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I've bought DVDs there before (but no more) and actually had the shrink wrapped cases be empty when I got home. This happened twice, one time after being called a liar and theif, they finally honored it and gave me a new one, but the other time (different location) they didn't replace it. I called corporate and sent email about both incidents, but never got any help from them either. I decided they were not worth the risk when others reported similar or worse things. There are better places to buy stuff.
I've called NSI about a domain I've been trying to get for 5 years that finally lasped into expiration, and sometimes they tell me the domains are up to be purged 45 days after they expire, other times they say 60 or 90 days. I think they fail to follow any stable plan. It's beyond annoying. I wish they would outline a solid plan for how to handle expired domains.
Personally I feel a 30 day grace period is more than enough. Give an email warning, and send a snail mail warning as well. Then after 30 days, it's done. Not like the power company keeps the eletricity on if you've gone beyond 30-45 days, nor the phone company. So why should a domain be any different?
No offence, but it's just the NYTimes. It's free registration, they don't send you spam (as far as I've seen over the past few years), they don't seem to sell the email address you sign up with, and it's very quick registration, and oh have I mentioned, it's free?
Plus there are username/password combos that have been floating around Slashdot for the past year at least, and some of the common ones still work. I just set up my own since it was so simple, and gave them the hotmail addy since it's a spam garbage bin anyway. So no muss, no fuss and I can view articles now when they're linked.
Alas, I *do* remember cutting myself, and I never managed to accidently destroy a lego (took running one over with a car to break the damn thing). My personal favorite for toys that actually worked, was the 'Erector' set. I had an old old one my father had played with when he was a teenager, and a newer 80's version with a better case. All metal parts, bolts, strings and pulleys to make whatever my imagination could come up with. My only problem was, they didn't have flixible parts. It was all metal and hard plastic. I would have loved a combination of those and the lego technics!
I noticed the problem too. I went to log on to the macromedia university (hosted through elementk) to get some information off their bookshelves (I paid the 499$ fee for a years access). It's actually on a different server, so had I remembered the address, I might have been ok, but as it was, I couldn't get to the main site www.macromedia.com for that or for any other purposes (The flash and ultradev exchanges). I've never recieved any spam from macromedia, so all Above.net's military-like actions did was remove some users who genuinely needed to get there.
I even sent email to Macromedia asking if their site was down, but they were as confused as I was in their reply. They said they were not showing any problems, but that others had reported the same issues.
Oh well..yet another reason to dislike people with too much power that have no conscience about using it.
I agree that it's not a big deal for you, but as someone who has nothing but trouble using the stupid Windows Media Player with half the supposedly 'available' formats, I think them switching would be even more limiting, and a hideously bad idea. At least Real Audio players have a wider platform availability, even though it's not absolute yet either.
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I've bought DVDs there before (but no more) and actually had the shrink wrapped cases be empty when I got home. This happened twice, one time after being called a liar and theif, they finally honored it and gave me a new one, but the other time (different location) they didn't replace it. I called corporate and sent email about both incidents, but never got any help from them either. I decided they were not worth the risk when others reported similar or worse things. There are better places to buy stuff.
I've called NSI about a domain I've been trying to get for 5 years that finally lasped into expiration, and sometimes they tell me the domains are up to be purged 45 days after they expire, other times they say 60 or 90 days. I think they fail to follow any stable plan. It's beyond annoying. I wish they would outline a solid plan for how to handle expired domains.
Personally I feel a 30 day grace period is more than enough. Give an email warning, and send a snail mail warning as well. Then after 30 days, it's done. Not like the power company keeps the eletricity on if you've gone beyond 30-45 days, nor the phone company. So why should a domain be any different?
-Eagle
No offence, but it's just the NYTimes. It's free registration, they don't send you spam (as far as I've seen over the past few years), they don't seem to sell the email address you sign up with, and it's very quick registration, and oh have I mentioned, it's free?
Plus there are username/password combos that have been floating around Slashdot for the past year at least, and some of the common ones still work. I just set up my own since it was so simple, and gave them the hotmail addy since it's a spam garbage bin anyway. So no muss, no fuss and I can view articles now when they're linked.
-Eagle
Alas, I *do* remember cutting myself, and I never managed to accidently destroy a lego (took running one over with a car to break the damn thing). My personal favorite for toys that actually worked, was the 'Erector' set. I had an old old one my father had played with when he was a teenager, and a newer 80's version with a better case. All metal parts, bolts, strings and pulleys to make whatever my imagination could come up with. My only problem was, they didn't have flixible parts. It was all metal and hard plastic. I would have loved a combination of those and the lego technics!
I noticed the problem too. I went to log on to the macromedia university (hosted through elementk) to get some information off their bookshelves (I paid the 499$ fee for a years access). It's actually on a different server, so had I remembered the address, I might have been ok, but as it was, I couldn't get to the main site www.macromedia.com for that or for any other purposes (The flash and ultradev exchanges). I've never recieved any spam from macromedia, so all Above.net's military-like actions did was remove some users who genuinely needed to get there.
I even sent email to Macromedia asking if their site was down, but they were as confused as I was in their reply. They said they were not showing any problems, but that others had reported the same issues.
Oh well..yet another reason to dislike people with too much power that have no conscience about using it.
I agree that it's not a big deal for you, but as someone who has nothing but trouble using the stupid Windows Media Player with half the supposedly 'available' formats, I think them switching would be even more limiting, and a hideously bad idea. At least Real Audio players have a wider platform availability, even though it's not absolute yet either.