growth in conflicting info?

[Phil Henshaw-2]

two little 'stupid humor' stories....   I broke a bone in my foot the
next to last day of a week's travels (healing fine now it seems) got
good first aid at a local ER and because I was on the road traveled back
to NYC w/o a cast.   In New York I spent literally 4 hours on the phone
to find a doctor or clinic where I could be seen for what turned out to
be a 15 minute appointment (got a great new style boot).   It appears
that after exhausting the resources of two hospital/physician networks
and a few reasonably thorough web searches, there's no place available
for a person with a broken bone requiring a knowledgeable reading of an
x-ray to go, to wait in line for service any more.    The entire NYC
orthopedic community wants you to make an appointment  2 or 3 weeks in
advance!!!   It's not just utterly mysterious that the receptionists
consistently thought that normal, but didn't see the problem until it
was explained, and then had no idea how they might have any influence on
what causes it....!!  Yikes :~)
 
Then, have you noticed how exhausting it is to find the place to give
constructive feedback to software designers anymore?   I often just have
a simple clear logical error to report, like, the cell phone
documentation doesn't say how to change the rings... or something.
Search and search to find who to tell about stuff like that.    
 
Then there was Adobe, and my being persuaded to actually buy their
Acrobat-8 Professional because of the great upgrade it was.   I
installed it on my laptop, on my home desktop and office desktop, no
prob.   Then I went to a conference and their security program blocked
my access to PDF files on the web, having caught me, quite uninformed,
as a software pirate, wanted $400 on the spot.  So I uninstalled
Acrobat-8 and loaded the free reader, and that worked for a few hours
until they discovered my sneaky trick, and blocked that too... I
guess...! preventing me from reading some of the materials of the people
I was listening to in the room.      I did finally, a week later, find
someone to yell at (a perfectly nice sales person who did finally seem
to understand and agree to pass it on) whose first response was a "that'
our policy" statement, delivered with a little note of triumph in having
a really simple answer.   I think the obvious reasonable thing is to
license personal software to *individuals* for their use, and pay $15 or
sth for extra personal installs.   The route 'the system' seems to have
gone down is writing licenses to *computers*, not people, acting as if
there's no difference...!!     :~))
 
Pretty laughable stuff.. !   But are you guys noticing this too?
 
 
 

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[James Steiner]

I hear you!

Microsoft has taken it once step futher with Windows, licensing software to
*processors*, not computers, not people. So, if one upgrades the processor
in a computer (or one replaces an obsolete or damaged motherboard and
processor), you are "expected" to purchase a new Microsoft Windows license
for that motherboard!

~~James
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On 7/18/07, Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com> wrote:

>
> [snip]
>
> Then there was Adobe, and my being persuaded to actually buy their
> Acrobat-8 Professional because of the great upgrade it was.   I installed it
> on my laptop, on my home desktop and office desktop, no prob.   Then I went
> to a conference and their security program blocked my access to PDF files on
> the web, having caught me, quite uninformed, as a software pirate, wanted
> $400 on the spot.  So I uninstalled Acrobat-8 and loaded the free reader,
> and that worked for a few hours until they discovered my sneaky trick, and
> blocked that too... I guess...! preventing me from reading some of the
> materials of the people I was listening to in the room.      I did finally,
> a week later, find someone to yell at (a perfectly nice sales person who did
> finally seem to understand and agree to pass it on) whose first response was
> a "that' our policy" statement, delivered with a little note of triumph in
> having a really simple answer.   I think the obvious reasonable thing is to
> license personal software to *individuals* for their use, and pay $15 or sth
> for extra personal installs.   The route 'the system' seems to have gone
> down is writing licenses to *computers*, not people, acting as if there's no
> difference...!!     :~))
>
> Pretty laughable stuff.. !   But are you guys noticing this too?
>
>
> Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
>
>

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