Why don't you just buy a USB keyboard and hook it up to the laptop?
not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption
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Dear so-and-so,
I've received your work request and have evaluated its requirements. It will take approximately 480 hours to complete all the tasks required. Due to our commitment to provide excellent technical support to many educational programs at this university and the time required to implement this request, we are unable to fulfill it.
We can suggest a few outside contractors that may be able to complete this work in the timeframe you require. They will be happy to give you a time and cost estimate so you can plan your department budget accordingly.
Alternately, consider stopping by and discussing your requirements in greater detail - we may be able to help you design a solution that will fit your needs without compromising our ability to serve other departments.
Best regards,
Your local IT whipping boy
The above is merely a diplomatic way of saying
1) We can't do it - not because we are incapable, but
2) because you are not our only customer
3) Other people can do it
4) It's not coming out of our budget
5) We can and want to help you
6) You'll have to meet us and discuss it in person
Because the computer itself is old, and beat all to hell (several keys missing from a high-speed code response a couple years ago... long story), and would probably benefit from becoming some enterprising tech adept's practice piece... namely my brother.
Dammit, don't say "any time works for me" and then complain about the time I choose! When I ask you what time we should meet up, that means I actually want to hear your opinion on the matter. It doesn't mean you should pretend to not care, then secretly hope I pick the time you wanted all along.
If any of them run a sliver deck, kick them out.
Okay fine.
If any of them run a sliver deck, wrath of god them out. Whatever.
If any of them run a sliver deck, wrath of god them out. Whatever.
Is that card legal?
Oh yes. It was a standard card for most of the game's life.
Yesterday I went to sleep thinking to me that, even if that girl seems to be seeing that guy she finds really attractive, I should try and ask her out like I thought I would do when that guy wasn't in the picture. But I wasn't sure, my window of opportunity is probably closed, and I might be burning my chances to do that in the future.
Today I came to the forums and started reading Norris' thread. It was making me more confident on doing that... until... my plan to ask her out stating that it's a date seemed to be a terrible idea? That was the key of the whole thing, I didn't want to invest more time in this girl just to have her think (or say that she thought) that she is just doing stuff with a friend.
I'll keep thinking.
Today I came to the forums and started reading Norris' thread. It was making me more confident on doing that... until... my plan to ask her out stating that it's a date seemed to be a terrible idea? That was the key of the whole thing, I didn't want to invest more time in this girl just to have her think (or say that she thought) that she is just doing stuff with a friend.
I'll keep thinking.
figmentPez
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That makes me wonder how much study has, or eventually will, go into game math. I know that chess has been studied extensively, but how much advanced mathematics is put into balacing games like World of Warcraft or Magic: The Gathering? I'm guessing it's mostly done by intuition, experience and lots of play testing, but I wonder how much could be done predictively with the right formulae.
Update: Magic went well. It was pretty fun. I don't play but it was cool watching them play. They had a 'random deck' tourny. Basically, all the decks were put in non descript boxes and numbered 1-20. I was asked to shuffle them all around. Then each player had to roll a twenty sided die and whatever the number they got that was deck they were playing.
It made for some interesting match ups. The husband got a deck that was comprised mostly of owls and ninjas. He also managed to defeat his best friend in three turns which made everyone roar loudly.
I just wish I wasn't treated as a bar maid in my own home.
It made for some interesting match ups. The husband got a deck that was comprised mostly of owls and ninjas. He also managed to defeat his best friend in three turns which made everyone roar loudly.
I just wish I wasn't treated as a bar maid in my own home.
This customer is driving me insane. I ship data DVDs and CDs to people, which contain zipped, password protected files. This woman is on her third (3rd) disc, and cannot follow directions (or is somehow managing to corrupt a DVDRW when she puts it in her computer). Since I'm the one packaging the data into the zipped file, I test the data before hand to ensure there are no corruptions. Then, once I'm done zipping the file, I move it to a different location on the network and unzip it to make sure nothing was corrupted during the archival process. Once everything tests out OK, I burn the file to a DVDR (or CDR, if it'll fit), and then copy the file back off of the DVD onto yet a separate portion of the network and unzip it again to make sure there's no corruption. I've done this for this woman 3 times, and still she gets the disc and claims that the data is corrupt. At this point, I'm more inclined to believe that she's attempting to watch the DVD on her TV than I am to believe that there's actually anything wrong with the DVD; and when I try to walk her back through the instructions on how to access the data contained on the DVD, she refuses to respond.
AAAARGGGGGHHHHH!!!
AAAARGGGGGHHHHH!!!
Willing to bet she doesn't have a DVD reader in her PC
WotC mainly supports the regional and open tournaments as a way to do their play testing. It's basically the entire point of them, so that their official matches can go smoothly.
figmentPez
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I'm worried about a friend, but things are kinda strained between us, so I can't just ask to see what, if anything, is going on. It sucks caring so much about someone at a distance.
Pez: I know the feeling, but unless they want to open up to you, there isn't a lot you can do. Or at least, that was my experience.
Our students have 3 accounts: one for the online messageboards and distance learning (Blackboard), one for registration, grades, etc (Raven), and one for accessing the campus network and their email (network). So half the time when a student complains that their account isn't working, it takes 10 minutes to get them to explain WHICH account. Yesterday a student who needs a new password every times she comes in, was certain that her network account wasn't working, so I reset it for her. I told her she could log into a campus computer (there are a few in the library) to set up her new password. She goes to a computer. Three minutes later, she's standing before me again saying it still doesn't work. I go to the computer she's at, and she's at the blackboard log in screen.
"So it's your blackboard account that doesn't work?"
"Right."
"But you said it was your network account."
"Well, that probably didn't work either, I guess."
"Did you change your password when you logged in?"
"Oh, this one was already signed in."
I take a few seconds to grind my teeth. "Okay, I'll go reset your blackboard account. That's going to be your student ID number as the username, and your last name, all lowercase, as the password. This is also on this sheet of instructions I'm handing you. You'll have to log out, and log back in to set up your network account, since it's been reset"
"Okay."
I go back to my terminal and reset her blackboard account.
"It still doesn't work."
"Go to the log in screen." She does. "Now log in with your ID number and last name." I watch her type, and notice she's not entering her last name as the password, which is what I told her I set it to. "What was that first letter there?"
"What?"
"When you entered your password, what did you type?"
"My first and last name."
"It's just your last name."
"It is?"
"Yes, it is. It's just your last name. I thought I told you that, and also that I gave you a sheet of instructions that's right there next to the computer that also say it."
"Are you sure?"
"Try your last name."
It works.
"Oh! So is that what I was doing wrong?"
Our students have 3 accounts: one for the online messageboards and distance learning (Blackboard), one for registration, grades, etc (Raven), and one for accessing the campus network and their email (network). So half the time when a student complains that their account isn't working, it takes 10 minutes to get them to explain WHICH account. Yesterday a student who needs a new password every times she comes in, was certain that her network account wasn't working, so I reset it for her. I told her she could log into a campus computer (there are a few in the library) to set up her new password. She goes to a computer. Three minutes later, she's standing before me again saying it still doesn't work. I go to the computer she's at, and she's at the blackboard log in screen.
"So it's your blackboard account that doesn't work?"
"Right."
"But you said it was your network account."
"Well, that probably didn't work either, I guess."
"Did you change your password when you logged in?"
"Oh, this one was already signed in."
I take a few seconds to grind my teeth. "Okay, I'll go reset your blackboard account. That's going to be your student ID number as the username, and your last name, all lowercase, as the password. This is also on this sheet of instructions I'm handing you. You'll have to log out, and log back in to set up your network account, since it's been reset"
"Okay."
I go back to my terminal and reset her blackboard account.
"It still doesn't work."
"Go to the log in screen." She does. "Now log in with your ID number and last name." I watch her type, and notice she's not entering her last name as the password, which is what I told her I set it to. "What was that first letter there?"
"What?"
"When you entered your password, what did you type?"
"My first and last name."
"It's just your last name."
"It is?"
"Yes, it is. It's just your last name. I thought I told you that, and also that I gave you a sheet of instructions that's right there next to the computer that also say it."
"Are you sure?"
"Try your last name."
It works.
"Oh! So is that what I was doing wrong?"
Just picked up Civ5... holy shit installing a game from a disk is so fucking frustrating now. I am a bloody network engineer and this install is pissing me off.
Why do I need Steam to play a game on a disk?
Why is it updating with out my permission?
No game should take over an hour to install and play.
Why do I need Steam to play a game on a disk?
Why is it updating with out my permission?
No game should take over an hour to install and play.
Not that I'm defending this, but the idea was that you'll never use the disk again. The updating is just Steam's usual policy.
I'm still fucking awake?
I am a complete fucking idiot.
I am a complete fucking idiot.
Damn Terrik, I'm sorry to hear it man. On the plus side, you're in the middle of a sea fully of cute asian chicks, so it can't all be bad right? 
Spending time with my brother, drinking + gaming on a few day binge really helped me out when I had the big break-up a while back.
My current rant - So last night went freakin great right? Why is that in question form? Because every night with "Comic Book Cutie" has been freaking great, yet I'm starting to feel like I'm wasting her time. I don't think she's looking for anything "meaningful" as she's not really brought it up, and I definitely don't feel "gaga" over her in anyway but physically. So why am I starting to think about not seeing her anymore after the Halloween party is a good idea?
It's been so long since I've had such easy access to consistant sexual gratification without the emotional guilt, but now I'm creating it from nowhere? What the fuuuuuuu
Spending time with my brother, drinking + gaming on a few day binge really helped me out when I had the big break-up a while back. My current rant - So last night went freakin great right? Why is that in question form? Because every night with "Comic Book Cutie" has been freaking great, yet I'm starting to feel like I'm wasting her time. I don't think she's looking for anything "meaningful" as she's not really brought it up, and I definitely don't feel "gaga" over her in anyway but physically. So why am I starting to think about not seeing her anymore after the Halloween party is a good idea?
It's been so long since I've had such easy access to consistant sexual gratification without the emotional guilt, but now I'm creating it from nowhere? What the fuuuuuuu
Maybe because you got used to having it with the emotional guilt, so now that's what you associate with it.
...which would really suck.
True, but how long were you with your girlfriend? You held a lot of guilt and unhappiness for a VERY long time. That shit doesn't just go away, it festers like a splinter in your foot.
My advice? Be upfront and ask her if she's serious about this or if it's just a casual thing. Once you know where she stands, you'll have a better idea of how to react. If your both on the same wavelength then you'll have nothing to feel guilty about.
That being said, if you do move on and this keeps happening, you may want to consider seeing a counselor or therapist.
LOLTHERAPYWHYDON'TIJUSTMANTHEFUCKUP?!?!
j/k
Haven't been verbal about what this "relationship" is, because honestly it's been more a bootycall kind of thing than a dating kind of thing. We make plans, go out to eat/drink for an hour or two, then it's back to her place. Sometimes I sleep over and leave in the morning, sometimes I leave an hour or so afterward. I feel like nothing's been "established" and I wouldn't have a problem if she were seeing anyonelse, but maybe she's afraid of scaring me off by telling me she wants more? Maybe she's like me and is more than happy with current arrangement? I haven't a fucking clue but hoping that "airing it out" doesn't signal the beginning of the end.
j/k
Haven't been verbal about what this "relationship" is, because honestly it's been more a bootycall kind of thing than a dating kind of thing. We make plans, go out to eat/drink for an hour or two, then it's back to her place. Sometimes I sleep over and leave in the morning, sometimes I leave an hour or so afterward. I feel like nothing's been "established" and I wouldn't have a problem if she were seeing anyonelse, but maybe she's afraid of scaring me off by telling me she wants more? Maybe she's like me and is more than happy with current arrangement? I haven't a fucking clue but hoping that "airing it out" doesn't signal the beginning of the end.
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