Yes, most times corruption is caused by a dba or sysadmin, but I have also seen it caused by Oracle itself. This was early in the 8.0 series and a patch resolved it. To Oracle's credit, they had a hot patch out the next day.
One doesn't. What one does is try to find a company that they feel the can recoup enough money from in the event of a mission-critical failure to recover or at least bail out gracefully. This is what support contracts are all about. "Trust" in business usually boils down to liability contracts, bonding, or insurance. It all comes down to money
I highly doubt that they get their parts at cost for there own use. Yes, an authorized service center (i.e. UPS) is provided parts (possibly at cost or possibly for free), but these parts should tracked as a seperate inventory by the warrantor (i.e. Toshiba). Parts provided should be cross checked against parts replaced in warranty claims. Remedies for imbalances vary from contract to contract, possibly including reimbursement, loss of contractual obligation, or as a last resort fraud charges.
My best guess as to why UPS is interested in deals like this is customer lock in. It becomes much more difficult to switch carries when you also have to make arrangements to handle the warranty repairs that were previously offloaded to that carrier. Any profits from the warranty claims are probably just a bonus.
Sounds about right. I've made an unreal amount ofcalls to FedEx support. At this point I'm much more knowledgable about their products than their field reps and most of their support wonks think I work for FedEx. The only upside to this is that some of the transcripts of support calls are absolutely hillarious.
"It might be network related, but if it were I wouldn't think it would be so intermittent"
I'd say that they pretty much had to dump unsold inventory. Trust me, they would be very happy if they could dump sold inventory. Imagine a 1. 2. 3. list with no ??? and two profit steps. Yeehaw
The sort of people to look at this kind of cost/risk ration and think "cha-ching" may actually be stupid enough to punch themselves in the face (even after reading this post). Where's my film?
I was in the same boat with the stock A1200. After setting my machine aside for the beter part of a month for a 1 minute simple animation I started saving my pennies for that 68020 card. The waits were terrible, but somehow it was all much more fun back then.
He couldn't, but with the numbers known brute forcing the order is possible. Consider an ATM pin:
(order known) 4! = 24 combinations to try
(unkown) 10 ^ 4 combinations to try
It depends on the type of item. Ball point pens are a particullarly intersting case. They sneak off to a planet inhabited exclusively by ball points and enjoy a uniquely ball point lifestyle. At least, that's the theory; Nobody has been able to locate such a planet.
btw, you should check out www.cheappens.com
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That fact thats its a singularity implies that it is quite dense. It could have a small mass if it were incredibly tiny.
It's not all rosy, the devices are still under $2000
Yes, things will be much more rosy when they are over $2000.
If you're going to use it expensively, then why not just go with Oracle?
Yes, most times corruption is caused by a dba or sysadmin, but I have also seen it caused by Oracle itself. This was early in the 8.0 series and a patch resolved it. To Oracle's credit, they had a hot patch out the next day.
One doesn't. What one does is try to find a company that they feel the can recoup enough money from in the event of a mission-critical failure to recover or at least bail out gracefully. This is what support contracts are all about. "Trust" in business usually boils down to liability contracts, bonding, or insurance. It all comes down to money
$0, but I plan to double that next year
I highly doubt that they get their parts at cost for there own use. Yes, an authorized service center (i.e. UPS) is provided parts (possibly at cost or possibly for free), but these parts should tracked as a seperate inventory by the warrantor (i.e. Toshiba). Parts provided should be cross checked against parts replaced in warranty claims. Remedies for imbalances vary from contract to contract, possibly including reimbursement, loss of contractual obligation, or as a last resort fraud charges.
My best guess as to why UPS is interested in deals like this is customer lock in. It becomes much more difficult to switch carries when you also have to make arrangements to handle the warranty repairs that were previously offloaded to that carrier. Any profits from the warranty claims are probably just a bonus.
Sounds about right. I've made an unreal amount ofcalls to FedEx support. At this point I'm much more knowledgable about their products than their field reps and most of their support wonks think I work for FedEx. The only upside to this is that some of the transcripts of support calls are absolutely hillarious.
"It might be network related, but if it were I wouldn't think it would be so intermittent"
classic
When you add in the $5000 for the jet pack he would need to get up there and snap the picture, the disposable film-based camera would be a net loss
I'd say that they pretty much had to dump unsold inventory. Trust me, they would be very happy if they could dump sold inventory. Imagine a 1. 2. 3. list with no ??? and two profit steps. Yeehaw
I'm guessing that the seccond bullet point is "High Contrast"
You can choose to stay in your shell and bash other distros
Beautiful
I ... um ... have a cold. Which brand are you using?
Flamebait? That must be someone with moderator points and a large bruise on their face.
The sort of people to look at this kind of cost/risk ration and think "cha-ching" may actually be stupid enough to punch themselves in the face (even after reading this post). Where's my film?
I seriously doubt it. Console costs are based on demand, not hardware cost because profit comes from royalties on games.
Isn't that the definition of profit that caused the dot com bubble to burst?
I was in the same boat with the stock A1200. After setting my machine aside for the beter part of a month for a 1 minute simple animation I started saving my pennies for that 68020 card. The waits were terrible, but somehow it was all much more fun back then.
He couldn't, but with the numbers known brute forcing the order is possible. Consider an ATM pin:
(order known) 4! = 24 combinations to try
(unkown) 10 ^ 4 combinations to try
It depends on the type of item. Ball point pens are a particullarly intersting case. They sneak off to a planet inhabited exclusively by ball points and enjoy a uniquely ball point lifestyle. At least, that's the theory; Nobody has been able to locate such a planet. btw, you should check out www.cheappens.com
I'll buy the noise aspect, but flash is only good for a limitted number of writes so the failure rate is much worse.
1) plug in hair dryer
2) depress trigger
3) wave hair dryer back and forth ~4 inches from blanket
4) ????
5) personality
oh man, Mr. McBride and Microsoft in the same story and its actually a good thing? My head hurts.
That last one is particullarly useful. Those klaxons are terribly annoying.