I've met many people that say they'd be more than happy to pay premiums for things that are made in America, and I believe them. The problem being is that tech isnt really their thing; certainly not a media server. The people with this attitude are often those who know nothing about tech and dont care to learn.
Im not sure if AT&T has the same sort of agreement with the insurance company they use(probably Asurion) but when I worked for a metroPCS retailer a few years back I'd get people who come to reactivate a phone and it would get rejected by our carrier activation system if the phone had been reported stolen to the insurance company. At the time insurance was about $6, and the deductible on the pricier handsets was $50. I''d explain how things worked if the phone was lost or stolen and customers would gladly sign up.
I think the naysayers here are emphasizing the wrong point. According to the summary(cause no one RTFA) This judge wont assist the copyright holders who insist on settlement programs. These guys arent going after Joe Schmoe. They're stuffing mailboxes in Everytown, USA and hoping scared people just settle. Its a racket
Im not sure if they still offer the plan, but Walmart sells the Samsung Exhibit II 4G phone for ~$200. I picked up 2 for me and my girlfriend and they work very well with my tmobile employee account. When I bought these phones Walmart had a prepaid plan that offered 100mins, unlimited text and data for $30 a month. That is/was a helluva deal considering you could get your voip app of choice and effectively turn unlimited data into unlimited minutes.
Managers worried about numbers and goals over customer service....
I work as a mobile consultant for an office supply store that recently started in wireless sales. They sell electronics stuff including computers and tablets. Anyways, when im not selling phones i'll help customers with electronics and other things that i know about.
Just last week a customer comes in with a sales ad, and shows me the exact laptop they want. They dont need a sales spiel they just wanna buy. I go to a keyholder/manager to get the laptop and i get a "stern talking to" about how their tech associates have to reach goals on computer sales and warranty sales. The manager told me to send the customer to a tech associate(who has a queue of 5 or so customers because he cant multitask.)
I sure as hell dont care about their numbers and i know that the customer wasnt really willing to wait for a tech associate when i'm available to help right now. I went to someone else to get the laptop and ended up selling the customer on a 3 year warranty. Some managers can be so thick-headed
Unfortunately the HTC Thunderbolt, one of the first attempts at a 4G handset in the US, is plagued with battery issues. A quick Google search shows that it's not just you. There are also many things you can do to try to extend the battery life such as using a resource manager like JuiceDefender that aggressively manages your radios and display options when not in use. You can also use the phone's built-in power saving mode which can be found in your phone's settings menu. This will perform the same task in a less aggressive manner.
I used Verizon's other 4G-launch handset, the Samsung Droid Charge, and regularly got about a day and a half out of the battery. I could stretch to 2 days orso with less use. After using the JuiceDefender app I was able to get a solid 3 days. However, this was a different handset from a different manufacturer YMMV.
I'll reply here because you chose not to be a coward, but this response applies to the ACs below as well. Apps tend to crash when they are out of resources. Other apps will refuse to start when there are not enough resources to go around. Android has a nasty habit of letting apps hold their state in RAM so they start up quicker next time. To remedy that you visit the RAM tab of the task manager and tap "clear memory" I did this just now and it ended 12 ongoing processes to free up nearly 125MB of RAM.
this isnt about architecture. As far as I know, today's smartphones run on some variant of ARM. Manufacturers do their best to make the processor their own but the core instruction set is the same.
FWIW, many apps on Android crash due to inane things like screen resolution issues, storage handling, and at the more complicated end of the spectrum is RAM handling. This is where phones differ. Screens vary between 3 and 5 inches with resolutions somewhere between 320x240 and 800x400. Ive seen phones with as little as 256MB of RAM up to 1GB of RAM. There are times when using an ill fit image crashes everything. I dunno how iOS works, but on the Android platform the user has to clear RAM manually. Otherwise apps will consume it til theres none left which leads to a crash. Apple probably handles this a bit more elegantly.
I was expecting android to outdo iOS in the crash department due to all the variables in the android world hat iOS just doesnt suffer from. Namely, android has a wider range of handset support.
- His name sounds Arabic
- He wants his colleagues to "blow away competition"
- The supposed target is in NYC
- The supposed venue is hosting a trade show
There was an article here a while back about a Nintendo DS(?) game that wouldnt allow a complete restart after the first playthrough. Things like THAT impede second hand sales and replay value. Bonus DLC content, on the other hand, is fair prize for first-sale consumers. I believe developers should have the right to hold it back. An extra character skin or a special item doesnt impact gameplay all that much.
Whether Nike was behind the hype or not is moot. The fact is they drummed up enough chaos to make their product relevant again. That's marketing, and somebody has to do it.
Jordan a has-been? Maybe.....Jordan an Icon? Certainly. This is 'merica and we celebrate our sports heroes damnit! You dont have to be an avid sports fan to know names like Babe Ruth, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky or Joe Frazier and what they've done in their respective sports to become household names.
I understand what you mean now. I thought maybe you were taking a stab at me. Bad service is a universal issue though. Its not just mobile phone salesman, but anyone whose ever tried to sell anything. You cannot lay the blame solely on the salesman though. Using mobile for example, the average consumer just wants to know if their phone will run the latest apps. They dont care that the android version on their device runs on the 2.6.35.7 linux kernel. They want a phone with a gigapixel camera. They dont wanna hear that the lens quality, rather than the megapixel count is responsible for image quality. They wanna know that the battery will last more than an hour of heavy use. That is the reason those bullet point lists exist for each phone model. So.....during a sale you lead with those bullet points. if/when the customer wants to know what they mean you should have the answers to back it up. The same can be said for auto sales, insurance saleand any other sale that requires some sort of pitch. Some customers want the tl;dr version.
the salespeople at the store often have no idea what they're selling, and will gladly sell you a bad phone if it means they get an increased commission.
It's ideas like that which give those of us who are genuine a bad name. I often get comments on how informative I have been and what a great attitude I have compared to many of the reps at other area retailers. There are a few of us that know our stuff. You just have to find us. Take a look at this list of phones and I can tell you the pros and cons of just about every handset there. I'll also give you a quick rundown of the pros and cons of each carrier. Staples doesnt have the handset selection that many corporate locations have, but that allows me to become that much more familiar with the phones we do sell.
If these patent wars continue the map of Europe will look like a checkerboard. White country gets the Google product while black gets the Apple product
line formatting and variable names fit into code maintenance.
If you write a blob of code without descriptive variable names how do you expect to maintain it? How do you expect someone else to quickly read and decipher it?
I've seen it done with my prescription although it was the other way around. Once a generic was available my pharmacy switched me to it. I believe they just bitch to the doctor's secretary or the doctor until they get the go-ahead.
As far as signing an exclusivity agreement I think it comes down to the drugs the pharmacy chooses to order and/or stock. It's inconceivable to think that a pharmacy can carry every drug under the sun.
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The pool of shit that exists on facebook is proof enough of that.
What if apple bought it(or just enough stake in it) to changed that?
reverse engineer it, change a few lines of the code, call it your own and release.....it's worked before, right?
I've met many people that say they'd be more than happy to pay premiums for things that are made in America, and I believe them. The problem being is that tech isnt really their thing; certainly not a media server. The people with this attitude are often those who know nothing about tech and dont care to learn.
does this mean researchers know where to look in regards to a cure for accelerated aging diseases?
who else cannot wait some studio to make this into a crime procedural?
A hillbilly lawyer with a shotgun(or the Aussie equivalent) shoots one down, has her day in court, and wins.
Im not sure if AT&T has the same sort of agreement with the insurance company they use(probably Asurion) but when I worked for a metroPCS retailer a few years back I'd get people who come to reactivate a phone and it would get rejected by our carrier activation system if the phone had been reported stolen to the insurance company. At the time insurance was about $6, and the deductible on the pricier handsets was $50. I''d explain how things worked if the phone was lost or stolen and customers would gladly sign up.
I think the naysayers here are emphasizing the wrong point. According to the summary(cause no one RTFA) This judge wont assist the copyright holders who insist on settlement programs. These guys arent going after Joe Schmoe. They're stuffing mailboxes in Everytown, USA and hoping scared people just settle. Its a racket
Im not sure if they still offer the plan, but Walmart sells the Samsung Exhibit II 4G phone for ~$200. I picked up 2 for me and my girlfriend and they work very well with my tmobile employee account. When I bought these phones Walmart had a prepaid plan that offered 100mins, unlimited text and data for $30 a month. That is/was a helluva deal considering you could get your voip app of choice and effectively turn unlimited data into unlimited minutes.
Managers worried about numbers and goals over customer service....
I work as a mobile consultant for an office supply store that recently started in wireless sales. They sell electronics stuff including computers and tablets. Anyways, when im not selling phones i'll help customers with electronics and other things that i know about.
Just last week a customer comes in with a sales ad, and shows me the exact laptop they want. They dont need a sales spiel they just wanna buy. I go to a keyholder/manager to get the laptop and i get a "stern talking to" about how their tech associates have to reach goals on computer sales and warranty sales. The manager told me to send the customer to a tech associate(who has a queue of 5 or so customers because he cant multitask.)
I sure as hell dont care about their numbers and i know that the customer wasnt really willing to wait for a tech associate when i'm available to help right now. I went to someone else to get the laptop and ended up selling the customer on a 3 year warranty. Some managers can be so thick-headed
Unfortunately the HTC Thunderbolt, one of the first attempts at a 4G handset in the US, is plagued with battery issues. A quick Google search shows that it's not just you. There are also many things you can do to try to extend the battery life such as using a resource manager like JuiceDefender that aggressively manages your radios and display options when not in use. You can also use the phone's built-in power saving mode which can be found in your phone's settings menu. This will perform the same task in a less aggressive manner.
I used Verizon's other 4G-launch handset, the Samsung Droid Charge, and regularly got about a day and a half out of the battery. I could stretch to 2 days orso with less use. After using the JuiceDefender app I was able to get a solid 3 days. However, this was a different handset from a different manufacturer YMMV.
I'll reply here because you chose not to be a coward, but this response applies to the ACs below as well. Apps tend to crash when they are out of resources. Other apps will refuse to start when there are not enough resources to go around. Android has a nasty habit of letting apps hold their state in RAM so they start up quicker next time. To remedy that you visit the RAM tab of the task manager and tap "clear memory" I did this just now and it ended 12 ongoing processes to free up nearly 125MB of RAM.
this isnt about architecture. As far as I know, today's smartphones run on some variant of ARM. Manufacturers do their best to make the processor their own but the core instruction set is the same.
FWIW, many apps on Android crash due to inane things like screen resolution issues, storage handling, and at the more complicated end of the spectrum is RAM handling. This is where phones differ. Screens vary between 3 and 5 inches with resolutions somewhere between 320x240 and 800x400. Ive seen phones with as little as 256MB of RAM up to 1GB of RAM. There are times when using an ill fit image crashes everything. I dunno how iOS works, but on the Android platform the user has to clear RAM manually. Otherwise apps will consume it til theres none left which leads to a crash. Apple probably handles this a bit more elegantly.
I was expecting android to outdo iOS in the crash department due to all the variables in the android world hat iOS just doesnt suffer from. Namely, android has a wider range of handset support.
- His name sounds Arabic
- He wants his colleagues to "blow away competition"
- The supposed target is in NYC
- The supposed venue is hosting a trade show
He is a terrorist QED.
There was an article here a while back about a Nintendo DS(?) game that wouldnt allow a complete restart after the first playthrough. Things like THAT impede second hand sales and replay value. Bonus DLC content, on the other hand, is fair prize for first-sale consumers. I believe developers should have the right to hold it back. An extra character skin or a special item doesnt impact gameplay all that much.
Whether Nike was behind the hype or not is moot. The fact is they drummed up enough chaos to make their product relevant again. That's marketing, and somebody has to do it.
Jordan a has-been? Maybe.....Jordan an Icon? Certainly. This is 'merica and we celebrate our sports heroes damnit! You dont have to be an avid sports fan to know names like Babe Ruth, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky or Joe Frazier and what they've done in their respective sports to become household names.
I understand what you mean now. I thought maybe you were taking a stab at me. Bad service is a universal issue though. Its not just mobile phone salesman, but anyone whose ever tried to sell anything. You cannot lay the blame solely on the salesman though. Using mobile for example, the average consumer just wants to know if their phone will run the latest apps. They dont care that the android version on their device runs on the 2.6.35.7 linux kernel. They want a phone with a gigapixel camera. They dont wanna hear that the lens quality, rather than the megapixel count is responsible for image quality. They wanna know that the battery will last more than an hour of heavy use. That is the reason those bullet point lists exist for each phone model. So.....during a sale you lead with those bullet points. if/when the customer wants to know what they mean you should have the answers to back it up. The same can be said for auto sales, insurance saleand any other sale that requires some sort of pitch. Some customers want the tl;dr version.
How does my in-depth knowledge of the products I sell back up the point about salespeople knowing nothing?
It's ideas like that which give those of us who are genuine a bad name. I often get comments on how informative I have been and what a great attitude I have compared to many of the reps at other area retailers. There are a few of us that know our stuff. You just have to find us. Take a look at this list of phones and I can tell you the pros and cons of just about every handset there. I'll also give you a quick rundown of the pros and cons of each carrier. Staples doesnt have the handset selection that many corporate locations have, but that allows me to become that much more familiar with the phones we do sell.
If these patent wars continue the map of Europe will look like a checkerboard. White country gets the Google product while black gets the Apple product
line formatting and variable names fit into code maintenance.
If you write a blob of code without descriptive variable names how do you expect to maintain it? How do you expect someone else to quickly read and decipher it?
or maybe painting a mural of Col. Sanders over some existing graffiti
I've seen it done with my prescription although it was the other way around. Once a generic was available my pharmacy switched me to it. I believe they just bitch to the doctor's secretary or the doctor until they get the go-ahead.
As far as signing an exclusivity agreement I think it comes down to the drugs the pharmacy chooses to order and/or stock. It's inconceivable to think that a pharmacy can carry every drug under the sun.