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I just had a bizarre on-line chat with Microsoft. I was looking at the Australian web page for the Surface Pro 3 and noticed an interesting set of dimensions. Clickety[^] In case they fix them up before you get there, the dimensions were listed as:
7.93 x 11.5 x 9.14mm
Someone forget to convert all three measurements to millimetres, which is fine I suppose. I tried to do the right thing and tell them so they could get it fixed. It took me about 15 minutes to convince the on-line chat guy that something was wrong. A short excerpt...
Me: The dimensions listed for the Surface are truly tiny. I think someone has messed up inches and mm.
John: Dimensions: 7.93 x 11.5 x 9.14mm Weight: 079kg
Me: They're the ones.
John: Those are the accurate dimensions.
Me: Wow! That makes the Surface about the size of a pea. Don't you think that the 7.93 and 11.5 are supposed to be inches?
John: That is just the exterior of the device.
Me: Are you sure?
John: Yes, I have the figures here.
Me: Can I suggest that you get a ruler and draw a 7.93 mm line, an 11.5 mm line and a 9.14 mm line. Imagine the box that they would make. It's going to be pretty small.
John: I don't have a ruler.
Me: Look. You just need to forward this on to the web developers. These figures are obviously wrong.
We kept going for a while yet. Eventually I think that he got the message but who knows. I just couldn't believe it took so long. Serves me right for trying to help.
Paul Hooper
If you spend your whole life looking over your shoulder, they will get you from the front instead.
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Paul Hooper wrote: John: Dimensions: 7.93 x 11.5 x 9.14mm Weight: 079kg
That makes a fantastic density, about 65848 g/cm3 (iron is about 8 g/com3)!!!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Paul Hooper wrote: Someone forget to convert all three measurements to millimetres
Not quite - only 2 are in inches 1 is already in millimetres.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface_Pro_3[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: only 2 are in inches 1 is already in millimetres.
Oh man, that just makes it even worse!
Marc
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clearly it was an automated conversion; and since the first two numbers were dimensionless they didn't need changed. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hence "not all".
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Your first mistake was assuming Microsoft cared.
Your second mistake was assuming the person you were talking to actually knows anything besides "how to (fill in blank) for dummies".
Did he ask you to reboot? 
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Did he ask you to reboot?
I love that one... Imagine calling your doctor, telling him about chest pains (Or some other random thing), and getting the reply, "Have you tried turning it off and on?"
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I remember someone on here a few years ago saying they had been in hospital after their heart started beating ridiculously fast and they had to stop his heart and start it again to make it beat properly again. As he put it they effectively turned him off and on again.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So the ol' three-finger salute works in medicine too! Excellent!
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Actually that is more common than you would think.
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Paul Hooper wrote: Serves me right for trying to help.
Serves you right for trying to help. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Shirley it's "unless otherwise noted, all dimensions are in 'impreial units'". (But you can't pay with imperial credits.)
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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That's one case where Twitter is actually useful:
Thanks for pointing that out.  Surface Pro 3's dimensions are 292.1mm x 201.4mm x 9.1mm
They still haven't fixed the original page, though.
"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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Since dwarf-tossing was outlawed in Australia, they have all gone to work for Microsoft Au.
They have been given Windows Phones made to look like Surface Pros in order to help them feel height-enabled.
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Now who says that natural selection doesn't work?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I say take the warning labels off everything and let nature take it's course!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Either a Darwin Award[^] or Evolution in Action.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Waddayou think Griff: People stopped making stupid mistakes in the middle of 2011, or that there website ran out of available space? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I seem to remember that she stopped doing it for some reason - but I can't recall where I saw that.
Possibly the competition for morons got too large with YouTube, Twatter, and Farcebook... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Definitely a Darwin Award.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I heard about that on the news. What a f*ckin retard. Someone should walked up and put a few more holes in him out of spite.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Exactly what I am thinking...
Really people, would you treat a plugged in power saw with this level of respect? No?
I get really careful around anything sharp and moving fast. A firearm is nothing more than a tool. Other than being an idiot, let's see what else he did wrong:
a) Pointed it at something he did not intend to shoot 
b) had his finger on the trigger
c) didn't even check to see if it was loaded
Darwin award indeed.
I killed some brain cells last night and finally caught SHARKNADO! It was so bad, my wife was laughing. The part that made me cringe was the sexy chick with the pump shotgun... waving it around, finger on the trigger, scanning past the other people. I know it's a movie and a silly one at that, but....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I killed some brain cells last night and finally caught SHARKNADO! It was so
bad, my wife was laughing. The part that made me cringe was the sexy chick with
the pump shotgun... waving it around, finger on the trigger, scanning past the
other people. I know it's a movie and a silly one at that, but....
I haven't seen the movie, but I think the chick as Tara Ried, an ex porn star. She should stick to blowjobs and anal fisting. 
Did you see the another crap-tastic "original" movie that was on scifi this weekend? Sharktopus vs Pteracuda - I'm surprised SciFi still as any viewers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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