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Re: How to Reboot a Franchise

Urlaub in Spanien — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:16:43 -0000

This post really make laugh. At first I find it very serious and suddenly I realize how he describe some actors like Quinto "Sylar of Heroes". I never notice that he has a pointed ears.

Re: MacGyver Phone?

jarek91 — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:33:32 -0000

With a HardSPL'd WinMo phone you can do much more than with a stock WinMo phone as well. The article is old...pre 2nd gen iPhone as a matter of fact and you have to admit that OS 1.x and the original hardware was terrible for business use (not to mention the lack of the app store). I actually have a 2nd gen iPhone and have given up the TyTNII. The point of the article at the time was that the WinMo phone offered much more to business users than the original iPhone. And let's be honest, how many people are going to hack the OS on their business supplied phone?

Re: MacGyver Phone?

HTC sucks — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:09:14 -0000

Actually an Iphone can open microsoft documents,apps, and if you are jailbroken you can download torrents and do waaay more. HTC sucks!

Re: Tech Support - We’re People Too

jarek91 — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:02:10 -0000

I've been on both sides and I can't say that one side has it worse than the other. While it's true we get a lot of calls, not all of them are bad. While on the other side of the coin, if you are calling it's probably because something bad has happened. I think it kind of balances out.

Re: Tech Support - We’re People Too

Finca Mallorca — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:49:13 -0000

So true, we customers should show / practice some courtesy when calling CSR or TSRs because they are human too :) these people answer hundred of calls daily making them tired and stressed too.

Re: Castigations and Plagues

Elexa — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:42:07 -0000

Morality is not related to believe a god or not, but deal with what we do.

Re: AT&T Tilt Software

Josh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:21:44 -0000

how did you get rid of it?

Re: iMac - First Impressions (updated)

mapls — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:38:11 -0000

Imacs Rock

Re: Mac Pro vs Dell Precision

jarek91 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:59:32 -0000

Now that I have done a new comparison, change the video card on both systems above to the 1.5GB nVidia Quadro-FX 5600 and both systems have three 500GB hard drives. Now change the totals as follows:

Mac Pro - $6348.00
Dell Precision T5400 - $7475.00

I'd like to know the exact hardware specs you used to get such disparate numbers between the Dell and the Mac. Anyone can just throw some random options together and call out the totals to skew the results any way they wanted, that is why I give a listing of which options I chose...to show I'm getting the systems built as close to identical as possible.

Re: Mac Pro vs Dell Precision

jarek91 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:40:11 -0000

I'd like to point out you built a system that has a single Core2 processor, not a system using dual Xeon processors. So yes, you built a far cheaper system. It is also nowhere near the specs of the Mac Pro I used in my comparison. You will need to go at least to the T5400 line to have dusl Xeon processors for a more accurate comparison.

FYI - the Harpertown CPU that is standard on the Mac Pro is the E5440, so make sure you configure your Dell correctly. I hit over $4,000 before I got past the memory options on the Dell where the Mac Pro was still at $2999...and that was today. As for software, I haven't found much that is PC only these days in the realms of software that I could conceivably use. However, after saving over $1,100 by getting the Mac Pro, I think I could afford a copy of Windows and VMWare Fusion and still put money in my pocket.

Re: Mac Pro vs Dell Precision

Loraine — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:41:27 -0000

really well i just did a compare myself to see if it was right with a dell precision T3400 that came up to 2,325 and the mac pro that came up to 4, 717.31. Now the Dell system had more features than the mac pro and hardware also. it runs more and so i have to argue with your comparison. If your going for high tech i would definatley choose the Dell, because your gonna like put software unto the pc and there are lots of software to go with the dell while at moment there arent as much options with the mac....

Re: Home Media Makeover Part One: DVD Library

jarek91 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:28:52 -0000

I'm actually still working on Part 2: Internet Television. I hope to have that finished this month. It's taking so long because I'm experimenting with some of the different ways to do it so I can find the simplest solution.

Re: Home Media Makeover Part One: DVD Library

BusbyTest — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:10:48 -0000

Home Media Makeover Part One: DVD Library.......I like this idea.

Re: AT&T Business Care(less)

ultima online gold — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:48:54 -0000

Congratulation! Best Wishes and thank you for your interest, it is much appreciated. But I didn't have an idea of who my rep was and then when I finally got notice from the newly assigned rep, they had several shuffles that left me wondering from month to month who to call.

Re: Acumen and Affection

mister nice 1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:09:30 -0000

A nice one.

Re: Home Media Makeover Part One: DVD Library

jarek91 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:10:19 -0000

This is true, but the ability to watch any movie, television series, or anime series without digging through shelves of cases is well worth the time. Besides, once you start the rip you can just ignore it and do other things until it's done.

Re: Home Media Makeover Part One: DVD Library

Artificial — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:20:29 -0000

You will easily spend a couple of weeks working on rips if you have a large library. I have about 400 or so DVDs from movies to anime and television series

Re: Why Does Comcast Fail?

jarek91 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:28:52 -0000

Mark,
I know you have to be politically correct in your correspondence with customers but I think you misunderstand. To say this simply "did not meet" my satisfaction is a gross understatement. I despise this interface and I find it insulting that Comcast would dare to call this a system upgrade when the features are quite obviously vastly inferior to what we had just a few short days ago.

Frank's team has been a huge help over the past year with getting my problems resolved. I don't think that you'll be able to fix this since it is apparently your software for all of your systems in the market. I know you aren't responsible for corporate being a bunch of idiots. But please...if you are going to relay this complaint, relay it without editing it. It takes work to articulate my feelings accurately through text and I'd prefer to not have it sanitized before it gets to the people that really need to see it.

Re: Why Does Comcast Fail?

Comcastcares1 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:53:34 -0000

Thanks for the valuable feedback. I am sorry that the new guide did not meet your satisfaction. I will make sure that this is forwarded to the appropriate person/department for evaluation.

Best Regards,

Mark Casem
Comcast Corp.
We_can_help@cable.comcast.com

Re: Mac Pro vs Dell Precision

jarek91 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:33:29 -0000

You have some good points, but you missed my point with this post. I was trying to build a Wintel system that was as close as possible in hardware and software to a Mac Pro to see how the prices compare...bang for the buck so to speak. The result is with all things being equal, the Apple system is cheaper. The difference is that Dell, HP, and the others offer lots of levels of systems that do not equate to anything Apple offers.

Re: Mac Pro vs Dell Precision

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:18:28 -0000

Interesting comparison but points out the key diff. between Apple & Wintel- the midrange is a sweet spot for a lot of users. For example, you can get Intel Quad 9550 rig upgradeable to 8gigs of ram from Dell in the $1K range (less if Dell 20% coupons or Dell outlet), and add a 24" 2408WFP PVA monitor ($517 w/ coupon right now) and have a pretty damn good mid-range graphics/video platform that still has flexibility for upgrading the hard drives and vid cards (up to 2 of each) and optical drives. With Apple you'd have difficulty matching that flexibility with an iMac, and a Mac Pro would be overkill. I'm not advocating for either but in that range I think Dell/HP Wintel offers some compelling options. Agree that at the MacPro range, for dual processors, right now you have to get a Workstation (always pricey) in the Wintel range. But maybe w/ Skulltrail mbs out there there will be prosumer options that are cheaper.

Re: AT&T Business Care(less)

Jack — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:24:41 -0000

Hey, AT&T has sucked for about a decade now. I can remember when you got excellent support from AT&T but back then, you had a dedicated sales rep who managed to stop by for a visit once a month or so for a chat to see if you needed anything and make sure everything was working well. He/She was always on top of things and you had great service and was happy. Then, AT&T decided to take away the dedicated local reps and instead put you in the hands of some jackass idiot back at some office located hundreds or thousands of miles away whom you never really met or got to know and who didn't give a rats butt whether you were a happy customer or not. I went through this nightmare years ago with them after they took away our local rep and after more than a year of trying to get somewhere with the desk-bound "rep" and his boss and his boss's boss and so on with no results, I told them to kiss my butt and switched all of our business over to SBC. Can you believe I wanted to add a new service to our account with AT&T and couldn't get it done for over a year?! The stupid rep kept giving me the run around and I kept calling trying to get something done and the prick had the nerve to stop taking my calls. I tried to go over his head and his manager's were just as non-responsive as he was. Heck, I went all the way to the presidents office, supposedly, and couldn't get anything done with them and I was trying to give them more money for crying out loud. But guess what, SBC had local reps and they took good care of us and we were very happy for several years again. Our SBC rep lived right here in the same town where our company was located and he was easy to deal with and always anxious to try to meet our needs. Later when I switched companies, I ended up with AT&T yet again and if anything, their support and service had gotten worse; so as soon as the contracts expired, I replaced them all with SBC contracts and I was happy again... For about a year anyway, then SBC does something really stupid, they buy AT&T. No, that in and of itself wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but instead of making AT&T take SBC's business policies, SBC basically transformed themselves into AT&T, they even took the name!!! Now, again I'm stuck with AT&T and not just for my local and LD service, they transformed Cingular into AT&T too! The first thing that happened after SBC became AT&T, was they did away with the local reps again. For close to a year, I didn't have an idea of who my rep was and then when I finally got notice from the newly assigned rep, they had several shuffles that left me wondering from month to month who to call. I had some issues that needed to be handled during that time and every time I got a new rep (almost monthly), I'd have to start the process all over again. But finally, I did get a rep who could be considered local. He's only about 60 miles away and he does come to see me a couple times a year and he has been able to help get everything lined out so at the moment, I'm pretty happy with AT&T for local and LD. But I'm having similar issues with the Premier side of things and so far I haven't been able to get that fixed. My issue is that the login they gave me doesn't work and when I call support to try to get help, I get some fool who doesn't even know what a TCM is much less how to reset the password. I literally hate companies like this where you as a customer have to spend hours on the phone for something that should be a minor issue and you can't even get competent service. I'm convinced that they hire the absolute dumbest people they can find to man their phones. It's so very frustrating!

Re: AT&T Tilt Software

jarek91 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:22:25 -0000

The voice recordings should be saved in your My Voices folder on the device. Just copy the AMR files over and you should be good to go.

Re: Everything I need to know…

DC — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:51:19 -0000

I agree

Re: AT&T Tilt Software

Jerry — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:43:47 -0000

I am trying to download voice recordings from my tilt to my computer.
It is very import.ant for me to do this for court purposes