Totally. HTTP login is a solved problem, browsers are very good at remembering different identities, it's simple to use, digest authentication is far more secure than a plaintext POST, and it vastly improves the statelessness of the HTTP traffic.
The only real problem is the browser UIs don't provide enough support for HTTP auth. For instance, does your browser tell you when you're authenticated with a site? Does it provide you with a logout button? I'm guessing not.
If the telco knows your handset doesn't support MMS, on receipt of a message you'll typically get an SMS containing a URL to visit to view the message at your leisure.
No idea if that would work with iPhone's Safari - I doubt it as they've mostly been proprietary Flash interfaces from what I've seen.
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You can store objects in the session, just not objects that don't serialise properly.
I don't use loadvariables anymore either (unless it NEEDS to deal with somebody else's data that is in query string style).
You should probably check out the LoadVars object then. It basically replaced loadvariables() as of Flash 6 and has all the.onLoad type functionality you'd want.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'lack of video support' - you can encode video into a SWF just fine, and run it in whatever environment you feel like.
Existing digital cell systems already have a significant delay and you just don't notice it. Next time you're in a cell->cell call try singing along to music that's playing at the other end. To the other person you'll sound hopelessly out of time.
I remember setting up a website on tripod.com in 1995.
I don't know what their system's like now, but back then you'd get talked through a series of multiple-choice questions that set up your page for you. You just typed in whatever text you wanted, chose a style and away you went!
But this isn't about relaying an entire country's output through your phone, it's a few phones in an area where the base station's down talking to the phones outside the outage to get the messages through.
I don't believe the phone would need much of a routing table.
You're not necessarily trying to get to the target phone. You mayb just have your local base station down, in which case you're trying to get your message to any other phone that's near a base station.
I would assume that in most urban settings it would only be a couple of hops until you hit a cellphone that's on the main network.
You can just send the message to all of the phones in range if necessary, although that would be pretty inefficient. Otherwise you can use some pretty simple routing...
Then buy one of the European versions - all RCE disks so far have been R1. If they made R2 RCE discs, half the people in R2 wouldn't be able to watch them...
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Totally. HTTP login is a solved problem, browsers are very good at remembering different identities, it's simple to use, digest authentication is far more secure than a plaintext POST, and it vastly improves the statelessness of the HTTP traffic.
The only real problem is the browser UIs don't provide enough support for HTTP auth. For instance, does your browser tell you when you're authenticated with a site? Does it provide you with a logout button? I'm guessing not.
Yahoo! don't want to by default expose their users' usernames inside the OpenID string (for perhaps-spurious 'privacy' reasons).
You can, at openid.yahoo.com activate my.yahoo.com/myusername, or choose another currently-unused string for the login.
There's an extension to OpenID that Yahoo! are pushing that would let you put just 'yahoo.com' in the OpenID login box.
If the telco knows your handset doesn't support MMS, on receipt of a message you'll typically get an SMS containing a URL to visit to view the message at your leisure.
No idea if that would work with iPhone's Safari - I doubt it as they've mostly been proprietary Flash interfaces from what I've seen.
You can store objects in the session, just not objects that don't serialise properly.
"Of course, it'd probably be best if fundmentalists actually talked to, say, the rabbis who wrote the whole thing down."
They're probably pretty hard to contact, having been dead for millennia.
You can write your own custom parser using the .onData event, but yeah you should use XML (Even though the Flash XML parser is a little unwieldy).
You should probably check out the LoadVars object then. It basically replaced loadvariables() as of Flash 6 and has all the
I'm not sure what you mean by 'lack of video support' - you can encode video into a SWF just fine, and run it in whatever environment you feel like.
You can actually duplicate this behaviour (and many other missing features) using IE's horrid expression() syntax.
Of course it'd be far better if it just supported CSS standards correctly...
Actually that's not true for all Christianity. In Catholicism man cannot be redeemed by belief alone, he has to do good works as well.
I think you still have to believe as well, though.
I did, but my name came out as "McNci Smsto".
This is pure nonsense. There are about 6 different versions of Reloaded floating about online but all the ones I've seen are Telesyncs.
There aren't any screener versions or similar online yet... believe me, I'd have looked!
At the end of the day, I can't imagine any Matrix fans are going to download the movie rather than seeing it on the big screen and/or buying the DVD.
How about if the BOIS is password-protected and it's set to boot from HD before floppy?
No, you can't buffer it
Why not?
Existing digital cell systems already have a significant delay and you just don't notice it. Next time you're in a cell->cell call try singing along to music that's playing at the other end. To the other person you'll sound hopelessly out of time.
-Ciaran
It'd be c-sharp, presumably.
That being the name of the language and all.
Yet another example of the developed world exploiting the developing.
Disgusting.
-Ciaran
So OSX updates are 'News for Nerds' now?
I look forward to the day when we get a story every time M$ release a 'critical update'.
-Ciaran
I remember setting up a website on tripod.com in 1995.
I don't know what their system's like now, but back then you'd get talked through a series of multiple-choice questions that set up your page for you. You just typed in whatever text you wanted, chose a style and away you went!
Surely this patent won't stand?
But this isn't about relaying an entire country's output through your phone, it's a few phones in an area where the base station's down talking to the phones outside the outage to get the messages through.
I don't believe the phone would need much of a routing table.
You're not necessarily trying to get to the target phone. You mayb just have your local base station down, in which case you're trying to get your message to any other phone that's near a base station.
I would assume that in most urban settings it would only be a couple of hops until you hit a cellphone that's on the main network.
You can just send the message to all of the phones in range if necessary, although that would be pretty inefficient. Otherwise you can use some pretty simple routing...
I think maybe you're missing the bit where the system is based around SMS, not calls.
SMS messages aren't going to take too long to relay, and the time during which your phone is connected during the relaying will be very low.
Then buy one of the European versions - all RCE disks so far have been R1. If they made R2 RCE discs, half the people in R2 wouldn't be able to watch them...
>> What's wrong with <a href="help.html" target="newframe">
Nothing really. What's more elegant is:
<a href="help.html" target="_new" onclick="return popup('help.html')"> where the popup() function returns false if successful.
-Ciaran
For Pete's sake, man, how often do you change your display resolution???
Every time I play Quake3, for a start. My desktop runs at 1600*1200, and my system can't put out a decent framerate at that res.
If you'd even read the rest of the site, you'd realise that their software is *very* accomplished
Check out the Texture by Numbers sections for more examples of the flexibility of this software...
-Ciaran
An old Pentium laptop with USB ports? Unlikely.
-Ciaran