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At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)
(physorg.com)
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aliebschner
17y ago
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aliebschner
17y ago
Thank you for writing it in plain english -- I really wish I could upvote you more than once because it's one of the best replies in this discussion (for that, and for bringing up "blithe", that I didn't know of).
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aliebschner
17y ago
> So you're saying that, as a paying customer for Google Apps for Domains (I'm assuming since you don't mention any of these details in your post), you couldn't get the same level of support on another Google product that you're not pay
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aliebschner
17y ago
In the world of free stuff most of the time support is not granted. "You are free to e-mail us, and we are free to ignore you" -- that's fine. In the world of google free stuff it's "we made a business decision not to give our customers the
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17y ago
Nah. Here are the details: I think I would be able to reproduce the issue but I have no way to contact them other than an abandoned "official" google group. I call this a crappy way to run a "free" service.
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17y ago
The 150 hours reply came after a request using that PIN number.
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17y ago
To be honest, the feed URL is still up and running and working great -- however it's not bound to any of the two google accounts that are supposed to be bound with it. So: feed is working but I cannot change settings, setup a redirect, et c
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17y ago
I threw money (RAM) at the problem and the server is back up, at least it is now ;-)
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17y ago
hackernews killed the server and it's really FUBAR (can't even ssh to it and try to fix it) sorry about that [edit: back up now]
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17y ago
If you want a short version of the story, here it is: it took 5 days (approximatively 150 hours) to get the first reply from the so called “Google Enterprise Support”. And that’s the good news. The bad news is that most of the Google produc
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Gone Google? Do yourself a favor: don’t.
(indieloper.com)
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17y ago
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