[racket] Racket & Netbook

Man, politeness is such a racket.

Robby

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Well, a polite person would phrase this as "could you fix this ... please?"
>
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>> Sounds very advanced to me. In all seriousness, answers to those
>> questions are not the kind of things I would pay money for anyways.
>> The kinds of questions I pay money for are more like "make this thing
>> work again; it is broken." (which isn't a question, I know. ...)
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jun 30, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Of course, you won't get Apple-level support from Acer.  But that
>>>> cuts both ways (Acer support staff don't assume they are inherently
>>>> more advanced genetic beings).
>>>
>>> ??
>>>
>>> When I got the #(@^(!&* ipad, I called Apple support to ask how I can
>>> transfer random files to it.  The guy was "helpfully" suggesting
>>> whatever their word equivalent is -- I gave up after about 5 minutes
>>> of me going from "files, not `documents'" through "an icon in my
>>> laptop" and ending up with "a pile of bits".
>>>
>>> Oh, and I also asked if there's anything that can play music in ogg
>>> format.  He consulted with two supervisors (for no less than 10
>>> minutes), and finally announced that I should get some software that
>>> converts the files to mp3.
>>>
>>> [I'm sure that some people would consider that advanced...]
>>>
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