(A bit OT from the original question, so if you're not into discussion, move along, nothing to see here)
First, a few things about me. I have a 33.6kbps internet connection (although its actually a bit slower). This is due to living in the middle of nowhere (I live near on a farm, in Western Australia).
My machine has a CPU made by cyrix, which should be more or less of an indication of my computer. (On cool days sometimes I clock it up to 166Mhz).
I saw your post, and figured, ok, I'll bite. The intro took around ~40 seconds to load (this is actually pretty good for a flash site for me). I had no desire to watch the into, so once the animation loaded, (note that there was no skip button whilst loading) I pressed the skip button. Six times. On the sixth click, it seemed to respond.
Next up, another 40 second wait while the main section loaded. (It had now been at least two minutes at this site without really achieving anything). Once that loaded, I picked a section (note that I had to hover my mouse over a button for ~1 second before clicking it in order for it to respond) and clicked on it (it was the download section). This caused another.swf file to have to be loaded, that had an (unskippable, but short) intro of its own.
At this time, I had the downloads page in front of me, but there was no kind of menu or sidebar that could let me jump to another part of the website, I had to go back to the main page, and browse back out from there.
About this time, I got sick of the website and left.
Now, this type of thing is probably fine for what it is, (some kind of kiddy cartoon site, kids like flashy things), but it's definately a stretch to say its easy to navigate.
Would I have designed that site differently? Maybe.. maybe not. Its not really design for usability, or to be easy to navigate, its made to be fun, etc, and it probably serves that purpose. Flash has its place, and its well suited to this type of thing, but don't tout it as a poster-child flash website.
As an example, some people are charged for their net access according to what they download, and if you're downloading spam, its costing you money. Taking an ad off your windshield is free (just taking up time i guess...)
I'm hoping to see more of this kind of thing, if spammers are concerned about being sued, there will be less spam.
Dude, you've got that all wrong... When they say that, they're talking about cheques and (bank) balances;)
On the other hand....
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give users a free user account which could be used to give input on whats crap and whats not...
This is still prone to the same kind of spamming that everything else is. I'm wondering, if such a system were implemented, if you could just tell which sites are spammy by how much they're voted for.
If some site gets 100,000 votes one day, its probably crap;)
Trouble is, when the spammers find out your doing this, and start causing it to seem like their competitors are spamming....
A few days ago I went to Be's site to check out BeOS (as I had been meaning to for some time now).
My machine doesn't quite cut it for running Be (which is kinda sad), but it's bizzarre how the site barely seems to acknowledge that such an OS exists (they at least mention it once in their legal page)
"just order the game from someone off of eBay in another country."
That's all well and good, but I live in Australia, and know all too well the pain of the PAL system (as does the most anyone in the UK [I think] and a few other countries).
Now that they have dvd players that only play a dvd from a particular zone, it's only a matter of time before you won't be able to get this sort of thing here without modding your sony (which they have already made illegal in my state, but there's a loophole and it can still be done legally).
Given time, they'll probably be bringing decent games over on the ships with the drugs.
>The best way to secure a Windows box is to take a pair of scissors to the etherenet cable.
Actually, the technique for securing a windows box is much more complicated than snipping a few cables; it involves a chainsaw and a small amount of plastic explosive.
``They've been testing this in Europe and they're experiencing less than a 1 percent return rate from consumers. It really has turned out to be nothing,'' said Jerry Kamiler, TransWorld Entertainment's division merchandise manger.
If less there is a less than 1 percent return rate from consumers, surely it indicates that people aren't just pooling their cash and copying the discs, as the article describes.:/
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(A bit OT from the original question, so if you're not into discussion, move along, nothing to see here)
.swf file to have to be loaded, that had an (unskippable, but short) intro of its own.
First, a few things about me. I have a 33.6kbps internet connection (although its actually a bit slower). This is due to living in the middle of nowhere (I live near on a farm, in Western Australia).
My machine has a CPU made by cyrix, which should be more or less of an indication of my computer. (On cool days sometimes I clock it up to 166Mhz).
I saw your post, and figured, ok, I'll bite.
The intro took around ~40 seconds to load (this is actually pretty good for a flash site for me). I had no desire to watch the into, so once the animation loaded, (note that there was no skip button whilst loading) I pressed the skip button. Six times. On the sixth click, it seemed to respond.
Next up, another 40 second wait while the main section loaded. (It had now been at least two minutes at this site without really achieving anything). Once that loaded, I picked a section (note that I had to hover my mouse over a button for ~1 second before clicking it in order for it to respond) and clicked on it (it was the download section). This caused another
At this time, I had the downloads page in front of me, but there was no kind of menu or sidebar that could let me jump to another part of the website, I had to go back to the main page, and browse back out from there.
About this time, I got sick of the website and left.
Now, this type of thing is probably fine for what it is, (some kind of kiddy cartoon site, kids like flashy things), but it's definately a stretch to say its easy to navigate.
Would I have designed that site differently? Maybe.. maybe not. Its not really design for usability, or to be easy to navigate, its made to be fun, etc, and it probably serves that purpose. Flash has its place, and its well suited to this type of thing, but don't tout it as a poster-child flash website.
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As an example, some people are charged for their net access according to what they download, and if you're downloading spam, its costing you money. Taking an ad off your windshield is free (just taking up time i guess...)
I'm hoping to see more of this kind of thing, if spammers are concerned about being sued, there will be less spam.
Man, you almost had me for a second there ;)
Dude, you've got that all wrong... When they say that, they're talking about cheques and (bank) balances ;)
give users a free user account which could be used to give input on whats crap and whats not...
;)
This is still prone to the same kind of spamming that everything else is. I'm wondering, if such a system were implemented, if you could just tell which sites are spammy by how much they're voted for.
If some site gets 100,000 votes one day, its probably crap
Trouble is, when the spammers find out your doing this, and start causing it to seem like their competitors are spamming....
*sigh*
I need caffeine
"Will this technology fade..."
;)
I think that's kind of the idea
A few days ago I went to Be's site to check out BeOS (as I had been meaning to for some time now).
My machine doesn't quite cut it for running Be (which is kinda sad), but it's bizzarre how the site barely seems to acknowledge that such an OS exists (they at least mention it once in their legal page)
"just order the game from someone off of eBay in another country."
That's all well and good, but I live in Australia, and know all too well the pain of the PAL system (as does the most anyone in the UK [I think] and a few other countries).
Now that they have dvd players that only play a dvd from a particular zone, it's only a matter of time before you won't be able to get this sort of thing here without modding your sony (which they have already made illegal in my state, but there's a loophole and it can still be done legally).
Given time, they'll probably be bringing decent games over on the ships with the drugs.
>The best way to secure a Windows box is to take a pair of scissors to the etherenet cable.
Actually, the technique for securing a windows box is much more complicated than snipping a few cables; it involves a chainsaw and a small amount of plastic explosive.
Sigh... its late, ok
``They've been testing this in Europe and they're experiencing less than a 1 percent return rate from consumers. It really has turned out to be nothing,'' said Jerry Kamiler, TransWorld Entertainment's division merchandise manger.
:/
If less there is a less than 1 percent return rate from consumers, surely it indicates that people aren't just pooling their cash and copying the discs, as the article describes.
Think that's bad...
I live in Perth!