Every version sucks more. Now it takes a billion years for the autofill feature to work. To make matters worse, while the thing calculates for autofill, it abruptly foregrounds itself every few second. So shitty and so inexcusable.
Meet Joel Bauer, he’s a man so far up his own ass that he can lecture you for 20 minutes on his philosophy of packing.
The award for bad customer service this week goes to Steinberg, a software publishing company with a sales phone line that is always a busy signal. I considered buying an upgrade, but since I have to call and have no way to reach them, I guess I will buy something else instead. I wouldn’t do this, but I could also just download a cracked version in less time than it would take for me to get through to them or their email customer service. Sometimes it’s just easier to steal.
Fuck Chase. Fuck them in their overleveraged ass. And fuck the Federal Government for not regulating these thieves. I am sick to death of the goddamned usury and the arbitrary changes to terms. I can’t fucking stand the monthly mailers with balance transfer checks at ridiculous terms that you cannot get the fuckers to stop stuffing into every communication they send by mail.
Chase MasterCard has decided to change their rates yet again because they are not making enough money off of me. It was fine to have the rate at Prime + 4.00% when times were good and the lending was free, now they want Prime + 6.99%. Nothing has changed about me they just want to rape good customers for every last stinking cent they can get. 14 years, I’ve been a good paying customer, and they didn’t make the slightest attempt to keep my business or negotiate with me. Well, fuck that and fuck them. I’m now a former Chase customer and most likely will soon be a former user of credit cards entirely.
Is there any other product you know of where the seller can arbitrarily change the terms of a transaction after it has already occurred? I can’t. Why do these fucks get a free pass?
Excel isn’t a good tool for statistical analysis.
Times infographic on job losses across the US. (AKA, places you do not want to live.)
The NY Times has an article about DCM Services, a shitty little company that takes advantage of bereaved people and attempts to get them to play their dead relatives zombie debts.
My advice: if a debt collector calls about your dead or living relative’s debt, tell them absolutely nothing. You are only encouraging these disgusting bottom feeders.
Monday, February 23, 2009
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Monday, February 23, 2009
I’ve installed version 1.3 and it seems that they’ve disabled the hack that allowed you to point the software to the HD. This was previously accomplished by updating the DiskID field in the Issues table and pointing it to ‘9’ which in turn points to the HD. It doesn’t seem to work anymore. Anybody manage to hack this?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Funny how a step backward is often the best step forward in these times. The Times reports that Snapple is dumping the high fructose corn sweetener for sugar. If they do that, they will have won at least one customer back (me.)