I'm not a web designer. I don't claim to be. But I like to write web applications that don't look like shit, and using the designs provided on oswd let me do that.
wouldn't it just replace dvd sales? hopefully there aren't too many people who buy a dvd and a umd. i think a new "glowing solution" would be re-releasing lots of dvds and older movies on super-mega-video-format, where they actually do something innovative instead of shrinking it down and putting it on a 4" screen. yeah, probably flamebait. oh well.
say they have the mic going for a long time, recording your keys. they'll eventually find out pauses and sounds that go with each key, and after hearing that you entered one of your usernames, the next word is *probably* the password. not necessarily, but i'd bet a lot more often than not.
see what happens when you make harsh allegations against lance armstrong?
hp cuts some of the jobs in your country.
go on, le'equipe. KILL YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
or a turn-based MMORPG would be good. where you can do X amount of things in a day, and then you have to wait for say 12 or 24 hours to do your next turn.
old BBS RPGs were like that, and they were fun, and you couldn't get addicted because it couldn't take that much time out of your day.
of course, you'll probably want to make turns longer and where you can do more things.
I get it off p2p. I'm not going to go buy a cd because a record company or an artist is too snobby to provide the music in a medium I want.
That would be like me going to a car dealership and them saying "you can only have this car if you buy every other car on this row." Yeah, no thanks. It might be stealing, but price fixing and making terrible packages only available to the consumer is victimizing the consumer.
Make the music available easily to purcahse, and I'll give you money. Don't, and I'll take it from you.
that's because the ones with creativity use the creativeness to make money.
the ones who find out about a security hole and then write something to make your computer reboot and crash aren't the ones you want contributing to society.
they'll make better prison poodles.
that nobody really wants to pay to watch a movie on a tiny screen.
mp3 player makers, take not: i don't want a video ipod. i don't want movies on my cell phone. if i travel enough to need movies, i'll use my laptop or a 6-8" dvd player.
game makers, make games. don't try to make it a portable movie player and then be surprised when it doesn't sell well because you put games on the backburner.
when you get out of the education market and into the rest of the world, where people want a quick response with the ease-of-deployment that comes with a web application, come back and tell us "ajax is stupid."
well, in the past 6 months i've had 2 different hosts, and i have (almost) nothing but good things to say about each.
the first host i went with was dailyrazor. they provide you with a private JVM for about $20 a month, give you 10 mysql/postgresql database, a decent amount of space, unlimited subdomains, bladiblah.
good: they have excellent support. i had trouble getting hibernate working, and they were actually googling with me trying to find out what was causing my problem (the database connections would get severred it seemed and wouldn't reestablish themselves; it eventually turned out to be that hibernate's connection pooling capabilities are crap and you need to use something like c3p0).
bad: they don't support RoR. at all. i emailed them and asked them to install ruby, and they had no problem doing it. they didn't want to install rails, and said i would have to do that myself. i ended up installing rails to my home directory and using that to generate applications, and then put them in my www directory and -bam- they worked. for some reason the host didn't like this, though, and he would chown my ruby executable to root:root, which broke my application. after they did this twice, with no warning either time, and no explanation that followed their actions, i decided it was time to find a new host.
now i'm with asmallorange and, though their java support isn't nearly as good as dailyrazor's (they use resin instead of tomcat, which is really only a problem for me because i don't know resin at all), they have excellent support for rails and fastcgi. i rewrote my weblog in rails because it was easier to do that than to figure out how to change my java-weblog to work with resin.
anyways, i'd recommend asmallorange because they're cheap, have lots of capabilities (php, rails, java, perl), don't put arbitrary limits on things (unlimited mysql databases, subdomains, etc), and have pretty good support 24/7. their support isn't as good as dailyrazor's, but it's pretty close.
feel free to email me (you can go to my website and use the email) if you have any questions about either of these hosts.
you might want to look at harmony remote. it was recently purchased by logitech, but it works really well for the setup you described.
i have a vcr, dvd player, tv (duh), receiver, xbox, and (had) digital cable. it hooks up to your computer and maps things to actions instead of you worrying about macros. basically, you tell the computer "this is what i have; this is how i use it" and it codes the appropriate buttons correctly.
my wife figured it out in under a minute. pretty simple. the "watch tv" button is what you press when you want to watch tv (handles setting the correct input on the receiver and tv, etc). then, you press "watch movie" to, you guessed it, watch a movie. it turns off and on the appropriate devices. it's really good.
feel free to email me if you want to know more stuff about it; i'm always happy to tell people about the good products i find.
actually, i did something similar to that as a proof of concept in ruby on rails using ajax. it took about 1 hour to implement, and had user security and looked pretty nice.
i didn't have to learn about ruby's socket protocol or worry about threading issues; the browser handled all of that for me.
I work with visual studio at work, and at home, no matter what language i'm coding in, i use vim.
Intellisense is nice if you don't know the apis, or are too lazy to look at the documentation, but most of the stuff I use I know pretty well now.
Further, intellisense allows other coders to name their stuff inconsistently and sometimes incoherently, making it hell for me to dig through.
I'm glad some people like the intellisense. Me? I'll take 2 monitors, one with a web page describing the API I'm using and the other with 4-5 xterm windows running vim.
at first i was shocked. then i realized that i probably won't own a really nice hdtv for 4-5 years. i'm pretty sure i will be able to afford the upgrade or the next gen console by that point, so this isn't that big of a deal. it's just MS trying to not be outdone by sony.
I've made some pretty big apps in java and I like it, but you really have to give it a try before blasting it. I've made some pretty complicated tie-in-with-local-hardware sites with rails in just a few days, which is probably the same amount of time it would have taken me to get all of the trivial stuff done w/ struts and hibernate.
Of course, you can forget about RoR and just go with java and assume that people who think RoR is better are just bad coders, or you can give it a shot and see that there's a lot of pain in the way you code, you just don't know it yet.
And I've already written lots of apps that I'd been meaning to get to with j2ee.
Don't get me wrong. I love java and hibernate and all of the powerful ideas it introduces and brings to the table, but RoR just makes things so easy and fast. I don't know how easy it would be to write something huge in it, but lots of my initial reservations about it were shed when I started playing with it.
If you haven't given this a try, I'd really suggest you do it. With this giving developers such an easy time writing web apps, and having an alternative with java that's more verbose but proven and (maybe) more powerful, I don't see any room for.net anymore. Unless you like writing non-MVC apps:)
dvd-jon will crack this in a week once it hits the shelves. he's like robin hood. minus the green hat and tunic. probably no bow and arrow, either. doesn't really give to the poor, either.
ok, so he's not like robin hood. find. but at least he's an open source hero.
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I'm not a web designer. I don't claim to be. But I like to write web applications that don't look like shit, and using the designs provided on oswd let me do that.
Webmaster != web designer != web developer
No idea how this got modded insightful.
wouldn't it just replace dvd sales? hopefully there aren't too many people who buy a dvd and a umd. i think a new "glowing solution" would be re-releasing lots of dvds and older movies on super-mega-video-format, where they actually do something innovative instead of shrinking it down and putting it on a 4" screen. yeah, probably flamebait. oh well.
i don't see how UFIA is going to help this.
i'm not sure about that.
say they have the mic going for a long time, recording your keys. they'll eventually find out pauses and sounds that go with each key, and after hearing that you entered one of your usernames, the next word is *probably* the password. not necessarily, but i'd bet a lot more often than not.
see what happens when you make harsh allegations against lance armstrong? hp cuts some of the jobs in your country. go on, le'equipe. KILL YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
TEXAS FIGHT!
or a turn-based MMORPG would be good. where you can do X amount of things in a day, and then you have to wait for say 12 or 24 hours to do your next turn.
old BBS RPGs were like that, and they were fun, and you couldn't get addicted because it couldn't take that much time out of your day.
of course, you'll probably want to make turns longer and where you can do more things.
I get it off p2p. I'm not going to go buy a cd because a record company or an artist is too snobby to provide the music in a medium I want. That would be like me going to a car dealership and them saying "you can only have this car if you buy every other car on this row." Yeah, no thanks. It might be stealing, but price fixing and making terrible packages only available to the consumer is victimizing the consumer. Make the music available easily to purcahse, and I'll give you money. Don't, and I'll take it from you.
that's because the ones with creativity use the creativeness to make money. the ones who find out about a security hole and then write something to make your computer reboot and crash aren't the ones you want contributing to society. they'll make better prison poodles.
i want fallout 3. plus, unlike probably everyone else, i want it to be a single player game because i can't have a mmorpg ruining my life :)
that nobody really wants to pay to watch a movie on a tiny screen. mp3 player makers, take not: i don't want a video ipod. i don't want movies on my cell phone. if i travel enough to need movies, i'll use my laptop or a 6-8" dvd player. game makers, make games. don't try to make it a portable movie player and then be surprised when it doesn't sell well because you put games on the backburner.
when you get out of the education market and into the rest of the world, where people want a quick response with the ease-of-deployment that comes with a web application, come back and tell us "ajax is stupid."
well, in the past 6 months i've had 2 different hosts, and i have (almost) nothing but good things to say about each.
the first host i went with was dailyrazor. they provide you with a private JVM for about $20 a month, give you 10 mysql/postgresql database, a decent amount of space, unlimited subdomains, bladiblah.
good: they have excellent support. i had trouble getting hibernate working, and they were actually googling with me trying to find out what was causing my problem (the database connections would get severred it seemed and wouldn't reestablish themselves; it eventually turned out to be that hibernate's connection pooling capabilities are crap and you need to use something like c3p0).
bad: they don't support RoR. at all. i emailed them and asked them to install ruby, and they had no problem doing it. they didn't want to install rails, and said i would have to do that myself. i ended up installing rails to my home directory and using that to generate applications, and then put them in my www directory and -bam- they worked. for some reason the host didn't like this, though, and he would chown my ruby executable to root:root, which broke my application. after they did this twice, with no warning either time, and no explanation that followed their actions, i decided it was time to find a new host.
now i'm with asmallorange and, though their java support isn't nearly as good as dailyrazor's (they use resin instead of tomcat, which is really only a problem for me because i don't know resin at all), they have excellent support for rails and fastcgi. i rewrote my weblog in rails because it was easier to do that than to figure out how to change my java-weblog to work with resin.
anyways, i'd recommend asmallorange because they're cheap, have lots of capabilities (php, rails, java, perl), don't put arbitrary limits on things (unlimited mysql databases, subdomains, etc), and have pretty good support 24/7. their support isn't as good as dailyrazor's, but it's pretty close.
feel free to email me (you can go to my website and use the email) if you have any questions about either of these hosts.
hope that helps!
you might want to look at harmony remote. it was recently purchased by logitech, but it works really well for the setup you described.
i have a vcr, dvd player, tv (duh), receiver, xbox, and (had) digital cable. it hooks up to your computer and maps things to actions instead of you worrying about macros. basically, you tell the computer "this is what i have; this is how i use it" and it codes the appropriate buttons correctly.
my wife figured it out in under a minute. pretty simple. the "watch tv" button is what you press when you want to watch tv (handles setting the correct input on the receiver and tv, etc). then, you press "watch movie" to, you guessed it, watch a movie. it turns off and on the appropriate devices. it's really good.
feel free to email me if you want to know more stuff about it; i'm always happy to tell people about the good products i find.
actually, i did something similar to that as a proof of concept in ruby on rails using ajax. it took about 1 hour to implement, and had user security and looked pretty nice. i didn't have to learn about ruby's socket protocol or worry about threading issues; the browser handled all of that for me.
i'm still young..
I work with visual studio at work, and at home, no matter what language i'm coding in, i use vim. Intellisense is nice if you don't know the apis, or are too lazy to look at the documentation, but most of the stuff I use I know pretty well now. Further, intellisense allows other coders to name their stuff inconsistently and sometimes incoherently, making it hell for me to dig through. I'm glad some people like the intellisense. Me? I'll take 2 monitors, one with a web page describing the API I'm using and the other with 4-5 xterm windows running vim.
the stocks show it all. google up 7, yahoo and microsoft up less than 1.
at first i was shocked. then i realized that i probably won't own a really nice hdtv for 4-5 years. i'm pretty sure i will be able to afford the upgrade or the next gen console by that point, so this isn't that big of a deal. it's just MS trying to not be outdone by sony.
how about we leave the crazy conspiracy theories at /dev/null, eh?
as much as the parent is insightful, i think we ought to get a "scary" modifier
Of course, you can forget about RoR and just go with java and assume that people who think RoR is better are just bad coders, or you can give it a shot and see that there's a lot of pain in the way you code, you just don't know it yet.
Don't get me wrong. I love java and hibernate and all of the powerful ideas it introduces and brings to the table, but RoR just makes things so easy and fast. I don't know how easy it would be to write something huge in it, but lots of my initial reservations about it were shed when I started playing with it.
If you haven't given this a try, I'd really suggest you do it. With this giving developers such an easy time writing web apps, and having an alternative with java that's more verbose but proven and (maybe) more powerful, I don't see any room for .net anymore. Unless you like writing non-MVC apps :)
at least it's grown out of that whole name changing phase. some kids go with piercings, others want to be called "grandmaster b."
ok, so he's not like robin hood. find. but at least he's an open source hero.