up north here (canada) it's 40$ to remove the spywares, 40$ to remove the viruses, 70$ if they want norton antivirus and finally another 40$ for spysweeper. so 190$ before taxes which is considered as a "complete package"
as a pc repair technician I can tell that 2 out of 3 machines we are taking in is for a spyware/virus related problem.
What I find really annoying is that the customers are bringing their computer in because "it is slow" so we have to break the news to them that this is a software related problem -so, not covered in store by the warranty (actually not covered at all)- and tell them that it costs 39.99can$ to get them removed. Most of them can even seem to figure that windows or a virus or anything else than the hardware could be to blame in all the slow downs they've been experiencing, and they can't figure that everything began when they installed kazaa or when they went on that pr0n site...it just happened. Most of them are clueless.
We had a woman last week who got her pc restored and brought it back yesterday because she was getting errors when trying to install kazaa...I told her to stay away from that program and she didn't even seem to register the information, like: "yeah, right, whatever, just get it working so I can download music again". Mam, you deserve to pay
as long as the customers will be treating their computer as simple stereos (you turn it on, you turn it off, if it won't work it's because it is physically broken) we'll have those problems and THEY'll have those problems. Most of them don't even figure that they are the cause. "The damn thing is broken again, I feel like I am paying for nothing"...no you're not, you're paying for your lack of knowledge/interest and your stupidity. As the saying goes "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"
>I'd say it depends - I use FireFox because of the tabs (especially Open Link in New Tab - very useful for pr0n, among other things) but it tends to crash/freeze sometimes.
He's got a point! IE never tends to crash!
could somebody just smack me around the head please?
Actually, the space shuttle doesn't have an alternative way of getting back to earth either, nor does soyouz, nor did apollo or any other other space ship back then...
as far as I know, the ISS (which is not a space ship, but a station as the name implies) is the first human creation in space to have an "escape pod" of some sort. Maybe Mir had some, and I don't know about skylab, but these where all stations not ships
geez
trying to get to the end of the review was really painful. how many click did it took? forgot...
i had never read pc magazine website before, and probably never will again. how many ads can they cram up in a single page, this is just plain dumb. I hope they don't think the customers will get trough the process of sorting what is an ad and what is information each and every time they want to read an article, we are better off buying the magazine...or maybe this is their point...
oh, well:)
I work as a technician for a huge canadian eletronic store and we often have to do repairs on laptops under our extended warranty (I don't want to go into the "extended warranties aren't worth crap" thing please). Most of our parts are coming from Computer Parts Unlimited (www.cpumart.com) and I think that they do sell to individuals too.
as far as I know, if your laptop is a compaq presario you are out of luck though since they are only selling the whole lcd panel with bezel, mask, hinges and inverter. Other than that you should be able to find the part you need.
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up north here (canada) it's 40$ to remove the spywares, 40$ to remove the viruses, 70$ if they want norton antivirus and finally another 40$ for spysweeper. so 190$ before taxes which is considered as a "complete package"
as a pc repair technician I can tell that 2 out of 3 machines we are taking in is for a spyware/virus related problem.
What I find really annoying is that the customers are bringing their computer in because "it is slow" so we have to break the news to them that this is a software related problem -so, not covered in store by the warranty (actually not covered at all)- and tell them that it costs 39.99can$ to get them removed. Most of them can even seem to figure that windows or a virus or anything else than the hardware could be to blame in all the slow downs they've been experiencing, and they can't figure that everything began when they installed kazaa or when they went on that pr0n site...it just happened. Most of them are clueless.
We had a woman last week who got her pc restored and brought it back yesterday because she was getting errors when trying to install kazaa...I told her to stay away from that program and she didn't even seem to register the information, like: "yeah, right, whatever, just get it working so I can download music again". Mam, you deserve to pay
as long as the customers will be treating their computer as simple stereos (you turn it on, you turn it off, if it won't work it's because it is physically broken) we'll have those problems and THEY'll have those problems. Most of them don't even figure that they are the cause. "The damn thing is broken again, I feel like I am paying for nothing"...no you're not, you're paying for your lack of knowledge/interest and your stupidity. As the saying goes "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"
since the lights don't burn out, the company will go belly up as soon as everybody will have bought their lights... :)
as in "if there is no thief, you won't need the police"
>I'd say it depends - I use FireFox because of the tabs (especially Open Link in New Tab - very useful for pr0n, among other things) but it tends to crash/freeze sometimes.
He's got a point! IE never tends to crash!
could somebody just smack me around the head please?
Actually, the space shuttle doesn't have an alternative way of getting back to earth either, nor does soyouz, nor did apollo or any other other space ship back then...
as far as I know, the ISS (which is not a space ship, but a station as the name implies) is the first human creation in space to have an "escape pod" of some sort. Maybe Mir had some, and I don't know about skylab, but these where all stations not ships
geez trying to get to the end of the review was really painful. how many click did it took? forgot... i had never read pc magazine website before, and probably never will again. how many ads can they cram up in a single page, this is just plain dumb. I hope they don't think the customers will get trough the process of sorting what is an ad and what is information each and every time they want to read an article, we are better off buying the magazine...or maybe this is their point... oh, well :)
I work as a technician for a huge canadian eletronic store and we often have to do repairs on laptops under our extended warranty (I don't want to go into the "extended warranties aren't worth crap" thing please). Most of our parts are coming from Computer Parts Unlimited (www.cpumart.com) and I think that they do sell to individuals too.
as far as I know, if your laptop is a compaq presario you are out of luck though since they are only selling the whole lcd panel with bezel, mask, hinges and inverter. Other than that you should be able to find the part you need.