Lamron
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Post by Lamron on Jun 4, 2011 12:20:11 GMT -5
This is a very interesting demo of the capibilites of the new HTML5 standards, used to tell the TRON story. disneydigitalbooks.go.com/tron/Modern browser required to view! |
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Major_A
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Post by Major_A on Jun 4, 2011 15:54:44 GMT -5
that's a pretty neat way of doing things.
I don't know a large amount about html at all
but I did see alot of js scripts, what is different
that you couldn't do this before with the floating images?
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Post by RedRock on Jun 4, 2011 22:34:50 GMT -5
Well, I don't know HTML 4 from 5 from.....anything.
But that was cool graphics for a website.
Not sure what you meant, Lamron, about "Modern Browser." It ran just fine on my latest computer, a 3 yr. old iMac with 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 Gb of 667 MHz RAM, 256 Mb of VRAM, and an ATI,RadeonHD2600 graphics card using the Mac OS's browser Safari v. 5.0.5.
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Post by Lamron on Jun 5, 2011 0:16:58 GMT -5
What you're using is the latest version of Safari, and Maj_@}{ole and I both use Firefox. So we're all using up-to-date browser technology and should have no trouble viewing any site's content. But if you were using an old version of any browser, it wouldn't be able to handle the newer HTML5 standards. Lots of people use whatever browser came with their computer originally and never update, because "it works and I have it set the way I like". So when new website capibilities are developed, site owners have to decide between taking advantage of the new features, or dumbing everything down to the level of their most techno-tard customer. With more alternative browser available, more people are starting to pay attention to updating, and so websites can start to advance now and drag their users kicking and screaming into the 21st. century. When a site won't load on their ancient Internet Exporer 6 browser, 99% of users assume there's something wrong with the website and go someplace else. I used to have a friend that was genuinely angry that people expected HIM to update and upgrade to keep pace with changing technology. He felt that it was the responsibility of "the computer and internet people" to make sure that nothing would ever change and that his computer and browser would "just work" for all eternity.  |
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Post by Major_A on Jun 6, 2011 16:30:20 GMT -5
LMAOI needed a chuckle like that since I got off work.
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Post by Lamron on Jun 6, 2011 18:58:58 GMT -5
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Post by Major_A on Jun 7, 2011 20:35:01 GMT -5
I've heard of people using their cd drives as coffee cup holders but
O M G ---- LMAO
I'm a tech support engineer for a software company. I had a guy call up rather annoyed that the disks we'd sent him containing the latest version of our software didn't work.
Customer: "The install fails half way through. I tried several times, and it always fails at the same point."
Tech Support: "Did you see any kind of error message?"
Customer: "Yes."
Tech Support: "What did the error message say?"
Customer: "It said, 'Please insert Disk 2.'"
Tech Support: "Have you got another disk there?"
Customer: "Yes."
Tech Support: "Is it labelled 'Disk 2'?"
Customer: "Yes, it is."
Tech Support: "Insert that disk into the drive, and click 'OK'."
Customer: "Wow, thanks! That's fixed it. It's installing now. What was it, a faulty disk or something?"
HAHAHAHAHA
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Post by Major_A on Jun 13, 2011 22:59:25 GMT -5
I just got to the end of that stupidity tech support page...
hilarious read!
the last paragraph of the page mentioned NOSMOKE.EXE
I didn't know what it ment but I figured it was good
so I did a quick search and found this.
From an ex-field sales/support survivor:
I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call in with a smoking power supply. The service rep was having a bit of trouble convincing this guy that he had a hardware problem.
Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply.
Customer: I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT that will take care of this.
Service Rep: There is nothing that software can do to help you with this problem.
Customer: I know that there is something that I can put in... some command... maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS.
[After a few minutes of going round and round]
Service Rep: Okay, I am not supposed to tell anyone this but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:DOSNOSMOKE and reboot your computer.
[Customer does this]
Customer: It is still smoking.
Service Rep: I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.
[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of this guy but NO... he calls back four hours later]
Service Rep: Hello Sir, how is your computer?
Customer: I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I was wondering, where can I get it done and how much it will cost..
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