Re: drop user hangs

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<1062564379.198086_at_yasure>...
> Joel Garry wrote:
>
> >What's wrong with holding software vendors to their claims?
> >Especially "our" software vendor! And what's wrong with expecting
> >businesses to be responsible for their employee's work actions, as
> >they legally are? If they built electric transmission grids the way
> >software programmers wrote programs... oh, never mind! :-)
> >
> >jg
> >--
> >@home.com is bogus.
> >http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030830-9999_1b30golf.html
> >
> >
> Nothing is wrong with holding a vendor's feet to the fire. But one must
> demonstrate personal responsibility and be reasonable rather than act
> like some litigation-mad ambulance chasing attorney.
>
> Claims related to footprint, benchmark performance, specific
> functionality: Absolutely! And I will gladly send critical messages to
> Mark Townsend and his people when they fail to meet such claims.
>
> But marketing claims that are obvious fluff ... such as "Whiter whites
> and brighter brights", "You'll stay fresh all day" or "Unbreakable" are
> not intended to be statements of literal fact and if you can figure out
> how to craft a WHERE clause you have enough mental horsepower to
> distinguish between the two types of statements. Nothing is

Well, that's the point. It was presented as technical fact. No fluffiness about it.

> "unbreakable" ... not even the planet earth. Or haven't you noticed the
> recent news stories about the asteroid
> (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/02/asteroid.reut/index.html).

Ahhhhh! The sky is falling! We're all gonna die! :-)

jg

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@home.com is bogus.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c3galileo.html