While it makes me feel good to hear about this... won't the censoring nations have something to say about an organized and publicised effort to help their citizens break the law?
I've used AJAX successfully on one corporate site, but for most of my sites I find the dynamic content looks cool, but is impractical as the user can't bookmark the results of their selection - or copy and paste the link to their friends. ie. google maps has to have the "Link to this page" hyperlink OK for them, not really ok for my fledgling sites. The best use I've found for it so far is loading data into select boxes, especially in linked select boxes when narrowing. That actually looks great. I really want to find a creative use for this tech in the future, I've been trying to innovate. eg. Interactive polls on the front page perhaps, real time comments... all without the page updating. A lot of possibilities, but of course I always have to try and make things useful to the client rather than using it as a way to show off.
Joss as much as admitted that he 'borrowed' the idea for Buffy the Vampire Slayer from a Japanese anime called 'Devil Hunter Yohko' in an interview I read a few years back [in print, sorry, no link] - I wonder what his influences were originally for Firefly?
Cowboy Bebop, I couldn't say for sure, but some of the music in the first episode sounds exactly the same as in C.Bebop.
The similarities are uncanny.
definitely, I read at +3 flat, and often have to highlight the LAST message ID from the first page, then click Page 2 and do a manual search for the ID to find where I was up to on the second page so lame.
He was not funny. It figures he loves User Friendly.
Haha classic.
User Friendly has been going downhill for years.
I think people read it more out of habit from their tech support days than because it's entertaining.
All a cookie is is a session ID, the actual data in the session is kept on the server. It's just neater not to have to rewrite every URL, and it's nice to have the option of persistance. For everyone who is pointing out ways of living without cookies, you're missing the point. Cookies don't allow you to do (much) you can't do otherwise, they just let you do it more neatly and more reliably.
Whattt??? a cookie doesn't have to be a session ID, it can store data, like say... a USER ID and be used on multiple sites to track your browsing habits - like most online advertising companies (eg. doubleclick) do. You've just mentioned one use for cookies, there are others - from memory you can store up to 4kb of data that could potentially be read from any server, depending on the domain settings of the cookie.
what the? This is by far the craziest thing I've heard for a while, the onus should be on the client to choose wether they want cookies or not, not forcing the web developer to NOT use a useful web technology enabled in ALL browsers. It's there, they should be able to use it... Crazy swedes!@
A very cool underground movement could start with this tech, like geocaching - individuals scattering access points around the city, like software easter eggs in real life
The British author (amongst other things) Ben Elton wrote on the topic of violence in movies in his book 'Popcorn'. One of the main themes was about violence in movies spreading into real life, he pointed out many times that it's not that people emulate the characters they see directly, but that movies STYLIZE killing and violence - they make it seem COOL. Killing and violence is shown as a quick and effective way to get revenge, achieve goals, make a name for yourself etc.. Think of how they portayed killing in the basement scene in the first matrix, how 'COOL' was that; a computer hacker/nerd in sunnies and a trenchcoat, with a hot female in latex blasting away numerous innocent people without even flinching - with the propellerheads soundtrack pumping. How many people play violent video games and imagine that the people they are shooting are real? Or use the simulated violence to release agression? What happens when life becomes too much and they SNAP and decide to do something about their situation - get revenge on all those motherfuckers in the coolest way you know, bust into school in trenchcoats with semi automatics and spray it with bullets - fantasy becomes reality. I'm divided on the issue, as I don't think any sane person would snap like this and bring something patently evil into action, but what about the nutcases that do - have videogames and movies made killing SO cool that it appeals more than anything else? Should we start -constantly- portraying killing and violence as negative, highlighting the consequences and making these actions TABOO in our society, rather than revering them on Screen and in Play? Something to think about I guess, rather than the prevailing view among gamers that videogames don't affect people, and are good because you can release tension through your onscreen avatar.
my favourite console game ever I really hope more games go the way of this in the future I'm sick of the generic crap constantly being pushed out, hooray for innovation =D
The demand would be so high I would buy one after every show I went to let's hope this spreads!
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When departing bali you have to pay 100,000 rupees in cash (about $20 Aus last time I was there) - I had to stop over there for 4 hours on the way to europe and back and had to pay both times... catches a lot of people off guard
Theres one in Claremont (Perth, Western Australia) at a video store just outside the antitheft devices, so you can hire pc games put in the game and your own blank cd, put in the money then return the game straight away. You have your own copy, never need to come back - seems a little weird for the video store to offer this service:/
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While it makes me feel good to hear about this... won't the censoring nations have something to say about an organized and publicised effort to help their citizens break the law?
fuck them
I've used AJAX successfully on one corporate site, but for most of my sites I find the dynamic content looks cool, but is impractical as the user can't bookmark the results of their selection - or copy and paste the link to their friends.
ie. google maps has to have the "Link to this page" hyperlink
OK for them, not really ok for my fledgling sites.
The best use I've found for it so far is loading data into select boxes, especially in linked select boxes when narrowing. That actually looks great.
I really want to find a creative use for this tech in the future, I've been trying to innovate. eg. Interactive polls on the front page perhaps, real time comments... all without the page updating. A lot of possibilities, but of course I always have to try and make things useful to the client rather than using it as a way to show off.
in Perth, Western Australia you can view the current locations of the free inner city busses in realtime with the java applet on their page here
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I wonder when workplaces will start using rfid in security badges to monitor start and finish times, lunch breaks, toilet breaks etc..
Cowboy Bebop, I couldn't say for sure, but some of the music in the first episode sounds exactly the same as in C.Bebop.
The similarities are uncanny.
definitely, I read at +3 flat, and often have to highlight the LAST message ID from the first page, then click Page 2 and do a manual search for the ID to find where I was up to on the second page
so lame.
He was not funny. It figures he loves User Friendly.
Haha classic. User Friendly has been going downhill for years. I think people read it more out of habit from their tech support days than because it's entertaining.
There's a feature on the same topic at salon
Looks ok, standard action movie I guess with a few futuristic tech. scenes for novelty. :/
Affleck is far from my favourite though
Quote from the trailer;
'Michael Jennings (Affleck) is not a secret agent, he's an Engineer!'
rofl.
Amusing seeing hollywood try and sex up reverse engineering, the geek crowd must bring in some serious $$$.
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All a cookie is is a session ID, the actual data in the session is kept on the server. It's just neater not to have to rewrite every URL, and it's nice to have the option of persistance. For everyone who is pointing out ways of living without cookies, you're missing the point. Cookies don't allow you to do (much) you can't do otherwise, they just let you do it more neatly and more reliably.
Whattt??? a cookie doesn't have to be a session ID, it can store data, like say... a USER ID and be used on multiple sites to track your browsing habits - like most online advertising companies (eg. doubleclick) do.
You've just mentioned one use for cookies, there are others - from memory you can store up to 4kb of data that could potentially be read from any server, depending on the domain settings of the cookie.
what the?
This is by far the craziest thing I've heard for a while, the onus should be on the client to choose wether they want cookies or not, not forcing the web developer to NOT use a useful web technology enabled in ALL browsers. It's there, they should be able to use it...
Crazy swedes!@
A very cool underground movement could start with this tech, like geocaching - individuals scattering access points around the city, like software easter eggs in real life
The British author (amongst other things) Ben Elton wrote on the topic of violence in movies in his book 'Popcorn'. One of the main themes was about violence in movies spreading into real life, he pointed out many times that it's not that people emulate the characters they see directly, but that movies STYLIZE killing and violence - they make it seem COOL. Killing and violence is shown as a quick and effective way to get revenge, achieve goals, make a name for yourself etc..
Think of how they portayed killing in the basement scene in the first matrix, how 'COOL' was that; a computer hacker/nerd in sunnies and a trenchcoat, with a hot female in latex blasting away numerous innocent people without even flinching - with the propellerheads soundtrack pumping.
How many people play violent video games and imagine that the people they are shooting are real? Or use the simulated violence to release agression? What happens when life becomes too much and they SNAP and decide to do something about their situation - get revenge on all those motherfuckers in the coolest way you know, bust into school in trenchcoats with semi automatics and spray it with bullets - fantasy becomes reality.
I'm divided on the issue, as I don't think any sane person would snap like this and bring something patently evil into action, but what about the nutcases that do - have videogames and movies made killing SO cool that it appeals more than anything else? Should we start -constantly- portraying killing and violence as negative, highlighting the consequences and making these actions TABOO in our society, rather than revering them on Screen and in Play?
Something to think about I guess, rather than the prevailing view among gamers that videogames don't affect people, and are good because you can release tension through your onscreen avatar.
those bastards trying to validate your address so it's harder for you to steal their videos from them!#@
definitely
I have the same problem with 'classic' video games
my favourite console game ever
I really hope more games go the way of this in the future
I'm sick of the generic crap constantly being pushed out, hooray for innovation =D
The demand would be so high
I would buy one after every show I went to
let's hope this spreads!
When departing bali you have to pay 100,000 rupees in cash (about $20 Aus last time I was there) - I had to stop over there for 4 hours on the way to europe and back and had to pay both times... catches a lot of people off guard
sorry my mistake, thought it was working the other way around - only available to members for 7 days then available to the public.
Somehow I doubt google will have a login and password to the members only area to cache the pagesm, so that isn't a problem.
Theres one in Claremont (Perth, Western Australia) at a video store just outside the antitheft devices, so you can hire pc games put in the game and your own blank cd, put in the money then return the game straight away. :/
You have your own copy, never need to come back - seems a little weird for the video store to offer this service
in Aus big movies are always on boxing day, he was right about the worldwide release - Australia just lucked out :/