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Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End
Adama writes "Lexmark is dead in the water with their hopes to use the DMCA to force their customers to buy their over-priced toner. Their request for another hearing has been denied. Ars has
an especially great write-up on this." (See this earlier story for more background on Lexmark's lock-in attempt.)
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The product did have a copywrited "song" that had to be there for the product to work.
Religion is the main cause of atheism.
What happened to the old days when the customer was king and great customer service was the way to do business.
when? you mean like in the 1950s? before they invented teen pregancy and STDs and negros? good old green grass we used to have!
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Both.
Service is crap at most places.
I've stood at a counter in a store waiting 20 minutes for a clerk who can fetch a $20 item out of a cabinet. I felt like an idiot. If I knew a place within a few blocks that had the item I wanted I would have walked out. As it is I seldom purchase anything from that store because the service is so often poor; worse, I used to work there. (10 years ago)
I've been forced to listen to a salesperson spiel about an extended warranty after I told them flat out I wasn't interested. That isn't service. I shop there less often now that a company I like moved into the neighborhood. They sell similar items for similar prices, but even when they are higher, so what? I don't get treated like crap.
Virtually all the restaurants here offer free refills on softdrinks. (Coke, Pepsi, etc.) (if you consider the drink costs $2.20 one can hardly consider the first refill 'free'). A friend of mine and myself often tip based on whether they bring refills soon after he finishes his first one, or long after I finish mine. (He almost always finishes first; if I've finished mine it's usually a bad sign for the waitress/waiter.).
We give credit if the server is obviously busy; extra credit if they find a way to accommodate us and lessen their own workload. (bring a pitcher, it keeps us happy for most of the meal). But don't make yourself look busy when you aren't.
We aren't stingy, we tip rather well if we get good or great service. We won't tip for bad service. Unless we wish to be insulting (seldom).
We make it easy on them too, we seldom split the bill (from the servers perspective). We swap cash or grab the meal next time. (Amusingly enough most of the places with better service also have the bill automatically divided up and totaled by their computer system anyway).
As for those people who will chime in and say you must tip 15% percent. Uhm.. no. I don't have to. They get payed (here atleast) minimum wage like everybody else, sometimes a little more than that. If they provide service they make better than minimum wage and that money is typically worth a lot more to them because few declare most or all of it on their income tax. Thats an automatic increase of about 25%.
(my ex-brother-in-law made more money bar-tending 4-6hrs for 5 days in 2 weeks than I made working 9-5 10 days. (And no, there was nothing special about his bar-tending skills.))