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Лёва и я наливаем чай на конторской кухне. Лёва одним движением окрывает несколько пакетиков сахара сразу.

Я: Лёва, блин, ты что, четыре сахара в такой маленький стакан кидаешь?

Лёва: Это не четыре, это пять.

Я: Тогда не жалуйся, что толстеешь...

Лёва: Я раньше клал шесть...

Another example of retarded engineering at Sony

I was looking at Sony's second-best ES receiver STR-DA5200ES. Amongst the bells and whistles it includes a USB port so you could play your non-DRM MP3s and WMAs directly into the receiver from a stick.

Now the caveat -- you can only use three manufacturers' USB devices, one of which is Sony itself!! What retarded Sony engineer came up with this? When you are using a ubiquitous standard like USB, why should the manufacturer matter?

But hey, this could be worse -- they could try to make you buy some new proprietary Sony gizmo, the way they always do...

Lord, where is the innovative and smart company Sony used to be in the 80s?

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