Zyxel - False Advertising! - Beware of this Company!

jpd wrote in news:slrng76bv5.1h2c.read_the snipped-for-privacy@mantell0.local:

I'd look back at the post I replied to, but I deleted the orig. post by accident.

Maybe it was late.

Update:

I called the (large) Internet vendor that sold me AG-225H to determine whether the vendor actually thought that the product was Vista compatible, and the vendor said essentially that

"..our information comes from a third-party reviewer of many products, including the AG-225H, and if there is a mistake, it will be corrected shortly..."

Shortly was very short. I accidentally hit the refresh button on my browser about 7 minutes later, and saw that "Microsoft Windows Vista" had already removed from main product page for the AG-225H on the vendor's web site. It now only reads "Windows 2000/XP..." as it should. The person I spoke to was the director of E-commerce, so the responsiveness and attentiveness to customer concern was impressive.

Zyxel, however, has yet to qualify their "Microsoft Vista Support Out Of The Box" statement to say that the Access Point feature will not work on Vista, and it's been almost a week:

-Le Chaud Lapin-

I don't see the problem. Those dates are clear to me, with no ambiguity regarding month-numbers vs. day-numbers.

-- Rich Seifert Networks and Communications Consulting 21885 Bear Creek Way (408) 395-5700 Los Gatos, CA 95033 (408) 228-0803 FAX

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I beg to differ. I see a problem. It violates the 11th commandement of "Thou shalt not abrev."

Personally, I think that the ISO missed the boat with the whole localization mess. The very concept of months is silly. Nothing happens at the end or the month exept that my log files are restarted. It would be better to do it like some corporations, which have 13ea equal length 28 day months every year. However, even that's a kludge because it retains the concept of months. Better to go to a Julian calendar, and do it all in decimal. See:

It's now 7:37 GMT. At the tone, universal conglomerated decimal politically correct time will be: 2454655.81736 (beep).

Incidentally, the real problem(tm) is that we can't seem to decide what direction things should be read. Logically, numbers should start with the LSB and progress to the MSB. This way, the position of the LSB is always fixed and the magnitude can easily grow without shifting. For example, we add a column of numbers from right to left, but we prounounce the result from left to right. Unfortunately, the ISO would probably fix the problem by making all numbers run vertically, so please don't mention it to them.

Unfortunately, there are very few calendars without them, so be prepared to have to deal with them on input and output, even if you store dates in some special internal format.

I'll disagree. Punched cards went out a long time ago. And if you make something longer, the position of what follows changes.

We don't generally ADD two dates. However, we do *sort* them, and sorting dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format is the same as sorting text, at least until the Y10K or Y1K problems loom.

Update:

As of 2008-07-09, Zyxel has mofidied their main product description page for their AG-225H to eliminate any ambiguity about whether the Acces Point feature of the product will run on Windows Vista.

The product description page now reads: "And the available software AP* can share your Internet connection in a local area with friends and colleagues. " Note the asterisk after "AP".

At the bottom of the same page is an appropriate disclaimer: "Note: * The Software AP function is available for computers running Windows 2000, XP Operating system only."

This new disclaimer makes it clear to anyone reading the product description page that AG-225H does not, at present, allow the Access Point feature to run on Windows Vista.

Thanks, Zyxel, and thanks to all that participated in this discussion.

As for the AG-225 that I bought, I think I will keep it as a souvenir. ;)

Reference:

-Le Chaud Lapin-