I work at a Circuit City B&M store, selling computers and imaging. First, the kind of people we get in here are NOT the slashdot crowd, or the [h] crowd. We get people with little to no knowledge on the subject, and call the tower anything from the modem to the hard drive to actually thinking the monitor is the computer itself. They definetly don't need or want to get into the technical aspect of the inner workings. They just want to write emails and browse the internet.
For the rare tech savy guy, I just leave them alone. I'm pretty aware of my knowledge on computers. I tell people when I don't know stuff. Those guys either don't shop here, or know exactly what they're buying before hand.
So, it's not a bad gig for me, since I'm just wearing the name tag for school until I can get my EE degree. But don't be so quick to rate an entire store based on one associate (or a few). We're not all the same mindless drones.
I've never understood web standards. If most browswers don't follow them, (as aparent that IE, Firefox, and Opera each failed to render the acid2 face test properly) then whose standards are they? Wouldn't the 'standards' be the most popular useage of code?
I like the Opera browswer, I really do. but it seems to have the biggest problems rendering webpages correctly, yet it is "standards compliant" apparently (even though it failed the acid2 test as I mentioned earlier.) I tend to use the browser that will work most often, standards be dammed. And right now, in my experience, that's firefox.
Right now I can share my Wi-Fi spot with anyone I want. The only real software here is the "Bill" version which would allow charging. And guess what? I can do the "Linus" version with any wireless router I please.
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Actually, we don't make commission so the job is even shittier. But, I'm definetly in the same situation.
I work at a Circuit City B&M store, selling computers and imaging. First, the kind of people we get in here are NOT the slashdot crowd, or the [h] crowd. We get people with little to no knowledge on the subject, and call the tower anything from the modem to the hard drive to actually thinking the monitor is the computer itself. They definetly don't need or want to get into the technical aspect of the inner workings. They just want to write emails and browse the internet. For the rare tech savy guy, I just leave them alone. I'm pretty aware of my knowledge on computers. I tell people when I don't know stuff. Those guys either don't shop here, or know exactly what they're buying before hand. So, it's not a bad gig for me, since I'm just wearing the name tag for school until I can get my EE degree. But don't be so quick to rate an entire store based on one associate (or a few). We're not all the same mindless drones.
I've never understood web standards. If most browswers don't follow them, (as aparent that IE, Firefox, and Opera each failed to render the acid2 face test properly) then whose standards are they? Wouldn't the 'standards' be the most popular useage of code?
I like the Opera browswer, I really do. but it seems to have the biggest problems rendering webpages correctly, yet it is "standards compliant" apparently (even though it failed the acid2 test as I mentioned earlier.) I tend to use the browser that will work most often, standards be dammed. And right now, in my experience, that's firefox.
Right now I can share my Wi-Fi spot with anyone I want. The only real software here is the "Bill" version which would allow charging. And guess what? I can do the "Linus" version with any wireless router I please.
Some people actually DO read them. Like this one guy that got $1,000 dollars for reading PC Pitstop's EULA