One of the things that drove me to get a record player was to digtize my father's large LP collection. He has hundreds of "classic" Salsa and Disco albums that will never be sold again. I got a nice Sony LP player and I'm using EAC to dump it to MP3. He'll have blast hearing those old albums in his car!
Do we need another spammer using the good name of OSS to commit their foul work? Let's not let Darl and the his hired guns find this person. What a better coup would it be for a group of OSSers to find him using a "free as in beer and liberty" set of forensic tools.
And you never know we might get our own CSI type of TV show out of it!
There wasa previous slashdot article talking abouit the advances in imaging processors. Couldn't they dso the same for the Hubble? The lenses are great (albeit slightly flawed), but with such raw data, new computers will pull better info.
TurboGFX CD games did the same. They would have one with a loud klaxon sounding warning you to take the game out of the CD player before you "blow" your tweeters. Then a explosion sounded.
Similarly, the TurboDuo games that were incompatible with the TurboGFX CD machine would show a cute graphic telling you that the game was incmpatible.
The problem with service plans at retail stores is that no one knows what the truth is. I've worked at 3 different nationwide chains (CCUSA, CCITY, EB) and the service plan spiel went like this -
BOSS: You need to sell X amount of these at Y price. We will give you 10% of Y if you do. To sell it, tell them that they can do anything to the device, and we'll replace it free of charge.
How do she know that? Usually, the customer cannot bring the defective item back to the store, they have to deal with some 1-800 number. The only time we ever saw Extended Warranty customers was when they got screwed over by the vendor and wanted the store manager to do simething about it. And he can't b/c those vendors are 3rd party entities.
If you wanted to make a little bit more money a week, You would push the warranty. All these stores that talk about their employees not working off commission fail to tell you that the same employees get kickbacks from the warranties they sell.
Once I became a tech at one of the chains, I got to see the other side of this. This particular store did evaluation of the equipment before before the customer could get it sent to the 3rd party Warranty agent. We would have to convice the Warranty agent that the part was absolutely nonfunctioning. Then we waited 2-3 weeks for a _refurbished_ replacement part that was hopefully the same part and not a different brand (different soundcard, HDD, modem). And yes, EVERY manufacturer that fixes your equipment under warranty uses refurbished parts, if they can.
Most of these agreements include "lemon" clauses that state if the same part is broken more than three times, the unit is replaced. Well, of you know that everytime the unit is brought a _different_ part is replaced instead of the regular one. Mobo keeps going bad? Replace the PSU, the HDD, Drive cables, the Mobo, Internal fan, Power switch, and then repeat. Keep doing this until several months pass and either A) Customer gives up, or B) Customer Warranty contract expires.
You can usually complain to the higher ups in the company to have something done about it. You have the facts with you there in black and white in the pamphlet.
True. But, a customer should not have to call 10 different people, then threaten legal action to have a simple "black and white" issue resolved.
Extended Warranties are a joke. If you get one because you know your device is fragile, i.e. a laptop, expect to have a fight ahead of you to get it taken care of.
G-d damn, if that article was not the biggest mess of mental masturbation. It took me 30 minutes of staring cross-eyed to get his point:
The character was raped;
The community had no power to change the situation
The wizards didn't care, but one did
The World was never the same afterwards
What Can I say, I loved the TV show... I still remember the skit he did when he was daydreaming that they would change the rules and he could become the next American President.
Very similar to the events happening in California
"...Yakov's movie credits include "Moscow on the Hudson" with Robin Williams, "Brewster's Millions" with Richard Pryor, "The Money Pit" with Tom Hanks and "Heartburn" with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. His many television credits include Showtime's ACE Award nominee "Yakov Smirnoff from Moscow...Idaho," as well as his own 1986 syndicated series "What a Country." In the early months of 2003, Yakov appeared in his one-man Broadway Show, "As Long As We Both Shall Laugh" at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City. During the show Yakov invites everyone to celebrate the differences between the genders..."
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They don't call it a Kangaroo Court for nuthin'
And when they make a Linn record player for his car that won't skip, I'll get him that too =)
One of the things that drove me to get a record player was to digtize my father's large LP collection. He has hundreds of "classic" Salsa and Disco albums that will never be sold again. I got a nice Sony LP player and I'm using EAC to dump it to MP3. He'll have blast hearing those old albums in his car!
The one listed is Pay for Play...
And you never know we might get our own CSI type of TV show out of it!
Arrest all people named Andy. Use the excuse that Andy is the rough English translation of Al-Quieda!
There wasa previous slashdot article talking abouit the advances in imaging processors. Couldn't they dso the same for the Hubble? The lenses are great (albeit slightly flawed), but with such raw data, new computers will pull better info.
Zero-Peril Sunglasses, anyone?
Would he have one head with makeup, and the other without? - Cake or Death, Little Red Cookbook!
Wouldn't one person with a cordless 2.4GHz mess all of this up?
TurboGFX CD games did the same. They would have one with a loud klaxon sounding warning you to take the game out of the CD player before you "blow" your tweeters. Then a explosion sounded.
Similarly, the TurboDuo games that were incompatible with the TurboGFX CD machine would show a cute graphic telling you that the game was incmpatible.
How many did I sacrafice to Track and Field? Still didn't count as a workout.
BOSS: You need to sell X amount of these at Y price. We will give you 10% of Y if you do. To sell it, tell them that they can do anything to the device, and we'll replace it free of charge.
How do she know that? Usually, the customer cannot bring the defective item back to the store, they have to deal with some 1-800 number. The only time we ever saw Extended Warranty customers was when they got screwed over by the vendor and wanted the store manager to do simething about it. And he can't b/c those vendors are 3rd party entities.
If you wanted to make a little bit more money a week, You would push the warranty. All these stores that talk about their employees not working off commission fail to tell you that the same employees get kickbacks from the warranties they sell.
Once I became a tech at one of the chains, I got to see the other side of this. This particular store did evaluation of the equipment before before the customer could get it sent to the 3rd party Warranty agent. We would have to convice the Warranty agent that the part was absolutely nonfunctioning. Then we waited 2-3 weeks for a _refurbished_ replacement part that was hopefully the same part and not a different brand (different soundcard, HDD, modem). And yes, EVERY manufacturer that fixes your equipment under warranty uses refurbished parts, if they can.
Most of these agreements include "lemon" clauses that state if the same part is broken more than three times, the unit is replaced. Well, of you know that everytime the unit is brought a _different_ part is replaced instead of the regular one. Mobo keeps going bad? Replace the PSU, the HDD, Drive cables, the Mobo, Internal fan, Power switch, and then repeat. Keep doing this until several months pass and either A) Customer gives up, or B) Customer Warranty contract expires.
True. But, a customer should not have to call 10 different people, then threaten legal action to have a simple "black and white" issue resolved.Extended Warranties are a joke. If you get one because you know your device is fragile, i.e. a laptop, expect to have a fight ahead of you to get it taken care of.
You can also watch it Sundays at 9PM on BBC America.
Anything in there doesn't have to be turned on. But it might be scanned with those new bomb detector scanners, if the airport has it.
Your semicolon should have been a period, which means your H should have been capitalized.
you forgot a comma the word 'people' ...you forgot a comma after the word 'people'
Oh, and you, Mr. Coward, forgot a comma before the word, 'people'.
G in 'guess' should have been captitalized.
Sigh. The idiots grow stronger everyday.
What's this world coming to?
The character was raped;
The community had no power to change the situation
The wizards didn't care, but one did
The World was never the same afterwards
Very similar to the events happening in California
"...Yakov's movie credits include "Moscow on the Hudson" with Robin Williams, "Brewster's Millions" with Richard Pryor, "The Money Pit" with Tom Hanks and "Heartburn" with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. His many television credits include Showtime's ACE Award nominee "Yakov Smirnoff from Moscow...Idaho," as well as his own 1986 syndicated series "What a Country." In the early months of 2003, Yakov appeared in his one-man Broadway Show, "As Long As We Both Shall Laugh" at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City. During the show Yakov invites everyone to celebrate the differences between the genders..."