Yup, empathy is important... Coming from the angle of having too much of it, in a sick way (putting other people's interests before your own) I came to the conclusion that it's important to keep empathy but also establish some sort of social currency. Someone being a jerk, which implies a lack of empathy? Great, carry…

Yikes, that's dreadful...

Classic.

ZOMG this thread is a cringe fest! Lots of laughs though.

We once had an HP laptop... Took it 7 times to repair, after which the "warranty" expired... No one really got to use it... After that HP became synonymous with "yeaaaah riiiiight"... I've known of random faults on Toshibas but nothing that bad...

Yup... There's also the human side... When you get new generations of users and they're just as clueless... It's all some sort of magic to them, white magic when they it works, black magic when it doesn't and they're stuck and make lost puppy eyes...

I feel for you... But can't stop laughing!

Priceless!

Bloody hell.

Can't top the maggots and roaches but... A long long time ago... Customer contacted us frantically, his hard drive died with crucial legal documents in it... It was beyond repair but we did manage to retrieve some of the info by connecting it to another computer with a Linux distro... After finding the documents…

Sounds like good advice. I think most people in most of the world are not that progressive (and never quite grow up) so whatever makes you different from the norm needs to be thought through. I think of homosexuality as a personal preference, like vanilla vs strawberry; extreme campness does get on my nerves, whatever…

Long time cheese lover... I've left cheese go bad countless times and I'm prepared to do something about it... But "cheese paper"?? It's hard enough getting decent cheese. I guess wax paper will have to do, still better than plastic bags I hope.

Good tips. I've done plenty of online shopping for clothes out of necessity, as in why settle for what's locally available when you can have the best, for less. My friends still think I'm crazy. I'd just add that even with measurements it can be a pain to shop for clothes from different countries; I just got a…

Hey thanks for the patience! Must be something about different country versions. I can add a song to a new playlist, but it says something about the playlist having less than 15 songs and automatically adds other related songs, and then only shuffle play is available.

Thanks!

It's good to have alternatives (so thanks Lifehacker!), but a question for the video producers: Don't you need a monster PC like a Mac Pro for video? And since those are quite expensive, wouldn't the cost of Final Cut be relatively minor? Just wondering.

It's good advice... And in future history will be known as "the moment when humanity outsourced its memory"? And my maths teacher used to grumble about calculators, ha! I can't remember what I was doing 5 minutes ago.

Thanks! I'll give it a try. Beat works well, setup is fast, I'm streaming flacs right now, nice!

Just gave it another go following your comment... With the free service I don't seem to be able to listen to specific songs, there are playlists and you can browse genres, none of which are very relevant... And you have a very limited amount of "skips"... So at least for me, it sort of works like normal radio? On the…

Thanks! Sounds nice, I'll give it a try on my Z1060.