We really need to get back to simple, clean cut pages that display the information and resources that your site is offering.
Hmmm, I agree with you completely when it comes to the web. However, I think Ajax has improved the INTERNAL user experience where I work (where everyone is browsing using the same environment). Ajax has made applications more responsive and more like standard Windows apps. It's not about flash - it's about avoiding unnecessary postbacks;)
So far the experience has been pleasant for our Intranet. Again, I do agree that would would like to see the more simplified experience of Web 1.0. I'd hate to be using a Braille reader on any semi-modern web site.
1and1 gives me 2GB of storage, Webmail, and IMAP access for $0.99/month. That's pretty cheap for IMAP support. Their support isn't the greatest, but I rarely have had to contact them. So far, it "just works."
In other words, the stats software is just bait that they can use to get people to provide data they can use to better serve their real customers -- the people who buy ads on Google's network.
Sooo... No product (users of GA), no customers (consumers of the data), no?
The ethical thing to do would be to adjust executive salaries down and let everyone else's stay the same.
Or at least get rid of some Human Resources generalists. All we really need is a benefits coordinator. They can keep their surveys, ice-breakers, team-building crap, and sexual harassment training (where I have to watch the same video I've seen countless times at other companies).
Be prepared to punch in and account for every minute of your time.
I thought this was already common in IT. 3 of the last 4 companies I worked with expected you to log your time, usually in 15 minute increments, so that the appropriate customer or business unit could be billed. And there is no charge center for "downtime".
You crazy Americans with your 5 days holiday a year, 80 hour working weeks and complete lack of overtime.
I have to take a vacation day if I call in sick, else not get paid, and I'm supposedly salaried.:) But being "salaried" in the U.S. just means you are paid hourly but capped at 40 hours of pay (but not 40 hours of work!).
I'm guessing the quality issues surrounding the Safari for Windows beta have put pay to this concern.
It's not better than Firefox, it takes a long time to load initially (at least on my machine), it doesn't support FF plugins, and I keep getting this crap that asks me to upgrade QuickTime or some such nonsense (which I hate).
What I've been doing for years is, as soon as I get a machine, taking an image of the install with knoppix, dd, ntfsimage and an external hard drive, then if it needs work, I backup the running install/s, zero / urandom the drive, restore the original and send it back with the exact original install on it so they can't wiggle and blame updates or any other rubbish.
Interesting advice. It's a shame, though not surprising, that a brother has to resort to this to make a warranty claim.
See, you seem to think we (I don't work for them anymore, but I'm going to call them "we" anyway) make a lot of money off the computer, but we don't. In fact, when you count my wages, electricity and heating, and all the other costs associated, we're breaking even if we're lucky. More likely, the store is losing a few bucks on the purchase.
I used to work at a local BB, and I would agree that this is entirely correct.
And me personally? I'm not on commission, and I'm not rated on how many computers I sell, so I don't really give a crap.
Although I wasn't on commission, I was severely hassled when I didn't sell add-ons with computers. My goal was to avoid this reprimand.
So, I look at the other stuff you're buying, to see if we're making any sort of profit on you at all. If you're loaded up with stuff that we actually make money on, I'd be happy to do you the favor. Otherwise, I'd be more than happy to sell that computer to someone we'll make a profit on instead.
Go ahead, threaten to take your business elsewhere. We'd much rather you buy the computer somewhere else, and cause a competitor to lose money. Raise hell with my manager if you want. He'll promise you that I'll be "dealt with" just to make you go away, and then he'll come over and say to me, "man, that guy was a total asshole." I can't even tell you how many times I saw that happen.
I will agree with this also. I had a preference to avoid customers who clearly weren't interested in buying anything beyond the computer because I would likely get hassled. I'd much prefer to sell to someone who was suggestible to up-selling. I always hated this policy, but I was looking out for #1. It was an unwritten but well-known policy that those who merely bought the computer weren't worth it.
There are exceptions, of course. If it's a slow day (meaning the techs aren't busy with customers who actually paid them), and if you were nice to us, we might just do it anyway.
Also true. The first number they looked at was gross sales by department. Then they looked at the percentage of service plans sold. So yes, increasing your gross sales was important, but you're a loser if you couldn't at least sell a UPS or some software off of their shit rack with the machine. Failing to sell a service plan was a mortal sin. This is why the blue shirts are aggressive about crap you don't need, even though they are not on commission. What can you do? Quit? I did eventually. But some people are more marketable in the workforce than others, and some people are willing to sell their souls for the sweet employee discounts. I worked there because I was desperate, until I found something better.
I tried to give the customer what they were really looking for... For example, when they bought a printer that needed a USB cable, I would try to sell them the cheap one that was cleverly hidden at the bottom of the shelf behind other products. I had been hassled for that too (for not selling the gold-plated version), but I tried to balance the abuse with my own conscience. You do what you have to do to survive, and you can't blame a brother for needing a job.
But once you find out that its now NOT fixable because they were too cheap to give you a 25 cent to make recovery disk with your $400+ PC you WILL be pissed at them.
I dunno. Buying computers from our current oligopoly is a round-robin of futility.
- Customer A buys an HP, has issues, and vows never to buy an HP again. Next time he buys a Dell.
- Customer B buys a Dell, has issues, and vows never to buy a Dell again. Next time he buys an Acer Gateway.
- Customer C buys a Lenovo, has issues, and vows never to buy a Lenovo again. Next time he buys an HP. ...and so on...
This is especially true with laptops, where it's more difficult to roll your own and has less local resellers of custom rigs.
I'm very happy with my Dells and Gateways, but I've met people that loathe both. I absolutely hate my HP desktop, but I've met people that love them. What do you do? Buying computers these days is like playing roulette. This is why it's so difficult to recommend a vendor to your less-savvy friends when they ask - when something goes wrong, it's your fault.
For the record, I have 2 Dells, 3 Gateways, 1 HP, and 2 custom builds. Both laptops are Gateways, the rest are desktops.
It isn't but let us says you get an email with the subject of "Hot Naked Coeds" and you decide to delete it without opening it. Then you are less likely to be hit by an exploit like a GIF stack overflow or such.
GIF stack overflow? My version of Tbird allows me to display images if I choose to click the button.
I agree that I do not support TB separating from the foundation.
What should an email client do? How about -- email. Just email. Not email and newsgroups, not email and collaboration, not email and Facebook -- just plain old simple email. Sure, I'll concede to HTML email for you folks who can't stand to not have a little color in your lives and insist on spamming my box with your yellow backgrounds and pink text, but it's still email.
I agree for my needs, however, I'm thinking this mentality is keeping TB from major usage. Enterprise users want decent calendaring and collaboration. I think both TB and Firefox could benefit from an all-inclusive version and a "lite" version. Firefox major includes the kitchen sink, Firefox "lite" should be built for speed and reliability. TB major should include Outlook-like collaboration features, and TB lite should be "just e-mail."
Plus, they are using 2checkout to process credit cards, which I would consider odd for a decent size company supposedly selling revolutionary laptops. It's pretty obviously a scam, but they got our attention!
However, it would be kinda strange for an individual or crew capable of navigating a craft at least twenty four trillion miles to not know how to fly a spacecraft well enough to avoid crashing.
I dunno, look at the Challenger or Columbia. Perhaps their expert scientists didn't properly anticipate our planet's atmospheric and/or physical properties. Their civilization would clearly be more advanced than ours, but shit happens. The aliens are prolly still dealing with a congressional probe, which is why they cannot launch another mission to Earth.
OR
use an SSL tunnel to a server in a country without those laws.
I'm confused. How will this stop them from copyright liability? They'd still be broadcasting the music from a business on U.S. soil without license, no? They'd be better off to move, if feasible. I don't know if creating a subsidiary in another country (with hosting) while still remaining in the U.S. would help them avoid trouble. I doubt it would matter as long as there is someone to sue still on U.S. soil.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's be fair, here. They did a pretty good job with VBscript.
Hmmm, I agree with you completely when it comes to the web. However, I think Ajax has improved the INTERNAL user experience where I work (where everyone is browsing using the same environment). Ajax has made applications more responsive and more like standard Windows apps. It's not about flash - it's about avoiding unnecessary postbacks ;)
So far the experience has been pleasant for our Intranet. Again, I do agree that would would like to see the more simplified experience of Web 1.0. I'd hate to be using a Braille reader on any semi-modern web site.
Decent, but not quite the same. You have to wait for the episode to download first, whereas TV Links was streaming.
1and1 gives me 2GB of storage, Webmail, and IMAP access for $0.99/month. That's pretty cheap for IMAP support. Their support isn't the greatest, but I rarely have had to contact them. So far, it "just works."
Sooo... No product (users of GA), no customers (consumers of the data), no?
Why don't I just post my opinion to Slashdot. It probably has an equally useful effect.
Correction:
That is precisely why I avoid Arial and its ilk whenever possible.
:)
Or at least get rid of some Human Resources generalists. All we really need is a benefits coordinator. They can keep their surveys, ice-breakers, team-building crap, and sexual harassment training (where I have to watch the same video I've seen countless times at other companies).
I thought this was already common in IT. 3 of the last 4 companies I worked with expected you to log your time, usually in 15 minute increments, so that the appropriate customer or business unit could be billed. And there is no charge center for "downtime".
I have to take a vacation day if I call in sick, else not get paid, and I'm supposedly salaried. :) But being "salaried" in the U.S. just means you are paid hourly but capped at 40 hours of pay (but not 40 hours of work!).
Heh, you're old.
It's not better than Firefox, it takes a long time to load initially (at least on my machine), it doesn't support FF plugins, and I keep getting this crap that asks me to upgrade QuickTime or some such nonsense (which I hate).
Interesting advice. It's a shame, though not surprising, that a brother has to resort to this to make a warranty claim.
Not even a fake "some_slashdot_user writes..." Just a summary+link of a lame article from an OSDN affiliate posted by ScuttleBot.
I used to work at a local BB, and I would agree that this is entirely correct.
Although I wasn't on commission, I was severely hassled when I didn't sell add-ons with computers. My goal was to avoid this reprimand.
I will agree with this also. I had a preference to avoid customers who clearly weren't interested in buying anything beyond the computer because I would likely get hassled. I'd much prefer to sell to someone who was suggestible to up-selling. I always hated this policy, but I was looking out for #1. It was an unwritten but well-known policy that those who merely bought the computer weren't worth it.
Also true. The first number they looked at was gross sales by department. Then they looked at the percentage of service plans sold. So yes, increasing your gross sales was important, but you're a loser if you couldn't at least sell a UPS or some software off of their shit rack with the machine. Failing to sell a service plan was a mortal sin. This is why the blue shirts are aggressive about crap you don't need, even though they are not on commission. What can you do? Quit? I did eventually. But some people are more marketable in the workforce than others, and some people are willing to sell their souls for the sweet employee discounts. I worked there because I was desperate, until I found something better.
I tried to give the customer what they were really looking for... For example, when they bought a printer that needed a USB cable, I would try to sell them the cheap one that was cleverly hidden at the bottom of the shelf behind other products. I had been hassled for that too (for not selling the gold-plated version), but I tried to balance the abuse with my own conscience. You do what you have to do to survive, and you can't blame a brother for needing a job.
I dunno. Buying computers from our current oligopoly is a round-robin of futility.
- Customer A buys an HP, has issues, and vows never to buy an HP again. Next time he buys a Dell.
...and so on...
- Customer B buys a Dell, has issues, and vows never to buy a Dell again. Next time he buys an Acer Gateway.
- Customer C buys a Lenovo, has issues, and vows never to buy a Lenovo again. Next time he buys an HP.
This is especially true with laptops, where it's more difficult to roll your own and has less local resellers of custom rigs.
I'm very happy with my Dells and Gateways, but I've met people that loathe both. I absolutely hate my HP desktop, but I've met people that love them. What do you do? Buying computers these days is like playing roulette. This is why it's so difficult to recommend a vendor to your less-savvy friends when they ask - when something goes wrong, it's your fault.
For the record, I have 2 Dells, 3 Gateways, 1 HP, and 2 custom builds. Both laptops are Gateways, the rest are desktops.
Um, the royal "we" care when it's in our favor, jerk. But then again, we are also insane.
/shedding a tear for Allofmp3
I think Notes does a pretty good job of being pro-Evolution.
GIF stack overflow? My version of Tbird allows me to display images if I choose to click the button.
I agree that I do not support TB separating from the foundation.
I agree for my needs, however, I'm thinking this mentality is keeping TB from major usage. Enterprise users want decent calendaring and collaboration. I think both TB and Firefox could benefit from an all-inclusive version and a "lite" version. Firefox major includes the kitchen sink, Firefox "lite" should be built for speed and reliability. TB major should include Outlook-like collaboration features, and TB lite should be "just e-mail."
I've heard this before, and I'm curious why the preview pane is more of a threat than simply opening and viewing a message... (??)
Plus, they are using 2checkout to process credit cards, which I would consider odd for a decent size company supposedly selling revolutionary laptops. It's pretty obviously a scam, but they got our attention!
I dunno, look at the Challenger or Columbia. Perhaps their expert scientists didn't properly anticipate our planet's atmospheric and/or physical properties. Their civilization would clearly be more advanced than ours, but shit happens. The aliens are prolly still dealing with a congressional probe, which is why they cannot launch another mission to Earth.
I'm confused. How will this stop them from copyright liability? They'd still be broadcasting the music from a business on U.S. soil without license, no? They'd be better off to move, if feasible. I don't know if creating a subsidiary in another country (with hosting) while still remaining in the U.S. would help them avoid trouble. I doubt it would matter as long as there is someone to sue still on U.S. soil.
If given the choice between:
a) Not seeing as many eBay ads on Google, or
b) Being able to use Google Checkout on eBay
I'd choose B.