Thats easy. Its not because the system is "open" its because its "easy to develop for" Programing on Nokia is a nightmare for many reasons stated here. I was recently hired into a development shop and if was for some marginally good 3rd party development tools we would of never developed for Android. WebOS? Fat chance, they held on to that buggy sdk for half a year AFTER the phone came out.
The windows 7 phone? The mobile SDK and documentation all fits snuggly into Visual Studio and with the introduction of Visual F, it makes it VERY easy to develop something quickly and with a large Visual C#/Mono base out there everyone can get on the bandwagon fast. Hell, most cross platform mobile game engines use a version of mono and java script so it might just end up being a winner. People will ask, "Can I make this program work across platforms without serious changes?" Hope HP has some magic bag of pony's that can convince people its worth the bother to program on Palm.
Windows "won" because they had development tools that made the Saten spawned API work in a manageable way (Ahh, good old days of MFC programing and hundreds of #DEFINE statements) vs Apple that never had a unified development platform with an OS made incompatible evey major reversion.
And lets also get this, "Google is great because their platform is open source!" If you want into the google app market you got to pay them their toll. Google is going well because they had the money to suffer though the G1. I have always said that if Microsoft was to get into the market, it be like the xbox all over again. A joke of a platform for the first 2 years, then its a house hold staple:P
PS - I doubt Sony's "PSP Phone" is going to cut it though. The ESRB rattings are insane for small independent shops and if you think Microsoft is closed source, Sony takes it to the next level:P
Comes and goes, at-least with Japan. If they like Korea that year their stuff goes to get made there. Vietnam is starting to be kind of the "safe" pick for businesses.
Remember, unlike here, they have a strong nationalism streak. So if China or Korea leaders start dising them they all get up an arms. Americans just care about price and stability.
I think we use Korea because it is cheap but also it has higher tech/quality living standards. That tends to produce a more skilled labor force vs Vietnam that is starting to be like Japan was after ww2.
Holly crap! If 3D gets rid of the greenscreen then I will be ever in its debt. I would LOVE to see Godzilla in 3D. Guy in a rubber suit crushing tokyo would sell!.
One of the places 3D movies shine is on all those nature and "around the world" videos they do with it. It was meh when HDTV's came out, but man, you can see dolphins swimming, water splashing. Even spectators seem like they are right there.
In short, and somewhat funny, currently 3D tech works amazedly well in just doing normal video shots. It does poorly when some editor wants to make it a bit "better" or they mess with the perspective to focus only one the main character.
Hell, It wasn't till they got to the part where they did that pan of all the mercnarys in Avatar that got me hooked. Before that wtih all the cgi, it didn't even feel like it was in 3D.
Goes both ways. But I think Apple did a stragiticly good thing by releasing their phone first. By effectively owning the smartphone market they are sitting on a nice pile of cash and can drag out these lawsuits till they get a decent licencing agrement.
Remember Apple wasn't doing well till they got the iPod out. The iPhone made that cake really fatting:P
Slashdot is starting to become a news aggregator. I knew about this bug since 2003 and evey few years someone digs it out, either blaming it on a bad configuration or a virus attack. Hell its not even a bug if you have your WiFi properly set up to never connect to ad-hoc networks.
To be honest, this is the first time I have read the true reason and not try the whole "the internet is dangerous and full of viruses" reason. Its hard to even classify it as a bug as it would make it convenient to auto connect to a local ad-hoc network. Still consider it a bug if you have to turn off ad-hoc to disable though:P
Well insurance is a way of betting. If the it would cost the firefighters 7500 to put out the fire and the fee is only 75 bucks, they are betting that only 1 in 100 homes, in that area, each year, will burn. They make back their costs on that. I am also sure that, lets say, only 98 of those homes are on the list and maybe 2 random ones aren't. So then you have a 1 in 100 chance your home is going to burn, and a 1 in 50 that your name isn't on the list. That's fairly low odds.
This isn't even talking about the percent chance your hose will catch fire. Its hard for a house, even a modern trailer home, to catch fire. You have to have a really good kindling close by or in the home for it to start up. You can't just drop a match, unless the floor is dosed with gasoline. These genius were burning trash WAY to close to their home. This was not a lightning strike or some random accident. They were sitting there watching that fire burn before it got out of control. As other has commented, they also refused to pay the fee too.
But back to the original point, I honestly don't think it will ever come up. Everyone calls them hicks for all anti-tax and anti-government, but they aren't stupid as a whole. As someone who's family lives a good hour from any kind of hospital or fire station, you learn to be careful. Living on your own without support is hard so you deal with it. This feels more of an "Act of God" that I would buy. For some people, I think its a "I am a dumb shit" fee:P
Sadly, a computer requires something other than simple boolean logic, predictable timing.
I spent 30 minutes building a simple 2 bit alu but I gave up building it in minecraft after 3 hours. The main issue is that everything runs in this global clock cycle. Evey torch you have in a path acts as a "tick" You also have to have a torch evey 15 spaces for a "refresher" so your putting down an inverter Evey 15 spots. Even those this 16-bit alu is impressive I bet the reason his data bus is so long is to equalize all the bits so they come out at the same time.
The bigger issue is going to be the timing and control logic. Its manageable on a 2 bit or even 4 bit computer but on a 16-bit alu? I wish he would give more information on it to be honest. Why the heck did he do a full adder when you could go with boolean logic and micro code.
In any event, the timing and the fact you cannot run red dust lines next to each other is going to be the big problem with making a simple cpu/microcontroler out of it. However, to make a self destruct switch for your cave network, perfect:)
I don't know what happened, but I do remember when trying to paypal something, everything was Chinese. Luckly I was running Avast's VM service and everything reset when I closed my browser. It looks like it was redirecting my dns quirys. I also got hit with the gmail red banner too, but I suspect they were only able to access it because I was going though china using the cookie. Changed all my passwords in case though:P
I picked up a Mikrotek router for cheap and now I am blocking all of China's IP range. Bit extreame, but it is interesting looking at the the firewall hits. It seems I get quite a few hits from the uTorrent PnP tracking service from there. Also it cut down on the ssh attacks by half:P
Well thats the thing though. The robot is motivated to "Make coffee tables" He might realize that the fastest way to do this is in china as they have the infrastructure right there to start out with. Its also logical to assume that he would want robots to eventually do it because how can he trust anything other than something he built and/or designed. Maybe it would give him MORE pleasure to build them all himself, quality over quantity.
It's an interesting allegory though. To continue to make coffee tables, he would have to make them profitable as he would eventually run out of the initial resources to make them. Would he eventually get to make one type of table than another? Would he be annoyed that humans would only buy one type over the one he likes to make the best? This is all assuming that someone doesn't suggest he reprogram himself to like something else but as the previous poster said, why would he.
The thing is that I really don't believe its a good idea to build a little ill-rationality into robots. First human that tells him he cannot make them anymore who knows what the responce will be. He might like "making coffee tables", but eventually he will forced to create an army to get the resources for making those things. Imagine terminators going around the world, shaped like coffee tables, with cute frilly cover tops.
If we are going to build intelligent robots, I want them bat-shit insane. Make the rest of us in the asylum feel more comfortable.
While Fry's is offering Civ5 for $39, I am still thinking of getting it off Stream for $49. Netflix is "good enough" and most of my other programs I get on the web (www.thedailyshow.com, southpark.com, etc.)
I mean DVDs are still being sold by the millions so why I believe BlueRay fills a needed market, that market is just shrinking like crazy.
While I agree that most people are honest, I think its also that most people, who have money to spend, are lazy.
Hell, I am a perfect example of that. I will buy games on Steam NOT because they are better deals, but because I like having all my games organized with it. The alt tab into a chat/simple web interface in full screen is an excellent plus as well as having all the games auto updated. Its even hard for me to save just 10 bucks to buy it at frys than downloaded from stream and I get annoyed when there is a game I DO want but can't get though the service.
Ever since I got a "real job" and got old enough, I haven't pirated a new release game in more than 3 years. Well, I take that back. I recently downloaded Simon the Sorcerer 4 because I could not find ANY USA digital download for it. Can't even find it in the stores. Five is out but even that one is imposable to find. One link appears on Impulse but doesn't add it to the cart! I will buy it NOW but the one place I can get it doesn't exist. Oh well, off to Pirate bay then.
If I have to build a device, using a 100 dollar FPGA to record a football game off the cable box, I will do it. IF, however, I can buy a 200 dollar device to do the same thing, I would do that instead.
Personalty I HATE using Miracle Grow on my yard. I keep thinking of that dead zone in the gulf. It just my yard is so dead and it saves me water in the long run.
I have given up on any newspapers telling me the truth on anything. The reporter doesn't understand most of the context and even scientific journals sometimes use "flair" to get more attention. At best you can email some of the authors of the reports and see if they can tell you in their words what alot of the research means.
Its why hearsay is not court admissible evidence. Most scientists are either blatantly misquoted or the reporter fills in blanks with bad science. Once the story is out, he goes on to the next project to let that bad information float.
I really wish there was a better system out there for the common man. At best I can just say "something" is going on, but with all this conflicting global warming information I just don't know. Hell, are eggs and bacon good for you now?
I get the reason why they did it, so they are not "criminaly negigent" but seriously? 4 years of having to restate all their earnings and eveything is cool?
I get why, eveyone made a killing off the stock price jumps, but still, somone isn't getting jail time for this.
No it isn't. I know your trolling, but just typing in "gnome vs KDE" in Google. You get everything from comparing UI interfaces to the programing standards. It goes back YEARS and there is no clear winner. Ubuntu works great when it does, but if you need some odd driver that someone put a.patch file out for, you better be good a goggle searches.
Hardware companies are at Microsoft's beck and call but linux is lucky to get a guy to write a driver for the pos Realtek 8159. Mo matter how good Google is, unless you find that right discussion group or form you might never get that wifi card to work.
PS - I still don't know the answer to the Gnome vs KDE. I gave up and just install cli and webadmin on my servers:P
The best marketing is the price. You don't see a huge price difference between buying a desktop (business or otherwise) with or without Windows.
However, when your buying a server, that 700-1000 drop in price for cutting out windows server? Dell might have to tred lightly when it comes to desktops, but they don't screw around with their server market. IBM and HP are the same way. They know there are people out there that roll their own and price their systems accordingly and give you the bare minimum tools to do it.
The companys that comprise of the National Association of Ticket Brokers are worried about the consumers or themselves. I am sure this stops alot of them from buying up thousands of tickets and reselling them at double the price.
The "Grandma Problem" ISN'T a problem anymore. Why not bind it to another number like your drivers license number? How about having a gift card with a magnetic strip? The kid punches in the number on the website to put his name in and he uses the gift card as authenticity at the gate. Hell, there even seems to be some "Ticket Exchange" according to the link so you can even resale your own tickets.
Who wants to bet Senator Herb Kohl has some money from this association? This is 2010. Going to the airport WITHOUT an e-ticket is annoying. I like the idea that I just need my wallet to get in the theater.
PS - Ticketmaster is a monopoly, their website sucks, and their phone ordering is from the 1990's. I have no love for them, but I see this more of a money fight than a real issue.
See, thats what I told everyone who had a bunch of these systems. I don't care if your Dell, HP or IBM, but if you call evey day to ask about your "status" about getting your system fixed, they will do it so you stop calling:P A service rep isn't going to help, but once in a blue moon you will get that one tech who knows how to do it and get it though the right channels.
Generally speaking, if the cost in data recovery and/or recreating the data requiring backup is greater than that of the equipment redundancy here, then it is worth preserving using such stringent and costly means.
That's the point isn't it. People complain to me and (sometimes) expect Dell to fix it now. All I can give him is assurances.
Most of the people who bought these GX270 wanted a bare bones system for office. Most of these things were bought in bulk for under 400 a pop or even less if you bought pallets of them. One of the reasons this whole cap issue hit this model so hard was that Dell was cutting costs left and right on this model.
I cannot just tell the customer, "I am sorry you went with the standard, everyday warranty everyone else gets. You should of paid for a better support contract or made sure the users that mattered had a higher quality computer." Sure the warranty are a scam. I feel like I am getting bent over by cisco by just paying them for access to download firmware. Its just the nature of the beast. You get what you pay for and while I can't tell a user that I just say "Contact customer service and they should have a solution for you:P"
Yea I agree there. I worked in a major metropolitan area and while more than 90% of my next day calls were for busnesses, we would get a few odd ball ones for users. At the time we were paid by the hour so we just got the call setup when we could get a hold of the user.
They have some funky scheme now so I think my previous company is going the way of compucom:P
That's another issue I have at Dell, they have like 20 Vice Presidents. I maybe I am exaggerating, but I had yet to talk or get an email from the same one in a row. Either they keep moving around in the company or none of them hang around for longer than a year.
Its like Vice President is now just resume fodder.
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Thats easy. Its not because the system is "open" its because its "easy to develop for" Programing on Nokia is a nightmare for many reasons stated here. I was recently hired into a development shop and if was for some marginally good 3rd party development tools we would of never developed for Android. WebOS? Fat chance, they held on to that buggy sdk for half a year AFTER the phone came out.
The windows 7 phone? The mobile SDK and documentation all fits snuggly into Visual Studio and with the introduction of Visual F, it makes it VERY easy to develop something quickly and with a large Visual C#/Mono base out there everyone can get on the bandwagon fast. Hell, most cross platform mobile game engines use a version of mono and java script so it might just end up being a winner. People will ask, "Can I make this program work across platforms without serious changes?" Hope HP has some magic bag of pony's that can convince people its worth the bother to program on Palm.
Windows "won" because they had development tools that made the Saten spawned API work in a manageable way (Ahh, good old days of MFC programing and hundreds of #DEFINE statements) vs Apple that never had a unified development platform with an OS made incompatible evey major reversion.
And lets also get this, "Google is great because their platform is open source!" If you want into the google app market you got to pay them their toll. Google is going well because they had the money to suffer though the G1. I have always said that if Microsoft was to get into the market, it be like the xbox all over again. A joke of a platform for the first 2 years, then its a house hold staple:P
PS - I doubt Sony's "PSP Phone" is going to cut it though. The ESRB rattings are insane for small independent shops and if you think Microsoft is closed source, Sony takes it to the next level:P
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31711
Most of these are remote hotspots to bounce a wireless signal accross Europe, but even in the middle of nowhere there should be standards.
Comes and goes, at-least with Japan. If they like Korea that year their stuff goes to get made there. Vietnam is starting to be kind of the "safe" pick for businesses.
Remember, unlike here, they have a strong nationalism streak. So if China or Korea leaders start dising them they all get up an arms. Americans just care about price and stability.
I think we use Korea because it is cheap but also it has higher tech/quality living standards. That tends to produce a more skilled labor force vs Vietnam that is starting to be like Japan was after ww2.
Holly crap! If 3D gets rid of the greenscreen then I will be ever in its debt. I would LOVE to see Godzilla in 3D. Guy in a rubber suit crushing tokyo would sell!.
One of the places 3D movies shine is on all those nature and "around the world" videos they do with it. It was meh when HDTV's came out, but man, you can see dolphins swimming, water splashing. Even spectators seem like they are right there.
In short, and somewhat funny, currently 3D tech works amazedly well in just doing normal video shots. It does poorly when some editor wants to make it a bit "better" or they mess with the perspective to focus only one the main character.
Hell, It wasn't till they got to the part where they did that pan of all the mercnarys in Avatar that got me hooked. Before that wtih all the cgi, it didn't even feel like it was in 3D.
Goes both ways. But I think Apple did a stragiticly good thing by releasing their phone first. By effectively owning the smartphone market they are sitting on a nice pile of cash and can drag out these lawsuits till they get a decent licencing agrement.
Remember Apple wasn't doing well till they got the iPod out. The iPhone made that cake really fatting :P
Whatever. As long as I see some nukes flying and Bruce Willis trying to be an actor, I'd pay money to set at the courthouse.
Slashdot is starting to become a news aggregator. I knew about this bug since 2003 and evey few years someone digs it out, either blaming it on a bad configuration or a virus attack. Hell its not even a bug if you have your WiFi properly set up to never connect to ad-hoc networks.
To be honest, this is the first time I have read the true reason and not try the whole "the internet is dangerous and full of viruses" reason. Its hard to even classify it as a bug as it would make it convenient to auto connect to a local ad-hoc network. Still consider it a bug if you have to turn off ad-hoc to disable though:P
Well insurance is a way of betting. If the it would cost the firefighters 7500 to put out the fire and the fee is only 75 bucks, they are betting that only 1 in 100 homes, in that area, each year, will burn. They make back their costs on that. I am also sure that, lets say, only 98 of those homes are on the list and maybe 2 random ones aren't. So then you have a 1 in 100 chance your home is going to burn, and a 1 in 50 that your name isn't on the list. That's fairly low odds.
This isn't even talking about the percent chance your hose will catch fire. Its hard for a house, even a modern trailer home, to catch fire. You have to have a really good kindling close by or in the home for it to start up. You can't just drop a match, unless the floor is dosed with gasoline. These genius were burning trash WAY to close to their home. This was not a lightning strike or some random accident. They were sitting there watching that fire burn before it got out of control. As other has commented, they also refused to pay the fee too.
But back to the original point, I honestly don't think it will ever come up. Everyone calls them hicks for all anti-tax and anti-government, but they aren't stupid as a whole. As someone who's family lives a good hour from any kind of hospital or fire station, you learn to be careful. Living on your own without support is hard so you deal with it. This feels more of an "Act of God" that I would buy. For some people, I think its a "I am a dumb shit" fee:P
Damn. A car analogy that perfectly describes the psychology of a government organization. I give props.
Sadly, a computer requires something other than simple boolean logic, predictable timing.
I spent 30 minutes building a simple 2 bit alu but I gave up building it in minecraft after 3 hours. The main issue is that everything runs in this global clock cycle. Evey torch you have in a path acts as a "tick" You also have to have a torch evey 15 spaces for a "refresher" so your putting down an inverter Evey 15 spots. Even those this 16-bit alu is impressive I bet the reason his data bus is so long is to equalize all the bits so they come out at the same time.
The bigger issue is going to be the timing and control logic. Its manageable on a 2 bit or even 4 bit computer but on a 16-bit alu? I wish he would give more information on it to be honest. Why the heck did he do a full adder when you could go with boolean logic and micro code.
In any event, the timing and the fact you cannot run red dust lines next to each other is going to be the big problem with making a simple cpu/microcontroler out of it. However, to make a self destruct switch for your cave network, perfect:)
I don't know what happened, but I do remember when trying to paypal something, everything was Chinese. Luckly I was running Avast's VM service and everything reset when I closed my browser. It looks like it was redirecting my dns quirys. I also got hit with the gmail red banner too, but I suspect they were only able to access it because I was going though china using the cookie. Changed all my passwords in case though:P
I picked up a Mikrotek router for cheap and now I am blocking all of China's IP range. Bit extreame, but it is interesting looking at the the firewall hits. It seems I get quite a few hits from the uTorrent PnP tracking service from there. Also it cut down on the ssh attacks by half:P
Well thats the thing though. The robot is motivated to "Make coffee tables" He might realize that the fastest way to do this is in china as they have the infrastructure right there to start out with. Its also logical to assume that he would want robots to eventually do it because how can he trust anything other than something he built and/or designed. Maybe it would give him MORE pleasure to build them all himself, quality over quantity.
It's an interesting allegory though. To continue to make coffee tables, he would have to make them profitable as he would eventually run out of the initial resources to make them. Would he eventually get to make one type of table than another? Would he be annoyed that humans would only buy one type over the one he likes to make the best? This is all assuming that someone doesn't suggest he reprogram himself to like something else but as the previous poster said, why would he.
The thing is that I really don't believe its a good idea to build a little ill-rationality into robots. First human that tells him he cannot make them anymore who knows what the responce will be. He might like "making coffee tables", but eventually he will forced to create an army to get the resources for making those things. Imagine terminators going around the world, shaped like coffee tables, with cute frilly cover tops.
If we are going to build intelligent robots, I want them bat-shit insane. Make the rest of us in the asylum feel more comfortable.
While Fry's is offering Civ5 for $39, I am still thinking of getting it off Stream for $49. Netflix is "good enough" and most of my other programs I get on the web (www.thedailyshow.com, southpark.com, etc.)
I mean DVDs are still being sold by the millions so why I believe BlueRay fills a needed market, that market is just shrinking like crazy.
While I agree that most people are honest, I think its also that most people, who have money to spend, are lazy.
Hell, I am a perfect example of that. I will buy games on Steam NOT because they are better deals, but because I like having all my games organized with it. The alt tab into a chat/simple web interface in full screen is an excellent plus as well as having all the games auto updated. Its even hard for me to save just 10 bucks to buy it at frys than downloaded from stream and I get annoyed when there is a game I DO want but can't get though the service.
Ever since I got a "real job" and got old enough, I haven't pirated a new release game in more than 3 years. Well, I take that back. I recently downloaded Simon the Sorcerer 4 because I could not find ANY USA digital download for it. Can't even find it in the stores. Five is out but even that one is imposable to find. One link appears on Impulse but doesn't add it to the cart! I will buy it NOW but the one place I can get it doesn't exist. Oh well, off to Pirate bay then.
If I have to build a device, using a 100 dollar FPGA to record a football game off the cable box, I will do it. IF, however, I can buy a 200 dollar device to do the same thing, I would do that instead.
Personalty I HATE using Miracle Grow on my yard. I keep thinking of that dead zone in the gulf. It just my yard is so dead and it saves me water in the long run.
I have given up on any newspapers telling me the truth on anything. The reporter doesn't understand most of the context and even scientific journals sometimes use "flair" to get more attention. At best you can email some of the authors of the reports and see if they can tell you in their words what alot of the research means.
Its why hearsay is not court admissible evidence. Most scientists are either blatantly misquoted or the reporter fills in blanks with bad science. Once the story is out, he goes on to the next project to let that bad information float.
I really wish there was a better system out there for the common man. At best I can just say "something" is going on, but with all this conflicting global warming information I just don't know. Hell, are eggs and bacon good for you now?
I get the reason why they did it, so they are not "criminaly negigent" but seriously? 4 years of having to restate all their earnings and eveything is cool?
I get why, eveyone made a killing off the stock price jumps, but still, somone isn't getting jail time for this.
No it isn't. I know your trolling, but just typing in "gnome vs KDE" in Google. You get everything from comparing UI interfaces to the programing standards. It goes back YEARS and there is no clear winner. Ubuntu works great when it does, but if you need some odd driver that someone put a .patch file out for, you better be good a goggle searches.
Hardware companies are at Microsoft's beck and call but linux is lucky to get a guy to write a driver for the pos Realtek 8159. Mo matter how good Google is, unless you find that right discussion group or form you might never get that wifi card to work.
PS - I still don't know the answer to the Gnome vs KDE. I gave up and just install cli and webadmin on my servers:P
The best marketing is the price. You don't see a huge price difference between buying a desktop (business or otherwise) with or without Windows.
However, when your buying a server, that 700-1000 drop in price for cutting out windows server? Dell might have to tred lightly when it comes to desktops, but they don't screw around with their server market. IBM and HP are the same way. They know there are people out there that roll their own and price their systems accordingly and give you the bare minimum tools to do it.
I just wish they do it on their desktops.
The companys that comprise of the National Association of Ticket Brokers are worried about the consumers or themselves. I am sure this stops alot of them from buying up thousands of tickets and reselling them at double the price.
The "Grandma Problem" ISN'T a problem anymore. Why not bind it to another number like your drivers license number? How about having a gift card with a magnetic strip? The kid punches in the number on the website to put his name in and he uses the gift card as authenticity at the gate. Hell, there even seems to be some "Ticket Exchange" according to the link so you can even resale your own tickets.
Who wants to bet Senator Herb Kohl has some money from this association? This is 2010. Going to the airport WITHOUT an e-ticket is annoying. I like the idea that I just need my wallet to get in the theater.
PS - Ticketmaster is a monopoly, their website sucks, and their phone ordering is from the 1990's. I have no love for them, but I see this more of a money fight than a real issue.
See, thats what I told everyone who had a bunch of these systems. I don't care if your Dell, HP or IBM, but if you call evey day to ask about your "status" about getting your system fixed, they will do it so you stop calling:P A service rep isn't going to help, but once in a blue moon you will get that one tech who knows how to do it and get it though the right channels.
Generally speaking, if the cost in data recovery and/or recreating the data requiring backup is greater than that of the equipment redundancy here, then it is worth preserving using such stringent and costly means.
That's the point isn't it. People complain to me and (sometimes) expect Dell to fix it now. All I can give him is assurances.
Most of the people who bought these GX270 wanted a bare bones system for office. Most of these things were bought in bulk for under 400 a pop or even less if you bought pallets of them. One of the reasons this whole cap issue hit this model so hard was that Dell was cutting costs left and right on this model.
I cannot just tell the customer, "I am sorry you went with the standard, everyday warranty everyone else gets. You should of paid for a better support contract or made sure the users that mattered had a higher quality computer." Sure the warranty are a scam. I feel like I am getting bent over by cisco by just paying them for access to download firmware. Its just the nature of the beast. You get what you pay for and while I can't tell a user that I just say "Contact customer service and they should have a solution for you:P"
Yea I agree there. I worked in a major metropolitan area and while more than 90% of my next day calls were for busnesses, we would get a few odd ball ones for users. At the time we were paid by the hour so we just got the call setup when we could get a hold of the user.
They have some funky scheme now so I think my previous company is going the way of compucom:P
That's another issue I have at Dell, they have like 20 Vice Presidents. I maybe I am exaggerating, but I had yet to talk or get an email from the same one in a row. Either they keep moving around in the company or none of them hang around for longer than a year.
Its like Vice President is now just resume fodder.