26-03-2018, 02:09 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by
gumbud
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[this is proper technical parlee] took the dud one back tot the shop and some young twot proceeded to tamper with it and reckons he can fix it - to cut a long story short the manager appeared from the back store and asked him what he was about - upon his explanation the manage simple said " did feck about all day doin that - go and get another brand new one from the store for the customer - problem solved.the gizzmo to this story pugsy is several fold;
it can happen to anyone - net savvy or not and to a brand new product all the way from the dusty workshops of china who may have got it wrong?
there hope that makes you feel slightly taller again?
Gummy,I've been onto the shop...an Apple specialist shop,just this very day...now,bearing in mind they
specialise in Apple and boast on various forms of communication [both net and physical] of their expertise,plus that the pox-ridden laptop in question is the pooch's swingers [supposedly] of these devices...they admitted they're flummoxed,puzzled,stumped and still remain after several days,totally without improvement or cure. Hmm;goodole Silicon Valley,eh? Farmed the actual construction and manufacturing out to the place of cheapest labour. I've told the 'specialists' to strip the HDD out and put in a new,unused one,of 2tb,then strip all the codec and o/s out and re-disc it. A thing I could have done
myself,had I known it was totally bollo..er...that there was a codec fault in the parcel-loading activity,ffs! But,my point is,you're right [GAWD,how it hurts to have to say that to dear ol' gumbud,of all peeps!] In regard to luck,it's merely a machine,so sod it. As Fruitisimo referred to,luck comes in many guises. I've survived being shot,stabbed,blown up,skiing into the ONLY fkn tree on the mountain in Hammerfest [that twinged a tad,I can tell yerz] & a parachute not fully opening...so a poxy little machine designed by huge egos but built by tiny wage-packets,being faulty just doesn't enter the equation. LUCK,is tripping over the cat as you carry a hot cup of coffee to your desk,then as you're laying on the floor thinking various colourful things,spotting a £10 note under your amp-stack,that you didn't even know you'd lost. So-yay,karma...it knows what it's doing-it doesn't need US to understand it's workings...it just works.