My personal experience with Tiger Direct is it may be cancelled until it is shipped. I bought 6 Xbox 360's from TD at a listed price of $5.95 each plus shipping, They cancelled the order the morning it should of shipped.

I recently took delivery of 4 sound bars for $4.95 each that I sold on Craigslist for $75 each. The price was changed a few hours after my shipping confirmation to $99. I got them with no problem.

TD makes this mistake frequently, only once (the sound bars) did I actually receive the merchandise, but I always try when I see an obviously incorrect advertised price.

Sometimes you just get lucky.

After all, once it's shipped it becomes difficult (and perhaps impossible?) to tell a customer to send it back because you made a boo-boo.

There is no fraud involved even if you think the price is wrong, you merely took advantage of a killer sale.

The downside is that it has taken TD nearly 2 weeks to refund my money each time I have tried this, in spite of their stated policy to refund within IIRC, 48 hours.

Anecdotal I realize, but my $0.02 anyway....(-;
 

That's cool, sounds like you had a good relationship with you father.
My dad lost his sense of smell in the final days of WWII. He was the belly turret gunner on a B-17. It belly flopped on landing, propelling him up into the burning wreckage,where he inhaled burning fuel through his nose. He barely survived, but never had a sense of smell from then on, he was 19 at the time, he lived to be 77.
We built race cars together.
Your post made me smile remembering my father, thanks. (:

What work? What piracy?
Ten seconds got me a link that works in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI

If that was work or piracy, then I be a harrrd worrkin pirate, arrrgh!

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
Plato

Uh, because a mechanic COSTS $95 per hour but PAYS far less than that? Tools are a long term investment. They pay for themselves over many years and many jobs.

There are few, if any, specialist tools that are required. Specialized tools are generally to make a job easier, but most jobs can be done with standard tools and more work. (I have made a great deal of specialized tools as well, most recently a full function adjustable automatic transmission jack adapter for my large floor jack saving about $250 for a $35 investment)

Most of us who work on our own cars don't buy cars that we can't work on. After all, that defeats the purpose. And once the warranty expires, I can do a whole lot more than you imply is possible on a new car. At WORST I might have to pay for a diagnostic to get the codes if I can't get them to display on the dash or with a multimeter. In most cases I can buy or rent diagnostic equipment if needed

(And classics are sooo much more fun to play with and drive!)

No it doesn't.
Canada blows, Mexico sucks.
That's why the prevailing winds in North America are north to south......

At least he apologized......(^;

http://www.cnet.com/news/creator-of-internet-pop-up-ad-apologizes-for-hated-tool/

"If we keep going, pretty soon people will have convicts wired up for everything"

But, will they run Linux?

Life imitating art poorly?

I can just imagine what some of the headlines you came up with must of been. Maybe for the LOLs you should of put some of them into a note at the end with the explanation you just put into your comment.

Oh, and it was basically because no abortion clinic ever calls themselves "Aborts R Us!" Since they asked for abortion clinics they got results of anti-abortion sites because they do use the word abortion. Just a programming oversite, no conspiracy.

And it was Siri, not a clone.

A quick search came up rather empty, save for one link,

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/seemingly_pro_life_siri_riles_abortion_rights_activists

This story in turn links to a pro-choice website and all links in that story lead to other stories on their site with no external links. One of the comments mentioned hearing it break on NPR, so take it with a rather large grain of NaCl......(;

Hehehe, no, not MS.

But not everyone is going after the best.
Interesting perspective. Thank you. Few would post under their username and say anything good about MS.
I have to respect that.
Some people have been burned and that leaves a bad vibe to us over the whole issue. Of course, that colors judgement quite a bit. It is refreshing to see a well written counterpoint.

I don't work for MS, but have been accused of being a shill here before for pointing out the inaccuracies that get posted here, you just gave me a lot to think about.
Again thanks for an eye opening post that forced me to think beyond the personal reasons I question the value of this program.

Yeppers, noticed I used conscience instead of conscious as soon as I hit submit. Almost surprised the pendants didn't troll me for not paying enough attention to the spell check list when I fumble fingered it.

P.S. If I were to rant about MS, it would be for some of their questionable business dealings (like any other large corporation) and not with their community support projects. (And this one I was unaware of, very cool) Oh, and maybe the choice of processor and memory in the Xbox One.. (;

Yes, I realized that, however it wasn't until after WWII that it really had any chance of being accepted.

No, I, like most here wouldn't have a problem with bringing in truly top notch people. However, it seems that this has been abused to bring in people LESS qualified than the local talent. While at the same time reducing the local workforce in favor of an immigrant force just to enhance their bottom line.

Great people enhance the environment for all, diversity of ideas and points of view can have a major positive impact.

Too many though, are using this to take advantage of people who are willing to work for far less just to avoid paying a good salary. When the program is used as intended that is entirely different. Sometimes that rare talent is something you may need to scour the world for. But it seems for the most part this is just abused.

I should of been more clear about my opinion, but the way it was stated in the summery just sounded, well, vaguely insulting and kind of dismissive of local talent.
 

"The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."

Show me ONE.

Just fucking ONE.

He or she must have a pulse,
be conscience,
have an IQ over 30,
full citizenship,
NOT A POLITICIAN,
NOT A CEO,
NOW SHOW ME ONE.