Just read (skimmed) a so called lifestyle magazine and was amazed at how much the ads and articles are trying to sell you a lifestyle. If you’re not sure what a lifestyle is, I’ll tell you.
It’s made of brushed stainless steel, has soft rounded shapes, and parts made of wood, or plastic in bright colours. You utilize it wearing your lifestyle-suit of either pre-trashed clothes that looks like it’s been used in several small wars, or a distinguished choice of smooth dark fabrics combined with a pink or purplish shirt and a striped tie that would make even Paul McKenna dizzy. Everything, of course, has to come with at least a four digit price tag, especially the pre-trashed clothes, otherwise it wouldn’t be lifestyle.
Oh! So that’s what a lifestyle magazine is. Maybe it was just that issue only covering the “hey look my sunglasses are bigger than the Thule radar and with diamonds-lifestyle” but somehow I doubt it. Apparently some people, all living in ocean-view houses and with the worlds largest and cleanest kitchens, have kidnapped the term “lifestyle” as if their lifestyle was the only lifestyle. Or is it the stainless steel manufacturers etc. trying to convince the less imaginative that it is in fact the only lifestyle.
But fear not o’ unimaginative consumer. If sucking in your chin and looking mysterious is not for you, here are a few alternatives.
Jason Fried of 37Signals is right:
“The software industry is missing one thing.
It’s not talent. It’s not ideas. It’s not money. It’s not marketing. It’s not technology.
It’s discipline.”
It really shouldn’t come as a surprise: When you use new stuff it doesn’t really always work the way you want it to.
We’ve been building our new charts in Flex 2 (beta 1-3) from Macromedia/Adobe, since it had a lot of the features, we’ve been looking for.
The first two betas demanded a new flash player, version 8.5.
That player made the charts show up as intended in Firefox and Opera, but not in IE 6&7 (which instead runs flash player 8.0)
If we uninstalled the flash player and rebooted on a computer, we got this impressive result:
Firefox: still runs 8.5
Opera: doesn’t run flash
IE6: still runs 8.0
To put it frankly, both Firefox and IE behaved quite differently than I would expect.
Installing the player again and rebooting gave us this:
Firefox: still runs 8.5
Opera: runs 8.5
IE6: still runs 8.0
This Monday the new player (9.0) was out, so my hope was that it would finally work in IE. I tried to install it as well as Opera on another computer and got this result:
Opera runs 7 (? - must be included in Opera these days)
IE: still runs 8.0
Firefox: runs flash player 9 - but doesn’t show flex components.
I’ve been on the phone with Macromedia/Adobe Denmark, Europe and US and the only thing I can tell you for sure is: I don’t know when it will be fixed.
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