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"So it begins"
Actually, southwaste ranks #2 in most involuntary denies.
We've gotten bumped on every southwest flight we've flown, always voluntary and they always give you more then the ticket price in a credit plus they get you on the next flight to your destination. We've flown 4 or 5 times for free because of their policy. Plus their staff is always courteous and the planes are comfortable for larger people. I've found them to be a bit on the expensive side but the service is worth it.
Being bumped isn't bad at all when they offer voluntary payments for it. It's a positive, really.
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How do people who run windows desktops not know about downgrade rights?
How do so many people get into IT and not know how to spell corporate... I don't think you have to buy a cooperate Windows 7... you can just torrent that.
Well, that I can excuse as a typo or a non-native English speaker. Spelling is a lot more acceptable than attempting to buy Windows 7 licenses new.
I try to not be a stickler for things like grammatical errors unless it's just a totally screwed up phrase. I know people who can write and speak English as a second langugae far better than some of us native speakers, lol.
Spelling or weird wordings especially, who cares. I'll take someone struggling with English that gets phrases or spelling wrong anyday over a native speaker who tries to bluff by using words like cloud without knowing what they mean.
But cooperate isn't a misspelling of corporate; it's another word. If I was talking about couch computing and meant cloud, you would lose your mind.
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How do people who run windows desktops not know about downgrade rights?
How do so many people get into IT and not know how to spell corporate... I don't think you have to buy a cooperate Windows 7... you can just torrent that.
Well, that I can excuse as a typo or a non-native English speaker. Spelling is a lot more acceptable than attempting to buy Windows 7 licenses new.
I try to not be a stickler for things like grammatical errors unless it's just a totally screwed up phrase. I know people who can write and speak English as a second langugae far better than some of us native speakers, lol.
Spelling or weird wordings especially, who cares. I'll take someone struggling with English that gets phrases or spelling wrong anyday over a native speaker who tries to bluff by using words like cloud without knowing what they mean.
But cooperate isn't a misspelling of corporate; it's another word. If I was talking about couch computing and meant cloud, you would lose your mind.
Only if you meant that word rather than having autocorrect get it wrong.
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@Danp said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Burger King made waves today after it released a TV ad that purposely triggered the Google Assistant. The ad ends with a person saying "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?"'—a statement designed to trigger any Google Assistant devices like Android phones and Google Home to read aloud a description of the hamburger's ingredients. Google apparently wasn't happy with a third-party hijacking its voice command system to advertise fast food, and has issued a server-side update to specifically disable Burger King's recording.
Before the ad was disabled, the Google Assistant would verbally read a list of ingredients from Wikipedia. Of course the internet immediately took to Wikipedia to vandalize the burger's entry page, with some edits claiming it contained "toenails" or "cyanide." Getting the Google Assistant to actually read one of these false edits was a tough task, since the Google Assistant gets its data from Google's search index, rather than a live query of Wikipedia. Still, according to The Verge, there was actually a brief period when the Google Assistant would read a false edit.
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Burger King made waves today after it released a TV ad that purposely triggered the Google Assistant. The ad ends with a person saying "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?"'—a statement designed to trigger any Google Assistant devices like Android phones and Google Home to read aloud a description of the hamburger's ingredients. Google apparently wasn't happy with a third-party hijacking its voice command system to advertise fast food, and has issued a server-side update to specifically disable Burger King's recording.
Before the ad was disabled, the Google Assistant would verbally read a list of ingredients from Wikipedia. Of course the internet immediately took to Wikipedia to vandalize the burger's entry page, with some edits claiming it contained "toenails" or "cyanide." Getting the Google Assistant to actually read one of these false edits was a tough task, since the Google Assistant gets its data from Google's search index, rather than a live query of Wikipedia. Still, according to The Verge, there was actually a brief period when the Google Assistant would read a false edit.
It's hilarious that marketers hacked tech through a tv commercial. It's also good marketing because it is rememberable and original.
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just for good measure...
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@nadnerB good one
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