MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - I have all the answers you seek...

Why is the site a pile of steaming garbage? Because the site was mostly coded by SA's or the lowest bidder.

Why was a pile of steaming garbage approved? Because the schools "board" (read : people as stiff as) are old, stuck in their ways, and wouldn't know where to begin in validating a proper piece of code from steaming garbage.

Why haven't they fixed it? Because that requires money. And effort. And re-training (or so everyone on said "board" will say). I'll also personally guarantee that fixing it requires an upgrade of some other ancillary component that will be an automatic death nail in the idea. The words "we'll need to upgrade XXX" scare the crap out of anyone making a decision/risk assessment...especially if they don't know anything about the item they are assessing. As long as it is usable in some form it isn't changing. This answer also applies to the hospital scenario mentioned below.

That said, here is your candy. Happy Saturday.

> Just blowing off some steam...hoping maybe Andrew will post a reply with a pic of one
> of his beauties to cheer me up ;-)
>
> So I was one of a small number of people selected by my company to get their
> Bachelor's degree, paid for in full. Fantastic - very happy, and appreciative seeing
> as it's something I've wanted to do, but time, family, (and most certainly - funds)
> have made it difficult for me to pursue otherwise.
>
> Thing is...it's an online university. No problem there....but the navigation is F'kin
> horrible. Go to the general homepage to login...a second tab opens in Firefox (and IE
> when I do it at work)....click on the pre-work assignment...a third tab opens. Read
> through the page and follow the instructions and more tabs open. Before you know it
> you have 10 tabs open. Is this really necessary?
>
> I don't mind the occasional pop-up quiz, answer the questions and click "submit" and
> the window closes, returning you to the previous page type scenario...but this is
> crazy. On top of it, you have PDFs and Word checklists they have you download in
> tandem with what you're working on.
>
> Then there's the page to verify your software/hardware...it says my Windows Media
> Player needs to be updated (they require v.11 or greater...and I have v.12)...so I go
> along with them and click this "upgrade" link which takes me to MS's "GenuineCheck"
> page - which, when run, says "This version of GenuineCheck is no longer
> supported"...wtf...google a solution and see "Please download and run the Microsoft
> Genuine Advantage Diagnostics Tool." Really!? Aw for fks sake...
>
> Oh yea...I running Win7 (all Windows Updates installed) Firefox 24.0 with all
> plug-ins up to date (I'm a bit OCD about that sorta thing)....
>
> Why can't they have a simple "home" page you land on when you log in...and if you
> need to post on a discussion forum, or read some assignment, have that page be a
> one-off which closes and returns you to your home page when completed...
>
> grr....

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