UPS sucks!

Well, as most of you know, I sold these auto-related tools for Nick on eBay and generously, he donated all of the proceeds to mission support.  However, the buyer received them and said it wasn’t working so I said no problem, since I had shipped them insured.

Now, I find out that UPS denied my insurance claim!    I’m mad for this.  I have shipped quite a few via UPS always entrusting their insurance to pick up for damaged goods.  But this was the first time I had to take up on the claim and I am more than disappointed!  First they blame that I re-used the box.  WTH!!  And that I didn’t pad the contents properly?!  I put the bubble wrap generously on that for one, and so when I ship it, the UPS Store person couldn’t tell me that there’s a whole slew of crap load of restrictions to be considered “shipped properly”?!!

I quit UPS.  I’m now going to go FedEx route or USPS!   UPS, you suck!  And I quit you!

/*End Rant*/

ATI (um, now AMD) makes a turd come back!

Competition is usually a good thing.  That’s especially the case from a consumer’s point of view.  It drives the businesses to deliver better products at better cheaper prices.  You say Intel, I say AMD.  You say nVidia, I say ATI, um… I mean now, AMD as AMD bought out ATI.

After what felt like decades of delays (though in effect about 6 months or so), ATI/AMD finally released HD 2900. If you just google search on  it, you will get loads of reviews saying how disappointing it is.  Why?  ‘Cause nVidia still is the king in the graphics processing kingdom.  8800GTX pwns the HD 2900!!  Without much trying even!    Why is this a sad news for me?  It’s because I had hopes for ATI merger with AMD.  AMD, if you are listening, get your act together!!   Don’t become another 3Dfx!!

As a die-hard PC gamer, I sure hope for healthy balance in the hardware industry.  AMD needs to make a comeback to Intel’s Core 2 Duo, and ATI needs to fight off 8800 GTX (now with Ultra).  This has been a nerd’s ticked-off show-down thread.