Tuesday Geeks

Overheard convo:

"Wouldn't it be cool to design an e-commerce site that charges you higher prices if you're not using Firefox 3? Like, like, if you're using IE6..."

"No one uses IE6 anymore!"

"Some people do - I think my friend's Mom does. So like you're buying something and you're on Safari or IE6..."

"Safari is Mac! Macs suck!"

"Only Safari sucks. Not Mac."

"What if you used LINUX!!" (all geeks erupt in hysterics)

"Yeah, so you charge people MORE and then you'd program a prompt to come up at the end that says, um, that says, 'You paid ten dollars ninety for this because you don't have Firefox 3!'"

Exasperated teacher breaks in, explains how punishing customers generally doesn't work, then asks the following: "What do you want spend your time doing? Earning money or getting people to switch browsers?" Geek pauses, starts laughing, and says, "BOTH!"