Sure, the liberal media will tell you about an accident involving a solar-powered car.
What they won't tell you is at the time of the accident the driver was talking on his cell phone watching pr0n on a dashboard DVD reading/. on his laptop applying make-up while balancing a cup of coffee.
To Sun, IBM, HP, Linux users, a "Service Pack" is a cluster of patches. To Microsoft, a "Service Pack" is whole lot of shit to foister on the clients without given them the option to install only what they need.
If I lived ONE town over, Framingham, for example- I could have my choice among about 5 different major providers/subproviders, including Speakeasy, Covad, Megapath, and a couple of Worcester based ISPs..and about 10 different residential and business rates.
The grass is always greener, I suppose. I live one town over, in Framingham. And I do have a choice for high speed net access. Comcast or RCN.
I don't know about your list of providers/subproviders, but if I wanted to go with any of those companies, or any DSL at all, I'd have to move. Maybe I'm too close to the town that's next to one of the richest communities in the state. Anyway, in my mind the choice between cable companies is kinda like the choice between Slinker and Stinker.
Now a Jackito is 20 times smaller, 20 times cheaper, and consumes 60 times less energy.
What does that mean? 60 times less? The reference is a device that used 9 Watts. One time less would be 0 Watts. (9 - 9*1 = 0) Does 60 times less mean the device yields 531 Watts?
Maybe he means one-sixteth. Hopefully this was the CEO talking and not the CTO.
Yes, the deal is buy the game for $9.95, and there is no charge for playing time until September 1. While the phrase "at no additional cost" would be more accurate, this does fall within the stanard usage of "free" in marketing.
Yes, I did figure that out for myself.
However the wording of the story, to paraphrase, 'free for $9.95' is still a mess.
ICANN is important because there's a website watching them? There's websites for watching asian girls pee on each other too but I'd hardly call it important to the existence of the internet. (Then again, it might be the very reason for the same...)
Where are my mod points when I need them.....
Where are asian girls peeing on each other when I need them?
If we're not providing the best experience possible, our customers can easily take their business to our competitors.
Which isn't always a bad thing.
There are customers who make you money, and there are customers who cost you money. It sounds this customer (the client requiring several WebEx sessions) is a money pit.
Now there are several good reasons to take a loss on a particular customer--large clients often grow from small clients, good clients come from referrals made by bad clients treated well, you don't want your support staff bailing on tough calls with the excuse, 'oh, this customer is losing us money' (that's a call for the bean counters, not the support or tech folks).
So, let's presume the company is losing money on such high-maintenance clients. Let's also presume the company is not willing to just let their business go. What do you do?
You do your homework! Boy Scouts' motto, Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, stich in time, and all that. Take a machine off the company network, do a standard client install, dial-up to the internet, and let the ad-ware be your guide. Install whatever it is you keep having to uninstall for your clients. Then document the steps to uninstall.
Rinse and repeat as needed. Go through the permutations of OSs, versions, and browsers to cover 95% of your client base.
Now, you still have clients with ad/spyware issues, and your support staff is still helping them out. For those that don't know but can learn, you put your documented cleaning routines on your web site or at least have a formatted email ready to go when the call comes in.
Those that can't follow the written directions, get the walk-through on the phone, but now 1) you don't sound like you're making up as you go along. Bad clients are more likely to become good clients when you have a solution on hand and ready to go. And 2) you can pass that job down the chain so you lose a little less money on that client.
If you are work on something you truly believe in (and not because you need to suck your boss' or shareholders dick), everything will organize itself. The passion you have will be the force that moves you forward and helps you get things accomplished.
You do realize you're addressing an audience of people at work reading slashdot. Right?
Good grief. I NEVER work on a live database. We ALWAYS work from backups no matter what we're doing with them.
Good grief! NEVER work on your backups. What if something happens to the live database? You should have a clean backup you know hasn't been messed with. Oh, but you never work on your live database.
So your live database is actually a clean backup to your backup which is live since that's where you do all your work. I just hope when you backup/export you go from the backup to the live, rather than from the live to backup which would over write the work you've done on the backup.
But I hope we can all agree this is a load of B.S. If the excuse given by the DoJ isn't true, those responsible should be locked up for breaking the law. If the excuse is true, someone should be locked up for incompetence of an extreme degree.
If you're a USian, one more reason to register and vote.
What customers? There was no business; there was no payment or consideration from the users. There were no customers. And if the issue is the burden of supporting a large user base, why would he want more?
"he's lost a whole lot more goodwill"
Screw goodwill. Where's the goodwill for all the service he's been providing at no cost to thousands of people? There should be an outpouring of thanks for what he provided while he could provide it. Instead, there's a bunch of ungrateful leeches.
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Sure, the liberal media will tell you about an accident involving a solar-powered car.
/. on his laptop applying make-up while balancing a cup of coffee.
What they won't tell you is at the time of the accident the driver was talking on his cell phone watching pr0n on a dashboard DVD reading
The joke, having been made once, was left to quietly fade into memory. Just like all bad jokes here. Right. In Japan.
Good plan!
Alhtough it should be all UIDs > 96054
=)
With an acronym like MIMO, and no DV-DA jokes?
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For shame,
two words: Hot. Chicks. Room.
To Apple, "Service Pack" is $129.
(individuality)
Shouldn't this be a poll?
Have you received your $13 from the RIAA?
[X] Yes
[ ] Yes, but I gave it right back buying CDs
[ ] No
[ ] No, but I did receive 173 copies of 'Yanni does Kenny G's greatest hits'
A hundred bucks for a comic book? Who drew it, Michaelmelangelo?
Your statement make no sense. Does capitalism reward selfishness or punish it?
Oh, I see your mistake. You think selfishness is antithetical to "goodness". So what do you think is "goodness"?
The grass is always greener, I suppose. I live one town over, in Framingham. And I do have a choice for high speed net access. Comcast or RCN.
I don't know about your list of providers/subproviders, but if I wanted to go with any of those companies, or any DSL at all, I'd have to move. Maybe I'm too close to the town that's next to one of the richest communities in the state. Anyway, in my mind the choice between cable companies is kinda like the choice between Slinker and Stinker.
What does that mean? 60 times less? The reference is a device that used 9 Watts. One time less would be 0 Watts. (9 - 9*1 = 0) Does 60 times less mean the device yields 531 Watts?
Maybe he means one-sixteth. Hopefully this was the CEO talking and not the CTO.
That, and the 'Schwarzenegger Amendment' to override the "natural born Citizen" clause of Artivle II, Section 1 of the US Constitution.
Next thing you know we'll be using computers to have sex.
All clear?
Yes, the deal is buy the game for $9.95, and there is no charge for playing time until September 1. While the phrase "at no additional cost" would be more accurate, this does fall within the stanard usage of "free" in marketing.
Yes, I did figure that out for myself.
However the wording of the story, to paraphrase, 'free for $9.95' is still a mess.
Dumbass.
Where are asian girls peeing on each other when I need them?
I do not think it means what you think it means.
you can play free until September for $9.95
Well, which is it? Is it free? Or $9.95?
Which isn't always a bad thing.
There are customers who make you money, and there are customers who cost you money. It sounds this customer (the client requiring several WebEx sessions) is a money pit.
Now there are several good reasons to take a loss on a particular customer--large clients often grow from small clients, good clients come from referrals made by bad clients treated well, you don't want your support staff bailing on tough calls with the excuse, 'oh, this customer is losing us money' (that's a call for the bean counters, not the support or tech folks).
So, let's presume the company is losing money on such high-maintenance clients. Let's also presume the company is not willing to just let their business go. What do you do?
You do your homework! Boy Scouts' motto, Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, stich in time, and all that. Take a machine off the company network, do a standard client install, dial-up to the internet, and let the ad-ware be your guide. Install whatever it is you keep having to uninstall for your clients. Then document the steps to uninstall.
Rinse and repeat as needed. Go through the permutations of OSs, versions, and browsers to cover 95% of your client base.
Now, you still have clients with ad/spyware issues, and your support staff is still helping them out. For those that don't know but can learn, you put your documented cleaning routines on your web site or at least have a formatted email ready to go when the call comes in.
Those that can't follow the written directions, get the walk-through on the phone, but now 1) you don't sound like you're making up as you go along. Bad clients are more likely to become good clients when you have a solution on hand and ready to go. And 2) you can pass that job down the chain so you lose a little less money on that client.
Surf and ye shall find.
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You do realize you're addressing an audience of people at work reading slashdot. Right?
There is air in space.
No.
Good grief! NEVER work on your backups. What if something happens to the live database? You should have a clean backup you know hasn't been messed with. Oh, but you never work on your live database.
So your live database is actually a clean backup to your backup which is live since that's where you do all your work. I just hope when you backup/export you go from the backup to the live, rather than from the live to backup which would over write the work you've done on the backup.
But I hope we can all agree this is a load of B.S. If the excuse given by the DoJ isn't true, those responsible should be locked up for breaking the law. If the excuse is true, someone should be locked up for incompetence of an extreme degree.
If you're a USian, one more reason to register and vote.
Who run barter-town?
Geesh, if that's where P2P leads us, maybe the RIAA is right. Hmmmm.
"This isn't good business"
Exactly. This wasn't a business.
"With a warning, he may have gained customers."
What customers? There was no business; there was no payment or consideration from the users. There were no customers. And if the issue is the burden of supporting a large user base, why would he want more?
"he's lost a whole lot more goodwill"
Screw goodwill. Where's the goodwill for all the service he's been providing at no cost to thousands of people? There should be an outpouring of thanks for what he provided while he could provide it. Instead, there's a bunch of ungrateful leeches.