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post #1 of 45
4/1/04 at 3:56pm
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Dell has dropped the Bangalore Support Center in India

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-5182611.html?tag=cd_top
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post #2 of 45
4/1/04 at 4:01pm
Seems like it's only for OptiPlex and Latitude lines though. Us Inspiron schlepps still have to deal with them.
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post #3 of 45
4/1/04 at 4:08pm
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Its a small step towards Inspiron unification! tech support
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post #4 of 45
4/1/04 at 4:16pm
who services the xps users? india or the US?
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post #5 of 45
4/1/04 at 7:50pm
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a little of column A and a little of Column B
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post #6 of 45
4/1/04 at 8:25pm
hhahahaah so much for dell's claims that xps support are enthusiast hard core gamers..................somehow i don't think games are that accessible in india, i can't recall the last time i met any indians on cod or ut2k4
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post #7 of 45
4/1/04 at 8:41pm
/boggle

They are 10+ hours ahead of North America, which means that they are probably online when you are sleeping. Things don't stop when you are not online.

The software is actually more easily available then here.

Memnoch
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post #8 of 45
4/1/04 at 9:07pm
on weekends i'm almost on 24 hours a day, yes, sad, yes, pathetic, but hey, that's what i call an enthusiast gamer
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post #9 of 45
4/1/04 at 9:11pm
Im not sure if this is good... or bad...
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post #10 of 45
4/1/04 at 9:14pm
agreed..............pretty sad eh?
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post #11 of 45
4/1/04 at 9:23pm
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heh on a given sunday i'll join you for some wireless gaming 8-)
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post #12 of 45
4/1/04 at 9:25pm
dm, well we're in the same city what games do you play btw?
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post #13 of 45
4/2/04 at 4:05am
I'm from Pakistan, and i can easily guarantee to all of you that games are much more readily available, and accessible in the Indian subcontinent. There is a phenomenon, called piracy, which is not even close to being eradicated.

In a nutshell, that just means that i got my UT2004 copy for less than $6, on DVD, because i believe the original game is on 6 CDs.

Not that i promote it, but i can't find original non-pirated games here. People game a lot over here, but we don't game online because of our crappy internet connections, we prefer LAN cafe's. For example, the internet connection i'm sitting on right now is termed as a cable connection, however, i don't get speeds faster than dial up! At work though, since I work for an outsourcing solutions provider, i have a T3 connection! Which my company pays an arm and a leg for. (and NO, we're not the Dell call center!)
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post #14 of 45
4/2/04 at 4:13am
Yeah, I have friends here that are from India. They go back for Holidays every year or two and come back with literally dozens of games! Most are prirated of course, but there are a few originals. They get all the games that we get here in Australia, and North America easily. I think the piracy is so widespread and used there that there is virtually no hope of wiping it out.
As Rao said though, there are very few people with internet connections better than dial-up, and as a result LAN cafes are extremely popular, one of my friends spent most of his time in one there. That's pretty much why you might not see as many of them gaming online (but how do you know you're not playing with them anyway, thats what I want to know )
stu
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post #15 of 45
4/2/04 at 6:35am
hmmmmm wouldn't you NOT be able to play pirated games online since you probably won't have a valid cd-key? Unless you pirated someone's real cd-key as well
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post #16 of 45
4/2/04 at 7:06am
Thats what keygens are for
stu
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post #17 of 45
4/2/04 at 7:22am
Actually, most of the time, we don't even need keygens, we just have a modded ini or inf file, if not, we have the cd key in one of the folders in the pirate! Keygens, no cd hacks, modded application launchers, you name it. A dollar a game, and it always works. Shocking huh?

Sometimes, i feel that if our (the subcontinent's) hackers used their energies elsewhere and positively, we wouldn't 3 decades behind the rest of the world.
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post #18 of 45
4/2/04 at 8:12am
True...... Although what could be a better use thatn cheap comp games? Lol. Well you may be 3 decades behind now, but you're catching up fast!
stu
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post #19 of 45
4/2/04 at 1:00pm
I thought the most important part of the interview with Dell CIO Randy Mott was what he said regarding outsourcing Dell's IT needs:

"One area Dell won't be looking at for its own needs is outsourcing. Mott admitted that outsourcing can lead to an "average" IT cost for some firms but said IT is a core part of Dell's business.

"The last thing we want is an average cost structure," he said. "We consider IT a core competency. It is something we look to for sustainable competitive advantage."

He thinks outsourcing is good enough for their customers, but not good enough for themselves. Hmmmmmm.
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post #20 of 45
4/2/04 at 1:07pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Camulus

He thinks outsourcing is good enough for their customers, but not good enough for themselves. Hmmmmmm.
Well, apparently not anymore since they're cutting back on it....
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