They are pushing it out as an update, an appropriate computer would be one
that already has the software on it and requires an update.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Tony B wrote:
Yet again. If this were MS pulling this stunt,
http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/operations-customer/12965422-1.html
Is that a few players in Dell or is that a corporate problem? For me when
employees in different places who have no contact with each other perform
the same action, that is corporate culture, not just a
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:36 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
They are pushing it out as an update, an appropriate computer would be one
that already has the software on it and requires an update.
The dialog box does contain the word update. One could assume
that is intended to indicate
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
That's not Dell, it's embezzlement by Dell employees. When you say
something like Corporation ABC has a history of ... you're implying that
the corporation itself has done something bad (like,
say, marketing cigarettes
It is not just a business but a whole culture that has problems.
Even Apple got into the boat when they admitted that they backdated
options to senior management to maximize their monies.
It is as old as man and it is called greed.
Remember the movie Wall Street and the Martin Gekko? Greed
Would you stamp your feet if everytime you walked into Safeway with an empty
shopping
and Safeway filled it with Pepsi or Coke and left you with the task of
unloading the cart?
The proper method would be to leave the box unchecked by default since it is
not an update but rather an install.
That's not Dell, it's embezzlement by Dell employees. When you say
something like Corporation ABC
has a history of ... you're implying that the corporation itself has done
something bad (like,
say, marketing cigarettes to minors when you know they cause cancer).
That's clearly not the
correction Gordon not Martin
portrayed by Michael Douglas
Carl Fox is played by Martin Sheen (taking a guess where you got Martin from?)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:53:32AM -0500, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
It is not just a business but a whole culture that has problems.
Even Apple got into
Yet again. If this were MS pulling this stunt, they would certainly be
pilloried. And probably sued by the EU. Where's the outrage here?
I'm outraged that some Windows programs update without informing users!
And our HP notebook came with dozens of undocumented programs installed,
not even a
Actually, on PC's that update request (or automatic) is a function of how one
installed the Apple app in the first place. (It became VERY evident to those
using Palm Pre's when Apple decided to update software to render Palm's
connectivity impossible.)
Eschew Obfuscation
This is a reply
Let's be clear. The complaint wasn't about updating software currently on
your system, it was about trying to install programs that you do not have
and are completely unrelated to what you do have already installed.
I've never owned a pc built by HP or Dell or anyone else, I've always built
my
How and why did they do that?
db
Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. wrote:
Actually, on PC's that update request (or automatic) is a function of how one installed
the Apple app in the first place. (It became VERY evident to those using Palm Pre's when
Apple decided to update software to render
Are you saying the HP you owned would install NEW software
you did not already have installed or was updating software on your system
already? Also, there is a very easy solution to these so called
undocumented programs...hit the start button.
The Windows PCs don't have a list of preinstalled
Late to the party here, but:
First of all, it's a tiny little application, and is practically an
iTunes
plugin. Future versions of iTunes will likely have it built in and
you'd
never notice it unless you needed it. Do you complain this much
every time Firefox updates itself unnecessarily?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's be clear. The complaint wasn't about updating software currently on
your system, it was about trying to install programs that you do not have
and are completely unrelated to what you do have already installed.
I've never
No, for both those examples I *want* updates to install with virtually
no user interaction. Ditto Windows itself. And, for internet-facing
machines, Quicktime also, but this is where the problem lies. QT
doesn't just quietly keep itself updated. Instead, it uses this Apple
updater which gets in
Agreed every time I have Itunes update I have to turn off the Itunes
software that interfaces with MP3 players. No option to not turn
them off, I have to go into MSconfig and turn them off.
Almost as bad as realplayer.
Stewart
At 02:41 PM 9/29/2009, you wrote:
No, for both those examples I
*That's a very good question and not really sure of the difference. Think
a small notebook though. *
*Randall
*
What do you really want/need? An ultra-mobile PC or a small notebook?
*
** List info,
What do you really want/need? An ultra-mobile PC or a small notebook?
*That's a very good question and not really sure of the difference. Think
a small notebook though. *
*
The original small hand-held PCs with 4 to 7 inch displays that came out
at some 3 or 4 years ago were mostly
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