What the parent does not mention, however, is that this almost always happens. Commercial software companies almost always do something that causes problems for their users. They raise prices, declare premature death of their products (Microsoft has more than 100,000,000 Windows 98 users, but they say the product is dead.), or become adversarial in other ways.
FIX THE SLASHDOT MODERATION SYSTEM!!! Moderators can only moderate discussions in which they have no interest in contributing.
People like me, who have excellent karma, never get moderation points. Why? I don't know, and there is no way to learn.
The parent comment was at +3 when I began writing this comment. Now it is at -1. Did a Slashdot employee moderate it down? Was there a kind of censorship?
"... you grant Microsoft permission to use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission."
Something was omitted from that: "Microsoft, a company that has shown itself to be extremely adversarial, can make money from your work, but you won't."
If you will make donations to Microsoft, will you also make donations to AOL? Or, why not send money directly to Bill Gates, so he can improve the quality of his life style?
I've been trying to formulate theories about social interaction. I've noticed an interesting phenomenon: Hostile activities often encourage other hostile activities. That's certainly been happening in the U.S., where 9/11 encouraged those who want U.S. government corruption.
The free merchandise would get hundreds of thousands of dollars of free publicity. The free publicity would have two effects. First, it would get the message out to all Best Buy employees that there really are $2 bills. Second, it would give the impression that Best Buy top managers are caring people instead of socially backward adversarial lamers.
That, in turn, would make it easier to hire good employees, and easier to attract good customers. The cost of the merchandise, a wholesale cost, would look tiny by comparison.
First Best Buy was on Slashdot for allegedly abusive practices concerning rebates. Now this. Does Best Buy management have any more sink-the-company ideas?
The correct way to handle this was for Best Buy top management to apologize to everyone, and give the guy whatever he wants from the store free.
Apparently they still haven't done that.
If it were me, if I were the Best Buy CEO, I would be on the phone now, saying to the guy, "Can I personally deliver our top-of-the-line home theatre to your house in 30 minutes? It's free. In return, I need you to sign this form accepting our sincere apologies." Then all the stories would be about what a great deal the guy got.
But no. Now that Osama bin Laden showed the way, everyone has to imitate violent extremist fundamentalist Arabs now, don't they? Treat everyone else with hostility.
It's been 30 years since I've seen a $2 bill, but I don't work in retail.
People typically don't work in retail very long, and retail sales people often aren't 30 years old, so there must be many who have never seen a $2 bill.
"... force used to put a stop to someone else's violence is a perfectly rational use of our military."
Think about it. The paychecks of the military and secret agencies depend on violence. When there is more violence, there are more promotions and raises and importance.
The U.S. government has been, since the end of the Second World War, an instigator of violence, not a force for less violence.
The outcome of the Iraq war has not been that Iraq is a less violent nation. The outcome has been that the profit from Iraqi oil goes to U.S. companies, and not Iraqis.
I agree about Collor de Mello. But he is a small-time thief compared to Reagan and both Bush presidents. George W. Bush has borrowed trillions that have gone into the pockets of his friends, and that U.S. taxpayers are expected to pay back.
This is my understanding also. The big issue is not whether he drinks alcohol, but whether he has the personality of an alcoholic. Ronald Reagan was a chronic liar; an entire book was written about his lies. That is typical alcoholic behavior.
One thing I've noticed. Well-educated Brazilians usually don't offer
leadership for their country; instead they complain about how bad things are.
The high quality of your English shows that you are at the top of your country
in education. However, you offer only negative comments, and no positive
guidance.
I don't know if the proposed program to help poorer people have
internet connections is the best way to spend money. However, it seems to me
that Lula has the best interests of his country in his heart.
It seems to me that many well-educated Brazilians have only their
superiority at heart, and don't want things to be better for the average
person.
Be thankful that you have Lula!!! Help him! Ask how you can help!
Look at this about the recent presidents of the United States:
Ronald Reagan: Child of a severe, violent alcoholic.
George Bush: Child of an angry alcoholic.
Bill Clinton: Child of two severe alcoholics.
George Bush, Jr.: An alcoholic himself, with all the characteristics
of alcoholics, such as acting out
anger destructively.
The U.S. government has started 24 wars since the end of the Second
World War. The U.S. government has killed at least 3,000,000 people who never
directly threatened the United States.
How many wars has the Brazilian government started since then? None.
Be thankful that you have a peaceful government. Find ways to help.
The Slashdot story How Do You Make
International Calls? drew 420 comments. The best suggestion by far, I
found, was BroadVoice. It's amazing: $25/month for unlimited calls to land
lines in 35 countries.
The BroadVoice service has been excellent. Note this comment earlier
in this story: BV = Poor
Support, #11989921. It's very important when using any VOIP service to
test your internet connection quality. It's easy. Linux users need no help,
probably. Windows users left-click on Start/ Run/. Enter CMD and press the
Enter key. In the Command Line Interface (DOS) box that appears, enter
PING -n 100 google.com
and press the Enter key. The times may be about 60 milliseconds, and should
all be below about 300 milliseconds, and there should be no times far (5x)
larger than the average time. Hold down the control key and press the C key to
exit from Ping before the 100 tests are completed.
If you get highly variable Ping times, you will have trouble with
VOIP, both in dialing and in talking. Call your ISP and tell them to repair
their equipment. I did that with Telefonica here in Brazil, and, after hours
of talking to many people, they did do the repair.
If you call your ISP, I suggest you don't complain about VOIP, because
that is a painful issue for some ISPs. Instead, complain about these things:
1) Ping times definitely show there is a problem. Tell tech support to
try it themselves.
2) Web pages give error messages or don't load unless they are clicked
on more than once.
3) Email cannot be received or sent except by trying several times.
4) Music on internet radio is periodically interrupted.
BroadVoice customer service has been excellent for me.
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It does not matter that he is a troll. I am not. I made a good point, but got moderated "Troll".
MOD PARENT UP!!!
What the parent does not mention, however, is that this almost always happens. Commercial software companies almost always do something that causes problems for their users. They raise prices, declare premature death of their products (Microsoft has more than 100,000,000 Windows 98 users, but they say the product is dead.), or become adversarial in other ways.
FIX THE SLASHDOT MODERATION SYSTEM!!! Moderators can only moderate discussions in which they have no interest in contributing.
People like me, who have excellent karma, never get moderation points. Why? I don't know, and there is no way to learn.
The parent comment was at +3 when I began writing this comment. Now it is at -1. Did a Slashdot employee moderate it down? Was there a kind of censorship?
Looks like the free AutoIt would help.
Also see AutoIt Script home page.
"... you grant Microsoft permission to use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission."
Something was omitted from that: "Microsoft, a company that has shown itself to be extremely adversarial, can make money from your work, but you won't."
If you will make donations to Microsoft, will you also make donations to AOL? Or, why not send money directly to Bill Gates, so he can improve the quality of his life style?
I've been trying to formulate theories about social interaction. I've noticed an interesting phenomenon: Hostile activities often encourage other hostile activities. That's certainly been happening in the U.S., where 9/11 encouraged those who want U.S. government corruption.
The free merchandise would get hundreds of thousands of dollars of free publicity. The free publicity would have two effects. First, it would get the message out to all Best Buy employees that there really are $2 bills. Second, it would give the impression that Best Buy top managers are caring people instead of socially backward adversarial lamers.
That, in turn, would make it easier to hire good employees, and easier to attract good customers. The cost of the merchandise, a wholesale cost, would look tiny by comparison.
Original story: A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill.
First Best Buy was on Slashdot for allegedly abusive practices concerning rebates. Now this. Does Best Buy management have any more sink-the-company ideas?
The correct way to handle this was for Best Buy top management to apologize to everyone, and give the guy whatever he wants from the store free. Apparently they still haven't done that.
If it were me, if I were the Best Buy CEO, I would be on the phone now, saying to the guy, "Can I personally deliver our top-of-the-line home theatre to your house in 30 minutes? It's free. In return, I need you to sign this form accepting our sincere apologies." Then all the stories would be about what a great deal the guy got.
But no. Now that Osama bin Laden showed the way, everyone has to imitate violent extremist fundamentalist Arabs now, don't they? Treat everyone else with hostility.
It's been 30 years since I've seen a $2 bill, but I don't work in retail.
People typically don't work in retail very long, and retail sales people often aren't 30 years old, so there must be many who have never seen a $2 bill.
Big special interests attack the weakest and most corrupt states first.
"... force used to put a stop to someone else's violence is a perfectly rational use of our military."
Think about it. The paychecks of the military and secret agencies depend on violence. When there is more violence, there are more promotions and raises and importance.
The U.S. government has been, since the end of the Second World War, an instigator of violence, not a force for less violence.
The outcome of the Iraq war has not been that Iraq is a less violent nation. The outcome has been that the profit from Iraqi oil goes to U.S. companies, and not Iraqis.
The U.S. government encouraged Saddam's violence. For example, see History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories.
Any amount of taxpayer money for violence. None for peace.
Thanks for the tip. The Firefox development team seems to be experiencing problems.
Want encryption? Supply a master password to Firefox.
Fox has designed new security measures for chickens.
I agree about Collor de Mello. But he is a small-time thief compared to Reagan and both Bush presidents. George W. Bush has borrowed trillions that have gone into the pockets of his friends, and that U.S. taxpayers are expected to pay back.
Those who want corruption in the U.S. government want the government to borrow. The corrupters find ways to transfer the money to themselves.
This is my understanding also. The big issue is not whether he drinks alcohol, but whether he has the personality of an alcoholic. Ronald Reagan was a chronic liar; an entire book was written about his lies. That is typical alcoholic behavior.
Someone has moderated the parent comment "Flamebait". However, everything in the comment is factual.
One thing I've noticed. Well-educated Brazilians usually don't offer leadership for their country; instead they complain about how bad things are. The high quality of your English shows that you are at the top of your country in education. However, you offer only negative comments, and no positive guidance.
I don't know if the proposed program to help poorer people have internet connections is the best way to spend money. However, it seems to me that Lula has the best interests of his country in his heart.
It seems to me that many well-educated Brazilians have only their superiority at heart, and don't want things to be better for the average person.
Be thankful that you have Lula!!! Help him! Ask how you can help!
Look at this about the recent presidents of the United States:
Ronald Reagan: Child of a severe, violent alcoholic.
George Bush: Child of an angry alcoholic.
Bill Clinton: Child of two severe alcoholics.
George Bush, Jr.: An alcoholic himself, with all the characteristics of alcoholics, such as acting out anger destructively.
The U.S. government has started 24 wars since the end of the Second World War. The U.S. government has killed at least 3,000,000 people who never directly threatened the United States.
How many wars has the Brazilian government started since then? None. Be thankful that you have a peaceful government. Find ways to help.
This comment was posted from Brazil.
That's why... When Saudis attack, invade Iraq. Israelis didn't like Saddam, and they wanted someone else to pay for removing him.
Don't worry. It's a common bug.
An amazing social phenomenon: All these technical people using the buggy Slashdot software, and not fixing it over a period of several years.
And Mozilla doesn't render Slashdot pages well, after about two years.
Shoe stores will give you the dehumidifier packets from the shoe boxes, without charge. Keep your CDs dry.
Wrong Story! You meant to post to this story: Your Rights Online: Orrin Hatch to Lead Senate Panel on Copyright, Patents.
Yes, he is another example of U.S. government corruption.
For more on that subject: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
The Slashdot story How Do You Make International Calls? drew 420 comments. The best suggestion by far, I found, was BroadVoice. It's amazing: $25/month for unlimited calls to land lines in 35 countries.
The BroadVoice service has been excellent. Note this comment earlier in this story: BV = Poor Support, #11989921. It's very important when using any VOIP service to test your internet connection quality. It's easy. Linux users need no help, probably. Windows users left-click on Start/ Run/. Enter CMD and press the Enter key. In the Command Line Interface (DOS) box that appears, enter
and press the Enter key. The times may be about 60 milliseconds, and should all be below about 300 milliseconds, and there should be no times far (5x) larger than the average time. Hold down the control key and press the C key to exit from Ping before the 100 tests are completed.
If you get highly variable Ping times, you will have trouble with VOIP, both in dialing and in talking. Call your ISP and tell them to repair their equipment. I did that with Telefonica here in Brazil, and, after hours of talking to many people, they did do the repair.
If you call your ISP, I suggest you don't complain about VOIP, because that is a painful issue for some ISPs. Instead, complain about these things:
1) Ping times definitely show there is a problem. Tell tech support to try it themselves.
2) Web pages give error messages or don't load unless they are clicked on more than once.
3) Email cannot be received or sent except by trying several times.
4) Music on internet radio is periodically interrupted.
BroadVoice customer service has been excellent for me.
Phony marketing people like to talk about "price points", instead of prices.