I can give you an adiea fo what I see at my shop. HP/compaq Dell gateway, I see see about the same numbers of all of these, and the failures are usually accessories or minor components, drives, memory failure, cpu failure, bad cables, etc. IBM outnumber each of the other big 3 by about 2 to 1 IBM problems tend to be more serious as well. I can't believe how many I've seen with bad motherboards. I rarely see any from small companies who assemble PCs with off the shelf components. In 7 years no one has brought in a server for repair
nah, I get cought doing that and I would probably be outta buisness. When you are honest and fair word spreads pretty quick and you get a lot more customers that way.
At my shop, optical drive failure is the second most common complaint behind spyware/viruses. A couple of the older high end drives seem to be lasting forever, but the newer ones seem to only have about an 18 to 24 month life span. There doesn't seem to be a single common link to the failures either. Some dead drives appear to be in pristine condition, while other working drives are so full of dust you just want to say WTF? Plastic laser lenses get distorted maybe? I dunno.
All this talk about Econ 101 is fine, but this thread really needs to turned to "what is the max we would be willing to spend per d/l to make me quit stealing". I would even pay $0.25 per song. But the $0.99 that I-tunes charges turns me away.
I guess what you are trying to tell me is that stealing music is not actually theft? It is a real property. Intellectual property. If you possess it, and you are not liscenced to possess it, you have it illegaly. This is THEFT! No grey area here. THEFT! Simply denying it is THEFT because no money is missing...
whatever, I am not going to argue with stupidity anymore.
No they dont lose anything when a copyrighted work is simply copied, however when the copy is distributed or given away they do lose. My argument had nothing to do with the expiration of copyrights. My fault for not being clear on that point.
>Alice rips a CD (she bought) and sends it to Bob. >Who got robbed of something now?
ummm, could it be the artist, the producer, the publisher or maybe the distrubitor? I am sure there are many among you out there who several gigs of p2p d/l's and have no intention of ever buying the cd.
No. Gator cannot be compared to tv commercials. If I am for instance watching Monday Night football, I expect to see ads for Bud Light, Dodge, and Applebees. When I am reading Slastdot I DON'T expect to see ads for Karas Adult Playground or whatever company would be stupid enough to buy advertising from gator. If you were watching a pay per view movie or a dvd and ads kept popping up in front of that, then you may compare gator to tv ads.
I put up with commercials on TV because thats what pays for TV content. Gator is more like telemarketing than tv commercials. If I am paying for internet access they have no legal right to hijack my internet connection just to bombard me with ads. I pay for my phone not telemarketers. We must make it clear to gators err.. clarias clients that we will never by a product or service from thaem just because they advertised to through thoe means. Only then will companies like this die a slow and torturous death
the article doesn't say whether the certification is for PC or console games. Great if they mean PC games. But shouldn't we be bitchin about the shitty audio from our x-box and PS2? I don't give a rats ass if the game is THX if all I have is 2 channel analog out from my machine. I want an x-box with digital multi channel outputs. ProLogic sucks when compared to DTS.
I never thought of doing it that way. What a great idea. I'll browse the store looking for copy protected cds, get a stack of about 20, then leave them with the cashier after cussing and holding up other customers for at least 20 minutes. Maybe the music store will finally start complaining to the distributors. The distributors will complain to the publishers. The publishers to the record companies. The record companies will tell us comsumers that they know whats good for us better than we do, and tell us its our fault that cd sales off x% points last year and we are back at square 1. I could go on with this for hours, but what it comes down to is companies become successful by giving consumers what they want, then stop thinking about us and only care about greed, eventually becoming dinosaurs, leading to extinction.
sorry bout the rant, sore subject for me. I used to buy 2 cds every week, I have only bought 1 in the last year.
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IBM may not be making them anymore but there are still a lot out there that say IBM on them.
as for reformats, I do see many of those, but the the discussion was about failure rates not spyware and virus infections
I have a feeling that this is unqualified failure rate
meaning a bad keyboard or mouse counts the same as bad cpu or mainboard
I can give you an adiea fo what I see at my shop.
HP/compaq Dell gateway, I see see about the same numbers of all of these, and the failures are usually accessories or minor components, drives, memory failure, cpu failure, bad cables, etc.
IBM outnumber each of the other big 3 by about 2 to 1
IBM problems tend to be more serious as well. I can't believe how many I've seen with bad motherboards.
I rarely see any from small companies who assemble PCs with off the shelf components.
In 7 years no one has brought in a server for repair
And this is why consultants should demand their fee UP FRONT
nah, I get cought doing that and I would probably be outta buisness.
When you are honest and fair word spreads pretty quick and you get a lot more customers that way.
Sometimes that is the case but I always test a drive on PC running in the old msdos mode using mscdex before I pitch it
At my shop, optical drive failure is the second most common complaint behind spyware/viruses. A couple of the older high end drives seem to be lasting forever, but the newer ones seem to only have about an 18 to 24 month life span.
There doesn't seem to be a single common link to the failures either. Some dead drives appear to be in pristine condition, while other working drives are so full of dust you just want to say WTF? Plastic laser lenses get distorted maybe? I dunno.
All this talk about Econ 101 is fine, but this thread really needs to turned to "what is the max we would be willing to spend per d/l to make me quit stealing".
I would even pay $0.25 per song. But the $0.99 that I-tunes charges turns me away.
I dont understand how he can call finding Flash a *FALSE* positive...
wouldn't they have got it up to about 1000:1 that way?
I guess what you are trying to tell me is that stealing music is not actually theft? It is a real property. Intellectual property. If you possess it, and you are not liscenced to possess it, you have it illegaly. This is THEFT! No grey area here. THEFT! Simply denying it is THEFT because no money is missing...
whatever, I am not going to argue with stupidity anymore.
Castro needs a few more good socialists like you.
No they dont lose anything when a copyrighted work is simply copied, however when the copy is distributed or given away they do lose. My argument had nothing to do with the expiration of copyrights. My fault for not being clear on that point.
>Alice rips a CD (she bought) and sends it to Bob.
>Who got robbed of something now?
ummm, could it be the artist, the producer, the publisher or maybe the distrubitor? I am sure there are many among you out there who several gigs of p2p d/l's and have no intention of ever buying the cd.
I guess that makes me a troll as well.
No. Gator cannot be compared to tv commercials. If I am for instance watching Monday Night football, I expect to see ads for Bud Light, Dodge, and Applebees.
When I am reading Slastdot I DON'T expect to see ads for Karas Adult Playground or whatever company would be stupid enough to buy advertising from gator. If you were watching a pay per view movie or a dvd and ads kept popping up in front of that, then you may compare gator to tv ads.
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I put up with commercials on TV because thats what pays for TV content.
Gator is more like telemarketing than tv commercials. If I am paying for internet access they have no legal right to hijack my internet connection just to bombard me with ads. I pay for my phone not telemarketers.
We must make it clear to gators err.. clarias clients that we will never by a product or service from thaem just because they advertised to through thoe means. Only then will companies like this die a slow and torturous death
hehe, she knew that long before...
for my 6 yr old I painted the right mouse button red and told her "dont touch it or you will break the computer"
is it possible that the teachers aren't under paid then, but rather the doctors and lawyers are over paid?
the article doesn't say whether the certification is for PC or console games. Great if they mean PC games. But shouldn't we be bitchin about the shitty audio from our x-box and PS2? I don't give a rats ass if the game is THX if all I have is 2 channel analog out from my machine. I want an x-box with digital multi channel outputs. ProLogic sucks when compared to DTS.
Video gaming penetration will only reach the 80% level when more old people start DYING!
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have you ever seen a story like this and said to yourself "damn, I wish I could have thought of that"?
I never thought of doing it that way. What a great idea. I'll browse the store looking for copy protected cds, get a stack of about 20, then leave them with the cashier after cussing and holding up other customers for at least 20 minutes. Maybe the music store will finally start complaining to the distributors. The distributors will complain to the publishers. The publishers to the record companies. The record companies will tell us comsumers that they know whats good for us better than we do, and tell us its our fault that cd sales off x% points last year and we are back at square 1. I could go on with this for hours, but what it comes down to is companies become successful by giving consumers what they want, then stop thinking about us and only care about greed, eventually becoming dinosaurs, leading to extinction.
sorry bout the rant, sore subject for me.
I used to buy 2 cds every week, I have only bought 1 in the last year.