@scottalanmiller said:

@art_of_shred said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@art_of_shred said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Additionally, the red strikethrough appears to me to be there as a way to draw the eye to the word. If they wanted you to ignore it, they would make the strikethrough the same color as the text.

Not how it works. You can't compare covering up a word to highlighting a word. It makes it unreadable in the manner in which these ads are normally read - walking by or driving by.

That IS how it works. It's how ads have been since, like, forever. I couldn't even count the number of times a word in an ad had a strike-through. The whole point of the strike-through in advertisement is to draw emphasis to that exact word. It's not about correct English; it's about grabbing attention.

It does not grab attention. It covers up. This is not a magazine ad but a billboard ad. No amount of making hard to see or hard to read grabs attention. It literally makes the word nearly disappear. It only exists at all to people dissecting it and reading into it.

It must be your eyesight condition that makes it that hard to see. I have no trouble at all seeing that it says cancer and was stricken-through with a red line. Plain as day.

You are not walking by it to the side in a moving airport area. Trust me, you don't see the word cancer where this ad is placed. Dominica checked it to in situ and agreed.

All I am seeing is the one in the OP here. It's very clearly readable in that ad. This entire thread feels about the equivalent of having to explain a knock-knock joke.

@coliver Remind me not to let you work on anything for one of our customers...

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

They should adjust the bill immediately as there are losing more than $2k in bad press. It's so easy for AT&T to implement a notification system.

Problems there are...

• Bad press has already happened. Too late to fix it.
• Adjusting it makes it look like AT&T might have been at fault making the press worse.
• Those who know that they do this will start to expect AT&T to not require them to pay their bills.

If I were AT&T, I'd lock the kid in a dark dungeon and whip him until his parents pay the whole thing. I would record it and make an ad from it, showing what happens to people who refuse to be responsible with their data usage. Then I would take all of the bonus cash from customers paying their bills early, and I would line the pockets of some elected officials, so I didn't have to take any real heat for beating an idiot in the public view.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@art_of_shred said:

That was quite interesting. I like that they did that, and I get the point they are making, but... why did they choose to do that. Under the surface, it's almost a little creepy, or maybe embarrassing for the photographers, or maybe just too psychologically deep for a marketing thing, if that's even its purpose. I'm a little puzzled.

Not entirely sure, but I thought it was interesting and teaches an important lesson.

Yeah. Important lesson: don't lie to your photographer if you don't want portraits that don't fit you well.

The beauty of this forum is that all the good stuff we glean from this will live on in perpetuity, to be searched and referenced... which is a good thing; if we get too many more questions running, I'll need to come back in order to properly digest all the information!

@RojoLoco It's already too late for that. Gotta get the kid before he reproduces.

I leaned against my Bowflex while drinking coffee this morning... does that count?

@BRRABill said:

@art_of_shred said:

Coffee break @ Eaton offices?

I'm more curious as to how they are as a group handling questions. Huddled in a conference room?

"Who is this Jared guy, and how much should we tell him?"

This is nothing new. Government often sends off ridiculous balloons to see if they fly in the public arena. If the populace isn't desensitized enough to let them get away with whatever crazy thing it is, they go back to the drawing board and try again after a bit, in a less obvious way. Eventually, historically, the public opinion softens or the presentation is tweaked in a less-offensive way, and then something that everyone knew was wrong a couple of years ago becomes an allowable precedent. Wait, it will come back around... and your freedoms will be eroded just a little bit more.

@gjacobse I was thinking that, poo... er, I mean... too.

@windso said:

@art_of_shred @coliver

Yes! These can be somewhat inexpensive. We usually see loads running at 60% or less of nameplate rating. The challenge we have, and you will have too, is that generic rules always bite you at some point. If you are the exception, you risk taking down everything.

Keep in mind that sizing a circuit at less than 80% or 100% is a good thing. You never want to completely oversize, but UPSs and PDUs are like the breakers feeding your Christmas tree lights - Once you add too much, the lights go off!

Just to clarify, I thought that was worded a little confusingly. You never want your load to equal or surpass your protection. Ideally, your expected amp load should only be about 80% of your protection's full capacity. Otherwise, you can exceed its ability to protect and either diminish its performance or nullify the protection altogether.

@scottalanmiller said in Goodbye 3DTV:

Could be worse, a movie meant to be in 3D. Those are always terrible in 2D or 3D.

As soon as they make a movie "for 3D", it instantly revolves around a theme of "let's do things on purpose to show off the 3D", and then it becomes nothing but the gimmick, and you know the movie will be worthless, unless you actually wanted to sit through a 2-hour 3D demo. I actually like a 2D-shot movie converted for 3D better for that reason, but then it sucks because you're watching it in 3D, which is meh at best. We accidentally got tickets for a showing that was in 3D, and we really wished that we had just seen it in 2D. It was kind of annoying (Terminator: Genisys).

@coliver said:
...not to sound like a dick but...
You said "dick-butt"

@Minion-Queen said:

And I am guilty of being behind a screen way too often. I am really blessed and get to work from home and work with my husband and son. But we all tend to be in our own worlds if we aren't careful.

aka: she kicks me out of the office and makes me have my own office elsewhere in the house.

@DustinB3403 said in 3D Printed House:

@art_of_shred I looked up this unit a bit more last night, to make a bigger house, you just move the arm using the crane.

It can create the doorways etc and leave them open between wall sections.

Same thing if you wanted a taller house.

Sure. You want an upstairs? Throw that bad boy on a stack of pallets and keep squirting cement!

@scottalanmiller said:

It keeps getting asked and I think it has been stated over and over but just in case it was missed, here it is again:

Quickbooks is bad because it lacks upsides while bringing huge caveats both financial and technical.

We can dive into the details of these, but that is definitely higher up in the thread. But the high level is that QB is a problem because it hurts businesses by wasting money, increasing support cost, being inefficient and putting the business at risk. It is all negatives, all caveats. In what way can you implement QB to the benefit of a business?

Well, to do what it is used to do. You need to make invoices, and to track payments, and other financial things which QB does. There's the upside. I understand the point that you are trying to make, but you're marginalizing any appearance of being reasonable or sane to make the point that bad decisions about foundational pieces of a business are important. Yeah, I get that. But no matter how you spin it, the bottom line is that businesses exist and function daily and can make a profit and continue to exist, despite the fact that they may have made a poor choice to go with QB. There's a ton of gray shades on this issue; it's not QB=death.

I can find information all over the place about stopping updates/automatic updates FROM your domain controller, but what if I really want to also stop the DC itself from being updated? This is not as a long-term thing, just to maintain stability for a short period of time (month or two). Can you point me in the right direction? I'm not looking for "your idea sucks and you don't know what you're doing" responses, as I have a feeling that the majority are going to not like the idea. I'm not going to even begin to try to validate it; I just need to know if and how I can make it work. Thanks!

Maybe it becomes obvious when you're doing it intentionally.

@dafyre I wouldn't recommend trying to burn pellets in a wood-stove. Sure, they'll burn, but your grate isn't set up to handle the tiny little pellets. Pellet stoves have a hopper and an auger and a small burn pot. There is a timer on the auger to feed a small amount of pellets into the burn pot, which operates in a pressurized compartment. It's its own animal.

Here is most likely a very simple one to resolve.
I had a customer whose users suddenly, randomly, began having .doc and .docx files begin opening with Word Pad instead of Word on their desktops. I went in to the DC, and GPO's, set up the default app to open all .doc and .docx files with winword.exe. Now, it seems to be working properly, but the desktop icons are no longer the typical "Word" icon, but instead show a generic winword.exe icon. What did I do wrong, or how can I fix it? Of course, even though it works, the customer is irate that it doesn't show the Word icon. Ugh...