Drall - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Not a good thing they get no govt money (Score 1) 128

by Drall on Monday August 17 2009, @03:31PM (#29096421) Attached to: UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link

I personally also find it amazing and shocking that as a small island nation the people responsible for pulling drowning people out of the water, going miles out to sea in huge storms to save drowning sailors and rescue fishermen are voluntary and unfunded.

I'd rather entrust my safety at sea to someone who's out there because they want to be there and volunteered to go out there than someone who's only doing it half-assed because they're fed up with the crappy paycheque they get each month. If you catch my...drift.

Comment: Re:Bletchley Park (Score 1) 339

by Drall on Friday June 05 2009, @11:04AM (#28222675) Attached to: Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings

Wow, I'm so glad I don't live on your planet.. I think I'll go out right now and do something irrational like fall in love or consider the lilies of the field, just to wind you up.

Comment: Re:Better than Uzi Water Guns (Score 1) 547

by Drall on Thursday March 27 2008, @07:57AM (#22880128) Attached to: Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban

"Nerf should be fine as long as it's obvious that it IS a Nerf weapon."

Elsewhere in this thread, someone's pointed out criminals painting the tips of their gun barrels orange so they look more like Airsoft guns.

And you can buy gun paint, not just in camouflage, but in a variety of bright flashy colours, to make The Real Thing(tm) look like more like a Nerf gun.

When Bloomberg tried to ban the sale of these paints in NYC, the company making them brought out a special line named for him. Who needs a bright pink pistol? According to the company director 'Women like to accessorize their firearms'. Lovely.

How satisfied are Microsoft customers?

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @10:30AM

PetManimal writes "The University of Michigan has released its annual American Customer Satisfaction Index, an annual survey of 80,000 Web users that assesses customer views of well-known corporations. Microsoft scored 70 out of 100 in the survey. That's ahead of Cingular Wireless, Comcast, and almost every airline, but behind the average approval rating for all software vendors, which was 75. Claes Fornell, the University of Michigan professor who directed the survey, says that the launch of Vista and Office 2007 during the survey period may have brought down Microsoft's ranking:

That's not actually because a majority of respondents had tried either software and found it lacking, he said. Rather, Microsoft's need to hype the two products through marketing and advertising may have created a backlash among some jaded consumers, he said. Fornell also said that customers have higher expectations for market-leading companies such as Microsoft. 'Microsoft is such a dominant company that economic theory predicts that their customer satisfaction would not be all that high, anyway," he said. "For them to come in at 70 is not all that bad.'
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EMI Releases Entire Catalog DRM-free on Amazon.com

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2007, @10:26AM

An anonymous reader writes "EMI has announced today that it will be releasing its entire catalog in MP3 format DRM-free on Amazon.com. This is step up from last month's announcment when a partnership was reached with Apple. The big difference however, is that this service will not only be DRM-free, but in MP3 format. Is the iTunes boat being rocked?"

Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @10:21AM

eldavojohn writes "While other companies are marrying the obvious functionalities to cell phones (calendar, MP3 player, GPS, etc.), Microsoft is aiming for it to be your next computers. From the article, "Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a research project called "Fone+" that would allow the phone to work with a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video stored on the device to be played back on the television.""