ah... well download the swf independently and you can watch it full screen.. In moz or IE just hit the fullscreen key and voila, full screen strongbad:)
touche:)
Yes, you make a good point. I think some other poster said it very well when he asked "where do you draw the line?". Why should the browser show images inline but launch a seperate app for video (or flash for that matter)? But I agree I really do dislike flashnav (except for homestarrunner, heh)
so what is the evil that is coming in longhorn
on
Browser Wars Mark II
·
· Score: 1
The article doesn't exactly say. It just says "beware the coming of the longhorn!" in a scary voice. Well, an attempt at a scary voice. Or something. Either way I don't get it.
dare I say that it's FUD?
but for what purpose?
Re:I'm with linus torvalds on this one
on
Browser Wars Mark II
·
· Score: 1, Insightful
you, sir, are a troll.
They are mostly games and fancy bloated intros mostly anyway.
what about:
a) navigation
b) advertisements (okay, i admit, i hate those and I bet you do too)
c) "moving media" for want of a better term. "When a static image just won't do."
d) other stuff I can't put my finger on in the two seconds it's taken me to throw this together.
sorry... I was using plain old text. my bad for not making use of it!:)
I agree that IQ tests aren't the answer. It was more like.. "what is your solution? Any of these dumb ones?". Which is not the nicest way of putting it.
ad hominem
I had to think about that one a wee bit. Was I attacking the person and not the idea? I don't think so. I dislike your idea. You said you were describing a technocrat and I was suggesting you were actually describing a despot.
most peoples' thoughts will stray, however momentarily, to putting a better filter on the gene pool.
Yeah I know what you mean. I have had a few experiences though that have taught me not to assume. What I mean is: Do you really know what that persons reason is for being in the exact change lane? There could be a bunch of them from something as simple as "He had correct change yesterday but the wife must have used it!" to "Ich kann nicht Englisch lesen". And probably none of those and any of a million more. Do none of those reasons work for you? Well try for a bit to imagine one that is both plausible and evokes your sympathy.
what's your solution to the problem of people who get addicted to things (And don't tell me you don't have an opinion...)
okay. I won't.:) But seriously. Addiction is a property of human nature. It is in our personalities to get addicted. Some people have a more addictive personality. It's an issue of self-control I suppose. So folks have to learn self-control which is not really something people put much effort into. Delayed gratification.
I do appreciate discussion and debate (if that's what one can call this).
you said: So many of the world's problems could be solved if we could separate the intellectual wheat from the chaff, so to speak
I say: And how do you do that exactly, seperate those who can't differentiate between fantasy or reality, or who get hooked on things. IQ Tests maybe? Or do YOU get to decide who's wheat and who's chaff?
Yeah I thought I might be doing that (the "whoring of the karma"). But I console myself by thinking "hey I read the article before posting!" I realise I didn't actually add anything to the discussion that couldn't be learnt by reading the article. But hey, who else here reads the article, right?
sometimes I think the only way many posters will read any of the article is if one posts excerpts!:)
How can this be "interesting"? Read the article folks, it's a fundamental flaw in the protocol.
from the article:
At this time a comprehensive solution, in the form of software or
firmware upgrade, is not available for retrofit to existing
devices. Fundamentally, the issue is inherent in the protocol
implementation of IEEE 802.11 DSSS.
I sent the original article to a surgeon friend of mine. He works for a state hospital here in South Africa. Here is his reply:
Thanks - it is fascinating. I (we) have known about it for some time and have been using his previous ideas for decades. Problems are: - if Weed were truly altruistic, he would make it freely available. It is ferociously expensive and most State Health sytems just cannot afford it. - Weed has always been seen as a maverick and like many mavericks, is very articulate and persuasive - many brilliant discoveries/breakthroughs in medicine have come from mavericks who were ridiculed in their time but what Weed and his supporters gloss over (?ignore) is that medicine is not a science alone it is an art which depends on science for completion. Patients are NEVER the same as the previous one and these subtleties are beyond the bounds of computers as we know them but perhaps may appear in the future. Also patients tend to agonise over answers so who knows how their reposnse to completing the questionnaires will reflect the actual truth?
Morning:
Eat a solid breakfast within an hour of waking up. I'm guilty of breaking this one though, opting instead to leave a bag of muesli in the office and crunching a bowl of that while reading slashdot.
Lunch:
If anything I'd say cut down almost completely on junk food. If you can't get anything else for lunch then try and get the junkfood that is (seems) a little bit healthier, i.e. not MacD's. It might sound like an oxymoron (healthy junk food) but rather get a frame grilled burger, for example, then something deep fried. Preferably though you should be making/buying sandwiches or rolls of some sort. Warming up last nights leftovers in the microwave works for me too.
Supper:
Cook your own supper! It doesn't take as long one might think, especially once you get a few recipes you know how to do. You'll be finished chopping, dicing and bundling into the oven before you know it. It's kinda boring if you're on your own but getting a friend/wife/g.f./s.o. to help should make things more fun (and even quicker too).
Only get junk food if you are really beat or something like that. Again stick to the healthier side of junk food.
If these machines are 1000x faster than my current system but look the same, why aren't we all ditching our amd's/pentiums and buying one of these little babies? I know the obvious is that, duh, it doesn't run windoze and I can't fit the trusty old graphics card in... oh and it probably costs one billion dollars!!! but why exactly isn't desktop technology heading in this direction?
p.s. I dig the buttons on that case! reminds me of my XT:)
who installs win3.1 and dos 6 these days? who BUYS those products these days? where would you get them new? I'm not saying that you're talking rubbish AC, i just can't think of where that would happen. please enlighten:)
I was wondering the other day what things would be like if MS did something totally out of character like releasing an older product as freeware. Windows 95 seemed to fit the bill because it's not something you can go buy in the shops right now (afaik) , it's quite a few years old and it would run quite speedily on older machines. I'm not talking open source here at all, just asking: what would be the impact if they did that?
Slashdot Mirror
A site we did for a clothing store had a paper doll that you could dress up with their latest fashions. I thought that was a pretty cool use of flash.
Yeah I agree a & b are just dumb.
ah... well download the swf independently and you can watch it full screen.. In moz or IE just hit the fullscreen key and voila, full screen strongbad :)
even easier... you can just download "homestarrunner.com/sbemail42.swf" and watch it. Later. At home.
:)
I think that's pretty sweet.
touche :)
Yes, you make a good point. I think some other poster said it very well when he asked "where do you draw the line?". Why should the browser show images inline but launch a seperate app for video (or flash for that matter)? But I agree I really do dislike flashnav (except for homestarrunner, heh)
The article doesn't exactly say. It just says "beware the coming of the longhorn!" in a scary voice. Well, an attempt at a scary voice. Or something. Either way I don't get it.
dare I say that it's FUD?
but for what purpose?
what about:
a) navigation
b) advertisements (okay, i admit, i hate those and I bet you do too)
c) "moving media" for want of a better term. "When a static image just won't do."
d) other stuff I can't put my finger on in the two seconds it's taken me to throw this together.
meh.
you said:
So many of the world's problems could be solved if we could separate the intellectual wheat from the chaff, so to speak
I say:
And how do you do that exactly, seperate those who can't differentiate between fantasy or reality, or who get hooked on things. IQ Tests maybe? Or do YOU get to decide who's wheat and who's chaff?
technocrat, no. Despot, yes.
Yeah I thought I might be doing that (the "whoring of the karma"). But I console myself by thinking "hey I read the article before posting!" I realise I didn't actually add anything to the discussion that couldn't be learnt by reading the article. But hey, who else here reads the article, right? sometimes I think the only way many posters will read any of the article is if one posts excerpts! :)
Oh I read the slashdot all the time. I just don't ever get in at the beginning when my posts might actually mean something.
How can this be "interesting"? Read the article folks, it's a fundamental flaw in the protocol.
from the article:
At this time a comprehensive solution, in the form of software or
firmware upgrade, is not available for retrofit to existing
devices. Fundamentally, the issue is inherent in the protocol
implementation of IEEE 802.11 DSSS.
"Is it really the government's job to decide what's best for the nation's youth after dark?"
Is it really the BBC's job to decide what's best for thailand?
I sent the original article to a surgeon friend of mine. He works for a state hospital here in South Africa. Here is his reply:
Thanks - it is fascinating. I (we) have known about it for some time and
have been using his previous ideas for decades. Problems are:
- if Weed were truly altruistic, he would make it freely available. It is
ferociously expensive and most State Health sytems just cannot afford it.
- Weed has always been seen as a maverick and like many mavericks, is very
articulate and persuasive
- many brilliant discoveries/breakthroughs in medicine have come from
mavericks who were ridiculed in their time but what Weed and his supporters
gloss over (?ignore) is that medicine is not a science alone it is an art
which depends on science for completion. Patients are NEVER the same as the
previous one and these subtleties are beyond the bounds of computers as we
know them but perhaps may appear in the future. Also patients tend to
agonise over answers so who knows how their reposnse to completing the
questionnaires will reflect the actual truth?
Morning:
Eat a solid breakfast within an hour of waking up. I'm guilty of breaking this one though, opting instead to leave a bag of muesli in the office and crunching a bowl of that while reading slashdot.
Lunch:
If anything I'd say cut down almost completely on junk food. If you can't get anything else for lunch then try and get the junkfood that is (seems) a little bit healthier, i.e. not MacD's. It might sound like an oxymoron (healthy junk food) but rather get a frame grilled burger, for example, then something deep fried. Preferably though you should be making/buying sandwiches or rolls of some sort. Warming up last nights leftovers in the microwave works for me too.
Supper:
Cook your own supper! It doesn't take as long one might think, especially once you get a few recipes you know how to do. You'll be finished chopping, dicing and bundling into the oven before you know it. It's kinda boring if you're on your own but getting a friend/wife/g.f./s.o. to help should make things more fun (and even quicker too). Only get junk food if you are really beat or something like that. Again stick to the healthier side of junk food.
If these machines are 1000x faster than my current system but look the same, why aren't we all ditching our amd's/pentiums and buying one of these little babies? I know the obvious is that, duh, it doesn't run windoze and I can't fit the trusty old graphics card in... oh and it probably costs one billion dollars!!! but why exactly isn't desktop technology heading in this direction?
:)
p.s. I dig the buttons on that case! reminds me of my XT
who installs win3.1 and dos 6 these days? who BUYS those products these days? where would you get them new? I'm not saying that you're talking rubbish AC, i just can't think of where that would happen. please enlighten :)
I was wondering the other day what things would be like if MS did something totally out of character like releasing an older product as freeware. Windows 95 seemed to fit the bill because it's not something you can go buy in the shops right now (afaik) , it's quite a few years old and it would run quite speedily on older machines. I'm not talking open source here at all, just asking: what would be the impact if they did that?
One for you alternate history buffs!