The length of the warranty shows how long they are willing to stand behind what they sell. If they will only stand behind it for 365.2425 days, then why should you trust it?
Is the warrany on this 400GB drive 1 year or 3 years? I didn't find mention on their site of how long it is, and if it is only 1 year why should you trust your data to it?
As others have pointing out, it isn't RIAA, it's ASCAP and BMI and the cover the vast majority of all copyrighted music released in the US in the past 30 years.
No, putting ones credit card number in a device that is read remotely over an unencrypted connection isn't the next logical step, it is the next STUPID step.
I have seen php code that makes me cry it was so badly written, I have also seen perl code that bad but don't blame the language, blame the idiot who is writing the unreadable code.
Restaurants under 3,750 gross square feet (not counting the parking lot) will be exempt from paying royalties on radio and television music only.
(That is the size of 2 normal homes, IOW a small restaurant)
Also, if you play live music ANY time, even once per year you have to pay for a license. One also has to pay a fee if you use CD's or any other form of non-broadcast music.
Wrong. The RIAA has people that go around to check if people are playing over the air music in a place of business with out paying the correct 'tax' to them.
You just can't turn a radio on and allow your customers the ability to here it. Hell, those customers might buy their music and that would be...
What are the turnover rates in india in your call centers? Not as low as you thought, are they?
And here is what dell had to do because of your 'better' workers.
AUSTIN, Texas -- After an onslaught of complaints, computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL) has stopped using a technical support center in India to handle calls from its corporate customers.
Some U.S. customers have complained that the Indian technical-support representatives are difficult to communicate with because of thick accents and scripted responses.
Tech support for corporate customers with Optiplex (search) desktop and Latitude (search) notebook computers will instead be handled from call centers in Texas, Idaho and Tennessee, Dell spokesman Jon Weisblatt said Monday.
Calls from some home PC owners will continue to be handled by the technical support center in Bangalore, India, and Weisblatt said Dell has no plans to scale back the operation there.
"Customers weren't satisfied with the level of support they were receiving, so we're moving some calls around to make sure they don't feel that way anymore," Weisblatt said. He would not discuss the nature of the dissatisfaction with the call center in Bangalore.
Dell is one of a number of high-tech companies that have in recent years moved jobs to India and other developing nations for the cheaper labor, which in Dell's case helps keep down the cost of providing round-the-clock support.
Corporate customers account for about 85 percent of Dell's business, with only 15 percent coming from the consumer market. Worldwide, Dell employs about 44,300 people. About 54 percent are abroad.
Among Dell customers dissatisfied with the company's use of overseas labor is Ronald Kronk, a Presbyterian minister in Rochester, Pa., who has spent the last four months trying to solve a problem that resulted in his being billed for two computers. The problem, he said, is that the Dell call center is in India.
"They're extremely polite, but I call it sponge listening -- they just soak it in and say, `I can understand why you're angry,' but nothing happens," Kronk said.
He added: "Every time I see a Dell commercial on TV, I just cringe. They make it sound so easy and it's been a nightmare."
In afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Dell was up 67 cents at $35.19.
How many of the offshore plants make products to sell in the United States? I have seen a list of some of the things they make overseas and what they make overseas would not sell very well in the USA.
And those 'truly brilliant' people at NASA kept their damn mouths shut about problems there. If a few of them how spoken out, perhaps the shuttles would still be flying. But they didn't, they thought their jobs were more important than doing the right thing.
Becuase this isn't going to be a spy movie, it is to be a movie with lots of slowmotion, explosions and at least one totaly out of place shot of flying doves.
Yet the FCRA doesn't stop car insurance companies from charging more if you have less than perfect credit (even if you prepay the policy so they are at no risk of nonpayment)
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The length of the warranty shows how long they are willing to stand behind what they sell. If they will only stand behind it for 365.2425 days, then why should you trust it?
Is the warrany on this 400GB drive 1 year or 3 years? I didn't find mention on their site of how long it is, and if it is only 1 year why should you trust your data to it?
You must not read the Ask /. section of /.
No, if you go by the ads and the trend in stories it looks like MSN my want to buy /. after all, microsoft is a major OSDN ad buyer.
I think the AC was talking about future missions.
As others have pointing out, it isn't RIAA, it's ASCAP and BMI and the cover the vast majority of all copyrighted music released in the US in the past 30 years.
Or perhaps some of us remember what the old /. was before it turned into a less advanced form of techtv.
Some of these people you are defending has destroyed villages in iraq because they didn't agree with them.
Also, it hurts your point when you start off calling people names.
No, putting ones credit card number in a device that is read remotely over an unencrypted connection isn't the next logical step, it is the next STUPID step.
I have seen php code that makes me cry it was so badly written, I have also seen perl code that bad but don't blame the language, blame the idiot who is writing the unreadable code.
Check bomb shelter..
/dev/urandom. ;->
It's trance! Most, if not all of it, could be produced my encoding the output of
Slams bomb shelter door shut.
Restaurants under 3,750 gross square feet (not counting the parking lot) will be exempt
from paying royalties on radio and television music only.
(That is the size of 2 normal homes, IOW a small restaurant)
Also, if you play live music ANY time, even once per year you have to pay for a license. One also has to pay a fee if you use CD's or any other form of non-broadcast music.
Those $/Per Year numbers are made up. If you add up ALL of them the number comes out to be about 400,000 USD per worker per year.
They just make up those numbers to sell a product and/or service.
No, it had a saftey system. The idiots running the damn thing just turned it OFF.
Opps, there are also a couple of lesser orgs that do it to.
Wrong. The RIAA has people that go around to check if people are playing over the air music in a place of business with out paying the correct 'tax' to them.
You just can't turn a radio on and allow your customers the ability to here it. Hell, those customers might buy their music and that would be...
What are the turnover rates in india in your call centers? Not as low as you thought, are they?
And here is what dell had to do because of your 'better' workers.
AUSTIN, Texas -- After an onslaught of complaints, computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL) has stopped using a technical support center in India to handle calls from its corporate customers.
Some U.S. customers have complained that the Indian technical-support representatives are difficult to communicate with because of thick accents and scripted responses.
Tech support for corporate customers with Optiplex (search) desktop and Latitude (search) notebook computers will instead be handled from call centers in Texas, Idaho and Tennessee, Dell spokesman Jon Weisblatt said Monday.
Calls from some home PC owners will continue to be handled by the technical support center in Bangalore, India, and Weisblatt said Dell has no plans to scale back the operation there.
"Customers weren't satisfied with the level of support they were receiving, so we're moving some calls around to make sure they don't feel that way anymore," Weisblatt said. He would not discuss the nature of the dissatisfaction with the call center in Bangalore.
Dell is one of a number of high-tech companies that have in recent years moved jobs to India and other developing nations for the cheaper labor, which in Dell's case helps keep down the cost of providing round-the-clock support.
Corporate customers account for about 85 percent of Dell's business, with only 15 percent coming from the consumer market. Worldwide, Dell employs about 44,300 people. About 54 percent are abroad.
Among Dell customers dissatisfied with the company's use of overseas labor is Ronald Kronk, a Presbyterian minister in Rochester, Pa., who has spent the last four months trying to solve a problem that resulted in his being billed for two computers. The problem, he said, is that the Dell call center is in India.
"They're extremely polite, but I call it sponge listening -- they just soak it in and say, `I can understand why you're angry,' but nothing happens," Kronk said.
He added: "Every time I see a Dell commercial on TV, I just cringe. They make it sound so easy and it's been a nightmare."
In afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Dell was up 67 cents at $35.19.
How many of the offshore plants make products to sell in the United States? I have seen a list of some of the things they make overseas and what they make overseas would not sell very well in the USA.
Like the democrats would do any better. Hell, almost all of them voted for the patriot act.
And those 'truly brilliant' people at NASA kept their damn mouths shut about problems there. If a few of them how spoken out, perhaps the shuttles would still be flying. But they didn't, they thought their jobs were more important than doing the right thing.
Becuase this isn't going to be a spy movie, it is to be a movie with lots of slowmotion, explosions and at least one totaly out of place shot of flying doves.
It's called fun. Not every damn thing has to be 100% correct down to it's smallest detail.
Relax, have a drink, get laid, something!
Sorry, but verizon charges about 8-10 per month to remove the software block that stops the caller id data from being transmited to my phone.
Yet the FCRA doesn't stop car insurance companies from charging more if you have less than perfect credit (even if you prepay the policy so they are at no risk of nonpayment)
I do not see them forcing anyone to do this.