[dba-Tech] How Not to Instill Confidence in Your Product

Arthur Fuller artful at rogers.com
Sun May 2 15:17:16 CDT 2004


Plans have been set in motion to conquer and absorb you, but until then,
you may continue to believe that USA is a nation rather than a puppet. I
can't tell you about the schedule, though; if I did, I'd have to kill
you. I can tell you this: our vision includes software factories modeled
on the textile trades. You will be chained to your desk and paid as much
as garment sewers. (Hmmm, interesting homonym there :)

A.
"Did you ever wonder what they ship styrofoam chips in?"

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W.
Colby
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 8:46 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] How Not to Instill Confidence in Your Product


>B) the country dropdown contains only one country (USA), but the
state/province dropdown contains Canadian provinces.

uhhh... so your saying that Canada isn't part of the US?

;-)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:20 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] How Not to Instill Confidence in Your Product


MS and Component One are offering a free ASP.NET Resource Kit. See
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aef6aa76-ab88-4
264-87b4-8e946ef584d7&DisplayLang=en. What's funny is the page you are
taken to next. It's a form which is:

A) quite ambiguous - should you fill it in if downloading? Or only if
ordering the CD?
B) the country dropdown contains only one country (USA), but the
state/province dropdown contains Canadian provinces.
C) I entered several valid postal codes, but on each received the error
message "not a valid zip code". Yet the label says "Zip/Postal Code".
D) Nothing happens when you click Submit.

Nice piece of work, guys and gals!

Arthur

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