THANX!
I'm just really pissed over the fact that the yahoos at PhotoPoint basically gave no warning that they were going to just drop of the face of the net. There have been NO press releases and even their parent company's phone is disconnected. This does not boad well for a return of the site.
I'm not one for suing folks over little stuff, but do I smell "class action" here? I'd sign on. Just for the shear irresponsibility of how they have handled this. I see no difference between what they did and having your bank suddenly close and you not have ANY access to your money. As a matter of fact, if it was exactly like this, odds are you'd never see your money again!
I believe it was last summer when they started charging $4.95 a month for their "service". I'm no rocket scientist (as almost everyone knows), but by doin' a little math...
1.25 million customers X $4.95 = $6,187,500... EACH MONTH!
So, someone can't run a "storage house" for folks' photos for a little over SIX MILLION A MONTH? Yeah, what ever! When I make a monthly payment to some business, I think it'd be safe to assume that we have entered into some form of contractual agreement. Simply put, I pay for a service... I get said service. I don't pay, I violate the contract. I do pay and not get the service, THEY violate the contract.
Fortunatly, I didn't loose too many photos. I did lose some though, when I got hit with the Melissa virus, the only JPEGs I had left were the ones on their site. Most of them were irreplaceable. Now I don't even open Harry's jokes (sorry Harry). What is kind of a bummer is that I have posts all over the net that have links to these unattainable photos. I really don't want to hunt them down and re-link all of them.
Like I said, my loses are small, but they are still loses. At over 6 million dollars a month, I want someone's (or ones') head(s) on a platter and I sure as hell don't want to have to get answers by reading C-Net's news site!
MORE BAD NEWS! (not picture related... but even more depressing)
I have also found out that SBK 2001 is NOT compatable with W2K! ARGH! I have gone to several gaming sites and some claim that they have got it to work with a "no CD" patch and running it in W98 compatability mode. Doesn't work for me! Double ARGH! Also, EA has no plans on releasing a SBK 2002, nor creating patches for SBK 2K/2001 to be compatable with any of NT platforms (i.e. any of the 2K or XP platforms).
This is so frustrating. Especially since the SBK games are widely recognized as the most realistic and graphically packed simulation games out there. BAR NONE! I almost think it's a conspiracy between PhotoPoint and Electronic Arts, against me. I am not a "gamer" by any stretch of the imagination and I play SBK about the same way I ride ("rookie" mode).
I so looked forward to playing SBK on the new system. The combination of a 19" Tritron flat screen, a GeoForce2 Pro video card with 64 MB, 756 MB of system RAM and the killer Altec Lansing ACS48 speaker system with a 40W subwoofer and 20W satellites (next best thing to a Klipsch 5.1 surround sound at 1/4 the price), should have made game playing the best riding experience that didn't require putting my leathers on.
I even passed over a force feedback joystick for a "tilt" pad. It's a game pad that you just physically tilt the whole unit in the direction you want. On the brighter side, at least the new system recognized the USB gamepad right off the bat. Still, all for naught.
Last but not least, just to keep ya'll in "sunny Florida" humble... at 3 pm CST, it's a balmy 31 degrees and overcast here. Does "Bite me" sound familiar to ya'll?
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