On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 21:34, Timothy Payne wrote:
> Thank you for contacting Rhapsody Support.
>
> We appreciate you contacting us with your interest in Rhapsody and to
> inform us you are using the Linux Operating System. Currently, Rhapsody
> is compatible with Windows only. As Rhapsody continues to grow, we hope
> to add other operating systems to the compatibility list. Unfortunately,
> at this time no decisions about future operating systems or dates is
> available.
When ICQ was just a little service, there was PowWow. I told
PowWow, "If you'll make just a little information available, the Linux
client would build itself." They said "We're going to keep working
until we've made the best chatter for Win9x before starting on other
platforms." RIP, Tribal Voice.
When SCO was charging people $1100 for a development system (cc and
friends) I told'em "You're taking the tool responsible for more
customers and holding it ransom. If I were you, I'd start packing the
SCO Development System into ceral boxes and sending them out by mail."
They said, "We have to charge for it because we're a company who'se
already paid for the cost of programming the development system, and we
need to get that money back." RIP the SCO that I knew.
I just don't understand how, when people get appreciated enough to
be in charge of large projects they just lose all sense of reality.
I once asked a $90,000 consultant for the People's Gas, Light & Coke
company of Chicago, "So we're hand-entering all these limits on the Vax
through TPU. What's to say that we accidentally type "500" when we're
talking about a 5 PSI gas line...what stops it from exploding?" He said
"The computer knows code from data." The other, more tenured co-workers
started to squirm at this. A year or two later an entire block of
Chicago exploded and 19 people died.
Yet, I still work at the freshwater plant, making sure no doors go
unlocked, and any visitors are logged...for $6,000 a year.
I have many such obvious blunders...but who cares?
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Brian FahrlÃnder Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
Evansville, IN http://www.fahrlander.net
ICQ 5119262
AIM: WheelDweller
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