heh. Um, I ran the page through some oddball page tweaker, then saved the results and posted them there. My *real* home page is at: http://www.well.com/~vimages/
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
Worst of all, I was never given a chance to "face my accuser". Not ONCE have I learned WHY the particular post was moderated.
Perhaps if you weren't an AC your "acccuser" might have faced you, perhaps in email? You're clamoring for something which you yourself are not willing to supply.
Rob, there should be some sort of "moderation history list" tagged to every comment. Each downward moderation should have a REASON tagged onto it, and the identity of the moderator should be listed - even if that identity is just a moderator number, untraceable by anyone other than you back to the meatspace person.
Then why don't you have an account here (or at least use it if you do have it)?
While I generally approve of the AC concept (at least here on/.) I also feel that an AC waives some of their rights when it comes to demanding the accountability of others.
At least this gives us victims a way to track who is doing what and for what reasons to our posts.
Victims? Please... You know, if we could perhaps go read some of your previous posts maybe we could help, or offer advice. But we can't, because you refuse to be accountable for your writings.
Sorry "DG", but I find your requests for moderator accountability flawed, given the context of your AC status.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
I just got back from the Foster City, Calif. site. I'd guess there we're about 100 people all told.
By the time I arrived, the press conference on the 4th floor of the attached parking structure was breaking up. Folks were being herded down to the front entrance, where we gathered across the street. It seemed like there was a fair amount of press. I saw local CBS and ABC affiliates, and many, many more folks taking pictures. There was one police car parked outside the building entrance, and another skulking up in the parking structure, with lots of building security milling about.
Most folks were wearing VAResearch t-shirts, with some Free-BSD, MKLinux and me in my BeOS shirt (which drew some mild jeers;). Lots of protest signs, and both plastic and stuffed Tuxs' were in prominent display.
Bottom line? No one appeared to be walking out with a refund check. Imagine that. A Microsoft "official" referred potential refundees to hie thee back to the OEM to honor the EULA.
Back to square one? Who knows...
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
Look, for years, there have been thousands of people trying to save a few bucks buying computer equipment. And for years, those same folks have been forced in many situations to buy a computer saddled with an operating system they either did not need, nor want.
How many machines bought by large corporations that immediately removed Windows and installed OS/2 in the 90's were there? Answer: Lots!
Regardless of the OS installed later, there has been an assumed "tax" for far too long.
And for those of you that say "build your own"?
To you I direct your attention to the millions of PC buyers that WANT to buy a box from a Dell, or Compaq or HP and have the freedom that a three year warranty affords.
I can say that from personal experience with my now 3+ year Dell, which has been rock solid despite myriad home-performed upgrades (including a very happy Linux partition) that whenever I called them for hardware service, they never asked what OS I was running.
Please. Take a moment and look at the bigger picture. I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
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heh. Um, I ran the page through some oddball page tweaker, then saved the results and posted them there. My *real* home page is at: http://www.well.com/~vimages/
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
It is not, unfortunately.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
Good luck in your next venture, Jamie.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
Perhaps if you weren't an AC your "acccuser" might have faced you, perhaps in email? You're clamoring for something which you yourself are not willing to supply.
Rob, there should be some sort of "moderation history list" tagged to every comment. Each downward moderation should have a REASON tagged onto it, and the identity of the moderator should be listed - even if that identity is just a moderator number, untraceable by anyone other than you back to the meatspace person.
Then why don't you have an account here (or at least use it if you do have it)?
While I generally approve of the AC concept (at least here on /.) I also feel that an AC waives some of their rights when it comes to demanding the accountability of others.
At least this gives us victims a way to track who is doing what and for what reasons to our posts.
Victims? Please... You know, if we could perhaps go read some of your previous posts maybe we could help, or offer advice. But we can't, because you refuse to be accountable for your writings.
Sorry "DG", but I find your requests for moderator accountability flawed, given the context of your AC status.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
puhleeze.
By FAR the most crowded mini-booth (right next to /.) and hacking away gleefully. I couldn't get a shoulder in edgewise.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
Glass, steel, fake-looking (but real) landscaping.
yick.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
By the time I arrived, the press conference on the 4th floor of the attached parking structure was breaking up. Folks were being herded down to the front entrance, where we gathered across the street. It seemed like there was a fair amount of press. I saw local CBS and ABC affiliates, and many, many more folks taking pictures. There was one police car parked outside the building entrance, and another skulking up in the parking structure, with lots of building security milling about.
Most folks were wearing VAResearch t-shirts, with some Free-BSD, MKLinux and me in my BeOS shirt (which drew some mild jeers ;). Lots of protest signs, and both plastic and stuffed Tuxs' were in prominent display.
Bottom line? No one appeared to be walking out with a refund check. Imagine that. A Microsoft "official" referred potential refundees to hie thee back to the OEM to honor the EULA.
Back to square one? Who knows...
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...
Look, for years, there have been thousands of people trying to save a few bucks buying computer equipment. And for years, those same folks have been forced in many situations to buy a computer saddled with an operating system they either did not need, nor want.
How many machines bought by large corporations that immediately removed Windows and installed OS/2 in the 90's were there? Answer: Lots!
Regardless of the OS installed later, there has been an assumed "tax" for far too long.
And for those of you that say "build your own"?
To you I direct your attention to the millions of PC buyers that WANT to buy a box from a Dell, or Compaq or HP and have the freedom that a three year warranty affords.
I can say that from personal experience with my now 3+ year Dell, which has been rock solid despite myriad home-performed upgrades (including a very happy Linux partition) that whenever I called them for hardware service, they never asked what OS I was running.
Please. Take a moment and look at the bigger picture.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did...