uh... I disconnected my landline (I got voip) a few months ago, and the dial tone was gone with in a couple of days. There's still a hum, but no dial tone.
Here are some flash stuff I've worked on: http://www.the-n.com/games/tarot/index.php h ttp://www.noggin.com/games/pwms/pwms/index.php ht tp://www.lifetimetv.com/games/game.php?game=wipe down http://www.lifetimetv.com/games/game.php?gam e=quee n http://burnerstudios.com
Here's a kind of cool flash site I saw recently: http://soldout.be/
click on the "make your own sex" banner at the top.
People rip on flash all the time and while I agree that it has quite a few short comings (macromedia being one of the big ones) there really aren't a lot of alternatives for creating rich interactive media for the web. It would be great to see an opensource alternative based on SVG and SMIL emerge, but as far as I can tell that's quite a ways off at this point, although I wouldn't mind helping out with a project that looks promising.
I disagree. I'm no wizard and I have always had an easier time configuring apache than IIS.
The process is a little different of course, apache requires some reading, both of the config file and the docs. Where as IIS requires clicking through a multitude of dialog boxes and context sensitive menus. You could argue that the menu system is easier to learn, but I disagree. I also find the command line easier for a lot of tasks as do others. However, what really makes apache easier to use is when ever you have to debug some problem or have to do something a bit out of the ordinary.
This is all just from my personal experience of course.
I've been using redhat mostly, just because that's what most of my clients use. But I hate using rpm, it never seems to handle dependances very well. Does anyone know if yum works much better? Can you just start using it with your existing apps or do you have to use it from the beginning?
If I can have a decent package manager then I'd be 90% golden with linux. Portage works great... if it handled binary installations as well then I'd think it was perfect. I like the compile everything idea in theory but it's just not practicle all the time. Plus as I said for work most of the time I don't have control over the OS that I'm using.
But on the large scale, global warming is one of those things that is coming, we can't do anything about it, and will go away whether we are here or not by that time.
The theory is that global warming is caused by CO2 emissions. So there is something we can do: use energy sources that don't produce CO2 such as wind, hydro-electric, solar, nuclear, or geo-thermal.
I'm not sure that's true, Can you provide a reference.
I know there have been some truely massive eruption's in the past, but does your average volcano pollute the air more than a large city in a developinig country. And volcano's happen rarely and only in one spot at a time. Cities are everywhere and they keep growing and spewing out pollution all year every year.
Plus we do other things that might effect the climate... like destroy a majority of the forests, the oceanic ecosystems, and the big one we produce a lot of CO2.
sure, but then we would have a significantly more accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Personally I prefer the deserts caused by global warming.
Alan Kay the father of OOP and the modern GUI. He has got to be the biggest omission. Plus he came up with one of my favorite quotes: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
I agree. Distributed power generation seems very promissing. You will save a lot of energy by not having to transport it over long distances. Plus it provides the added benefit of self reliance from a potentially unstable energy market (a monopoly in most places).
I'm curious of what's the limiting factor in the high price of solar panels. Is it materials or manufacturing? I would imagine manufacturing costs will go down with economies of scale.
The whole thing is absurd. Microsoft doesn't pirate software, some dude who works there might. but more likely some poor freelancer or some kid who works at an agency with a bad IT department.
But to think that Microsoft has a policy to pirate software. How much is a source forge license anyway? the whole thing is ridiculous. This isn't news.
That's weird, I don't remember it ever being like that here in california. Maybe there just was never a line in front of the ballot box.
For the past two elections we've been using diebold machines in my county.:( So it's been a while since I've used a ballot box, instead I sign up for an absentee ballot.
The thing that trips me out about voting is that they never want to see my ID. They just cross my name off a list. So buying someones vote requires nothing more than using their name and address to vote for them. Of course it would be easier to simply sign them up for an absentee ballot.
"Since the cost of making the site correctly in the first place is very low, likely the same price as doing it incorrectly"
This has not been my experience. It is much much easier to develop for a single platform (browser/os). Of course you rarely have this luxury.
The cost of QA alone is at least proportional to the number of platforms you decide to target, especially if you're using any significant amount of javascript or CSS positioning. Also being limited to the subset of functionality common to all browsers requires a lot more planning and research prior to development. Not to mention a lot more skill and experience on the part of the developer.
Following the standards helps but even if all browsers where completly standards compliant we would still have these problems because the standards aren't perfect. The folks at the w3c can't anticipate every potential incompatability.
I think you misunderstand what he means by emotional response to technology. Maybe you couldn't read the article but he talks mostly about how people are overjoyed by talking to loved ones in far off places. and generally just suprised at being able to make phone calls when they wheren't expecting to be able.
Having been to burning man six times I can assure you that there is very little contempt for technology. Quite to the contrary technology is seen as a driving creative forces. Every where you go there are dozens of art pieces that utilize sometimes quite advanced technology. In fact I don't think you could find another example of so much technology used in art in any other place. Everything from gigantic lazers, custom built LED displays, LE wire is everywhere, a Wireless network is set up for community use, there are 3D sound installations, video projetors are used quite frequently. And we can't forget doctor mega-volt. (he's puts on a conductive suit and has it out with a giant tesla coil, it's quite amazing to watch)
You have to realize that most people go out at night, when it's cooler, so art pieces/costumes that involves light are quite popular.
Anyway, here in San Francisco I feel like it's generally seen as pretty hip to be a nerd, especially one that works on creating cool new techno art hacks.
Yeah, wouldn't you consider the American Revolution against the British an act of Terrorism?
No, the American Revolution was a civil war. The Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism. The point being that terrorist acts in them selves don't have much lasting impact but the reaction to them can have much further reaching implications.
In your link about "unprecedented corruption" I found a reference to a book "Battle Ready" by Tom Clancy and General Tony Zinni that seems to be in opposition of the war on Iraq.
It's interesting, how many former military and intelligence personnel have come out against the war. Zinni, who was the U.S. Central Command Commander in Chief, sums up some of the main reasons why I don't support the war nicely:
"false rationales presented as a justification; a flawed strategy; lack of planning; the unnecessary alienation of our allies; the underestimation of the task; the unnecessary distraction from real threats; and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military."
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uh... I disconnected my landline (I got voip) a few months ago, and the dial tone was gone with in a couple of days. There's still a hum, but no dial tone.
It must depend on the phone company. I had SBC.
I want it.
The people who pay me to build these things want it.
and audiences seem to repsond to it.
Why do you assume you know what people want? or need?
Here are some flash stuff I've worked on:
http://www.the-n.com/games/tarot/index.php
h
http://www.lifetimetv.com/games/game.php?ga
http://burnerstudios.com
Here's a kind of cool flash site I saw recently:
http://soldout.be/
click on the "make your own sex" banner at the top.
People rip on flash all the time and while I agree that it has quite a few short comings (macromedia being one of the big ones) there really aren't a lot of alternatives for creating rich interactive media for the web. It would be great to see an opensource alternative based on SVG and SMIL emerge, but as far as I can tell that's quite a ways off at this point, although I wouldn't mind helping out with a project that looks promising.
Ishmael
I disagree. I'm no wizard and I have always had an easier time configuring apache than IIS.
The process is a little different of course, apache requires some reading, both of the config file and the docs. Where as IIS requires clicking through a multitude of dialog boxes and context sensitive menus. You could argue that the menu system is easier to learn, but I disagree. I also find the command line easier for a lot of tasks as do others. However, what really makes apache easier to use is when ever you have to debug some problem or have to do something a bit out of the ordinary.
This is all just from my personal experience of course.
That wikipedia link was pretty helpful, thanks.
I've been using redhat mostly, just because that's what most of my clients use. But I hate using rpm, it never seems to handle dependances very well. Does anyone know if yum works much better? Can you just start using it with your existing apps or do you have to use it from the beginning?
If I can have a decent package manager then I'd be 90% golden with linux. Portage works great... if it handled binary installations as well then I'd think it was perfect. I like the compile everything idea in theory but it's just not practicle all the time. Plus as I said for work most of the time I don't have control over the OS that I'm using.
I haven't had much experience with apt.
Ishmael
That's about all there is too it.
But on the large scale, global warming is one of those things that is coming, we can't do anything about it, and will go away whether we are here or not by that time.
The theory is that global warming is caused by CO2 emissions. So there is something we can do: use energy sources that don't produce CO2 such as wind, hydro-electric, solar, nuclear, or geo-thermal.
I'm not sure that's true, Can you provide a reference.
I know there have been some truely massive eruption's in the past, but does your average volcano pollute the air more than a large city in a developinig country. And volcano's happen rarely and only in one spot at a time. Cities are everywhere and they keep growing and spewing out pollution all year every year.
Plus we do other things that might effect the climate... like destroy a majority of the forests, the oceanic ecosystems, and the big one we produce a lot of CO2.
Ishmael
sure, but then we would have a significantly more accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Personally I prefer the deserts caused by global warming.
The global climate is an extremely complex system. So changes in input can potentially have unpredictable results.
Are you implying that 5 Billion humans don't have any effect on the climate?
Look around we've had major effects on every other aspect of our enviornment why would the climate be any different.
Alan Kay the father of OOP and the modern GUI. He has got to be the biggest omission. Plus he came up with one of my favorite quotes: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
I agree. Distributed power generation seems very promissing. You will save a lot of energy by not having to transport it over long distances. Plus it provides the added benefit of self reliance from a potentially unstable energy market (a monopoly in most places).
I'm curious of what's the limiting factor in the high price of solar panels. Is it materials or manufacturing? I would imagine manufacturing costs will go down with economies of scale.
Ishmael
This one is mediocre to bad, not to mention out of date.
nice. But, I want "How Struts Works." Debuging struts applications is one of the closest things to hell that I've experienced in some time.
Ishmael
I'm not defending them at all. I'm just not surprised. Software piracy is so wide spread in the industry and Microsoft isn't an island.
doh?! soundforge.
The whole thing is absurd. Microsoft doesn't pirate software, some dude who works there might. but more likely some poor freelancer or some kid who works at an agency with a bad IT department.
But to think that Microsoft has a policy to pirate software. How much is a source forge license anyway? the whole thing is ridiculous. This isn't news.
How is a non-smoker telling you to smoke any less of a hypocrite than a smoker telling you not to smoke?
That's weird, I don't remember it ever being like that here in california. Maybe there just was never a line in front of the ballot box.
:( So it's been a while since I've used a ballot box, instead I sign up for an absentee ballot.
For the past two elections we've been using diebold machines in my county.
The thing that trips me out about voting is that they never want to see my ID. They just cross my name off a list. So buying someones vote requires nothing more than using their name and address to vote for them. Of course it would be easier to simply sign them up for an absentee ballot.
"Since the cost of making the site correctly in the first place is very low, likely the same price as doing it incorrectly"
This has not been my experience. It is much much easier to develop for a single platform (browser/os). Of course you rarely have this luxury.
The cost of QA alone is at least proportional to the number of platforms you decide to target, especially if you're using any significant amount of javascript or CSS positioning. Also being limited to the subset of functionality common to all browsers requires a lot more planning and research prior to development. Not to mention a lot more skill and experience on the part of the developer.
Following the standards helps but even if all browsers where completly standards compliant we would still have these problems because the standards aren't perfect. The folks at the w3c can't anticipate every potential incompatability.
Actually there's tons of tech at Burning Man. For me the festival is all about re-inventing reality. And DIY tech is a great way to achieve that.
I think you misunderstand what he means by emotional response to technology. Maybe you couldn't read the article but he talks mostly about how people are overjoyed by talking to loved ones in far off places. and generally just suprised at being able to make phone calls when they wheren't expecting to be able.
Having been to burning man six times I can assure you that there is very little contempt for technology. Quite to the contrary technology is seen as a driving creative forces. Every where you go there are dozens of art pieces that utilize sometimes quite advanced technology. In fact I don't think you could find another example of so much technology used in art in any other place. Everything from gigantic lazers, custom built LED displays, LE wire is everywhere, a Wireless network is set up for community use, there are 3D sound installations, video projetors are used quite frequently. And we can't forget doctor mega-volt. (he's puts on a conductive suit and has it out with a giant tesla coil, it's quite amazing to watch)
You have to realize that most people go out at night, when it's cooler, so art pieces/costumes that involves light are quite popular.
Anyway, here in San Francisco I feel like it's generally seen as pretty hip to be a nerd, especially one that works on creating cool new techno art hacks.
In your link about "unprecedented corruption" I found a reference to a book "Battle Ready" by Tom Clancy and General Tony Zinni that seems to be in opposition of the war on Iraq.
It's interesting, how many former military and intelligence personnel have come out against the war. Zinni, who was the U.S. Central Command Commander in Chief, sums up some of the main reasons why I don't support the war nicely:
"false rationales presented as a justification; a flawed strategy; lack of planning; the unnecessary alienation of our allies; the underestimation of the task; the unnecessary distraction from real threats; and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military."
Too bad Kerry supports this mess.