The fact that crapfest Eragon made $179,933,000. What the hell is wrong with people? How can you support something like this? God damn, sometimes people baffle me.
That Fantastic Four got a sequel. Probably one of the most disappointing movies I've ever laid my eyes on. Hell, I grew up loving FF, so this movie was a major kick in the nuts.
Vader's "NOOOOO!" at the endo ROTS. In general I liked the movie, but that was just...bad.
The norwegian customs limit of £17. If it costs a penny more, they add another £12. Argh!
Not being able to get Classics Megatron in this country yet, possibly ever...
He turns into a freaking gun, man! I've a Soundwave, Starscream and Shockwave/Shockblast that all look similar to their original counterparts, but now I need a fucking Megs and I can't get the fucker. Ain't spending £25 on something on Amazon, wanna go buy it somewhere!
Marius wrote:The fact that crapfest Eragon made $179,933,000. What the hell is wrong with people? How can you support something like this? God damn, sometimes people baffle me.
That Fantastic Four got a sequel. Probably one of the most disappointing movies I've ever laid my eyes on. Hell, I grew up loving FF, so this movie was a major kick in the nuts.
Vader's "NOOOOO!" at the endo ROTS. In general I liked the movie, but that was just...bad.
The norwegian customs limit of £17. If it costs a penny more, they add another £12. Argh!
Phew! That felt good
Yeah but at least with FF we are getting to see Silver surfer now that has got to be worth the duff 1st movie
Standing in lines. I could actually do a small essay on this, and i will!
Why i hate standing in long queues, and what i do to make the wait shorter, by me.
Think of your local supermarket, and think about the cashier lines. Think of it like this, the more cashiers you have in operation (i.e. working the registers) the more bandwidth you have. Let's call it regwidth. In a normal finnish super market, from the Max ports (i.e. the number of registers being operated) is about 5 out of 13 max. Now, sometimes, some of the registers have longer process queues (customers) than others. Normally all the processes are passive, and go for the queue, which to them, seems like the shortest one. However, there are people like me, active processes, who do not only scan all the ports of the regwidth, and literally RUN to the one, with the most less processes in queue.
But this is not all of it. You must also take the experience of the people behind the registers, and the speed that these people posess. Even though you might get to the shortest ueue, it does not automatically mean, that you'll be done soon. Some problems with the method of the process paying for the food etc. must be taken into account. I have been in short queues where the process hangs, because of problems with the verification technology (i.e. mispricing, credit card trouble, list goes on). ALthough these problems cannot be known in advance, you must be aware, that any of these things MIGHT happen, that cause the process to hang for a moment.
This is why i hate standing in queues. Because of this, i work as an active process. When i approach the registers, i quickly "scan" the queues, trying to find the shortest one. I can also usually scan the SIZE (number of items) that the process has, inorder to determine what processes are donw with quickly (lesser items means faster time to process).
limb_clock wrote:When i approach the registers, i quickly "scan" the queues, trying to find the shortest one. I can also usually scan the SIZE (number of items) that the process has, inorder to determine what processes are donw with quickly (lesser items means faster time to process).
Ah but the shortest queue is not always the quickest.
Scan the people too; do they look competent? What are they buying? Clothes etc tend to be slow items as they are full of security tags and must be packed separately.
Men tend to be faster, they have wallets. Old ladies with huge handbags are the worst, when they realise that they actually have to pay for the things - then begins the Searching. This can take some time as the handbag is huge. Also a store/loyalty card must be found. Another variant pays for everything with the small change located in varioues crevises about their person. Gossip must be exchanged too.
limb_clock wrote:Standing in lines. I could actually do a small essay on this, and i will!
Why i hate standing in long queues, and what i do to make the wait shorter, by me.
Think of your local supermarket, and think about the cashier lines. Summa summarum, i can do science, me.
You know, there /is/ a science to this, queue theory. Using this, one can compute how many stations (hairdressers, cashiers, whatever) you need, based on service speed, customer frequency and the fluctuations thereof, and the max queue length you deem acceptable.
Now, the one most basic thing this science teaches is: One queue, many stations. One-queue-per-station isn't anywhere near as effective as this.
You got this at the butcher's (probably), but never in the bigger supermarkets where efficiency supposedly is the prime directive.
You know, there /is/ a science to this, queue theory. Using this, one can compute how many stations (hairdressers, cashiers, whatever) you need, based on service speed, customer frequency and the fluctuations thereof, and the max queue length you deem acceptable.
Well yes, but the definition of acceptable queue length (from the point of view of the shops shareholders) is the length of queue (in minutes or seconds) where the cost of putting on another till worker is countered by the lost custom due to people getting fed up and abandoning their purchases and walking out of the store. Although you probably have to count in that, the number of people who will go somewhere else next time if the queue is too long this time.
"My way is the way of not fighting":- the book of Enter the Dragon.
That reminded me of something, When I was younger (alot younger ), I use to get dragged into Marks & Spencers, and would usually queue for forty minutes because of all the old women who would first spend 10 minutes fumbling around in their handbag, and another 10 minutes writing a cheque... Grrr... A curse to quick cues!
as others have said, what you have to do, is determine what people are carrying,a queue of five people carrying baskets could be the same amount of shopping as that queue with one trolley in, but the trolley will be quicker because there is only one transaction
It also helps if you let rip a nice healthy smelly fart in the general queue area.
