What is the URL?
Froggy,
- posted 16 years ago
New Heights of Lame Promotion
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- posted 16 years ago
Not sure just who and what story you're thinking of, but I'm constantly
reminded how prescient Pohl and Kornbluth were in "The Space Merchants" and
"Gladiator at Law", not to mention the (nearly 20 years later) John Brunner
novel "The Sheep Look Up".
- posted 16 years ago
Works fine on my Netscape 7.2 browser.
Same here, use IE for updates and saving a gif image as a bitmap for
later translation to a JPG
Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
- posted 16 years ago
formatting link
It's too bad that the intro is so annoying. The site actually has some good
news for modelers.
____
Mark - posted 16 years ago
What is much worse than the lack of "skip intro" or "text only" buttons
are the websites fully designed using Flash! Do I need to say any
more? :-)
Peteski
Peteski
- posted 16 years ago
Macromedia claims that over 95% of Web users have Flash Player installed.
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Mark - posted 16 years ago
Hah , hah, hah!
You burned him with that one.
- posted 16 years ago
Sounds like a story by J.G. Ballard I once read, also I think Philip K.
Dick wrote something along the same lines.
- posted 16 years ago
Those are related stories, and even better examples than the one I was
thinking of, whose title I've forgoteen. Its plot was that the lower
down the socio-economic scale you were, the more you had to consume. The
hero was hoping for a promotion, so he could buy less. The authorities
actually punished you by making you buy _more_ if you missed out on
buying the latest hyped crapola. So you ended up in deep debt. Only the
pwoerful did not have to buy anything; and they were debt free, of
course. The story actually satirises some common (and inconsistent)
notions of wealth, which might be worth pondering, too. :-)
- posted 16 years ago
The "...could not be found" Must've been a momentary glitch at the ISP.
I did find it, and saw a nice big white box with "get plug-in here" in
the middle of it. Stoopid, that.
- posted 16 years ago
Oh, I have it installed, I just moved the plug-in from Mozilla's
plug-in directory, so Mozilla doesn't automatically start it up. There
may be a way to control that behaviour, but I haven't found it. Advice,
anybody?
If Flash were configured so that I could turn it on and off at my discretion, I wouldn't mind it at all.
If Flash were configured so that I could turn it on and off at my discretion, I wouldn't mind it at all.
- posted 16 years ago
There are far too many websites that do _not_ have the skip intro
option. If you and Chris are willing to put up with that kind of
preposterous arrogance from a website, well, be my guests.
- posted 16 years ago
In fact, if you don't click that box, the intro stops and the page just sits
there
showing the last frame of the animation. There are no links, no menu, nothing
but a
box that says to click here for a list of Trainman dealers. At least the thing
should go on and transition into the next sequence.
Froggy,
Froggy,
- posted 16 years ago
"I owe my soul to the company store" - Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis*
"There's a brand new shopping center seven storys high There's bound to be a sale or two -- something we can buy There's four floors of pak\rking and we're sure to find a space We'll spend all the money that the government doesn't take
Down in the mall I'll be your man We'll go shopping, babe It's something we can stand Down in the mall We will abide Up on the escalator Darling, we will ride" - Down in the Mall by Warren Zevon
* which got him considered a communist by the FBI; but then what can you expect from a cross-dressing old queen on the make?
"There's a brand new shopping center seven storys high There's bound to be a sale or two -- something we can buy There's four floors of pak\rking and we're sure to find a space We'll spend all the money that the government doesn't take
Down in the mall I'll be your man We'll go shopping, babe It's something we can stand Down in the mall We will abide Up on the escalator Darling, we will ride" - Down in the Mall by Warren Zevon
* which got him considered a communist by the FBI; but then what can you expect from a cross-dressing old queen on the make?
- posted 16 years ago
[snip some other cool stuff]
Did they also investigate Elvis when he sang that song?
- posted 16 years ago
I think by then McCarthy's star had waned and Elvis was too popular -
they got on Travis' case in '47 or '48, when certain forces were seeking to
have anything smacking of concern for workers' rights labeled communist.
Some of the same folk go on and on about boiling hot coffeeoid beverage
suits.
- posted 16 years ago
Worked fine for me in Mozilla. I confess. I didn't read it, but it looks
like a rather long company "ra-ra" page.
- posted 16 years ago
It's been changed to skip the animation!!!!!
- posted 16 years ago
I don't think that was the point of the original posts in this thread.
I might have a Flash player and still have a slow dialup connection where I wish not to view some Flash animation.
This relly getting OT even for this OT thread. :-)
Peteski
I might have a Flash player and still have a slow dialup connection where I wish not to view some Flash animation.
This relly getting OT even for this OT thread. :-)
Peteski
- posted 16 years ago
... then you click on the huge white box that says "skip intro"!!!
(The point of the original post is that the animation was lame.)
(The point of the original post is that the animation was lame.)
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