Steve in America size counts.
The bigger your stature, the more money you have the larger your
corporation the more attention you seem to get.
Who gets the most news time? Celebrities (Who make bunches of money
then get comps out the wazoo!) Athletes (Who rise fast and fall hard
with millions of dollars!)
We have a love affair with power and bigness.
Stewart
At 10:07 AM 10/17/2007, you wrote:
Here is an update on the issue of Youtube videos being truncated
which was causing me, as a dial-up user, to be limited to only two
minutes worth of any video from their site.
After failing to get a response to this problem from Google after
numerous e-mails to them, I contacted Rob Pegoraro, the computer
tech writer at the Washington Post. I had communicated with him
previously on some computer subjects, and thought that his position
at a national newspaper might get some results.
I outlined to him the problems exactly as I had posted here a
short while back. He got back to me quickly in order to
acknowledge that he had received my e-mail. A couple of weeks went
by during which time the problems with Youtube videos
persisted. After about two weeks, he e-mailed me to inform me that
he had just spoken with folks at Youtube/Google.
The very next morning I decided to test a video from Youtube, and
can you guess what? Yep, the problem had suddenly disappeared.
I immediately fired off an e-mail to Mr. Pegoraro and informed
him of this miraculous result, and told him that I had little doubt
that whatever was causing the problem in the first place got
corrected because of the clout of a major news organization. He
did not disagree with me on that, but thinks that they actually had
a problem of which they were not aware, and that they simply failed
to respect or respond to the queries of a lowly user.
While I do not necessarily assume that some unknown glitch was
the cause of the truncated videos, it still could be
possible. However, I do think that big outfits such as Google need
to be more responsive to lowly users who are merely trying to point
out a problem. Instead, it appears as though they waited until
some entity that could create some waves for them mentioned the
problem before taking the issue seriously and making
corrections. What else is new?
Steve
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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