I decided I haven’t really shared much of my photography from my trip to New York last year, and so I decided to do something about it: I opened up an account at Deviantart.com, and started sharing through there. I figured, Brennan has a Deviantart account, why shouldn’t I? And thus, it’s there. Besides, if I’m going to be a starving artist, it would make sense that I at least try to sell some art.
Iranian president says clock is ticking on Israel’s destruction
Putin attacks west ahead of G8 summit
First off, the president of Iran is a psychopath. Secondly, Putin’s old school KGB, and despite his grabs at dictator-like power, the Russian people support him. Of course, we’re so tied up as it is, that even if credible threats did arise from either of the two, as American’s we wouldn’t really be able to do anything about it.
Well, I’ve now seen it all. I’ve battled with Samsung, and with HP, but none shall compare with the epic that is… EPO Technology. They manufactured a CD-ROM drive I purchased, and it’s not working with the system I installed it on at work. I sent them the following e-mail:
I have a CD ROM drive I just recently installed, item #CR-856E. It was like new when I installed it, but it worked for about a week, then stopped detecting CDs. The drive lights up initially as if it’s detecting, but then stops for no apparent reason and doesn’t show any disc in the drive. I’ve triple checked the hardware, jumpers, etc. Everything on that end is okay. Someone recommended I check for drivers, which I am unable to find. Are there Windows 2K drivers for this particular model?
And this, in segments so you can have short break between the laughs, is the response I recieved:
Dear Sir or Madam,
This should’ve been a note I was in trouble, as they can’t seem to identify if I’m male or female (I’ve met so many girls named Andrew, after all… *shrugs*)
The EPO CR-856E is not supports firmware update function.
Wait, what?
Probably you can check CD-ROM readability as follow:
I don’t want to know if my CD-ROM is readable, I want to know if there’s drivers! And I can’t read circuitry anyway!
(1). Please insert disc into CD-ROM, the Busy LED will flash a minute and always light. That means the CD-ROM is ready to read disc.
Ummm… The LED will always light? Mmmkay…
(2). If insert disc into CD-ROM, the Busy LED will flash a minute and always dim.
Didn’t you just say it always light? Now I’m really confused…
Probably your disc have dirty question
Y’know, it DID ask me if it made me randy before I put the disc in, but I didn’t really think about it…
(for example: scratch, fingerprint, dust…etc.)
Wait… What’s that got to do with it asking me dirty questions?
and please clean your disc when you want to read disc.
But I don’t want to read it, I want the DRIVE to read it! And it’s not! And the disc wasn’t really asking me dirty questions!
If the CD-ROM can not read generality discs that means device is deface.
I did catch it tagging the back of our building with graffiti…
Our recommend is Please attach disc
To what exactly?
(CDROM can not readable disc)
That’s because CDROM is moron, but you make CDROM look like Einstein…
to contact with retailer to repair or replace.
Who am I contacting with my retailer again?
Thanks and Best regards,
Caltech
I think this is the only sentence I actually made sense of…
I’ve been watching these on Youtube, and felt compelled to share. If you’ve seen the Mac/PC commercials, it’s a pretty good parody.
My personal favorite is the last one. Green Goblin rules. =)
Samsung sent me a “Extend your service plan!” letter for my SCD-353 camcorder recently. Everyone, I’m sure, has read my posts in regards to that. Well, I just fired off an e-mail to them as a result of it.
I am writing because I am insulted by the recent “Extend your product protection!” letter I received in the mail from your company. Extend my service agreement? Why would I want to do that? The problem I’d been having when I first bought the camera STILL hasn’t been solved, and when I pressed the issue to your tech support department, they finally stopped answering or returning my calls! There’s no point in re-upping the service plan if your product won’t work as advertised in the first place!
I bought the camera because I wanted to be able to record to a memory stick, and your camera (supposedly) could use up to a 1 GB memory stick. It seemed to be a good deal, but when I tried it, the camera froze while recording to the memory stick. ON TWO DIFFERENT BRANDS OF MEMORY STICK! Pretty obviously, it wasn’t the memory stick that was causing the problem. So I sent the camera in for service.
After a month, the camera FINALLY returned to me, but when I tried it out, it still locked up when I tried recording to the memory stick. So I called technical support, who called the repair tech, who asked me all of the basic questions like, “did you format the memory card?” (Gee, hadn’t thought of that, since I’d done it FOUR TIMES before I bothered calling)When that didn’t solve my problem, the tech (Michael, I believe his name was) said he’d call me back when he found out more. Guess what? He NEVER called back. Even when I called back to see what progress he’d made in figuring out what to do about my camera, he was unreachable.
So here I am, over a year later, with a camera that doesn’t function as advertised and now an expired warranty. And you people have the audacity to ask if I want to buy the extended service agreement? Maybe, JUST maybe, if you’d actually fixed my problem, either by fixing the issue with the camera or replacing the camera, I’d buy the extended service. But with the “service” I received in my first year of ownership? Hardly incentive to re-up, don’t you think?
CNN Money is running an article on How Nintendo is beating the pants off of Microsoft & Sony. It’s a good read, but what caught my eye was the Anatomy of a Wii Remote, which lets you click on the different parts of the Wii Remote to find out what they do. One component, any Wii owners will note, is currently unused: The Audio Translator.
Hmmm… Karaoke Revolution, anyone?