Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only whom that happened to. I just ordered DSL and the sales rep asked me if I needed their modem. He said that most new computers come with them already installed and that I might not need one...rrright.
Move to where companies are outsourcing. Get away from the mentality that you are entitled to have a great life with great income and a great family in the country you grew up in. If you can make $20,000 a year and live like a king, why wouldn't you go there instead of having to live the scenario you just described.
That's what I'm talking about. It boggles my mind that for some reason it is acceptable for a student in 7th grade to say that they "just don't get math" and never have to worry about it again.
Great explanation. And it would be perfectly fine if the United States weren't as big a market for the goods these (outsourcing) companies produce. American consumers are naturally rather picky when it comes to quality and price. On the other hand, they have plenty of disposable income which makes it very attractive to sell products here. Your argumentation implies an uncontrolled development towards third-world-status which IMHO is neither prudent nor warranted.
Being competitive doesn't necessarily mean lowering wages and salaries. There is great potential to be competitive in areas of quality and expertise. As long as American students can continue to go through high school and college without having to read, write or understand the basics of math, no wonder companies are looking for new locations. What passes as a "sound education" in this country is laughable.
Then maybe instead of whining and complaining about it, Americans need to be proactive about making employment more competitive. There's no good reason why a company should keep jobs in the US if they can get the same quality of work somewhere else for half the price or less.
That really depends on your jurisdiction. In the US, that's what the 9th amendment is talking about. In other jurisdictions such as the European Union, privacy and personality rights are actually spelled out in respective constitutions and EU treaties.
Either way, whatever rights I have isn't limited to what the government "gives" me. The government doesn't give you any rights. It's the people giving the government the rights to conduct their business.
Crime is going to stay with humanity until the end of time. I don't believe that constant surveillance will solve it, or any other technological solution. We might as well get used to it and enjoy our freedoms and liberties instead of giving them up for some false perception of security.
It's nobody's business where I am or what I am doing at any particular time, especially in public. Therefore, cameras that just record road traffic aren't legitimate either. Just because you choose to leave your house doesn't mean you lose your privacy and personality rights.
The Federal Trade Commission was created by Congress to enforce trade regulations. So, naturally, Congress has the power to decrease, increase or strip the authority of the commission.
Right. They aren't obligated to provide service to you either if you refuse to give them your SSN...so you end up giving it out because you have no other choice (if you want their service, of course).
Just because that's what Microsoft wants you to believe doesn't make it true. What constitutes a good or a service is defined by the law of the contract, not what Microsoft tells you. If it looks like a duck, flies like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. The same applies to software.
I think the whole idea of phone tech support is flawed. If your car doesn't work, are you gonna call a mechanic and have him try to fix it from remote by telling you what to do?
Most people know nothing about how cars work and their knowledge about PC is about the same. There's nothing wrong with that because the only thing that really matters is that the car or PC work, not how. But, on the other hand, people seem to believe that computers can't be that complex and any doofus should be able to figure out how they work. That's the real crux with tech support.
Your argument is nonsense and your zealotry is showing.
And you are a troll. IE used to be sold as a separate product until Microsoft decided it would be better to offer it for free (mainly to get rid of Netscape). It didn't become integrated into Windows until the 98 version and even then integration wasn't thorough.
By bundling those applications for free they destroyed the market for browsers and media players. Now, no company has much of a chance to sell either kind of software. Without the substantial revenue from Windows and Office, Microsoft wouldn't have been able to offer IE and WMP for free. Such cross-subsidizing to eliminate your competition is illegal.
Actually, both the OS and the Office sales are the true cash cows for Microsoft. The bundling of software for free to eliminate competition on the other hand is not legal.
Sure, they could. But why would they? Microsoft has a strong interest in people writing software for its operating systems regardles of whether they are for commercial or non-commercial use. How are you going to get High School and college students interested in becoming Windows developers if you don't let them write free software?
Huh? Both Delphi and C++ Builder produce.dfm files that contain all the data for your objects. You can edit them or you don't. The source code files themselves hardly contain any generated code at all.
That would be a great idea indeed. But of course this is not going to happen any time soon. It would require that the record labels compete on the levels of quality. That's not what they are interested in and they won't as long as they can get away with it and litigate their way around it.
Huh? If you follow the instructions of the manufacturer and it ends up not working it is definitely the manufacturer's responsibility to fix it. That's what the OP did. She did exactly as instructed and still didn't get the expected results.
Nobody asked for complete prevention of such harrassment. But the government can obviously do something to curb it a lot through devices like the DNC list or FCC regulations.
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Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only whom that happened to. I just ordered DSL and the sales rep asked me if I needed their modem. He said that most new computers come with them already installed and that I might not need one...rrright.
Move to where companies are outsourcing. Get away from the mentality that you are entitled to have a great life with great income and a great family in the country you grew up in. If you can make $20,000 a year and live like a king, why wouldn't you go there instead of having to live the scenario you just described.
That's what I'm talking about. It boggles my mind that for some reason it is acceptable for a student in 7th grade to say that they "just don't get math" and never have to worry about it again.
Great explanation. And it would be perfectly fine if the United States weren't as big a market for the goods these (outsourcing) companies produce. American consumers are naturally rather picky when it comes to quality and price. On the other hand, they have plenty of disposable income which makes it very attractive to sell products here. Your argumentation implies an uncontrolled development towards third-world-status which IMHO is neither prudent nor warranted.
Being competitive doesn't necessarily mean lowering wages and salaries. There is great potential to be competitive in areas of quality and expertise. As long as American students can continue to go through high school and college without having to read, write or understand the basics of math, no wonder companies are looking for new locations. What passes as a "sound education" in this country is laughable.
How is refusing to go off shore in the best interest of the company and its shareholders if they can cut costs and increase profits?
Then maybe instead of whining and complaining about it, Americans need to be proactive about making employment more competitive. There's no good reason why a company should keep jobs in the US if they can get the same quality of work somewhere else for half the price or less.
That really depends on your jurisdiction. In the US, that's what the 9th amendment is talking about. In other jurisdictions such as the European Union, privacy and personality rights are actually spelled out in respective constitutions and EU treaties.
Either way, whatever rights I have isn't limited to what the government "gives" me. The government doesn't give you any rights. It's the people giving the government the rights to conduct their business.
Crime is going to stay with humanity until the end of time. I don't believe that constant surveillance will solve it, or any other technological solution. We might as well get used to it and enjoy our freedoms and liberties instead of giving them up for some false perception of security.
It's nobody's business where I am or what I am doing at any particular time, especially in public. Therefore, cameras that just record road traffic aren't legitimate either. Just because you choose to leave your house doesn't mean you lose your privacy and personality rights.
The Federal Trade Commission was created by Congress to enforce trade regulations. So, naturally, Congress has the power to decrease, increase or strip the authority of the commission.
Right. They aren't obligated to provide service to you either if you refuse to give them your SSN...so you end up giving it out because you have no other choice (if you want their service, of course).
But who would want that? I already think that the wizards most modern RAD environments give you do more harm than anything else.
Just because that's what Microsoft wants you to believe doesn't make it true. What constitutes a good or a service is defined by the law of the contract, not what Microsoft tells you. If it looks like a duck, flies like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. The same applies to software.
I think the whole idea of phone tech support is flawed. If your car doesn't work, are you gonna call a mechanic and have him try to fix it from remote by telling you what to do?
Most people know nothing about how cars work and their knowledge about PC is about the same. There's nothing wrong with that because the only thing that really matters is that the car or PC work, not how. But, on the other hand, people seem to believe that computers can't be that complex and any doofus should be able to figure out how they work. That's the real crux with tech support.
Your argument is nonsense and your zealotry is showing.
And you are a troll. IE used to be sold as a separate product until Microsoft decided it would be better to offer it for free (mainly to get rid of Netscape). It didn't become integrated into Windows until the 98 version and even then integration wasn't thorough.
By bundling those applications for free they destroyed the market for browsers and media players. Now, no company has much of a chance to sell either kind of software. Without the substantial revenue from Windows and Office, Microsoft wouldn't have been able to offer IE and WMP for free. Such cross-subsidizing to eliminate your competition is illegal.
Actually, both the OS and the Office sales are the true cash cows for Microsoft. The bundling of software for free to eliminate competition on the other hand is not legal.
Sure, they could. But why would they? Microsoft has a strong interest in people writing software for its operating systems regardles of whether they are for commercial or non-commercial use. How are you going to get High School and college students interested in becoming Windows developers if you don't let them write free software?
Huh? Both Delphi and C++ Builder produce .dfm files that contain all the data for your objects. You can edit them or you don't. The source code files themselves hardly contain any generated code at all.
That's pure competition and obviously we can't have that in the music industry...
That would be a great idea indeed. But of course this is not going to happen any time soon. It would require that the record labels compete on the levels of quality. That's not what they are interested in and they won't as long as they can get away with it and litigate their way around it.
lack of business sense. the same sense that made them decide that only IE users could access their web site and that only WMP was supported
Huh? If you follow the instructions of the manufacturer and it ends up not working it is definitely the manufacturer's responsibility to fix it. That's what the OP did. She did exactly as instructed and still didn't get the expected results.
Nobody asked for complete prevention of such harrassment. But the government can obviously do something to curb it a lot through devices like the DNC list or FCC regulations.