Shiver me timbers! Ye shall walk de plank! Surpassed no one has blamed this incident on Somali pirates yet. Apparently their Treasure Maps for the region are leading them to the Treasure of Midas' Golden Viagra Pills.
There's one easy solution to this. Call and threaten to cancel your service. Bell, Telus, Rogers all the same. Whomever you speak to first in 'Customer Service' will try to talk you out of it. Be persistent without actually canceling, unless you REALLY want to. In no time, you'll be transferred to another department. These are their customer saving or retention team people. They're there to save you from selling your soul to the competition. With these guys, you can get better and cheaper plans, better and faster service and every effort will be made to help you in the future. If you have some really mucked up billing issue save yourself of the hundreds of phone calls: threaten to cancel. I almost guarantee it will be fixed in 2 business days and not 2 months.
I just thought I'd share this information with others. I'm willing to bet our southern neighbours will enjoy this nugget too. If the big companies cannot provide good service, let their CEOs see how many people are threatening to cancel service. Shareholders wouldn't be too happy would they?
Lets say that this guy did go with the MTS PBX equipment. MTS says it will cover the charges if its on one of their boxes.
Does the MTS automatically block these fraudulent calls? Does MTS monitor *more closely* such attempts or successful ones with their boxes? Do the MTS boxes have better security than other non-MTS boxes have in the industry?
Strikes me, tradeshows are an expensive proposition for the computer industry with the Internet abound. I might help the little guy - but - then again you're only able to 'show' your product to people willing to pay to visit the show. I see the only practical use of tradeshows now is if you're selling specific products where you really need to talk to your customer ( e.g. a retail buyer) - cart parts, floor tile and carpets, fitness equipment, make up. With these are the sorts of things, the Internet hasn't changed much.
Apple has made their keynotes online for years. There's no reason for them to continue in person. Wether its now or 2020, its inevitable. Maybe there's a touchy feeling vibe for the audience but there are a couple million downloading it with the same effect of buy, buy, buy.
Wether Steve's health is the issue, is another matter. I just happen to think, for those that buy Apple products, as long as its a reasonable product/quality with the logo on it, people will buy. Even without the Black Turtleneck and Glasses pitching it.
For some of my important documents, I've been writing them up in TeX. The format has been around forever. It tends to format everything properly with new releases*. And since you have the 'source code' not only to the software but to your document, you should be able to scan your source code from paper format should your digital copy go bad and still have close enough to the original in 10 years with maybe some slight changes in formatting.
* Compare this, at least to multiple document layout and file format changes with MS Office (which 90% of the PC world uses). I tried restoring a Word 1997 document in Word 2003 and the formatting was really buggered up. I didn't wish to repeat that.
I have a similarly large collection of music. I've stopped buying movies - unless its the odd boxed set of a TV show I really like (I also don't have cable). The problem I have with movies is that as soon as you turn it on you end up wasting 2 or 3 minutes (or more) of your time until you can 'play' the movie. You have to watch the dumbass FBI/Interpol warning screen. Already know that. Then you have to watch trailers of substandard movies. If you buy the movie 2 years after release, the trailers are still there. Yes, ripping will get rid of it all. But that's not the point. In some movies you can't skip over these parts unless you either have a DVD player that will let you, or you use a computer. Ripping 5 movies or more is a bit time consuming. Isn't an FBI warning good enough on the front cover or on the disc itself? Why should I waster 30 seconds of my times seeing this stupid thing over and over?
It seems strange to me why people buy movies at first release. Isn't it better to rent? A new release movie is say on average $29.99. As the movie gets 'older' the price never goes up at retail - unless its a boxed collectors item. Usually you can find bins of DVDs which were well over $25 the previous year on sale brand new for under $10. Compare to music CDs. On initial release, the CD is usually around $9 to $12. Wether on-line or retail, if you buy the CD a year later its well over $15 or $20 - assuming you can find it on the shelves or iTunes (which is generally the case after 2 years).
I'd like to know from an environmental perspective which tech will be the better. HDDs seem to have parts that are recyclable - e.g metal platters. The circuit board on the bottom is questionable.
SSDs it seems are just plastic, AFAIK. This has already 'failed' us from an environmental perspective, since in most cases people just throw out CDs. There's only so many coffee coasters one can have!
Disclaimer: I don't manufacture either HDDs or SSDs. I don't know what they made with. And would also which process to manufacture is 'friendlier'.
I believe all children deserve a well-rounded education. They need to think for themselves. Not have a book with all 'the answers'. Learn some new - perhaps- colorful expressions.
Brainfuck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck is the perfect language. It will take exceptionally bright students to figure it out. I'm sure there's a few wannabe gifted students in the class. As soon as they drop out, it'll be known they aren't that smart.
And, since they are gifted students, they probably don't know too many swear words. Even if they leave the class, at least they know a new word. It will be part of their cirriculum.
I was Googling to see if other company HQs of interest were in the area and came across the AT&T one. It seems that the major pipe AT&T was probably using before wouldn't be too hard to be had. Seemed the timing a bit too convenient.
We'll if the FBI's looking into this, DHL has to be too (I assume here DHL has way more oversight and power).
If you're a thief breaking into a house to steal a few pipes here and there - not for it by any means - terrorism is a far way away from the definition.
But if you're taking down telephone, power lines and other kinds of needed materials or you do it on large volume - then the infrastructure needs a consideration for terrorism.
Your damn right the $1 trillion dollar war is immoral. Especially over oil. They should have cornered the market:
1) Go to Iraq. Secure Oil Supply. 2) Go to Japan. Secure profitable Automakers. 3) ???????? (actually is: Get rid of the Big 3) 4) Profit!!!!!
When/if one of the Big 3 goes out of business, I'd make sure my company is the #1 in sales. Otherwise, your marketing folks are going to have to try real hard to not be seen as 'The Big number 2'!
Prevention is the best medicine! From now on my breakfast of deep fried bacon and sausage with a peanut butter and gummy bear topping will only be baked. I usually wash it down with a gallon of Mountain Dew since it compliments the bacon and sausage well. At least by not deep-frying it will remove 'fast food' from the equation, so I should be 50% safer.
Oh, don't worry they didn't start by decreasing by one degree on someone counting down from 500 Celsius. They started at 425. It cooks french fries quite well. The article doesn't mention the use of anesthetic or painkillers.
So yeah, being a test subject would suck! But, you probably get $20 for your time. And a 'consult' with a doctor.
Missed your comment when I posted. I think a lot of the smaller acts and under promoted artists can actually make the companies a decent amount of money with a little marketing. If the only form of advertising is seeing the album buried among racks of CDs in a store, no audio to listen to, and no artist info, style of music other than broad categories, then its no wonder it won't sell.
The problem with the music business is the attempt to use money as the promotion medium. Yes it works. But it does not cater to individual tastes.
There's a number of ways industry promotes itself. Commercial radio, newspapers, On-line - iTunes 'New Featured' albums, etc. There's magazines for Rock, Metal, etc that promote artists and include CDs of sample music - I have to think the labels push artists with $$$$$.
I love music. I've a fine collection, IMO, of Rock, Country, Blues, Jazz and all kinds of other music. I almost always have music playing. The problem is, with my varying tastes its hard for me to find new artists I want to listen to. Without relying on Hit songs being the only measure of whats good (I do a select few of the current hit songs).
My favorite albums though are from artits who don't get a lot of heavy promotion. Sad because the albums are playable tracks 01 to 12 or 15. And there's a quality and consistency to all the tracks. Sad to because they are signed on major labels and there's no backup - and if the album gets a 'bad' review from the press the label doesn't stand behind the artist. I almost feel like its done on purpose so they can focus on the 1 artist that will make them $200 million.
I think the only option is for the labels to collaboratively build a Last.fm site. The 'community' has been building the site/database (I don't know all the ins and outs) for a few years. If the labels really want to keep fans interested, make sure they know about *all* your artists. Otherwise, why blow $200,000 on a new record and hope that it does well w/o any promotion.
'Cause at this point I don't mind buying retail. I love it since I get the pressed CD. Just help guide my way to the register.
With on-line I only wish the catalogs would expand so consumers can buy songs from 20 years ago even on not-so-well selling albums. You can't find them anywhere. And if you can the copy is $500. iTunes still has some major holes in its collection. I'm not talking about bands that sold 10,000 copies either.
This rather interesting article fails to mention the two best markets for this device. I've listed a few of the pros. There cannot be any possible cons for these, as I've thought about it for about 10 seconds.
Submarine: 1) Energy efficiency - its nuclear powered. 2) Water Quality - better than sea water.
Astronauts: 1) Water Quality - They drink their own pee. Collecting the water from the air - much better! 2) Convenience - If they pee in cabin, a more powerful version of this machine could collect the liquid for recycling immediately.
Funny you mention that. In a news segment on Canadian TV last year, there was a major deal between breweries being worked on.
So, a few reporters decided to ask local beer drinkers in pubs if the beer of either company was worthwhile. The answer 100% of the time: "I don't drink either - it upsets my stomach. Only imports!"
So maybe this association to the NAStronauts waste recycling program has some truth.
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At the risk of being unpopular ..... Just turn off the Internet already!
Shiver me timbers! Ye shall walk de plank! Surpassed no one has blamed this incident on Somali pirates yet. Apparently their Treasure Maps for the region are leading them to the Treasure of Midas' Golden Viagra Pills.
I hate to be presumptuous here, so I will say this: the incident was caused by dolphins with laserbeams ***** or ****** sharks with laserbeams.
There's one easy solution to this. Call and threaten to cancel your service. Bell, Telus, Rogers all the same. Whomever you speak to first in 'Customer Service' will try to talk you out of it. Be persistent without actually canceling, unless you REALLY want to. In no time, you'll be transferred to another department. These are their customer saving or retention team people. They're there to save you from selling your soul to the competition. With these guys, you can get better and cheaper plans, better and faster service and every effort will be made to help you in the future. If you have some really mucked up billing issue save yourself of the hundreds of phone calls: threaten to cancel. I almost guarantee it will be fixed in 2 business days and not 2 months.
I just thought I'd share this information with others. I'm willing to bet our southern neighbours will enjoy this nugget too. If the big companies cannot provide good service, let their CEOs see how many people are threatening to cancel service. Shareholders wouldn't be too happy would they?
Lets say that this guy did go with the MTS PBX equipment. MTS says it will cover the charges if its on one of their boxes.
Does the MTS automatically block these fraudulent calls? Does MTS monitor *more closely* such attempts or successful ones with their boxes? Do the MTS boxes have better security than other non-MTS boxes have in the industry?
No. They were being offered Vista and decided to back-roll to Windows 2000.
Strikes me, tradeshows are an expensive proposition for the computer industry with the Internet abound. I might help the little guy - but - then again you're only able to 'show' your product to people willing to pay to visit the show. I see the only practical use of tradeshows now is if you're selling specific products where you really need to talk to your customer ( e.g. a retail buyer) - cart parts, floor tile and carpets, fitness equipment, make up. With these are the sorts of things, the Internet hasn't changed much.
Apple has made their keynotes online for years. There's no reason for them to continue in person. Wether its now or 2020, its inevitable. Maybe there's a touchy feeling vibe for the audience but there are a couple million downloading it with the same effect of buy, buy, buy.
Wether Steve's health is the issue, is another matter. I just happen to think, for those that buy Apple products, as long as its a reasonable product/quality with the logo on it, people will buy. Even without the Black Turtleneck and Glasses pitching it.
For some of my important documents, I've been writing them up in TeX. The format has been around forever. It tends to format everything properly with new releases*. And since you have the 'source code' not only to the software but to your document, you should be able to scan your source code from paper format should your digital copy go bad and still have close enough to the original in 10 years with maybe some slight changes in formatting.
* Compare this, at least to multiple document layout and file format changes with MS Office (which 90% of the PC world uses). I tried restoring a Word 1997 document in Word 2003 and the formatting was really buggered up. I didn't wish to repeat that.
I have a similarly large collection of music. I've stopped buying movies - unless its the odd boxed set of a TV show I really like (I also don't have cable). The problem I have with movies is that as soon as you turn it on you end up wasting 2 or 3 minutes (or more) of your time until you can 'play' the movie. You have to watch the dumbass FBI/Interpol warning screen. Already know that. Then you have to watch trailers of substandard movies. If you buy the movie 2 years after release, the trailers are still there. Yes, ripping will get rid of it all. But that's not the point. In some movies you can't skip over these parts unless you either have a DVD player that will let you, or you use a computer. Ripping 5 movies or more is a bit time consuming. Isn't an FBI warning good enough on the front cover or on the disc itself? Why should I waster 30 seconds of my times seeing this stupid thing over and over?
It seems strange to me why people buy movies at first release. Isn't it better to rent? A new release movie is say on average $29.99. As the movie gets 'older' the price never goes up at retail - unless its a boxed collectors item. Usually you can find bins of DVDs which were well over $25 the previous year on sale brand new for under $10. Compare to music CDs. On initial release, the CD is usually around $9 to $12. Wether on-line or retail, if you buy the CD a year later its well over $15 or $20 - assuming you can find it on the shelves or iTunes (which is generally the case after 2 years).
I'd like to know from an environmental perspective which tech will be the better. HDDs seem to have parts that are recyclable - e.g metal platters. The circuit board on the bottom is questionable.
SSDs it seems are just plastic, AFAIK. This has already 'failed' us from an environmental perspective, since in most cases people just throw out CDs. There's only so many coffee coasters one can have!
Disclaimer: I don't manufacture either HDDs or SSDs. I don't know what they made with. And would also which process to manufacture is 'friendlier'.
I believe all children deserve a well-rounded education. They need to think for themselves. Not have a book with all 'the answers'. Learn some new - perhaps- colorful expressions.
Brainfuck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck is the perfect language. It will take exceptionally bright students to figure it out. I'm sure there's a few wannabe gifted students in the class. As soon as they drop out, it'll be known they aren't that smart.
And, since they are gifted students, they probably don't know too many swear words. Even if they leave the class, at least they know a new word. It will be part of their cirriculum.
Bah, just fire a few rounds every hour. Problem solved!
I was Googling to see if other company HQs of interest were in the area and came across the AT&T one. It seems that the major pipe AT&T was probably using before wouldn't be too hard to be had. Seemed the timing a bit too convenient.
We'll if the FBI's looking into this, DHL has to be too (I assume here DHL has way more oversight and power).
If you're a thief breaking into a house to steal a few pipes here and there - not for it by any means - terrorism is a far way away from the definition.
But if you're taking down telephone, power lines and other kinds of needed materials or you do it on large volume - then the infrastructure needs a consideration for terrorism.
Your damn right the $1 trillion dollar war is immoral. Especially over oil. They should have cornered the market:
1) Go to Iraq. Secure Oil Supply.
2) Go to Japan. Secure profitable Automakers.
3) ???????? (actually is: Get rid of the Big 3)
4) Profit!!!!!
When/if one of the Big 3 goes out of business, I'd make sure my company is the #1 in sales. Otherwise, your marketing folks are going to have to try real hard to not be seen as 'The Big number 2'!
Prevention is the best medicine! From now on my breakfast of deep fried bacon and sausage with a peanut butter and gummy bear topping will only be baked. I usually wash it down with a gallon of Mountain Dew since it compliments the bacon and sausage well. At least by not deep-frying it will remove 'fast food' from the equation, so I should be 50% safer.
Oh, don't worry they didn't start by decreasing by one degree on someone counting down from 500 Celsius. They started at 425. It cooks french fries quite well. The article doesn't mention the use of anesthetic or painkillers.
So yeah, being a test subject would suck! But, you probably get $20 for your time. And a 'consult' with a doctor.
I'd just like to see a helmet-can view of it. That would be great!
"S34 Incident" stands for either "Black Mesa Incident" or "Judgement Day. Pick one.
Missed your comment when I posted. I think a lot of the smaller acts and under promoted artists can actually make the companies a decent amount of money with a little marketing. If the only form of advertising is seeing the album buried among racks of CDs in a store, no audio to listen to, and no artist info, style of music other than broad categories, then its no wonder it won't sell.
The problem with the music business is the attempt to use money as the promotion medium. Yes it works. But it does not cater to individual tastes.
There's a number of ways industry promotes itself. Commercial radio, newspapers, On-line - iTunes 'New Featured' albums, etc. There's magazines for Rock, Metal, etc that promote artists and include CDs of sample music - I have to think the labels push artists with $$$$$.
I love music. I've a fine collection, IMO, of Rock, Country, Blues, Jazz and all kinds of other music. I almost always have music playing. The problem is, with my varying tastes its hard for me to find new artists I want to listen to. Without relying on Hit songs being the only measure of whats good (I do a select few of the current hit songs).
My favorite albums though are from artits who don't get a lot of heavy promotion. Sad because the albums are playable tracks 01 to 12 or 15. And there's a quality and consistency to all the tracks. Sad to because they are signed on major labels and there's no backup - and if the album gets a 'bad' review from the press the label doesn't stand behind the artist. I almost feel like its done on purpose so they can focus on the 1 artist that will make them $200 million.
I think the only option is for the labels to collaboratively build a Last.fm site. The 'community' has been building the site/database (I don't know all the ins and outs) for a few years. If the labels really want to keep fans interested, make sure they know about *all* your artists. Otherwise, why blow $200,000 on a new record and hope that it does well w/o any promotion.
'Cause at this point I don't mind buying retail. I love it since I get the pressed CD. Just help guide my way to the register.
With on-line I only wish the catalogs would expand so consumers can buy songs from 20 years ago even on not-so-well selling albums. You can't find them anywhere. And if you can the copy is $500. iTunes still has some major holes in its collection. I'm not talking about bands that sold 10,000 copies either.
This rather interesting article fails to mention the two best markets for this device. I've listed a few of the pros. There cannot be any possible cons for these, as I've thought about it for about 10 seconds.
Submarine:
1) Energy efficiency - its nuclear powered.
2) Water Quality - better than sea water.
Astronauts:
1) Water Quality - They drink their own pee. Collecting the water from the air - much better!
2) Convenience - If they pee in cabin, a more powerful version of this machine could collect the liquid for recycling immediately.
Most con artists believe that all their targets are gullible. Turn the tables on them. If it isn't a con, it doesn't take long to figure it out.
I mentionned most. There are likely some that are probably so good that I've never noticed I've been conned.
After the 3rd try, you were smart enough to call yourself stupid by posting anonymously. Brilliant!
Funny you mention that. In a news segment on Canadian TV last year, there was a major deal between breweries being worked on.
So, a few reporters decided to ask local beer drinkers in pubs if the beer of either company was worthwhile. The answer 100% of the time: "I don't drink either - it upsets my stomach. Only imports!"
So maybe this association to the NAStronauts waste recycling program has some truth.