...it's not because they always treat the customer right. My bad experience was made worse when they would never return a phone call or when they would feed me a line of BS about how they are working on the issue I had with them. If you are a seller, say on eBay, and the buyer decides he wants to screw you out of product and money, they will find that Papal is a good way to help them do that.
Papal will seize your funds and never look back. The only way you can protect yourself is to make sure you use a shipping service that will let them check delivery of the item ONLINE. They are too lazy to pickup a PHONE or read a FAX.
Competition for Papal wouldn't be too difficult. Simply provide the same service but have some competent customer care people there to resolve issues. If you think my diatribe is unique, check out http://www.paypalsucks.com.
It was my first OS and when I mastered it I used it with pride to accomplish a variety of things. I have fond memories of tweaking the autoexec and config.sys files. I have vivid memories of sqeezing as much as I could into upper memory to free up that valuable 640k of lower memory. I remember writing bat files to automate scheduled tasks and most of all I remember running a T.A.G. BBS over a 14.4 modem. DOS was a good OS to cut your teeth on.
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I have to agree with Mr. Anonymous. So many Athlon folk are quick to say "the P4 sucks".
Anyone who's bothered to read the specs on
the P4 will find that it's really designed
to go faster and faster MHz wise and this
is apparent in the longer pipeline and faster
memory buss. Don't be foolish enough to
believe that iNTEL's engineers are stupid
and that they don't understand their game
as well as all of you Athlon owners. =)
As a resident of Houston, it's actually a breath of fresh air to hear about forward thinking initiatives such as this. NO, this does not = free Internet access (as some readers have concluded) but this does give many of Houston's less fortunate (read poorer) citizens access to resources otherwise reserved for those who can afford a computer and regular Internet access. In my eyes, every step to elevate citizens beyond their financial boundaries, through the use of technology, is commendable.
On another note, Houston is also experimenting with electronic voting tablets. They've already invested millions and have held a mock election. I hope this is the beginning of a trend. When I was in SF for training a few months back, I couldn't help but notice the "Peace Love and Linux" symbols on every other sidewalk corner downtown. The perception of a Linux loving community is pretty cool and very forward thinking.
I have one and it's quite fast. I've been
using my P4 1.7GHz to play Tribes 2 under
Win2k and it's super smooth.
I've never heard anyone who has a P4 complain
about lack of performance or stability.
AMD chips are great but their mother boards
aren't that great due to the reversed
engineered AGP implementation. I have an
Athlon that's gathering dust because the
motherboard was a choke point in performance
and reliability.
Did you ever notice that there seemed to be something missing from the original first year transformer toys? For instance, my first transformer was Soundwave and he appeared to have an additional compartment on his back that didn't really serve a purpose. I always wondered if we in the US were getting cheated out of some extra functionality just because some moron kid choked on a missile a decade back (recall the BattleStar Galactica Viper that launched a missile?) and his damn liberal parents sued the sack off of the toy manufacture. Thus the mail order Bobba-Fet's back pack missile was GLUED in instead of launching out.
Sorry for the tangent,
CIOs tend to be the business end and are in charge of the organization's overall IT strategy in terms of SLAs (service level agreements) and execution of vision.
CTOs are the chief architects of the organization's technical side and ultimately make the choices about what infrastructure the organization will use to achieve the vision set forth by the CIO.
I'm at the management level and I'm tasked with the organization of resources to achieve the vision the CIO is steering and the CTO architect more or less.
Take into account that RPM makes managing installed software a snap. I prefer this over a pad and pencil next to each of my servers.
Code is good to have available as well (SRPM) and I believe projects in alpha or even some beta should be distributed with emphasis on source code. This gives the blooming program a chance at more eyes and that means more bugs squashed.
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They own'em. Their real competition is http://www.c2it.com.
...it's not because they always treat the customer right. My bad experience was made worse when they would never return a phone call or when they would feed me a line of BS about how they are working on the issue I had with them. If you are a seller, say on eBay, and the buyer decides he wants to screw you out of product and money, they will find that Papal is a good way to help them do that.
Papal will seize your funds and never look back. The only way you can protect yourself is to make sure you use a shipping service that will let them check delivery of the item ONLINE. They are too lazy to pickup a PHONE or read a FAX.
Competition for Papal wouldn't be too difficult. Simply provide the same service but have some competent customer care people there to resolve issues. If you think my diatribe is unique, check out http://www.paypalsucks.com.
Can you see me shaking my head?
It was my first OS and when I mastered it I used it with pride to accomplish a variety of things. I have fond memories of tweaking the autoexec and config.sys files. I have vivid memories of sqeezing as much as I could into upper memory to free up that valuable 640k of lower memory. I remember writing bat files to automate scheduled tasks and most of all I remember running a T.A.G. BBS over a 14.4 modem. DOS was a good OS to cut your teeth on.
I have to agree with Mr. Anonymous. So many Athlon folk are quick to say "the P4 sucks".
Anyone who's bothered to read the specs on
the P4 will find that it's really designed
to go faster and faster MHz wise and this
is apparent in the longer pipeline and faster
memory buss. Don't be foolish enough to
believe that iNTEL's engineers are stupid
and that they don't understand their game
as well as all of you Athlon owners. =)
As a resident of Houston, it's actually a breath of fresh air to hear about forward thinking initiatives such as this. NO, this does not = free Internet access (as some readers have concluded) but this does give many of Houston's less fortunate (read poorer) citizens access to resources otherwise reserved for those who can afford a computer and regular Internet access. In my eyes, every step to elevate citizens beyond their financial boundaries, through the use of technology, is commendable.
On another note, Houston is also experimenting with electronic voting tablets. They've already invested millions and have held a mock election. I hope this is the beginning of a trend. When I was in SF for training a few months back, I couldn't help but notice the "Peace Love and Linux" symbols on every other sidewalk corner downtown. The perception of a Linux loving community is pretty cool and very forward thinking.
Doesn't the seller have to pay a huge listing fee for 550,000.00?!?! I'd hate to see him not sell that model.
I have one and it's quite fast. I've been
using my P4 1.7GHz to play Tribes 2 under
Win2k and it's super smooth.
I've never heard anyone who has a P4 complain
about lack of performance or stability.
AMD chips are great but their mother boards
aren't that great due to the reversed
engineered AGP implementation. I have an
Athlon that's gathering dust because the
motherboard was a choke point in performance
and reliability.
Did you ever notice that there seemed to be something missing from the original first year transformer toys? For instance, my first transformer was Soundwave and he appeared to have an additional compartment on his back that didn't really serve a purpose. I always wondered if we in the US were getting cheated out of some extra functionality just because some moron kid choked on a missile a decade back (recall the BattleStar Galactica Viper that launched a missile?) and his damn liberal parents sued the sack off of the toy manufacture. Thus the mail order Bobba-Fet's back pack missile was GLUED in instead of launching out. Sorry for the tangent,
I looked at the screen shots and it's not all that great. I wouldn't play it.
Ok here's the difference in a nut shell.
CIOs tend to be the business end and are in charge of the organization's overall IT strategy in terms of SLAs (service level agreements) and execution of vision.
CTOs are the chief architects of the organization's technical side and ultimately make the choices about what infrastructure the organization will use to achieve the vision set forth by the CIO.
I'm at the management level and I'm tasked with the organization of resources to achieve the vision the CIO is steering and the CTO architect more or less.
Thanks my take.
Take into account that RPM makes managing installed software a snap. I prefer this over a pad and pencil next to each of my servers. Code is good to have available as well (SRPM) and I believe projects in alpha or even some beta should be distributed with emphasis on source code. This gives the blooming program a chance at more eyes and that means more bugs squashed.
I didn't know something happened to Mr. T but I thought it was a silly (but needed) distraction for me this morning.
Sometimes silly humor like this is what I need when I'm working on a project.
Who wants to be serious and have 100% grade A humor all the time?