Actually, I do a clientside compression process before sending it to the server. This increases complexity and we need the checksum to validate the compressed data and then need to decompress it on the serverside before it is processed.
This creates an additional complexity factor to the process that takes time and resources.
So, it costs more to implement. This functionality should have been built in "out of the box".
XML is acceptible for eyebaling data but when you take into effect how verbose it is, it becomes very wasteful for transmitting over small pipes (modems)
A simple look up table and RLEing the results with a checksum can offer significant savings.
For an exercise, try sending a 900 K XML file off to a server and wait till it's done. Then look at the XML and see how you could make it smaller. It's kinda obvious and sad that it wasn't done in the first place.
This is hardly big or new news. That capability has existed within Director (now on Mac OS X) since 1996. I know this as a fact since I was one of the people who put it in (well, tested it really).
Not wishing to get into a flame session of Director vs Flash but our company has built an entire product line off this capabilty.
If there's any product that deserves a another look, it's Director. It's one really powerful tool that doesn't get the press it deserves.
If you would like to see visually impressive stuff done in director, check out http://www.setpixel.com.
Actually, this is a fantastic point. I am quite influenced by what I read and therefore don't read much at all (slashdot and tech related material excluded)
Too many interesting fiction writers have a lot to say and it easily gets me off my current track spending time thinking about what they propose. I'd rather spend my time thinking about interesting solutions to work and tech problems as opposed to being diverted by fiction that bears no relevence to solving problems in my daily life.
What is interesting about this is "what makes people happy?"
If someone's hair falls out and they don't care then great.
If someone's hair falls out and they get depressed because of it, then by all means, do something to change it.
When your body changes without your permission, it can be very depressing. I learned this first hand when I got spinal arthritis and had to change my life. It's not always vanity that would make a person persue a cure for something as seemingly minor as baldness.
If you are worried about squamous cell carcinomas, you may be interested in an Australian tanning pill that helps people to have a greater resistance to skin cancer and they get a good tan.
Funny that these two somewhat "vain" persuits may have mental and physical health benefits.:]
Not so simple. My windows roommate was SO jazzed about the 12" powerbook after drooling over my 1g Ti. He ordered one.
The ethernet port decided not to work going outside the firewall to an ip addy or a URL. My Ti book works fine. Same network setup.
There were other problems as well that I don't have time to discuss. OH! Like the iSync reporting all addresses in iCal being 7 hours off. (time zone bug I think) AND bluetooth just not working with the latest Sony phone for internet access. There were more issues too. It was very frustrating.
He didn't have time to deal with this bum steer and he was So disappointed, he told apple to take it back and stop wasting his time.
Realize that the developerr has NO idea what is going through your mind, or what you did to make the bug happen.
CLEARLY report the problem like you are explaining it to a 3 year old.
Report your entire platform. OS, vers, ram, vid card, prod vers, etc.
If you take the time to clearly report the bug then you will not waste your time and the developer's time by having to respond to another email asking for more detail.
You SAVE time by being extra clear when you report the issue.
When I was at Macromedia, I determined that a mis reported bug uses 4-6x the manpower than one clearly reported one. This also means that poorly written bugs limit the number of bugs that can be fixed before shipping because of the extra manpower and time used to pass them back and forth.
Bad bug: QA reporter -> QA manager -> Bug meeting -> Developer -> Bug addressed -> Bug returned to QA -> More info dded, more time spent getting more details -> bug returned to developer -> Bug addressed -> Original reporter -> Bug closed
I know this doesn't look like 6 x the time but when measured, it got up to that high. Especially if a bug has to return more than once.
Well, maybe I don't. But it is all to easy for people to lump them all together. FYI, I have seen a LOT of Macross - My roomie forced me to and when the redid it to be targeted towards teens they created some HORRIBLE animae - and yes, it was animae. The dork with the glasses with the 5 foot tall hair singing "listen to my song" in Japanese was animae and is was pretty horrible.
People call Dragon Ball Z animae. Is it or isn't it? All the sailor moon and big doe eyed girl and brooding sullen guy videos are all throughout the "Japan Video" store in San Fran's Japantown. If these aren't aniame, then what are they?
Most of the "for children" animae pointy hair, big eyed, overreacting animae appears to me to be the biggest barge of garbage foisted onto our culture. I want to KEEEL the people who made Sailor Moon. And what IS it with the names? Sailor Moon - Is she a sailor? NO. Is she from the moon? NO.
Now, Mononoke is wonderfully done but so are alot of the American classics - albeit in different ways. The detail in Mononoke just rocks so hard but then again, look at a good Chuck Jones production (RIP my friend) or the Iron Giant.
The lack of attention to detail to how us northern americans act, speak and gesture, COMPLETELY ruins all too many animae films for me. But then we have Gin Ro and Blood which have got it all ironed out.
Nuke the idiots who create the Kiddie pointy hair BIG EYE animae and then we'll have something.
Take Macross for example. In one of the remakes, there was this disturbing idiot singing "listen to my song" in the middle of San Francisco's union square. His presence is SO annoying that you just want to bludgein the animator. A good example of how to ruin something good. Oh, I can't mention the idiocy of the "generic comic sidekick".
What's super cool (or super crazy) is that the guy who started Cisco has a real one that he runs around the woods near his house. Read this in an angel investor article somewhere. Heard he even knocked one of his teeth out, trying to run over trees.
Slashdot Mirror
If I remember correctly, the first time i came across Netrek was in the days of the Mac SE. Did it first start on the mac?
The terms we have used for that little "ball of death" are much less friendly.
:]
Spinning technicolor pizza of death.
Pinwheel of pain
Oh, the aagony.
Actually, I do a clientside compression process before sending it to the server. This increases complexity and we need the checksum to validate the compressed data and then need to decompress it on the serverside before it is processed.
This creates an additional complexity factor to the process that takes time and resources.
So, it costs more to implement. This functionality should have been built in "out of the box".
XML is acceptible for eyebaling data but when you take into effect how verbose it is, it becomes very wasteful for transmitting over small pipes (modems)
A simple look up table and RLEing the results with a checksum can offer significant savings.
For an exercise, try sending a 900 K XML file off to a server and wait till it's done. Then look at the XML and see how you could make it smaller. It's kinda obvious and sad that it wasn't done in the first place.
Time for all responsible ISPs to assign their own anti spam reps, reach out, get a list of ALL isps, contact their anti spam reps and take action.
:]
Get organized and form a plan but first, get organized on a global level.
Then kick some ass and pool for legal action against the thieves.
If you only knew what I've been building in Director for the past few years.
Foundation classes
Named sprite registry
Async netlingo manager
Async sprite animation
Dynamic asset generation
User interaction journaling
Dynamic dialog display system
Self upgrading projector.
etc... etc...
Check out http://www.zavatone.com/director for some snippets
Thought you'd enjoy 'em. Director lets you do just so much stuff it's amazing.
Bless you from a former member of Director team.
May your code compile on the first attempt.
This is hardly big or new news. That capability has existed within Director (now on Mac OS X) since 1996. I know this as a fact since I was one of the people who put it in (well, tested it really).
Not wishing to get into a flame session of Director vs Flash but our company has built an entire product line off this capabilty.
If there's any product that deserves a another look, it's Director. It's one really powerful tool that doesn't get the press it deserves.
If you would like to see visually impressive stuff done in director, check out http://www.setpixel.com.
Cheers,
Simply an amazing movie.
Without giving too much away, "what if a gun had a soul and decided not to kill."
Heart warming and heart breaking. Wonderful animation.
Also don't forget "The Secret of Nimh" and the book called Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh.
That infinte monkeys thing you mentioned has had me thinking over the past several years.
To cut a long explanation short, what I've come up with is the following
"Even though the universe is infinite, just because anything can happen does not mean that it will." - Alex Zavatone.
Something to think about.
Actually, this is a fantastic point. I am quite influenced by what I read and therefore don't read much at all (slashdot and tech related material excluded)
Too many interesting fiction writers have a lot to say and it easily gets me off my current track spending time thinking about what they propose. I'd rather spend my time thinking about interesting solutions to work and tech problems as opposed to being diverted by fiction that bears no relevence to solving problems in my daily life.
So in short, yes.
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/descriptions.html
Apple goes into some details about what will be in the next major rev of the OS.
Cheers,
What is interesting about this is "what makes people happy?"
:]
If someone's hair falls out and they don't care then great.
If someone's hair falls out and they get depressed because of it, then by all means, do something to change it.
When your body changes without your permission, it can be very depressing. I learned this first hand when I got spinal arthritis and had to change my life. It's not always vanity that would make a person persue a cure for something as seemingly minor as baldness.
If you are worried about squamous cell carcinomas, you may be interested in an Australian tanning pill that helps people to have a greater resistance to skin cancer and they get a good tan.
Funny that these two somewhat "vain" persuits may have mental and physical health benefits.
Cheers
Damn right I'm sad! I have 6 macs and was hoping that this would work out for him.
But the equpiment did not work as advertized and it took too much time - time = money to try and address it.
Not so simple. My windows roommate was SO jazzed
about the 12" powerbook after drooling over my 1g Ti. He ordered one.
The ethernet port decided not to work going outside the firewall to an ip addy or a URL. My Ti book works fine. Same network setup.
There were other problems as well that I don't have time to discuss. OH! Like the iSync reporting all addresses in iCal being 7 hours off. (time zone bug I think) AND bluetooth just not working with the latest Sony phone for internet access. There were more issues too. It was very frustrating.
He didn't have time to deal with this bum steer and he was So disappointed, he told apple to take it back and stop wasting his time.
One switcher who didn't switch.
Realize that the developerr has NO idea what is going through your mind, or what you did to make the bug happen.
CLEARLY report the problem like you are explaining it to a 3 year old.
Report your entire platform. OS, vers, ram, vid card, prod vers, etc.
If you take the time to clearly report the bug then you will not waste your time and the developer's time by having to respond to another email asking for more detail.
You SAVE time by being extra clear when you report the issue.
When I was at Macromedia, I determined that a mis reported bug uses 4-6x the manpower than one clearly reported one. This also means that poorly written bugs limit the number of bugs that can be fixed before shipping because of the extra manpower and time used to pass them back and forth.
Good bug:
QA reporter -> Qa manager -> Bug meeting -> Developer -> Bug addressed -> Original reporter -> Bug closed
Bad bug:
QA reporter -> QA manager -> Bug meeting -> Developer -> Bug addressed -> Bug returned to QA -> More info dded, more time spent getting more details -> bug returned to developer -> Bug addressed -> Original reporter -> Bug closed
I know this doesn't look like 6 x the time but when measured, it got up to that high. Especially if a bug has to return more than once.
Well, maybe I don't. But it is all to easy for people to lump them all together. FYI, I have seen a LOT of Macross - My roomie forced me to and when the redid it to be targeted towards teens they created some HORRIBLE animae - and yes, it was animae. The dork with the glasses with the 5 foot tall hair singing "listen to my song" in Japanese was animae and is was pretty horrible.
People call Dragon Ball Z animae. Is it or isn't it? All the sailor moon and big doe eyed girl and brooding sullen guy videos are all throughout the "Japan Video" store in San Fran's Japantown. If these aren't aniame, then what are they?
I love how they basically give his town and address.
Why don't we tell the terrorists that spammers are the "Great Satan" and tell the FBI/CIA to take a vacation?
Oh, GO AWAY MAN!
Most of the "for children" animae pointy hair, big eyed, overreacting animae appears to me to be the biggest barge of garbage foisted onto our culture. I want to KEEEL the people who made Sailor Moon. And what IS it with the names? Sailor Moon - Is she a sailor? NO. Is she from the moon? NO.
Now, Mononoke is wonderfully done but so are alot of the American classics - albeit in different ways. The detail in Mononoke just rocks so hard but then again, look at a good Chuck Jones production (RIP my friend) or the Iron Giant.
The lack of attention to detail to how us northern americans act, speak and gesture, COMPLETELY ruins all too many animae films for me. But then we have Gin Ro and Blood which have got it all ironed out.
Nuke the idiots who create the Kiddie pointy hair BIG EYE animae and then we'll have something.
Take Macross for example. In one of the remakes, there was this disturbing idiot singing "listen to my song" in the middle of San Francisco's union square. His presence is SO annoying that you just want to bludgein the animator. A good example of how to ruin something good. Oh, I can't mention the idiocy of the "generic comic sidekick".
But Macross Zero, now that's something else!
Look out! Zentradi!
The show my friend, is Exo-Squad. Best storyline in an animated show ever.
52 episodes. Main characters die, real problems are addressed. So cool for 1994.
I think that is reflective on the fact that, like it or not, porn is a fact of life.
If there wasn't a desire for it, it wouldn't be there.
For great justice!!!
What's super cool (or super crazy) is that the guy who started Cisco has a real one that he runs around the woods near his house. Read this in an angel investor article somewhere. Heard he even knocked one of his teeth out, trying to run over trees.
Trees one, Cisco nothing.
I've got win 98, win 2k and win xp on my 1G Tibook with vpc 6
98 is acceptible in speed. The others are pretty pokey.
Certian things like fullscreen 3d software are not supported.
Director projectors hang loading the SW3D xtra
HOWEVER, networking is a breeze since it uses what your mac uses. If you have a fast mac, this could be a viable option to a real pc.
I'd use Keynote.
There, not too impossible after all.