Re: Great SWT Program

On Oct 4, 5:10 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But do you want to deal with the world as it should be (GG works
perfectly) or the world as it is (sometimes GG's interface loses
your text)? And the fact that it works perfectly most of the
time -- well, it's another of those cost/benefit/risk tradeoffs,
isn't it?

TBH I should have some say in Google's QA since I'm a user and have no
decent alternative to boot.

I think we need a Bill of Users' Rights online, standardized and
eventually adhered to by any software company or web site that wants
any interaction deeper than just browsing and reading from its user
base. Not only are onerous terms and conditions commonplace, but
there's nothing very standardized save that users may be treated like
dirt at any time and for no good reason and have no recourse. :P This,
by the way, applies even to *pay* sites AFAICT. I'd expect such a Bill
of Rights to at minimum require: nobody can be banned except for
specific cause; decisions like that must be made impartially and
fairly; downtime should be minimized and unavoidable, never
gratuitous, and that means proper change management and backup
management policies server-side; users should not be treated like
mushrooms regarding bugs, downtime, etc. especially when they
explicitly enquire; there must be a place where questions and feedback
about the site's operation will be accepted and answered honestly and
fairly; and there must be a good faith effort to fix bugs in a
reasonably timely manner, with "bugs" including any behavior a
majority of users find undesirable that is not required by a standard,
and any standard-violating behavior, relative to applicable standards
(e.g. HTTP, HTML, and NNTP for Google Groups). In particular, if the
site is IE only it is in violation. (This obviously means no ActiveX
allowed. Good riddance, I say.)

So, economic necessity, more or less. Somehow I got the
impression from something you wrote elsewhere that you were
gainfully employed, and not for a pittance either. Maybe not,
and again not something that needs to be discussed publicly.

Not for a pittance, but not for anything especially impressive either.

I get the impression from a very quick look at the PayPal site
that there is some way to put money into an account without a
credit card.

MasterCard is accepted in more places than Paypal, and as an extra
added bonus feature it doesn't quite throb as much with evil, and
repeating its name three times doesn't summon the Beast and risk
causing the end of the world either. :P

(Paypal is notorious for dubious security, several god-awful self-
serving policies, spamming (though that seems to have stopped a few
months ago), and ripping people off with exorbitant transaction fees.
Don't suggest it again. :P)


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