Im initially using the unlimited text plan but now I switched to the plan with 1500 minutes of call and text msgs. Why can’t I send / call internationally? My prepaid balance is {content}.04 though… but I presumed that you don’t have to reload your prepaid balance using this plan… PLEAE HELP! ><

Time to replace the old! I need something that is durable, not a lite-weight phone, with multiple handsets, 5.8 ghz, that I can program in our phone book and have those numbers ring differently when they call the house. An answering machine would be okay, but is not necessary. Also, a speakerphone is a must, because that way we always know where *one* phone is <lol>

Main needs
Reception through the whole house
Distinct ring for programmed numbers
A nice weight to the handsets
Speakerphone
Answering system optional

Trying to connect my laptop to the Cisco brand router and i am not sure which code to use.
Please help ASAP <3

So I sent submitted my pictures to kidstalent.net (It was for modeling and acting and stuff) and we got a reply letter from them saying:

>>>>>>Hi there,

Thank you for your submission! We believe Micayla could do very well in this industry – you have a beautiful and very marketable child!

If you have interest in learning further about how we can help you succeed in this industry, please send us the best phone number for contact and the best time to contact you, and we will be glad to speak with you directly.

Best regards,

Alex

Head Scout<<<<<<

So we replied when a good time would be and when but after THAT email we sent this is was they said:

>>>>>>Before we call, we just wanted to make sure you understand that we are NOT an agency – we refer your child to safe and reputable agencies, and therefore charge for such services. However, since your child will become a working model, your investment is tax-deductible!

To help answer any questions you may have, here’s a summary of how we work:

Every day our company receives up to 200 new submissions, all of which are immediately screened by our casting department and evaluated for potential in the modeling industry. Of all the kids evaluated, only a small percentage is signed by us for representation.

As for our service, we do all the marketing and promotion of your kid for you through an efficient and cutting-edge method developed by our company. In summary, we build a website for your child, host it, maintain it, and have it viewed only by reputable agencies, casting directors and industry personnel nationwide – all of which are part of our exclusive network of industry resources.

Nowadays, most top agencies only accept kids through an "industry referral". The old "Mail us photos!" system no longer works. Your child needs to come recommended by someone in the industry. Guess who that "someone" is? Yes, us!!

In addition, we advise you on photos, outfits, travel, etc. – anything that you’d need to know to succeed in the industry. Never mind all the time spent on researching agencies that you’ll save.

Oh, and we provide you the peace-of-mind of knowing that you’ll only be dealing with legit and reputable agencies. The safety of your child is our first priority!

We do all of this for the next 3 years for a tax-deductible, one-time investment of only 5!!

Quite a deal, huh?

In 2007 alone, children we have worked with have appeared on Disney Channel, MTV, Heroes (NBC), McDonald’s commercial, Criss Angel – Mindfreak (A&E), Everybody Hates Chris (UPN), EA Sports commercial, Pier 1 catalog, Larry The Cable Guy and much more!

We are confident Micayla can have a successful career in modeling and television, and hope to help you get there faster and safely.

Your child has been carefully selected to fill a void in our roster of talent, and we’re hopeful to be working with you. Yet, due to the time-sensitive nature of our business, we cannot hold your child’s spot indefinitely.

If you’d still like me to call, we need to set up a convenient time for a phone meeting – within the next couple of days – to further explain to you how you can get your child represented by us.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Alex<<<<<<<<<<<<

do you think its real or fake? should we pay the 495$?

people, check out their sucess stories! theyre pretty amazing! ……… unless thats fake too……….

This is an ongoing battle between me and WD to get my drive replaced that was under warranty.

They assured me they would send me a replacement but I needed to give them my credit card information as a security deposit until they got their drive shipped back. They gave me tracking info for the new drive and it said delivered, but needless to say, as I’m writing this, I never got the drive. Alas, they charged my credit card for 0 and ignored my emails. I called them on the phone a few months ago and they put me on hold for 35 minutes only to get a busy signal. Here is a cut/paste of the email transcript regarding my RMA

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We were not able to
process your email. Please REPLY to this message and enter the text
between the specified lines. Your message has been attached.

[===> Please enter your reply BELOW this line <===]

[===> Please enter your reply ABOVE this line <===]

Sincerely,
Western Digital Service and Support

email.txt
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I never received the drive and today I have a charge to my bank account of
0.00.
Please correct this problem immediately.

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Western Digital RMA <noreply@wdc.com>wrote:

> [===> Please enter your reply BELOW this line <===]
>
>
>
> [===> Please enter your reply ABOVE this line <===]
>
> Dear XXXXXX XXXXXX,
>
> This is a confirmation that we have shipped to you your replacement drive
> for RMA #81263653. If you have any questions about your RMA please reply
> to this email. If the information is correct, please do not reply back to
> this email.
>
> Please remember to ship us your defective drive as soon as possible.
>
>
> RMA Number: 81263653
>
> ————————————————————–
>
> The shipment tracking number will be available on our website at
> > http://websupport.wdc.com/rd.asp?p=v&t=101&l=en&r=81263653&z=70117
> within 36 hours from the time this email was sent to you. Please allow 1
> business day for the shipping carrier to update their system before the
> shipment tracking number becomes valid.
>
> Replacement drive(s) have been shipped to:
>
> XXXXXX XXXXXX
> XXXX XXXXXXXX XXX
> NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117
> UNITED STATES
>
>
> Serial No. Product No. Shipped Date (GMT)
> ———— ————— ——————
> WXEZ07F72570 WDXMS1600TN 5/9/2009
>
> ————————————————————–
>
> Additional Links about your RMA:
> View/Print RMA Premailer
> – http://websupport.wdc.com/rd.asp?t=102&l=en&p=m&r=81263653&f=e
>
> Shipping and packing information
> – http://websupport.wdc.com/rd.asp?t=103&l=en&p=rp
>
> View RMA Status
> – http://websupport.wdc.com/rd.asp?t=104&l=en&p=v&r=81263653&z=70117
>
> Technical FAQ and Knowledge Base
> – http://support.wdc.com/product/kb.asp?groupid=201&lang=en
>
> Installation Help and Manuals
> – http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=201&lang=en
>
> Software downloads
> – http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=201&lang=en
>
> Warranty and Replacement
> -
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_cats=122&p_cv=1.122&p_pv=3.253&p_p…
>
> How to cancel an RMA
> -
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3325
>
> Sincerely,
> Western Digital Service & Support
> http://websupport.wdc.com/rd.asp?t=105&l=en&p=h
>

===================================================================================================================

I was flat out ripped off by a huge company, what do I do?

If anyone from WD is reading this, I am going postal. I’m going to file a Ripoff Report and share this story on every review site I can find. I would like my money back, my replacement drive and an apology from your CEO.

I want to major in either international business or business management in college but I’m not too sure on what they do…I know I sound stupid for wanting to major in something without knowing what they do so can anyone of you tell me? ><

I’ve been looking for a desk and I dunno where to find a good and affordable one. I’ve looked at Walmart, Target, office Depot, Staples, Big Lots and Officemax. Please help >.<

I work for a company who has a Help Desk in IT I am the network guy and I do most of the asp programming for internal apps such as our ticket system for the Help Desk to assign out tickets. We have told this guy (Help Desk) repeatedly not to use a specific grammatically incorrect word when describing problems. It isn’t even a REAL word. The description field in our ASP uses the <textbox> tag for storing the form data. We do use validation to keep it from being so verbose but I would like a way to have it not accept the form if that word is anywhere in the textbox. Is this something that is possible and how hard would it be? Any examples would be appreciated.

<Q/Is some management fake ?
For example :

Call meeting.
Publish minutes of the meeting.
The minutes also list items for "action" by individual(s).

I’m wondering why this would produce high quality, or any quality at all.

A/ by Destined /not necessarily fake… but inanely useless/repetitive…

A/ by Tonto / You should read the book, "Death by Meeting". Very short but insightful.

But the fact is, bad
meetings are a reflection of bad leaders.

A/ by Morpheus / Oh! I’m so happy I work for myself – and I have NEVER gone to a "meeting". I hear of these things, and I read about them in Dilbert – but I personally have NEVER been to one of these. Life is good.>

Question No: 22 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Structures, in which another list starts before the first list is finished, are called:
► Multiple Lists
► Nested Lists
► Ordered Lists
► Un-ordered Lists

Question No: 23 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The key property of the ‘Array’ object in JavaScript is
► Value
► Length
► Name
► All of the given choices

Question No: 24 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Which one is the example of spreadsheet software ?
► MS Word
► MS PowerPoint
► MS Excel
► MS Access

Question No: 25 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The Encryption of data is related to
► Data updates
► Data security
► Data integrity
► Data accessibility

Question No: 26 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
_____ is the process of analyzing large databases to identify patterns.
► Data normalization
► Data management
► Data Mining
► None of the given options

Question No: 27 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Which is the user-friendly way of presenting data ?
► Query
► Form
► Report
► All of the given options

Question No: 28 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
JavaScript function fixed() has equivalent HTML tag-set ____
► <.FIX>……………</FIX>
► <F>………………..</F>
► <PRE>………….</PRE>
► <H>………………..</H>

Question No: 29 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
<form> Tags always placed between the <BODY> and </BODY> tags of a Web page
► True
► False

Question No: 30 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Java script has —————– ability to create and draw graphics.

► Limited
► Versatile
► Medium

► Not at all

<by Sherman Burton
HOW INCOMPETENT MANAGERS CAN AVOID BEING FIRED
In these days of company downsizing, it is not hard to become paranoid about losing one’s job. Managers that cannot conceal inaptness are an endangered species. This is how you survive when you find yourself, an incompetent, 1950s born, missed out on everything, technologically illiterate, newly promoted, head of a department in this environment.
Since incompetents do not get promoted on merit, you must be an expert at sucking up to higher management and taking credit for the good work of others. Those are real strengths among incompetent managers in today’s market. Get your nose buried comfortably in the right spot on the person you answer to. Your first goal is to learn which manager beneath you shines the brightest and your second goal is to learn what output from your department is considered the most important.

Next, study the files of the employees in the Shining Star’s division along with those of their boss. Learn their strengths of record, then dig deeper during face to face encounters. Your objectives are twofold: You want to make them know they have a friend above their boss, on the one hand; and, discover what skills you can call upon in getting things done in areas, especially technology related, that you will be expected to produce. Using these employees will not only get work done which you can claim as your own but it will also place the shining star under pressure to maintain production.
Now, it is time to befriend the shining star. This is the person next in line to take your job. Start with an invitation for a chat in your office. This highlights the fact that you are the boss. Keep the conversation about that person. Be generous with the,( me too, wow, I thought I was the only one that thought that) surprised discovery of similarity exclamations. Extend these meetings to luncheons and, if appropriate, to the mall or golf course. Where genders do not match, include significant others in the away from the office excursions besides the luncheons. Learn what aspect of the job your opponent finds most challenging. When you clue your boss, pretend that you discovered this by way of astute observation. The purpose of every conversation is to dig for any dirt or personal weakness which you can, at opportune moments, pass to your boss.
Always be alert for opportunities to be noticed by persons further up the chain of command. You could get an employee to sneak some digital shots of departmental employees in unusual poses. Then burn a CD presenting the pictures with witty descriptions in a Power Point Presentation. You bypass your boss and mail it directly to the home office with a suggestion that it would make for a hilarious surprise during the annual meeting of department heads and upper management. The Brass is sure to be impressed by your sense of humor and creative ability.
Your likelihood of being fired will be greatly lessened if you micro manage. That usually requires a major drop in that output your boss considers the most important. Unequally shifting the work load by keeping selected employees of that division busy doing other work is a neat way of causing such a drop. Once the stage is set, tell your boss the entire department is threatened, and, as much as you hate to do it, you must micro manage to restore the productivity back to acceptable levels. Then, as a micro manager, the chain of command runs directly from you to each employee. You will be the only one that knows what is going on. That is every incompetent manager’s dream. I am sure you, like most incompetent managers, have the type of character to accomplish it.>

<The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". This idea is known as Brooks’s law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.

Brooks’s observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had mistakenly added more workers to a project falling behind schedule. He also made the mistake of asserting that one project — writing an Algol compiler — would require six months, regardless of the number of workers involved (It required longer). The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called "The Bible of Software Engineering", because, "everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it."[1] The book is widely regarded as a classic on the human elements of software engineering.[2]

The work was first published in 1975 (ISBN 0-201-00650-2), reprinted with corrections in 1982, and republished as an anniversary edition with four extra chapters in 1995>

hi, thanks for your time and patience

1) is it called tagging both when you social bookmark and when you "tag" a video when you upload it?
2) do you know any software that is good for this?
3) can you create this using php or Mysql <- if so which one?
4) do you know any good content management systems that can do this?
5) randomly, which is the best cms for a social networking site?

I got this invite:
We share the —— group. I want to add you as a friend in Grouply so you can see my profile with my pictures, my groups, and my favorite group messages. Link to http://xxxxxxjoin

I found this in a virus search

< Grouply = phishing??
a few days ago, someone on one of my Yahoo! groups innocently posted a “helpful” suggestion to use a service called Grouply to manage emails and digests from multiple Yahoo! groups… after doing a bit of poking around, I’m forced to conclude that Grouply is nothing more than yet another phishing scam, b/c the only thing they DON’T appear to go after (at least not that I know of) is credit card and/or bank account info while Grouply may not be phishing, they DO collect usernames and passwords (btw, giving this info to a third party probably violates the Yahoo! Groups TOS — see para 5), which not only puts your own info at risk, but it exposes the info of everyone in your groups as well… also, there’s currently no easy way to unsub from Grouply: someone who’s signed up has to call or email Grouply, and they’ll unsub you (you hope!), but in all likelihood they still retain any info/data that they’ve managed to collect about you AND the members of your groups… phishing scams like this don’t get caught in anti-virus and anti-spam software; ANY time someone asks you for access to your usernames and passwords, run far, and run fast!! think very VERY hard about what that person/entity COULD do w/your info if they decide to abuse it, and whether or not you’d want to be held responsible for anything they might do under your account info… I’m personally not willing to take that kind of risk…>

Label on the unit says:
International Comfort Products, LLC
Model: EBP2400B2
S/N: <should be irrelevant>
refrigerant: 22

The unit is 2 years old (since purchase) and an HVAC tech says the freon is still good. The tech, who also installed the system and showed certification as an HVAC installer/tech, went into the attic and said he couldn’t find a problem beyond a freon recharge. I paid for the recharge and inspection, but since then, the tech’s business phone and cell phone are disconnected. Check was cashed at a Walmart. *sigh* I found him in the paper originally.

When I set the thermostat to ‘heat’, the heater coil and blower come on fine. When I set it to ‘cool’, the evaporator and condenser operate fine, but the blower doesn’t pull any air.

What should I check to fix this myself? There are no other techs available in my area until wednesday, and the tempratures here are still 85-90. I have 2 window units going all day, barely cooling the rooms they’re in.
I tried the auto/on switch. It doesn’t work. Changed the thermostat last night, still nothing.
Googled the model number for a while, found out it is a Tempstar HVAC unit. I can’t find any suppliers that sell parts for it here.