Be public about your opinions. Tell your friends. Be vocal about this software and it's benefits. That's how things like this get around...word of mouth.
Oh, and find and address and send 'em some beer.
Hey, let's submit a bunch of fake requests to ourselves and it'll make us look so busy that we won't have to do quality support!
But wait, what if we spent that time on actually increasing quality?
Nah...it'd never work.
I'm waiting for the day where the browser's parser automatically filter's out a competetor's website links and subs in their own.
Wouldn't be too hard to do, and you might never notice it...
Bullshit. A portion of the revenue from each CD-R or RW sold goes to the RIAA "just in case" you're putting pirated material on it.
Anyone have a link?
I might chip in some money. As long as Mandrake realizes all the responsibilites and restrictions placed on a publicly traded entity. As long as they're doing this for the right reasons, yeah for them.
And heck, who knows, one day it could be worth more than M$.
I think it's a bad idea myself, but the key here is informing the customers. If they realize that this is going on, and is a condition of doing business with them, then it's not a big deal. Amazon's problem was that they didn't tell anyone this was happening. When people find out post facto, that's when it goes from bad to "screw you."
But I think a lawsuit is what's needed here. I would first contact other webmasters in the same situation and see what they say. Also, if you can get them on your bandwagon (whatever you decide) and present a united front of all of you, that should provide greater impact. Just don't go it alone.
I wish my phone calls to tech support got rerouted to a rival who wanted my business and would get their people on the job first.
So, where do we sign up?
I'll give a real crisis--I work in a Microsoft shop. Crisis is the damn COM+ $@&# giving me a bad memory error everytime I try to shut it down.
When you have to reboot everytime you rebuild a web app to test it, that's serious downtime.
Can this type of decision in some way be used to influence our system? Could someone point to another foreign body and say "This is the reason they came to this decision, isn't it valid on this side of the ocean?"
In which case, maybe bringing some IP stuff up in foreign courts could be a key to winning cases in the US.
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Gee, wasn't this part of a story yesterday????
For $1200, you can build a machine that will run X-Box games. After all, it's CE based, so emulation shouldn't be a problem...
Be public about your opinions. Tell your friends. Be vocal about this software and it's benefits. That's how things like this get around...word of mouth. Oh, and find and address and send 'em some beer.
As a personal favor... PATCH YOUR FSCKING SERVER! Thanks.
I'm sure there's prior art out there somewhere. It's just a matter of showing it to the right people.
So instead of Big Brother, we'll have Big Brother and Big Sister. Great.
I thought Tinker Gnomes were bad. Turns out the Kernal is really some corn and the socket is really a wrench...
Hey, let's submit a bunch of fake requests to ourselves and it'll make us look so busy that we won't have to do quality support! But wait, what if we spent that time on actually increasing quality? Nah...it'd never work.
I'm waiting for the day where the browser's parser automatically filter's out a competetor's website links and subs in their own. Wouldn't be too hard to do, and you might never notice it...
Bullshit. A portion of the revenue from each CD-R or RW sold goes to the RIAA "just in case" you're putting pirated material on it. Anyone have a link?
Wouldn't we have to hook up the lights to a UPS to keep the network up? I'd hate to have to put that many generators in a building...
The society we've all been waiting for. Where online and real-life converge. It's called a life people. Get one.
It'll reveal if God really is sorry for the inconvenience.
I might chip in some money. As long as Mandrake realizes all the responsibilites and restrictions placed on a publicly traded entity. As long as they're doing this for the right reasons, yeah for them. And heck, who knows, one day it could be worth more than M$.
the keys that the NSA will want.
What happens when you get a DoS attack from a billion different IP addys? This is a two way street here.
I think it's a bad idea myself, but the key here is informing the customers. If they realize that this is going on, and is a condition of doing business with them, then it's not a big deal. Amazon's problem was that they didn't tell anyone this was happening. When people find out post facto, that's when it goes from bad to "screw you."
I meant outright. It's short and to the point.
Why can't he just say "We like the status quo. It makes us money. Why in the world would we ever want to change it?" At least it'd be honest.
But can you come up with a virus that's triggered by trolling? I'd buy that for a dollar.
But I think a lawsuit is what's needed here. I would first contact other webmasters in the same situation and see what they say. Also, if you can get them on your bandwagon (whatever you decide) and present a united front of all of you, that should provide greater impact. Just don't go it alone.
This would be the perfect computer to crack open when you're drunk/stoned/whatever. "Wow, look at the pretty colors....wooowww...."
I wish my phone calls to tech support got rerouted to a rival who wanted my business and would get their people on the job first. So, where do we sign up?
I'll give a real crisis--I work in a Microsoft shop. Crisis is the damn COM+ $@&# giving me a bad memory error everytime I try to shut it down. When you have to reboot everytime you rebuild a web app to test it, that's serious downtime.
Can this type of decision in some way be used to influence our system? Could someone point to another foreign body and say "This is the reason they came to this decision, isn't it valid on this side of the ocean?" In which case, maybe bringing some IP stuff up in foreign courts could be a key to winning cases in the US.