Annoying to see a page that is updated/changed all of once a year being dynamicaly generated.
And since you CAN indeed compile webpages (someplace else in this discussion somebody mentioned that they author all of their pages in XML and then put them through an XML to HTML converter to get static HTML pages. Yaaah!! Good Idea. Use It.:) )
Not only that but it will most likely cut down on your hosting costs as well, unless you are hosting your own site.
(dynamicaly generated pages also tend to be a bit. . . . messy. heh. More bandwidth consumed in sending them. I am not saying that ALL dynamicaly generated pages are messy, and indeed a lot of static pages are really icky as well, but why not go for efficency?)
Also, if you do not need dynamic pages, uh, why have them? Seriously now, uh, just because it is "The cool thing to do"?
Since sites ALTERNATE between either opening in a new window or not opening in a new window, I have to try each site at least once in order to find out.
And after getting accustomed (spoiled by) to a site that DOES open everything in a new window I then have to make the jump over to sites which do not do that.
(naturaly standardizing on one way or the other would solve issues, but . . . . )
Opening everything on a new window is VERY handy for sites that run as many a links list (such as Hardocp.com ) to various news articles.
You basicaly visit the site, click on the links that interest you, close the site, and then go through window by window and read the articles. Very handy that. No reason to have to manualy select to open links in a new window when you are going to open EVERY link in a new window.
Well obviously if they are using a text only browser that does not have windows, instances, tabs, panes, or any other such concept (thought here is no reason for such browsers NOT to support such concepts, it is after all only a conceptualization, the actual physical representation of such concepts does NOT require a GUI. Wow do I get bonus Buzz Word points there?:) ) then the link should be opened up in the main window, duh.
The pain problem is that it is easy for a person to LOSE TRACK of where they were.
If somebody mentions a FAQ on lasers on a forum that I am reading (such as happened about half an hour ago), then I may not want to interrupt my current readings to go check out that FAQ but I do want to learn what I can from that FAQ so I open it up in a new window and save it for later. I am not going to bookmark it because I may or may not actually like the site, but I still do not want to lose it.
Thus, yet another new instance of my browser is spawned.:)
It would be nice if browsers included an option for reversing that behavior though. . ..
Actually some sites that use lame-o java script try and keep you from being able to do things the OTHER way around, namely opening a link in a new window.
(their goal is to keep you from copying images, which it does not do, but. . . . side effect here).
They typically (try and, easy to bypass) keep you from pushing ANY keys on your keyboard or using the right mouse button.
MUCH more annoying then auto pop-up in a new window sites.
But except for those sites, when I am on a site that opens stuff in a new window by default and I want to open it in the same window (why???), I simply right click on the link and copy the address being linked to to my clipboard and from there to the browser's URL entry bar.
Icky yes, but it works, I have had to do it all of two or three times in my life.:)
Now of course ON SITE navigation should NOT open stuff up in a new window, that IS annoying as hell. Well except for postings on/. mabye, having to hit back a number of times (depending on how many times I previewed, yes I preview, occasionally at least.;) ) to get back to where I left off in the original discussion can get a bit annoying.
Then again most pop up message posting systems I have seen have royally sucked. . . . . (then again most BBS systems are kind enough to return you to. . . . where you last left off.:)
Yah it CAN look cool, but remember where it originated from. . ..
Namely from movies that were originally filmed in a 'wide screen' format.
Only wide compared to the TV sets which actually came AFTER the movie screens, so technically we should be calling the 4:3 ratio Narrow Screen Format instead of movie theaters Wide Screen.:)
Still though, generating original content for a 4:3 display in a widescreen format is just stupid. You are basicaly throwing away a few hundred pixels of vertical resolution. (think about it, black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. No you do NOT have to cut off items from the side, remember you are GENERATING the content, you can draw in the top and the bottoms were the bars are!)
Now I can understand using it due to the Cliche Factor which creates an instant feeling of action or conflict that has come to be associated with a sudden switch over to a Wide Screen format (Thank You Anime!:) ) but hell, it is still annoying a lot of the time.
One last example. Golden Sun, the GBA RPG.
End scene.
They go over to wide screen as you Sail Off. (ain't a spoiler, trust, you get a ship, just like in all other RPGs, if that surprises you then you need help.:) )
I almost wanted to scream.
(For one thing the GBA screen is ALREADY wide screen to begin with, well more or less,).
The effect was created by just sliding two black bars up and down from the top and bottom of the screen. Oh wow, black out some pixels. ^_^
(even worse are flash animations that completely animate things and then insert the black bars AFTER the fact. Oh man that is soooooooooooooooo stupid. WTF is wrong with people? Imagine if painters did that, completely paint a painting and then add black bars to the top and bottoms of the piece!
It is nice not to have to reach down to my keyboard and hit shift everytime I click a link though.
(especially if I am eating a burrito. Hmm, reminds me, time to get going home, fooood!)
Annnyways. (notice in this thread I am going for variants on spellings here?:) )
Out of style Polish jokes aside (as anybody actually ever MET a person from Poland? Damned if I've ever seen one. Course living in a primarily Asian and Black community could be part of the problem.:) ), it is just more convenient to have all links pop up in new windows. . ..
Google PARTIALLY implements this as an option, but it opens up ALL links into the SAME damn window. Which is a major pain in the ass if you ask me, because it will remember a window that was opened up three or four searches ago, and so you go to that site, get done with it, and close that window, only to realize that that window had a site in its back bar that you were STILL viewing.
(history listing? Well yah sure, if you can remember the sites name or address. And if you can do that you didn't really lose the site and therefore this situation is not applicable to you.:) )
Ah, if it wasn't for the capitols thing, I would just duct-tape my shift key down.:)
On the/. home page in specific I often times go about and load up the discussions in interesting articles and any relevent links within the article write-up itself into new windows and then proceed to close the main/. home-page.
Uh, there is another way to do things? ^_^
Seriously, yes the back button is useful. I use it all the time.
When I, say, forget to open something up in a new window so I jump back and open up the link in a new window so that I can continue browsing whatever site I was at before.
Browser 'tabs' are a pain in the arse, don't get listings in the main bar, I like to be able to rapidly switch between applications and a spefic website.
Though combing new browser instances along with browser tabs COULD be useful, as I could have say all of the research for topic Y under such and such browser instance and all the pages for other research topic under a different browser instance. . . . hmmmm.
"If you want a new window learn to right-click (in Windows) or middle-click (in Linux) or cmd-click (or whatever it is on Mac). But constantly opening new windows is lame! Why the fook do you think there's a back button on your browser? To look pretty?"
Actualy shift left click in windows is MUCH faster.
Aaaanyways.
Because I typicaly get 10-15 pages deep into the web and I want to. . ..
Oh damnit here let me try a made up example.
If an article I am reading links to three other articles, and each of those three articles links to three more articles, I would never, I repeat, never get done reading a single article.
Which is a Bad Thing. Duh.
Now if I open something up in a NEW window, I can delay reading it until after I am finished with the current article that I am reading.
Thus, I actualy get to compleatly read some articles.
If I just relied on my back button, I would have to turn off my computer before I ever got finished reading a single article.
Thus, the reason that I tend to have at least five windows open at once, though I have been known to go well above the 20 or so window mark at times.:) (I just a few minutes ago had ~12 or so browser windows open, as I was opening articles from a large list and then going through and reading them one by one.)
"- Finally (my personal biggest gripe) is DO NOT OPEN NEW WINDOWS when I click on a link. EVER. Not when I'm going to a new section of your site, and certainly not when I click on a link away from your site. If I wanted to open a new window to follow the link, I would have myself."
I will STRONGLY disagree with you on that one.
ALWAYS pop up external links into a new window. It pisses the HELL out of me when I click on a link IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ARTICLE and end up LEAVING the site and have to hit back, then select to open the link in a new window. (I end up doing this once on at least every site just in finding out if it opens things up in new windows or not).
For crying out loud, why in the WORLD would I wan to stop in the MIDDLE of an article on your site and go to some place else? Now _THAT_ does not make any sense. I would never get finished with anything if I browsed like that.
"Make the text readable! Don't use a font size of less that 18pt."
I actualy have my computer at home setup to have fonts on sites set to 16+ or bigger.
For one thing it tests out how well a page wraps itself. I cannot STAND sites that DEMAND that their text have CRs only where they want them to be at, bleh.
(and whats up with flash animations that are of a set size? IT IS VECTOR FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. IT SCALES. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, set the size of the window to an absolute value! And don't make it 'widescreen' either, it is dynamicaly generated, all you are doing is friggin LIMITING the number of pixels you have to work with!)
One of the main goals (advantages?) of minimalist design is that it allows you to communicate a large body of information with minimal strain for the user.
If you do not have any content then you mine as well go for glitzy and flashy, after all, what else do you have to do? -_-
I have seen all of four or five WMV files on the web, most people perfer to go with ASF or AVI files (or AVI to ASF converters. ^_^ ) due to the increased flexability that those format offer.
(namely more third party products. MS should know by now that if they want something to become popular that they should open up development to third parties).
Sure some major news sites may use WMV, but, uh, I have a TV set for that type of thing.:)
Almost all files I see on the web are either AVI or if they are streaming ASF or (eeew) RM.
Black text, white background, all images with appropriate tags on them. Links whatever color the browser renders them at by default.
Advantages: Easy to read, readily accesable, everybody is happy.
Cons: You don't get to show off your m4d Java/Flash skills.
Some of the sites that I stay at the most have a very nice KISS policy. (Keep It Simple, Stupid. Oringaly said to be posted in the main work room for a bunch of airplane engineers.)
At the very least, do NOT use dynamic page serving for STATIC pages. Please. I beg of you. Do _NOT_ dynamicaly generate all of your pages just because it may make future site changes easier to implement.
If you REALLY need to change the site two or three years down the road, then use a web page pre-compiler that will allow for you to change the style of your website before hand.
Most sites just have news updates and an occasional article posted. There is NO NEED for you to dynamicaly generate every last little bleeping thing just to make the occasional news update easier.
Yah, but in this case the 'car' comes stock and advertised with spiked bumpers and an anti-personal radar designed for tracking down old ladies in wheelchairs.
Well yah shoot it/could/ be used for, say, an obstical course only and hitting those little orange traffic cones, but you know what? That isn't what the primary user base is using it for OR what it is being popularized as being for.
When I bought my system a year ago for ~500 USD (well built it actualy) it was a damn good deal.
(besides, dual boards had yet to hit the market and I had been waiting for FOUR DAMN FR*CKING YEARS for a dualy K7 system, and yet ANOTHER product delay had been announced for the SMP K7 boards, grrrr)
My upgrade cycle is ~5years ($$$$, or lack of therefore) so I will be talking to ya next time on a 10ghz machine or some such. ^_^ (hmm, more likely to be 15ghz or so. from 33mhz to 266mhz, from 266mhz to 1ghz, granted only a three year delay that second time. . . . . damnit PCs are annoying at times)
Hell, I was DISAPOINTED with the ABYSLEMAL results that came in.
Huh?? You ask?
Well yah.
You see how that MPEG4 video took TIME to encode? Time that could be measured in MINUTES per video?
Tell me when I can do MPEG4 encoding at over 1000x real time speed with shitloads of Virtual Dub filters running and without out my CPU even going up to 10% utilization, and THEN I will say that we have (maybe) gone fast enough.
As it is I still have to hit the render button, wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... Run it through my post production filters and repeat the waiting (seen above) if not for an even longer time, and THEN I get to compress it down to some sort of video stream (choose a codec folks).
Ooooh great...
Royal pain in the arse when rendering takes longer then creation.
Oh yah, and did I mention that I am not even using over $1k of software here? I am not even running some sort of fancy high end effects house, I am just doing regular quicky animations. But rendering those Terrains sure is a pain in the arse, and then those realistic clouds, ooh ouchies MAJOR performance hit there folks.
Heck even photoshop still takes times to run filters. Not even complex filters either, just single ones. (It has gotten A LOT better since the 'old days' of running Photoshop on those "brand new Pentium 166mhzs!!!" Oh man, that was/PAINFUL/. Running any sort of complex filters meant going out to a friggin lunch break, bleh).
What about even transfering images from a digital camera? You know how bleeping long it takes to load previews of all images in a folder? You know, all 100-200 images? Or more? Most likely of varying resolutions to boot. How lovely.
That _IS_ enough to annoy a Grandama and encourage her to upgrade to a new machine.
You think people want to WAIT to encode their MP3 streams? Why? By the time we hit 10ghz or so (and if HD speeds hopefuly start scaling up a bit faster.:) ) we should have MP3 encoding speeds of a few MINUTES per second passed.
Or at least we sure as friggin better, heh.
Until then my 700mhz Duron OC'd to 950mhz/1ghz (depending on time of year;) ) that cost me $40 per CPU (ok so at that price I bought two, wish I'd bougthen four or five.:) ) will have to suffice.
(well that and my 80gb + 20gb Hds which are quickly filling up. Screw CPU time, I can always play Gameboy, but I _NEED_ more HD space damnit! I filed up 40GB in two weeks, and I wasn't even trying!! )
One that has lots of filters put on it (filtering out "Penis enlargement" "MLM" and "100% legal" should cut your spam at least in half ^_^ ) and another one for private exchanges that you use personally.
Yes it is a pain, but then again until recently (and some would say still), similar procedures are needed to keep away from telemarketers too. Hell look how long it took to get some legal recourse in THAT arena!
Yes, agreed. Spammers _ARE_ right up there with the scum of the earth, but this is a capitalistic society that we live in, and as such if there is an idiotic plan that promises to make money fast, then we are going to have to deal with idiots trying to follow that plan.
Hell I am just grateful that I have only ever had one vacuum cleaner salesmen come to my door.:)
"1. Bandai didn't handle this show. FUNimation (the American licensor of Dragonball) did. Since this is a fight show ala Dragonball, albeit with a bit more plot, it isn't outside of their speciality."
Sorry, what I get for listening to the main/, article. -_- (homepage says Funimation all over it).
Oh well, first impressions, voice acting is only so so hardly what I expected the characters to sound like in English, then again I said the exact same thing about Cowboy Bebop, so I am going to wait an episode or two more before I make any final judgements.
The first few measures of the intro song are off.
Horribly off.
Oh yah, and their singers SUCK. Well appreciated that they are sticking to the same theme song as the original version had in it, but damnit, even though the singers voice is similar, that song just, well, SUCKS in English.
The intro song is not really their fault, unless done VERY well, almost anything sung in English sounds only so so I imagine that the singer had a lovely time trying to sing something that was originally written in another language and then translated over to English. Even with our broad base of synonyms to work from, choosing words that make sense and have the right syllable count and sound to them in order to line up with the song WHILE keeping the same meaning as the original song, must have been a royal pain in the ass.
Which explains why they only did a so so job on it. ^_^
I had to turn off the end credits though, they were just dismal.;(
I -LOVED- how they kept the Chibi characters for the faders before and after commercials though.:) (I forget what the 'industry term' for those shots are)
First episode was not something to catch the DBZ kiddies onto the show, but the acting was good enough to make you feel depressed during the wake.
Hmm, now that I think about it, it is kind of weird to actually have COMMERCIALS while watching YuYu. ^_^
" I've never been able to get past the fact that Dexter's Laboratory just looks ugly. Powerpuff Girls are ok and I think it's great to have stuff that appeals to girls but. "
A: Dexter's Lab looks wonderful. It is an artform, a specific style of animation that Dexter's Lab exceeds at.
Then again I also know of people who think that Dexter's Lab looks great and that PPGs looks horrible. It think that they are both outstanding examples of their respective genres. (which actually are pretty closely related, the artwork is not THAT far apart, just how the main characters are drawn)
B: PPG is _NOT_ aimed soly a females.
I thought it was too at first, but come on.
That one episode that was a Star Wars spoof (flying down the Deathstar trench) that also happened to include disco dancing pretty much disproves that idea.
Or the episode were (almost?) every line spoken is a line from a Beatles song.
Not to mention some of the, err, other odd things that the show has in it.
It is a/very/ well rounded show that appeals to both adults and children alike.
I know some people though who cannot STAND the voices in the show at all. They say that the voices are 'too sqeaky and annoying sounding' for them.
::shrugs:: I think that the voices are exactly what they are supposed to be, insanely cute. ^_^
And, oh yes. the PPGs are popular over in Japan as well.
About time! I have been looking forward to YuYu Hakusho coming onto TV for some time now.
I am VERY intersted in seeing how Bandai is going to cover the fact that:
A: The first few episodes are Horribly Boring. (to the point that if you have not seen later episodes they may very well turn you off of the series)
B: The insane amount of non-western religious/mythos stuff in there. While it is not exactly a historical drama, I am wondering if Bandai is going to have to resort to translation notes???
C: The INSANELY large amounts of GORE. YuYu is a VEEEEEEEERRRRYYYYY bloody show.:)
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Annoying to see a page that is updated/changed all of once a year being dynamicaly generated.
And since you CAN indeed compile webpages (someplace else in this discussion somebody mentioned that they author all of their pages in XML and then put them through an XML to HTML converter to get static HTML pages. Yaaah!! Good Idea. Use It.
Not only that but it will most likely cut down on your hosting costs as well, unless you are hosting your own site.
(dynamicaly generated pages also tend to be a bit. . . . messy. heh. More bandwidth consumed in sending them. I am not saying that ALL dynamicaly generated pages are messy, and indeed a lot of static pages are really icky as well, but why not go for efficency?)
Also, if you do not need dynamic pages, uh, why have them? Seriously now, uh, just because it is "The cool thing to do"?
Not a good reason.
Read what I said right after that.
Since sites ALTERNATE between either opening in a new window or not opening in a new window, I have to try each site at least once in order to find out.
And after getting accustomed (spoiled by) to a site that DOES open everything in a new window I then have to make the jump over to sites which do not do that.
(naturaly standardizing on one way or the other would solve issues, but . . . . )
Opening everything on a new window is VERY handy for sites that run as many a links list (such as Hardocp.com ) to various news articles.
You basicaly visit the site, click on the links that interest you, close the site, and then go through window by window and read the articles. Very handy that. No reason to have to manualy select to open links in a new window when you are going to open EVERY link in a new window.
It is called knowing your audience.
Well obviously if they are using a text only browser that does not have windows, instances, tabs, panes, or any other such concept (thought here is no reason for such browsers NOT to support such concepts, it is after all only a conceptualization, the actual physical representation of such concepts does NOT require a GUI. Wow do I get bonus Buzz Word points there? :) ) then the link should be opened up in the main window, duh.
:)
The pain problem is that it is easy for a person to LOSE TRACK of where they were.
If somebody mentions a FAQ on lasers on a forum that I am reading (such as happened about half an hour ago), then I may not want to interrupt my current readings to go check out that FAQ but I do want to learn what I can from that FAQ so I open it up in a new window and save it for later. I am not going to bookmark it because I may or may not actually like the site, but I still do not want to lose it.
Thus, yet another new instance of my browser is spawned.
It would be nice if browsers included an option for reversing that behavior though. . . .
:)
/. mabye, having to hit back a number of times (depending on how many times I previewed, yes I preview, occasionally at least. ;) ) to get back to where I left off in the original discussion can get a bit annoying.
:)
Actually some sites that use lame-o java script try and keep you from being able to do things the OTHER way around, namely opening a link in a new window.
(their goal is to keep you from copying images, which it does not do, but. . . . side effect here).
They typically (try and, easy to bypass) keep you from pushing ANY keys on your keyboard or using the right mouse button.
MUCH more annoying then auto pop-up in a new window sites.
But except for those sites, when I am on a site that opens stuff in a new window by default and I want to open it in the same window (why???), I simply right click on the link and copy the address being linked to to my clipboard and from there to the browser's URL entry bar.
Icky yes, but it works, I have had to do it all of two or three times in my life.
Now of course ON SITE navigation should NOT open stuff up in a new window, that IS annoying as hell. Well except for postings on
Then again most pop up message posting systems I have seen have royally sucked. . . . . (then again most BBS systems are kind enough to return you to. . . . where you last left off.
Yah it CAN look cool, but remember where it originated from. . . .
:)
:) ) but hell, it is still annoying a lot of the time.
:) )
Namely from movies that were originally filmed in a 'wide screen' format.
Only wide compared to the TV sets which actually came AFTER the movie screens, so technically we should be calling the 4:3 ratio Narrow Screen Format instead of movie theaters Wide Screen.
Still though, generating original content for a 4:3 display in a widescreen format is just stupid. You are basicaly throwing away a few hundred pixels of vertical resolution. (think about it, black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. No you do NOT have to cut off items from the side, remember you are GENERATING the content, you can draw in the top and the bottoms were the bars are!)
Now I can understand using it due to the Cliche Factor which creates an instant feeling of action or conflict that has come to be associated with a sudden switch over to a Wide Screen format (Thank You Anime!
One last example. Golden Sun, the GBA RPG.
End scene.
They go over to wide screen as you Sail Off. (ain't a spoiler, trust, you get a ship, just like in all other RPGs, if that surprises you then you need help.
I almost wanted to scream.
(For one thing the GBA screen is ALREADY wide screen to begin with, well more or less,).
The effect was created by just sliding two black bars up and down from the top and bottom of the screen. Oh wow, black out some pixels. ^_^
(even worse are flash animations that completely animate things and then insert the black bars AFTER the fact. Oh man that is soooooooooooooooo stupid. WTF is wrong with people? Imagine if painters did that, completely paint a painting and then add black bars to the top and bottoms of the piece!
It is nice not to have to reach down to my keyboard and hit shift everytime I click a link though.
:) )
:) ), it is just more convenient to have all links pop up in new windows. . . .
:) )
:)
(especially if I am eating a burrito. Hmm, reminds me, time to get going home, fooood!)
Annnyways. (notice in this thread I am going for variants on spellings here?
Out of style Polish jokes aside (as anybody actually ever MET a person from Poland? Damned if I've ever seen one. Course living in a primarily Asian and Black community could be part of the problem.
Google PARTIALLY implements this as an option, but it opens up ALL links into the SAME damn window. Which is a major pain in the ass if you ask me, because it will remember a window that was opened up three or four searches ago, and so you go to that site, get done with it, and close that window, only to realize that that window had a site in its back bar that you were STILL viewing.
(history listing? Well yah sure, if you can remember the sites name or address. And if you can do that you didn't really lose the site and therefore this situation is not applicable to you.
Ah, if it wasn't for the capitols thing, I would just duct-tape my shift key down.
On the /. home page in specific I often times go about and load up the discussions in interesting articles and any relevent links within the article write-up itself into new windows and then proceed to close the main /. home-page.
Uh, there is another way to do things? ^_^
Seriously, yes the back button is useful. I use it all the time.
When I, say, forget to open something up in a new window so I jump back and open up the link in a new window so that I can continue browsing whatever site I was at before.
Browser 'tabs' are a pain in the arse, don't get listings in the main bar, I like to be able to rapidly switch between applications and a spefic website.
Though combing new browser instances along with browser tabs COULD be useful, as I could have say all of the research for topic Y under such and such browser instance and all the pages for other research topic under a different browser instance. . . . hmmmm.
"If you want a new window learn to right-click (in Windows) or middle-click (in Linux) or cmd-click (or whatever it is on Mac). But constantly opening new windows is lame! Why the fook do you think there's a back button on your browser? To look pretty?"
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:) (I just a few minutes ago had ~12 or so browser windows open, as I was opening articles from a large list and then going through and reading them one by one.)
Actualy shift left click in windows is MUCH faster.
Aaaanyways.
Because I typicaly get 10-15 pages deep into the web and I want to. . .
Oh damnit here let me try a made up example.
If an article I am reading links to three other articles, and each of those three articles links to three more articles, I would never, I repeat, never get done reading a single article.
Which is a Bad Thing. Duh.
Now if I open something up in a NEW window, I can delay reading it until after I am finished with the current article that I am reading.
Thus, I actualy get to compleatly read some articles.
If I just relied on my back button, I would have to turn off my computer before I ever got finished reading a single article.
Thus, the reason that I tend to have at least five windows open at once, though I have been known to go well above the 20 or so window mark at times.
Flash removes my ability to scroll with my mouse wheel.
Text should NOT be presented in flash, it is a waste. Pure and simple.
Using flash because it gives you a nifty LOOKING but LESS FUNCTIONAL scroll bar is silly.
Anything you can do with flash you can make just as functional with either a text link, or if you MUST, a static image.
After the first time, I really do not give a hoot if your site navigation buttons blink in whatever color.
"- Finally (my personal biggest gripe) is DO NOT OPEN NEW WINDOWS when I click on a link. EVER. Not when I'm going to a new section of your site, and certainly not when I click on a link away from your site. If I wanted to open a new window to follow the link, I would have myself."
I will STRONGLY disagree with you on that one.
ALWAYS pop up external links into a new window. It pisses the HELL out of me when I click on a link IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ARTICLE and end up LEAVING the site and have to hit back, then select to open the link in a new window. (I end up doing this once on at least every site just in finding out if it opens things up in new windows or not).
For crying out loud, why in the WORLD would I wan to stop in the MIDDLE of an article on your site and go to some place else? Now _THAT_ does not make any sense. I would never get finished with anything if I browsed like that.
"Make the text readable! Don't use a font size of less that 18pt."
I actualy have my computer at home setup to have fonts on sites set to 16+ or bigger.
For one thing it tests out how well a page wraps itself. I cannot STAND sites that DEMAND that their text have CRs only where they want them to be at, bleh.
(and whats up with flash animations that are of a set size? IT IS VECTOR FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. IT SCALES. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, set the size of the window to an absolute value! And don't make it 'widescreen' either, it is dynamicaly generated, all you are doing is friggin LIMITING the number of pixels you have to work with!)
Lack of content.
The site design is OK, but there is no content.
One of the main goals (advantages?) of minimalist design is that it allows you to communicate a large body of information with minimal strain for the user.
If you do not have any content then you mine as well go for glitzy and flashy, after all, what else do you have to do? -_-
I have seen all of four or five WMV files on the web, most people perfer to go with ASF or AVI files (or AVI to ASF converters. ^_^ ) due to the increased flexability that those format offer.
:)
(namely more third party products. MS should know by now that if they want something to become popular that they should open up development to third parties).
Sure some major news sites may use WMV, but, uh, I have a TV set for that type of thing.
Almost all files I see on the web are either AVI or if they are streaming ASF or (eeew) RM.
Black text, white background, all images with appropriate tags on them. Links whatever color the browser renders them at by default.
:P )
Advantages: Easy to read, readily accesable, everybody is happy.
Cons: You don't get to show off your m4d Java/Flash skills.
Some of the sites that I stay at the most have a very nice KISS policy. (Keep It Simple, Stupid. Oringaly said to be posted in the main work room for a bunch of airplane engineers.)
At the very least, do NOT use dynamic page serving for STATIC pages. Please. I beg of you. Do _NOT_ dynamicaly generate all of your pages just because it may make future site changes easier to implement.
If you REALLY need to change the site two or three years down the road, then use a web page pre-compiler that will allow for you to change the style of your website before hand.
Most sites just have news updates and an occasional article posted. There is NO NEED for you to dynamicaly generate every last little bleeping thing just to make the occasional news update easier.
(and no flaming text either.
Yah, but in this case the 'car' comes stock and advertised with spiked bumpers and an anti-personal radar designed for tracking down old ladies in wheelchairs.
/could/ be used for, say, an obstical course only and hitting those little orange traffic cones, but you know what? That isn't what the primary user base is using it for OR what it is being popularized as being for.
Well yah shoot it
When I bought my system a year ago for ~500 USD (well built it actualy) it was a damn good deal.
(besides, dual boards had yet to hit the market and I had been waiting for FOUR DAMN FR*CKING YEARS for a dualy K7 system, and yet ANOTHER product delay had been announced for the SMP K7 boards, grrrr)
My upgrade cycle is ~5years ($$$$, or lack of therefore) so I will be talking to ya next time on a 10ghz machine or some such. ^_^ (hmm, more likely to be 15ghz or so. from 33mhz to 266mhz, from 266mhz to 1ghz, granted only a three year delay that second time. . . . . damnit PCs are annoying at times)
Screw that, I _NEED_ the extra performance.
/PAINFUL/. Running any sort of complex filters meant going out to a friggin lunch break, bleh).
:) ) we should have MP3 encoding speeds of a few MINUTES per second passed.
;) ) that cost me $40 per CPU (ok so at that price I bought two, wish I'd bougthen four or five. :) ) will have to suffice.
Hell, I was DISAPOINTED with the ABYSLEMAL results that came in.
Huh?? You ask?
Well yah.
You see how that MPEG4 video took TIME to encode? Time that could be measured in MINUTES per video?
Tell me when I can do MPEG4 encoding at over 1000x real time speed with shitloads of Virtual Dub filters running and without out my CPU even going up to 10% utilization, and THEN I will say that we have (maybe) gone fast enough.
As it is I still have to hit the render button, wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... Run it through my post production filters and repeat the waiting (seen above) if not for an even longer time, and THEN I get to compress it down to some sort of video stream (choose a codec folks).
Ooooh great...
Royal pain in the arse when rendering takes longer then creation.
Oh yah, and did I mention that I am not even using over $1k of software here? I am not even running some sort of fancy high end effects house, I am just doing regular quicky animations. But rendering those Terrains sure is a pain in the arse, and then those realistic clouds, ooh ouchies MAJOR performance hit there folks.
Heck even photoshop still takes times to run filters. Not even complex filters either, just single ones. (It has gotten A LOT better since the 'old days' of running Photoshop on those "brand new Pentium 166mhzs!!!" Oh man, that was
What about even transfering images from a digital camera? You know how bleeping long it takes to load previews of all images in a folder? You know, all 100-200 images? Or more? Most likely of varying resolutions to boot. How lovely.
That _IS_ enough to annoy a Grandama and encourage her to upgrade to a new machine.
You think people want to WAIT to encode their MP3 streams? Why? By the time we hit 10ghz or so (and if HD speeds hopefuly start scaling up a bit faster.
Or at least we sure as friggin better, heh.
Until then my 700mhz Duron OC'd to 950mhz/1ghz (depending on time of year
(well that and my 80gb + 20gb Hds which are quickly filling up. Screw CPU time, I can always play Gameboy, but I _NEED_ more HD space damnit! I filed up 40GB in two weeks, and I wasn't even trying!! )
What I can't stand is when my own ISP sends me e-mail asking if I would like to sign up with them. . . . -_-
;(
Darnest thing is, a bit more work and the desktop replacement could have become a good feature in the pre-XP era for the windows users.
Could've prevented some money from getting to MS's coffers at least. Ah oh well, too late now.
Use two e-mail addresses.
:)
One that has lots of filters put on it (filtering out "Penis enlargement" "MLM" and "100% legal" should cut your spam at least in half ^_^ ) and another one for private exchanges that you use personally.
Yes it is a pain, but then again until recently (and some would say still), similar procedures are needed to keep away from telemarketers too. Hell look how long it took to get some legal recourse in THAT arena!
Yes, agreed. Spammers _ARE_ right up there with the scum of the earth, but this is a capitalistic society that we live in, and as such if there is an idiotic plan that promises to make money fast, then we are going to have to deal with idiots trying to follow that plan.
Hell I am just grateful that I have only ever had one vacuum cleaner salesmen come to my door.
I am sorry, but for THREE YEARS I did not get but three pieces of spam in my ATTBI (up until recently @Home) Mailbox.
.)
How?
Well, my address WAS posted at a few places.
But they were all trusted locations.
Let me ask you some questions.
Have you ever used e-bay?
Any other online retailer?
How much do you trust this (these) online retailer(s)?
Have any of those retailers gone out of business since you gave them your e-mail address by any chance?
Does anybody else who DOES have your e-mail address have a habit of doing stupid ass shit? (such as, say, running outlook. . .
Does your browser know your real e-mail address? (IIRC, it is simple to grab a persons e-mail from their browser).
Have you used anon FTPs and actually submitted your REAL e-mail address to them? (doh!)
Do you read over ALL licencing terms that you agree to on sites that may even possibly have your e-mail address?
And their privacy policies?
And compared the two side by side to look for any loop holes that the company may be able to use?
Do you use separate e-mail addresses for different tasks? If so, how segregated do you keep these different addresses?
In other words, 'idiotic things' pretty much means ANYTHING that is not fully Tin Foil Hat Paranoia Compliant.
"1. Bandai didn't handle this show. FUNimation (the American licensor of Dragonball) did. Since this is a fight show ala Dragonball, albeit with a bit more plot, it isn't outside of their speciality."
/, article. -_- (homepage says Funimation all over it).
;(
:) (I forget what the 'industry term' for those shots are)
Sorry, what I get for listening to the main
Oh well, first impressions, voice acting is only so so hardly what I expected the characters to sound like in English, then again I said the exact same thing about Cowboy Bebop, so I am going to wait an episode or two more before I make any final judgements.
The first few measures of the intro song are off.
Horribly off.
Oh yah, and their singers SUCK. Well appreciated that they are sticking to the same theme song as the original version had in it, but damnit, even though the singers voice is similar, that song just, well, SUCKS in English.
The intro song is not really their fault, unless done VERY well, almost anything sung in English sounds only so so I imagine that the singer had a lovely time trying to sing something that was originally written in another language and then translated over to English. Even with our broad base of synonyms to work from, choosing words that make sense and have the right syllable count and sound to them in order to line up with the song WHILE keeping the same meaning as the original song, must have been a royal pain in the ass.
Which explains why they only did a so so job on it. ^_^
I had to turn off the end credits though, they were just dismal.
I -LOVED- how they kept the Chibi characters for the faders before and after commercials though.
First episode was not something to catch the DBZ kiddies onto the show, but the acting was good enough to make you feel depressed during the wake.
Hmm, now that I think about it, it is kind of weird to actually have COMMERCIALS while watching YuYu. ^_^
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/very/ well rounded show that appeals to both adults and children alike.
/TOO/ popular.
:
I've never been able to get past the fact that Dexter's Laboratory just looks ugly. Powerpuff Girls are ok and I think it's great to have stuff that appeals to girls but. "
A: Dexter's Lab looks wonderful. It is an artform, a specific style of animation that Dexter's Lab exceeds at.
Then again I also know of people who think that Dexter's Lab looks great and that PPGs looks horrible. It think that they are both outstanding examples of their respective genres. (which actually are pretty closely related, the artwork is not THAT far apart, just how the main characters are drawn)
B: PPG is _NOT_ aimed soly a females.
I thought it was too at first, but come on.
That one episode that was a Star Wars spoof (flying down the Deathstar trench) that also happened to include disco dancing pretty much disproves that idea.
Or the episode were (almost?) every line spoken is a line from a Beatles song.
Not to mention some of the, err, other odd things that the show has in it.
It is a
I know some people though who cannot STAND the voices in the show at all. They say that the voices are 'too sqeaky and annoying sounding' for them.
::shrugs:: I think that the voices are exactly what they are supposed to be, insanely cute. ^_^
And, oh yes. the PPGs are popular over in Japan as well.
Uh.
A bit
::wink wink nudge nudge
;P
About time! I have been looking forward to YuYu Hakusho coming onto TV for some time now.
:)
I am VERY intersted in seeing how Bandai is going to cover the fact that:
A: The first few episodes are Horribly Boring. (to the point that if you have not seen later episodes they may very well turn you off of the series)
B: The insane amount of non-western religious/mythos stuff in there. While it is not exactly a historical drama, I am wondering if Bandai is going to have to resort to translation notes???
C: The INSANELY large amounts of GORE. YuYu is a VEEEEEEEERRRRYYYYY bloody show.
"If you go direct to Microsoft you can order one for the Optical 5-button one for $24.95."
And if I go to A4 tech I can get an optical 9-bytton mouse for $20 or less.
(that was actualy over two years ago, likely below $15 now)
And for $30 I can get a wireless mouse (ah, not optical though) and keyboard for $30.
And the mouse is running at 80hz too, heh. Damn I want one of those, yaah! 80hz wireless mouse.
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