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Check this out: From: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashruntimes/statistics.html  HTML5 is released  I think that projection was made by their webmaster and they fired him because that's still a live page there.
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I remember that funny transitional period when suddenly every website had to have a flash animated intro that was so long and such a large download that they were obliged to put an HTML link to skip the page. I was the web guy in a marketing department when the company was rebranding and they demanded one of those stupid goddamn intros that had the new lovely logo flying all over the goddamn place and it took about 20 seconds to complete. They rejected my request to add a link to skip the animation. Guess what that did to our traffic?
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Vic posted:Check this out: To be frank, all companies out there play the super-optimistic outlook, whether it's in their shareholder reports, website or other marketing materials. No company is willingly going to admit to a bleak future. Dick Trauma posted:I remember that funny transitional period when suddenly every website had to have a flash animated intro that was so long and such a large download that they were obliged to put an HTML link to skip the page. I was the web guy in a marketing department when the company was rebranding and they demanded one of those stupid goddamn intros that had the new lovely logo flying all over the goddamn place and it took about 20 seconds to complete.
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Feb 7, 2018 20:31
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Pilsner posted:To be frank, all companies out there play the super-optimistic outlook, whether it's in their shareholder reports, website or other marketing materials. No company is willingly going to admit to a bleak future. Benjamin Button parachute account spotted.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:11
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Guys, at my new job in a newly built hospital, we have to use 90's pagers, no assigned hospital cellphones, loving pagers. It's legit the worst, sitting around waiting for people to call you back on a hard-line is the worst, i'm in hell.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:54
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LifeSunDeath posted:Guys, at my new job in a newly built hospital, we have to use 90's pagers, no assigned hospital cellphones, loving pagers. It's legit the worst, sitting around waiting for people to call you back on a hard-line is the worst, i'm in hell. Probably to keep cameras out
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naw we can use our cellphones too, the nurses get hospital phones that work in the new building but not complex wide, the therapy department is still running off dark ages tech but it does work complex wide.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:17
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LifeSunDeath posted:Guys, at my new job in a newly built hospital, we have to use 90's pagers, no assigned hospital cellphones, loving pagers. It's legit the worst, sitting around waiting for people to call you back on a hard-line is the worst, i'm in hell. pagers are still definitely used in the (hospital) medical industry because they are so reliable.
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Feb 8, 2018 00:30
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The old RIM pagers with the keyboards were the legit poo poo.  We moved off them around 2005 to traditional Blackberry smartphones, which were probably better in many different ways. However for IT shift work, the old pagers could easily be passed from person to person and the batteries lasted forever. I miss them.
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I still have a Blackberry with a roll ball and it only connects to 3g. I think it still has pictures on it but I haven't bothered trying to get them off because of how long it takes to startup.
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Feb 8, 2018 00:59
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shovelbum posted:Probably to keep cameras out I know of a company that had a rule about no cameras. You either had to have an iPhone (because the camera can be disabled?) Or you had to literally break the lense or cover it up with epoxy or JB weld. I'm sure it's different now, but yea, they still allowed phones and stuff. I Brake For MILFs has a new favorite as of 01:10 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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I Brake For MILFs posted:I know of a company that had a rule about no cameras. You either had to to have an iPhone (because the camera can be disabled?) Or you had to literally break the camera on your phone. I dated a girl who worked at samsung (in korea) and she had to lock up her phone for the day or get this weird sticker on the camera that they would check at the end of the day to see if it had been removed.
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We Know Catheters posted:I still have a Blackberry with a roll ball and it only connects to 3g. I think it still has pictures on it but I haven't bothered trying to get them off because of how long it takes to startup. i loved that little roll ball!
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ladron posted:I dated a girl who worked at samsung (in korea) and she had to lock up her phone for the day or get this weird sticker on the camera that they would check at the end of the day to see if it had been removed. Having worked for Samsung in the US, the rules were (still are?) the same. For a while there were plastic, Ziploc-style baggies as well -- the only way to block access to the phone's data port so you can't use it as a drive. I've worked for 3 other Huge Tech Companies and none of them gave a flying gently caress about what you bring in.
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Trabant posted:Having worked for Samsung in the US, the rules were (still are?) the same. For a while there were plastic, Ziploc-style baggies as well -- the only way to block access to the phone's data port so you can't use it as a drive. You learn a lot about how much a company cares about their employees with how they treat potential theft/espionage. I've worked at 4 different casinos as a cage cashier and 3 of them didn't give a poo poo. Don't put your hands in your pockets around the money and you're good to go. The 4th place had uniforms with no pockets. At all. They treated the employees like thieves and didn't give a poo poo about anyone. Besides, cameras/computers are so tiny nowadays I suspect 99% of these companies safeguards are outdated and useless.
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:I learned that despite Edge existing, Internet Explorer 11 is still a separate program. Why did I learn this? Because Federal Express, one of the giants of corporate shipping, still uses Java to talk to the label printers they provide their customers, and IE11 is literally the only browser left that will allow me to print shipping labels, because the rest of the world has already decided that Java is a toxic insecure mess. The last hotel I worked at "had to" rely on IE. Why? Because even in the Year of Our Lord 2017, the latest thing the franchise's Property Management System officially supported was IE9 running on Windows 7 (though IE10 support was coming soon! Customer credit cards will be immensely safer now that your browser is only 5 years out of date!); anything later and it wouldn't even issue the SSL certificate for you to log on to the system in the first place. The stupid thing was, it worked just fine if you changed the user agent, installed the certificate, then put it back to normal. The only "error" I saw pop up using other browsers after doing this was that Adobe Reader wouldn't pop open new browser windows without asking.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Guys, at my new job in a newly built hospital, we have to use 90's pagers, no assigned hospital cellphones, loving pagers. It's legit the worst, sitting around waiting for people to call you back on a hard-line is the worst, i'm in hell. Pagers are also quite common among people who work in SCIFs and other high security areas for processing classified information. If you bring in your phone, you'll never get it back.
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wait until y'all find out about south korea and active x.
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ladron posted:wait until y'all find out about south korea and active x. Hey. HEY. The South Korean National Tax Service is abandoning ActiveX. South Korea is finally free of one of its top five greatest enemies. ... At the end of this year. (E: Wrong year at first, whoops) If you have an irrational regret of life itself, rest assured, that's rational. dont be mean to me has a new favorite as of 06:40 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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dont be mean to me posted:Hey. mystes has a new favorite as of 06:48 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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I Brake For MILFs posted:I know of a company that had a rule about no cameras. You either had to have an iPhone (because the camera can be disabled?) Or you had to literally break the lense or cover it up with epoxy or JB weld. Some industrial sites restrict that stuff too, cameras and smartphones, until they were too ubiquitous to enforce that part of the policy, were banned in US Steel facilities. Not sure if they were scared of industrial espionage or people reporting infractions, but gate guards would conduct random searches and refuse entry if they found them, or seize them if they found them on exiting.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Guys, at my new job in a newly built hospital, we have to use 90's pagers, no assigned hospital cellphones, loving pagers. It's legit the worst, sitting around waiting for people to call you back on a hard-line is the worst, i'm in hell. Pagers are great because you don't have to drop what you're doing immediately just because some moron on a higher paygrade has a question.
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Mondian posted:Some industrial sites restrict that stuff too, cameras and smartphones, until they were too ubiquitous to enforce that part of the policy, were banned in US Steel facilities. Not sure if they were scared of industrial espionage or people reporting infractions, but gate guards would conduct random searches and refuse entry if they found them, or seize them if they found them on exiting. I used to love the 'no cameras' signs at industrial sites I would work for. I loved watching the gate guards eyes light up when I have 3 DSLRs hanging off straps and my coworker has a video camera when we walked up to sign in. They ultimately won because I was creating my own hell: signing in on documentation I designed, watch a site induction I filmed the year prior, then do a eLearning test we also developed. Being the user of poo poo you make (and cannot have fun with most times due to corporate style guides and restrictions) is terrible. Then realising you are there to make an updated version of the exact same poo poo 
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Humphreys posted:I used to love the 'no cameras' signs at industrial sites I would work for. The corporation I work for has exactly one piece of music and it is used everywhere. Promotional video material as either background music or the only sound, and even as the hold music for phones. This of course means I can only associate the music with being on hold with some jerk who can't be bothered either picking up his phone or setting up his phone correctly for redirecting.
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mobby_6kl posted:I like Edge on my tablet, it feels way smoother than Chrome and works great with touch. Otherwise it's pretty poor in terms of features though. Holy poo poo that sounds like a pain in the rear end. I envy you for traveling that much though. That owns. Pilsner posted:, now it's gone too far the other way, and fonts are just annoyingly huge, in my opinion. Images too. I notice it because clients want super huge banner images (ie, full screen) so there's about 400KB per banner. Then they want a slideshow of them. I should lazy load them I guess. All the tweaks I do for load time like compressing the html output, serving static stuff from a subdomain etc are a drop in the ocean vs images like that. We need a replacement for jpg like yesterday. It needs to be fully obselete. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO has a new favorite as of 10:24 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I remember that funny transitional period when suddenly every website had to have a flash animated intro that was so long and such a large download that they were obliged to put an HTML link to skip the page. I was the web guy in a marketing department when the company was rebranding and they demanded one of those stupid goddamn intros that had the new lovely logo flying all over the goddamn place and it took about 20 seconds to complete. Worst ones were the sites that played the flash intro, then after >>CLICK TO ENTER<< popped up the content confined to a 640x480 window without the navigation or bookmark bars.
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Weirdest site I ever replaced was a site that had a huge, crap flash animation, then the main site had flash for menus, and the main content in iframes. That was hosed up and Google didn't know it existed.
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Humphreys posted:I used to love the 'no cameras' signs at industrial sites I would work for. I used to have to read a 14 page induction script verbatim to all visitors including our own people who had been to ten of our boats that day, it took over half an hour and they got it on every boat they visited, gently caress em for that policy. They said a video or audio presentation was out of the question because there was no way to get a sense of how engaged the visitor was with the process.
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spog posted:Pagers are great because you don't have to drop what you're doing immediately just because some moron on a higher paygrade has a question. Back in the late 80's/early 90's, I used to carry a fake pager that had a hidden trigger button. You are stuck talking to someone you don't want to be talking to, hit the trigger. "Oh, sorry, I got a page. I have to take this. Please excuse me."
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Krispy Wafer posted:VMware's vSphere uses Shockwave and it's a clusterfuck. Using it in Mac OS required a 50mb plugin just to upload an OS. That plugin wouldn't download in Safari or Chrome so I'd have to connect using Windows in emulation. Last I checked, you could get some kind of addon for the vCenter from the VMware Skunk Works or something that provided a HTML5 interface. I bet it was full of caveats about features that weren't supported yet. Also there is some way to access datastores using command line tools like wget or curl. It's a crappy URL scheme, you'd need to Google for it. Yes, why isn't there just a loving standard 1990s era HTML upload form, why do I need a proprietary plugin using the deprecated NPAPI? For a few years their "standalone" VM console viewer was also something that launched a browser and used an NPAPI plugin. WHY?
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Boiled Water posted:The corporation I work for has exactly one piece of music and it is used everywhere. Promotional video material as either background music or the only sound, and even as the hold music for phones. This of course means I can only associate the music with being on hold with some jerk who can't be bothered either picking up his phone or setting up his phone correctly for redirecting. How about cell phone companies who make their default jingle the ringtone, so it sounds like a phone is ringing in every commercial they have?
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Samizdata posted:Back in the late 80's/early 90's, I used to carry a fake pager that had a hidden trigger button. You are stuck talking to someone you don't want to be talking to, hit the trigger. "Oh, sorry, I got a page. I have to take this. Please excuse me." I have an app for my phone and watch that lets me fake a phone call from "Work (IMPORTANT!)". It remains a very useful get-out-of-conversation-free card.
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My ringtone is the Metal Gear Solid codec ring for years, and since most of my incoming calls are about somebody's internet not working again, it's like "Snake be a dear my metal gear has no internet again."
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I honestly haven't taken my phone off vibrate in so long I don't remember what my ring tone is
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Vic posted:My ringtone is the Metal Gear Solid codec ring for years, and since most of my incoming calls are about somebody's internet not working again, it's like "Snake be a dear my metal gear has no internet again." That's what my notification tone is. Regular ring tone is whatever video game music I want to hear for a while. Right now it's Simon's Theme from Super Castlevania IV.
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I was a huge fan of the 24 TV show, so I found the ringtone from the CTU office phones and used on my cell phone just after the end of a season. When the show started up again 6 months later I was so used to the ringtone I went through the first few episodes like  thinking it was my phone every time.And I also used the MGS codec for a while, that was pretty cool.
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I used the first few measures of King Crimson's "One More Red Nightmare" for a while and although it's well-suited as a ringtone, my wife found it creepy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoVrVGeqOU (the first 7 seconds or so is what I used)
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Look at all these scrubs that didn't have the Kim Possible alert tone.
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I used the Star Trek TNG sounds for a lot of things. Nice simple little beeps and such. Ended up checking my phone a LOT when I was rewatching the series a few months back.
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For years I took advantage of the Shoretel custom ringtone feature so I could make my deskphone sound like a Merlin. It was the phone at one of my first jobs and my brain recognizes the sound anywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvOUJww83w&t=31s Then I got a little bored so I switched it to the phone ring from Blade Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDc64G7DfI It's only just now that I realized that thanks to my Apple Watch I've had my phone on vibrate for so long I forgot what the ring tone is. I usually make my own from short song clips, like the opening of "Know Your Rights" by The Clash but I rarely ever have it off vibrate anymore.
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