I'd like an "obfuscated" tag, which the browser only displayed if the user specifically asks them to. This could then be used to wrap spoilers, NSFW material and anything else that users might might want a choice over whether they want to see.
You don't have to ban an entire server to ban one person.
I have an OpenID - it's http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ - if your site supported OpenID you could choose to whitelist that ID, and allow me to comment unscreened. You wouldn't have to also whitelist http://cheezygrrl76.livejournal.com/ - they're a separate ID hosted on the same server.
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He's not saying "We won't do it." - he's saying "The coder should carry on with their job until a proper decision is made as to whether the context switch is worth it." - he clearly says that the decision as to whether to change what the developer is doing is passed over to the Project Manager to make.
And that sounds right to me. You don't context switch based on getting an email, and you make sure that project managers understand the implications of what they're asking for before you start working on it.
The promise of SOA is, sadly, not terribly accurate.
Services change over time, new projects need extra bits of information, changes regulations mean that input that was allowed no longer is, etc. And you either end up with 300 different versions of each business service, so that older clients can still talk to their version of the service, or you have to update the clients whenever the server versions change.
They're still useful - we use them a lot where I work, but they aren't a silver bullet.
A whole bunch of people I know just started using Jabber because LiveJournal launched its own Jabber server. Still in beta, but it works pretty well most of the time.
The kind of people who are still running Windows 98 are exactly the same people who will happily run Linux. And these same people really care about whether it's supported by Microsoft or not.
YouTube's been around for just over a year and already we're looking for its killer? Couldn't we just want YouTube to be improved a bit rather than migrating en masse from site to site every 15 minutes?
But these files are basically MPEG4 files - encoded with something that's almost DIVX - but clearly not quite, as I can play DIVX files with my normal media player (and on my DVD player) but these won't work at all.
Nope, you need it for anything that's being calculated on their machine - including other objects being moved around, other people's movements if affected by gravity, etc.
Now, most of that may then be recalculated by the server and resent, but that's going to lead to lots of resynching and things jumping about if you're not very careful.
But if you're calculating it you either need something that's so simple to calculate that even slow machines will calculate it quickly enough to match with the fast ones, or you're going to have different results for different users from the physics engine in multiplayer
Except that he's using MegaTexture for more than the looks - it also defines things like the material that the areas are made of, which affects traction and the like.
Procedurally generated stuff is fine for graphics, but when it comes to interaction between players and the world you want everyone to have the same experience, otherwise multiplayer becomes a synchronisation minefield.
Which means that you'd need to lock everyone down to a lowest-common-denominator level of generated world, to ensure that all machines could handle it in the time you had.
I also suspect that games designers want more control over the way things look than procedural effects would give them. If they want a particular curve/angle then they want to be able to go in and touch it up by hand, not play with procedural effects until they get something that's close to it.
Ack. You'd never get me watching anything other than short clips on a portable device. Personally, I want to watch my downloads on a TV, and I can't do that with this system either, so I'm certainly not going to go for it.
Oh, I totally agree. I don't think DRM does them any favours at all. But it'll take them a good few years before they come round to that way of thinking...
Both companies seem to only support Windows and IE. What about the other half of the planet.
The other 7% surely?
I think the whole idea is stupid, but going for a Windows-only base probably makes their lives easier in various ways, so you can understand it. If it takes off they might find it financially worthwhile to take in the Mac crowd too.
I have a MediaMVP - but the interface isn't great, and it's not so useful for video that's not in MPEG format. Does GBPVR make the video conversion any easier? And does it give it a nicer interface?
Can anyone suggest a good method of watching downloaded video on my TV? It's in a different room to the PC, but I've already got ethernet to it (for the Tivo).
(7) Sounds unlikely to me. I read the LJs of around 30 people I know, to keep up with their lives on a day to day basis. It's basically replaced the old chatty mailing lists for us. So while "big name" bloggers - the equivalent of Op-Eds - will no doubt be whittled down, the use of blogs for individuals is almost certainly here to stay.
Dozens of posts all taking the piss, and nobody actually referencing anything useful, like studies showing what levels of EM radiation do cause problems, compared to what levels are in WiFi (for instance).
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I'd like an "obfuscated" tag, which the browser only displayed if the user specifically asks them to. This could then be used to wrap spoilers, NSFW material and anything else that users might might want a choice over whether they want to see.
You don't have to ban an entire server to ban one person.
I have an OpenID - it's http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ - if your site supported OpenID you could choose to whitelist that ID, and allow me to comment unscreened. You wouldn't have to also whitelist http://cheezygrrl76.livejournal.com/ - they're a separate ID hosted on the same server.
He's not saying "We won't do it." - he's saying "The coder should carry on with their job until a proper decision is made as to whether the context switch is worth it." - he clearly says that the decision as to whether to change what the developer is doing is passed over to the Project Manager to make.
And that sounds right to me. You don't context switch based on getting an email, and you make sure that project managers understand the implications of what they're asking for before you start working on it.
The promise of SOA is, sadly, not terribly accurate.
Services change over time, new projects need extra bits of information, changes regulations mean that input that was allowed no longer is, etc. And you either end up with 300 different versions of each business service, so that older clients can still talk to their version of the service, or you have to update the clients whenever the server versions change.
They're still useful - we use them a lot where I work, but they aren't a silver bullet.
A whole bunch of people I know just started using Jabber because LiveJournal launched its own Jabber server. Still in beta, but it works pretty well most of the time.
Also, Google Chat is Jabber based.
The kind of people who are still running Windows 98 are exactly the same people who will happily run Linux. And these same people really care about whether it's supported by Microsoft or not.
YouTube's been around for just over a year and already we're looking for its killer? Couldn't we just want YouTube to be improved a bit rather than migrating en masse from site to site every 15 minutes?
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
But these files are basically MPEG4 files - encoded with something that's almost DIVX - but clearly not quite, as I can play DIVX files with my normal media player (and on my DVD player) but these won't work at all.
But these aren't designed for streaming either - they're designed for download and playing locally.
Why on earth is it only available in those formats rather than being a straight MPEG?
Nope, you need it for anything that's being calculated on their machine - including other objects being moved around, other people's movements if affected by gravity, etc.
Now, most of that may then be recalculated by the server and resent, but that's going to lead to lots of resynching and things jumping about if you're not very careful.
But if you're calculating it you either need something that's so simple to calculate that even slow machines will calculate it quickly enough to match with the fast ones, or you're going to have different results for different users from the physics engine in multiplayer
Either case sounds bad to me.
Except that he's using MegaTexture for more than the looks - it also defines things like the material that the areas are made of, which affects traction and the like.
Procedurally generated stuff is fine for graphics, but when it comes to interaction between players and the world you want everyone to have the same experience, otherwise multiplayer becomes a synchronisation minefield.
Which means that you'd need to lock everyone down to a lowest-common-denominator level of generated world, to ensure that all machines could handle it in the time you had.
I also suspect that games designers want more control over the way things look than procedural effects would give them. If they want a particular curve/angle then they want to be able to go in and touch it up by hand, not play with procedural effects until they get something that's close to it.
A text shell isn't any lower level than a GUI. Both are just ways of sending commands to the kernel and displaying the results (if any).
One is prettier and the other allows for complex chains of commands to be typed in, but neither is inherently more part of the OS itself.
That is, if you're going to look around, move quickly from one side of the katamari to the other , zoom out, etc.
Ack. You'd never get me watching anything other than short clips on a portable device. Personally, I want to watch my downloads on a TV, and I can't do that with this system either, so I'm certainly not going to go for it.
Oh, I totally agree. I don't think DRM does them any favours at all. But it'll take them a good few years before they come round to that way of thinking...
Both companies seem to only support Windows and IE. What about the other half of the planet.
The other 7% surely?
I think the whole idea is stupid, but going for a Windows-only base probably makes their lives easier in various ways, so you can understand it. If it takes off they might find it financially worthwhile to take in the Mac crowd too.
I have a MediaMVP - but the interface isn't great, and it's not so useful for video that's not in MPEG format. Does GBPVR make the video conversion any easier? And does it give it a nicer interface?
Cheers.
Can anyone suggest a good method of watching downloaded video on my TV? It's in a different room to the PC, but I've already got ethernet to it (for the Tivo).
I quoted the exact correct meaning of the word standard _for this context_.
Which of the other meanings did _you_ mean? I can't think of one under which PlaysForSure wouldn't count.
It means:
"An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value"
Which is exactly what PlaysForsure is - a set of criteria that a digital music player has to fulfil in order to get the stamp of approval.
I do wish people would learn to speak English before they criticised others.
(7) Sounds unlikely to me. I read the LJs of around 30 people I know, to keep up with their lives on a day to day basis. It's basically replaced the old chatty mailing lists for us. So while "big name" bloggers - the equivalent of Op-Eds - will no doubt be whittled down, the use of blogs for individuals is almost certainly here to stay.
Fantastic.
Dozens of posts all taking the piss, and nobody actually referencing anything useful, like studies showing what levels of EM radiation do cause problems, compared to what levels are in WiFi (for instance).