The very best version of custom order is the European “Factory Delivery” programs from Porsche and Volvo. You fly out to the factory, pick up your car and drive your own car around the country on vacation. Then you return it back to the factory, they wrap it up and put it on the boat and in a month or so when you get…

Your manufacturer claims it is not compatible or not supported? These are two different terms. For not supported it might still work but they will not help you troubleshoot. You likely need to perform a clean install though. Most failures were caused by some preinstalled utility or drivers that get solved by a clean…

I have a service call booked for first thing tomorrow morning at a little store in the middle of nowhere. They cannot get online, the call centre could not fix it with them over the phone and suspect a device has died so they are hiring me to go out and fix it.

But based on my experience of the call centre and the…

Nimoy doing pager commercial for our local telco. (at the time)

Ok, I tried it a bunch of times and it finally worked, Was getting error on chrome on desktop and on tablet, but after a few retries I got success with green Enabled message.

Yeah, broken with the same error for me too.

I think most of the people in Dallas will likely be wondering why there is so much hype for something that only covers 2-3 percent of the population.

My local Home Depot puts the absolute dumbest new hire employees on the cash registers. Go through self checkout even if you do not want to scan your bulky things and the person there will still scan everything with their portable reader for you if you ask.

The only reasonable thing I can imagine is that one of the other carriers has a contractual agreement with Apple that prevents other domestic carriers from being allowed to unlock phones sold in the USA to be used on their network.

This only happens if you have admin privileges on Google Apps for your Domain account.

City just wants to give the people there the best internet access possible. This deal is to get someone in there to run things that will provide the bandwidth and high end services.

If you are Canadian you were probably thinking about Princess auto from a mere glance at the article. In fact I was subconsciously replacing whatever store they were actually talking about with "Princess Auto" the entire time.

No more bling thats for sure. The current and next versions of these systems will just be ugly looking shipping containers from the outside and bare racks of motherboards and parts on trays on the inside of the containers. If you are lucky the supplier will put a nice vinyl decal on the shipping container but it's…

Power cable spool coffee table.

In Canada Best Buy owns another store chain called Future Shop. At those stores the employees have been paid commission and they have the incentive to go around asking people if they need help.

They were task specific systems so instructions and data could be variable lengths depending on what made sense for that function. They probably just measured things based on how many functions the computer was capable of, not by the storage required to complete those specific tasks.

Some memories of the past are brought up by your post.

Atomic wedgie when you get to the bottom though.

Was there a few weekends ago and rode that slide.

I would argue that for a reasonably smart person the paper tickets are a worse risk because people who should know better actually trust them for some reason. It's not like those ticketmaster printed tickets are anything special. You can easily counterfeit them and dupe many people who think they are being careful…