Which was a definitive resource at one time (used to be touted to prove FF was dying). But the fact is that the sites are monitoring their stats and are basing it on that. With w3schools it is where the developers go.
You would need to know the volume of the sample and what it is based off to get something anyway accurate.
Well the main reason is that the setup was a Swap. Which means they take the broken machine. If I keep the machine in anyway then they can effectively charge me for the new machine.
If you get through the business/gold support then its fine. Its the call center stuff that is dire.
For example my latest dealings with Dell support. Machine keeps crashing, after 2 weeks on their support website and MS site I done all the investigation to prove its a hardware issue. Their response is "reformat the machine". I tell them I have already done this and run the dell diagnostics and supplied them the info. Not good enough have to jump through the hoops again.
So I do, and told motherboard is broken. Replaced that, still broken. Then its memory, they replace that, still broken, further parts replace include hard drive, processor fans and processor (in that order). Still not working. I even give all the stop codes to help them and they ignore what I have given them and just replace the same parts again.
Three months of this when I ring up for the final time I am told "Reformat the machine". I gave up and threatened legal action. The response was I got a brand new machine at that point. Thing is they are supposed to swap the machine, instead they just give me a new machine and I'm left with a broken one taking up space. I have to go through all this song and dance again now for them to take back the broken machine.
If their technical support was any halfway good the issue would of been resolved a lot sooner and worked out cheaper for Dell.
> The first priority of Michael Dell should be to > improve Dell's lousy customer service
Agreed! All my dealings with Dell this is the single point where I have always had negative dealings with Dell.
> and in-source it to US again.
That may not always make it better. The problem with Dells support isn't that it is in India. It is that for the home users we get a "call center" rather then a "technical support center". There is a huge difference. Call Centers hire the lowest common denominator thats skills require reading check boxes off a screen.
Technical support on the other hand is different. You are dealing with a person who understands the issue you are explaining. They know to cut through the check boxes and work on the core area.
> Corporates love Dell because of its uniform ugly black boxen.
> Shill bidding only affects morons who get caught up in the bidding frenzy
I disagree. I've bid on two auctions before. Both times I watched as I got outbid to just above my maximum and then suddenly returning to me as the top bidder at my highest price I was willing to pay.
In such an instance is how the shills are scamming. If they wanted a fixed price they should fix it at that price rather then dicking around to force your bid to auto raise to your limit.
In a real auction I might be willing to go to $200 on an item, it doesn't mean my starting bid or expected final bid should be that.
> Err... Unless you're saying that you have examples of people > who, having called for Gonzales' impeachment, were > subsequently sent to offshore detention camps and subjected to torture?
With the current administration changing the laws how would you ever know? Seriously.
Is it just me or did the interview and the cartoon seem to be suggesting that people stay away from blogs?
I mean seriously, who posts pirated stuff on blogs? I thought it was all peer to peer these days?
Only other thing I discovered from the cartoon is that if a chubby guy called Randall sucking on a chocolate bar like it was a wang comes up to your desk odds on your going to be fired.
For example. 1. Network goes down in my area. I phone IT who tell me to reboot my machine. I explain the network is down in the whole area where they tell me to reboot every machine.
2. Locked out of my machine because password is expired and domain is down. I phone IT who tell me someone will be back to be in a day. A day later someone rings me to get the same details again. Despite numerous calls I get my password reset and domain back up 3 days later. I had to break the IT rules to work during that time.
3. Printer needs new toner. IT look after it. Put an IT request in to ask for toner replacement. Following day someone from India (did I mention we outsourced our IT) calls to ask me the exact same things as what I wrote in the request but also wants to know my machine spec and operating system (Why!). Next day I get a call from another country who said the call had been routed there and would be routed to my location. A few hours later a guy who sits across the way from me gets up and changes the toner. He wouldn't move his ass until it was official.
not sure why you were modded funny. It was a suggestion for RFID in currency. The EU had even planned to put RFID into the notes by 2005 back in 2001 (no idea what happened there).
> Said "whackjobs" are less likely to be suicide attackers,
That makes it better how exactly?
> Secondly, I don't know of any homegrown terrorist > plots by people who wanted to destroy America as a whole
You mean you don't remember the time a white supremacists group had plans to detonate cyanide bombs all over America. The leaders were caught in 2003 but they still believe a large portion of the members are still out there.
Or how about the Anthrax letters. We know now that had nothing to do with Islamist terrorists. Hear anything about that recently?
Of course your definition of terrorism is different to mine. It normally means to induce terror as a means to reach your objective. It doesn't always mean about killing. By defination the current administration would fall under that.
As for destroying the way of life? Your government is already doing a good job of that. I mean just think 5-10 years ago if I said that "The American way of life is to pick up people off the street who haven't been charged and torture them" I would of been laughed at. You can't seriously say that is the American way of life.
Also if you think closing your borders makes you safer, take a look at Israel. Possibly the best border control in the world. Do you think they are safer then the US?
not to rain on your parade but how does it stop terrorist groups that are American born and already in the country? I'm not just talking about fanatical islamists btw, USA has its fair share of whack jobs across the board.
Also bare in mind that 9/11 hijackers had legit documentation. All the fingerprints I can see doing is matching the terrorist up after the fact.
How about disproving rather then just spouting some accusation?
Incidentally all they found in Iraq was paperwork for WMD, and old paperwork at that. Want to know what the Republican party did then? Posted it all on the fricken internet so any crackpot can learn how to make their own weapons.
Your post is funny in that you go on about how the EU is a bad thing creating what is basically a federal state when you basically live in one already.
Anglophiles? The EU isn't English, they are just part of it.
"So we found out many of them weren't. That is why we released them. And, what do you expect, we should yell at the top of our lungs that they were innocent? Nobody really cares."
I am sure their families cared, or that person cared to be imprisioned and tortured for 2+ years because someone thought they were a terrorist.
"However, I find it reprehensible to assume that the Bush administration is able to do this freely."
They have been able to do it freely for sometime and the recent torture bill just green lighted it all previously and in the future.
"Protecting terrorists' rights is more important than preventing terrorism. "
Which is not what is saying. Your logical assumption is that if someone is sent to Gitmo they are automatically a terrorist, therefore they do not deserve any rights?
Because that is what is happening now, yet there have already been numerous accounts of people being detained because someone "had a hunch" (their words) or similar sounding name or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Depends a lot on what sites you visit. Sure I would prefer tabs, I'd also prefer smaller buttons at the bottom of the screen but for the moment the browser is in Beta.
Slashdot Mirror
He is probably getting the 35% from w3schools.
a sp
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.
Which was a definitive resource at one time (used to be touted to prove FF was dying). But the fact is that the sites are monitoring their stats and are basing it on that. With w3schools it is where the developers go.
You would need to know the volume of the sample and what it is based off to get something anyway accurate.
Well the main reason is that the setup was a Swap. Which means they take the broken machine. If I keep the machine in anyway then they can effectively charge me for the new machine.
If you get through the business/gold support then its fine. Its the call center stuff that is dire.
For example my latest dealings with Dell support. Machine keeps crashing, after 2 weeks on their support website and MS site I done all the investigation to prove its a hardware issue. Their response is "reformat the machine". I tell them I have already done this and run the dell diagnostics and supplied them the info. Not good enough have to jump through the hoops again.
So I do, and told motherboard is broken. Replaced that, still broken. Then its memory, they replace that, still broken, further parts replace include hard drive, processor fans and processor (in that order). Still not working. I even give all the stop codes to help them and they ignore what I have given them and just replace the same parts again.
Three months of this when I ring up for the final time I am told "Reformat the machine". I gave up and threatened legal action. The response was I got a brand new machine at that point. Thing is they are supposed to swap the machine, instead they just give me a new machine and I'm left with a broken one taking up space. I have to go through all this song and dance again now for them to take back the broken machine.
If their technical support was any halfway good the issue would of been resolved a lot sooner and worked out cheaper for Dell.
> The first priority of Michael Dell should be to
:)
> improve Dell's lousy customer service
Agreed! All my dealings with Dell this is the single point where I have always had negative dealings with Dell.
> and in-source it to US again.
That may not always make it better. The problem with Dells support isn't that it is in India. It is that for the home users we get a "call center" rather then a "technical support center". There is a huge difference. Call Centers hire the lowest common denominator thats skills require reading check boxes off a screen.
Technical support on the other hand is different. You are dealing with a person who understands the issue you are explaining. They know to cut through the check boxes and work on the core area.
> Corporates love Dell because of its uniform ugly black boxen.
You haven't bought a dell in a while have you.
> Shill bidding only affects morons who get caught up in the bidding frenzy
I disagree. I've bid on two auctions before. Both times I watched as I got outbid to just above my maximum and then suddenly returning to me as the top bidder at my highest price I was willing to pay.
In such an instance is how the shills are scamming. If they wanted a fixed price they should fix it at that price rather then dicking around to force your bid to auto raise to your limit.
In a real auction I might be willing to go to $200 on an item, it doesn't mean my starting bid or expected final bid should be that.
> Err ... Unless you're saying that you have examples of people
> who, having called for Gonzales' impeachment, were
> subsequently sent to offshore detention camps and subjected to torture?
With the current administration changing the laws how would you ever know? Seriously.
Is it just me or did the interview and the cartoon seem to be suggesting that people stay away from blogs?
I mean seriously, who posts pirated stuff on blogs? I thought it was all peer to peer these days?
Only other thing I discovered from the cartoon is that if a chubby guy called Randall sucking on a chocolate bar like it was a wang comes up to your desk odds on your going to be fired.
lol, knew I forgot something.
> all conceivable bad guys that could be a threat are dead
Ascended wraith Prior inhabited by gould?
You get the other end of it..
For example.
1. Network goes down in my area.
I phone IT who tell me to reboot my machine. I explain the network is down in the whole area where they tell me to reboot every machine.
2. Locked out of my machine because password is expired and domain is down.
I phone IT who tell me someone will be back to be in a day. A day later someone rings me to get the same details again. Despite numerous calls I get my password reset and domain back up 3 days later. I had to break the IT rules to work during that time.
3. Printer needs new toner. IT look after it. Put an IT request in to ask for toner replacement. Following day someone from India (did I mention we outsourced our IT) calls to ask me the exact same things as what I wrote in the request but also wants to know my machine spec and operating system (Why!). Next day I get a call from another country who said the call had been routed there and would be routed to my location. A few hours later a guy who sits across the way from me gets up and changes the toner. He wouldn't move his ass until it was official.
There are just as many lusers working in IT tbh.
not sure why you were modded funny. It was a suggestion for RFID in currency. The EU had even planned to put RFID into the notes by 2005 back in 2001 (no idea what happened there).
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016
I wonder who many of them in the 322 suspects had their credit card number stolen/copied?
> Said "whackjobs" are less likely to be suicide attackers,
h tm
That makes it better how exactly?
> Secondly, I don't know of any homegrown terrorist
> plots by people who wanted to destroy America as a whole
You mean you don't remember the time a white supremacists group had plans to detonate cyanide bombs all over America. The leaders were caught in 2003 but they still believe a large portion of the members are still out there.
To jog your memory...
http://www.thememoryhole.org/terror/tyler-terror.
Or how about the Anthrax letters. We know now that had nothing to do with Islamist terrorists. Hear anything about that recently?
Of course your definition of terrorism is different to mine. It normally means to induce terror as a means to reach your objective. It doesn't always mean about killing. By defination the current administration would fall under that.
As for destroying the way of life? Your government is already doing a good job of that. I mean just think 5-10 years ago if I said that "The American way of life is to pick up people off the street who haven't been charged and torture them" I would of been laughed at. You can't seriously say that is the American way of life.
Also if you think closing your borders makes you safer, take a look at Israel. Possibly the best border control in the world. Do you think they are safer then the US?
It is actually easier to go to China then it is to the USA.
not to rain on your parade but how does it stop terrorist groups that are American born and already in the country? I'm not just talking about fanatical islamists btw, USA has its fair share of whack jobs across the board.
Also bare in mind that 9/11 hijackers had legit documentation. All the fingerprints I can see doing is matching the terrorist up after the fact.
And all those people who worked in Blockbuster and Netflix who have been replaced by the machine get new jobs in Walmart! It's win win.
Am I the only one who remembers Divx?
The nuclear explosion wasn't big enough to be felt worldwide.
How about disproving rather then just spouting some accusation?
Incidentally all they found in Iraq was paperwork for WMD, and old paperwork at that. Want to know what the Republican party did then? Posted it all on the fricken internet so any crackpot can learn how to make their own weapons.
Don't believe me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9VjzpUu_2s&eurl
Your turn. Put up or shut up.
Probably because its 2006 review which is a Bush administration. Only up until last Novemeber have the Democrats had any real power in government.
Are you aware of anything that would make that list that isn't Bush administration related? I would be intrested to know.
Your post is funny in that you go on about how the EU is a bad thing creating what is basically a federal state when you basically live in one already.
Anglophiles? The EU isn't English, they are just part of it.
"So we found out many of them weren't. That is why we released them. And, what do you expect, we should yell at the top of our lungs that they were innocent? Nobody really cares."
I am sure their families cared, or that person cared to be imprisioned and tortured for 2+ years because someone thought they were a terrorist.
"However, I find it reprehensible to assume that the Bush administration is able to do this freely."
They have been able to do it freely for sometime and the recent torture bill just green lighted it all previously and in the future.
"Protecting terrorists' rights is more important than preventing terrorism. "
Which is not what is saying. Your logical assumption is that if someone is sent to Gitmo they are automatically a terrorist, therefore they do not deserve any rights?
Because that is what is happening now, yet there have already been numerous accounts of people being detained because someone "had a hunch" (their words) or similar sounding name or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Depends a lot on what sites you visit. Sure I would prefer tabs, I'd also prefer smaller buttons at the bottom of the screen but for the moment the browser is in Beta.
The internet browser for the Wii is fantastic. Been watching YT on TV a lot more then I watch TV now.
The whole piece reads like one of those shill adverts you get from some marketing drone.
The OP doesn't work for Zipatoni by any chance?