Nav POI database - Starbucks?
03-25-2006, 11:32 AM
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The most amazing aspect of this to me is that I emailed Navtec with my complaint and several months later recieved a reply stating that they had added many Starbucks and specifically listed the ones in my area, to be included in the next update. I've never bothered to spend the money for the update so I can't vouch for what may have been added. Still, I was impressed that they even answered my complaint.
Despite all the complaints I see on this forum about the MB Nav System, over time I've found it very useful, with or without Starbucks.
Despite all the complaints I see on this forum about the MB Nav System, over time I've found it very useful, with or without Starbucks.
03-25-2006, 11:42 AM
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The most amazing aspect of this to me is that I emailed Navtec with my complaint and several months later recieved a reply stating that they had added many Starbucks and specifically listed the ones in my area,
Bit of a cultural thing here,I contacted Navteq to point out the three Mercedes-Benz dealers in the county of Devon were all several years out of date. I eventually received a letter thanking me for the updated information and I can indeed confirm that the latest DVD does have the correct information. It goes to show that folks do listen.
I had no idea what Starbucks was, until I just looked it up... Coffee shops????? I thought it might have been a Cholesterol producing emporium
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03-25-2006, 12:55 PM
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Starbucks: Its where idiots pay more for an 12 ounce cup of coffee than a Gallon of Gasoline costs! (...and that gallon of gas took a Million years to produce, has to be drilled out of the Earth, piped to a port, loaded on tankers, shipped thousands of miles to a refinery where a team of scientists have built millions of dollars of equipment to reduce the barrel of oil to a few gallons of gasoline.) While at Starbucks you have to order you coffee in a jargon that Starbucks made up to add fake mystery and complexity to the product that are used to present you with your "cup of coffee". There's no such thing as a "Large"... its a "Grande"... The chick that presses the "Brew" button on the Bunn-O-Matic, coffee equipment and is your cashier is called a "Barrista".
To top it off. they serve that bitter overpriced crap in thin cardboard cups that are too hot to hold so a corrugated cardboard sleeve has to be placed OVER the cup where your hand goes... then to add insult and injury, they cap it with a thin very poorly fitting white plastic cap that extends higher than the rim of the cup, so when you have to suck the coffee out of the oval hole in the raised lid, the scalding hot liquid passes over the side of the thin plastic lid which is resting on your lower lip. Half the time the lid pops off the top of the cup though, so the burns on the top part of your thumb & hand take your mind off the price. Ouch! I have NEVER felt like I was in such an artificial, fake environment in my life. I don't even understand what the Hell the folks in those shops are saying. Its a freaking cup of Coffee, for God's sake, not a 6 course meal in a 5 star restaurant prepared by a team of Chefs.
...Ahhhh Capitalism!
To top it off. they serve that bitter overpriced crap in thin cardboard cups that are too hot to hold so a corrugated cardboard sleeve has to be placed OVER the cup where your hand goes... then to add insult and injury, they cap it with a thin very poorly fitting white plastic cap that extends higher than the rim of the cup, so when you have to suck the coffee out of the oval hole in the raised lid, the scalding hot liquid passes over the side of the thin plastic lid which is resting on your lower lip. Half the time the lid pops off the top of the cup though, so the burns on the top part of your thumb & hand take your mind off the price. Ouch! I have NEVER felt like I was in such an artificial, fake environment in my life. I don't even understand what the Hell the folks in those shops are saying. Its a freaking cup of Coffee, for God's sake, not a 6 course meal in a 5 star restaurant prepared by a team of Chefs.
...Ahhhh Capitalism!
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03-25-2006, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Barry45RPM
The chick that presses the "Brew" button on the Bunn-O-Matic, coffee equipment and is your cashier is called a "Barrista".
barrister
a type of lawyer in Britain, Australia and some other countries who is qualified to give specialist legal advice and can argue a case in both higher and lower law courts
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03-25-2006, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Barry45RPM
Starbucks: Its where idiots pay more for an 12 ounce cup of coffee than a Gallon of Gasoline costs!
03-27-2006, 03:35 PM
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I still can't believe he sold the command to his wife because it could find Starbucks
But whatever it took, now I'm drivin my dream car...
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maybe you guys should have just got a tomtom or a copilot device and then hit -EDITED by Drexappeal; Please do not advertise sales for non-sponsored websites-and then just got the poi you wanted. if you did you would alsso be able to get POIs from their mobile site!
09-11-2006, 03:42 PM
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Seriously though, (and I know this is
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09-11-2006, 04:47 PM
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Starbucks: Its where idiots pay more for an 12 ounce cup of coffee than a Gallon of Gasoline costs! (...and that gallon of gas took a Million years to produce, has to be drilled out of the Earth, piped to a port, loaded on tankers, shipped thousands of miles to a refinery where a team of scientists have built millions of dollars of equipment to reduce the barrel of oil to a few gallons of gasoline.) While at Starbucks you have to order you coffee in a jargon that Starbucks made up to add fake mystery and complexity to the product that are used to present you with your "cup of coffee". There's no such thing as a "Large"... its a "Grande"... The chick that presses the "Brew" button on the Bunn-O-Matic, coffee equipment and is your cashier is called a "Barrista".
To top it off. they serve that bitter overpriced crap in thin cardboard cups that are too hot to hold so a corrugated cardboard sleeve has to be placed OVER the cup where your hand goes... then to add insult and injury, they cap it with a thin very poorly fitting white plastic cap that extends higher than the rim of the cup, so when you have to suck the coffee out of the oval hole in the raised lid, the scalding hot liquid passes over the side of the thin plastic lid which is resting on your lower lip. Half the time the lid pops off the top of the cup though, so the burns on the top part of your thumb & hand take your mind off the price. Ouch! I have NEVER felt like I was in such an artificial, fake environment in my life. I don't even understand what the Hell the folks in those shops are saying. Its a freaking cup of Coffee, for God's sake, not a 6 course meal in a 5 star restaurant prepared by a team of Chefs.
...Ahhhh Capitalism!
To top it off. they serve that bitter overpriced crap in thin cardboard cups that are too hot to hold so a corrugated cardboard sleeve has to be placed OVER the cup where your hand goes... then to add insult and injury, they cap it with a thin very poorly fitting white plastic cap that extends higher than the rim of the cup, so when you have to suck the coffee out of the oval hole in the raised lid, the scalding hot liquid passes over the side of the thin plastic lid which is resting on your lower lip. Half the time the lid pops off the top of the cup though, so the burns on the top part of your thumb & hand take your mind off the price. Ouch! I have NEVER felt like I was in such an artificial, fake environment in my life. I don't even understand what the Hell the folks in those shops are saying. Its a freaking cup of Coffee, for God's sake, not a 6 course meal in a 5 star restaurant prepared by a team of Chefs.
...Ahhhh Capitalism!
Reminds me of these 2 videos ("Small, Medium, Large" and "Coffee House Propaganda") found here: http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html
I rarely go to Starbucks...but when I do...I always order with small/medium/large jargon and refuse to call them tall/grande/venti
