Are you "listening" RadioShack?
Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)
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RadioShack, witless purveyors of Monster Cables, might take a listen:
It's hard to believe that a company can be on the wrong side of so many facets of their business -- and stil be in business. I really feel bad for the owners of my local RadioShack independent franchise. They try so hard to accommodate the needs of their customers, but a totallly clueless corporate headquarters cannot be helping in the least.
The local store does carry non-RS-packaged products, though. Maybe I should skin-pack some coathangers with a nice hang-tab and take some down there.
-Phil
It's hard to believe that a company can be on the wrong side of so many facets of their business -- and stil be in business. I really feel bad for the owners of my local RadioShack independent franchise. They try so hard to accommodate the needs of their customers, but a totallly clueless corporate headquarters cannot be helping in the least.
The local store does carry non-RS-packaged products, though. Maybe I should skin-pack some coathangers with a nice hang-tab and take some down there.
-Phil
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The problem with coathangers is that they are not all manufactured the same and if you don't use good ones it could hang up your audio.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radioshack-still-in-b,2190/
A few years back I was involved in writing software for a DSL router. Basically an ARM Linux box with 3 DSL ports at something like 2Mbits/sec a couple of serial ports and so on. An odd device designed to solve a specific networking problem.
Anyway, they took it to an exhibition where they demonstrated it's robustness by connecting two of units together using a couple of coils of barbed wire!
-MattG
Only because nowadays it's an endless source of entertainment.
Otherwise where are you going to hang your coat?
I've never seen someone talking on a cell phone while hauling butt in a boat. Usually people just enjoy the boat. I think we can start to pinpoint where RadioShack went wrong.
Yeah but he wasn't on a freakin' boat!
So, how often do you watch that?
-Phil
And whilst we are at it, who ever let them have horseless carriages in the first place?
Though in general cell phones have made people quite nasty and selfish. It's nothing for people to tweet others during a face to face conversation or interrupt a conversation to talk to someone else or talk loudly in a public venue like a theater or library. Civility just goes out the door when tech is involved.
Oh, I could watch Julia Roberts in her prime all day long.
Is there a Thanksgiving "Pretty Woman" marathon I'm missing somewhere?
-Phil
-Phil