As someone who wields a 7-figure IT budget and has dealt with Dell I agree. No surprise at all. I'm actually surprised that they still have corporate customers. If those of us with large budgets making high volume purchases have a hard time dealing with them then what kind of service does a small business get? I tried Dell out due to their slightly lower prices but I've learned my lesson and I'll stick to Lenovo.
The other problem with the Courier is that it never existed... It was nothing more than a photoshop mockup or rendered 3D model. Their next tablet will be "no thicker than a sheet of glass"
you have Black Friday. A Wal-Mart employee got trampled by frenzied deal-seekers on Black Friday in 2008 so I think it's safe to count it as part of the holiday rush.
It's more of a holiday raid or a Wal-Mart crawl . Gotta got the leet loot!
...Barack Hussein Obama is an al-Qaeda robot sent back from the future to terminate American liberties and ensure the rise of the Kenyan cyber-hegemony...
Wait! Is the Sarah Connor Chronicles coming back for a third season?!?
We made collect calls to 3 phone numbers on their planet and asked them to flush their toilets and tell us which way the water spun. The first reported that the water in their toilet evaporates before they can flush. The second reported that the water freezes before they can flush. The third was able to successfully flush and reported that the water didn't spin, it just went straight down.
I just read it and it sounds a lot like Scientology. And it's very hard to believe anything that's written in it: the universe is trillions of years old. This alien claims to be billions of years old, 600 million years ago worked at a bio tech company that worked to create life for earth.. We're all immortal souls. There's no evolution, all life on earth was created by various intergalactic corporations, and the best part... it's all patented. Earth is a prison planet where undesirables of alien civilizations are banished to live in eternity. No self respecting alien civilization would inhabit earth: it has heavy gravity, dense atmosphere, volcanoes, earth quakes, the landmass moves too much.
Hmm what else... This area of our galaxy is under control of a force field, created by the evil 'old empire,' that erases our memory after death so that we are reborn with no knowledge. Apparently this old empire doesn't value free thinkers, scientists, inventors, etc and banishes them to earth. Along with their civilizations murderers, rapists, etc. We humans must work to find these force field generators and destroy them to free ourselves. Also the old empire has or had a base underground on mars.
google "alien interview" and read the PDF. It's "interesting" lol
So whats the solution? Android has to either support everything in one standard or have multiple standards to encompass everyone's tech? Basically this would create a bloated (and more expensive) OS or more Android fragmentation (your device does geo-location this way with these results while mine does it another way with other results).
I guess it's a thin line between between closed and controlled vs open and free. As more and more of these headaches (lawsuits, fragmentation) crop up for Google/Android we find more and more reasons why Steve Jobs has a point in everything he says is a benefit in his iOS closed model.
If we had a standardized protocol then everyone (Google, MS, Apple, MySpace, Facebook, random company, universities, you, me, etc etc) can integrate the service into existing products or create their own implementation.
Click here to activate Diaspora on your (Google Me, Apple Ping, MSN/Live/Bing/whatever its called today) account. You won't even have to leave Facebook because if there is a threat of users leaving they will just integrate it.
When I buy shirts from other places in the US, like Woot or someone on eBay, most often shipping is $5 or less. If others can offer lower shipping prices then I think Thinkgeek should be able to offer lower prices as well.
No way, they over price it, or they only ship with DHL/UPS/whatever when USPS would be a third the price. If you Google around you can see that it's a common complaint. I don't know why Thinkgeek doesn't address it they would get more sales.
* Foundem -- the British price comparison site that is backed by ICOMP, an organization funded largely by Microsoft. They claim that Google’s algorithms demote their site because they are a direct competitor to our search engine. The reality is that we don’t discriminate against competitors. Indeed, companies like Amazon, Shopping.com and Expedia typically rank very high in our results because of the quality of the service they offer users. Various experts have taken a closer look at the quality of Foundem’s website, and New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann concluded, “I want Google to be able to rank them poorly.”
* SourceTool/TradeComet - SourceTool is a website run by parent company TradeComet, whose private antitrust lawsuit against Google was dismissed by a federal judge earlier this year. The media have noted that TradeComet is represented by longtime Microsoft antitrust attorneys, and independent search experts have called SourceTool a “click arbitrage” site with little original content.
* myTriggers - Another site represented by Microsoft’s antitrust attorneys, myTriggers alleges that they suffered a drop in traffic because Google reduced their ad quality ratings. But recent filings have revealed that the company’s own servers overheated, explaining their reduced traffic.
Obviously Google desperately needs the emense influx of cash that a one-time $5 fee per new extension developer account will bring in that they couldn't afford to tell anyone before hand. The end is near! Sell your Google stock now!
I love how even those of us who are in Canada have to sit through the FBI warning. And Canadians have to sit through it twice (English version then French).
"Because we can" isn't always sufficient justification.
It's like all the games that make the controller shake/vibrate just for the sake of it. I hate it. Driving game? Let's make the controller shake non-stop until the players hands go numb, he'll feel like he's actually in the car! I always turn that stuff off.
The only time I like it is when it provides useful feedback. Like if another car bumps into mine or if I'm scraping the wall.
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As someone who wields a 7-figure IT budget and has dealt with Dell I agree. No surprise at all. I'm actually surprised that they still have corporate customers. If those of us with large budgets making high volume purchases have a hard time dealing with them then what kind of service does a small business get? I tried Dell out due to their slightly lower prices but I've learned my lesson and I'll stick to Lenovo.
It's a "replace with something I want" list. Which is a fancy gift registry.
Bad gift protection? Oh you mean they patented the gift registry.
Isn't this what happened in Jurassic Park?
The other problem with the Courier is that it never existed... It was nothing more than a photoshop mockup or rendered 3D model. Their next tablet will be "no thicker than a sheet of glass"
you have Black Friday. A Wal-Mart employee got trampled by frenzied deal-seekers on Black Friday in 2008 so I think it's safe to count it as part of the holiday rush.
It's more of a holiday raid or a Wal-Mart crawl . Gotta got the leet loot!
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...Barack Hussein Obama is an al-Qaeda robot sent back from the future to terminate American liberties and ensure the rise of the Kenyan cyber-hegemony...
Wait! Is the Sarah Connor Chronicles coming back for a third season?!?
It's not like we have better things to do than make sure every child receives a rounded ruler!
I'll field this one.
We made collect calls to 3 phone numbers on their planet and asked them to flush their toilets and tell us which way the water spun. The first reported that the water in their toilet evaporates before they can flush. The second reported that the water freezes before they can flush. The third was able to successfully flush and reported that the water didn't spin, it just went straight down.
I just read it and it sounds a lot like Scientology. And it's very hard to believe anything that's written in it: the universe is trillions of years old. This alien claims to be billions of years old, 600 million years ago worked at a bio tech company that worked to create life for earth.. We're all immortal souls. There's no evolution, all life on earth was created by various intergalactic corporations, and the best part... it's all patented. Earth is a prison planet where undesirables of alien civilizations are banished to live in eternity. No self respecting alien civilization would inhabit earth: it has heavy gravity, dense atmosphere, volcanoes, earth quakes, the landmass moves too much.
Hmm what else... This area of our galaxy is under control of a force field, created by the evil 'old empire,' that erases our memory after death so that we are reborn with no knowledge. Apparently this old empire doesn't value free thinkers, scientists, inventors, etc and banishes them to earth. Along with their civilizations murderers, rapists, etc. We humans must work to find these force field generators and destroy them to free ourselves. Also the old empire has or had a base underground on mars.
google "alien interview" and read the PDF. It's "interesting" lol
So whats the solution? Android has to either support everything in one standard or have multiple standards to encompass everyone's tech? Basically this would create a bloated (and more expensive) OS or more Android fragmentation (your device does geo-location this way with these results while mine does it another way with other results).
I guess it's a thin line between between closed and controlled vs open and free. As more and more of these headaches (lawsuits, fragmentation) crop up for Google/Android we find more and more reasons why Steve Jobs has a point in everything he says is a benefit in his iOS closed model.
sudo mod him up
If we had a standardized protocol then everyone (Google, MS, Apple, MySpace, Facebook, random company, universities, you, me, etc etc) can integrate the service into existing products or create their own implementation.
Click here to activate Diaspora on your (Google Me, Apple Ping, MSN/Live/Bing/whatever its called today) account. You won't even have to leave Facebook because if there is a threat of users leaving they will just integrate it.
When I buy shirts from other places in the US, like Woot or someone on eBay, most often shipping is $5 or less. If others can offer lower shipping prices then I think Thinkgeek should be able to offer lower prices as well.
No way, they over price it, or they only ship with DHL/UPS/whatever when USPS would be a third the price. If you Google around you can see that it's a common complaint. I don't know why Thinkgeek doesn't address it they would get more sales.
Inside sources say that the CEO had it written down on a post-it stuck to his monitor.
I for one would like to see a "pay what you feel is fair" for shipping to Canada from Thinkgeek.com...
$15 shipping for a t-shirt? Talk about assholes lol
* Foundem -- the British price comparison site that is backed by ICOMP, an organization funded largely by Microsoft. They claim that Google’s algorithms demote their site because they are a direct competitor to our search engine. The reality is that we don’t discriminate against competitors. Indeed, companies like Amazon, Shopping.com and Expedia typically rank very high in our results because of the quality of the service they offer users. Various experts have taken a closer look at the quality of Foundem’s website, and New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann concluded, “I want Google to be able to rank them poorly.”
* SourceTool/TradeComet - SourceTool is a website run by parent company TradeComet, whose private antitrust lawsuit against Google was dismissed by a federal judge earlier this year. The media have noted that TradeComet is represented by longtime Microsoft antitrust attorneys, and independent search experts have called SourceTool a “click arbitrage” site with little original content.
* myTriggers - Another site represented by Microsoft’s antitrust attorneys, myTriggers alleges that they suffered a drop in traffic because Google reduced their ad quality ratings. But recent filings have revealed that the company’s own servers overheated, explaining their reduced traffic.
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Obviously Google desperately needs the emense influx of cash that a one-time $5 fee per new extension developer account will bring in that they couldn't afford to tell anyone before hand. The end is near! Sell your Google stock now!
I love how even those of us who are in Canada have to sit through the FBI warning. And Canadians have to sit through it twice (English version then French).
They should use warning from The IT Crowd.
I'm also ok with it. As long as they don't give it a deceptive name like "Ubuntu Genuine Advantage"
"Because we can" isn't always sufficient justification.
It's like all the games that make the controller shake/vibrate just for the sake of it. I hate it. Driving game? Let's make the controller shake non-stop until the players hands go numb, he'll feel like he's actually in the car! I always turn that stuff off.
The only time I like it is when it provides useful feedback. Like if another car bumps into mine or if I'm scraping the wall.
Exactly. Are we talking about my $500 WD 1TB NAS (2 x 1TB RAID1) or my half-million dollar multi-site WAN replicated EMC storage solution?
And all this time I thought the point of Chatroulette was to dick around...