I completely understand. If our users had a better grasp of technology, they would be making all the numb skull mistakes. The same mistakes that are ranked Level 1 importance, when in fact every else on my plate is actually more important.
If they used the proper terms, I wouldn't have to carry around a mini shop in a bag.
What I am have a problem with, is when they get offended by you asking them questions that could help me fix it right now, over the phone. Saving them time and, most of the time, money.
eBay is trying to stop a FREE service from doing the job it has been doing for ages, but allowing a more local search.
All craigslist has to do is take the timeframe ebay is throwing at them and look at when ebay forced paypal usage. Then get a bunch of past customers that stopped using ebay when they forced paypal and get the to say why they left and this will be mute point.
The thrill of ebay is going away and someone developed a service that people can use for free.
ONE FINAL NOTE: Ebay just needs to get more money to pay for their mind numbingly stupid comercials that are playing too often as it is.
Kobutah
"I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do."
I have a problem with the comment "little CG". I was one of the first films with that much. It also broke ground in the area of CG rendering. They used a fuzzing effect to make things in the distance look far away when done is CG...This was a first.
The CG effect look crude now, but were the best at the time. Just imagine if it was done in 1987, 1992, 1997 or 2002, how different it would look.
It is a classic of the arcade era, and still is for those who lived through that era.
Are Telcos and ISP going to put so much pressure out there so that no other new/better technology can exsist or even be born? Where are the super cars that get 100MPG at 100MPH (as reported about in Popular Science in the early 90's)? They are dead in the water, because the oil industry would take a KO blow from the loss of continual insane riches they already receive. They use there money and power to stomp out better technology and anything that would hurt their bottom line.
I have Vonage at home and at my office. I love it. It is cost effective and clear and I don't have to pay extra for features. I did notice that when I logged into my account online last week, they had a notice to 4 major cities: Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul and one other (I can't remember). This notice was to explain that local Telco's were blocking service and may cause outages and that they were working on this issue. I know that QWest controls the metro DSL lines in Minneapolis/St. Paul. There are a variety of ISP using those line to supply internet. I know that Comcast and RoadRunner are the Cable Modem suppliers in the same area. I can't get pin point who was doing it, but I wouldn't put it by Qwest by any means.
We are already seeing this. This is the main reason the CEO had to speak out about it.
I have seen where Verizon has caused outages to smaller ISPs providing internet to Verizon controled DSL lines that they are reselling by having "troubles and line outages. The outages were only to the lines used by none Verizon internet clients.
I work with a company in Toronto. I asked for an associates information so I could contact him, but was given a line about the current privacy laws in Canada. I had to give my information so that it could be passed onto my associate for him to contact me. All information had to be voluntarily given by the owner of the information. It was a pain, but I can see why they did it.
The Canadians are taking initiative that the US didn't take a few years ago.
Formula 51 -- Samual L. Jackson in a kilt Real Genius -- " This, this is Kent. This is what happens when you get too sexually frustrated." Empire Records -- "The fat man walks alone" Four Rooms, Legend of 1900, & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- Tim Roth is one of the best and underrated actors in Hollywood.
Last, but not least
Romeo is Bleeding -- One of Gary Oldman's greatest performances.
I find it interesting that they can put and image in a song that will show up on a spectrograph, but they can't create a CD that can play on computer and not be copied.
I guess that their ineptitude is to our advantage, because a real computer user doesn't use an iMac.
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I completely understand. If our users had a better grasp of technology, they would be making all the numb skull mistakes. The same mistakes that are ranked Level 1 importance, when in fact every else on my plate is actually more important.
If they used the proper terms, I wouldn't have to carry around a mini shop in a bag.
What I am have a problem with, is when they get offended by you asking them questions that could help me fix it right now, over the phone. Saving them time and, most of the time, money.
eBay is trying to stop a FREE service from doing the job it has been doing for ages, but allowing a more local search.
All craigslist has to do is take the timeframe ebay is throwing at them and look at when ebay forced paypal usage. Then get a bunch of past customers that stopped using ebay when they forced paypal and get the to say why they left and this will be mute point.
The thrill of ebay is going away and someone developed a service that people can use for free.
ONE FINAL NOTE: Ebay just needs to get more money to pay for their mind numbingly stupid comercials that are playing too often as it is.
Kobutah
"I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do."
I have a problem with the comment "little CG". I was one of the first films with that much. It also broke ground in the area of CG rendering. They used a fuzzing effect to make things in the distance look far away when done is CG...This was a first.
The CG effect look crude now, but were the best at the time. Just imagine if it was done in 1987, 1992, 1997 or 2002, how different it would look.
It is a classic of the arcade era, and still is for those who lived through that era.
LONG LIVE TRON!!!!!!!
Are Telcos and ISP going to put so much pressure out there so that no other new/better technology can exsist or even be born? Where are the super cars that get 100MPG at 100MPH (as reported about in Popular Science in the early 90's)? They are dead in the water, because the oil industry would take a KO blow from the loss of continual insane riches they already receive. They use there money and power to stomp out better technology and anything that would hurt their bottom line.
I have Vonage at home and at my office. I love it. It is cost effective and clear and I don't have to pay extra for features. I did notice that when I logged into my account online last week, they had a notice to 4 major cities: Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul and one other (I can't remember). This notice was to explain that local Telco's were blocking service and may cause outages and that they were working on this issue. I know that QWest controls the metro DSL lines in Minneapolis/St. Paul. There are a variety of ISP using those line to supply internet. I know that Comcast and RoadRunner are the Cable Modem suppliers in the same area. I can't get pin point who was doing it, but I wouldn't put it by Qwest by any means.
We are already seeing this. This is the main reason the CEO had to speak out about it.
I have seen where Verizon has caused outages to smaller ISPs providing internet to Verizon controled DSL lines that they are reselling by having "troubles and line outages. The outages were only to the lines used by none Verizon internet clients.
Why can't they just play nice?
I work with a company in Toronto. I asked for an associates information so I could contact him, but was given a line about the current privacy laws in Canada. I had to give my information so that it could be passed onto my associate for him to contact me. All information had to be voluntarily given by the owner of the information. It was a pain, but I can see why they did it.
The Canadians are taking initiative that the US didn't take a few years ago.
Real Genius -- " This, this is Kent. This is what happens when you get too sexually frustrated."
Empire Records -- "The fat man walks alone"
Four Rooms, Legend of 1900, & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- Tim Roth is one of the best and underrated actors in Hollywood.
Last, but not least
Romeo is Bleeding -- One of Gary Oldman's greatest performances.
I could go on, but
I find it interesting that they can put and image in a song that will show up on a spectrograph, but they can't create a CD that can play on computer and not be copied.
I guess that their ineptitude is to our advantage, because a real computer user doesn't use an iMac.