Quarter 4 Promotion coming September 16, 2008
#76
Company Representative - Starwood
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Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
#77
Company Representative - Starwood
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Location: Austin, Texas
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Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
#78
In memoriam
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BTW, could you pass on the IT team that the timing that they used for the countdown is not reliable. The setInterval function they used in updating the timer has know problems as it's timing varies slightly with different browsers and drifts.
Code:
function startTimer(){ setInterval(function(){ updateTimer('timer', 'days'); seconds -= 1; }, 1000);
#79
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Here you go: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...eferrerid=4179
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
#80
Company Representative - Starwood
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Marriott Employee Level
Posts: 31,593
...BTW, could you pass on the IT team that the timing that they used for the countdown is not reliable. The setInterval function they used in updating the timer has know problems as it's timing varies slightly with different browsers and drifts.
Code:
function startTimer(){ setInterval(function(){ updateTimer('timer', 'days'); seconds -= 1; }, 1000);
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
#81
In memoriam
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#82
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They're counting down to registration for a promotion, not launching the Space Shuttle, is it really that big of a deal?
#83
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With two weeks to decide which choice to take I have a feeling lots of people are going to make an uneducated choice. Me? I'll be asleep when the click ticks 0.
#84
In memoriam
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/rant ON
Seriously, lots of time code code is copied from a page that someone thinks is working well and then is reused for something else where the timing may be more critical (not necessarily a space shuttle). What if this same code was used to start the beginning of some limited time opportunity. Some users may miss it by relying on the timer. There were also timer problems in the LHW thread in the Hotel deals forum. The LHW is very time critical as the opportunity will probably exist only for minutes.
Programmers should understand how their code works and under which conditions it might not. In the case of the YouChoose promo timer the designer did not take into consideration the overhead involved in processing web pages and the way non-preemptive operating systems (e.g. WinDoz) work.
I hope by pointing this out to the Starwood IT team future problems can be avoided.
/rant OFF
#85
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So am I to assume the promo launches is less than 90 minutes? I've been sucked into this one...can't wait to see what all the hub bub is about!
#86
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#87
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[QUOTE=gfowler-ord-1k;10373103]To me it is. I use calipers to measure sewer pipe and think lipstick make pigs look beautiful.
OK, I get the lipstick on the pig reference, but can you enlighten me on the sewer pipe one? I work for piping company and if there is a joke there, I need to know about it! :-)
OK, I get the lipstick on the pig reference, but can you enlighten me on the sewer pipe one? I work for piping company and if there is a joke there, I need to know about it! :-)
#88
Join Date: Jul 2008
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OK, I get the lipstick on the pig reference, but can you enlighten me on the sewer pipe one? I work for piping company and if there is a joke there, I need to know about it! :-)
Anyway, calipers would be significanly more accurate than needed for the task. The joke was that only us obsessive compulsive types would bother using calipers to obtain the extra accuracy.
If I have followed it correctly...
Michael
#89
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Looks like it is up...
www.spg.com/choose
www.spg.com/choose
#90
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Who do I complain to about the website going live earlier than promised?