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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 12:03pm on 16/08/2005 under ,

Existing applicants, click here to login (internet connection required).


I shit you not, this is on the Australian Tax Office ->website<-
Mood:: dumbfounded!
Music:: triplej.net.au
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posted by [identity profile] freyaw.livejournal.com at 05:34am on 16/08/2005
Humans are stupid. This is why hairdryers can have signs on them saying "Do not use when asleep" and irons can have "Do not iron clothes while still wearing them"
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:25am on 16/08/2005
i am very aware of how stupid mundanes are :)

this particular sentence exhibits several kinds of stupidity, and several examples thereof ...

you cannot 'click here' if you are not access the webpage. 'clicking' on a piece of paper might be funny, but it achieves little. the use of 'click here' is bad web design. not everyone 'clicks' to trigger links. even if they did, it's still clumsy. but we are seeing more of this crap online all the time.

if you are not accessing the website, you couldn't log in - let alone 'login'.

i've tried to imagine any other way to access the link except via an internet connection. even if you still use a bbs, they practically all have backends onto the internet. and in any event, you can access the webpage through devices that people don't realise can access the 'net.

telstra is loving the ignorance with it's 'new' iphone service that's actually the internet on your mobile phone - not 'just like the internet on your phone. tards.
 
Offline browsing? It does happen, not much, now though - when you pay for time, not downloads, it makes sense.

Personally, I prefer this:
click here -->.

which is much more fun, but not good for a business (or government).

I haven't seen much of this iphone advertising, but it seems designed for the great unwashed, as they have no idea about anything.
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 11:47am on 16/08/2005
the few who use offline browsing are
  1. aware of it
  2. know when they're online or not
  3. unlikely to need this kind of 'help
i used to do a fair bit of it myself, back in the day.

there was a cute little script a few years back that allowed you to have little things float around the cursor, and modified, allowed links to either float towards - or run away from - the same. (guess which version i developed ...)

[music] i see iphone ads [/music] on the sides of buses all the time. 'like having the internet on your phone' ... at extraordinary charge rates - coz we can. how else are they to maintain their multi-billion dollar profits?

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