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...thing, most consumers are too price sensitive to pay the full cost of a personal visit, and companies usually have to absorb some of that cost, she says. So, short of making those house calls, how do you help the customer who runs into trouble with today's complicated "do-it-yourself" equipment? Simple: keep improving the products and provide effective remote tech support. Sohoware, for one, is working to simplify the installation process, so users won't have to configure each computer...
...spirituality,” exposed herself nude on the subway in her video. Since then, she has struggled to cast aside the stereotypes from her “angry female rocker” days. Supposed Former Infatuated Junkie, her sophomore release, was a tense, confessional album, more do-it-yourself therapy for Morisette than entertainment for fans impatiently awaiting the fury of “You Oughta Know,” Part II. To her credit, Morisette had moved on. Her confrontations with herself and various ex-lovers led to an unsettling solace on Junkie that brought out the psychoanalyst...
...YOUR OWN BOAT Want to take the helm yourself? The folks at Thai Marine Leisure, based in Phuket, furnish an array of do-it-yourself boat vacations for all levels of experience. Choose from luxury charters complete with gourmet chefs and a professional crew, to rentals of bare boats, where would-be Ahabs can fulfill their own nautical fantasies by cooking, navigating, and swabbing the decks. Find them all on the Web at thaimarine.com, or call...
Part of the cultural resistance to hip-hop has to do with the music's do-it-yourself style. Musicianship in Cuba is traditionally measured purely by formal skill. Even the players working the lounges of Havana hotels are stunningly accomplished. Older Cubans, accustomed to salsa, have difficulty accepting rap as music...
...grunge movement originated in Seattle when it was still a drab, frustrated port city and not a hotbed of technological advancement. Spawned from the do-it-yourself indie scene—dominated at the time by riot grrls, anti-establishment students and angry white Gen-Xers—grunge was solidified as a genre by dirty slackers Mudhoney and the magnetic caterwaul of Soundgarden. In interviews, Cobain presented himself as the posterboy for grunge: Filthy, seemingly apathetic, and disillusioned with society, using music as a respite untainted by society’s stamp of approval. Cobain would claim in interviews...