What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.
It is most certainly a spellcheck or autocorrect issue. My iPhone no longer tries to fix it because I have corrected it enough times but when I first got my iPhone 6 it was a hell of a problem because I chose not to restore my prior iPhone 5 and instead I started clean.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.
It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer
Who the heck writes lazer, outside of tag, of course?
Peepole hoo learnd frum fonicks.
Well, I seriously think that spelling should be redone phonetically. I seriously hate examples like
knifeandlaser.Of course rule still will need determined for long or short sounds and stuff. I mean otherwise how would you know that
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@JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.
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I find that British spellings, while often crazy, are a little more straightforward because they have more phonetic spelling rules than American English has.
Except for clerk, why does that get pronounced clark?
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.
It is most certainly a spellcheck or autocorrect issue. My iPhone no longer tries to fix it because I have corrected it enough times but when I first got my iPhone 6 it was a hell of a problem because I chose not to restore my prior iPhone 5 and instead I started clean.
That is my guess, but it seems so oddly localized that I am suspicious.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.
Right, but now that it has been accepted as a word, not just an acronym, and defined as a
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I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.
huh, now that one I've never heard of before... thanks.
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Me either. Totally new to me.
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So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
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@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
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@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
That's awesome!
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@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
Yeah, most likely this would not be a client I want for this reason.
I mean I will give them a chance, but if they try to cheap out like this, they will not likely pay my bill.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.
Awww, so a one time engagement.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.
Smart
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.
They'll be back
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.
Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?
I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.
That's, um, great. How did they take the news that they had been scammed?
