This guy has basically invented a light-weight moped?
American's despise moped's, they figure if you are going to get a a cycle you might as well get one that looks cool. That is why Harley's are so popular, becuase they look cool. I have a co-worker here that is willing to spend $5,000 dollar's every couple of year's to add accessories and get some improvements done on her bike.
While the idea is neat, it will not take off simply becuase of american culture, and it sounds like a moped.
If you want to keep that customer, you do what it takes to keep the customer. Remember the golden rule, 1 bad customer experience gets passed onto 20 people. If you think that this customer is going to put with this, fine go ahead and charge them. If you don't you should suck it up. If they leave, not only will the money that you get from them goes to zero, but they will bad mouth you to enough other people that it does have a negative impact on you attempting to acquire more customers.
In other words, be a good guy, suck it up and the customer will trust you more the next time you attempt to raise their bill. Blow them off and the only that you might get from them is the finger.
People that seem to think that is fair, tell me, at point do you know what your network usage is? A page, 50 kb, a few pic's here and there, another 1MB or 2. What about Windows downloads, like service pack updates, or software upgrades, program uploads. Does anyone really KNOW how much bandwidth that they actually use? If you don't know what you use, then how can you say whether you are near the limit or not?
I do alot of research at work, as well as casual browsing. With every web site attempting to force gif's, mpgs, bmp, wav files on every page, not to mention configuration files, adware programs, anti-virus utilities and god knows what else is making every attempt to make sure that you GET THE FULL EXPERIENCE OF THE INTERNET, I certainly would not want to be charged on a hard set limit.
Life is bad enough without every pion out there trying to nickel and dime every transaction and calling you bandwidth thief if you don't pay for it.
I had a friend that did computer game phone support, part of doing support was playing the games that the support person actually knew what the customer was calling about.
One day, his manager came up to him and said, "Jay, I don't think that you are spending enough time playing 'Need for Speed'."
Taking a look at their balance sheet,
Retained Earnings ($3,009,710,000)
Net Tangible Assets ($1,427,085,000)
So with all these cost saving idea's are you telling me, that at somepoint, that they are going to make a break even?
Not ragging on you at all, but I think that it comes down too, these companies, with all the information that they collect really don't know what the hell their doing. Everytime they try and squeeze someone for an extra dime, because it is is too hard to compete on the market as a whole is just proving they are really don't understand economics, or how their company really works, as well as they claim.
China does have a "hacker brigade" tasked with disrupting American networks
The American version of this is called "/.", had it not occured to you to wonder how a supposed "Business" which makes no money, but is able to get the resources to take down other web sites at the drop of a hat can continue running?
This is military sponsored site, it is the only explaination! The military cannot afford the real resources, hackers, equipment to launch a cyber attack, but place a post on/. on the latest nude pic of Natalie Portman and Hot Grits, *BOOM* web site nuked. They are able to recover, post a Dupe for the final coup-de-grace. Not to mention it is a great way for them to be of keeping track of all those subversive Linux elements like foriegners Linus Torvalds, if that is his real name!
Has the Patent run out on this? It still seems to be working, and who knows how long the orginial law says how long the patent is. If the originial patent was for the lifetime of the product, I would expect that Energizer, and Duracell and all those other battery makers to star forking over the dough. Remember there is nothing worse than a patent thief!
The yahoo article is little more than fluff, with the Cybercrime getting to the meat of what was occuring. I normally don't believe that selling mod chips is a crime, but the way that it seems that he was marketing his product he intent on sell those mod-chips who were intending to commit crimes, ie. play pirated games.
I mean, really what could he have expected. If I was advertising and selling the "date rape" drug, they would have strung me up. Yeah, I did not commit the crime but I certainly helped someone else do so and presented it as doing such. This is the same thing.
This happens all the time in the business world. Any attempt at a new thought, in particular meetings, will be met with vile and a scorn, right before they they beat you to death with the conference room phone. It is a sort of a mindless action that is drilled into people in corporations in much the same manner as wasps or bees. Attack anything that threatens the stability of the nest!
So I guess this just proves, "The Future is already here!"
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You don't see the same people moaning about video game prices, though, or a dozen other "overpriced" things. I don't think that there's much of a real movement in the "real world" about the price of CDs, just that there is now a precedent for complaining about the price of them
To a certain degree, you are correct, Computer game prices have gone up and people don't complain about. Yet a CD's price remains the same. The thing that I think your missing is that
Computer Game companies fail regularly. People have more sympathy for your company and therefore your product if you compete in an industry where companies fail regularly. Can you say the same about the recording industry?
An aging product falls in price. It is a bad economy right now, so lots of people are hurtin for money. If I go to Babbages(Game Stop), or any other place that sells computer games, they will drop their prices after a period of time. I can go and buy a game 3 or 4 years old for 5 bucks. You cannot say the same thing about the music industry. You are more likely to see a CD disappear off the shelf rather than drop in price.
When you defy the natural laws of supply and demand, you have the economic system rigged. People see that and just don't have any sympathy.
I admit, that was a bad example, but ment to prove a point. People are lazy. They don't really think for themselves even the most basic things sometimes. How is going to but a computer in them going to help? It is like someone who keeps purchasing a new computer all the time but the only they do with it is play solitare. It is just a waste.
From what I understand, the average person only uses 10% of their brain. Do we really need an additional computing power? If you cannot get the average person to do even simple math without a calculator, can you really expect them to do something more intrecate just because they have a computer in their head?
The companies plan to first push Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for a modest level of certification: Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2.
Sheesh... How much pushing does RHAS need?
Sometimes that all a company look's at is certification levels. I have a friend that runs a software development company. They cannot get any big jobs because they lack a software process certification. It does not say that they are great programmer's or effective, it just says, "Hey we went through this process and this is the type of service that we provide."
It is is the same thing with certain types of software. If you don't have the correct certification, certain agencies and businesses cannot even consider doing business with you. They would not go through these hoops if they don't not believe that they would get somewhere
Sometimes it takes something that has a drastic economic impact to for people to seriously look at alternatives. Linux is gather momentum at just the right time, I believe. Everyone has financial problems, and is looking for cheaper alternatives. Linux packages are hitting that point which say "We're professional software." These sort of certifications which add reinforce to that reputation.
I remember a few of these. When he got on one radio show, he immediately called a telemarketing company up and tried to sell them his car. They immediately hung up. He called and said, "Oh, sorry about that, the phone must be acting funny," and then continued to go about his car. The receiptionist said, "I am not interested in your car."
His reply was, "Well that never stopped your company from calling me!" Man was that receptionist mad!
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This guy has basically invented a light-weight moped?
American's despise moped's, they figure if you are going to get a a cycle you might as well get one that looks cool. That is why Harley's are so popular, becuase they look cool. I have a co-worker here that is willing to spend $5,000 dollar's every couple of year's to add accessories and get some improvements done on her bike.
While the idea is neat, it will not take off simply becuase of american culture, and it sounds like a moped.
We are finally replacing the government as the one's who tax individuals to corporations. Remember this is progress!
Simpson's qoute: Homer: Don't blame me, I voted for Kronos!
Like we really need that TV Series to comeback!
THANK YOU,THANK YOU! I will be here the rest of the week!
The fact that your aunt has breast cancer is Microsoft's fault.
THAT is what I have been telling everyone! Of course they don't believe me, and that is Microsoft's fault too!
DAMN YOU MICROSOFT
If you want to keep that customer, you do what it takes to keep the customer. Remember the golden rule, 1 bad customer experience gets passed onto 20 people. If you think that this customer is going to put with this, fine go ahead and charge them. If you don't you should suck it up. If they leave, not only will the money that you get from them goes to zero, but they will bad mouth you to enough other people that it does have a negative impact on you attempting to acquire more customers.
In other words, be a good guy, suck it up and the customer will trust you more the next time you attempt to raise their bill. Blow them off and the only that you might get from them is the finger.
People that seem to think that is fair, tell me, at point do you know what your network usage is? A page, 50 kb, a few pic's here and there, another 1MB or 2. What about Windows downloads, like service pack updates, or software upgrades, program uploads. Does anyone really KNOW how much bandwidth that they actually use? If you don't know what you use, then how can you say whether you are near the limit or not?
I do alot of research at work, as well as casual browsing. With every web site attempting to force gif's, mpgs, bmp, wav files on every page, not to mention configuration files, adware programs, anti-virus utilities and god knows what else is making every attempt to make sure that you GET THE FULL EXPERIENCE OF THE INTERNET, I certainly would not want to be charged on a hard set limit.
Life is bad enough without every pion out there trying to nickel and dime every transaction and calling you bandwidth thief if you don't pay for it.
This is coming from the man who used the incorrect spelling of the word but... or in his case "butt".
I had a friend that did computer game phone support, part of doing support was playing the games that the support person actually knew what the customer was calling about.
One day, his manager came up to him and said, "Jay, I don't think that you are spending enough time playing 'Need for Speed'."
Taking a look at their balance sheet, Retained Earnings ($3,009,710,000) Net Tangible Assets ($1,427,085,000) So with all these cost saving idea's are you telling me, that at somepoint, that they are going to make a break even?
Not ragging on you at all, but I think that it comes down too, these companies, with all the information that they collect really don't know what the hell their doing. Everytime they try and squeeze someone for an extra dime, because it is is too hard to compete on the market as a whole is just proving they are really don't understand economics, or how their company really works, as well as they claim.
China does have a "hacker brigade" tasked with disrupting American networks
The American version of this is called "/.", had it not occured to you to wonder how a supposed "Business" which makes no money, but is able to get the resources to take down other web sites at the drop of a hat can continue running?
This is military sponsored site, it is the only explaination! The military cannot afford the real resources, hackers, equipment to launch a cyber attack, but place a post on /. on the latest nude pic of Natalie Portman and Hot Grits, *BOOM* web site nuked. They are able to recover, post a Dupe for the final coup-de-grace. Not to mention it is a great way for them to be of keeping track of all those subversive Linux elements like foriegners Linus Torvalds, if that is his real name!
Has the Patent run out on this? It still seems to be working, and who knows how long the orginial law says how long the patent is. If the originial patent was for the lifetime of the product, I would expect that Energizer, and Duracell and all those other battery makers to star forking over the dough. Remember there is nothing worse than a patent thief!
The yahoo article is little more than fluff, with the Cybercrime getting to the meat of what was occuring. I normally don't believe that selling mod chips is a crime, but the way that it seems that he was marketing his product he intent on sell those mod-chips who were intending to commit crimes, ie. play pirated games.
I mean, really what could he have expected. If I was advertising and selling the "date rape" drug, they would have strung me up. Yeah, I did not commit the crime but I certainly helped someone else do so and presented it as doing such. This is the same thing.
This happens all the time in the business world. Any attempt at a new thought, in particular meetings, will be met with vile and a scorn, right before they they beat you to death with the conference room phone. It is a sort of a mindless action that is drilled into people in corporations in much the same manner as wasps or bees. Attack anything that threatens the stability of the nest!
So I guess this just proves, "The Future is already here!"
You don't see the same people moaning about video game prices, though, or a dozen other "overpriced" things. I don't think that there's much of a real movement in the "real world" about the price of CDs, just that there is now a precedent for complaining about the price of them
To a certain degree, you are correct, Computer game prices have gone up and people don't complain about. Yet a CD's price remains the same. The thing that I think your missing is that
When you defy the natural laws of supply and demand, you have the economic system rigged. People see that and just don't have any sympathy.
I admit, that was a bad example, but ment to prove a point. People are lazy. They don't really think for themselves even the most basic things sometimes. How is going to but a computer in them going to help? It is like someone who keeps purchasing a new computer all the time but the only they do with it is play solitare. It is just a waste.
From what I understand, the average person only uses 10% of their brain. Do we really need an additional computing power? If you cannot get the average person to do even simple math without a calculator, can you really expect them to do something more intrecate just because they have a computer in their head?
I thought it was obivious, Boogers! No more nose picken for me!
Friend of my had hippie parents. When he and his sister were born, their parents wanted to name them Chocolate and Rainbow.
Their last name was Sprinkle.
The 60's was not a good time for children, which is probalbly why we are so fucked up now.
You sound like a bad horror novel writer.
I went into the room, and then all of sudden there were no doors. Out of nowhere came Freddie Kruger Sim and starting chasing me!
I am being repressed by Opera software!
Do you use Opera as a Browser?
Uh, no...
Do you use the MSN web site?
Uh, no, but...
Are you swedish and/or a chef?
No, but, but...
Then please shut the f**k up!
The companies plan to first push Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for a modest level of certification: Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2.
Sheesh... How much pushing does RHAS need?
Sometimes that all a company look's at is certification levels. I have a friend that runs a software development company. They cannot get any big jobs because they lack a software process certification. It does not say that they are great programmer's or effective, it just says, "Hey we went through this process and this is the type of service that we provide."
It is is the same thing with certain types of software. If you don't have the correct certification, certain agencies and businesses cannot even consider doing business with you. They would not go through these hoops if they don't not believe that they would get somewhere
Sometimes it takes something that has a drastic economic impact to for people to seriously look at alternatives. Linux is gather momentum at just the right time, I believe. Everyone has financial problems, and is looking for cheaper alternatives. Linux packages are hitting that point which say "We're professional software." These sort of certifications which add reinforce to that reputation.
Linux has a bright future ahead.
I remember a few of these. When he got on one radio show, he immediately called a telemarketing company up and tried to sell them his car. They immediately hung up. He called and said, "Oh, sorry about that, the phone must be acting funny," and then continued to go about his car. The receiptionist said, "I am not interested in your car."
His reply was, "Well that never stopped your company from calling me!" Man was that receptionist mad!
Hell, we have crazy people in here too!