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That's stupid!
Peter Jackson already did that, you can see it in his movie!
And everything you see in a movie is real 
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Yes, and since everything you read on the Internet is true ... 
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Cause he's at the restaurant I'm at and poured the ice cold beer from the cold bottle into a warm glass.
Kaarrrnnnnttttt.
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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Porky's 1982, Peewee calls the waitress (Kiki Hunter) and asks her if Michael Hunt, Mike is there.
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jgakenhe wrote: Porky's
Great movie. +24 for mentioning it. 
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Michael Martin wrote: poured the ice cold beer from the cold bottle into a warm glass.
Someone get a rope.
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More drinking, less talking - problem solved!
Nah, just kidding. It's a shame how service has declined over the years and the position of waiter/waitress is often no longer the quite esteemed one it once was.
Back in about 2000 the three of us took our parents out to celebrate their wedding anniversary. I took a bottle of Moët along for the occasion and mum ordered the flounder. 1/2 an hour later, a bottle of Moët was brought to the next table, to the surprise of the couple sitting there. Realizing what may have been about to happen I queried the waiter and was met with a look that could kill and the admission that yes, there had indeed been a mistake. 15 minutes later when the food still hadn't arrived, we gently queried our waitress about its progress. With a straight face, she told us that we were waiting on the flounder, since it takes a while to cook through. 
Upon leaving there was no mention of either and with a supercilious leer, were told they hoped to see us again some time shortly. It's left a bad taste in the mouth ever since. :sighs:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: With a straight face, she told us that we were waiting on the flounder, since it takes a while to cook through.
I've never cooked flounder, but is there more to this other than the fact that fish doesn't take very long to cook?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Nope, that's about the size of it. The fish is paper-thin and the bottle of champers cost me what was a about a day's wage at the time.
To be fair to the wait-staff, they were all very young, under-trained and overworked.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: they were all very young, under-trained and overworked
This seems to be the general theme in a lot of industries these days... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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If the temperature of your beer is affected by the temperature of the glass, then you're not drinking fast enough!
"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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Why some here just forgo the glass and drink from the bottle. A little barbaric, but effective.
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Michael Martin wrote: bottle
Then no glass needed; drink it as Bob intended.
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I can't do any work.
Why not, you ask?
Because every file on my HDD is read only.
And when I change them, it changes them back.
So I take full control of my HDD.
No I don't, it can't enumerate all the folders.
I can't even back up, because it has decided that my whole NAS is read only as well.
Did Apple send some of it's developers behind enemy lines to produce this misbegotten pile of stupidity, or does MS have a death wish - because I notice via Google that I'm not the only one this is happening to.
I am so tempted to reload my last disk image - this is just wasting my time.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ring, Ring - Ring, Ring.
OG - Picks up phone
Caller - Did you know you have a problem with your PC.
OG - Yes, I do.
Caller - If you give me access I will fix it for you.
OG - Perfect, here you go then.
.....
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Did the conversion process to win 10 by any chance prompt you to sign in with a different (or newly created Microsoft Account).
The two machines I have 'allowed' to run the update so far have not been affected by this, both however were accessed via a Microsoft Id to start with and that same id is still in use on the upgrade. Admittedly, and especially in the light of what folks have said here and elsewhere my main development machine remains firmly anchored to it's old system os.
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Even if you are the owner, and you disable Read-only on all the files, that doesn;t do it.
The permissions applied to files and folders have been "tampered with" by Win10.
Open an explorer window, and right click "Documents"
Select "Properties" and wait until it finishes enumerating files - a while in my case.
Select the "Security" tab.
Select the users group. Press "Edit"
Let it finish...and select the users group again. Notice that you can "Read & execute" and "List folder contents".
Click "Full Control" under "Allow".
Click "Apply"...and wait again. In my case it's retagging 128,000 files or so...
If it "fails to enumerate", click "Continue", repeatedly. It did this a lot with me, possibly because it's in use - by windows because you are using windows to modify files in the folder...
When it finishes, click "OK".
Pour yourself a coffee, and swallow a couple of paracetamol...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you did the "upgrade" you can revert to the previous Windows version very easily - I reverted my home PC to Win 7 last night - took about an hour but was a fully automated process
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Formatting the hard drive first helped a lot, I guess.
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I was trying to make a fun statement by telling that you reverted but first lost all your data.
I should have added ten joke icons.
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I suspected as much but one can never be too careful 
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You trust Microsoft that much? 
I took a AOMEI disk image of the whole HDD the night before the upgrade just to be sure I could revert to exactly what I had, so if I do "Go back" that's the path I'll take.
But at the moment, I'm trying to struggle through and get to like this steaming pile of cow manure new operating system, if only because I know there will be quite a few people who I'll have to support who'll be using it and I don't want to have to tell them "sod off, you're on your own with that!"
But it is making itself extremely difficult to like: two whole days wasted so far, and yet to find anything I prefer compared to Win 7. Better than Win 8, but that's like saying I prefer my excrement polished to a mirror finish...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There was nothing on there I couldn't recover easily by other means
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