I kid you not, I have been building a new website for a customer that demanded lots of bells and whistles and eye candy (Interactive dynamic Flash pulling photos and images) - so I did it the best way I could with proper XHTML/CSS. I tested the site along the way to ensure cross browser compatibility from IE6 to IE8, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and on PC and Mac platforms before asking him to try it out last week. He called back saying some of the dynamic content wasn't loading. After a long time of talking to him on the phone where we seemed to be having two different conversations I finally realized he was using AOL and I suspect the AOL proxies or tweaked browser are messing up the caching for the dynamic content.
AOL in 2010!!! He has a fiber internet connection and the latest greatest computer but refuses to let go of AOL as that is what he equates with the Internet! ARGHHHHHHH
I talked to his office tech guy who says he would be willing to upgrade his boss to a newer version of AOL, but getting the top man to switch browsers was impossible. I'm still recovering from that incident.
So, yeah - I'm a little bothered, and at least in this instance, would have been fine with the known aggravations that a regular IE6 browser would bring.
As a kid in the early '80s, I created my own space marine/spy/superhero character and drew a comic book of one of his adventures: lots of spaceships and weapons and a sinister villain as part of a class project. I named him Zork because I was fascinated by the letter Z (I was a huge Zorro fan growing up) and the combination with the letter K sounded strong. I had big hopes of making him into a toy product line, Saturday morning cartoon, and a series of choose your own adventure books.
Oh well...
A better idea would be to send it into space on a path that has it crash landing back on earth in a glorious fireball in 2000 years.
For bonus points coat the satellite in layers of different materials/metals so when it enters the atmosphere the air friction burns of the material in a controlled manner. Having a repeating series of distinct equally spaced flashes of color and a lingering smoke trail would hopefully attract enough attention to encourage a recovery.
George Carlin had the right idea, but didn't know how to go about accomplishing his goal. Thanks to this descision there is now a workable plan:
Organize the common folk to vote you and some of your buddies into local office
Form a commission that issues a study declaring all golf courses a waste of space that could be better used to provide residence for the homeless ("houseless")
Ok, I've been caught: I now admit I'm guilty of "peak"ing.
My spell-checker didn't flag it as wrong and I would never have realized the mistake. Thanks for the correction and I understand your pain: the whole to/too your/you're mix-up in posts drives me crazy. Hopefully I'll have an assistant one day to catch my mistakes before I make a further fool of myself:)
I'm a geek and after many years of making fun of those MBA-types had a change of fate and applied to several business schools. I was waiting for my acceptance notification when the news about the "hack" broke.
Due to the staggered and overlapping notification dates, it would have been extremely helpful to know results in advance. Imagine the scenario of being accepted to one school with your deposit deadline due before being notified if you got into your preferred, but more difficult to get into school. Do you pass on sure thing behind door #1 or skip it for a chance at door #2? When you're facing relocation and close to $100,000 of expenses (with no income) over the next two years you want to make as informed a choice as possible. So I understand the desire to get the extra information.
HOWEVER, these are business schools. They all have a huge emphasis on ethics and take it very seriously (especially over the past several years due to high profile scandals). As soon as I saw the news I knew it would end badly for peakers. No matter if you believe it was acceptable or not to peak - as a business school candidate you should have realized peaking could get you into trouble.
I found it amusing that the b-school(s) gave the accused an opportunity to defend their actions. It almost implies the ethics violation would have been tolerated had the candidate been persuasive enough to talk their way out of it.
Ok, since it is on topic and I feel compelled to embarrass myself...
I spent some time in December when the asteroid hype began and designed a graphic. I hoped to cash in on the end of the Earth hysteria; however, within four hours of setting up the CafePress shop, scientists discovered old observations, recomputed the trajectory, and confirmed the miss - all but ending my dreams of tongue in cheek panic-profiteering.
I know how you feel. I spent a lot of time designing the Explosive Alien Asteroid vs Humble Home Planet T-Shirts and didn't get a single sale during the three hours I had the site up during this "crisis".
I saw these at E3
on
Video T-shirts
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· Score: 5, Informative
and was not impressed. They looked like cheap portable DVD players stuck up under a t-shirt with a rectangle cut out for the screen. I was embarrassed for the models having to wear something that bulky and stupid.
People didn't really crowd around to view the trailers, they mainly stopped for the novelty factor and to have a chance to stare at the women's chests. Nobody would have stopped if 1) the models were men because that would have been lame and 2) the models' didn't have large breasts and black t-shirts to help hide the ridiculous bulk of the units.
As soon as a couple people stopped to look, herd mentality took over and a small crowd was formed - especially since the models stood in the middle of busy and narrow intersections on the show floor. The crowds had very little to do with wanting to actually see the trailers.
I give them a few points for trying something different and being able to BS the Hollywood Reporter.
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I kid you not, I have been building a new website for a customer that demanded lots of bells and whistles and eye candy (Interactive dynamic Flash pulling photos and images) - so I did it the best way I could with proper XHTML/CSS. I tested the site along the way to ensure cross browser compatibility from IE6 to IE8, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and on PC and Mac platforms before asking him to try it out last week. He called back saying some of the dynamic content wasn't loading. After a long time of talking to him on the phone where we seemed to be having two different conversations I finally realized he was using AOL and I suspect the AOL proxies or tweaked browser are messing up the caching for the dynamic content.
AOL in 2010!!! He has a fiber internet connection and the latest greatest computer but refuses to let go of AOL as that is what he equates with the Internet! ARGHHHHHHH
I talked to his office tech guy who says he would be willing to upgrade his boss to a newer version of AOL, but getting the top man to switch browsers was impossible. I'm still recovering from that incident.
So, yeah - I'm a little bothered, and at least in this instance, would have been fine with the known aggravations that a regular IE6 browser would bring.
As a kid in the early '80s, I created my own space marine/spy/superhero character and drew a comic book of one of his adventures: lots of spaceships and weapons and a sinister villain as part of a class project. I named him Zork because I was fascinated by the letter Z (I was a huge Zorro fan growing up) and the combination with the letter K sounded strong. I had big hopes of making him into a toy product line, Saturday morning cartoon, and a series of choose your own adventure books. Oh well...
Only 50% in 18mos? They is disrespectin' Moore's authoritay
A better idea would be to send it into space on a path that has it crash landing back on earth in a glorious fireball in 2000 years.
For bonus points coat the satellite in layers of different materials/metals so when it enters the atmosphere the air friction burns of the material in a controlled manner. Having a repeating series of distinct equally spaced flashes of color and a lingering smoke trail would hopefully attract enough attention to encourage a recovery.
Hmmm, now where to aim for re-entry?
George Carlin had the right idea, but didn't know how to go about accomplishing his goal. Thanks to this descision there is now a workable plan:
(must... resist... the... urge... to... profit!!!)
Ok, I've been caught: I now admit I'm guilty of "peak"ing. My spell-checker didn't flag it as wrong and I would never have realized the mistake. Thanks for the correction and I understand your pain: the whole to/too your/you're mix-up in posts drives me crazy. Hopefully I'll have an assistant one day to catch my mistakes before I make a further fool of myself :)
I'm a geek and after many years of making fun of those MBA-types had a change of fate and applied to several business schools. I was waiting for my acceptance notification when the news about the "hack" broke.
Due to the staggered and overlapping notification dates, it would have been extremely helpful to know results in advance. Imagine the scenario of being accepted to one school with your deposit deadline due before being notified if you got into your preferred, but more difficult to get into school. Do you pass on sure thing behind door #1 or skip it for a chance at door #2? When you're facing relocation and close to $100,000 of expenses (with no income) over the next two years you want to make as informed a choice as possible. So I understand the desire to get the extra information.
HOWEVER, these are business schools. They all have a huge emphasis on ethics and take it very seriously (especially over the past several years due to high profile scandals). As soon as I saw the news I knew it would end badly for peakers. No matter if you believe it was acceptable or not to peak - as a business school candidate you should have realized peaking could get you into trouble.
I found it amusing that the b-school(s) gave the accused an opportunity to defend their actions. It almost implies the ethics violation would have been tolerated had the candidate been persuasive enough to talk their way out of it.
Ok, since it is on topic and I feel compelled to embarrass myself...
I spent some time in December when the asteroid hype began and designed a graphic. I hoped to cash in on the end of the Earth hysteria; however, within four hours of setting up the CafePress shop, scientists discovered old observations, recomputed the trajectory, and confirmed the miss - all but ending my dreams of tongue in cheek panic-profiteering.
So I present to you the design that might have been.
Enjoy
I know how you feel. I spent a lot of time designing the Explosive Alien Asteroid vs Humble Home Planet T-Shirts and didn't get a single sale during the three hours I had the site up during this "crisis".
Or how about T-Shirts and coffee mugs.
(too much time on my hands)
No no, a seven foot tall girlfriend made entirely of lego would be mortally dangerous as it could lead to a crushed pelvis and death by snu-snu.
No
People didn't really crowd around to view the trailers, they mainly stopped for the novelty factor and to have a chance to stare at the women's chests. Nobody would have stopped if 1) the models were men because that would have been lame and 2) the models' didn't have large breasts and black t-shirts to help hide the ridiculous bulk of the units.
As soon as a couple people stopped to look, herd mentality took over and a small crowd was formed - especially since the models stood in the middle of busy and narrow intersections on the show floor. The crowds had very little to do with wanting to actually see the trailers.
I give them a few points for trying something different and being able to BS the Hollywood Reporter.
-)----- B