Sounds like you needed to modify your pre-sales techniques.
Did your store only help people with gear bought from you? I doubt it.
You should have given the information - to a point - other wise they start to feel they are "experts" and can do it all themselves.
A person gets a used car. Goes to a mechanic. Talks about the problems. gets a quote. does the work themselves and it doesn't work. comes in for help. the repair of the repair will most likely cost more. Why? Because the mechanic must now clean up the problems that the owner did to their gear.
Same for most other "mechanic" businesses.
Be honest and upfront. Fix their problem. Tell them why it costs more from you than from wallmart or dell.
The components can come from anywhere. They are not buying only components. They are buying reputation too.
This technology, coupled with MAC address filtering could easily allow a store to restrict the users of their free access point to users within the store.
So much for bringing your own food from home and parking outside the coffee shop for free wireless.
My folks have a cabin in Maine with 100acres. Solar Electric for lights. Generator in summer to assist in refrigeration.
However - the big money question - Internet access. I suppose if you are being paid well enough you could use a CellPhone. You better check cell coverage in your area.
And I DONT mean by using their maps. They are a bogus marketing tool and not acurate worth a damn. Get the phone you will be using and survey the property.
did you watch it on a large screen? maybe the DVD made it look like crap. But that was what I saw... crap. They could have spent twice the time on the render and had it look at least twice as good.
The fight scene with the kagillion AgentSmiths looked like a poor version of HalfLife. They were choppy, expressionless, flat images.
I expected to see something like the first Matrix Movie. I guess that is the curse of success. They made the first movie too well forcing the next two to suck.
your link to an iwon.com address tells me you are trying to use the slashdot effect to make some cash. since the editors have approved this I anticipate the floodgates have now been opened and we will see further putrification of submissions and articles here on slashdot.
You are telling me that a word macro that sends email would need to be written completely differently for the two versions of MSword?
Are the two platform releases that different in their internal to the document maco capabilities?
Did microsoft suddenly decide that since they were porting applications to a MAC that they should make them more secure than their more often used counterparts?
Did microsoft also decide that they would stop undermining any threat to their monopoly? ( last I looked any UNIX that can run microsoft like products was a threat to them.)
Their past actions *ARE* and indication of potential future performance. They must make me feel safe and by all accounts they have not.
I would like to put antennas and a high speed link up and offer it to the public. However, now that I am recently unemployed I cannot afford this indulgence.
I therefore am looking for software - like the old FreeAltaVista client - that can be used for a WiFi link.
All it takes is licensing the UNIX(tm) and the arguments can finally go away.
Is targeted researched email SPAM?
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If I research potential customers and send them an email to sell my services, am I a spammer?
I claim that mass mailings would be spam however if I have taken the time to hunt down contact information for potential customers sending them my marketing information via published contact addresses (Phone, Post or Email) should all be viable methods.
What do slashdot readers think?
BocaRaton is where spam comes from?
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From the UK article link -
It is of course understood that the majority of spammers are based outside Europe. In fact, it is thought that the
majority of serious commercial spammers are based in an area of the US called Boca Raton, in a few square miles and it is not common for UK business to contravene the expectations of common practice.
Who would have thought we could just block BocaRaton. Also, looks like if I have a contest and tell people that register that they get additional entries for people that they refer - they are now breaking the law by spamming their friends.
Re:Electronic Voting already exists and works
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One more thing.
This "system" has been in use for at leat the 16 years that I have been voting here.
specifics on the ballot: two columns
QUESTION TEXT ANSWER1......... >>>___>>>
ANSWER2......... >>>___>>>
Fill in the arrow with the supplied pen to indicate your choice.
That is it. done QED
Electronic Voting already exists and works
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In my town we "conect the dots" to mark our selections on a paper ballot.
That ballot is inserted into a machine that electronicly counts the votes and stores the physical ballot in a locked box.
Done.
Paper trail is present, no "hanging chads". simple elegent. and easier to complete than filling in your name on the SATs (those Damn bubbles...)
Unfortunately, it seems that these companies are hell bent on killing each other rather than on bettering themselves (which would accomplish the same goal and at the same time make the worls a better place for many).
Give me a break! You all do realize that Microsoft is having the last laugh do you not?
They are sitting back, proclaiming that OSS is dead and meanwhile the "big gins" are fighting amongst themselves.
While attentions are diverted from Microsoft they are rebuilding. Once the dust of the present war ends Microsoft will step in, fully rested, and pick up where it left off however they will be fighting a tired and battle weary enemy.
step1 - build wireless network in town step2 - ??? step3 - profit
It strikes me that if the government, who wants this utility, would help fund a commercial entity to build it, they could contract to get the end result at a discount thus saving money over the long haul.
At the same time they would be promoting a new company and potentially many more new companies that would spring up to make use of this network.
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Actually, there already are provisions for this.
The SRV record, defined in rfc2782, is used to store a HOST:PORT pair
When will browsers (or anything else for that matter) start supporting this???
Here is a (possibly outdated) list of software that supports the SRV record.
Sounds like you needed to modify your pre-sales techniques.
Did your store only help people with gear bought from you? I doubt it.
You should have given the information - to a point - other wise they start to feel they are "experts" and can do it all themselves.
A person gets a used car. Goes to a mechanic. Talks about the problems. gets a quote. does the work themselves and it doesn't work. comes in for help. the repair of the repair will most likely cost more.
Why?
Because the mechanic must now clean up the problems that the owner did to their gear.
Same for most other "mechanic" businesses.
Be honest and upfront. Fix their problem. Tell them why it costs more from you than from wallmart or dell.
The components can come from anywhere. They are not buying only components. They are buying reputation too.
When they started blocking "unknown relays" they dropped a pile of legitimate email
Just do a search for sunrpms on google.
This technology, coupled with MAC address filtering could easily allow a store to restrict the users of their free access point to users within the store.
So much for bringing your own food from home and parking outside the coffee shop for free wireless.
My folks have a cabin in Maine with 100acres.
Solar Electric for lights.
Generator in summer to assist in refrigeration.
However - the big money question - Internet access. I suppose if you are being paid well enough you could use a CellPhone. You better check cell coverage in your area.
And I DONT mean by using their maps.
They are a bogus marketing tool and not acurate worth a damn. Get the phone you will be using and survey the property.
I have not looked at the article yet.
I procured cardboard shipping boxes with the intent of converting my cubicle into an interior office.
There is no good reason the walls do not continue straight up.
did you watch it on a large screen?
maybe the DVD made it look like crap.
But that was what I saw... crap.
They could have spent twice the time on the render and had it look at least twice as good.
The fight scene with the kagillion AgentSmiths looked like a poor version of HalfLife.
They were choppy, expressionless, flat images.
I expected to see something like the first Matrix Movie. I guess that is the curse of success. They made the first movie too well forcing the next two to suck.
However LotR may have broken that curse...
your link to an iwon.com address tells me you are trying to use the slashdot effect to make some cash. since the editors have approved this I anticipate the floodgates have now been opened and we will see further putrification of submissions and articles here on slashdot.
enough said.
You are telling me that a word macro that sends email would need to be written completely differently for the two versions of MSword?
Are the two platform releases that different in their internal to the document maco capabilities?
Did microsoft suddenly decide that since they were porting applications to a MAC that they should make them more secure than their more often used counterparts?
Did microsoft also decide that they would stop undermining any threat to their monopoly? ( last I looked any UNIX that can run microsoft like products was a threat to them.)
Their past actions *ARE* and indication of potential future performance. They must make me feel safe and by all accounts they have not.
Thus, MAC+MS=bad mac.
I would like to put antennas and a high speed link up and offer it to the public. However, now that I am recently unemployed I cannot afford this indulgence.
I therefore am looking for software - like the old FreeAltaVista client - that can be used for a WiFi link.
any suggestions?
If you use Microsoft apps on a MAC it becomes insecure.
QED
All it takes is licensing the UNIX(tm)
and the arguments can finally go away.
If I research potential customers and send them an email to sell my services, am I a spammer?
I claim that mass mailings would be spam however if I have taken the time to hunt down contact information for potential customers sending them my marketing information via published contact addresses (Phone, Post or Email) should all be viable methods.
What do slashdot readers think?
Who would have thought we could just block BocaRaton. Also, looks like if I have a contest and tell people that register that they get additional entries for people that they refer - they are now breaking the law by spamming their friends.
One more thing.
This "system" has been in use for at leat the 16 years that I have been voting here.
specifics on the ballot:
two columns
QUESTION TEXT
ANSWER1......... >>>___>>>
ANSWER2......... >>>___>>>
Fill in the arrow with the supplied pen to indicate your choice.
That is it.
done
QED
In my town we "conect the dots" to mark our selections on a paper ballot.
...)
That ballot is inserted into a machine that electronicly counts the votes and stores the physical ballot in a locked box.
Done.
Paper trail is present, no "hanging chads".
simple elegent. and easier to complete than filling in your name on the SATs (those Damn bubbles
I agree with you.
Unfortunately, it seems that these companies are hell bent on killing each other rather than on bettering themselves (which would accomplish the same goal and at the same time make the worls a better place for many).
Give me a break!
You all do realize that Microsoft is having the last laugh do you not?
They are sitting back, proclaiming that OSS is dead and meanwhile the "big gins" are fighting amongst themselves.
While attentions are diverted from Microsoft they are rebuilding. Once the dust of the present war ends Microsoft will step in, fully rested, and pick up where it left off however they will be fighting a tired and battle weary enemy.
Divide and comquor.
step1 - build wireless network in town
step2 - ???
step3 - profit
It strikes me that if the government, who wants this utility, would help fund a commercial entity to build it, they could contract to get the end result at a discount thus saving money over the long haul.
At the same time they would be promoting a new company and potentially many more new companies that would spring up to make use of this network.
Just curious as to how many of you already have an RFID tag. Were you aware that the mobil speed pass is an RFID tag?
Contgradulations!! Big Brother is watching YOU.
Please, mod this oneup o few with mod points.
I am just waiting for Jason in Space to make a comeback.
Those nanotech repair beasties rocked.