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On Tape: Rep Won't Let Customer Quit AOL

An incredible video from CNBC shows an AOL customer trying to cancel his account, but a phone rep won't let him do it. What customer Vincent Ferrari got when he tried to cancel his account was a lot of frustration.

It took him 15 minutes waiting on the phone just to reach a real, live person.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9406462/detail.html

Now, that's customer serivce :kissyou:
 
Sometimes you just can't talk someone out of AOL, my sister is a perfect example, after 4 years I've given up.... I just restore the system every 6 months after it gets screwed up...
 
I dropped the whole winblows BS about seven years ago... Never, never, never ever looked back. AOL is Satans son. Windows is AOLs brother and also a son of Satan.
 
mdl said:
I dropped the whole winblows BS about seven years ago... Never, never, never ever looked back. AOL is Satans son. Windows is AOLs brother and also a son of Satan.
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For normal everyday use, I dont really have probs with winXP, and the OG WinME(when they stopped the updates, it got screwy) Most of my probs come from installing stuff that sucks. I will NEVER use limewire again. IT has been added to my banned list.
 
imma honky said:
For normal everyday use, I dont really have probs with winXP, and the OG WinME(when they stopped the updates, it got screwy) Most of my probs come from installing stuff that sucks. I will NEVER use limewire again. IT has been added to my banned list.
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Just create a seperate partition on a small drive and try out linux for a while. I guarentee you won't go back. Hell even windows programs run better on linux than on windows..
 
My main concerns would be do these work....
winamp? (or another player)
trillian?
and a few other apps I will not mention publically.
 
You can run any windows program on a linux box. Regular apps can use "Wine". Games can use "Cedaga". Like mambeu said, XMMS and xine work fine for media. You don't need trillian, there are integraded apps for aim.

Any argument for sticking with windows can be shot down like lincoln poppin squirrels.
This thread should be a sicky. :)
 
imma honky said:
trillian?
and a few other apps I will not mention publically.
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Trillian has started to suck anyway, go and get GAIM, it's linux native and does all that trillian does and more. Jabber support and such.
 
Windows- because i just want to play games, not run emmulators!
If i used my computer for anything more then games and surfing, i might consider linux but it doesnt support the video API and DirectX that XP has..

[[It also doesnt support a number of the bugs and virus's ! LOL]

My xbox 360 is cool but still doesnt hold a candle to my PC.

Although i did have it dual booted with linux for a while.. it wasnt very interesting...
of course this coming from a system builder, worked at IBM a couple years back and know my way around computer kinda guy...

If i was just a user...no way i would never ever go linux... or put it on my mothers or my wifes machine..yeah right.

someday maybe, but not now thats for sure...

But for heavy users and computer tickerers then yes definatly, more stable but less support. More fun for tinkerers

Aaron
 
aroncull said:
Windows- because i just want to play games, not run emmulators!
If i used my computer for anything more then games and surfing, i might consider linux but it doesnt support the video API and DirectX that XP has..

[[It also doesnt support a number of the bugs and virus's ! LOL]

My xbox 360 is cool but still doesnt hold a candle to my PC.

Although i did have it dual booted with linux for a while.. it wasnt very interesting...
of course this coming from a system builder, worked at IBM a couple years back and know my way around computer kinda guy...

If i was just a user...no way i would never ever go linux... or put it on my mothers or my wifes machine..yeah right.

someday maybe, but not now thats for sure...

But for heavy users and computer tickerers then yes definatly, more stable but less support. More fun for tinkerers

Aaron
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You nailed it, brother. x2.
 
mdl said:
He didn't nail anything.

Linux supports all of those. Wine is not an emulator. Nether is Cedega.
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The very fact that both require a near complete copy of a windows installation available to run windows apps would classify them as an emulator.


I used to be a linux whore, then I discovered unix.. it makes linux look like windows 98 se2. FreeBSD on the desktop, Solaris at the server.
 
I'm sticking with my punch cards.
 
Please just tell me how to stop the updates.

updates, updates, updates...that's all the stupid POC wants to do (winXP by the way).

And then, GOOD GOD! If you figure out how to stop the updates you get a continuous flow of dire warnings of doom that never stop! STFU already! I stopped the updates on purpose you worthless $#%&%*#$&%*#&#%*(#%&*#&$*!!!!!

If I had more than a 3kbps connection and more than 256MB RAM it wouldn't matter so much. When you spend $300 for a home desktop PC I guess you have to live with it.
 
Ramsey said:
I'm sticking with my punch cards.
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AMEN. I could make those work, and I had media funds left over!
 
One of my Professors has boxes upon boxes of those damn cards. He even carries one around in his wallet, i cant seem to remember what it was for though.
 
I still consider it an emulator and yes it may be possible to play games on linux. But it will be a castrated version. Not the real thing....
I like to keep my FPS as high as my $400 video card allows it to go...
Yes i went to linux-gamers.net and again the system will not natively
support the physics and the API/Direct X that makes the games worth playing...

Linux is for tinkerers and Computer poeple not gamers and USERS..
And i might add that the majority of poeple on computers are users.
back to my previouse statment.

I am in no way knocking Linux/unix...its just that it isnt the be all end all OS (niether is winX) simply because i wouldnt want to use it for Gaming or Office work or Production or .... well anything but thats just me and ahh well the majority of computer users LOL...hahah
oh boy!!!
Leave linux for the networks and phones and other Absolutly critical systems and leave windows for the fluff crap and production work....
each has thier place...
So ahh yeah thats enough for now...

-Aaron
 
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