...another bleeding heart that will want me to take on staff that can't do the job.
I want a person that has the skill set required to fullfill a set of tasks. If they have green skin, two heads and shag sheep at the weekend so be it or if they are exactly the same as all the otehr people I hired then perhaps people that are "like that" do a good job.
I realy don't care if you are boy, girl or politician so long as you can take a pile of "to do" lists and return a pile of "done deals" then you are on my team.
I can see the next ten years being one long trek of finding new ways to tell this type of freakish misfit with a gender related chip on his/her shoulder exactly what politically incorrect part of themselves they can insert their ideas into.
Call me stupid if you like......hell call me stupid anyway, you'll probably enjoy it but WTF that story made no sence to me and now I've read a few comment WTF^2
Call me cynical if you wish but my experience with American TV has been that the quality is inversely proportional to the size of the budget.
Maybe we British just have different standards with such massive competition for the highly limited air time (British TV has 4 to 5 channels only) it is relatively rare for new US imports compared to the 1970's and 1980's.
Say to the man on the street in the UK that company X in the US are doing Y or a remake of Z and the news will be met with a groan followed by a shrug as the realisation that "at least we don't have to watch it" sinks in.
That's not to say that US stuff doesn't air over here like um... yeah so right now I can't think of an import in the last few years but BBC 2 does / did show Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, Ent), SG1, Farscape and Babylon 5 as they have a dedication to cult status shows but on the whole your average UK dude is highly suspicious and/or sceptical or remakes in general.
Am I the odd man out then? I work every day with the non-technical end user. I sell them stuff and I support that stuff too.
Maybe I have missed the point but I wouldn't bother sending my users to that site.
Let me break this down for you: I have only used Windoz, I program in VBscript/ASP and VBa for a job and I use IE with about a zillion different plug ins.
While those that know might be standing up and shouting: "Amen Brother!" and getting generally supportive, those really strange technical users, (who act like the none technical user much of the time), are sitting their like Darwin's monkey scratching our...um... elbows and thinking "huh!?"
You see this article, it's comments and the entire site it links to; conspire together to say nothing the adverts wouldn't say for themselves.
The key issues are not if it blocks pop-ups or is tabbed, (our bloated windows PC's can just have yet another add on), but what does it really do?
Let me explain: many web designers want to know odd stuff like CSS support, CSS 2 bugs, Java, VBscript etc. What the campaign in question needs is a comparison chart of the FIVE browsers in question.
The home user wants to know if he can use the Google tool bar, (or other plug-in) and if not what can he have as a replacement?
Until this information is pooled in an authoritative way the converted will cry "AMEN!" while everyone else says "so what?"
While the principle of the site: http://browsehappy.com/ is great (I support anything that undoes some of the MS-errors) the practical fails to deliver anything of substance to convince the user that the browser he/she loves has a better alternative. In the mind of the average user more secure does not equal better it equals badly supported.
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...another bleeding heart that will want me to take on staff that can't do the job. I want a person that has the skill set required to fullfill a set of tasks. If they have green skin, two heads and shag sheep at the weekend so be it or if they are exactly the same as all the otehr people I hired then perhaps people that are "like that" do a good job. I realy don't care if you are boy, girl or politician so long as you can take a pile of "to do" lists and return a pile of "done deals" then you are on my team. I can see the next ten years being one long trek of finding new ways to tell this type of freakish misfit with a gender related chip on his/her shoulder exactly what politically incorrect part of themselves they can insert their ideas into.
Call me stupid if you like... ...hell call me stupid anyway, you'll probably enjoy it but WTF that story made no sence to me and now I've read a few comment WTF^2
Call me cynical if you wish but my experience with American TV has been that the quality is inversely proportional to the size of the budget.
Maybe we British just have different standards with such massive competition for the highly limited air time (British TV has 4 to 5 channels only) it is relatively rare for new US imports compared to the 1970's and 1980's.
Say to the man on the street in the UK that company X in the US are doing Y or a remake of Z and the news will be met with a groan followed by a shrug as the realisation that "at least we don't have to watch it" sinks in.
That's not to say that US stuff doesn't air over here like um... yeah so right now I can't think of an import in the last few years but BBC 2 does / did show Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, Ent), SG1, Farscape and Babylon 5 as they have a dedication to cult status shows but on the whole your average UK dude is highly suspicious and/or sceptical or remakes in general.
Am I the odd man out then? I work every day with the non-technical end user. I sell them stuff and I support that stuff too.
...um... elbows and thinking "huh!?"
Maybe I have missed the point but I wouldn't bother sending my users to that site.
Let me break this down for you: I have only used Windoz, I program in VBscript/ASP and VBa for a job and I use IE with about a zillion different plug ins.
While those that know might be standing up and shouting: "Amen Brother!" and getting generally supportive, those really strange technical users, (who act like the none technical user much of the time), are sitting their like Darwin's monkey scratching our
You see this article, it's comments and the entire site it links to; conspire together to say nothing the adverts wouldn't say for themselves.
The key issues are not if it blocks pop-ups or is tabbed, (our bloated windows PC's can just have yet another add on), but what does it really do?
Let me explain: many web designers want to know odd stuff like CSS support, CSS 2 bugs, Java, VBscript etc. What the campaign in question needs is a comparison chart of the FIVE browsers in question.
The home user wants to know if he can use the Google tool bar, (or other plug-in) and if not what can he have as a replacement?
Until this information is pooled in an authoritative way the converted will cry "AMEN!" while everyone else says "so what?"
While the principle of the site: http://browsehappy.com/ is great (I support anything that undoes some of the MS-errors) the practical fails to deliver anything of substance to convince the user that the browser he/she loves has a better alternative. In the mind of the average user more secure does not equal better it equals badly supported.