OMG is anyone watching Conan? Tech support in India....

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User1001

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Originally posted by: Garuda
I don't think Indian tech support is bad. How do you know they're Indian anyway? In India, the young generation speaks very convincing British and/or American English, and they take Western names when they talk to you on the phone.

Tech support in India is a top job. They have their pick of college educated candidates, and they take smart people who speak good English.

Here in America, tech support is an almost minimum wage job. If you hear someone talking with an accent, they might be an immigrant right here in the U.S., who has taken a job that Americans don't want to do.

Then again, often times you get someone who speaks Ebonics, or a Southern hick of James Carville proportions whose English is very hard to decipher. :confused:

This young generation in India usually don't take tech support jobs.
 

Gurck

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Garuda
I don't think Indian tech support is bad. How do you know they're Indian anyway? In India, the young generation speaks very convincing British and/or American English, and they take Western names when they talk to you on the phone.

Tech support in India is a top job. They have their pick of college educated candidates, and they take smart people who speak good English.

Here in America, tech support is an almost minimum wage job. If you hear someone talking with an accent, they might be an immigrant right here in the U.S., who has taken a job that Americans don't want to do.

Then again, often times you get someone who speaks Ebonics, or a Southern hick of James Carville proportions whose English is very hard to decipher. :confused:
you don't think Indian tech support is bad? obviously you haven't had to rely on them.
the 3 techs i have spoken to had such thick accents i couldn't understand them, and one guy got annoyed with me because i had to make him repeat himself so often.
how do i know they were in India? i asked. one woman and i even talked about the weather there (in India) while we were waiting for something to load.

I've had to call twice for my router (Netgear), in both cases the person I spoke with was intelligible but with a thick and obviously Indian accent. One was a woman who didn't seem to know very much and was obviously reading from a script... When I called back I got a pretty knowledgeable guy though... about equal to what you might find calling a US-based tech support center, really (if you can still find one). My real issue with it is that if it continues, not enough people in the country purchasing the goods for which tech support is outsourced will have jobs & earn money for the products to maintain sales levels. It's basically doing something harmful for a fast buck, and I'm sure ATOT's prepubescent free iPod scammer crowd will "pwn" me for feeling this way (by calling me names :p), but I'm against it.
 

mjrand

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This the conan ep with drew barrymore? If so, I should be able to get the vid.
 

mchammer187

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they should be showing it again at like 3am not sure when tho they are something like a week behind

BTW would anyone have the stackenblocken skit

IMO that was the funniest thing i have ever seen

it was on like in 2000 and i have looked a long time on the internet for it but never found it
 
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I have the entire show in .ogm format...not sure how I could take out only that one clip.

If anyone wants to tell me then I'll try to help out if I can.
 

welst10

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Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I have the entire show in .ogm format...not sure how I could take out only that one clip.

If anyone wants to tell me then I'll try to help out if I can.

convert it to WMV format and post it!
 

ironcrotch

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Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I have the entire show in .ogm format...not sure how I could take out only that one clip.

If anyone wants to tell me then I'll try to help out if I can.

convert it to WMV format and post it!

STAT ASAP
 
Aug 14, 2001
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Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I have the entire show in .ogm format...not sure how I could take out only that one clip.

If anyone wants to tell me then I'll try to help out if I can.

convert it to WMV format and post it!

What program do I use to convert it and what program do I use to take out that one clip?
 

welst10

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Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I have the entire show in .ogm format...not sure how I could take out only that one clip.

If anyone wants to tell me then I'll try to help out if I can.

convert it to WMV format and post it!

What program do I use to convert it and what program do I use to take out that one clip?

sorry, not an expert on video editing. Calling for video editing junkies.
 

RossMAN

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RabidMongoose,

How large is the file?

If we have any video experts here, I can host the entire file, they can d/l it and convert/compress it for us.
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Rossman, it is 347MB. I'm willing to upload the entire thing to someone.

347MB is not a problem :)

I can't believe we're going to FINALLY see this video, w00t!

Please PM me your AIM/MSN and email address. I'll create an account for you when I get home.
 
Aug 14, 2001
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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Rossman, it is 347MB. I'm willing to upload the entire thing to someone.

347MB is not a problem :)

I can't believe we're going to FINALLY see this video, w00t!

Please PM me your AIM/MSN and email address. I'll create an account for you when I get home.

PM sent!
 

RossMAN

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It would be an FTP account.

Actually if someone can contact DeviousTrap via PM or AIM. Ask him to login to my askross.com WHM and increase the size for that domain to 500MB. He can login to cPanel and provide you with FTP address, username and password.

Otherwise this will have to wait 5 hours I'll be online and will contact you.