It varies

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Post #165,677

by ben_tilly

7/22/04 10:13:10 PM

It varies

Sometimes nothing. Other times I got a canned response. I've sometimes had someone contact me and offer to specifically address whatever it was that I was upset about.

But it doesn't take much effort to try. So even if there is no reaction, I don't feel like I wasted much energy.

Cheers,
Ben

To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]

Time to start planning - (JayMehaffey) - (36) - July 20, 2004, 11:31:07 AM EDT

My system should scrape in. - (Meerkat) - (9) - July 20, 2004, 08:08:00 PM EDT

Mine won't. - (static) - (7) - July 20, 2004, 08:41:28 PM EDT

What, the rebranded GEForce2? - (inthane-chan) - (6) - July 21, 2004, 10:48:43 AM EDT

If I could punish nVidia for deceptive marketing, I would. -NT - (static) - (5) - July 21, 2004, 11:47:51 PM EDT

Buy ATI. -NT - (inthane-chan) - (4) - July 21, 2004, 11:52:05 PM EDT

Yes, but what's the point of that... - (static) - (3) - July 21, 2004, 11:54:47 PM EDT

Then *also* write nVidia a letter saying what you did - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 22, 2004, 01:13:56 AM EDT

What sort of response did you get (if any)? -NT - (static) - (1) - July 22, 2004, 09:10:47 PM EDT

It varies - (ben_tilly) - July 22, 2004, 10:13:10 PM EDT

Irrelevant to my system - (ben_tilly) - July 21, 2004, 12:26:10 AM EDT

This assumes I have any interest in yet another FPS. -NT - (Silverlock) - (12) - July 20, 2004, 09:04:48 PM EDT

/me sends you and Ben to Farty Corner. - (pwhysall) - (11) - July 21, 2004, 03:29:11 AM EDT

I have no interest in any of that *either* -NT - (ben_tilly) - (10) - July 21, 2004, 10:33:59 AM EDT

Acker Bilk and Frederick Forsyth, right? -NT - (pwhysall) - (9) - July 21, 2004, 10:48:25 AM EDT

wrong x 2 -NT - (ben_tilly) - (8) - July 21, 2004, 11:04:45 AM EDT

James Last and Wilbur Smith? -NT - (pwhysall) - (7) - July 21, 2004, 11:10:25 AM EDT

If this was baseball... - (ben_tilly) - (6) - July 21, 2004, 12:20:52 PM EDT

pre- or post-Taupin? -NT - (deSitter) - (2) - July 21, 2004, 12:29:38 PM EDT

Both - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 01:36:13 PM EDT

I'm a ROCK-IT-MAN! - (inthane-chan) - July 21, 2004, 02:21:14 PM EDT

WOOOSH! -NT - (pwhysall) - July 21, 2004, 03:17:40 PM EDT

Assuming "George Martin" means George "Rolls-Royce" Martin.. - (CRConrad) - (1) - July 22, 2004, 02:49:56 AM EDT

Yup, yup, and you already know ;-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 22, 2004, 02:36:18 PM EDT

Re: Time to start planning - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 21, 2004, 03:25:31 AM EDT

If nothing else I'll be right for a display. - (Meerkat) - (2) - July 21, 2004, 03:45:08 AM EDT

Sounds oh so portable. Bought a new laptop, didja? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 04:20:22 AM EDT

Yeah, but people get miffed when I use it on the train :) -NT - (Meerkat) - July 21, 2004, 07:41:18 AM EDT

I'm fine - (inthane-chan) - (6) - July 21, 2004, 10:47:57 AM EDT

HL2 aka Duke Nukem Forever. -NT - (pwhysall) - (5) - July 21, 2004, 10:50:45 AM EDT

I know somebody who works there. - (inthane-chan) - (4) - July 21, 2004, 10:54:50 AM EDT

Yeah, but Doom 3 is out *next week*. -NT - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 21, 2004, 10:56:53 AM EDT

Exactly. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 10:58:09 AM EDT

Get yerself down the docks. - (pwhysall) - July 21, 2004, 11:09:46 AM EDT

Next week - (jake123) - July 22, 2004, 02:02:53 PM EDT

WOO HOO! - (lister) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 03:10:15 PM EDT

Duke Nukem Forever == DNF == Did Not Finish... -NT - (Meerkat) - July 21, 2004, 06:45:52 PM EDT

iwethey.org

You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.

But technology never seems to advance...

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