When I saw this heading, I thought it was going to be about how games are too short. Seriously. I got maybe 25 hours out of Legend (a superb game, might I add). And I did the Mansion level, as well as about 2/3 of the time trials, in those 25 hours.
Is Mozilla losing touch with their base? 90% of the Firefox supporters I know purposefully use Real Alternative to get around the general pushiness of RealPlayer. Real is a great format, and an absolutely CRAPTACULAR media client. It's you-need-it marketing that's gotten way, way out of control, and that's specificly why people don't like using it.
Hopefully, garbage-free versions of Firefox will still be available for people who want to manage their own plugins. Because the day I can't get Firefox as a pure, junk-free standalone is the day I stop upgrading to the newest version.
Well, one way would be to not treat them like crap. Sorry to say, the IT people shoulder the brunt of user frustration. And maybe that's part of the job. But between being bitched at by morons who are probably the cause of the initial problem, being on-call whenever, wherever, and living with the constant fear of contractual replacement (as is the case in many support positions) or just plain old outsourcing. . . look. Businesses don't want to deal with the fact that their employees are people. You can't put that on a quarterly report, and it's not really something that most company policies I've come across takes into account. But the ONLY way you're ever going to keep that sort of information secure is to make sure that your IT people wouldn't even dream of stealing it, tampering with it, or auctioning it off to the highest bidder. You have to make sure they don't want to do that kind of thing. And when you're trying to build loyalty and trust, the carrot goes a lot farther than the stick.
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When I saw this heading, I thought it was going to be about how games are too short. Seriously. I got maybe 25 hours out of Legend (a superb game, might I add). And I did the Mansion level, as well as about 2/3 of the time trials, in those 25 hours.
Is Mozilla losing touch with their base? 90% of the Firefox supporters I know purposefully use Real Alternative to get around the general pushiness of RealPlayer. Real is a great format, and an absolutely CRAPTACULAR media client. It's you-need-it marketing that's gotten way, way out of control, and that's specificly why people don't like using it.
Hopefully, garbage-free versions of Firefox will still be available for people who want to manage their own plugins. Because the day I can't get Firefox as a pure, junk-free standalone is the day I stop upgrading to the newest version.
Well, one way would be to not treat them like crap. Sorry to say, the IT people shoulder the brunt of user frustration. And maybe that's part of the job. But between being bitched at by morons who are probably the cause of the initial problem, being on-call whenever, wherever, and living with the constant fear of contractual replacement (as is the case in many support positions) or just plain old outsourcing. . . look. Businesses don't want to deal with the fact that their employees are people. You can't put that on a quarterly report, and it's not really something that most company policies I've come across takes into account. But the ONLY way you're ever going to keep that sort of information secure is to make sure that your IT people wouldn't even dream of stealing it, tampering with it, or auctioning it off to the highest bidder. You have to make sure they don't want to do that kind of thing. And when you're trying to build loyalty and trust, the carrot goes a lot farther than the stick.