Dimples <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
> If we read the manual, you'd be out of a job.

No I wouldn't.

Believe it or not, technical support does involve more than holding the
hands of people too fscking stupid to get out of bed successfully
in the morning.

DaZZa

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In aus.motorcycles on 25 Feb 2004 21:49:49 GMT
DaZZa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Dimples <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
>> If we read the manual, you'd be out of a job.
>
> No I wouldn't.
>
> Believe it or not, technical support does involve more than holding the
> hands of people too fscking stupid to get out of bed successfully
> in the morning.
>

Yeah, some of it is cleaning up after other tech support who are too
stupid to get out of bed in the morning.

Zebee
- recalling some incidents with the company formerly known as Digital

Zebee Johnstone <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
> In aus.motorcycles on 25 Feb 2004 21:49:49 GMT
> DaZZa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Dimples <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
>>> If we read the manual, you'd be out of a job.
>> No I wouldn't.
>> Believe it or not, technical support does involve more than holding the
>> hands of people too fscking stupid to get out of bed successfully
>> in the morning.
>
> Yeah, some of it is cleaning up after other tech support who are too
> stupid to get out of bed in the morning.

Yup, them too.

I not only hit them with RTFM, I hit them WITH the FM!

:-)

> Zebee
> - recalling some incidents with the company formerly known as Digital

Let's not get into dicksizing about who has the worst technical support. :-)

DaZZa

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Kevin Gleeson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news(E-Mail Removed):
> DaZZa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>sanbar <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
>>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:08:57 +1100, DaZZa wrote:
>>>> BTW, thanks to everyone who commented with suggestions and/or advice
-
>>>> I'm now the proud owner of a 1988 BMW K100RS - well, I will be when
I
>>>> actually manage to get it home later this week. :-)
>>>
>>> Welcome to the dark side, padwan.
>>
>>Thank you, Obi Wan. :-)
>>
>>>> A rule for life.
>>>> echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc
>>>
>>> A very clever sig
>>> May I blatantly rip it sometimes?
>>
>>Sure. I ripped it off from someone else {after asking, of course!} who
>>ripped it off from /., I think. :-)
>
> Pleeze exploin?

RTFM.

G

GB wrote:

> Kevin Gleeson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news(E-Mail Removed):
>
>>>>>A rule for life.
>>>>>echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc
>>>>
>>>>A very clever sig
>>>>May I blatantly rip it sometimes?
>>>
>>>Sure. I ripped it off from someone else {after asking, of course!} who
>>>ripped it off from /., I think. :-)
>>
>>Pleeze exploin?
>
>
> RTFM.

Should have him wondering for a while ...

Cheers
Goaty
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*starts reading the manpage on dc and pondering about reverse polish notation*

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:22:29 +1100, Goaty <(E-Mail Removed)> scribbled in chalk:

>GB wrote:
>
>> Kevin Gleeson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> news(E-Mail Removed):
>>
>>>>>>A rule for life.
>>>>>>echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc
>>>>>
>>>>>A very clever sig
>>>>>May I blatantly rip it sometimes?
>>>>
>>>>Sure. I ripped it off from someone else {after asking, of course!} who
>>>>ripped it off from /., I think. :-)
>>>
>>>Pleeze exploin?
>>
>>
>> RTFM.
>
>Should have him wondering for a while ...
>
>Cheers
>Goaty

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Mike.S wrote:
> *starts reading the manpage on dc and pondering about reverse polish notation*

Ah yes, reverse Polish notation. I'm currently reading Franz Brentano,
who was a major influence on Lesniewski and the formal logic school
between WWI and WWII who came up with that (amongst other things!)

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Mike.S <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
> *starts reading the manpage on dc and pondering about reverse polish notation*

If you really wanna know why it does what it does, a friend of
mine who is a mathematician explained it.

Well, he called it an explaination. I called it gibberish. :-)

DaZZa

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DaZZa wrote:

> Mike.S <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
>
>>*starts reading the manpage on dc and pondering about reverse polish notation*
>
>
> If you really wanna know why it does what it does, a friend of
> mine who is a mathematician explained it.
>
> Well, he called it an explaination. I called it gibberish. :-)

It is supposed to mirror the way your brain solves a problem. Eg, in an
expression such as

a * (b + c)

Your brain will work it out by resolving precendence, and working from
the 'inside out' - eg, do the 'b+c' first, then mupltication. Compare
with a 'standard' calculator or computer, where you 'solve' quite
differently than how you would on paper.

Mark.

Mark Hammond <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
> DaZZa wrote:
>> Mike.S <(E-Mail Removed)> mumbled:
>>>*starts reading the manpage on dc and pondering about reverse polish notation*
>> If you really wanna know why it does what it does, a friend of
>> mine who is a mathematician explained it.
>> Well, he called it an explaination. I called it gibberish. :-)
>
> It is supposed to mirror the way your brain solves a problem. Eg, in an
> expression such as
>
> a * (b + c)
>
> Your brain will work it out by resolving precendence, and working from
> the 'inside out' - eg, do the 'b+c' first, then mupltication. Compare
> with a 'standard' calculator or computer, where you 'solve' quite
> differently than how you would on paper.

It's still gibberish. :-)

DaZZa

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