Since Comcast can't seem to service their customer service lines in a timely, intelligent or helpful manner, and nearly all of the callers end up angry, why not just use the excess calls for training? It's not like these callers will be any more frustrated by operators who know nothing about Comcast than they are by actual Comcast customer service agents.
All they need to do is price their offering at $50 or so for a year or two to kill off the municipal service...
You're probably right, but I'd keep paying $100/month to the local utility for the privilege of not dealing with Comcast. I would rather crumple fifty dollar bills and throw them in the gutter than have to deal with Comcast's worst-ever customer service.
How DARE he question Monsanto or even suggest that food from their genetic engineering be labeled.
So if I were to say that 2+2=4 and the moon is made of green cheese, you'd side with me on both issues because you agree with one? Whether or not you give him a pass on GMO labeling, there's plenty of quackery left on the table.
Yea, he should know better than to question the group think of everyone else.
Exactamundo! All that "evidence based scientific method" groupthink has got to go! Out with double-blind studies - in with marginal anecdotal evidence!
Oh. My. God. I forgot how nice Google maps was without that awful, intrusive box in the upper left hand corner. Having all of my window real estate to look at the *map* is just incredible!
Why isn't anyone reporting on IBM's advances in punch card microscopy? By reducing the size of the punch hole and using modern encoding systems, they've greatly increased the amount of data that can fit on a standard Hollerith card. Those who can't wire the plugboard of an IBM 407 are going to be left behind.
but a good mechanical watch in a stanless steel case can still cost $10,000 - because of the intricate, hand-assembled internals
A good mechanical watch in a stainless steel case costs a few hundred dollars or less. $10,000 watches are jewelry whose price is inflated primarily by artificial scarcity and brand management.
Tag Heuer brings the idiots willing to pay ridiculous money for a watch.
Tag Heuer customers don't pay truly ridiculous money for watches, because Tag Heuer is a piker in the luxury watch market. Google and Intel need to partner with Hublot, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Bulgari, Chopard, Franck Muller, Patek Philippe and others if they want to get into serious levels of ridiculous.
While i'm not a huge watch guy I have a very nice watch that was my great-grandfather's and has been passed down for several generations and it still works well.
"Works well" as long as you're willing to live on an unsupported, back-level version of time.
Your definition of "many" isn't a big enough number to be a viable source of income for keeping a smartphone manufacturer alive.
Actually the problem is more with the value of "miss," than it is with "many." Many of us miss the keyboard, but not enough to give up all the other features and apps ecosystem of a modern smartphone.
Kantar’s survey showed that nearly every iOS device user who listened to U2 in January 2015 – 95% – played at least one track from Songs Of Innocence.
What is "played?" Does it include all the users who didn't realize their iDevice had been unilaterally infected with Songs of Innocence, and who hit skip just as fast they can when U2's intrudes uninvited into a shuffle mix?
Try mailing security@companydomain.com. Follow-up on Monday by calling the company's headquarters and asking for the CSIO (chief security information officer). If neither of those work, ask to speak to the CIO's or COO's office.
Metallica sound nothing like Bill Haley and the Comets.
Perhaps that's true of Bill Haley & His Comets' classic sides from the mid-50s, though one could argue that Metallica's late-70s rockabilly singles drew upon Haley's rock 'n' roll country roots. More to the point, you seem to have never heard Haley's 1981 reunion album with the original Comets lineup. Many say that it sparked the entire death metal genre of the mid-80s.
The new phones also include an octa-core processor...
The first blade grabs at the whisker, tugging it away from your face to protect it from the second blade.
Blade number two catches and digs into the stubble before it has the chance to snap back and injure you, pulling it farther out so that it is now ready for shearing.
Triple-Trac's third blade, a finely-honed bonded platinum instrument, cuts cleanly through the whisker at its base, leaving your face as smooth as a billiard ball.
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Since Comcast can't seem to service their customer service lines in a timely, intelligent or helpful manner, and nearly all of the callers end up angry, why not just use the excess calls for training? It's not like these callers will be any more frustrated by operators who know nothing about Comcast than they are by actual Comcast customer service agents.
OK Uber is today "valued" at what, 3Bn.
$40B and heading to $50B.
... will torture and manipulate data until it shows a 97% consensus on silly questions that mean nothing at all.
A citation for climate alarmists?
Citation please?
All they need to do is price their offering at $50 or so for a year or two to kill off the municipal service...
You're probably right, but I'd keep paying $100/month to the local utility for the privilege of not dealing with Comcast. I would rather crumple fifty dollar bills and throw them in the gutter than have to deal with Comcast's worst-ever customer service.
Well, it's not entirely pointless, as you can still use the pre-loaded apps and use usb to sync your music and movies to it.
And you can make phone calls!!
Maybe you should stick to homeschooling.
If he sticks to homeschooling, he can't get vaccinated.
How DARE he question Monsanto or even suggest that food from their genetic engineering be labeled.
So if I were to say that 2+2=4 and the moon is made of green cheese, you'd side with me on both issues because you agree with one? Whether or not you give him a pass on GMO labeling, there's plenty of quackery left on the table.
Yea, he should know better than to question the group think of everyone else.
Exactamundo! All that "evidence based scientific method" groupthink has got to go! Out with double-blind studies - in with marginal anecdotal evidence!
They're doing it to address the perception that "new and shiny" is what people want -- not functionality per se.
It's not even that. They're doing it to introduce more revenue-bearing clicks into your path.
To return to the old version...
Oh. My. God. I forgot how nice Google maps was without that awful, intrusive box in the upper left hand corner. Having all of my window real estate to look at the *map* is just incredible!
They still have to manually check the waistband of the Speedo, though.
Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US
957,000 people preordered the Watch on Friday
On average, each buyer ordered 1.3 watches
So did they actually sell 957,000 x 1.3 = 1, 244,100 watches? Because "more than 1 Million watches" would have been a better headline.
Why isn't anyone reporting on IBM's advances in punch card microscopy? By reducing the size of the punch hole and using modern encoding systems, they've greatly increased the amount of data that can fit on a standard Hollerith card. Those who can't wire the plugboard of an IBM 407 are going to be left behind.
I'm sure the slashdot community can add many more.
Round manhole covers were mandated by the International Manhole Cover Ultimate League in 1962. Rule 87b(ii).
FU Verizon and your GD opt-out program.
but a good mechanical watch in a stanless steel case can still cost $10,000 - because of the intricate, hand-assembled internals
A good mechanical watch in a stainless steel case costs a few hundred dollars or less. $10,000 watches are jewelry whose price is inflated primarily by artificial scarcity and brand management.
Tag Heuer brings the idiots willing to pay ridiculous money for a watch.
Tag Heuer customers don't pay truly ridiculous money for watches, because Tag Heuer is a piker in the luxury watch market. Google and Intel need to partner with Hublot, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Bulgari, Chopard, Franck Muller, Patek Philippe and others if they want to get into serious levels of ridiculous.
I thought glacier is tape storage system.
Mercury delay lines.
While i'm not a huge watch guy I have a very nice watch that was my great-grandfather's and has been passed down for several generations and it still works well.
"Works well" as long as you're willing to live on an unsupported, back-level version of time.
Your definition of "many" isn't a big enough number to be a viable source of income for keeping a smartphone manufacturer alive.
Actually the problem is more with the value of "miss," than it is with "many." Many of us miss the keyboard, but not enough to give up all the other features and apps ecosystem of a modern smartphone.
Yahoo has about as much reason to exist as Blackberry.
Yahoo has a tactile, physical keyboard that many of us miss dearly in the iPhone age?
Kantar’s survey showed that nearly every iOS device user who listened to U2 in January 2015 – 95% – played at least one track from Songs Of Innocence.
What is "played?" Does it include all the users who didn't realize their iDevice had been unilaterally infected with Songs of Innocence, and who hit skip just as fast they can when U2's intrudes uninvited into a shuffle mix?
Try mailing security@companydomain.com. Follow-up on Monday by calling the company's headquarters and asking for the CSIO (chief security information officer). If neither of those work, ask to speak to the CIO's or COO's office.
Metallica sound nothing like Bill Haley and the Comets.
Perhaps that's true of Bill Haley & His Comets' classic sides from the mid-50s, though one could argue that Metallica's late-70s rockabilly singles drew upon Haley's rock 'n' roll country roots. More to the point, you seem to have never heard Haley's 1981 reunion album with the original Comets lineup. Many say that it sparked the entire death metal genre of the mid-80s.
The new phones also include an octa-core processor...
The first blade grabs at the whisker, tugging it away from your face to protect it from the second blade.
Blade number two catches and digs into the stubble before it has the chance to snap back and injure you, pulling it farther out so that it is now ready for shearing.
Triple-Trac's third blade, a finely-honed bonded platinum instrument, cuts cleanly through the whisker at its base, leaving your face as smooth as a billiard ball.
The Triple Trac