First coffee, reheated from yesterday. Still warming up.
Apparently, it will take a while.
What, did I move to Alaska? I don’t usually complain about the weather, but it’s fucking April and single digits. I have more than a foot of new snow out there.
And downtown is several degrees colder still, great.
I am about to have a presentation about an ATM machine. I want to have a nice introduction by using a riddle to introduce our topic. However, I have googled for hours without any results.
I'd be very grateful if you could show me a good riddle that describes an ATM machine :P.
I had Kris all over me for my moderating yesterday, so today I'm just going to eat chocolate and let the site degenerate.
@Mitch I could probably update my question with more information about the things I've learned, but it's irritating to have a bunch of answers in the comments.
I could just copy everybody's stuff and self-answer, I guess.
If this is not OK, I have three more questions.
How can I ever use lardy-dardy?
Which word should I be using instead?
Is there a new generation of buzzwords to use?
Oh shit. You can see that I'm lying! I only delete like every so often, and I'm not mean or snarky usually (or am I?). In fact the 'ATM and you mom' joke was the only one recently.
@Cerberus Yeah that's not a very good intro. And it glosses over the fact that many custom roms are crap and getting worse because the manufacturer support can be terrible (cough asus, samsung)
Which out of the new generation of buzzwords can I use to describe a slovenly woman who tries too hard to get ahead in the corporate world instead of taking care of her family at home where she belongs?
"xylophone" "xylophone isnt a real word" "yes it is" "nope, not here in the scrabble dictionary" "then what's this thing i'm playing?" "wooden... boards... musical thing."
"Xylophone for 80,000 points! Haha, sucker!" "Nope. I challenge it." "What? Are you crazy? Everyone knows that xylophone is a word!" smug smile, pushes Scrabble dictionary across table
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You mean if you have a custom ROM and you're using an Asus phone, there won't be an AOSP ROM available on Google for ROM makers to base updates on?
@Cerberus What I mean is that certain vendors don't give out enough information to allow rom makers to do things like compile kernels or fix drivers or anything. So the only rom that works properly on the device is its stock rom. See, for example, the Transformer TF101.
@Cerberus No, not necessarily. Example: the cyanogenmod project is de-emphasizing the galaxy SIII and SIV unless they get real help from Samsung, because there are serious problems with those phones and samsung isn't helping at all.
@Cerberus The CM team said "we're not excluding samsung" but they also said "but maybe nobody is working on it? who knows, we're not a centralized project"
@Cerberus The thing is, the phone hardware changes so fast that lots of phones never get supported. I mean look at the TF101. It's a dual-core 1GB ram tablet, a great candidate for CM, but there is a known bug where it crashes and reboots randomly, that affects a lot of users, and only the stock rom works. Nobody is working to fix it.
Sure, sometime you're out of luck. It's not perfect. But, no offence, the Transformer is a less popular device. That's why I would personally be more inclined to get a more popular phone/tablet.
And it wasn't until ICS AOSP was released that it was even possible to build ICS... and then it took a long time for rom makers to incorporate ICS into their code.
In fact JB source dropped right after the first ICS rom release from CM.
I have no idea why anything is popular with the general populace, ever. I never owned a Samsung, always hated Razr with a passion, and it still escapes me why Nokia ever was famous for anything.
The Asus we gave to my friend actually works pretty well. The screen is clearly lower quality, and there is something odd about the camera; but the rest seems to work just as well as Samsung phones.
@RegDwighт My favorite old cell was a Samsung. I liked it because it was a compact flip phone and it was really durable. I have an HTC now and it's pretty good OK.
@Cerberus well Nokia did have a great GUI and was a charm to use, I'll give them that. But that was back when there were no GUIs at all and the only things you ever used your Nokia for was texting, playing Snake, and actually making calls. That lasted for about two years, I'd say. Tops. Why they were able to stay ahead for a full decade longer, I will never understand.
@Cerberus yes, and the problem with Nokia — my problem, that is, but apparently not anybody else's — is that fast forward fifteen years they are still at the level of the 3310, give or take.
Anyway Samsung is also in a good position in north america because they didn't have any brand issues that I can recall. They were known as a decent brand, maybe not the best, but better than average. Whereas LG's brand is not so good here, and Sony has done a lot to piss off people. Sony doesn't have brand loyalty like other companies do.
@KitFox my first Siemens was also the first mobile phone ever to feature a color screen. It had three colors: red, green and blue, and could generate a couple shades in-between these. Twas fun.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Do average people really have this impression of brands? Because, for me, all of the Asian brands seemed much alike, and they still do, to some extent.
It is only because of you that I have become afraid of Sony.
I looked them up in the dictionary. They all seem to be related to the process of thinking but I don't exactly understand how they differ from each other.
@Cerberus but they can, and are. Usually it depends on the company and the product line. EG when I sold computers, Compaq was a pretty reliable brand, and AST was CRAP. really awful. But on paper their computers looked equivalent.
Then, after a couple years, Compaq came out with a new line of computers (the ones with a Q button on them that made the computer play a video narrated by the actor who played Q on star trek). That whole line of computers was awful, truly awful. so full of defects.
@Cerberus It's the difference between a computer that actually works, versus one that crashes randomly or totally locks up, or just fails. I'm talking really high failure rates.
@Cerberus Well, the thing is, people DID know this. back then computer reliability was a big problem. and certain brands had reputations that even uninformed people had heard.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't know, all computers seem to work pretty well. I have never seen a computer that really didn't (and it wasn't the user's installing tons of crap).
@Cerberus It was. Windows NT and Windows 95/98 changed things quite a lot. Plug-n-Play was a feature they had to invent, and advertise, because before that it was Plug-n-pray.
I am about to have a presentation about an ATM machine. I want to have a nice introduction by using a riddle to introduce our topic. However, I have googled for hours without any results.
I'd be very grateful if you could show me a good riddle that describes an ATM machine :P.
The "intrusive r" is well known, common, and often stigmatised, in non-rhotic forms of British English.
If this is not OK, I have three more questions.
How can I ever use lardy-dardy?
Which word should I be using instead?
Is there a new generation of buzzwords to use?
I looked them up in the dictionary. They all seem to be related to the process of thinking but I don't exactly understand how they differ from each other.
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