I know indian dialiect is one of the most spoken forms of English dialect, but what are you suggesting ? That the americans learn and get used to indian dialect ? that's asking quite a bit don't you think ? remember , it is we who want their business, not the other way round. So either we provide them with the quality of service that they have come to expect from the american call center employee or forget about it.
It's not about pride or anything, it's simple business.
OW come on, have a little sense of humor. I am an indian , and even I found it funny. I know it's stereostying, but what the hell.
And besides, there is some truth to it. The problem is we in India, though are tought english from the first grade, rarely use it in everyday converstaion , so our conversation skills are limited.
We can't create simple short meaningful sentences. We use words like "basically", "actually", "technically" etc. ad nauseam and all at wrong places.
If we really want to keep these "outsourced" jobs we need to buckle up and improve our skills , rather than accuse Americans of being racist.
From my prespective we should rather do RnD stuff, for our own benefits rather than pacify some pissed of customer 7 seas across, who can barely figure out what we are speaking.
OK, I am trying to answer to as many replies as possible, not to karma whore , neither to market the product. It seems some of you are genuinely interested in this so here is some more info.
The battery life is indeed solid, I get a good 11 hours from my M3, even in random mode with all possible eq. settings turned on. Also Note the M3L has a claimed battery life of 35hours so practical would be somewhere 20-25, not bad.
I bought creative nomad jukebox Zen ertra, before this, and the syncing s/w nearyly lost all my stuff. The thing wouldn't turn on after 3 days . That's when I decided never again will I buy a MP3 player that has a proprietory syncing interface. Also note that the product does indeed support jetaudio syncing s/w, just that it really doesn't requires it to be used as it shows up a s USB hard disk. SO you have a choice, which is a good thing.
The OS independency is very important to me as I use linux at home , So even if I really wanted to I couldn't buy iPod or evey MP3 palyer that requires Windows XP
As fas a display not being present on the main unit. from my point this is the most important thing for me, as I can safely tuck away the main unit , while I am jogging, driving etc, without having to worry about the controls.
I don't know about others but I rarely need to use controls other than pause/resume, next/prev track and vol. up/down. And these are very conveniently located on the remote, so i hardly need to see it for accessing these functions.
For the displaying being small, I do agree the display could have been a little bigger, but I don't scan thru' albums every 10 mins. And navigating the albums once in a hour or so is not that difficult.
Also the company release firmware upgrades from time to time and in general seems decent to deal with
Now for some complaints:-)
The included earphones are useless unless you have really really big ears.
The disconnect feature is not properly implemented, although the device is safely unmounted, the display still shows, "Don't disconnect", but it's quite safe to indeed disconnect.
I wish there was a way to define the eq. settings in a playlist. That way I can use diff. eq. settings for my diff playlists depending on the genre.
From engineering Point of view, wouldn't you rather have multiple points of failure, than a single point of failure.
If I break the chord, all i pay is 20$ to get a new one, or 37$ to get a new remote . But the base unit remains intact. While as with every thing built on the main unit, if e.g. your Ipod display cracks , what options do you have ?
Read my comments carefully, I said it doesn't need a software, doesn't mean it doesn't support one.
The jetaudio software can organize your collection and sync it with the iAudio M3, just that it is not required to really do so.
So you have two options either use the supplied s/w or use it as a hard disk and maintain your own hierarchy. I prefer the later, but you DO have the s/w option.
It is actully smaller than iPod, comes in 20GB and 40GB versions, and comes with std battery life of 14 hrs and an extended one comes with battery life of 35 HOURs.
It shows up as a USB mass storage on your PC, so can be used in windows, linux , OSX natively (any OS that supports USB mass storage). Doesn't need a stupid s/w to organize your MP3 collection, works by scanning the harddisk.
And it plays MP3, WMAs, Flac, and most of all Oggs.
Much more sturdier than iPod. Has FM tuner and can record from FM or buil-in or in-line Microphone.
The only thing it doesn't have is a interface with an online music store, But that's not a problem for someone like me , who already has more that 400 CDs.
P.S. I am not a spokesman for the company, just a satisfied customer.
I guess the point of redeundunt mod, was that the parent post was self evident. There really was no need for someone to explain the joke to the rest of us.
Show me one country in the world that has not have some form of discrimination or another. India has its problems , like any other country.
Please point where in my OP did I mention that "India is noble and west is fucked up". Infact the GP had the exact opposite view and I was merely pointing him to some facts.
Talking of meeting only brahmin indians in US, How come I haven't met any Native Americans in US , for the last 5 or so years that I have been here. Care to explain that cowboy ?
At best you are trolling and at worst you really take your comments seriously ? In either case you couldn't be more mislead about your views of Indian Culture.
Your view seems to be, western culture is good, eastern culture is bad. We Indians were doing just fine, till the western world came to zindia in mid 15th century. The current problems that India deals with have a lot to do with the 250 years + of slavery under the British rule rather than its culture. India has always been on the radar of the world conquerors, dating back to alexander in the BC era, to the moughal and turks in and around 1000 A.D to all kinds of europeans from 17th to 19th century.
And yet the Indian culture has survived and thrived . It has gracefully accepted all other cultures and yet maintained its own Identity.
Industrialization and world domination may be your idea of progress , but not every ones. Maybe family values and education take priorities in other cultures.Did you know, that the first book written on Classical Music in India dates back 3000 years. We had universities where not only locals but students from as fas as china and other oriental places used to study.
There is a old adage in Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages and mother of most modern day indian languages. May be it will sum up the importance of Knowledge in Indian Culture
A King is respected in his Kingdom,
But a learned one is respect everywhere.
True converstion between me and a MickyD slaes rep. in Pittsburgh, PA
Me:- One hot tea please.
MickyD:- One Ice Tea hot
Me:- (after thinking about what I really heard ):- No I wan't just Hot tea
MickyD:- Yeas, One Ice tea hot, that's what I put in.
Me:- Just how do you make a Ice tea Hot.
MickyD:- Oh its easy Sir, We just don't use ice and use hot water instead of cold.
Me:- I'm lovin it.
Adam Sandler ? hmm remind me again of the last thing he did that was funny ? A phoney voice and acting skills that compete with keanu reeves. Any one who mentions "happy gilmore" is funny or "punch trunk love" is good acting, really needs to evaluate their acting/humor evaluation skills.
Am I the only person here who uses privoxy ?
here is my setup,
Behind a NAT box, with no ports opened.
Use firefox as browser and privoxy as ad filtering proxy server. and zone alarm as FW
I have ad-aware, spybot and grisoft free antivirus, but in last 2 years I haven't had a single trojan/virus/spyware hit me.
Besides using privoxy will save you the trouble of going through your cookies, as it filters almost all of them.
Forget pop-up ads, it even filters in-line ads
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That the americans learn and get used to indian dialect ? that's asking quite a bit don't you think ?
remember , it is we who want their business, not the other way round. So either we provide them with the quality of service that they have come to expect from the american call center employee or forget about it.
It's not about pride or anything, it's simple business.
And besides, there is some truth to it. The problem is we in India, though are tought english from the first grade, rarely use it in everyday converstaion , so our conversation skills are limited.
We can't create simple short meaningful sentences. We use words like "basically", "actually", "technically" etc. ad nauseam and all at wrong places.
If we really want to keep these "outsourced" jobs we need to buckle up and improve our skills , rather than accuse Americans of being racist.
From my prespective we should rather do RnD stuff, for our own benefits rather than pacify some pissed of customer 7 seas across, who can barely figure out what we are speaking.
i have put more info here
Now for some complaints :-)
If I break the chord, all i pay is 20$ to get a new one, or 37$ to get a new remote . But the base unit remains intact. While as with every thing built on the main unit, if e.g. your Ipod display cracks , what options do you have ?
The jetaudio software can organize your collection and sync it with the iAudio M3, just that it is not required to really do so.
So you have two options either use the supplied s/w or use it as a hard disk and maintain your own hierarchy. I prefer the later, but you DO have the s/w option.
yes.
It is actully smaller than iPod, comes in 20GB and 40GB versions, and comes with std battery life of 14 hrs and an extended one comes with battery life of 35 HOURs.
It shows up as a USB mass storage on your PC, so can be used in windows, linux , OSX natively (any OS that supports USB mass storage). Doesn't need a stupid s/w to organize your MP3 collection, works by scanning the harddisk.
And it plays MP3, WMAs, Flac, and most of all Oggs.
Much more sturdier than iPod. Has FM tuner and can record from FM or buil-in or in-line Microphone.
The only thing it doesn't have is a interface with an online music store, But that's not a problem for someone like me , who already has more that 400 CDs.
P.S. I am not a spokesman for the company, just a satisfied customer.
Of course.
Please point where in my OP did I mention that "India is noble and west is fucked up". Infact the GP had the exact opposite view and I was merely pointing him to some facts.
Talking of meeting only brahmin indians in US, How come I haven't met any Native Americans in US , for the last 5 or so years that I have been here. Care to explain that cowboy ?
Your view seems to be, western culture is good, eastern culture is bad. We Indians were doing just fine, till the western world came to zindia in mid 15th century. The current problems that India deals with have a lot to do with the 250 years + of slavery under the British rule rather than its culture. India has always been on the radar of the world conquerors, dating back to alexander in the BC era, to the moughal and turks in and around 1000 A.D to all kinds of europeans from 17th to 19th century.
And yet the Indian culture has survived and thrived . It has gracefully accepted all other cultures and yet maintained its own Identity.
Industrialization and world domination may be your idea of progress , but not every ones. Maybe family values and education take priorities in other cultures.Did you know, that the first book written on Classical Music in India dates back 3000 years. We had universities where not only locals but students from as fas as china and other oriental places used to study.
There is a old adage in Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages and mother of most modern day indian languages. May be it will sum up the importance of Knowledge in Indian Culture
A King is respected in his Kingdom, But a learned one is respect everywhere.
%s/Afghanisthan/Saudi Arabia/g
Saves so much inks when printing directions.
I think there is a "kernel panic", somewhere between, gawk and talk.
Yes , but which flavor ?
Look at his acchievents milestones and also a site dedicated to him here
Even though the position is only decorational, it is good to know that a country recognizes its intellectual wealth and respects it.
with a built-in flash light incase you are in a dark toom and need to find your flash light.
I would say a beowulf cluster of PHPs would compete just well.
Maybe its time you reverse the roll, start calling all those who call you and start asking for donation money, and watch that call rate drop.
Me:- One hot tea please. :- One Ice Tea hot :- (after thinking about what I really heard ) :- No I wan't just Hot tea
MickyD
Me
MickyD:- Yeas, One Ice tea hot, that's what I put in.
Me:- Just how do you make a Ice tea Hot.
MickyD:- Oh its easy Sir, We just don't use ice and use hot water instead of cold.
Me:- I'm lovin it.
Adam Sandler ? hmm remind me again of the last thing he did that was funny ?
A phoney voice and acting skills that compete with keanu reeves.
Any one who mentions "happy gilmore" is funny or "punch trunk love" is good acting, really needs to evaluate their acting/humor evaluation skills.
I can kill cats with a microwave?!?!?
Only if can aim well, and have a strong arm.
In the context of mails previously received to/from AOL accounts..
prey explain how's this different from their previous slogan.
here is my setup,
Behind a NAT box, with no ports opened.
Use firefox as browser and privoxy as ad filtering proxy server. and zone alarm as FW
I have ad-aware, spybot and grisoft free antivirus, but in last 2 years I haven't had a single trojan/virus/spyware hit me.
Besides using privoxy will save you the trouble of going through your cookies, as it filters almost all of them.
Forget pop-up ads, it even filters in-line ads