There are a few callcenters here that start at $10/hr (Caremark and Marriott, off the top of my head). IMO, Customer Service shouldn't start at less than 10-11 and tech no less than 12-13. But it's just not worth it to companies, apparently. They'd rather go for the McDonalds hiring model because to them mediocrity (or worse) is ok. They don't care if the customer is actually helped, as long as the customer keeps giving them money.
No, but if you would rub two brain cells together you'd realise that TFA is about the USA and therefore my comment as well. It's not my fault you're too stupid to interpret things from context.
They - 99% of the time - don't hire directly to a tier 2 or 3, unless you are getting hired from a different call center. The rest of the time you have to join in at tier 1 and wait and hope to be promoted.... so you can get the great 50 cent raise.
From my understanding, the industries' average pay for a tech support position isn't typically that low. In the area I'm in, you won't be paid less than 8 for customer support and 9 for technical support.
That said, they are still very crappy jobs with many centers having turnover rates that would make fast food places blush.
Recently, Torrent has been the subject of numerous articles as a result of the contract between Torrent's sole creator and developer, Ludvig Strigeus ("ludde"), and PeerFactor.
While PeerFactor has been involved in anti-P2P activities in the past, there is a large amount of misinformation being spread about Torrent, PeerFactor and the nature of the agreement.
* No change has been made to Torrent as a result of the contract, and no changes will be made in the future. Torrent contains no anti-P2P component, IP logging or other monitoring as falsely reported by some websites, and is not affiliated with the RIAA or MPAA.
* PeerFactor is no longer associated with RetSpan, and furthermore, Ludvig is in no way affiliated with RetSpan. Ludvig does not "work for RetSpan", nor does he work for PeerFactor.
* PeerFactor is a new company, started by former PeerFactor employees who did not like the anti-P2P idea. They broke off to form a new pro-P2P company called PeerFactor SARL. This is the company that Ludvig is dealing with, NOT the anti-P2P PeerFactor.
* The PeerFactor software that Ludvig is associated with is not anti-P2P software, unlike the PeerFactor program run by RetSpan in 2004, now discontinued. The head of PeerFactor states that "we do not distribute any fake file over P2P, but only useful content" (source).
* The PeerFactor agreement does not give PeerFactor access to Torrent's source code. The only work done by Ludvig for PeerFactor consisted of the development of a single DLL which provides an implementation of BitTorrent for the PeerFactor software. Ludvig is not involved in the development of any other part of PeerFactor.
* PeerFactor's software is going to be used to create a legal downloading service for webmasters to distribute large content more easily, as specified in the contract, nothing else.
* Ludvig remains the only person with access to Torrent's source code. Torrent remains closed-source to prevent clones and modifications such as DHT hacks, not to conceal anti-P2P code. Torrent will not become open-source as a result of the controversy over the agreement.
Please refrain from spreading misinformation about Torrent. Should you have further concerns about the integrity of the program, please raise them in the Torrent community forums.
RIAA: Oh, sorry about that! We'll be glad to add those back in. Oh, by the way, did you get the memo about the new 40% deduction to "assist in combating piracy"? Hm? Yes, we realise that this is higher than the 35% we just added back in, but it's going to HELP you get more sales! Oh, and it's going to be on all sales, not just downloads. Have a nice day!
I have to admit, I'm not all that religious about checking for updates (mostly since I have little free time and WU is a large PITA), so my biggest uptime killer is either power outages/blowing a fuse or system/driver updates.
My XP has urrently been running double the GP's, and that's really low for me (See: power outages). Silly people deciding to ram power poles.
Considering the claim to be a MS Word killer, yes, I do expect this functionality right away.
How about I claim to have built a Linux that is a sure-fire Windows killer because it natively runs any application from any os... except all it can do right now is boot to a console. The other features are coming later.
I said this back when/. ran the first story about ajaxWrite, and I'll say it now - ajaxWrite isn't near OO.o's or Abiword's league; its competition is Wordpad... and Wordpad is winning. This article is just reaffirming what was so plain to see when looking at the app for 5 minutes.
First, I want to say that a.kid doesn't sound like an awfully bad idea. I'm sure sites marketed specifically towards kids would eat it up. And similar for religiously names.tld's, though.christ wouldn't really work - it would likely have to be something like.religion or somesuch. Now that that's out of the way, on 6to my main point:
Have most video stores not segregated porn off to a back room? Don't many retailers make stores specifcally for xxx material? And don't many of them wear that XXX almost as a badge of honour? While I do see your point, I don't really find it compelling. I think a.xxx could be beneficial to the adult entertainment and toy industries. When was the last time you saw a XXX store as a booth right in the middle of a mall?
the bloody games industry pays worse than the entertainment industry, and yet, makes more money on its titles than movies do
That's only the BOXOFFICE. As in theatres. That's only a bit of their revenue (IIRC, it hovers somewhere near 25%). The rest is made up primarily by DVD/VHS sales, and then others, including PayPerView and syndicated TV. When considering the whole pie, the movie industry slaughters video games.
Keep in mind that the summar is completely wrong. By a factor of 8. The drive is not half a terabyte, it's half a terabit.
To be fair, the linked article got it wrong in its title stating "...crams in 0.5TB", so that could easily, at least IMO, have led to the/. article getting it wrong too - especially since 515Gb is mentioned only once and then bits aren't mentioned again until the very end, and then only in passing.
It's not about your current customers, it's about your potential customers. If someone finds two companies online who offer nearly identical services, they will most likely go with the one that doesn't look like a fourth grader's myspace page.
This system would create a two-tiered Internet in which affluent mass emailers could pay AOL a fee that amounts to an "email tax" for every email sent, in return for a guarantee that such messages would bypass spam filters and go directly to AOL members' inboxes
Let's just shut up and let them do it. Maybe then people will get wise and switch to a better ISP so I won't have to deal with the trashing AOL does to a system.
You, sir, obviously aren't ADD. I work in a call center and was until just recently working on a special project amongst all the agents. I was turning around every couple minutes to see who was walking by me (because I can't NOT look) or having to answer a question from an agent, or overhearing a conversation and getting drawn into it.... Quiet = GOOD. I'm so thankful that I finally got moved to a secluded area with near-ceiling height cube walls.
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Oh, so I take it you rarely read game previews seeing as how they are just marketing anyway?
There are a few callcenters here that start at $10/hr (Caremark and Marriott, off the top of my head). IMO, Customer Service shouldn't start at less than 10-11 and tech no less than 12-13. But it's just not worth it to companies, apparently. They'd rather go for the McDonalds hiring model because to them mediocrity (or worse) is ok. They don't care if the customer is actually helped, as long as the customer keeps giving them money.
The USA is the entire world to you, is it?
No, but if you would rub two brain cells together you'd realise that TFA is about the USA and therefore my comment as well. It's not my fault you're too stupid to interpret things from context.
Gee, I don't know... what are most people in the US paid in?
They - 99% of the time - don't hire directly to a tier 2 or 3, unless you are getting hired from a different call center. The rest of the time you have to join in at tier 1 and wait and hope to be promoted.... so you can get the great 50 cent raise.
From my understanding, the industries' average pay for a tech support position isn't typically that low. In the area I'm in, you won't be paid less than 8 for customer support and 9 for technical support.
That said, they are still very crappy jobs with many centers having turnover rates that would make fast food places blush.
Recently, Torrent has been the subject of numerous articles as a result of the contract between Torrent's sole creator and developer, Ludvig Strigeus ("ludde"), and PeerFactor.
While PeerFactor has been involved in anti-P2P activities in the past, there is a large amount of misinformation being spread about Torrent, PeerFactor and the nature of the agreement.
* No change has been made to Torrent as a result of the contract, and no changes will be made in the future. Torrent contains no anti-P2P component, IP logging or other monitoring as falsely reported by some websites, and is not affiliated with the RIAA or MPAA.
* PeerFactor is no longer associated with RetSpan, and furthermore, Ludvig is in no way affiliated with RetSpan. Ludvig does not "work for RetSpan", nor does he work for PeerFactor.
* PeerFactor is a new company, started by former PeerFactor employees who did not like the anti-P2P idea. They broke off to form a new pro-P2P company called PeerFactor SARL. This is the company that Ludvig is dealing with, NOT the anti-P2P PeerFactor.
* The PeerFactor software that Ludvig is associated with is not anti-P2P software, unlike the PeerFactor program run by RetSpan in 2004, now discontinued. The head of PeerFactor states that "we do not distribute any fake file over P2P, but only useful content" (source).
* The PeerFactor agreement does not give PeerFactor access to Torrent's source code. The only work done by Ludvig for PeerFactor consisted of the development of a single DLL which provides an implementation of BitTorrent for the PeerFactor software. Ludvig is not involved in the development of any other part of PeerFactor.
* PeerFactor's software is going to be used to create a legal downloading service for webmasters to distribute large content more easily, as specified in the contract, nothing else.
* Ludvig remains the only person with access to Torrent's source code. Torrent remains closed-source to prevent clones and modifications such as DHT hacks, not to conceal anti-P2P code. Torrent will not become open-source as a result of the controversy over the agreement.
Please refrain from spreading misinformation about Torrent. Should you have further concerns about the integrity of the program, please raise them in the Torrent community forums.
RIAA: Oh, sorry about that! We'll be glad to add those back in. Oh, by the way, did you get the memo about the new 40% deduction to "assist in combating piracy"? Hm? Yes, we realise that this is higher than the 35% we just added back in, but it's going to HELP you get more sales! Oh, and it's going to be on all sales, not just downloads. Have a nice day!
I have to admit, I'm not all that religious about checking for updates (mostly since I have little free time and WU is a large PITA), so my biggest uptime killer is either power outages/blowing a fuse or system/driver updates.
My XP has urrently been running double the GP's, and that's really low for me (See: power outages). Silly people deciding to ram power poles.
1) No, not really.
2) From the screenshots I've seen, it does *seem* to be a better shot at it, but it's still nothing all that special. Mostly just "pretty".
3) I would guess about one in one trillion.
This isn't a badass 'Halo killer.' It's next-gen Duck Hunt
I see your point, but - by the same logic - isn't Halo really just a fancy Duck Hunt, except instead of a light gun you use a joystick?
I use a couple not listed...
bn.com and amazon.com
Considering the claim to be a MS Word killer, yes, I do expect this functionality right away. How about I claim to have built a Linux that is a sure-fire Windows killer because it natively runs any application from any os... except all it can do right now is boot to a console. The other features are coming later.
I said this back when /. ran the first story about ajaxWrite, and I'll say it now - ajaxWrite isn't near OO.o's or Abiword's league; its competition is Wordpad... and Wordpad is winning. This article is just reaffirming what was so plain to see when looking at the app for 5 minutes.
"playing Morrowind as an MMO would be pretty cool"
I would venture that this is probably because the gameplay resembles (at least from what I've seen) MMORPG gameplay.
Perhaps this is why I found the game just kinda "bleh".
First, I want to say that a .kid doesn't sound like an awfully bad idea. I'm sure sites marketed specifically towards kids would eat it up. And similar for religiously names .tld's, though .christ wouldn't really work - it would likely have to be something like .religion or somesuch. Now that that's out of the way, on 6to my main point:
.xxx could be beneficial to the adult entertainment and toy industries. When was the last time you saw a XXX store as a booth right in the middle of a mall?
Have most video stores not segregated porn off to a back room? Don't many retailers make stores specifcally for xxx material? And don't many of them wear that XXX almost as a badge of honour? While I do see your point, I don't really find it compelling. I think a
It's not about your current customers, it's about your potential customers. If someone finds two companies online who offer nearly identical services, they will most likely go with the one that doesn't look like a fourth grader's myspace page.
In Soviet Russia, software developer beats YOU!
Scan the schools' comps anyway and if caught social-engineer your way out of trouble for Double Bonus Points(TM)!
This system would create a two-tiered Internet in which affluent mass emailers could pay AOL a fee that amounts to an "email tax" for every email sent, in return for a guarantee that such messages would bypass spam filters and go directly to AOL members' inboxes
Let's just shut up and let them do it. Maybe then people will get wise and switch to a better ISP so I won't have to deal with the trashing AOL does to a system.
With over 98% combined (US/Canada/Europe) install base for flash 5 or greater for December 2005, I would say that interoperability is at acceptable levels and that you, in fact, are one of just a very few who cannot or will not install this "junk". Pardon me whilest I find a suitably small violin to play for you.
You, sir, obviously aren't ADD. I work in a call center and was until just recently working on a special project amongst all the agents. I was turning around every couple minutes to see who was walking by me (because I can't NOT look) or having to answer a question from an agent, or overhearing a conversation and getting drawn into it.... Quiet = GOOD. I'm so thankful that I finally got moved to a secluded area with near-ceiling height cube walls.