If you buy just about any product and have an issue with that product, you have a reasonable expectation of being able to take that product back and get a replacement. Example; Buy a TV and it doesn’t work, you return it and get a new one.. Or return it and get your money back. That new shirt not fit quite right? Take it back..
Not with software. With software once purchased you’re stuck with it. There is typically a very strict “no return” policy, and this sucks. It’s to the point now where most stores wont even take back unopened software. Once the transaction is done, its done.
So if you get that software home and it just plain doesn’t work, you’re hosed. You’re just out that money, and you have absolutely zero recourse other than to not purchase that companies software any more. That’s where I’m at with Ubisoft.
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Hostgator Sucks
I have moved my hosting off Hostgator because frankly, they suck. My site was suffering repeated down times, crashes, database disconnects, SSH daemon crashes/hangups, ..etc..
The big pisser for me though was the SSH restricted access that they had given me, combined with the more recent downtime..
For whatever reason I’d try to SSH into my account and it would fail acting as if there was no SSH daemon running.. I’d have to contact them via their live chat system, wait in queue forever for some support monkey to help me, only to have them either tell me that; A) nothings wrong. B) I don’t have an account with them or best of all C) “Oh yeah we changed the SSH port to ### now.. use that.. ”
Seriously? You just up and changed the SSH port? Why?! It’s been 22 for ever.. Now suddenly its 2222? … WHY?!
Apparently their support team is filled with more assholes than a donkey in an iron maiden..
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Voting Process
So as a general rule, I don’t vote. I don’t vote, and it’s my right to do so. Leave me alone. Stop harassing me with mindless slogans and social pressure. I don’t want to be bothered by it, I don’t have to be bothered by it, I won’t be bothered by it.
The common sense rhetoric that often follows my making that statement is that if I don’t vote, then I shouldn’t complain or that “bad officials are sent to govern where good people don’t vote”.. etc..
I disagree. I maintain that voting in ignorance of the issues or the people and their policies is worse that voting at all..
I don’t vote because I know myself to not be educated as to the various parties, stances, issues..etc. And that you by voting, have in fact gone out of your way to educate yourself, as opposed to voting from a stance of ignorance.. So if you vote badly, then I can complain about your poor choice.. =) I say this facetiously but there’s a hint of truth to it..
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September 15th, 2010
Jason
Seriously.. I hate people..
I play a lot of online games, and that means I’m forced to interact with the greater online gaming community and thus anonymous asshats on the internet.. And no matter which game I play, people seem to think its perfectly okay to act as big an asshole as humanly possible.
My current online game of choice is League of Legends. A great game with only one serious flaw; other people. Actually I take that back, if they would just remove the chat system entirely the game would rock..
They have a chat system where by a team can talk to one another and form strategies and use tactics to overwhelm …er.. I mean flame one another and act complete assholes.. Oh goodie..
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Stop the DRM
When will companies learn that their draconian efforts to prevent piracy only serves to hurt their paying customers which directly affects their bottom line!!
Companies, you must stop counting pirated copies of your software as “lost revenue” — it’s not! Someone who is willing to pirate software isn’t willing to pay for it.. EVER! So you never had their money in the first place..
You’re trying so hard to capture that imagined lost revenue that it’s blinding you to how badly you’re screwing yourselves and your real customers..
Equating the number of pirated copies of your software directly to dollars is retarded.. More over, implementing these harsh DRM models only serves to prevent the honest players from playing your games, which effectively assures that you’re going to lose real money in the form of people who actually DO buy your games going else where..
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February 21st, 2010
Jason
Apple Fanboy
I understand brand loyalty, but Apple fanatics take it to extremes.. Buying something just because it has an Apple logo on the side is ludicrous.. Recently I had (via a forum) a conversation with someone who was in the market for a new monitor and they had their heart set on either the 24″ or 30″ Apple Cinema Display.. I pointed out the 28″ monitor that I use and offered it as a possible alternative simply because the ACD’s are stupidly expensive..
I told him that my monitor was much less than the 30″ ACD he was leaning towards, and in fact you could likely get 6 of mine for one of those.. Plus I pointed out that the majority of the stats for my monitor was actually better than the ACD. To which he said that the monitor I used was cheap and ugly. And compared the Apple Cinema Display to a fine bottle of wine, where as my monitor was a cheap sixpack.
What a pretentious douche.. He completely discounts my suggestion not on merit.. not on facts like specs or technical reasons.. No.. but because the Apple product is a fine bottle of wine, where as mine is a single out of a cheap six pack.. Wow.. The level of snobbery amazes me.. Hey buddy, you’re douchebag is showing..
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