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Marc Clifton wrote: Help me understand this - you ordered a "double cheeseburger" pizza ? No wonder they got the order wrong!
I was meant to order the Double Cheeseburger Pizza (elephanting nice it is too) but clicked the Supreme which was right next to it. Then I get a chance tol review my order and ensure I haven't elephanted up. There were so many clicks and offers to ghet other sh*t I didn't want that by the time I got to the final confirmation screen I was like, faarrrkkkk it, click, click, click.
Then got the wrong thing.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Sounds like a clear case of PEBKAC to me! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In all honesty, I've never had this problem. I download a pizza or pasta bowl from Domino's a couple times a month. I start at the menu, click what I want, add any extras I want, then go to check out. 30 minutes later the delivery guy is knocking on my door. I've never had more than one popup (always the chocolate lava crunch cake) They did get an order wrong awhile back but were quick to make it right. Hopefully your next pizza download will go better. 
XAlan Burkhart
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Alan Burkhart wrote: In all honesty, I've never had this problem. I download a pizza or pasta bowl from Domino's a couple times a month. I start at the menu, click what I want, add any extras I want, then go to check out. 30 minutes later the delivery guy is knocking on my door. I've never had more than one popup (always the chocolate lava crunch cake) They did get an order wrong awhile back but were quick to make it right. Hopefully your next pizza download will go better.
They were here 30-40 minutes after I clicked the final button, no issues there. I've only ordered a handful of times before and haven't had an issue then either. I think this time I was doing a million and one other things and it really did popup umpteen options.
They weren't popups in separate winodws, but I got offers for chicken bits of something or other, then salted caramel chocolate, then at least 2 different desert screens, garlic breads and then soft drinks. Even though I had the last two things on the order already, 2 of each in fact. Just pissed me off, I had made my choices and just wanted to get to the payment screen.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I feel your pain!
I tried ordering from my phone once and gave up because the site was crapola and too hard to follow
I've since done it once on the iPad and swore never to do so again.
the seem to have thought that by making it ridiculously complex you will order more sh*t accidentally or something.
I just wanted to order two pizzas . having done so, the site popped up a 'why don't you order the special, two pizzas, garlic bread and soft drink for $xx? As my order was already $xx I thought, fine! Clicked the link - at which point it cleared my order, and asked me to start again. Sigh. Went through the process but added on drink and garlic bread - total came to $xx + $yy - and the link came up to ask if I wanted to take advantage of the offer. Foolishly I clicked the link.
Cleared my order and started again.
we had fish and chips.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Just came back from seeing the movie.
Really enjoyed it. The special effects were simply awesome - now I've seen the movie I need to go search to find out just how they did all that zero g special effects.
Only one problem with it and that was in the implausibility of some of it. Generally good realistically (like no sound in space unless they're touching something) but flying between two spacecraft by eye using a fire extinguisher as propulsion? Come on!
Oh, and you get to see Sandra Bullock in her pants - looking good for 50.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Basic physics.
A fire extinguisher would provide quite a lot of thrust.
Assuming a man in a suit had a mass of 100 kg and the extinguisher had a compressed gas mass of 1kg with an expansion rate of 5. In order to gain thrust and allowing for the co-efficient of restitution he would accelerate at 5 m/s/s for aboiu 5 seconds with the rate of acceleration reducibg as the pressure dropped.
Certainly able to get to about 25 m/s
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The basic physics isn't the issue, the issue is the implausibility of the actions.
Without giving too much away, she aims a spacecraft by eye toward another (they're probably close enough that orbital mechanics doesn't come into it too much) and fires the rockets. Then, she uses the explosion of pressurised air from her craft to blast her toward the other ship as she zooms past, and the. Uses the fire extinguisher to steer her to the destination .
Physically possible but so entirely implausible...
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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It's not the steering that's the problem.
It's slowing down... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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If the A Team can steer a falling tank by firing it... 
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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That's the A-Team.
They are professionals.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I would have thought you unloaded the ammunition if it was going in a cargo plane...
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Slowing down is merely a matter of hitting something far more massive than yourself.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Which leave the minor problems of
0) Not bouncing right back off again
1) Surviving the impact
Neither of which movie makers ever seem to consider!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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exactement - which is where the realism loses out to the story telling.
Still a damnably fine movie though.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Yes, well that is equally implausible.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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As some of you have probably noticed, in my sig below, 2 of the links are Bit.ly shortened (Web/Twitter) and by appending a '+' to the link you can get the statistics of the link clicks.
This morning I thought I would check out both of the links to see how often they get clicked and where was clicking them. I wasn't surprised to see the USA as #1, but was very surprised to see Iran as #2.
I had a look at my Google Analytics for the same period since the Link was created (i.e. 24th Jan 2011), which would obviously cover all visits to the site and not just via the link and Iran is #71.
Any clues as to why Iran would have such a high interest? Does CodeProject have a high visitor rate from Iran, the stats suggest it does? @Chris-Maunder
Web Link (897 Clicks since 24th Jan 2011)
United States: 23%, 203
Iran, Islamic Republic of: 13%, 114
India: 8%, 68
China: 7%, 61
United Kingdom: 6%, 54
Chile: 3%, 25
Japan: 3%, 23
Germany: 2%, 19
Brazil: 2%, 14
Canada: 1%, 13
(+56 More countries)
Twitter Link (629 Clicks since 24th Jan 2011)
United States: 22%, 137
Iran, Islamic Republic of: 18%, 111
India: 7%, 47
China: 6%, 40
Chile: 5%, 29
Japan: 4%, 23
United Kingdom: 3%, 19
Canada: 2%, 13
Russian Federation: 2%, 11
France: 2%, 10
(+38 More countries)
You can see the full stats for both of these by clicking these two stat links;
http://bit.ly/DMAweb+[^]
http://bit.ly/DMAtwt+[^]
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I wouldn't read anything into it. I often get weird stats for my sites; it usually turns out that it's because the site's been mentioned on some bulletin board or in the introductory/supplementary material for a university course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is nothing wrong with it, it is just unsual for Iran to appear so high up the demographic statistics versus other countries.
As I said also in the post, my website as a whole, Iran is #71 on the visitor rankings.
I would have thought that maybe the UK or or some other european countries might have been higher up.
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Would it be possible that bit.ly links are easier to pass around in Iran compared to normal links (bypass censors)?
I'd rather be phishing!
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@Maximilien: URL shorteners are always easier to pass and it has nothing to do with the censoring..
@DaveAuld: Not sure what may cause that, but I think Mark_Wallace might be right...
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Face it Dave - you're kind of a big thing in Iran.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I will make it clear now that I have nothing to do with their nuclear program...
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