.... it seems that's the same time that Spore is slated for release for the PC and MAC according to The Spore Press Release. Is "late 2008" the year for Vaporware?
Wait.. I watched these episodes when I was a child.. I now vividly recall cookie monster smoking that pipe... and many many years later, I now smoke myself. Obviously there were absolutely no other external influenced in my life to cause me to start smoking other than Cookie Monster!! So now when I get lung cancer, it's not the tobacco industry's fault. It's Sesame Street!
*sniff sniff* Is that class action law suit I smell?
Oh well it wouldn't surprise me that it may have been an issue that they didn't think of. But ultimately what you said is right, it all comes down to the fact that they didn't control it. And for this company in particular, absolute control over every aspect was a neccessity.. which in the long run made it rather difficult to work for them. Not only could technical support not use 3rd party sites, nor could they use 3rd party tools that are proven to work better/more accurately (especially in the Antivirus/Antispyware industry), and even the technical support's search engine was restricted to the company's particular brand. Technicians were not even allowed to mention the word google, let alone use it to find solutions or similiar issues. (No, the company's brand of search engine was not indexing any additional internal documents or materials, they simply did not like the competition)
I used to work for a large company providing technical support. Unfortunately the company I worked for was probably one of the worst offenders of having exorbantly large URLs for even the smallest of things. As a result it didn't take long before many coworkers began creating and providing these tinyUrl's to give to customer's over the phone, and initially the action was supported by the company.
However before long the practice was put to a complete halt not because of the potential that the tinyURL would lead to a goatse page or anything of that sort, but because every link created and clicked on by our technical support agents and customers provided TinyURL with a tracking of what was being viewed and accessed (and possibly refferenced). Suddenly making for a great way to harvest and collect marketting data. And even if it's not a practice currently being used, the parent company of TinyURL appears to be far from highly stable, finacially secure company. (Though this is conjecture mainly based on website design and actual market that they target)
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.... it seems that's the same time that Spore is slated for release for the PC and MAC according to The Spore Press Release. Is "late 2008" the year for Vaporware?
Wait.. I watched these episodes when I was a child.. I now vividly recall cookie monster smoking that pipe... and many many years later, I now smoke myself. Obviously there were absolutely no other external influenced in my life to cause me to start smoking other than Cookie Monster!! So now when I get lung cancer, it's not the tobacco industry's fault. It's Sesame Street! *sniff sniff* Is that class action law suit I smell?
Oh well it wouldn't surprise me that it may have been an issue that they didn't think of. But ultimately what you said is right, it all comes down to the fact that they didn't control it. And for this company in particular, absolute control over every aspect was a neccessity.. which in the long run made it rather difficult to work for them. Not only could technical support not use 3rd party sites, nor could they use 3rd party tools that are proven to work better/more accurately (especially in the Antivirus/Antispyware industry), and even the technical support's search engine was restricted to the company's particular brand. Technicians were not even allowed to mention the word google, let alone use it to find solutions or similiar issues. (No, the company's brand of search engine was not indexing any additional internal documents or materials, they simply did not like the competition)
I used to work for a large company providing technical support. Unfortunately the company I worked for was probably one of the worst offenders of having exorbantly large URLs for even the smallest of things. As a result it didn't take long before many coworkers began creating and providing these tinyUrl's to give to customer's over the phone, and initially the action was supported by the company. However before long the practice was put to a complete halt not because of the potential that the tinyURL would lead to a goatse page or anything of that sort, but because every link created and clicked on by our technical support agents and customers provided TinyURL with a tracking of what was being viewed and accessed (and possibly refferenced). Suddenly making for a great way to harvest and collect marketting data. And even if it's not a practice currently being used, the parent company of TinyURL appears to be far from highly stable, finacially secure company. (Though this is conjecture mainly based on website design and actual market that they target)