I reckon I should "upgrade" it by making it slow loading -- I actually make "real" sites at work.
So be a pro, give folks the option... scale the site to both needs, let them choose.
personally i just got sick of testing sites and now guarantee my site to only really work with any ease on ie6 or later over a fast connection. (work is different though... we still use nutscrape 4)
in the uk, 2mbps is still hardly affordable (i get 2 mbps from 7pm - 7am and weekends... 512 the rest and alwasy 256 upload)
as far as i know in holland, and denmark they are still mostly on 1-2 mbps domestically.. only from my compatriots in teh USA do i regularly hear of geeks with 5+ mbps connects....
love to hear your experiences of this coz the broadband is one of the few things tempting me to move to norht america
but if all this happened in hollywood... Alice and Bob would fall in love, start a charity called Lovers Against Car Crashes, then move to the mountains and have monkey sex!!!!!
(computer analogy... play the sims for 17 hours whilst taking acid)
after moving back to the UK after 3 years i ended up in a flat with no broadband access possible...
i had to move after 2 months of that and goddamn if i didnt make sure i got it in writing from the telco that I was dsl enabled before i took out a new place..
Must say i never much liked any 1 on 1 fighting games (loved the whole double dragon, vigilante) thing though....
My problem was that i never owned a console so never knew any special moves and combos and shit and most lads are just assholes and dont share that info.....
but now i tame their pussy asses all over Generals... muhahahahaha
only pitfall i remember is the old zx81 (i think?) and amstrad cpc464 game where you had to jump over pits and swing on ropes... that was fucking cool back then!! i loved it, combined the swinging of the Roland games with the death thrill of amnic miner
I work for a third part contractor supporting 28,000 governemnt officers.... my "work" pc is stripped of games, whilst my "government netowrk" pc has the full set of windows games.
well, it dont exactly heighten my "manliness", but really, it aint exactly a gay accessory..
I guess fashions are dependant on the community you hang in, and the rave community (my general circle of associates) here sees no objection to pink fishnets on a guy, so a black shoulder backback with one strap is no hassle, excellent for cycle couriering too,
but i get your point, and its a case of to each their own...
incidentally, makes a great bag for mah lappy as it looks too small to have shit wirth stealing in it.
and aint the online dictionary in yer pocket such a fucking great thing.... same as with you, this is pretty much the only thing i use web functionality on my phone (SonyEricsson T610 - gorgeous lil phone, oh yeah, it was free with a c ontract).
I thought i was the only person sad enough to use the phone for this reason.....
Oh yeah slasher flicks (stoned and at work makes me forgetful of the point of my posts....).
Traditional slasher flicks, no way.. wouldnt let kids watch any of them.. me neither.. if anything i would think they are more harmful in some ways to children as nightmares are induced from a passive state.. at least in zombie related computer games you would be in control and killing the buggers...
Otherwise gory films though... wouldnt have a problem i dont think. I would though, i hate subjecting kids to strong language used inappropriately (certainly for pre teens) in movies... i guess "chainsaw massacre" would be out.. but kids wants to watch any of the terminators when hes a kid... sure.. they aint scary.. hollywood violence to ME is totally distinguishable from the real thing..
i could rmable, but the drugs will wear off soon and the reality of my tiny desk and crappy aircon will kick in....
Curiously enough my partner asked me not to allow my visiting 7 year old nephew to play violent video games for EXACTLY these reasons when he came to visit.
Being a fan of the old horror genre she certainly has no problems with screened gore/violence, and in her job as child health specialist she ggets to work with some of the worst children in the country.
So from her basis of child expert and fan of on screen gore she still believes that the participation element of the game was what made "manhunter" wrong for kids.. she doesnt have the same issues with GTA curiously, but the violence is a choice in that, not the whole point of the game.
I aint saying you're wrong, just that you may be under the misguided apprehension that everybody feels the way you do. I am also not saying my partner is necessarily right, but she does have the "privileged" position of working with children from many backgrounds and age groups in a non-disciplinary role and gets amazing insight into the lives and minds of those children nshe works with.
I must say too that myself (still living out my childhood @ 30) find myself much more likely to walk down the street wishing i had my sniper scope to shoot folks through bedroom windows (not something i would do though) after playing an FPS than after watching a movie....... (for this see also last minute recall when driving that this si NOT Vice City)
Slashdot Mirror
works for me!!!
and im one of the poor fuckers has to help idiots all day... and to make matters worse the idiots i support are central government workers!!!
more power to your plan dude
so those who know nothing can't get help???
thats useful, leaves those ISP helpdesk folks free to help us geeeks..... coz we ALL call helpdesks...
So be a pro, give folks the option... scale the site to both needs, let them choose.
personally i just got sick of testing sites and now guarantee my site to only really work with any ease on ie6 or later over a fast connection. (work is different though... we still use nutscrape 4)
dude, you for real on the fast bb in euroland????
in the uk, 2mbps is still hardly affordable (i get 2 mbps from 7pm - 7am and weekends... 512 the rest and alwasy 256 upload)
as far as i know in holland, and denmark they are still mostly on 1-2 mbps domestically.. only from my compatriots in teh USA do i regularly hear of geeks with 5+ mbps connects....
love to hear your experiences of this coz the broadband is one of the few things tempting me to move to norht america
but if all this happened in hollywood... Alice and Bob would fall in love, start a charity called Lovers Against Car Crashes, then move to the mountains and have monkey sex!!!!!
(computer analogy... play the sims for 17 hours whilst taking acid)
after moving back to the UK after 3 years i ended up in a flat with no broadband access possible...
i had to move after 2 months of that and goddamn if i didnt make sure i got it in writing from the telco that I was dsl enabled before i took out a new place..
i feel you past pain sire
Fitting right in there would also be Julian Mays Pliocene Epoch Earth...
here, here!... i still find myself draggin out the orginal cd (i borrowed it from someone who never wanted it back) and try to work out wtf?!?!
oh well
Must say i never much liked any 1 on 1 fighting games (loved the whole double dragon, vigilante) thing though....
My problem was that i never owned a console so never knew any special moves and combos and shit and most lads are just assholes and dont share that info.....
but now i tame their pussy asses all over Generals... muhahahahaha
only pitfall i remember is the old zx81 (i think?) and amstrad cpc464 game where you had to jump over pits and swing on ropes... that was fucking cool back then!! i loved it, combined the swinging of the Roland games with the death thrill of amnic miner
spot on!
I work for a third part contractor supporting 28,000 governemnt officers.... my "work" pc is stripped of games, whilst my "government netowrk" pc has the full set of windows games.
well, it dont exactly heighten my "manliness", but really, it aint exactly a gay accessory..
I guess fashions are dependant on the community you hang in, and the rave community (my general circle of associates) here sees no objection to pink fishnets on a guy, so a black shoulder backback with one strap is no hassle, excellent for cycle couriering too,
but i get your point, and its a case of to each their own...
incidentally, makes a great bag for mah lappy as it looks too small to have shit wirth stealing in it.
I seem to recall the local papers in south manchester reporting similar with speed cameras outside of schools, manned by civilians....
but then they do it with kerb crawlers too...
Americans have "mothers againts.." org..
we have vigilante speed cameras...
long live the west!
fuck fashion dude!
i carry a small single shoulder backpack with me everywhere, most useful hing i ever owned.
looks "manly" enough... only drawback is when ytou are the dude with a bag, EVERYONE has something needs carrying!!
you can get this on PDA's as a downloadable app, and you can get plugins for symbian(SP?) smart phones.
It is something I would dearly love to build into my phone, just wish i caould write java.. shit, the IR is there
dude, come into the present.. i just speak into my bluetooth headset and it calls the person i ask for (i would say 95% accurate, if carefully setup)
and aint the online dictionary in yer pocket such a fucking great thing.... same as with you, this is pretty much the only thing i use web functionality on my phone (SonyEricsson T610 - gorgeous lil phone, oh yeah, it was free with a c ontract).
I thought i was the only person sad enough to use the phone for this reason.....
Dude, dont bottle it up, let him KNOW what you think of him (her :oP
An anarchist called "MASTER of xxxxx"?
Surely if you are an anarchist you couldnt be a master as you would have no one to pay you fealty
musta been 12 or 13 condidates on my last (UK) voting card.. and thats not even including the european parliament candidates.
damn, i wish i had mod points :o)
i got it..... maybe its the folks need explaining to that suck
Oh yeah slasher flicks (stoned and at work makes me forgetful of the point of my posts....).
Traditional slasher flicks, no way.. wouldnt let kids watch any of them.. me neither.. if anything i would think they are more harmful in some ways to children as nightmares are induced from a passive state.. at least in zombie related computer games you would be in control and killing the buggers...
Otherwise gory films though... wouldnt have a problem i dont think. I would though, i hate subjecting kids to strong language used inappropriately (certainly for pre teens) in movies... i guess "chainsaw massacre" would be out.. but kids wants to watch any of the terminators when hes a kid... sure.. they aint scary.. hollywood violence to ME is totally distinguishable from the real thing..
i could rmable, but the drugs will wear off soon and the reality of my tiny desk and crappy aircon will kick in....
need coffee and dead pig sandwich
Curiously enough my partner asked me not to allow my visiting 7 year old nephew to play violent video games for EXACTLY these reasons when he came to visit.
Being a fan of the old horror genre she certainly has no problems with screened gore/violence, and in her job as child health specialist she ggets to work with some of the worst children in the country.
So from her basis of child expert and fan of on screen gore she still believes that the participation element of the game was what made "manhunter" wrong for kids.. she doesnt have the same issues with GTA curiously, but the violence is a choice in that, not the whole point of the game.
I aint saying you're wrong, just that you may be under the misguided apprehension that everybody feels the way you do. I am also not saying my partner is necessarily right, but she does have the "privileged" position of working with children from many backgrounds and age groups in a non-disciplinary role and gets amazing insight into the lives and minds of those children nshe works with.
I must say too that myself (still living out my childhood @ 30) find myself much more likely to walk down the street wishing i had my sniper scope to shoot folks through bedroom windows (not something i would do though) after playing an FPS than after watching a movie....... (for this see also last minute recall when driving that this si NOT Vice City)
Fucking astute comment sir.. summed up nicely, and the second point is so blatantly obvious i hadnt noticed it myself..
thanks dude, you made me think some