...a fresh new ad for goatse.cx on the front page of their site? Why not just post that goatse flash thing with hanson singing up there too.
With enough $$$ I'm sure the US legal dudes could be pursuaded that we were within the bounds of the law to put one there, not to mention "just doing our job".
If this shit starts selling, I'm out. I'm going back to lynx. Naw, fuck the web, I'm going back to jerkin with two hands and buyin pr0n rags.
Regardless of my handwriting speed, I find writing things out first to be the best approach for me. I used to hate it back in high school comp sci when my teacher had us do almost all of our work in notebooks and on the chalkboard, and never let us just get our hands dirty with "real code".
Then I turned 18 and moved to a different city on my own (obviously for a girl, why else?), and I didn't bother bringing my archaic machine with me. I figured I'd get a new machine easy enough, but of course, it was a year and a half later before I finally had the means. So I went without (except for at work) for that length of time, and was limited pretty much to books from the library and my notebook. I think that forced me to really think things through, and my coding skills during that time off improved by leaps and bounds. I'm still making decent progress, but the real progress I make is on the bus with my library books and my notebooks, where I plan/plan/plan. By the time I sit down at a machine, it's a no-brainer to translate my ideas into real code.
If I could skip the step from notebook to PC though, I'm not sure I'd do as well. The distance is what keeps my perspective intact, so a laser pen and notebook pc might kill the spirit of it. Or it might just take some getting used to!:)
Nobody has ever killed him/herself solely because of a video game. An external factor like depression or mental sickness should be looked at before pointing your finger at a game maker. If it's his mother suing, didn't she notice his change for the worse in regards to his demeanor and social avoidance the last few months of his life? Was she somehow unaware of his mental condition, something Sony was obviously acutely aware of. It sounds disrespectful, people need to stop pointing the finger. I'm not sayng pointing it at themselves, I'm saying that the most troubling aspect of suicide is that you are left with no one to place the blame on.
This touches on something on my mind the past few days, because yesterday was my birthday (believe it or not), and one year ago yesterday an old friend of mine hung himself. A few months later, my close friend's grandfather killed himself as well. I've known a few more suicides as well (they just flock to me...).
Someone's decision to end their life is NEVER the result of the influence of a freakin' game.
What's even more f***ed is that the rate of Apache sites dropping off is practically even with the rate of IIS sites sprouting up.
The Apache Foundation or Covalent or somebody should start advertising that using Apache is like playing Russian Roulette with your company's future. Maybe then people will listen.
I wrote a mostly cross-browser (tested on Windows/MacOS 9 & X/Red Hat Linux, in Mozilla, Netscape4 & 6, Opera, IE5+) javascript/dhtml drop menu script. It's lightning fast because it renders the different menus to actual HTML divs instead of instantiating tons of JS objects, but at the expense of some customizability. Actually, you can still access everything in JavaScript, so the customizability is up to you. The best part is its less than 100 lines of JavaScript.
Oh, and it's got an object-oriented PHP api, so you can hook it up to your database-driven sites easy enough. I wrote it because I found the others ugly to have to interface with PHP, and they all seem to slow the browser to a crawl (even on my AMD 1.4GHz w/ 512MB DDR-RAM).
You can see it in action at this site, which is about to be re-launched. It's Open Source, but it's currently only downloadable through a package called Sitellite CMS, in the beta download. I'm preparing a new release of the core application framework behind this project, which is the Open Source part, which includes the drop menu stuff. That part is all contained in the 'saf' directory, and the drop menus are in lib/GUI inside that.
If you don't want the PHP API, you're of course free to just take the JavaScript from the source on the link above.
Very true. As web sites are more and more being referred to and thought of as applications, the need for an easy-to-implement toolkit to render and manipulate web-based GUIs is crucial. Something event-driven would be really nice too, so that maybe the screen-by-screen stateless interactions could be succeeded by more responsive methods and not require entire page reloads.
I see a lot of potential in the Mozilla browser architecture, specifically XUL, for providing something like this. XUL provides many of the more complex and more powerful widgets necessary to desktop applications, and as Mozilla is about to reach 1.0, with AOL even examining its rendering engine for their product, a standardized XUL could really boost web application possibilities to new heights.
This seems to be exactly where Java applets wanted to go, but failed due to its sluggishness, and it seems to be where Flash is trying to head also. I think we've all given up on Java in this space, but I'm excited to try the new Flash MX, with its built-in web widgets, and the new direction toward satisfying developer as opposed to designer needs. Because frankly, Flash 5 and under sucked if you were trying to develop anything but the tinyest applications.
XUL and Flash are two quite different approaches to the same problem, and each offer different benefits to developers. XUL is open, cross-platform, and can integrate with the client operating system as part of the actual browser, but currently requires Mozilla or Netscape 6, which is only a few percent of the web. Flash is much more widely available, plus a smaller download for users, and acceptably cross-platform (NS6 has Flash for Linux, etc.) for most developers, but it's still more of a vector animation tool than a GUI tool, and as such can present an awkward framework for developers to work with, and its not open (although the SWF format is).
Then again maybe things will change with the big web services push, or the "sematic web", or something new we haven't thought of yet (but some niece or nephew of Tim Berners-Lee has;)).
Anyway, since there is really no point to this post, I'll wrap it up now. I just think it will be interesting to see where things head, and which technologies shine, in the next few years. Just compare 2002 so far with 1998, it's a very different Internet for sure.
From the ReiserFS web site (http://www.namesys.com):
"ReiserFS v.4 Due 30 Sept 2002"
When was Microsoft planning to release their database fs, sometime before or during 2004 wasn't it? Plus ReiserFS is way more security focused than MS will ever pretend to be. And until Apple can make the OSX UI responsive enough to not require a $6000 machine (x 1.5 for us Canadians), it's simply not practical.
Dude, UI preferences aside, Linux is way ahead (except for the dearly departed BeOS) in terms of a database filesystem. Check it out, ReiserFS is a super cool project.
My prayers (aka wining) have been answered!
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I was just searching on Gnucleus for that "What are YOU doing?!" Budweiser commercial, thinking what a tragedy losing AdCritic was, when up comes the best news I've heard all week! Sweet, I can't wait!!!
I remember when I first started up a software project and I started mentioning it to a few people. Their first question time and again was "did you patent it yet?" This became frustrating having to try to explain to these non-IT people why patents should not be valid on softare, and why in fact they aren't in Canada.
Software in Canada IS considered to be an artistic creation.
Of course, Canadians get around this by 1) patenting their software in the US, and 2) patenting every little idea they can fool the Canadian patent offices into believing is "more than just software."
When I first met with my current lawyer, they brought in a patent agent, because they figured I would want to pursue some sort of patent for my application. I politely informed him that his services would not be needed.
Since there are so many CMS references here, I thought a blatant plug couldn't hurt. And since we're currently in beta testing for our 3.0 release, maybe this will get a few more testers involved.
PHP/MySQL/Apache-based right now, with plans to support PostgreSQL and others by 3.2
Very modular system. Clean separation of layers (content server, application framework, content manager broken into modules, task scheduler, etc.)
The application framework is Open Source, and the rest is free for non-commercial use.
Felt a little too P2 for me
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You know the feeling (this might be foreign to/. readers, who are likely more skilled than not at games) you get when you're stuck being Luigi, and the kid who got to be Mario is really good, and makes it to like level 6 before you get your turn? Not that this movie wasn't alright for an action/horror sort of flick (worth a 0.99 rental from the corner store), but that's kind of the feeling I got from this movie. The movie may have strayed from the game, but a lot of the footage was shot like a game anyway.
<troll> And come on, flesh eating zombies?! NOTLD already did that how many decades ago? </troll>
Good point. I have that LJ issue somewhere, and Michael Dell seemed pretty stoked about their Linux support (of course he's supposed to, it's an interview in a Linux mag after all).
But there's no way he just up and changed his mind, and of course demand would be low initially. Demand (which _did_ exist) would have grown as customers became aware that Dell was offering what they wanted.
Wow I just opened/. in IE after wondering what everyone was talking about with this widening thing.
With Moz so sweet now, I open IE very seldom, and only to check if some site I made in Moz works in IE. I can't wait for the calls at work from our clients who use AOL wondering why their sites are broken now. I'll walk over to the HTML dudes and say "I told you so" with a grin.
I posted that story here around noon today, but it was rejected. I find this sort of thing very intriguing, interfacing machines to neurons and such. There's crazy potential to help people, and it's freaky futuristic.
What I want to see is a video of these monkeys, to see how accurate it really is (which I'm sure also depends on the monkey's intentions as well).
I'm not even going to try to list how many great Canadian artists deserve their cut of this, but what I'd like to know is exactly how this breaks down. None of that American "This umbrella organization for the 5 top media conglomerates gets 99.999%, and Joe Jackson gets 0.001% for rearing some talented young'uns" crap.
I remember everyone bitching about Mozilla for the longest time... "What a waste of time", "It's too slow", "All it does is crash"
I'd like to second your best OSS browser out there, but I'd go further to say it's #1 all around. It's so worth the wait! And with rumours of AOL ditching IE for Moz now, standards compliance may become a reality. No more "Best viewed in MSIE" shite out there!
They might want to get the hang of releasing on time before worrying about compatibility between v3684 and v2249.
Even assuming they keep their version numbers based on years, 1682 years should be enough time to figure out how to separate IE from Windows, even for an MS employee! (sorry, flame, I know...)
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At work today, all of a sudden I hear that corporate cringe crap coming out of my bosses office, and him just roaring.
So I go in and say 'what up', and he says to me 'at least we know Celine Dion will still have a job once she gets old and fat.'
...a fresh new ad for goatse.cx on the front page of their site? Why not just post that goatse flash thing with hanson singing up there too.
With enough $$$ I'm sure the US legal dudes could be pursuaded that we were within the bounds of the law to put one there, not to mention "just doing our job".
If this shit starts selling, I'm out. I'm going back to lynx. Naw, fuck the web, I'm going back to jerkin with two hands and buyin pr0n rags.
Regardless of my handwriting speed, I find writing things out first to be the best approach for me. I used to hate it back in high school comp sci when my teacher had us do almost all of our work in notebooks and on the chalkboard, and never let us just get our hands dirty with "real code".
:)
Then I turned 18 and moved to a different city on my own (obviously for a girl, why else?), and I didn't bother bringing my archaic machine with me. I figured I'd get a new machine easy enough, but of course, it was a year and a half later before I finally had the means. So I went without (except for at work) for that length of time, and was limited pretty much to books from the library and my notebook. I think that forced me to really think things through, and my coding skills during that time off improved by leaps and bounds. I'm still making decent progress, but the real progress I make is on the bus with my library books and my notebooks, where I plan/plan/plan. By the time I sit down at a machine, it's a no-brainer to translate my ideas into real code.
If I could skip the step from notebook to PC though, I'm not sure I'd do as well. The distance is what keeps my perspective intact, so a laser pen and notebook pc might kill the spirit of it. Or it might just take some getting used to!
Nobody has ever killed him/herself solely because of a video game. An external factor like depression or mental sickness should be looked at before pointing your finger at a game maker. If it's his mother suing, didn't she notice his change for the worse in regards to his demeanor and social avoidance the last few months of his life? Was she somehow unaware of his mental condition, something Sony was obviously acutely aware of. It sounds disrespectful, people need to stop pointing the finger. I'm not sayng pointing it at themselves, I'm saying that the most troubling aspect of suicide is that you are left with no one to place the blame on.
This touches on something on my mind the past few days, because yesterday was my birthday (believe it or not), and one year ago yesterday an old friend of mine hung himself. A few months later, my close friend's grandfather killed himself as well. I've known a few more suicides as well (they just flock to me...).
Someone's decision to end their life is NEVER the result of the influence of a freakin' game.
What's even more f***ed is that the rate of Apache sites dropping off is practically even with the rate of IIS sites sprouting up.
The Apache Foundation or Covalent or somebody should start advertising that using Apache is like playing Russian Roulette with your company's future. Maybe then people will listen.
I wrote a mostly cross-browser (tested on Windows/MacOS 9 & X/Red Hat Linux, in Mozilla, Netscape4 & 6, Opera, IE5+) javascript/dhtml drop menu script. It's lightning fast because it renders the different menus to actual HTML divs instead of instantiating tons of JS objects, but at the expense of some customizability. Actually, you can still access everything in JavaScript, so the customizability is up to you. The best part is its less than 100 lines of JavaScript.
Oh, and it's got an object-oriented PHP api, so you can hook it up to your database-driven sites easy enough. I wrote it because I found the others ugly to have to interface with PHP, and they all seem to slow the browser to a crawl (even on my AMD 1.4GHz w/ 512MB DDR-RAM).
You can see it in action at this site, which is about to be re-launched. It's Open Source, but it's currently only downloadable through a package called Sitellite CMS, in the beta download. I'm preparing a new release of the core application framework behind this project, which is the Open Source part, which includes the drop menu stuff. That part is all contained in the 'saf' directory, and the drop menus are in lib/GUI inside that.
If you don't want the PHP API, you're of course free to just take the JavaScript from the source on the link above.
Very true. As web sites are more and more being referred to and thought of as applications, the need for an easy-to-implement toolkit to render and manipulate web-based GUIs is crucial. Something event-driven would be really nice too, so that maybe the screen-by-screen stateless interactions could be succeeded by more responsive methods and not require entire page reloads.
;)).
I see a lot of potential in the Mozilla browser architecture, specifically XUL, for providing something like this. XUL provides many of the more complex and more powerful widgets necessary to desktop applications, and as Mozilla is about to reach 1.0, with AOL even examining its rendering engine for their product, a standardized XUL could really boost web application possibilities to new heights.
This seems to be exactly where Java applets wanted to go, but failed due to its sluggishness, and it seems to be where Flash is trying to head also. I think we've all given up on Java in this space, but I'm excited to try the new Flash MX, with its built-in web widgets, and the new direction toward satisfying developer as opposed to designer needs. Because frankly, Flash 5 and under sucked if you were trying to develop anything but the tinyest applications.
XUL and Flash are two quite different approaches to the same problem, and each offer different benefits to developers. XUL is open, cross-platform, and can integrate with the client operating system as part of the actual browser, but currently requires Mozilla or Netscape 6, which is only a few percent of the web. Flash is much more widely available, plus a smaller download for users, and acceptably cross-platform (NS6 has Flash for Linux, etc.) for most developers, but it's still more of a vector animation tool than a GUI tool, and as such can present an awkward framework for developers to work with, and its not open (although the SWF format is).
Then again maybe things will change with the big web services push, or the "sematic web", or something new we haven't thought of yet (but some niece or nephew of Tim Berners-Lee has
Anyway, since there is really no point to this post, I'll wrap it up now. I just think it will be interesting to see where things head, and which technologies shine, in the next few years. Just compare 2002 so far with 1998, it's a very different Internet for sure.
No one is actually falling for this crap.
Sort of like what Dimensional Media is doing? :)
What I want are more photos and videos to woo the consumer in me!
Reiser4, dude!
From the ReiserFS web site (http://www.namesys.com):
"ReiserFS v.4
Due 30 Sept 2002"
When was Microsoft planning to release their database fs, sometime before or during 2004 wasn't it? Plus ReiserFS is way more security focused than MS will ever pretend to be. And until Apple can make the OSX UI responsive enough to not require a $6000 machine (x 1.5 for us Canadians), it's simply not practical.
Dude, UI preferences aside, Linux is way ahead (except for the dearly departed BeOS) in terms of a database filesystem. Check it out, ReiserFS is a super cool project.
I was just searching on Gnucleus for that "What are YOU doing?!" Budweiser commercial, thinking what a tragedy losing AdCritic was, when up comes the best news I've heard all week! Sweet, I can't wait!!!
I remember when I first started up a software project and I started mentioning it to a few people. Their first question time and again was "did you patent it yet?" This became frustrating having to try to explain to these non-IT people why patents should not be valid on softare, and why in fact they aren't in Canada.
Software in Canada IS considered to be an artistic creation.
Of course, Canadians get around this by 1) patenting their software in the US, and 2) patenting every little idea they can fool the Canadian patent offices into believing is "more than just software."
When I first met with my current lawyer, they brought in a patent agent, because they figured I would want to pursue some sort of patent for my application. I politely informed him that his services would not be needed.
Since there are so many CMS references here, I thought a blatant plug couldn't hurt. And since we're currently in beta testing for our 3.0 release, maybe this will get a few more testers involved.
Check it out at http://www.simian.ca/.
Basic rundown:
You know the feeling (this might be foreign to /. readers, who are likely more skilled than not at games) you get when you're stuck being Luigi, and the kid who got to be Mario is really good, and makes it to like level 6 before you get your turn? Not that this movie wasn't alright for an action/horror sort of flick (worth a 0.99 rental from the corner store), but that's kind of the feeling I got from this movie. The movie may have strayed from the game, but a lot of the footage was shot like a game anyway.
<troll>
And come on, flesh eating zombies?! NOTLD already did that how many decades ago?
</troll>
Good point. I have that LJ issue somewhere, and Michael Dell seemed pretty stoked about their Linux support (of course he's supposed to, it's an interview in a Linux mag after all).
But there's no way he just up and changed his mind, and of course demand would be low initially. Demand (which _did_ exist) would have grown as customers became aware that Dell was offering what they wanted.
Wow I just opened /. in IE after wondering what everyone was talking about with this widening thing.
With Moz so sweet now, I open IE very seldom, and only to check if some site I made in Moz works in IE. I can't wait for the calls at work from our clients who use AOL wondering why their sites are broken now. I'll walk over to the HTML dudes and say "I told you so" with a grin.
I posted that story here around noon today, but it was rejected. I find this sort of thing very intriguing, interfacing machines to neurons and such. There's crazy potential to help people, and it's freaky futuristic.
What I want to see is a video of these monkeys, to see how accurate it really is (which I'm sure also depends on the monkey's intentions as well).
I'm not even going to try to list how many great Canadian artists deserve their cut of this, but what I'd like to know is exactly how this breaks down. None of that American "This umbrella organization for the 5 top media conglomerates gets 99.999%, and Joe Jackson gets 0.001% for rearing some talented young'uns" crap.
:)
At least they ask us here in Canada.
Patience, dude :)
I remember everyone bitching about Mozilla for the longest time... "What a waste of time", "It's too slow", "All it does is crash"
I'd like to second your best OSS browser out there, but I'd go further to say it's #1 all around. It's so worth the wait! And with rumours of AOL ditching IE for Moz now, standards compliance may become a reality. No more "Best viewed in MSIE" shite out there!
damn, that's one creepy lookin' lizard!
is that new?
They might want to get the hang of releasing on time before worrying about compatibility between v3684 and v2249.
Even assuming they keep their version numbers based on years, 1682 years should be enough time to figure out how to separate IE from Windows, even for an MS employee! (sorry, flame, I know...)