This person doesn't qualify due to distance - plain and simple. So why not take the settlement? It's better than nothing.
He should not have gone public. Clearly. What do you expect when you bite the hand that feeds.
The reseller sells the same service. The reseller wont sell to him because of distance. The original provider will (because presumably they make more from direct sales than resales).
He asks why.
They say "have this really great deal, and stop asking difficult questions"
He keeps asking questions.
They said he did not qualify for ADSL any longer and disconnected him.
He obviously qualified, or he could not have got the service in the first place. They didn't just not give him the deal, they removed his service completely.
As was mentioned in a previous post (by someone at Whirlpool), they asked him to drop the complaint (to the ombudsman), but said nothing about not informing other people or the media (at least, as far as I can see from the article and from Now15's post).
Australia doesn't censor websites - they only tell people they do. (It keeps the conservatives happy. They'll never know, because they'll never check.)
If you don't believe me, try finding the list of censored sites. OK, that list is censored, but as far as I can tell, that's it.
QUESTION: What I wanted to know is... if I build it and moderate it and take care of it... does anyone think it might work?
Yes, I think it would work. You will, however, need to find a way to get information to artists that (might) want to use the system. (Attend a lot of live concerts?)
A "Sample" section with links to buy CDs (or full albums in digital format) direct from the band may not be a bad idea either.
For that matter, most engineers think that "setup" is a verb. The fact that you can set something up implies the verb's separability, and hence the requirement for a space between "set" and "up".
1. Load IE (a fraction of a second)
2. Load local page (a few more seconds)
3. Open a new window, which loads the same page (5 - 10 seconds, disk grinding like anything)
4. ???
5. profit
OK, how the hell did steps 4 and 5 get in there? This is a serious post!
...I use XEmacs for windowing, emailing, and *even* general text editing, not to mention minesweeper:-)
XEmacs has a text editor? I mean, I knew it did all that other stuff, but editing text as well? How did they get that functionality in there in only that size?
"Don't get me wrong, emacs is a wonderful operating system. It lacks a decent editor, though" - One of the top guys in the vi camp (but I can't remember his name)
...even if speech recognition ever works, which it currently does not.
Watt do ewe mean? It works really well hear. I don't even need to cheque the spelling. The quay is to speak slowly and clearly so the computer can under stand ewe.
I can only comment on a few of these, then I will be adding my own faves.
A song of Ice and Fire is brilliant, I am rereading books 1 and 2, then starting on 3 - can't wait for book 4.
For more info - George R R Martin's homepage
Orson Scott Card's Ender series, and the Shadow series that follows it, are brilliant. Official Site
Now for mine:
Tracy Harding: Ancient Future, An Echo in Time, and Masters of Reality (The Ancient Future trilogy)
That's all I can think of right now. Try Neil Gaiman as well.
Optus is woefully unreliable - their entire network died on New Year's Eve, and SMSes between Optus phones and non-Optus phones can take 12 or
24 hours to arrive.
I have had no problems with SMS on Optus, even to other networks. They all get there, usually within a few minutes. No prblems at all.
On new year's eve, I was in Sydney, and the SMS messages took at most an hour and a half to be sent - my new phone uses the SMS alert to indicate delivery if the message goes to 'retry' status.
The initial status was 'failed - retrying'. When it was sent, my phone beeped and had 'message sent' on the screen.
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He should not have gone public. Clearly. What do you expect when you bite the hand that feeds.
The reseller sells the same service. The reseller wont sell to him because of distance. The original provider will (because presumably they make more from direct sales than resales).
He asks why.
They say "have this really great deal, and stop asking difficult questions"
He keeps asking questions.
They said he did not qualify for ADSL any longer and disconnected him.
He obviously qualified, or he could not have got the service in the first place. They didn't just not give him the deal, they removed his service completely.
As was mentioned in a previous post (by someone at Whirlpool), they asked him to drop the complaint (to the ombudsman), but said nothing about not informing other people or the media (at least, as far as I can see from the article and from Now15's post).
If you don't believe me, try finding the list of censored sites. OK, that list is censored, but as far as I can tell, that's it.
Yes, I think it would work. You will, however, need to find a way to get information to artists that (might) want to use the system. (Attend a lot of live concerts?)
A "Sample" section with links to buy CDs (or full albums in digital format) direct from the band may not be a bad idea either.
Best of luck with your idea.
You mean as in "Somebody set us up the bomb"?
Ahh... the old promote them out of harm's way dealing problems.
Surprisingly, this seems to work - look at many Dilbert cartoons (dilbert.com), most of which are based on true stories sent to the author.
Proof?
1. Load IE (a fraction of a second)
2. Load local page (a few more seconds)
3. Open a new window, which loads the same page (5 - 10 seconds, disk grinding like anything)
4. ???
5. profit
OK, how the hell did steps 4 and 5 get in there? This is a serious post!
XEmacs has a text editor? I mean, I knew it did all that other stuff, but editing text as well? How did they get that functionality in there in only that size?
"Don't get me wrong, emacs is a wonderful operating system. It lacks a decent editor, though" - One of the top guys in the vi camp (but I can't remember his name)
Watt do ewe mean? It works really well hear. I don't even need to cheque the spelling. The quay is to speak slowly and clearly so the computer can under stand ewe.
A song of Ice and Fire is brilliant, I am rereading books 1 and 2, then starting on 3 - can't wait for book 4.
For more info - George R R Martin's homepage
Orson Scott Card's Ender series, and the Shadow series that follows it, are brilliant.
Official Site
Now for mine:
Tracy Harding: Ancient Future, An Echo in Time, and Masters of Reality (The Ancient Future trilogy)
That's all I can think of right now. Try Neil Gaiman as well.
Google sci-fi directory
I have had no problems with SMS on Optus, even to other networks. They all get there, usually within a few minutes. No prblems at all.
On new year's eve, I was in Sydney, and the SMS messages took at most an hour and a half to be sent - my new phone uses the SMS alert to indicate delivery if the message goes to 'retry' status. The initial status was 'failed - retrying'. When it was sent, my phone beeped and had 'message sent' on the screen.