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Post by Emizael on Feb 16, 2007 18:55:23 GMT -5
Cell phones. Albured hit something there, a resonating spark of hatred burning deep in my soul. Oh yeah. Cell phones.
WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL VILLIAGE!!! HERE'S A PHONE THAT CAN GET YOU THE WEB, YOUR STOCK INDEX, THE NEWS, YOU CAN PLAY GAMES ON IT!!! YOU CAN RULE THE WORLD!!!...
...You just can't call anyone. Anywhere. They could be standing ten feet away from you, and both cells would say..."out of service area."
And then you get the bill, for the phone you can't talk on, but makes a FANTASTIC PAPERWEIGHT!!!
I hate cellphones. I see people with them everywhere, busily chatting along, totally unawares that the person on the other line can longer hear them, that the person they just HAD TO CALL in the MIDDLE OF RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC probably did the smart thing, and HUNG THE HELL UP BEFORE GETTING BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A 2 TON DEATH MACHINE!
...but you can't tell. You can't tell if they can hear you or not, because you're too busy yapping. While you should be paying attention. You're not paying attention. You just rear-ended the guy in front of you, because you finally just realized that your call ended...and you're still yapping.
Now, traffic has stopped for miles, and police and rescue squads have reached the scene, but, you aren't talking to them, no...YOU ARE STILL YAPPING ON THE FREAKING PIECE OF USELESS PLASTIC IN YOUR HAND.
I think cells would be great for places like, China, and Africa, where you have thousands of miles of harsh terrain, and no land lines. I think it is STUPID in the more close packed urban areas. If, you need to talk to someone that badly, take five minutes, go to a real phone, and call them. STOP halting traffic. Nobody needs to talk to anyone that badly, UNLESS there has been an accident, or, some other terrible mean thing has happened, something real, something vital. All other conversations on cellphones is irrelevant, foolish, wasteful, and if I see you talking on a cell while sitting in your car in the state of New Jersey, I will get your tag number, I will pull off the side of the road somewhere, and I will call the police, because it is now against the freaking law, to talk on your cell while driving. Dig that. Get off the phone, dig that, GET OFF THE PHONE!
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Post by Celera on Feb 20, 2007 3:31:31 GMT -5
There is a lot to hate about cell phones. Among other things, the idea that, if it is possible for you to make any sort of noise I can hear, I am therefore obliged to pay attention to you at that moment. Actually, I dislike that about phone calls generally, come to think of it. And people who ring the doorbell to sell me stuff I don't want -- because if I wanted it I would go buy it or order it on that new-fangled Internet.
Also, cell phones make it possible for the most egotistical people to further indulge their vanity. My particular favorite is the folks who must call the office just as they get seated on the plane (usually right after making everyone wait while they shove their giant suitcase into the overhead bin) and then must again dial their office at the very moment the plane arrives at the gate, in case their staff have somehow managed to destroy the business in the three hours that they have been unavailable to micro-manage it. Seriously, if you have employees who can't work for three hours without your intervention, odds are you are a very bad manager.
However, I have to disagree, slightly, with the whole blaming of cell phones for bad driving. Now -- dialing the phone while driving is a bad idea. Because you have to look at the phone. And then you aren't looking at the road. But -- talking on the cell phone is no more distracting than any of the thousand other things people do while driving. Listening to the radio, talking to other people in the car, smoking, eating -- and that's just the regular stuff people do. We've all seen people putting on mascara or shaving or whatever. Back when I was driving a van I once saw a guy ... well, let's just say he can't have been thinking about driving.
Back to Al's post -- I particularly love that when you call to say that there is no sound the answer was "That is a known problem." What do they think you will say? Like I don't care if a major aspect of my computer is broken, as long as your bug list is up to date.
BTW, I have Vista on my new laptop, and I rather like it. But, with 512 of RAM, it is sloooow and laggy. It takes five minutes or more just to boot up.
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Post by Kielon on Feb 20, 2007 6:26:58 GMT -5
It takes time booting up on my home computer and I have 2GB RAM. But I willingly traded two minutes of my life every day for the ability to LOOK at the aesthetic marvel that is Vista. And the geek in me cries every time it happens, too.
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Post by Emizael on Feb 20, 2007 13:56:39 GMT -5
VISTA IS THE DEVIL!!!
I'm not going to do it. Nope. I am staying firmly in the stone age here, my friends.
XP forever. Yeah.
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Post by Fechak on Feb 22, 2007 0:27:28 GMT -5
I'm afraid there will be a time in the near future that you will *have* to upgrade to vista else miss out on a new game. DX10 will have you soon...
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Post by arvaitha on Feb 22, 2007 12:09:35 GMT -5
Vista sucks.....Downloaded it and NOTHING is compatible....I would have to buy a new printer and I rather like my printer. Im with Emi here......XP all the way!!
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Post by Kielon on Feb 22, 2007 19:24:36 GMT -5
Nothing old is compatible with it. You have an old printer. It is ok; I do, too. I have to replace mine. But, being a technophile, this is not such a bad thing. I am thinking color laser.
Muahahahahahah!!! My wife has no idea what will hit her.
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Post by Celera on Feb 22, 2007 22:10:52 GMT -5
Yeah, the backward compatibility is apparently a problem with the new version of Office. Too bad, this is a great leap forward in useability but they will spend all that good will on the irritation people feel when they have to replace their hardware and translate all their spreadsheets and what not. I wouldn't hit your wife with the color laser -- even the modern ones are pretty heavy. Don't you have an old keyboard or something?
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Post by Emizael on Feb 23, 2007 1:22:16 GMT -5
ZOMG! CELLERY!
*threadjack*
WHERE IS CELLERY AND PLIERS?! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THEM?!
WHERE IS TEH KIELONZOR?!
WE'LL GIVE BACK VALAND IF WE GET CELLERY AND PLIERS AND KIELON!!!
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Post by Kielon on Feb 23, 2007 2:41:03 GMT -5
There is a compatibility program you can download that makes older versions of Office (all the way back to '97) read the new Office docs, spreadsheets and power point (I believe).
TEH KIELONZOR WILL BE BACK SOON!!! Lisa and I have an appointment with the doctor soon, and at that point, I will be prepared to divulge some secrets!
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Post by Celera on Feb 23, 2007 3:47:10 GMT -5
It's sorta your thread, Emi, I'm not sure it's possible for you to threadjack it. Pliers (Jon) has been in Dallas on business this week. He will continue to be out of town until Tuesday night. He has actually logged into the game a couple of times, he said, but he can't get into playing on the laptop. He also has family in Dallas and thereabouts, and his business is done, so tomorrow morning...well, this morning, technically..I'm flying to Dallas and we are going to spend a few days visiting with said family members. I haven't been playing much lately, but I've been on the forum nearly every day. Even while out of town, I'm sure I'll have a chance to stop by from time to time. And Kielon -- you are a good writer, but don't ever write a murder mystery. Everyone will know whodunnit by the end of the first chapter.
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Post by Kielon on Feb 23, 2007 4:00:57 GMT -5
hehe.. that was an intended consequence.. I am trying to tell everyone so they will know without telling people flat out so that I jinx anything, if that makes sense. I am very superstitious that way.
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Post by Vangelis on Feb 23, 2007 12:33:07 GMT -5
Just tell us when we're allowed to congratulate you without jinxing anything.
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Post by Emizael on Feb 23, 2007 23:57:25 GMT -5
....I have no idea what you are all talking about. Hoodoo? Whatcho jinxin' mon? ...Yeah, so anyways...
Come back already!
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Post by Annalira Delshannon on Feb 28, 2007 11:27:28 GMT -5
Hello, my name is Annalira, and I am a priest.
<hi Anna>
I understand that I have heal buttons. I am pretty good at using them too, if I put my mind to it. However, I am also a shadowpriest. This means that I am also in possession of some decent damage nukes. I am fully capable of melting your face.
That said, if you whisper me, and I don't know you, I am not going to come and help your group in Ramparts, Blood Furnace, or wherever else you want me to go. If you whisper me nicely, I will politely decline. I have no desire to be a part of a group where I will get blamed for every wipe and bad pull because you don't have enough friends that heal. I have had enough bad PUGs thankyouverymuchbuhbye. If you whisper me and demonstrate a grasp of English that is worse than that of my dog, I will not be as nice, and probably just say "no" or ignore you.
If you keep at it, beg, or otherwise make an arse of yourself, I will be rude to you.
Because, if I wanted to go to Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Underbog, or the moon, I would find MY OWN FRIENDS to go with. And if they did not want to go, I would use the chat channels to find someone, or schedule a time at a later date. The likelihood of someone wanting to go to Underbog who is currently hanging out in Winterspring are pretty slim, but asking in the Zangarmarsh chat might get me a person to fill the spot. If I were in Hellfire peninsula, standing around twiddling my thumbs, I can see you walking up to me and asking if I'm bored and wouldn't mind going to heal for your group. However, if I am somewhere like, say Ferelas, or The Hinterlands, I am obviously doing SOMETHING ELSE.
I am almost level 69. There is nothing in Ferelas that I can kill for any worthwhile experience, and grinding rep with Shen'dralar is not my idea of a good time. Most people do not haul themselves out to the remotest regions of Azeroth so they can sit around and wonder if anyone is going to Underbog. And if you whisper me, while I am, say, fishing in the Stranglethorn competition, and make me lose fish because I have to figure out what the hell "hay, u heal UB?! =)" is supposed to mean, I am not going to be nice to you.
In fact, I am going to be very tempted to say yes, show up, go into shadow form, and be surprised when you all want to know what I'm doing. Because, you see - you don't know me. I could be a really crappy priest. And you have just done a /who priest 60-70, and my name is on that list, and so you, in your happy little world of "everyone exists to make my stay in WoW happier and I want to go to Underbog" are going to whisper everyone on that list.
Sorry, but no.
Corollary to this point: If you are level 31, and want a priest for Scarlet Monastery, DO NOT WHISPER a priest that is level 65. Especially if you don't know a hill of beans about Outland, and, for instance, that The Mana Tombs happens to be ANOTHER INSTANCE. Because I will probably not be really nice to you either. Oh - and I promise that a Druid really *can* heal too - you don't *have* to have a priest in there. And begging certainly isn't going to change my mind either. Find someone that isn't more than twice your level.
((I have had as many as 5 or 6 random whispered invites in one evening recently. Hence, I am now playing a Shaman... so at least for the next 40 or so levels, nobody will bother me. Until I log Anna, that is...))
Edited to add.... last night, while I was in Blackfathom Deeps, I got a whisper. I was on my shaman. the whisper said "u up for heal DM?"
<sigh> I can't win.
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