@gizgizgiz: There are some good CEOs but the crop coming through the post-dot com era seem to be extremely poor and have accelerated the race to the bottom.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!:

I don't see what 99% of the current crop of CEOs bring to the table.

pfftttt...

Way back when, we used to put a dollar figure on each phone call coming into our Customer Service/Order fulfillment desk. It averaged $450 a phone call worth of $ to the company.

@hoocli: In that 30 minutes the client has plenty of time to call the competition who actually might care about service

Great way to piss off clients !

They are not drunk and lonely.

@Captain Fish: @ THIS STATMENT IS VERIFIABLY INCORRECT. THE VELOCIRAPTOR NEVER APPLIED FOR XPRIZE MONEY. IT WAS DESIGNED FOR DEFENSE APPLICATIONS.

How long until the @ THIS STATMENT IS VERIFIABLY INCORRECT meme gets banned on Giz :)?

Was he involved with Silicon Film in anyway?

'See what a finski can do to a guy's attitude?'

@Fronzbot: I have an iPad and an iPhone 4 and no I haven't jailbroken them yet.

@grindking: I used them for 3 years with HTC windows phones and they were universally buggy.

@Totenglocke42: Yes but unfortunately most hardware companies who are using Android seem to follow the douchebag Samsung model.

@grindking: half baked user created ROMs are not exactly fun to use when you require a phone to actually work.

I know I am an Apple Fanboy but I don't miss having to deal with this type of crap at all.

So much for the 'holding off for the iPad 2' crowd

Consolidation and mergers are raising their ugly heads.

@captainlogic001: It was good for quite awhile though and Roy E. staved off the corporate dicks for the better part of 2 decades until Eisener came in and put the coup d' grace to Walt's dream