Please explain this to me. The phone is less than perfect, you dislike Apple as a company, yet you still purchase the iPhone.
If you don't support a position a company takes, don't give them your money. Money is all they have to guage their success.
I purchased an iPod Touch Gen 1 then discovered how poorly they treat their customers, and won't get bitten again. $10 upgrade for cut and paste? 10$ upgrade for slower response? No thanks. Nice device, good UI, but the company sucks. iTunes is a bloated, slow, buggy piece of software (on the PC, unsure on Apple hardware)
Ditto for Sony. Proprietary and expensive gear, rootkits on audio disks, and so on. They make some nice looking and performing gear, but I won't give them a dime because I disagree with their corporate tactics./rant off.
I have purchased about 30 machines (laptop, desktop, and server) per year for the last 5 years. The laptops get used in rough field conditions, desktop and servers get left on 24/7.
I have had to have replaced a motherboard that took a big fat spark through the USB port. Next day, tech was there with replacement.
One power supply dead. Next day service. One DVD/RW dead after 1 year. 20 minutes on the phone. New drive arrived the next day.
I did order a second network card for an optiplex and it came incorrect. Sent back, bought card at NCIX. Thats the only problem I have had with their service.
Well, except for the time I ordered one 21" flat screen and they sent NINE. Tried to return them, but they had no record of shipping them. It did take some time on their part to decide how to RMA these "non-shipped" monitors.
If DISH network has corrected the problem with a new software download, why do they need to pursue this to the US Supreme Court?
It would seem that it is SOP for a manufacturer to EOL a piece of equipment. Tell the users they need to upgrade. There will be some gnashing of teeth, some users will flee, but if the new product is better... Some people need a shove to move on.
Having said that, I would be pissed off if someone told me I had to abandon a perfectly functional piece of kit and upgrade. I sure a community of terrorists that have hacked their own distro of Linux onto it to maintain functionality could be found. Someone would do it because they could.
Any idea how this affects Bell Express Vue in Canada? I notice about 3 months ago we received new software that did more things that were TIVO like. Record all eps, record all new eps, priorities and so on...
As I was reading the summary and comments (article too!), I had envisioned a sprawling mansion with swimming pools and gates that keep out the paparazzi and keep in the polo horses.
The photo presented looks like an opening shot from "Flip This House"
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Yea,
I used to get pissed off at Experts-Exchange results cluttering up searches.
But someone commented on /. that if you just scroll to the bottom, the answers are there.
Wesley, is that you?
An insightful, verbal, rickrolling...
Thanks for that.
Please explain this to me.
The phone is less than perfect, you dislike Apple as a company, yet you still purchase the iPhone.
If you don't support a position a company takes, don't give them your money. Money is all they have to guage their success.
I purchased an iPod Touch Gen 1 then discovered how poorly they treat their customers, and won't get bitten again. $10 upgrade for cut and paste? 10$ upgrade for slower response? No thanks. Nice device, good UI, but the company sucks. iTunes is a bloated, slow, buggy piece of software (on the PC, unsure on Apple hardware)
Ditto for Sony. Proprietary and expensive gear, rootkits on audio disks, and so on. /rant off.
They make some nice looking and performing gear, but I won't give them a dime because I disagree with their corporate tactics.
The rich get richer
The poor get poorer
How long has this been going on?
How can you have a positive slant vaccine article?
"Man gets immunized, doesn't get the sniffles..."
Not very newsworthy.
Waldo is one of a treo of subs.
The others are named Nemo and Carmen.
Just package that which Google has patented...
http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2009/05/article-patent-reveals-googles-book.html
IBM just happens to be the last buggy whip manufacturer...
This time, however, the apparent benefits of the horseless carriage are being outweighed by the known benefits of the horse.
Nope, here's one better... http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170422&cid=14202218
Wouldn't we have read about the success last week and the attempt this week?
If you slow down, the problem removes itself from you.
If you speed up, the problem follows you, or you become the problem.
50/50.
Paste flux.
lots of hot water to wash with...
If ever there was a "Citation required", this is it...
Good for you,
you got karma when you were going for funny...
Great, now even the comments are making copies of themselves!
Anybody have any idea why Microsoft would want to limit the amount of HDD space on a machine?
I must be a schill too...
I have purchased about 30 machines (laptop, desktop, and server) per year for the last 5 years. The laptops get used in rough field conditions, desktop and servers get left on 24/7.
I have had to have replaced a motherboard that took a big fat spark through the USB port. Next day, tech was there with replacement.
One power supply dead. Next day service.
One DVD/RW dead after 1 year. 20 minutes on the phone. New drive arrived the next day.
I did order a second network card for an optiplex and it came incorrect. Sent back, bought card at NCIX. Thats the only problem I have had with their service.
Well, except for the time I ordered one 21" flat screen and they sent NINE. Tried to return them, but they had no record of shipping them. It did take some time on their part to decide how to RMA these "non-shipped" monitors.
If DISH network has corrected the problem with a new software download, why do they need to pursue this to the US Supreme Court?
It would seem that it is SOP for a manufacturer to EOL a piece of equipment. Tell the users they need to upgrade. There will be some gnashing of teeth, some users will flee, but if the new product is better... Some people need a shove to move on.
Having said that, I would be pissed off if someone told me I had to abandon a perfectly functional piece of kit and upgrade. I sure a community of terrorists that have hacked their own distro of Linux onto it to maintain functionality could be found. Someone would do it because they could.
Any idea how this affects Bell Express Vue in Canada? I notice about 3 months ago we received new software that did more things that were TIVO like. Record all eps, record all new eps, priorities and so on...
As I was reading the summary and comments (article too!), I had envisioned a sprawling mansion with swimming pools and gates that keep out the paparazzi and keep in the polo horses.
The photo presented looks like an opening shot from "Flip This House"
I think I can hear banjos in the background...
After having RTFA (sorry), I don't see where anybody is appealing the decision, yet.
IBM issued a broad support statement so as to leave all doors open.
FSFE said this must not happen again...
Nobody issued a statement indicating an appeal had been filed.
As an Adblock user, I am not aware that /. has started inserting banner ads after some posts.
Or c) the hard coded, already turned over to the gov't for you, back-door password.
I wish I could give google.ca a signal to return pages from North America.
I'll search for a product and the first page of results will all be *.co.uk results.
Not much use to that. Makes me think on how to rephrase the search, which is good.
That would have to be a P51 Mustang