I would love to pay low dollar for a high end machine that has been crippled...... For years we have unlocked and over clocked hardware. This will be no different. 200 bucks for a quad core, full blown smoking system that I will have to tinker with voiding all contracts and warranties?? Sign me up!
Just a quick google search will give me all the information I need to break their encryption, activate all hardware and emulate a untouched PC....
We have DEV teams forming all over the world, this would be right up their alley....
I will go step by step on how to resolve all issues with vista.
step #1: back-up data step #2: format drive step #3: Install working OS of choice.
After all steps are complete you will notice a considerable improvement of computer performance. The need for prozac or other anti-depressants will disappear. Your whites will be whiter, you will live 20% longer and your wife will enjoy your bold new confidence!
(Believe it or not my "anti-bot" word was hateful)
"I also hope that people note the fact that the public has not been flocking to smart phones of any sort"
I work in 2cd level Technical support for a very well known wireless company. Day in and day out, all I deal with are "smart" phones. I do not understand how anyone can make a statement like Dvorak. It seems everyone owns a "smart" phone. Even the pre-paid crowd has adopted them. I really wish he would do a little research before posting such garbage.
*Also, I would like to add 76.996% of all statistics are made up on the spot and have no basis in fact.
If you would like to know where I got the number.....read above*....
Right now my head is swimming with miss-information from this post. But before I address that, let me say this. It is your job as a consumer to research your purchases before making them, period. It seems this person expected someone to sit him down and go over the device, before he made his purchase. The crazy thing is, if he would have actively sought guidance, it would have been provided, without charge. This degree of expected mental hand-holding is a tragic laziness that unfortunately plagues our marketplace. If we make a bad decision as a consumer, we are quick to play the "uninformed" card and try to back out of our purchase while blaming others for our own miss judgment.
I see things in this post stating that since "all the other phones" have removable batteries, is ok to blindly expect the i-phone to have one. But yet, when the argument is made that all other I-pods have non-removable batteries the rebuttal once again proves my point. "But I don't follow i-pods, so how should I know that or why should I be expected to know that". People are all to eager to toss cash at something, hopping its all they imagined, instead or spending 10 minutes, actively researching the product. After paying, they find its not what they had dreamed of, and complain......and complain.....and....ect...
"Apple is mean-spirited". That is probably the most uninformed statement I have seen in a long time. As with the i-pod the battery for the i-phone is sealed into the case for esthetic and functionality reasons.
It strikes me funny that the same crowd that complains about the battery being sealed, is the same group that would complain about a bulky removable battery and we would see posts like "but the I-pod isn't like that, how was I to know?"..............
Also, you have 14 days to back out of your purchase, with a 10% restocking fee, if the box is open. Not 30 days.
Activate with I-tunes is written on the box, on Apple's site and on AT&T's site. Read a little, all the information is there, un hidden.
Apple even offers support for activation via an 800 number, also printed on the box, in the users guide, on Apple's site and on AT&T's site. The activation support center has access to both at&t accounts and apple admin aplications, so you are not bounced back and forth between companies. Also, (and this is the best part) the activation center is NOT outsourced to a foreign country, so the person you talk with is speaking understandable English.
BTW. Forever \For*ev"er\ (f[o^]r*[e^]v"[~e]r), adv. [For, prep. + ever.]
1. Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.
[1913 Webster]
2. At all times; always.
[1913 Webster]
According to webster, his post didn't take "forever" to read. With a little research, you could have figured out that one "on your own" as well......
I can see the need to end service with some customers but, to assign a value to the number of calls that are "acceptable" doesn't seem to be the way to handle it. You will end up closing accounts of some people that have real issues that need to be addressed by competent service people. I think the decision to end a customers account should be made by a human, not a number of calls. Working as a upper level technician for a leading wireless provider I have encountered 4 very distinct types of excessive callers.
1: Mr. Abusive. Demanding the unreasonable and unwilling to let you help him. This type of person calls in at least once a day, insulting and badgering his way into free "something" every month. He has learned that, with enough pestering and attitude the company will try and pacify him. This man is a thief, using words to hold customer service hostage until they meet his demands. He hasn't paid for service for months, and doesn't intend to.
2: Mr. I-Just-want-what-I-pay-for. He has a real issue and unfortunately has encountered several reps that have no clue how to resolve it. He has called in 5 to 10 times about the same issue, gets shuffled around from department to department, hung up on and promised resolution with no outcome. Do to the high turnover in customer support roles, it may take a few calls to find someone that knows how to solve your issue and isn't "fresh off the truck". Of course this isn't the customer's fault, but unfortunately he will have to deal with this to get his issue resolved. He pays his bills on time and has never really called until the issue arose.
3: Mr. I'm-too-busy-to-read-the-manual. This is the guy that calls in because he has decided customer service is his personal device trainer. He has no desire to help himself and has never had any desire to read the manual. He has purchased the most complicated PDA on the market and wants to know everything about it without any work on his part. He becomes irritated when the device doesn't work how he thinks it should. He usually hangs up if things are not going his way and calls the next helpless service rep. He spends hours on the phone, explaining how inconvenient it is for him to call in, none the less as soon as customer service lines open in the morning he is the first one calling. He owns the newest device and happily pays his mosterous bills on time every month.
#4 Mr. I'll-gladly-pay-you-Tuesday This is the guy that can't seem to pay his bill on time to save his life. He calls in to go over every little charge to make sure he isn't "not paying" for something he didn't use. This customer likes to play stupid about Internet use and downloads, demanding credit because "he wasn't aware that it wasn't free". He usually goes on and on with either some sad story about his hardships, claiming that if the company really cared for its customers it would make some small provision for him. He has been given "humanity" credits in the past and has now decided this is the way he is going to pay his bill. If he is refused credit, he will call back until someone gives in and credits his account. This customer is way past due on his account and has a long history of being past due.
Under Sprints new plan, all 4 customers will loose their accounts. Granted customer #1 needs to be taught a lesson and loosing his account will probably save the company some money in man hours. The company is going to loose customer #2, the guy that just wants it to work and customer #3 the guy that will spend big big money for the newest technology and pay a high monthly service for the premium packages. Although customer #3 is some what of a pain, he is still a money making customer. Customer #4 will usually find his own way out, either closed for non-payment or he will simply disappear and the account will be closed by collections.
Again I don't see this new "policy" as being a smart business decision. There are more customer #2s and #3s then the other "in my experience" and they a
I had the same problem and decided to test my Electronic skills. I used a power supply from an old apple (see they are good for something) and rated all the wires with a multi-meter. Then I looked at all the watt ratings of my various devices (yes watt not volt) to make sure I would not overload my 250 watt Power supply. Since the output of the power supply was mainly 12 volt, I hit radio shack for some resistors (and even remembered the color coding correctly). The DC plugs I salvaged from my junk drawer and the wire I used was 20Ga. copper. I soldered all the joints, tested the output and load, made sure it wasn't going to burn down the house and stuffed it all in a radio shack project box. I even tore apart an old Isobar surge protector and integrated it into the mix. All in all it works pretty well, but I cannot move my stuff around much, because it all has to be located around my power source.
You know, I use to like reading Tom's until their bias postings convinced me to buy a 850 chipset. Rambus was going to be the best thing since sliced bread...... Way to call that one guys...
It seems kind of funny to me that most "communication" companies own the line and equipment that will be used for VOIP. Why would banning it be in their favor? I mean I'm all for preserving MAC address's by not equipping every toaster and microwave on the planet with a NIC but, C'mon VOIP is the future.... why stand in the way? I guess we should all invest in tin cans and kite string................
Slashdot Mirror
Gives a new meaning to twisted pair......
also hope the pair was shielded.....
good way to get a virus....
I would love to pay low dollar for a high end machine that has been crippled......
For years we have unlocked and over clocked hardware. This will be no different.
200 bucks for a quad core, full blown smoking system that I will have to tinker with voiding all contracts and warranties?? Sign me up!
Just a quick google search will give me all the information I need to break their encryption, activate all hardware and emulate a untouched PC....
We have DEV teams forming all over the world, this would be right up their alley....
I will go step by step on how to resolve all issues with vista.
step #1: back-up data
step #2: format drive
step #3: Install working OS of choice.
After all steps are complete you will notice a considerable improvement of computer performance. The need for prozac or other anti-depressants will disappear. Your whites will be whiter, you will live 20% longer and your wife will enjoy your bold new confidence!
(Believe it or not my "anti-bot" word was hateful)
Doomy doooom ......ect....
"I also hope that people note the fact that
the public has not been flocking to smart phones of any sort"
I work in 2cd level Technical support for a very well known wireless company. Day in and day out, all I deal with are "smart" phones. I do not understand how anyone can make a statement like Dvorak. It seems everyone owns a "smart" phone. Even the pre-paid crowd has adopted them. I really wish he would do a little research before posting such garbage.
*Also, I would like to add 76.996% of all statistics are made up on the spot and have no basis in fact.
If you would like to know where I got the number.....read above*....
Right now my head is swimming with miss-information from this post. But before I address that, let me say this. It is your job as a consumer to research your purchases before making them, period. It seems this person expected someone to sit him down and go over the device, before he made his purchase. The crazy thing is, if he would have actively sought guidance, it would have been provided, without charge. This degree of expected mental hand-holding is a tragic laziness that unfortunately plagues our marketplace. If we make a bad decision as a consumer, we are quick to play the "uninformed" card and try to back out of our purchase while blaming others for our own miss judgment.
I see things in this post stating that since "all the other phones" have removable batteries, is ok to blindly expect the i-phone to have one. But yet, when the argument is made that all other I-pods have non-removable batteries the rebuttal once again proves my point. "But I don't follow i-pods, so how should I know that or why should I be expected to know that". People are all to eager to toss cash at something, hopping its all they imagined, instead or spending 10 minutes, actively researching the product. After paying, they find its not what they had dreamed of, and complain......and complain.....and....ect...
"Apple is mean-spirited". That is probably the most uninformed statement I have seen in a long time. As with the i-pod the battery for the i-phone is sealed into the case for esthetic and functionality reasons.
It strikes me funny that the same crowd that complains about the battery being sealed, is the same group that would complain about a bulky removable battery and we would see posts like "but the I-pod isn't like that, how was I to know?"..............
Also, you have 14 days to back out of your purchase, with a 10% restocking fee, if the box is open. Not 30 days.
Activate with I-tunes is written on the box, on Apple's site and on AT&T's site. Read a little, all the information is there, un hidden.
Apple even offers support for activation via an 800 number, also printed on the box, in the users guide, on Apple's site and on AT&T's site. The activation support center has access to both at&t accounts and apple admin aplications, so you are not bounced back and forth between companies. Also, (and this is the best part) the activation center is NOT outsourced to a foreign country, so the person you talk with is speaking understandable English.
BTW. Forever \For*ev"er\ (f[o^]r*[e^]v"[~e]r), adv. [For, prep. + ever.]
1. Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.
[1913 Webster]
2. At all times; always.
[1913 Webster]
According to webster, his post didn't take "forever" to read. With a little research, you could have figured out that one "on your own" as well......
I can see the need to end service with some customers but, to assign a value to the number of calls that are "acceptable" doesn't seem to be the way to handle it. You will end up closing accounts of some people that have real issues that need to be addressed by competent service people. I think the decision to end a customers account should be made by a human, not a number of calls. Working as a upper level technician for a leading wireless provider I have encountered 4 very distinct types of excessive callers.
1: Mr. Abusive. Demanding the unreasonable and unwilling to let you help him. This type of person calls in at least once a day, insulting and badgering his way into free "something" every month. He has learned that, with enough pestering and attitude the company will try and pacify him. This man is a thief, using words to hold customer service hostage until they meet his demands. He hasn't paid for service for months, and doesn't intend to.
2: Mr. I-Just-want-what-I-pay-for. He has a real issue and unfortunately has encountered several reps that have no clue how to resolve it. He has called in 5 to 10 times about the same issue, gets shuffled around from department to department, hung up on and promised resolution with no outcome. Do to the high turnover in customer support roles, it may take a few calls to find someone that knows how to solve your issue and isn't "fresh off the truck". Of course this isn't the customer's fault, but unfortunately he will have to deal with this to get his issue resolved. He pays his bills on time and has never really called until the issue arose.
3: Mr. I'm-too-busy-to-read-the-manual. This is the guy that calls in because he has decided customer service is his personal device trainer. He has no desire to help himself and has never had any desire to read the manual. He has purchased the most complicated PDA on the market and wants to know everything about it without any work on his part.
He becomes irritated when the device doesn't work how he thinks it should. He usually hangs up if things are not going his way and calls the next helpless service rep. He spends hours on the phone, explaining how inconvenient it is for him to call in, none the less as soon as customer service lines open in the morning he is the first one calling. He owns the newest device and happily pays his mosterous bills on time every month.
#4 Mr. I'll-gladly-pay-you-Tuesday
This is the guy that can't seem to pay his bill on time to save his life. He calls in to go over every little charge to make sure he isn't "not paying" for something he didn't use. This customer likes to play stupid about Internet use and downloads, demanding credit because "he wasn't aware that it wasn't free". He usually goes on and on with either some sad story about his hardships, claiming that if the company really cared for its customers it would make some small provision for him. He has been given "humanity" credits in the past and has now decided this is the way he is going to pay his bill. If he is refused credit, he will call back until someone gives in and credits his account. This customer is way past due on his account and has a long history of being past due.
Under Sprints new plan, all 4 customers will loose their accounts. Granted customer #1 needs to be taught a lesson and loosing his account will probably save the company some money in man hours. The company is going to loose customer #2, the guy that just wants it to work and customer #3 the guy that will spend big big money for the newest technology and pay a high monthly service for the premium packages. Although customer #3 is some what of a pain, he is still a money making customer. Customer #4 will usually find his own way out, either closed for non-payment or he will simply disappear and the account will be closed by collections.
Again I don't see this new "policy" as being a smart business decision. There are more customer #2s and #3s then the other "in my experience" and they a
Repeat after me: I am George Lucas's bitch.....
I had the same problem and decided to test my Electronic skills. I used a power supply from an old apple (see they are good for something) and rated all the wires with a multi-meter. Then I looked at all the watt ratings of my various devices (yes watt not volt) to make sure I would not overload my 250 watt Power supply. Since the output of the power supply was mainly 12 volt, I hit radio shack for some resistors (and even remembered the color coding correctly). The DC plugs I salvaged from my junk drawer and the wire I used was 20Ga. copper. I soldered all the joints, tested the output and load, made sure it wasn't going to burn down the house and stuffed it all in a radio shack project box. I even tore apart an old Isobar surge protector and integrated it into the mix. All in all it works pretty well, but I cannot move my stuff around much, because it all has to be located around my power source.
You know,
I use to like reading Tom's until their bias postings convinced me to buy a 850 chipset. Rambus was going to be the best thing since sliced bread...... Way to call that one guys...
It seems kind of funny to me that most "communication" companies own the line and equipment that will be used for VOIP. Why would banning it be in their favor? I mean I'm all for preserving MAC address's by not equipping every toaster and microwave on the planet with a NIC but, C'mon VOIP is the future.... why stand in the way? I guess we should all invest in tin cans and kite string................