Apple Developer Provisioning certification, the "program portal" and why isnt it a link anyway?

Sometimes the economies of scale at a corporation reach such unmanageable size and scope that the entire thing just spins on down the road running on its ambient steam. Some people will notice, some will notice AND care, but mostly the fiefdoms of middle managers will be threatened and so nothing of the troubles that accost a business process in these times of overwhelming growth and underwhelming management will actually get fed into a business process review cycle.

In order to actually test an application on an iphone, you have to get yourself authorized with a PKI certificate. While most of the web pages on apple sites are cross-linked and hyper-referenced every which way, there is one place on the site that does not get equal treatment in this regard. For some reason, everytime the "iphone developer portal" is referenced, it is not as a link. This link is critical in accompishing the task of getting yourself and your device provisioned for developing software, as the uncracked OS will not allow unsigned apps to execute.

This of course makes it a very nice paperweight, from a development point of view.

All of the following links were required to just figure out what I was actually supposed to be doing - let alone the inability to actually do it. Just for the record I am an early adopter and was on the ADC site before they were even ready I think. There were issues with my account in April. I wonder if there are more flavors of growth still to be found.

Here and Here and Here and Here is finally enough information to figure out that Apple appears to be missing the mark on this entire process.

I finally gave up and sent a request to developer technical support asking why the "program portal" is so necessary and yet it is not inserted as a link everywhere it is mentioned.

This goes with the idea of keeping an NDA on everyone who got the SDK. They actually think they can protect themselves from R.I.M. engineering staff! I have been in the R&D labs in ottowa, and Apple should listen to me on this : the only way you will stay ahead of RIM is spending time and money innovating, not trying to impede them. You spend energy trying to slow them down and all you do is waste energy better spent improving existing art and generating new science.

Silly Monkeys.

UPS - no longer trustworthy

DO NOT SHIP ANYTHING WITH UPS!

I moved recently to tampa bay from Chicago. When I got an address I had a friend of mine ship my belongings to me using UPS.

That was a serious mistake in judgement apparently, as UPS has fallen off the customer care ladder and is run entirely on the premise that anyone who makes an insurance claim is attempting to commit fraud.

They damaged my 1600 dollar tv, and as of this writing are doing everything they can to stonewall and deny their contractual obligation based on paid for insurance.

DO NOT SHIP ANYTHING WITH UPS!

They dropped the TV, packaged in its original manufacturers packaging, so hard that the styrofoam pieces on the inside were completely shattered, and a quarter inch half moon dent on the side of the TV makes it look like someone hit it with a lead pipe.

The 1:10:100 rule is an old customer service saying. It means when one person is unhappy, they tell ten people, who then tell a hundred more. I am telling all of you, DO NOT SHIP USING UPS.

Your items will NOT be treated as they should be, you WILL recieve damaged goods, and when you try to avail yourself of the insurance you PAID for, they will NOT honor their contractual obligations and instead do everything they can to get out of paying for their horrible and unprofessional work.

DO NOT SHIP ANYTHING WITH UPS!

Oh but it gets better!

The woman who called me back would not listen, talked over me, and when I refused to be compliant and docile hung up on me.

I'm waiting to hear back from them to file a special complaint on that one. From the research online and exemplified in the above link, I dont expect them to follow through on anything that might actually help this company get its head out of its ass.

The people on the national line are all very friendly and helpful, and had someone locally call me to arrange to have my TV picked up and taken somewhere to be "inspected" for damages.

One wonders what exact technical skills, tools and abilities these so called inspectors have on hand to determine wether or not the giant and delicate 40 inch LCD screen or any of the other electronics in the TV have been damaged by the horrendous and unprofessional treatement by UPS. One can very easily assume that said "inspectors" have no such skills, tools or abilities and will do nothing more than LOOK at it.

And yet UPS insists that they have to come and get my TV and take it to their inspectors location. Am I too believe that this time they will take better care of my TV? Am I to believe that this time, now that the internal styrofoam protectors are all destroyed from the last time the TV was touched by UPS, my TV will not be FURTHER harmed by these people?

And finally - I am supposed to let these unprofessional and proven incompetant people take my TV into their posession again without any form of collateral, and that MAYBE they will cut a check for me IF they decide based on "inspection"? What is the process for *IF* they decide not to honor their contractual obligations based on PAID for insurance?

DO NOT SHIP ANYTHING WITH UPS!

This company has clearly lost its way, and should not be trusted with any thing you value being shipped in the united states.

Dominion of the Parasite

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/13/war-weary-%E2%80%93-what-are-you-complaining-about/

Woman, you and your entire bloodline were born into a prison constructed for your minds millenia before your birth.

I cry on a regular basis when the full measure of the pain inflicted in my name without my consent squares itself to the dimensions of my consciousness.

Calling the last horseman is unwise.

Stand Alone Complex

Country
corporations and beurocracy will always be failures to me - but the people - the people always come through.

When the call went out for volunteers to assist with setup and such I of course responded, with one caveat : I would not be available during RP book signing. I arrived in minneapolis at midnight on the 31st to a voicemail from someone with the CFL, asking if I could volunteer between noon and 4 pm - the exact time of RP book signing. I slept in the airport that evening having arrived so late. At 7 am the plain clothes cops wanted to know what I was doing, and asked for my ID and interrogated me as to me purpose in the airport.

I left the airport and headed downtown via the tram. The entire area was swarming with police. Two at a time they got on and off the tram, waking through each of the two car sections between stops and then disembarking again. Arriving in downtown, the situation is even worse on the streets. There are packs of police, some at corners in groups of five to eight, some roaming the streets in fours. Not a single place I went the entire time I was in minneapolis did not have a ridiculous police presence.

It was more like nazi germany than the United States of America. I attempted to contact the person from C4L to tell them I would be unable to assist that day and ask if I could help somewhere/somewhen else. I think she said something about helping at the target center and to meet someone outside.

So, I wandered around the target center looking for a way in. Tried the doors, all locked. Cant get ahold of anyone, and then my phone begins its low battery phase. Ruh Roh, Reorge - I appear to have forgotten my charger.

No traction, so I gave up and retreated to the starbucks across the street to regroup and vent a little bit online.

Starbucks. Sitting in the starbucks cracking wise with the baristers, I happened to over hear a couple of guys talking about getting to the concert later that evening, and had to talk to them. John and Jack are old friends, and it was my great fortune to have met them and walked the path of true patriots in defense of the Constitution with these two patriots.

It has often been noted that those who gain positions of authority, influence and power are great men. This has not been my observation, as such men are were long bereft of admirable traits by the time they reached the top of their chosen pyramid scheme - err - I mean professions. It has long been my observation that these over rated and over blown ego-centric pyramids of ape worship seek to distract the people from themselves; to limit them, and encourage the path of fear.

Fear of the monkey at the top of the pyramid.

The honor and courage that both these men demonstrated make them greater than any president that has lorded over us in my life time.

Many times in my life it has been the most random of events that has lead me to a renewed faith in the world, in my species.

For myself I am continuing to fight the dream of death that the world has succumbed to. As it states in the book mastery of love, the world has fallen prey to a parasite of society that binds us to the path of fear and blinds us to the path of love. This book has made a significant impact on my perceptions and all that has occurred within me in the last couple of months.

Welcome to Nazi America

Repulicanazi Assault on american citizens

Can you see how scared the GOP is? That they are stopping so low to try and FURTHER throw the election. This is happening everywhere at every level of local, state and federal government. The PARTIES are running the country, NOT THE CONSTITUTION.

Your blood or ours. It will be watered.

Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers

FBI self appointed authority

"The groups say they fear that agents will use ethnicity or religion as the basis for a threat assessment. But top Justice Department leaders, including the attorney general, noted the illegality of racial profiling and said investigations will not be opened based "solely" or "simply" on a person's race or religion. "

The illegality of racial profiling? what about the illegality of the occupation of Iraq? the use of waterboarding? the federal reserve? the unaportioned federal income tax?

So this asshole muckasey and all his cronies blatantly promulgate these utterly illegal infractions of our FOUNDING LAW, and we are supposed to beleive, because he says so, that racial profiling will not occur?

Fucking idiots. Them and Us.

MS/NBC Executives cower before the threats of the Republican party/Rupert Murdoch

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27496312684

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/19/usa.rupertmurdoch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/olbermann-slams-republica_n_125525.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/MSNBC_shakeup_Olbermann_and_Matthews_no_longer_anchoring.html

One of the few people on the corporate media who has the intestinal fortitude, intellect and recollection to challenge the lunacy of the status quo and actually think and speak CRITICALLY of the GRADE A BULLSHIT of the neocon-republicans fear mongering and blatant marketing of 9/11 as a tool against their carefully manufactured department of indoctrination ignorant populace.

Epic Failure