With it comes Dell's 3-Year On-site Economy Plan for support. This plan includes 24x7 phone technical support, online technical support, and if needed following phone-based troubleshooting, next business day on-site service.
Heh, I know what I'm going to suggest next time the Grandma-Types ask what kind of computer they should get. Have fun, Dell...
On the kiddie fireworks they sell around here in the summer. I always though it kind of redundant to waste time/money labeling all the fireworks with that.
DirecTV: "Hello, me name am Job at DirecTV".
Target: "What? Who is this?"
DirecTV: "I say, 'me name am Job'. I am DirecTV would have service by Who now?"
Target: "Let me talk to your supervisor!" ...
Supervisor: "Yes, this is Mike, How can I help you?"
Target: "I'm on the DNC $%#!!!"
Supervisto: Lets see, that's nine-hundred seventy-eight thousand, three-hunred twenty-five..., "I see, let me put you through to our Customer Care Agent Job. He'll be able to assist you with anything you need. Thank you. Bye."
I swear I remember seeing this on an episode of "Dirty Jobs" (discovery channel) not too long ago. Some guy took dirty grease off of mexican restaurants and such once a week or so and turned it into fuel. Pretty cool episode.
Microsoft is working under the strategy here that if they say the same thing enough, their target audience will begin to believe it is truth. Target audience here being many of the home users that have no experience with *nix whatsoever. I have to admit, before making the move to Linux, the vision I had of it was some really tough techie-only OS that had was really complicated unless you had the knowhow. I can understand that many of the home users feel the same as I once did. As they hear more of a particular propaganda about Linux over and over again, the more it becomes enforced in their mind - in this instance, the building of the opion akin to, "I don't know much about Linux, but I hear a lot about it being buggy..."
This strategy isn't exclusive to the Microsoft camp - how many times have you heard the same from the OSS community, be it all true or not?
This is just my opinion, but I think all this crap the space programs are shooting off into space is a total waste of money that could be much better spent on any number of things (research, healthcare, internet security). ESPECIALLY when they crash and burn. Why not just say effit.
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Just so I'm totally clear on this...you're saying we shouldn't put epoxy on the USB port??
With it comes Dell's 3-Year On-site Economy Plan for support. This plan includes 24x7 phone technical support, online technical support, and if needed following phone-based troubleshooting, next business day on-site service.
Heh, I know what I'm going to suggest next time the Grandma-Types ask what kind of computer they should get. Have fun, Dell...
I remember seeing things like
Warning: Flammable
On the kiddie fireworks they sell around here in the summer. I always though it kind of redundant to waste time/money labeling all the fireworks with that.
Now I know why.
Using magnets to push/pull an object through a chamber... Hmm... Rail Gun?
I thought it was "I before E except after C"??
DirecTV: "Hello, me name am Job at DirecTV".
...
Target: "What? Who is this?"
DirecTV: "I say, 'me name am Job'. I am DirecTV would have service by Who now?"
Target: "Let me talk to your supervisor!"
Supervisor: "Yes, this is Mike, How can I help you?"
Target: "I'm on the DNC $%#!!!"
Supervisto: Lets see, that's nine-hundred seventy-eight thousand, three-hunred twenty-five..., "I see, let me put you through to our Customer Care Agent Job. He'll be able to assist you with anything you need. Thank you. Bye."
Thanks - had to go back and read that line again.
I thought it was funny at first, but that was when I thought he said "Holy Money".
Offtopic: I ran your sig. Nice.
I swear I remember seeing this on an episode of "Dirty Jobs" (discovery channel) not too long ago. Some guy took dirty grease off of mexican restaurants and such once a week or so and turned it into fuel. Pretty cool episode.
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Microsoft is working under the strategy here that if they say the same thing enough, their target audience will begin to believe it is truth. Target audience here being many of the home users that have no experience with *nix whatsoever. I have to admit, before making the move to Linux, the vision I had of it was some really tough techie-only OS that had was really complicated unless you had the knowhow. I can understand that many of the home users feel the same as I once did. As they hear more of a particular propaganda about Linux over and over again, the more it becomes enforced in their mind - in this instance, the building of the opion akin to, "I don't know much about Linux, but I hear a lot about it being buggy..."
This strategy isn't exclusive to the Microsoft camp - how many times have you heard the same from the OSS community, be it all true or not?
Well, okay, I guess I can see your point in that. It's just fustrating, that's all.
This is just my opinion, but I think all this crap the space programs are shooting off into space is a total waste of money that could be much better spent on any number of things (research, healthcare, internet security). ESPECIALLY when they crash and burn. Why not just say effit.
From the article:
The only defenders of BitTorrent I saw regarding this issue were buried here and there on Slashdot.
Huh?