Computer programmers have to deal with instruction and instruction format changes each time they write a program.

To every tweak, there is always a chance of crashing the system, many may say tough luck or deal with it, on on the fly changes, but watch out, simpler things like these in other countries broke the backbone of their freedoms and constitutions.

If you treat, the social fabric like computer programs, your asking for trouble. Sorta to little... To cliché!

And yes I avoid contests that reserve the right to change rules, it's equivalent to adding a Fat chance clause
to your entry. BTW wouldn't that be some sort of profiling?

IMO, Asus has been unscrupulous for years. They have manipulated reviews of their products for years even providing hand picked boards, special BIOS unavailable to the public, tweeked hardware, etc. all to dupe the sheep. Many websites have exposed critcal design and production defects in Asus products, but those who profit from promoting Asus products maintain the hype and the sheep law down their cash for crap.

Asus is terrible company, I have tons of horror stories about them. I will never buy Asus again after I wasted another $400...sigh

Crappy website, poor customer service, products that become outdated soon after you buy them because ASUS moves onto the next product...and if you are brave enough to bios flash one of their boards, you'll more than likely end up with a paperweight.

Nope, you can only live on your reputation so long and that time has come. Stick a fork in ASUS, they're done.

Similarities with recent events in Iran seem more than just coincidental.

When the public get asked to vote for a singer/blogger/big brother contestant, it all becomes about popularity. The electric pigs (the website run by the idiots who changed the rules) should have based the competition on web views and not a popularity vote.

The fair thing to do would be to give both the popularity vote and the other rigged vote a computer each.

This proves that idiots shouldn't run competitions.

ASUS - do the right thing and take the knock on the chin.

That was a compettition -
and this is bad sports.

Remind me not to play with ASUS again...

"Besides, do you think ANY PR person gives a rat's ass about 'fairness'? They're trying to keep their jobs, ferchrissake." -Rich

Asus should care. If a customer see the company not playing by their own rules when dealing with others, it may make them leary about becoming a customer of Asus.

The right thing to do would have been to award both the "user voted" and "blogger voted" winners their equipment an learn the lesson. How much would it have cost Asus to do this? Peanuts. They would have gained the goodwill of bloggers AND millions of potential customers. Asus should have done the right thing and just learned the lesson on how to structure future contests. This is what grown up companies do.

Oh, please...

These yahoos got a free Eee (or whatever) out of this just for posting a few entries in their blogs? And they're complaining? Oh, wait, it's not them that are complaining, it's a bunch of other people that feel that it wasn't 'fair'.....

Oh, get over yourselves. The universe in general isn't 'fair'... Not only can you not win, you can't even break even. (see laws of thermodynamics).

So stop your whining, you pitiful bunch of congenital losers.

Nothing more than the application of the 'Golden Rule': Thems that has the gold makes the rules...

If Asus wants to change things midway through, they can, they have every right. If the participants didn't like it, they could have stopped participating. They didn't, so they didn't have a problem.

Besides, do you think ANY PR person gives a rat's ass about 'fairness'? They're trying to keep their jobs, ferchrissake.