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Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by khana » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

initial pangs of 'usurped by Amazon' right here folks.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by droidist2 » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:12 PM UTC

24gttghh wrote: post #3

Has a company ever gone this route before?

Companies used to require IE a lot back in the late 90s and early 00s, if that counts.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by sverige » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:12 PM UTC

Wish I had a highlight reel of the meetings that led to this decision. The shouting, the red faces, the eye rolling, the gigantic exhalations lel.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by bhandziuk » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #6

Even if they offered me $100, I wouldn't enable Flash. I'm guessing they're hard at work writing their Flash component into HTML/JS.

100 $ is a lot of money...you can probably handle flash just for FedEx I bet.

Though you're probably right. They'll have an updated version asap.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by iagooar » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #6

Even if they offered me $100, I wouldn't enable Flash. I'm guessing they're hard at work writing their Flash component into HTML/JS.

You think? It's been years now. Many years. And they still depend on some rusty flash applet?

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by stealthlogic » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:14 PM UTC

No thanks, FedEx.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by yodon » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

I was amazed that MSNBC wanted me to enable flash to watch a video yesterday.

I would think AWS and Azure would have cleaned up grabbing all those transcoding dollars by now. It's not like the impending death of flash was a surprise to anyone.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by sqeaky » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

bhandziuk wrote: post #14

sergiotapia wrote: post #6

Even if they offered me $100, I wouldn't enable Flash. I'm guessing they're hard at work writing their Flash component into HTML/JS.

100 $ is a lot of money...you can probably handle flash just for FedEx I bet. Though you're probably right. They'll have an updated version asap.

Literally not worth the time or loss in trust. I don't use anything closed source on most of my machines (without proper sandingboxing).

The main machine I have with closed source software gets only one credit card, with a low limit and that is for steam.

I would be setting up VM for this. More likely I would just call and get what I need or switch carriers.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by HugoDaniel » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:18 PM UTC

I sincerely hope that FedEx fails. I once bought the book "FreeBSD Kernel Internals" from informit. They sent it through FedEx. I payed the shipping costs in the informit site, as standard procedure. The book passed through customs fine, then FedEx hold it and told me they would not deliver the book unless i paid them 50EUR.

This is their current and common practice here in Portugal. Fsck them.

Re: FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Post by logfromblammo » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

bhandziuk wrote: post #14

sergiotapia wrote: post #6

Even if they offered me $100, I wouldn't enable Flash. I'm guessing they're hard at work writing their Flash component into HTML/JS.

100 $ is a lot of money...you can probably handle flash just for FedEx I bet. Though you're probably right. They'll have an updated version asap.

$100 would be enough for me to clone a virtual machine, at least.

I live less than 2 miles from a FedEx ground hub. I would rather walk the 30 minutes in both directions before enabling Flash for FedEx. WTF are they thinking? Pay that money to a developer to fix the problem instead of to your customers to limp along for a few more months.