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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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bigblue_dl said:
I believe that it is only if you drop a service that you have had for less than 3 months....so yeah, if you add/drop month to month you would have to pay that, but I don't think I've had to pay it because I've never dropped something so quickly after adding it.
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That must have changed within the last few years or so; I know what I described was true at least in 2000, and there was no time consideration. Of course, a lot of companies have moved from month-to-month contracts to term contracts (usually 2 years) in order to guarantee revenue.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
That must have changed within the last few years or so; I know what I described was true at least in 2000, and there was no time consideration. Of course, a lot of companies have moved from month-to-month contracts to term contracts (usually 2 years) in order to guarantee revenue.
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Actually, it's moving from long-termed contracts to a month-to-month service. Whenever I had cable TV, it was the recurring advertisement the cable company played at least once or twice each hour. It's also in all the junk mail I receive, whereas when I bought my house in 2005 service was set at two years, except for changing the various package levels within the company (bronze, silver, gold) for your channel line up.
 
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St. Clown said:
Actually, it's moving from long-termed contracts to a month-to-month service. Whenever I had cable TV, it was the recurring advertisement the cable company played at least once or twice each hour. It's also in all the junk mail I receive, whereas when I bought my house in 2005 service was set at two years, except for changing the various package levels within the company (bronze, silver, gold) for your channel line up.
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When my family first got non-network TV in 1999 (cable's impossible where I grew up, so only satellite was available), DISH Network offered both month-to-month and yearly "contracts" (by means of lump sum payment). Yearly prices did not increase, unlike month-to-month. Obviously these companies will advertise the heck out of month-to-month because of the whole feeling of not being "tied down" by a contract, but what the consumer doesn't realize is that the unit price is going to be higher, as your commitment to a certain level or term has value; companies are willing to give you a better unit price if they know they are guaranteed a certain minimum amount.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
When my family first got non-network TV in 1999 (cable's impossible where I grew up, so only satellite was available), DISH Network offered both month-to-month and yearly "contracts" (by means of lump sum payment). Yearly prices did not increase, unlike month-to-month. Obviously these companies will advertise the heck out of month-to-month because of the whole feeling of not being "tied down" by a contract, but what the consumer doesn't realize is that the unit price is going to be higher, as your commitment to a certain level or term has value; companies are willing to give you a better unit price if they know they are guaranteed a certain minimum amount.
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So you're saying the cable TV industry is enacting options and policy that looks like pretty much every other industry on the planet that offers volume and tim-lapsed discounts to customers willing to commit? Okay, got it. Thanks.
 
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Never had a comcast telemarketer call and never paid a downgrade charge even after removing the sports package from my package after three days.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Never had a comcast telemarketer call and never paid a downgrade charge even after removing the sports package from my package after three days.
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I've only heard of DISH Network doing the downgrade/sidegrade charge, and my last knowledge of it was a decade ago. It's possible that Comcast does not do it.
 
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Anyone else unable to connect to the forum only (not the website) via mobile?
 
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It won't connect for,me via the front page (although it will via laptop) but I can go direct to the forum on my devices. Weird change.
 
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D*mn software "updates." No change in functionality whatsoever, all they did is move stuff around.

So nothing is where it used to be, and meanwhile the new layout is opaque, not intuitively clear at all.

So I go to "Help" menu, type in my question, and I get directed to a video. I don't need no d*mn video, I just need a few keystrokes!


(I ranted about this to a tech-savvy friend who told me that my "problem" is that I still use a mouse and a keyboard, they are laying the groundwork for when everyone only has touch screens....)
 
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FreshFish said:
D*mn software "updates." No change in functionality whatsoever, all they did is move stuff around.

So nothing is where it used to be, and meanwhile the new layout is opaque, not intuitively clear at all.

So I go to "Help" menu, type in my question, and I get directed to a video. I don't need no d*mn video, I just need a few keystrokes!


(I ranted about this to a tech-savvy friend who told me that my "problem" is that I still use a mouse and a keyboard, they are laying the groundwork for when everyone only has touch screens....)
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Being in the field myself, we do some tech writing with our applications, but we find most of the time that people don't RTFM, or need to be walked through things step by step. Hence, videos.
 
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The phrase "DIY" when referring to food. It's called a RECIPE. We didn't need an acronym for it.
 
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jen said:
The phrase "DIY" when referring to food. It's called a RECIPE. We didn't need an acronym for it.
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I'm the same way with "life hacks" and such. The use of the word hack - outside of actual computer hacking - has got to stup. These things are tips and good advice, they're not "hacks."
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm the same way with "life hacks" and such. The use of the word hack - outside of actual computer hacking - has got to stup. These things are tips and good advice, they're not "hacks."
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agreed. "life hack" is very annoying.

GET OFF MY LAWN!
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm the same way with "life hacks" and such. The use of the word hack - outside of actual computer hacking - has got to stup. These things are tips and good advice, they're not "hacks."
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And anything "curated." The iTunes playlist and the beer menu at the bar do not merit exhibit space in the Smithsonian.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
While we're at it, just what is "artisan" food anyway?
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The use of "artisan" isn't regulated at all, so it means the manufacturer wants to make it seem like a little old person in a foreign country made the product by hand, when in fact, it was mass produced by machines. If something is really "artisan"... it doesn't need to say it on the package.
 
jen said:
The use of "artisan" isn't regulated at all, so it means the manufacturer wants to make it seem like a little old person in a foreign country made the product by hand, when in fact, it was mass produced by machines. If something is really "artisan"... it doesn't need to say it on the package.
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If it's artisan, there is no package.
 
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We ask for one or two pilot users in each production team to rollout an app upgrade and one manager sends back her entire department as pilot users. An email exchange ensues, and then phone calls. Finally she understands that a pilot user program is defeated when the entire department is listed as pilot users. I have a headache now.
 
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St. Clown said:
We ask for one or two pilot users in each production team to rollout an app upgrade and one manager sends back her entire department as pilot users. An email exchange ensues, and then phone calls. Finally she understands that a pilot user program is defeated when the entire department is listed as pilot users. I have a headache now.
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Just had that happen for a customer who requested training on a process, and we asked her to provide a "small list" of attendees. She sent over about 40 names/emails - that is not a "small list".
 
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