I have been looking forward to this interview. Was checking the games section every few days to make sure I didnt miss it. It finally comes and its the same marketing schlock we get on the offical wow forums.
Exactly why is TiVo adding this functionality? I cannot for the life of me figure it out. Is there a law somewhere that says they must? Or are they just afraid of the cost of a legal battle with the **AAs? Are the media companies so powerful now that they can impose thier will with just the treat of a lawsuit?
Alienware has thte worst reputation for customer service and quality of any company selling PCs today. There 200 point inspection process constantly produces DOA machines. They have a 15% restocking fee on all returned merchandies and will refuse to cross ship replacement parts with out a credit card for a deposit on the new part.
Alienware is a scam.
Here is a snipit from a article on alienware up on my homepage. You can read the rest of it and MANY MANY more here.
So my wife decided to buy me a laptop for my birthday. She knew that I have been drooling over the Alienware Area 51-m. She went to check out the site and noticed that they were offering financing, so she applied.
One week later, she had not heard a peep from Alienware, so she called. The person she spoke with told her she was accepted and gave her the number to use to place an order.
My wife ordered me a very nice $3200 laptop in Saucer Silver. At this point, I had no idea any of this was going on. That is until I got home the night she ordered it and listened to the message on our answering machine from Alienware confirming the order, which completely ruined the entire experience for my wife.
Anyway, after a week of sitting on edge watching the Alienware order status page not move an inch, I asked my wife to call.
The person she talked to said that they had to send some paperwork to her to sign before the order would be processed. Basically they needed to send us the credit application and get her to sign it and return it. None of this is documented on their site. She asked if they could fax the document, the response was they were not set up to do that.
So our only choice was to wait for this form to be snail mailed to us. Now I would like to point out, this is three weeks after my wife filled out their form online. You know the fastest way to obtain financing!
This is almost as lame as exclusive game demos on FilePlanet... why the hell are they asking for money to see a teaser? that will get the word out for sure..
What ever happens to me, I am pretty sure it will be outside... Man I really could use a tan. This cube and indirect lighting is hell on my complexion...
Alienware's dirty little secret is they are all marketing. My wife bought me one of their laptops last year based on their awesome marketing. After getting the run around on out of stock parts and waiting for damn near 2 months, the laptop came without SP1 installed, a virus in the windows system restore files and a faulty backlight switch.
It took over a month to get the laptop back when I sent it in to get the backlight switch fixed.
Their customer service is severly lacking. I would highly suggest you build it yourself instead of paying for Alienware's marketing department.
You can read my whole sordid tale on this topic at my website along with several other peoples comments.
You miss the distinction though. Limbaugh and Moore are media personalities. They are not the actual politicians. It is good that we have media personalities that explore the extreme reaches of our culture.
This is one of my big gripes about TSS. The combo of Pat and Kevin seem to be a good mix. They just need to move Sara off the show, so her and Kevin stop kissing eachothers ass on the show.
Now if we can get Kevin and Sara to quit kissing each others asses on the show, it might be a little more entertaining...
I personally can't stand Leo and the combination of Pat and Kevin I think will be very fun to watch. Especially with Pats lowfi leanings and Kevins darkside tendancies...
I have an Alienware laptop and would gladly trade it in to get one from Dell. Alienware can take up to 2 months to deliver anything you order from them. They have no way of verifying what is in stock and what is not, this includes their phone sales people. They have a 15% restocking fee on all returns. You have to send the machine in to them to get repairs which can take up to 2 months as well.
My wife bought mine for me and we had to change the order two times to get something that was actually instock. It still took over a month to get here and when I did get it the backlight switch failed with in 2 weeks. Oh and it came preinstalled with a MS RPC virus...
I don't know much about digital cable but I can tell you a few things about DirecTV having been a subscriber for several years. I live in the Seattle area and it rains here a lot. We have never had a problem with rain fade. The only time my signal drops to a unwatchable level, it is due to someone bumping it on the way up the stairs (dish is in a bad location and easy to bump if you are carting stuff up the stairs.).
The down side is the year long contact you must agree to for service. If you want to cancel early they charge your something like $12/month left on the contact. There is a $5/month charge for equipment per room. And finally DirecTV has had great problems getting me a bill in the mail each month. I don't really know why, but I had to start paying my bills online just to make sure they didn't try to ding me for late fees.
Finally, I would like to point out DirecTV's private war on piracy. You might want to check out sites like Freedom Fight and make sure you morally agree with DirecTV's methods of (IMHO) extortion.
I have one and it is the most amazing damn thing I have ever had. I can play all my internet movies, music files and copy all my games to it making carting my Xboxen easy to cart around. I need to write up an article about it. Maybe this weekend.
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I have been looking forward to this interview. Was checking the games section every few days to make sure I didnt miss it. It finally comes and its the same marketing schlock we get on the offical wow forums.
So sad.
this thread will have people complaining about reposts?
Exactly why is TiVo adding this functionality? I cannot for the life of me figure it out. Is there a law somewhere that says they must? Or are they just afraid of the cost of a legal battle with the **AAs? Are the media companies so powerful now that they can impose thier will with just the treat of a lawsuit?
Alienware has thte worst reputation for customer service and quality of any company selling PCs today. There 200 point inspection process constantly produces DOA machines. They have a 15% restocking fee on all returned merchandies and will refuse to cross ship replacement parts with out a credit card for a deposit on the new part.
Alienware is a scam.
Here is a snipit from a article on alienware up on my homepage. You can read the rest of it and MANY MANY more here.
So my wife decided to buy me a laptop for my birthday. She knew that I have been drooling over the Alienware Area 51-m. She went to check out the site and noticed that they were offering financing, so she applied.
One week later, she had not heard a peep from Alienware, so she called. The person she spoke with told her she was accepted and gave her the number to use to place an order.
My wife ordered me a very nice $3200 laptop in Saucer Silver. At this point, I had no idea any of this was going on. That is until I got home the night she ordered it and listened to the message on our answering machine from Alienware confirming the order, which completely ruined the entire experience for my wife.
Anyway, after a week of sitting on edge watching the Alienware order status page not move an inch, I asked my wife to call.
The person she talked to said that they had to send some paperwork to her to sign before the order would be processed. Basically they needed to send us the credit application and get her to sign it and return it. None of this is documented on their site. She asked if they could fax the document, the response was they were not set up to do that.
So our only choice was to wait for this form to be snail mailed to us. Now I would like to point out, this is three weeks after my wife filled out their form online. You know the fastest way to obtain financing!
thanks this is pretty damn awesome....
parent is clip from hollywood access TV show, may not be the real thing
This is almost as lame as exclusive game demos on FilePlanet... why the hell are they asking for money to see a teaser? that will get the word out for sure..
What ever happens to me, I am pretty sure it will be outside... Man I really could use a tan. This cube and indirect lighting is hell on my complexion...
Alienware's dirty little secret is they are all marketing. My wife bought me one of their laptops last year based on their awesome marketing. After getting the run around on out of stock parts and waiting for damn near 2 months, the laptop came without SP1 installed, a virus in the windows system restore files and a faulty backlight switch.
It took over a month to get the laptop back when I sent it in to get the backlight switch fixed.
Their customer service is severly lacking. I would highly suggest you build it yourself instead of paying for Alienware's marketing department.
You can read my whole sordid tale on this topic at my website along with several other peoples comments.
George B? What have you got for us baby? Come on.. Help id take me back to 93...
You miss the distinction though. Limbaugh and Moore are media personalities. They are not the actual politicians. It is good that we have media personalities that explore the extreme reaches of our culture.
This is one of my big gripes about TSS. The combo of Pat and Kevin seem to be a good mix. They just need to move Sara off the show, so her and Kevin stop kissing eachothers ass on the show.
Now if we can get Kevin and Sara to quit kissing each others asses on the show, it might be a little more entertaining...
I personally can't stand Leo and the combination of Pat and Kevin I think will be very fun to watch. Especially with Pats lowfi leanings and Kevins darkside tendancies...
I agree. I have watched all the videos and while they are no 2600 it is still quality geek entertainment.
The bits with Ramzi alone are worth the download. It is pure comedy gold.
yes apparently I have been trolled... thanks asshat
dude stop it this is not tubgirl...
what are you drunk?
Here is a quick and dirty mirror.
Here is a mirror of the relevant content.
http://www.str8dog.com/macmerc/
You can read the entire sordid tale here.
I have an Alienware laptop and would gladly trade it in to get one from Dell. Alienware can take up to 2 months to deliver anything you order from them. They have no way of verifying what is in stock and what is not, this includes their phone sales people. They have a 15% restocking fee on all returns. You have to send the machine in to them to get repairs which can take up to 2 months as well.
My wife bought mine for me and we had to change the order two times to get something that was actually instock. It still took over a month to get here and when I did get it the backlight switch failed with in 2 weeks. Oh and it came preinstalled with a MS RPC virus...
I don't know much about digital cable but I can tell you a few things about DirecTV having been a subscriber for several years. I live in the Seattle area and it rains here a lot. We have never had a problem with rain fade. The only time my signal drops to a unwatchable level, it is due to someone bumping it on the way up the stairs (dish is in a bad location and easy to bump if you are carting stuff up the stairs.).
The down side is the year long contact you must agree to for service. If you want to cancel early they charge your something like $12/month left on the contact. There is a $5/month charge for equipment per room. And finally DirecTV has had great problems getting me a bill in the mail each month. I don't really know why, but I had to start paying my bills online just to make sure they didn't try to ding me for late fees.
Finally, I would like to point out DirecTV's private war on piracy. You might want to check out sites like Freedom Fight and make sure you morally agree with DirecTV's methods of (IMHO) extortion.
I have one and it is the most amazing damn thing I have ever had. I can play all my internet movies, music files and copy all my games to it making carting my Xboxen easy to cart around. I need to write up an article about it. Maybe this weekend.
Microsoft has finally stepped up and issued a Knowledge Base article on the Matrix Rebooting issue.
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You can see this spoof actually working by clicking the link in my sig... Might as well have some fun at microsoft's expense right?