I might be off my mark here, but, are software vendors not required to allow you to return a product if you bring it back, with all packaging, and tell them you cannot use it because you dont agree with the license agreement?
Read Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor" , they do something similar, i'd think it was some sort of bright band laser since noncohernt light might not be be blinding power at the ranges used..
I've used paypal for a few years to pay eBay stuff out of my checking account..never had a problem,but i said from the green light i'd never ever ever ever keep a thin dime in my PayPal balance
it seems that if you become "used" to a usability problem, you have either gotten over your 'confusion' or otherwise dealt with it, so therefore its no longer a problem
...i do agree about the file associations though, thats a definite pain
one of my books for college came with a whole page of barcodes for one...having the little scanner gizmo could be fun..but whats the point? learn to type
I did try german, for two semesters anyhow. not going back unless i have to...vocabulary and phonics wasn't so bad for me, but i couldnt deal with all the gender-dependants stuff.
GWB's political pukes are aruging with the Secret Service about where airforce One is going to go...the SS wants bush in NORAD, and the pukes want him in the freakin whitehouse
Hmm...I'd take more issue with Realplayer being bundled with Netscape, main reason being that realplayer requires so much info to be entered as a 'registration'..it runs startcenter in the background, taking up system resources, and apparently is spyware (which i've heard about but not paid much attention to)
"Mrs. Doe,
We regret to inform you that your daughter Jane flushed a classmate's PDA down the toliet at school today. If you will refer to the fine print at the bottom of the permission form you signed allowing little Jane to use PDA services in class, you will see a clause that puts a child's guardian or parent in a position of liablity for any and all damages caused by the aformentioned child. you will recieve a bill shortly of approximately 200$ for the product plus labor costs. Failure to pay this in a timely fashion will result in little Jane being put in a PDA-Free special-ed classroom. thanks so much for your cooperation.
sincerely, board of education, Podunk USA"
i know for a fact that if the school system issued Palm devices in local highschools, the pawn shops around here would get flooded in about a week with dozens of the gadgest...screw the new toys, sell 'em and buy me a better calculus teacher =)
Yeah but what do you do when someone starts complaining about how they didnt read/understand the directions and were thus 'denied their right to vote' (yeah, i actually saw an article this past fall that quoted someone from Florida as saying that..)..you'd have all kinds of Idiot's Rights foundations breathing down your neck...personally if i couldn't figure out a voting machine i'd be too embarassed to speak up, but anyhow...
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I might be off my mark here, but, are software vendors not required to allow you to return a product if you bring it back, with all packaging, and tell them you cannot use it because you dont agree with the license agreement?
Read Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor" , they do something similar, i'd think it was some sort of bright band laser since noncohernt light might not be be blinding power at the ranges used..
I've used paypal for a few years to pay eBay stuff out of my checking account..never had a problem ,but i said from the green light i'd never ever ever ever keep a thin dime in my PayPal balance
I'm glad i wasn't hte only one that thought of that =)
it seems that if you become "used" to a usability problem, you have either gotten over your 'confusion' or otherwise dealt with it, so therefore its no longer a problem
...i do agree about the file associations though, thats a definite pain
one of my books for college came with a whole page of barcodes for one...having the little scanner gizmo could be fun..but whats the point? learn to type
I did try german, for two semesters anyhow. not going back unless i have to...vocabulary and phonics wasn't so bad for me, but i couldnt deal with all the gender-dependants stuff.
Ia! Ia! Shub-Niggurath, the Goat with a Thousand Young!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu fthagn !
GWB's political pukes are aruging with the Secret Service about where airforce One is going to go...the SS wants bush in NORAD, and the pukes want him in the freakin whitehouse
Hmm...I'd take more issue with Realplayer being bundled with Netscape, main reason being that realplayer requires so much info to be entered as a 'registration'..it runs startcenter in the background, taking up system resources, and apparently is spyware (which i've heard about but not paid much attention to)
I'm running the same system, winamp runs perfectly.
"Mrs. Doe,
We regret to inform you that your daughter Jane flushed a classmate's PDA down the toliet at school today. If you will refer to the fine print at the bottom of the permission form you signed allowing little Jane to use PDA services in class, you will see a clause that puts a child's guardian or parent in a position of liablity for any and all damages caused by the aformentioned child. you will recieve a bill shortly of approximately 200$ for the product plus labor costs. Failure to pay this in a timely fashion will result in little Jane being put in a PDA-Free special-ed classroom. thanks so much for your cooperation.
sincerely, board of education, Podunk USA"
i know for a fact that if the school system issued Palm devices in local highschools, the pawn shops around here would get flooded in about a week with dozens of the gadgest...screw the new toys, sell 'em and buy me a better calculus teacher =)
Yeah but what do you do when someone starts complaining about how they didnt read/understand the directions and were thus 'denied their right to vote' (yeah, i actually saw an article this past fall that quoted someone from Florida as saying that..) ..you'd have all kinds of Idiot's Rights foundations breathing down your neck...personally if i couldn't figure out a voting machine i'd be too embarassed to speak up, but anyhow...