[Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

[Ben Barrett]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by X-init-rc thing, Mr. O, maybe
some remote control porn thing but the GeekSquad is too holy to touch
your porn toys, sorry ;)  Their store won't even sell many common
movies due to their business's bent, sorry.  Avoid, abort, deny.

As for incompetence, I cannot count or remember crap but I think they
tried like 10 advertised in-home repair services and only 2 id'ed the
bad memory.  To me that begs a different question:
Is the market burdgeoning so much that 8 of 10 are clueless (sorta
like cellphone market boom, anyone can sell phones & service plans)...
or is the audience/customerbase so fiscally fit and clueless that they
usually don't notice? (yea I know users are always clueless blah blah)

This sort of media blitz seems to beg for industry regulation.  I've
noticed the trend toward excessive legitimization by some of the firms
like GeekSquad with their uniforms and almost-police-looking cars,
lately -- what think ye?  Is our wild west eroding to gentrification?

ben



On 10/30/07, Mr O <notanatheist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here:
> http://www.geeksquad.com/services/detail.aspx?id=1159
>
> Since they don't specify the OS can I get a Gentoo stage 1
> please. Oh, and make sure my printers, joysticks, scanner, and
> accelerated 3D work before you leave. Oh, and none of that
> auto-login crap. I want a text mode start up, a nice clean
> .xinitrc, and Wine working perfectly. See you next week!
>
> That be all,
> Mr O.
>
>
> --- Mike Cherba <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> > This is sad, but true.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxSr2W6YjGc
> >
> >
>
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