Spirited Spring Break News, Observations & Thoughts ...

[bhg469]

Stop it!!!! It's no where near as much fun to stomp on a company named Synapse as it is to beat on Disney.

Well that's true because synapse never frustrated me beyond belief.

 

[Cosmic Commando]

Yeah, I have to agree with this, what the band itself does is pretty straight forward and is not really something new, it's the systems that surround it that are complex. Also, I believe the band was developed by Synapse Product Development not my Disney directly.

Yeah, I think someone is just trying to add to the "project that got away from them" legend. Even if an imagineer designed some crazy prototype (I'm picturing Homer's time-traveling toaster for some reason) and left the company, that thing would be torn apart and examined so that they could send out the specs to get them mass produced. The mystery with the band was never "how does that little Mickey head know my band is next to it?", but rather how Disney will make it work for 125,000 people a day and what they'll do with all of that data.

 

[CDavid]

Stop it!!!! It's no where near as much fun to stomp on a company named Synapse as it is to beat on Disney.

Beating on Disney is not fun. In fact, it's just the opposite; I regret and even despise the manner and degree to which the once mighty Walt Disney World Resort has fallen.

I would much prefer if they gave us achievements to praise rather than blunders to criticize.

 

[PeterAlt]

Your pictures are disappearing Might be time to start a trip report instead.

I'm on it! See me there!

My groovy live trip report, here:

http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/peters-trip-report.883994/

 

[danv3]

Beating on Disney is not fun. In fact, it's just the opposite; I regret and even despise the manner and degree to which the once mighty Walt Disney World Resort has fallen.

I would much prefer if they gave us achievements to praise rather than blunders to criticize.

QFT.

 

[asianway]

Friday night anecdote making the rounds around the Orlando engineering community:

MagicBands were designed by a woman in Imagineering with a reputation for being able to work miracles once, but then not being able to replicate those miracles on a routine basis under real life conditions. She designed the MB and showed it to whatever corporate higher-ups approved it. Soon after, tho, she quit, leaving everyone else to make sense of the notes she left behind. To this day, Imagineering still has no idea what role half the circuitry in MBs plays.

Having worked with a couple IT geniuses, they had one trait in common: they hated documentation with a passion.

 

[Funmeister]

Pretty cool and curious to know how they plan to implement this technology into parks or other Disney businesses.

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/disney-invents-swarming-robots-that-create-animations/?mbid=social_fb

 

[PeterAlt]

We ran into a problem with the bands this morning. Major problems. Wasted the whole morning and afternoon over technical issues. Still not resolved. Still at resort.

 

[wm49rs]

Wrong thread Peter....

Hints are not his strongpoint....

 

[cw1982]

We ran into a problem with the bands this morning. Major problems. Wasted the whole morning and afternoon over technical issues. Still not resolved. Still at resort.

This is the kind of thing that works very well as part of a trip report

 

[PeterAlt]

Hints are not his strongpoint....

Which is why I started a TR thread. Okay. Whatever.

But the tech issues with our wristbands is very relevant for here, wouldn't you say?

 

[wdwmagic]

We ran into a problem with the bands this morning. Major problems. Wasted the whole morning and afternoon over technical issues. Still not resolved. Still at resort.

@PeterAlt , please start a trip report thread. Any trip report posts in this thread will be deleted.

 

[PeterAlt]

This is the kind of thing that works very well as part of a trip report

But we are talking about wrist bands here. Aren't we?

 

[wdwmagic]

Which is why I started a TR thread. Okay. Whatever.

But the technics issues with our wristbands is very relevant for here, wouldn't you say?

There is an entire board dedicated to MyMagic+ - so it might be better there.
Using MyMagic+, FastPass+ and My Disney Experience

 

[PeterAlt]

@PeterAlt , please start a trip report thread. Any trip report posts in this thread will be deleted.

I did.

 

[wm49rs]

@PeterAlt , please start a trip report thread. Any trip report posts in this thread will be deleted.

Which is why I started a TR thread. Okay. Whatever.

But the tech issues with our wristbands is very relevant for here, wouldn't you say?

Apparently not.....

 

[Nubs70]

Having worked with a couple IT geniuses, they had one trait in common: they hated documentation with a passion.

Documentation diminishes their power. Lack of documentation makes the IT individual indispensable in a dispensible world.

 

[Nubs70]

Friday night anecdote making the rounds around the Orlando engineering community:

MagicBands were designed by a woman in Imagineering with a reputation for being able to work miracles once, but then not being able to replicate those miracles on a routine basis under real life conditions. She designed the MB and showed it to whatever corporate higher-ups approved it. Soon after, tho, she quit, leaving everyone else to make sense of the notes she left behind. To this day, Imagineering still has no idea what role half the circuitry in MBs plays.

It may have a degree of truth. It does have a scent of CYA. It sounds that the day of reckoning is approaching on MM+. After all what I read between he lines is "The product was designed by someone else, who did not fully document what they did or how it works, so how can I be accountable?"

 

[PeterAlt]

No one answered by question about the Hess station. When was it built?

 

[Knothead]

No one answered by question about the Hess station. When was it built?

It has been there quite a while. 15 to 20 years is my best guess.