but MAN did this company take a turn when he slipped the mortal coil

You can get one of their hospitality televisions, it doesn't really have any software. You don't even have to connect it to the internet...

I think it's more to the point that if you don't enjoy using KDE icons, you can change them to whatever you want. If you don't enjoy using Tahoe's, tough shit, we know what you should enjoy

Apple pursued the educational market hard (remember the 'eMac'?), as he believed in getting them young made them customers for life. I guess the post-Jobs regime figured either iphones already ensnared the kids, or they were just going to corner the "want to seem rich but can't afford a Porsche" market and be done with it. But it's a little odd to suddenly decide you're leaving money on the table now

I mean, maybe they'll be able to lure a few ritzy private schools with whatever their wares will be. But it's going to be real hard to lure the vast majority away from $300 Chromebooks when Apple isn't going to get anywhere near that price point.

For this company for about six minutes, surprising this is not. I mean, perhaps the culture has really changed, but I found it to be a workplace rife with 'trickle-down arrogance' (to paraphrase Reagan), and a prevailing attitude of "you should really be paying us for allowing you to work here"

At some point one has to give the reality check of "Uh guys, you make games where the player gets satisfaction from running down old ladies. With stories cobbled together from shitty gangster movies, and missions where you actively have to fight the game engine in order to complete. You can take off your berets"

Creative actually already makes something like this, just add two xlr. But desktop not rack

They're SUPER cheap and handy. I bought a spare because co-workers keep borrowing mine and keeping them extended periods of time

Let's see... Just looking around me I see desktop speakers (directly in front), a usb mixer (parallel to my right hand), wired headphones (lower right), bluetooth headphones (upper left), and a soundbar (directly behind me) all with a Creative logo. I must be a card-carrying necrophiliac

Here's an anecdote: I still have Creative's competitor to the original iPod. The battery doesn't charge, but if you plug it in it still plays music. Try finding an an original iPod that still has a working HD (hell, most of them were dead in a year). And Creative's cost half as much. That's kind of their thing, really good stuff for a low price. I guess in a time where kids make their parents buy them $250 Beats by Dre and have the buttons cease working and the ear cups disintegrate in six months (just in time to spend $250 on NEW Beats by Dre), perhaps it is a 'dead' business model.

"daylight savings time was invented by rich politicians as a means of playing more golf"

The fact that Trump wants to make it permanent supports this theory.

No, not idea, just parasitic.

That tapeworm isn't so bad. But how much good is it doing you?

When you ask them for your business to be removed, they respond "But, but, but you're getting extra sales!!". Yeah, that the business isn't staffed for and isn't equipped or stocked to handle. When the math is done, the extra sales don't amount to anything except stress, misery, and red ink.

Unfortunately, that was attempted, and not a real great idea. If you spoke to them at all (like, even to cuss them out) you could pretty much guarantee a delivery person would be in front of you 20 minutes later begging you to make whatever so they could get paid (while you were attempting to make food for your actual customers). If you put your foot down and told them to fuck off, they would call in to dispatch, then your phone would start ringing off the hook again.

Basically, they would harass you until you did their bidding. Like mafia guys shaking you down for protection were easier to deal with.

A lot of these scummy delivery services will add you if you do take-out whether you like it or not. The business has no say in the matter. There was one (Postmates or something) that absolutely refused to remove the place I was working, and if we didn't pick-up when they showed up on caller id, the dispatcher would just call from a private phone.

Yeah, I responded but didn't quote the wrong part. When you copy incorrect things it makes more incorrect things. And you don't seem to need any help.

Next time if you need a hand, just ask. You don't have to get pissy,

Which is probably why I made the subject "In the state where I live" rather than "In the universe where I live"

In the state of New York USA there are caps on rent increases, and if your employer doesn't raise wage to match cost of living you can quit with cause/collect unemployment insurance/etc, whether it makes you laugh or not (usually employers don't find it so humorous as their tax increase is more than the payroll would had been if they complied)

Not sure what happens in some of the Scandi countries or the rest of the universe, sorry. You can try google.

Landlords can (and do) raise rent 13% a year, by law.
Your employer has to give a cost of living pay increase of 2.5% a year, by law
So by law, there's going to be 10.5% discrepancy between the money going out to keep a roof over your head, and the money coming in if you live in the same place (and that's just accounting for your roof. And god forbid you have to move, as rents go up much more than 13% per year)

And yet, people being broke is news to some (or worse, blamed on the broke people themselves)