Stand-by time: up to 10days (WCDMA)/up to 10days (GSM)*
Has anybody anywhere really gotten 10 days standby time on their phone. I remember years ago seeing 2-3 weeks standby time, when actually getting about 3 days tops (with no phone use). I always thought this was a scam by the phone companies.
Must be in the UK, they love cheques over here. I hadn't seen a cheque for about 10 years before coming over here.
As to those people who don't use cash, I hate waiting behind you in the supermarket - especially the 3 items of less line. Can't even carry around £5. If they made it instantaneous, fine - but wasting any more time than is necessary really gets to me.
Don't waste your time reading it. It contains statements like this:
After flagging down a second Best Buy representative and asking about upgrading the memory in the particular system, he explained we could upgrade the memory, but he didnt know the price. He told us he would find out, and promptly left. He never returned with the information.
But he did, in fact, return later:
At this time, the second representative we asked about upgraded memory pricing returned with an answer.
Obviously nobody took him seriously, because he was a 12-year old child, judging by his writing.
The only decent advice of the article, is that when you have a technical question, ask for a technician. You need to consider that most people on the floor are salespeople, and aren't experts in any particular field. A real expert in IT would be working somewhere that would pay a lot more. Especially when you look at the state of technology these days, with DDR, DDR2, PCI-X...etc Why would someone with no interest in computers be expected to know this, when they are also selling a range of other items.
Are you trying not to understand?? Obviously his analogy is talking about comparing these office replacements now, to how electrisity was when it first came out. In the past. Before we had lots of redundancy and multiple sources of power. You know, like history??
Ha, used to ride in Adelaide all the time. Only someone from Canberra would be complaining about the driving in Adelaide. Canberra was setup to be a cyclists wet dream. Adelaide is a great city to ride in, reasonably flat, plenty of bike lanes. And I think there is a lot less maniacs on the road than Sydney or Melbourne or Brisbane.
Not that you get anyone riding there - Everybody drives, and we get perfect weather for riding.
I love my new job. It is 5 minutes walk from my house. One of the advantages of living in a UK city (they are way more compact). Of course, the people I work with are good as well - double bonus. My gf spends an hour travelling to work each way. She gets up at 6, I get up at 8:30. woohoo. Wish she would get a quieter alarm though, and the snooze button is a contentious issue!
You want old stuff, why not go for videos. Here in the UK, there are so many places selling videos, for no more than a £1. Especially if you aren't going to watch it that many times.
Might not rivel HD-DVD goodness, but if you are only interested in a good story (surely why you would go for older movies), then you are away.
Wow, great post. Make sure you keep that article a secret - you know the penalty for posting a link to an article like that and sharing said information.
This has nothing to do with it. If he could create a perfect operating system tomorrow, with the latest up-to-date features he would still not win - why marketing!
The guys is biased, he doesn't try to hide this in anyway. Only a fool would ignore arguments from both sides of the fence. Most of us know and agree how bad Microsoft is (sometimes for entirely different reasons). But it is nevertheless interesting seeing how an employee of Microsoft views this.
... it is very easy for the workers to begin to believe the propaganda of the company.
It is not even necessary for workes to start believing the propaganda. You seem it all the time in political parties. It is not that people start believing whole heartedly in the party line. It is just that the top decision makers see the people who do share such similar views as 'my kind of people'. These are the ones who get promoted into higher ranks, than those of dissenting views. It is often not even a conscious act. So you see the beliefs at the top propagating down into all positions of power by this force.
Has anyone noticed lately that this site has been overrun by people whinging about slashdot's anti-microsoft stance.
Hey, I hate microsoft for the way that they have destroyed a lot of interesting companies and technologies, but I still found this an interesting read.
You are right, compared to the horrible things you mentioned, they are not really evil.
But you also need to understand, you are on a website with a bunch of people who are heavily involved in the computer industry. We not only do it for our jobs, but really care about this industry (for a variety of reasons) We have all seen some great companies and technologies be destroyed because of Microsofts illegal business tactics. A large number of us genuinely believe this world would be a better place without microsoft (not so much as with slaves and poisoning the world). This is why we characterize Microsoft as evil (in context). Nobody here says that Bill Gates is worse than Hitler or Stalin.
So I can only judge the cost of something by selling it?? What is I don't want to sell it... is it worth 0?? This is my point, which you have great difficulty grasping.
Why should I have to sell something to gauge its value??
What about all the Barbie games, and those two twins - my niece really loved those games. Surely they must have done something for the PS2 (they were on the PS1)
What do you think companies are going to do with their money anyway - give it to charity, spend it all on research to make the world a better place? This is the cost of doing business.
Joe Sixpack will never buy into DVD. He's already perfectly happy with his VHS. He's not going to notice the quality difference and doesn't care about the extras.
These people are 100% correct. Most people don't care about these differences, and would have stuck with Videos except for the fact that we are all forced into DVDs. The only discernable difference most people notice about DVDs are they are smaller - wow, all that technology and that is the main difference. Most people don't care about the difference in quality, or extras. They just want to watch a movie, and now they can't even fast forward the adds and warnings.
Don't be fooled into thinking that it is merely an American trait.
The fact is that it is not that hard to drive most of the time - the majority of people can do it. It is only when you face something risky or need to make a split second decisiton, that you need to be an expert. These occassions can come up without you doing anything wrong - and probably don't come up that often. Especially for the peak-time driving crowd.
So should we penalise people for not having good judgement or decent skills when they are only needed rarely?? I mean it is impossible to remove all accidents from the road anyway....
OK, lets be really clever and ban driving - that will make my point won't it!
The parent makes a good point, and it is not just visual clues that avoid the distraction of talking to someone on the phone. You can pretty much guarantee that most people in your car will stop talking when somebody else on the road does something dangerous (how many times does that happen), not true for your mobile caller.
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Stand-by time: up to 10days (WCDMA)/up to 10days (GSM)*
Has anybody anywhere really gotten 10 days standby time on their phone. I remember years ago seeing 2-3 weeks standby time, when actually getting about 3 days tops (with no phone use). I always thought this was a scam by the phone companies.
Must be in the UK, they love cheques over here. I hadn't seen a cheque for about 10 years before coming over here.
As to those people who don't use cash, I hate waiting behind you in the supermarket - especially the 3 items of less line. Can't even carry around £5. If they made it instantaneous, fine - but wasting any more time than is necessary really gets to me.
Don't waste your time reading it. It contains statements like this:
After flagging down a second Best Buy representative and asking about upgrading the memory in the particular system, he explained we could upgrade the memory, but he didnt know the price. He told us he would find out, and promptly left. He never returned with the information.
But he did, in fact, return later:
At this time, the second representative we asked about upgraded memory pricing returned with an answer.
Obviously nobody took him seriously, because he was a 12-year old child, judging by his writing.
The only decent advice of the article, is that when you have a technical question, ask for a technician. You need to consider that most people on the floor are salespeople, and aren't experts in any particular field. A real expert in IT would be working somewhere that would pay a lot more. Especially when you look at the state of technology these days, with DDR, DDR2, PCI-X...etc Why would someone with no interest in computers be expected to know this, when they are also selling a range of other items.
Are you trying not to understand?? Obviously his analogy is talking about comparing these office replacements now, to how electrisity was when it first came out. In the past. Before we had lots of redundancy and multiple sources of power. You know, like history??
This bodes well for my console then:
Stupid console launched in 2100 for $340.33________________$10 in 2005
I suggest you pay for it now then!
So what happens when someone ring you?? Do they both ring?
This sounds so much like an Urban legend.
I can't believe they didn't post an screenshots!
Ha, used to ride in Adelaide all the time. Only someone from Canberra would be complaining about the driving in Adelaide. Canberra was setup to be a cyclists wet dream. Adelaide is a great city to ride in, reasonably flat, plenty of bike lanes. And I think there is a lot less maniacs on the road than Sydney or Melbourne or Brisbane.
Not that you get anyone riding there - Everybody drives, and we get perfect weather for riding.
I love my new job. It is 5 minutes walk from my house. One of the advantages of living in a UK city (they are way more compact). Of course, the people I work with are good as well - double bonus. My gf spends an hour travelling to work each way. She gets up at 6, I get up at 8:30. woohoo. Wish she would get a quieter alarm though, and the snooze button is a contentious issue!
You want old stuff, why not go for videos. Here in the UK, there are so many places selling videos, for no more than a £1. Especially if you aren't going to watch it that many times.
Might not rivel HD-DVD goodness, but if you are only interested in a good story (surely why you would go for older movies), then you are away.
Wow, great post. Make sure you keep that article a secret - you know the penalty for posting a link to an article like that and sharing said information.
Or perhaps someone runs by the room yelling "There's a maniac with an axe in the server room!"?
Oh don't worry, that is my brother. He came to pick me up when the interview is finished.
Do i get the job?
I would never come for a job application at your company.
This has nothing to do with it. If he could create a perfect operating system tomorrow, with the latest up-to-date features he would still not win - why marketing!
The guys is biased, he doesn't try to hide this in anyway. Only a fool would ignore arguments from both sides of the fence. Most of us know and agree how bad Microsoft is (sometimes for entirely different reasons). But it is nevertheless interesting seeing how an employee of Microsoft views this.
... it is very easy for the workers to begin to believe the propaganda of the company.
It is not even necessary for workes to start believing the propaganda. You seem it all the time in political parties. It is not that people start believing whole heartedly in the party line. It is just that the top decision makers see the people who do share such similar views as 'my kind of people'. These are the ones who get promoted into higher ranks, than those of dissenting views. It is often not even a conscious act. So you see the beliefs at the top propagating down into all positions of power by this force.
Has anyone noticed lately that this site has been overrun by people whinging about slashdot's anti-microsoft stance.
Hey, I hate microsoft for the way that they have destroyed a lot of interesting companies and technologies, but I still found this an interesting read.
You are right, compared to the horrible things you mentioned, they are not really evil.
But you also need to understand, you are on a website with a bunch of people who are heavily involved in the computer industry. We not only do it for our jobs, but really care about this industry (for a variety of reasons) We have all seen some great companies and technologies be destroyed because of Microsofts illegal business tactics. A large number of us genuinely believe this world would be a better place without microsoft (not so much as with slaves and poisoning the world). This is why we characterize Microsoft as evil (in context). Nobody here says that Bill Gates is worse than Hitler or Stalin.
So I can only judge the cost of something by selling it?? What is I don't want to sell it... is it worth 0?? This is my point, which you have great difficulty grasping.
Why should I have to sell something to gauge its value??
This is the problem with this tax bill.
What about all the Barbie games, and those two twins - my niece really loved those games. Surely they must have done something for the PS2 (they were on the PS1)
Really? Ok, I have an idea that will make virus searching faster, and take up less resources on a machine. How much is that worth?
Wow, things aren't so simple in the real world.
Moderators - don't mod me down, his statement was stupid!
What do you think companies are going to do with their money anyway - give it to charity, spend it all on research to make the world a better place? This is the cost of doing business.
Joe Sixpack will never buy into DVD. He's already perfectly happy with his VHS. He's not going to notice the quality difference and doesn't care about the extras.
These people are 100% correct. Most people don't care about these differences, and would have stuck with Videos except for the fact that we are all forced into DVDs. The only discernable difference most people notice about DVDs are they are smaller - wow, all that technology and that is the main difference. Most people don't care about the difference in quality, or extras. They just want to watch a movie, and now they can't even fast forward the adds and warnings.
Don't be fooled into thinking that it is merely an American trait.
The fact is that it is not that hard to drive most of the time - the majority of people can do it. It is only when you face something risky or need to make a split second decisiton, that you need to be an expert. These occassions can come up without you doing anything wrong - and probably don't come up that often. Especially for the peak-time driving crowd.
So should we penalise people for not having good judgement or decent skills when they are only needed rarely?? I mean it is impossible to remove all accidents from the road anyway....
OK, lets be really clever and ban driving - that will make my point won't it!
The parent makes a good point, and it is not just visual clues that avoid the distraction of talking to someone on the phone. You can pretty much guarantee that most people in your car will stop talking when somebody else on the road does something dangerous (how many times does that happen), not true for your mobile caller.