There are FAQs because people don't read. If they read anything at all there would be no need for FAQs. FAQs are just more documentation which people cheerfully ignore. I think it's a prefectly airtight system. Imagine the confusion there would be if tomorrow everyone instead of just being stupid actually became informed! I'd sure confuse the heck out of me if suddenly people began sounding like they actually knew what was really going on. What a nightmare.
BWAHAHAHAHA! OK real case I have a LEGAL copy of MASM 6.11 have had it for years. Have used it on various computers I have owned over the years. Made backups of the floppies, didn't use it for a while. One day decided to give it a spin again. All disk number 2's were shot. The software failed to load on my system. In essence it was like I suddenly lost something that I had paid a lot of hard earned money for.
So I found a phone number in one of the manuals that came with the package. Called it. Played phone tree for a bit. NEVER did talk to a human EVER. It simply was not an option. Eventually the phone tree hungup on me. Went to M$'s website, never did find an email address. Filled out some stupid form I found there. NEVER did hear from the bastards.
Oh the story does have a happy ending though. I found the complete tree of the stuff in a tarball on one of my Linux systems. I decompressed that and burned it to a CD. Who's gonna copyright 1 and 0 now? Service, don't make me laugh. Me going and cutting your lawn is a service. Commercial software retail publishers are not! They put out that code to snag a bunch of rube's money. And hey, I got to hand them a lot of credit because it works great! (the snagging of money, not any "service" that they provide).
If it's this "service" that I am really paying for with commercial software, well I say bootleg away! Oh, and I just love reading those EULAs they basically all boil down to this, We own you, you own nothing, you gave us money, but have really bought nothing, if anything bad happens we take no responsibility, you're on your own.
Hey, save yourself the hassle of dialing this fabled tech support next time I'll give ya all the tech support you'll ever need for that commercial crap right here and now. Wait for the upgrade it will contain bug fixes. Reboot your system, if all else fails reload the entire system and wait for the upgrade. Please have your credit card ready when a representitive talks to you. Each incident costs $35...
Would it be legal to give one of these "if you break this seal..." packages to a blind man, let him open it, drop it in a burner, then guide his finger to the Enter button?:) I mean what has he agreed to? Just a thought.
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Lets see, 600 Megs at 1200 baud... hhmmmm
But how many channels?
Are you sure that they did not mean petition?
There are FAQs because people don't read. If they read anything at all there would be no need for FAQs. FAQs are just more documentation which people cheerfully ignore. I think it's a prefectly airtight system. Imagine the confusion there would be if tomorrow everyone instead of just being stupid actually became informed! I'd sure confuse the heck out of me if suddenly people began sounding like they actually knew what was really going on. What a nightmare.
Better dead than red.
Too bad that windrone troll will probably never see your excellent reply.
Open source forever.
Go edgy! Go TuX! Go Linux!
BWAHAHAHAHA!
:) I mean what has he agreed to? Just a thought.
OK real case I have a LEGAL copy of MASM 6.11 have had it for years. Have used it on various computers I have owned over the years. Made backups of the floppies, didn't use it for a while. One day decided to give it a spin again. All disk number 2's were shot. The software failed to load on my system. In essence it was like I suddenly lost something that I had paid a lot of hard earned money for.
So I found a phone number in one of the manuals that came with the package. Called it. Played phone tree for a bit. NEVER did talk to a human EVER. It simply was not an option. Eventually the phone tree hungup on me. Went to M$'s website, never did find an email address. Filled out some stupid form I found there. NEVER did hear from the bastards.
Oh the story does have a happy ending though. I found the complete tree of the stuff in a tarball on one of my Linux systems. I decompressed that and burned it to a CD. Who's gonna copyright 1 and 0 now? Service, don't make me laugh. Me going and cutting your lawn is a service. Commercial software retail publishers are not! They put out that code to snag a bunch of rube's money. And hey, I got to hand them a lot of credit because it works great! (the snagging of money, not any "service" that they provide).
If it's this "service" that I am really paying for with commercial software, well I say bootleg away! Oh, and I just love reading those EULAs they basically all boil down to this, We own you, you own nothing, you gave us money, but have really bought nothing, if anything bad happens we take no responsibility, you're on your own.
Hey, save yourself the hassle of dialing this fabled tech support next time I'll give ya all the tech support you'll ever need for that commercial crap right here and now. Wait for the upgrade it will contain bug fixes. Reboot your system, if all else fails reload the entire system and wait for the upgrade. Please have your credit card ready when a representitive talks to you. Each incident costs $35...
Would it be legal to give one of these "if you break this seal..." packages to a blind man, let him open it, drop it in a burner, then guide his finger to the Enter button?
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It felt good for me when I gave Windows (TM) the boot! In other words that is no longer an option here.