>>How many times a day do Comcast reps hear a customer say something like “I’m a lawyer” or “I’m a big shot at [fill in the blank]“? How many of those result in Comcast going out of its way to contact that customer’s employer?
I used to work in tech support for Comcast. (long enough ago to feel safe in saying this). It wasn't uncommon for people to say stuff like that. Let me tell you.. when I heard it I was never impressed. (unless you dropped the name of one of my bosses) If you had real issues (as it sounds like this guy did) then I already wanted to help you. Honestly I did everything within my power to fix your problems although often my hands were tied by crappy corporate beurocracy. It didn't matter if you were rich or poor, powerful or not. If you told me you were important to impress me though... then you must be an asshole. Now I DON'T want to be helpful.
If you had been through the kinds of problems this guy had been through I might forgive you. You are angry (and rightly so) and lashing out. Just let me try to work and get it fixed though. However, usually people who pulled lines like that were doing so for much less forgivable reasons. What really stands out in my mind was a guy who kept telling me I needed to cancel someone else's apointment in order to get his house serviced earlier because he was a big shot who made $200k/year. If he is such a big shot then let him pay an acting troup to come entertain his more-important than someone else ass in person! I gave his modem number to a few friends and we reset it randomly several times a day for the following few months.
My understanding is that the KDE folks are planning on making KDE rely on systemd stuff just the same. It wouldn't surprise me, they used to rely on Hal. Man that sucked! I stuck with KDE for several years but finally about 6 months or so ago finally gave up. It just hasn't been very good since version 3. I don't want to be stuck with an old Qt version in order to run Trinity so now it's Ratpoison all the way!
I really don't need anything systemd is offering to run Ratpoison!
Yes but that balance still has to stay somewhere near what the population wants. It's hard to convince a population to spend money on space exploration that believes that nothing interesting could be outside the Earth because Earth was created especially for God's image (humans) only a few thousand years ago. And, there is no reason to spread out from Earth when they know all of creation is going to end soon and they all get to go to heaven anyway.
No, I know he didn't start that one. My understanding was that he kept it going well after failure, with little public support even to the point of interfering with peace talks all for his own gain.
Oh, ok. They built the rockets in the wrong place so it is a good thing that all manned exploration beyond LEO was canceled for what will probably be all of our lifetimes and then some. Yup, that makes sense!
It baffles me that Gnome is so popular. I find it pretty much unusable. Every default option seems to be exactly opposite of what I would chose for myself. Then they are all stored in something that looks like the Windows registry. Hating the Windows registry was one of the big things that drove me to Linux in the first place!
To each their own I guess!
But... I don't think my own desktop should be forced to get a bloated init replacement that makes everything harder to troubleshoot, replaces simple commands with long, hard to memorize lines that look like classpaths and lose cron just because a bunch of people who will never use my desktop like Gnome!
I only made it about 3/4 of the way through the first page. I clicked expecting an article about a phone. Maybe I would even get to see just what Firefox OS looks like, what features it has, what it does. Instead I found a not-very well done article about the digital divide. Maybe it gets better farther on? I don't know. I lost interest.
The real problem isn't that he writes such software. To each their own, everyone should be able to write anything they want without attacks. The problem is the distributions that insist on making his crap the new default!
I really want to hate Nixon for what he did to NASA. But... There is a small voice of reason that keeps reminding me that I do value Democracy and the president SHOULD act on what the people want. Therefore instead I should hate all the supersticious luddite voters!
But.. if I feel like Nixon hating there is always Vietnam....
My understanding is that if you upgrade your phone through Verizon you lose your unlimitted plan regardless of anything a rep claims.
Fortunately you do NOT have to upgrade through them! If you really need the latest and greatest phones you can buy them full price. But why?? They will just come out with better phones 6 months later! Buy used! Even a phone which is a few years old will still run the same apps as a shiny new one!
I use mine for just about everything. My data usage is usually about 5G a month which is right at most company's largest caps. I could downgrade if I were by myself but then I would have to be careful. Screw that! But.. my phone shares the plan with my wife. She uses 3 or 4 times what I use. How? She watches Netflix at work all day. they don't mind her doing that but she keeps it off of their network just to keep it that way.
Don't want to pay full price for a phone? Go used. Big deal if you are a generation or two behind. A generation in phones is what? 6 months? Yesterday's shiny is still awesome so long as you aren't even considering today's shiny! You can have that stuff next year! My Droid Bionic still runs every app I chose to install just fine. The lapdock is great! I get stuck in hospital waiting rooms A LOT due to a family member's health issues. The lapdock let's me get shit done so when I finally get home I can enjoy my time. I use VNC and RDP apps to get into my home and work computers....and that would be one reasom I am NOT interested in a limited data plan. Pandora during the daily comute is good too. The radio mostly sucks these days.
Well.. your life is your own, what you will use your phone for is different from me but I really believe that if you aren't using a TON of data you probably just aren't taking advantage of everything your phone should be doing for you.
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And tomorrow they will ask.. have you ever masturbated. If you do they won't hire you. If you lie they won't hire you!
Speak for yourself, who's we?
Ahh, now there are two things that are just made for each other. If only the two could meet!
>>How many times a day do Comcast reps hear a customer say something like “I’m a lawyer” or “I’m a big shot at [fill in the blank]“? How many of those result in Comcast going out of its way to contact that customer’s employer?
I used to work in tech support for Comcast. (long enough ago to feel safe in saying this). It wasn't uncommon for people to say stuff like that. Let me tell you.. when I heard it I was never impressed. (unless you dropped the name of one of my bosses) If you had real issues (as it sounds like this guy did) then I already wanted to help you. Honestly I did everything within my power to fix your problems although often my hands were tied by crappy corporate beurocracy. It didn't matter if you were rich or poor, powerful or not. If you told me you were important to impress me though... then you must be an asshole. Now I DON'T want to be helpful.
If you had been through the kinds of problems this guy had been through I might forgive you. You are angry (and rightly so) and lashing out. Just let me try to work and get it fixed though. However, usually people who pulled lines like that were doing so for much less forgivable reasons. What really stands out in my mind was a guy who kept telling me I needed to cancel someone else's apointment in order to get his house serviced earlier because he was a big shot who made $200k/year. If he is such a big shot then let him pay an acting troup to come entertain his more-important than someone else ass in person! I gave his modem number to a few friends and we reset it randomly several times a day for the following few months.
Make it five years.
My understanding is that the KDE folks are planning on making KDE rely on systemd stuff just the same. It wouldn't surprise me, they used to rely on Hal. Man that sucked! I stuck with KDE for several years but finally about 6 months or so ago finally gave up. It just hasn't been very good since version 3. I don't want to be stuck with an old Qt version in order to run Trinity so now it's Ratpoison all the way!
I really don't need anything systemd is offering to run Ratpoison!
Yes but that balance still has to stay somewhere near what the population wants. It's hard to convince a population to spend money on space exploration that believes that nothing interesting could be outside the Earth because Earth was created especially for God's image (humans) only a few thousand years ago. And, there is no reason to spread out from Earth when they know all of creation is going to end soon and they all get to go to heaven anyway.
No, I know he didn't start that one. My understanding was that he kept it going well after failure, with little public support even to the point of interfering with peace talks all for his own gain.
Oh, ok. They built the rockets in the wrong place so it is a good thing that all manned exploration beyond LEO was canceled for what will probably be all of our lifetimes and then some. Yup, that makes sense!
That seems like a pretty crappy way to look at things to me. It's ok if they break shit, if it's really bad someone will fix it later?
It baffles me that Gnome is so popular. I find it pretty much unusable. Every default option seems to be exactly opposite of what I would chose for myself. Then they are all stored in something that looks like the Windows registry. Hating the Windows registry was one of the big things that drove me to Linux in the first place!
To each their own I guess!
But... I don't think my own desktop should be forced to get a bloated init replacement that makes everything harder to troubleshoot, replaces simple commands with long, hard to memorize lines that look like classpaths and lose cron just because a bunch of people who will never use my desktop like Gnome!
Tons? Really? I think you have REALLY REALLY misplaced a decimal point somewhere in those calculations.
I only made it about 3/4 of the way through the first page. I clicked expecting an article about a phone. Maybe I would even get to see just what Firefox OS looks like, what features it has, what it does. Instead I found a not-very well done article about the digital divide. Maybe it gets better farther on? I don't know. I lost interest.
Sounds like job openings. Just watch unemployment sink!
The real problem isn't that he writes such software. To each their own, everyone should be able to write anything they want without attacks. The problem is the distributions that insist on making his crap the new default!
>> hot sweaty gay sex!!!
>>Of course, the Republicunts are vehemently opposed to both of those things. Mostly because they're assholes
Well then.. I'd imagine they would be. It probably makes them pretty sore!
Yup, you keep telling yourself that.
Right, because the 1%ers are the ones having the most children right?
Nope, I'm pretty sure that trophy is a permanent statue in Siberia.
Can't wait to get my fill of Eloi!
I really want to hate Nixon for what he did to NASA. But... There is a small voice of reason that keeps reminding me that I do value Democracy and the president SHOULD act on what the people want. Therefore instead I should hate all the supersticious luddite voters!
But.. if I feel like Nixon hating there is always Vietnam....
Big deal, they will be on Freenet forever.
Too bad they really weren't very attractive pictures!
My understanding is that if you upgrade your phone through Verizon you lose your unlimitted plan regardless of anything a rep claims.
Fortunately you do NOT have to upgrade through them! If you really need the latest and greatest phones you can buy them full price. But why?? They will just come out with better phones 6 months later! Buy used! Even a phone which is a few years old will still run the same apps as a shiny new one!
If you spend all your time at home/work I think you have a point. Is there free open wifi every where you go?
I use mine for just about everything. My data usage is usually about 5G a month which is right at most company's largest caps. I could downgrade if I were by myself but then I would have to be careful. Screw that! But.. my phone shares the plan with my wife. She uses 3 or 4 times what I use. How? She watches Netflix at work all day. they don't mind her doing that but she keeps it off of their network just to keep it that way.
Don't want to pay full price for a phone? Go used. Big deal if you are a generation or two behind. A generation in phones is what? 6 months? Yesterday's shiny is still awesome so long as you aren't even considering today's shiny! You can have that stuff next year! My Droid Bionic still runs every app I chose to install just fine. The lapdock is great! I get stuck in hospital waiting rooms A LOT due to a family member's health issues. The lapdock let's me get shit done so when I finally get home I can enjoy my time. I use VNC and RDP apps to get into my home and work computers. ...and that would be one reasom I am NOT interested in a limited data plan. Pandora during the daily comute is good too. The radio mostly sucks these days.
Well.. your life is your own, what you will use your phone for is different from me but I really believe that if you aren't using a TON of data you probably just aren't taking advantage of everything your phone should be doing for you.