Then we look at their annual report [PDF], which tells us the President and CEO is H. Lee Scott, Jr.
Make sure to send a physical letter, and send it certified mail. Once it's through the door, and they know you know it, they have to deal with your problem.
Unless they just don't care. But then at least you'll know that too.
Here's the letter I wrote to Gap [PDF] regarding how they're currently engaged in destroying my reputation. I addressed it to Paul Pressler, the President and CEO. I have proof of delivery, but no reply yet and the calls are still coming. We'll see how it goes...
I quite fail to see how Firefox is a "windows app mainly", one of it's goals is not to be platform specific in any way.
This is true of the original Mozilla with its platform-independent GUI but one of Firefox's goals is to be a better IE than IE and to conform to platform-dependant UI standards. Hence on Windows the button order is left to right, while on X11 it now follows the lead of that retarded GNOME monkey and goes right to left. Also the "Preferences..." menu item is located under different menus on different platforms. The list goes on.
On-click behavior in text boxes is one behavior that is very platform specific.
You foul, petty, misinformed apologist for an imagined cause. He said "some of them", and his list included Malcolm X.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.
"Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
How is this not "threaten[ing] to meet force with force", idiot?
Like his friend Eric Raymond, Paul Graham is little more than a pseudo-programmer whose real goal is to appear as an enlightened "hacker," rather than embody an enlightened or productive anything.
Except that Paul Graham has written quite useful programming books for both beginning and intermediate level programmers. Real books too, with code, not the "look, I customized a mail downloading program and by the way, let me explain how this makes me a guru on software development" tomes that ESR likes to squat and drop.
But we are conditioned somehow to see uniformed Israeli murderers as "legitimate acts of defense" and retaliatory non-uniformed Palestians
responding in kind as "terrorists".
Because Israel started it and it's all their fault? Please.
Congress has 2 houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. A state's membership count in the House is determined by population, whereas each state has 2 senators. The Senate tends to be viewed as more senior. Terms in the Senate are 6 years long; in the House they are 2 years long. In this way the framers of the Constitution hoped to balance the interests of rural states against those of more urban ones, as well as to provide another check against the popular whims of the voting public. Sadly nowadays Senators pander just as much.
Too bad parent is erroneously marked offtopic... I think it's spot on.
I've actually met André LaMothe. I was 14 or 15 at the time and living in Milpitas. I sent an email to the CompuServe account listed in the back of his book and he not only was kind enough to reply promptly, but explained several of the concepts I was having trouble with to me over the phone in more detail. He gave me a copy of what was at the time his newer book, as well as an older version of Watcom C/C++ that he wasn't using any more.
I was used to always writing to an API (I wrote, as an exercise, my own mini-OS in assembly, but it still used the BIOS for everything) and coding to bare metal was a new thing to me. I knew of the dangers of C macros (multiple evaluation, etc) and so avoided them entirely, but he gave examples of where they could be used to great effect and how to avoid those dangers. I learned about how to implement preemptive multitasking from his books, about effective use of lookup tables, about how knowledge of higher math can be leveraged to write much more efficient code.
His newer books ended up focusing on DirectX, and I lost my interest in game programming when I realized that without a full studio and millions of $ it would be near-impossible to compete with the Quakes and other established models that continually raised the bar. I now program in a business context (amusingly enough, using Lisp macros heavily, which put anything C macros can do to shame) but I'm grateful for everything I learned from his books.
I think this XGameStation is a great idea. I may buy one. Something which can show inexperienced programmers through experience the difference between an effecient algorithm and an inefficient one is an idea I fully support, and this looks like it could end up being lots of fun besides.
I think that publishing a PDF to a floppy [...] or mailing the printed article to self in a sealed envelope with a postmark would be just as good in court.
I think he meant that he can keep a screen session going independently of X sessions, and that a bunch of xterms can show different views of this session via screen -x and the like.
I-70 between Denver and Vail is currently between 6 and 8 lanes wide, in most parts. Except for when a big rig flips over, I've generally seen it to be pretty smooth, but apparently the traffic engineers are worried. One proposal has been to add a monorail, which I think would be quite spiffy. I (being in Florida right now) could use it when visiting my fiancée, who lives in the Steamboat Springs area. Instead of having to drive all the way to the Denver airport to pick me up, she could make a quick (<2hrs) trip to Vail. Skiiers could avoid having to rent cars or pay expensive taxi services. Volume at the outlet stores in Silverthorne would probably increase.
Unfortunately everybody seems to think it would be more effective to slap 2 or 4 more lanes onto the road. Cutting bigger and bigger swaths out of the forest, of course. The area around Idaho Springs would be a bottleneck, so I guess it'd be time to blast more of the hills and cliffs away, too. What happens when these lanes are full too? It's a bit harder to add lanes than it is to add train cars, or to have the trains run more often.
Here's what I had to say about Smart Tags at the time. Of course they catered to the "designers" and the one interesting feature they had was cancelled.
it stealses our precious vision!
There's been a lot of whinging
about Micros~1's latest Innovation,
with talk of the horrible nerve they have to "re-edit anybody's
site, without the owner's knowledge or permission, in a way that
tempts users to leave".
Aside from the usual Micros~1 practice of claiming others'
technology as their own, and the icky ripoff of the Aqua GUI in
their screenshot (What is with this fascination with
white or almost-white backgrounds? GUIs, Web pages, everything.
White backgrounds are too harsh and make reading difficult. One
of the more significant advances between Win3.1 and Win9x was
the death of the horrible white background everywhere, and now
they're doing their best to revive it.), I see this as a good
thing.
For once, they seem to be behaving somewhat responsibly in the
integration of new functionality (although I wonder how true
this would be were the specter of an antitrust breakup not
looming over them). Smart Tags are quite visibly different,
both in appearance and behavior. They aren't including any tag
packages with IE (although I have no doubt they'll plug their
ad-pimping package as much as they possibly can). All
processing is done locally, which saves bandwidth and prevents a
list of all the URLs you visit being sent to Redmond ("What's
Related", anyone?).
Smart Tags scare Web "designers" to no end, because they
exploit the most fundamental and useful feature of the World
Wide Web: hyperlinks. Hyperlinks scare them for 2 simple
reasons:
Their sites are boring.
They lie to their readers.
Obviously, these can't be used as arguments against the
introduction of these tags, so instead they complain about how
their sites are being edited behind their backs. But this is a
lie and everyone knows it. Their pages are still stored on
their server in exactly the same pattern of bytes as before.
What frightens them is that the reader might be given the option
to go read something else, and this is not right.
What they don't realize is that they never had the
right nor the ability to control the presentation of their
site. From the moment their pages are posted on a public
server, I have the right to do anything I want with them. I can
view the source. I can critique their site and their product.
And I can disable their grotesque colors, their unreadable
fonts, and their gratuitous JavaScript. I can see if their site
contains any value to me, and if not, I can leave. A browser is
not a television for them to flash pretty images on. It is a
tool for me to explore publications, and as such I expect it to
provide me with cross-referencing features.
There is public
documentation on creating Smart Tag packages. Anyone can
write their own annotations and distribute them to friends or
the world at large. Of course, this ability is only useful to
"the hate groups, the spammers and the junk marketers on the
Web". I want to see Smart Tags in Mozilla. I want to see
widespread grassroots dictionaries,
references, and
I have a NiMH charger. The batteries are good for 1000 charges (probably 5 years of use, if I have 2 sets and swap them). I can get a new set of batteries for under $20. Oh, and my player has no moving parts, either. Tell me again what's so great about Apple?
If they are PS/2 mice make sure to power them down first, and be on hand when the mark goes to switch them back. Otherwise it might not be quite so "non-destructive".
You have things backwards. "Beyond a shadow of a doubt" is the more stringent standard, and "preponderance of the evidence" is indeed the requirement for civil cases.
There is nothing magic about this, rather something very tragic. We've made web browsing so complex and inefficient that we have to invent a new thing to make it simpler again.
No, it's because of data overload. Using an aggregator allows one to skip past the million mostly identical shrieks of fury everytime something politically annoying happens, and look for the bits of original and unique content.
Slashdot Mirror
Make sure to send a physical letter, and send it certified mail. Once it's through the door, and they know you know it, they have to deal with your problem.
Unless they just don't care. But then at least you'll know that too.
Here's the letter I wrote to Gap [PDF] regarding how they're currently engaged in destroying my reputation. I addressed it to Paul Pressler, the President and CEO. I have proof of delivery, but no reply yet and the calls are still coming. We'll see how it goes...
Red Hat should simply rename the file on their site, change the links to it, and then replace it with a "THIS IS FRAUD" PNG.
Oh, you watched Jon Stewart too? That must make you somehow more special than the millions who saw the same thing.
Except that Paul Graham has written quite useful programming books for both beginning and intermediate level programmers. Real books too, with code, not the "look, I customized a mail downloading program and by the way, let me explain how this makes me a guru on software development" tomes that ESR likes to squat and drop.
Congress has 2 houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. A state's membership count in the House is determined by population, whereas each state has 2 senators. The Senate tends to be viewed as more senior. Terms in the Senate are 6 years long; in the House they are 2 years long. In this way the framers of the Constitution hoped to balance the interests of rural states against those of more urban ones, as well as to provide another check against the popular whims of the voting public. Sadly nowadays Senators pander just as much.
Hiawatha was Iroquois, idiot.
Try Cerberus Helpdesk.
C is low level, you nitwit. It's just portable assembly...
Too bad parent is erroneously marked offtopic... I think it's spot on.
I've actually met André LaMothe. I was 14 or 15 at the time and living in Milpitas. I sent an email to the CompuServe account listed in the back of his book and he not only was kind enough to reply promptly, but explained several of the concepts I was having trouble with to me over the phone in more detail. He gave me a copy of what was at the time his newer book, as well as an older version of Watcom C/C++ that he wasn't using any more.
I was used to always writing to an API (I wrote, as an exercise, my own mini-OS in assembly, but it still used the BIOS for everything) and coding to bare metal was a new thing to me. I knew of the dangers of C macros (multiple evaluation, etc) and so avoided them entirely, but he gave examples of where they could be used to great effect and how to avoid those dangers. I learned about how to implement preemptive multitasking from his books, about effective use of lookup tables, about how knowledge of higher math can be leveraged to write much more efficient code.
His newer books ended up focusing on DirectX, and I lost my interest in game programming when I realized that without a full studio and millions of $ it would be near-impossible to compete with the Quakes and other established models that continually raised the bar. I now program in a business context (amusingly enough, using Lisp macros heavily, which put anything C macros can do to shame) but I'm grateful for everything I learned from his books.
I think this XGameStation is a great idea. I may buy one. Something which can show inexperienced programmers through experience the difference between an effecient algorithm and an inefficient one is an idea I fully support, and this looks like it could end up being lots of fun besides.
Cites?
I think he meant that he can keep a screen session going independently of X sessions, and that a bunch of xterms can show different views of this session via screen -x and the like.
Unfortunately everybody seems to think it would be more effective to slap 2 or 4 more lanes onto the road. Cutting bigger and bigger swaths out of the forest, of course. The area around Idaho Springs would be a bottleneck, so I guess it'd be time to blast more of the hills and cliffs away, too. What happens when these lanes are full too? It's a bit harder to add lanes than it is to add train cars, or to have the trains run more often.
it stealses our precious vision!
There's been a lot of whinging about Micros~1's latest Innovation, with talk of the horrible nerve they have to "re-edit anybody's site, without the owner's knowledge or permission, in a way that tempts users to leave".
Aside from the usual Micros~1 practice of claiming others' technology as their own, and the icky ripoff of the Aqua GUI in their screenshot (What is with this fascination with white or almost-white backgrounds? GUIs, Web pages, everything. White backgrounds are too harsh and make reading difficult. One of the more significant advances between Win3.1 and Win9x was the death of the horrible white background everywhere, and now they're doing their best to revive it.), I see this as a good thing.
For once, they seem to be behaving somewhat responsibly in the integration of new functionality (although I wonder how true this would be were the specter of an antitrust breakup not looming over them). Smart Tags are quite visibly different, both in appearance and behavior. They aren't including any tag packages with IE (although I have no doubt they'll plug their ad-pimping package as much as they possibly can). All processing is done locally, which saves bandwidth and prevents a list of all the URLs you visit being sent to Redmond ("What's Related", anyone?).
Smart Tags scare Web "designers" to no end, because they exploit the most fundamental and useful feature of the World Wide Web: hyperlinks. Hyperlinks scare them for 2 simple reasons:
Obviously, these can't be used as arguments against the introduction of these tags, so instead they complain about how their sites are being edited behind their backs. But this is a lie and everyone knows it. Their pages are still stored on their server in exactly the same pattern of bytes as before. What frightens them is that the reader might be given the option to go read something else, and this is not right.
What they don't realize is that they never had the right nor the ability to control the presentation of their site. From the moment their pages are posted on a public server, I have the right to do anything I want with them. I can view the source. I can critique their site and their product. And I can disable their grotesque colors, their unreadable fonts, and their gratuitous JavaScript. I can see if their site contains any value to me, and if not, I can leave. A browser is not a television for them to flash pretty images on. It is a tool for me to explore publications, and as such I expect it to provide me with cross-referencing features.
There is public documentation on creating Smart Tag packages. Anyone can write their own annotations and distribute them to friends or the world at large. Of course, this ability is only useful to "the hate groups, the spammers and the junk marketers on the Web". I want to see Smart Tags in Mozilla. I want to see widespread grassroots dictionaries, references, and
I have a NiMH charger. The batteries are good for 1000 charges (probably 5 years of use, if I have 2 sets and swap them). I can get a new set of batteries for under $20. Oh, and my player has no moving parts, either. Tell me again what's so great about Apple?
If they are PS/2 mice make sure to power them down first, and be on hand when the mark goes to switch them back. Otherwise it might not be quite so "non-destructive".
F-Prot has a free console version. It checks Win32 binaries but it doesn't have the free GUI. I use it on Win32 machines.
You have things backwards. "Beyond a shadow of a doubt" is the more stringent standard, and "preponderance of the evidence" is indeed the requirement for civil cases.