Re: [FRIAM] Pester Power

2013-01-14 Thread Pamela McCorduck
By us all! On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: snicker Android gonads, indeed. In reality, The Google is such a large, unwieldy behemoth that we mere mortals are but gnats buzzing around its nether regions: not worthy of notice. However, the cartoon is greatly

Re: [FRIAM] Pester Power

2013-01-14 Thread Owen Densmore
You know, I wonder what the Pester Threshold is to annoy the beasts (Google, Apple, MS, Amazon, etc.) enough to get results? It likely has some correlation with size and number of products. I think the consumer protection agencies of one flavor or another are just too bureaucratic. Too serious.

Re: [FRIAM] Pester Power

2013-01-14 Thread Douglas Roberts
I couldn't hurt to get an article describing their issues published in Linux Today, if getting their attention was the goal: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/has-google-become-institution-bound-130113152507.html --Doug On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Pester Power

2013-01-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
Thanks, Arlo. I'm sure *some* people on this list (Steve) will be surprised to learn that I can become somewhat tenacious when someone gives me the wrong answer to a question to which I already happen to know the answer. --Doug On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.com

Re: [FRIAM] Pester Power

2013-01-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
I'd forgotten about that. :) I had a coffee cup with that cartoon on it once, I wonder where it went. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: *Pester Power* Google should be skeered Very Askeered! http://i.gleeson.us/b2/0505