or that one.

I told my kid once (I think she might have been 8 or 9) that she "is unique, just like everybody else". She said "Yes!", thought for a second and gave me that look. She'd caught the joke at that age (I was so proud).

This just in. Bio-mom and dad have skipped bail.

 

[Ghostrider]

Does anyone remember this little guy?

Do you know what happens when you launch a bat into space?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71gUhMFYlU