That site is the directory. You don't have to use the directory... it's like the Yellow Pages. You can hunt down the businesses yourself OR you can use the format the directory is provided in. I won't defend their choice of formats but i also won't acknowledge your opinion as anything other than an opinion. Personally I think they did an awesome job of providing a fun interactive user experience. OTOH they could probably provide a basic list of sites as well... no extra charge.
You probably wouldn't appreciate that list either however as all the sites linked to also require Flash 7 or higher.... it's a directory of great flash based websites. Doh!
In general regarding Flash as a communication medium...
Great Flash Design is great design.... There is nothing wrong with flash based sites. That's like saying that Sony PS3 games are poorly designed as they require a Sony PS3 to view them. Even better... An extremely well designed boathouse, that you can't appreciate unless you have a boat... or saying that the Golden Gate bridge is stupid because only people in San Francisco get to enjoy it regularly. It is Flash, it is not HTML... so what?
How about a book written in Braille? Not a very accessible choice by the author I must say... but perfectly valid as a work of literature.
What i'm trying to say is that you have to get over the fact that people (99% of the world in fact) have installed a proprietary plugin for viewing content via a browser http connection, that is not HTML or a variant thereof. You may choose to ignore this fact AND all of the amazingly creative and interesting ideas that people have used Flash to communicate but the rest of us will take the opportunity to enjoy it all as best we can with what limited means we can apply towards it.
And yes, I was suggesting it as inspiration. People can be inspired by mediums other than the one they are currently working in. Like an auto engineer being inspired by an architect, it happens all the time.
That site i listed includes websites created for nearly all of the fortune 1000 companies as well as all the name brands you have ever known. Most of them are campaign specific and targeted at the Net generation... those who are in their late teens, early 20s now and are the biggest major demographic companies care about right now. By reviewing those sites listed on thefwa (The Favorite Website Awards) you could possibly glean a small amount of the billions of dollars that have gone into the market research for that demographic.... for free. You get hundreds of thousands of dollars of free solutions that target a very highly sought after demographic which has expendable income and doesn't know what to spend it on yet.
When you pay with a credit card outside they make you verify the billing zip code. That's it. It's enough information to verify that you are either the primary card holder or know the person well enough to know their zip code. It's not cryptography in any sense but it does implement the concept of least necessary information rather well. They could ask for a lot more... your SSN or DOB for instance... but for the purposes of buying gas a zip code is just the right amount of info.
There is absolutely no web control or feature (other than ActiveX controls) that will work on IE but not on FF. They can not possibly be doing something so advanced that it requires a special javascript call that is only possible in IE.
This is either laziness or maliciousness. They should if nothing else use their user agent sniffing to determine which browser and then send you the appropriate UI... if the BETA UI only works on IE RIGHT NOW but they plan to make it work on FF and others SOON, then this is the only reasonable policy to implement.
Since a policy like this is much easier to implement that making it work on all browsers before beta testing... it's now either maliciousness or complete disregard both of which obviously make them look like @sshats...
You need to write a book. Just a short one but it should read the same way your comment does and you'll be a best seller among the outsider artist circles in days.... nice prose.
Forget about the DVD burning, it's a problem waiting to happen for you... and it sucks up battery power like nothing else. Just email your notes and files to yourself.
If you can stand to not have a keyboard to take your notes with... I suggest a paper based journal product.... a thick artist journal with lined pages on one side and blank pages on the other, Acid free paper and leather binding... put it in a water tight envelope when not in use.
This option gives you the most flexibility of all. What I would take is the Paper Journal, A good digital camera with lots of memory and a Satellite Smartphone that can sync with the camera and has email. this way you get the best of both digital and traditional media... take pictures, draw diagrams, take notes and send yourself emails w/ backup options all around for whatever situation you find yourself in.
I believe it was the French President Sarkozy who was recently divorced by his wife who exemplifies this best.
Here in the states the divorce was a scandal... in France they took it in stride. They, Sarkozy and wife, at least had the balls to do what they needed to put their personal life in order... careers be damned. Cecilia Sarkozy made the decision she needed to make. Hillary could have done likewise if not for her interest in pursuing the Presidency.
Vengeance has nothing to do with it. It's a matter of being self-consistent within your life. Hillary and Bill are avowed Christians, they subscribe to the sanctity of marriage as a commitment of fidelity to one another. OTOH their marriage is and may never have been such a commitment... hence it is inconsistent with their values/beliefs.... thus lack of integrity. And yes it is Hillary's problem as much as Bill's. One time is a mistake, twice you may have a problem but after the number of times that Bill is known to have strayed, well that is not someone who is trying to work it out and if he is a sex addict - he should never have been elected and probably would not have been if Hillary had not covered up for him.
What I'm implying is that she and Bill both married for the status of being married, to further their careers... not for any sense of nobility or stupidity or any other reason. It was a strategic, calculated step they took towards political office.
i don't hold it against either on a personal level but when it comes to electing someone to the highest office and highest power... well that's not personal. FYI I didn't vote for Bill either for the same reasons, lack of integrity in his personal life is a mirror of what he was capable of as President. Would you vote for a heroin junky even if they were the smartest most capable person in every other way? No. You would say,:hey, that guy/girl is going to let their addiction influence their decisions." I feel the same way about someone who is addicted to power or sex to the point that they will make poor personal decisions which could easily begin to effect their professional life in negative ways.
Maybe a person can maintain a professional life despite a floundering personal life, but why take the risk with that person when there are other equally qualified candidates who do not have this problem?
OTOH there was that whole White Water thing that still leaves people wondering.... and the fact that she chose her potential political career over divorcing her adulterous husband - many times... which leaves some people wondering what her priorities are (power/influence > integrity/values)... then of course she started her political career off the back of her husband (which isn't that strange but is a big deal for a president rather than a state rep or senator) and went to New York to do it (which was a perfectly strategic thing to do - hence the questionable move in the eyes of suspicious individuals).
All in all the above facts (mixed w/ my editorializing) lead up to a big ????? about her ability to be an *effective* President. A lot of americans don't like the idea of someone who positioned themselves to become president. See the post which quotes Douglas Adams. Who will follow and individual with these *qualifications*.
Other than that I think she's very smart, politically savvy... will hold her own on the international level (most leaders will actually respect her more for how well she manipulated everything to get into power) and knows how to pick a good cabinet of advisors = the most important part of the job.
A wireless backup device/web connected file server they are rolling out any day now is what laptop owners want.
As a laptop only user I don't want to store everything on my system but I do want instant access to everything I have.
So my ideal hardware accessory is a RAID array attached to a wireless router which also has a coax in with cable converter and built in DVR;-p and make it under $200 please
Since I'm an Apple customer I'd love for Steve-o to bring out a AppleTV/TimeCapsule(router w/ hard drive) that also serves as a webDAV server so I can mount the drive remotely.
Then it doesn't matter how much internal storage my laptop has.... enough to hold the OS/Apps and a few current files, say 32GB or so would be fine.
Yes but for patent purposed... is there a difference whether the mechanism for doing so was in the studio or in your home? If it's just miniaturization and aggregation of a process already in place, conveniently packaged at a price point for consumers, does it count as new and non-obvious?
They are called the Inhibitors... but in his mythos they were created by a long dead race during the dawn wars, millions of years before humanity sprang up.... and whose purpose was to stop new life from becoming space-faring species...
Nobody deserves to die but when they do things that are incredibly stupid like shooting at a tiger with a slingshot and climbing over the fence that holds the tiger in.... well, this stuff tends to happen.
People die all the time doing things they should not have been doing. Base jumping off tall buildings, walking on train tracks, driving while drunk, robbing banks... you can argue that all of these aren't enough to deserve death but who is at fault? The architects who designed the building, the city planners who put in the train line, the car manufacturers who designed the car, the legal system that outlawed stealing other people's money????
The guy put himself and others in danger by provoking a dangerous animal and providing it the opportunity to escape and run amok.... did you know the tiger actually climbed up the guy who was hanging over the fence in order to get out of the enclosure? It would have been much more difficult for it to escape if he hadn't been hanging over the fence (maybe impossible) providing a convenient ladder of sorts...
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My friends and I back in 2002 came up with a phrase for this. We dubbed it "Porn Sourcing".
We thought about patenting it but then we sobered up and forgot about it;-p
Sounds like maybe we should have done it anyways but in a more flexible manner.
Nothing manned I suspect.... still good for drones and satellites but anything living would get pulverized by the G forces.... rail guns don't do constant acceleration (which is what you want), they do one big bang of acceleration... big difference.
Pulling off a large meal is not multi-tasking.... it is careful, very careful planning in action. A cook who can do what you describe has planned each and every task needed to be done down to the minute. He/She keeps an eye on the clock the entire time and has everything prepped and ready to go well before starting the actual cooking process. Cook's do it by switching from one task to the next but they are never 'multi-tasking'... it's more like a one-person assembly line where you've planned how long each step will take and given yourself additional time between tasks to move from one station to the next.
The key point is that it has to be planned in advance and nothing can interrupt it.
Doesn't that turtle get on your nerves? It's so slow. It takes forever when you give it a fractal equation to render;-p
Logo was my first language... we used it in Kindergarten and First Grade as an intro to Computers in both Colorado and South Carolina (divorced parents).
If it has the fewest flaws and yet people still don't like it.... so it must have been designed to be a poor replacement for XP. I guess if a feature sucks but works exactly the way it was intended then it's not a flaw.
Here's some news for you Bill Gates, Beta Max didn't have any flaws either and yet because it didn't give the users the features they wanted it didn't survive as a format. The DreamCast is another example of a flawless device that just didn't cut it.
We like to call these *Flops* and there are many of them... they did what they were designed to do, people just weren't interested cause what they were designed to do just wasn't good enough or worked against their wants/needs.
Ummm I know it's not your point but Apple has always provided an option (and there've always been 3rd party providers as well). There was an external floppy available via USB connect... the same is true of the Air... external optical drive || hook up via external PC and 'borrow' it's drive
Personally i think the information should be available by request and censored to your needs... moving, have kids.. you get an AOK that the neighborhood is pedophile free, no names, no addresses - just a response message that confirms your request.
Need more general info... you could get a result that tells you "yes there are sex-offenders, within 100 miles of the address listed. please contact your local police for more information."
Suspicious person... submit the name or address and you'll get a yes or no answer, with the type of crime and whether they are currently monitored or not. Republishing the information is a breach of privacy law....
Your anecdotes don't fit with my anecdotes... my Macbook Pro (2GB RAM) goes for weeks without a reboot... no problems. There are some 3rd party apps that give me issues... Firefox is even slower than on Tiger for instance... but overall I'm really liking Leopard.
This is why schools need to forget *facts* as a basis for understanding and focus on *application*
It's easy to find facts but difficult to reuse them in a separate context. I can lookup any number of equations, algorithms, APIs, best practices, standard and methodologies BUT using them to solve a problem or create something new is a whole different matter.
In my industry we have this same problem with international employees (out-sourced labor). They are great at modifying existing working solutions (we call these facts), but give them something new to create from scratch and that's what they do, scratch their heads and look dumb.
It sounds to me like what our students are getting is what we used to call *Technical Training*... not education. They are learning very specific skills in a specialized area of study, as opposed to a broad liberal education in how to think through problems and be creative and discerning.
I suspect that it started in grade school for these kids... standardized testing is finally leaving it's mark.
These groups should be provided instant access to this information, based on zip, address, phone number and any number of other criteria that might be useful.
When a member of these groups has a case they are on where any sort of violence has occurred (kid beat up, mom beat up, random woman/man beat up, etc.) they check the records on that person AND their address/phone to see if there is a potential abuser in their home/neighborhood whom they may be married to, dating, etc.
Domestic violence is not lethal if you catch it early... so they people who can do something about it need to know ASAP. The general public OTOH can't do a thing except cause a panic or Mob response.
Social services is very important here. Police have more dangerous (to the general public) perpetrators to worry about and Doctors can only report evidence. Once someone is identified though a social serv. rep should be assigned to check up on them and their family or any one they could be dating (and their doctors, firends, extended family).
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You have to activate cards before you can use them.... which means calling the activation number from the number you designated as your home phone.
That site is the directory. You don't have to use the directory... it's like the Yellow Pages. You can hunt down the businesses yourself OR you can use the format the directory is provided in. I won't defend their choice of formats but i also won't acknowledge your opinion as anything other than an opinion. Personally I think they did an awesome job of providing a fun interactive user experience. OTOH they could probably provide a basic list of sites as well... no extra charge.
You probably wouldn't appreciate that list either however as all the sites linked to also require Flash 7 or higher.... it's a directory of great flash based websites. Doh!
In general regarding Flash as a communication medium...
Great Flash Design is great design.... There is nothing wrong with flash based sites. That's like saying that Sony PS3 games are poorly designed as they require a Sony PS3 to view them. Even better... An extremely well designed boathouse, that you can't appreciate unless you have a boat... or saying that the Golden Gate bridge is stupid because only people in San Francisco get to enjoy it regularly. It is Flash, it is not HTML... so what?
How about a book written in Braille? Not a very accessible choice by the author I must say... but perfectly valid as a work of literature.
What i'm trying to say is that you have to get over the fact that people (99% of the world in fact) have installed a proprietary plugin for viewing content via a browser http connection, that is not HTML or a variant thereof. You may choose to ignore this fact AND all of the amazingly creative and interesting ideas that people have used Flash to communicate but the rest of us will take the opportunity to enjoy it all as best we can with what limited means we can apply towards it.
And yes, I was suggesting it as inspiration. People can be inspired by mediums other than the one they are currently working in. Like an auto engineer being inspired by an architect, it happens all the time.
That site i listed includes websites created for nearly all of the fortune 1000 companies as well as all the name brands you have ever known. Most of them are campaign specific and targeted at the Net generation... those who are in their late teens, early 20s now and are the biggest major demographic companies care about right now. By reviewing those sites listed on thefwa (The Favorite Website Awards) you could possibly glean a small amount of the billions of dollars that have gone into the market research for that demographic.... for free. You get hundreds of thousands of dollars of free solutions that target a very highly sought after demographic which has expendable income and doesn't know what to spend it on yet.
http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/
http://www.stylegala.com/
http://www.thefwa.com/ http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.styletheweb.com/
These are all good directories of good web design you can get 'inspiration' from
When you pay with a credit card outside they make you verify the billing zip code. That's it. It's enough information to verify that you are either the primary card holder or know the person well enough to know their zip code. It's not cryptography in any sense but it does implement the concept of least necessary information rather well. They could ask for a lot more... your SSN or DOB for instance... but for the purposes of buying gas a zip code is just the right amount of info.
There is absolutely no web control or feature (other than ActiveX controls) that will work on IE but not on FF. They can not possibly be doing something so advanced that it requires a special javascript call that is only possible in IE.
This is either laziness or maliciousness. They should if nothing else use their user agent sniffing to determine which browser and then send you the appropriate UI... if the BETA UI only works on IE RIGHT NOW but they plan to make it work on FF and others SOON, then this is the only reasonable policy to implement.
Since a policy like this is much easier to implement that making it work on all browsers before beta testing... it's now either maliciousness or complete disregard both of which obviously make them look like @sshats...
You need to write a book. Just a short one but it should read the same way your comment does and you'll be a best seller among the outsider artist circles in days.... nice prose.
if you have to go with modern technology... maybe consider something that uses a satellite link but is ultra portable... This company has a variety of options with service plans.
Forget about the DVD burning, it's a problem waiting to happen for you... and it sucks up battery power like nothing else. Just email your notes and files to yourself.
If you can stand to not have a keyboard to take your notes with... I suggest a paper based journal product.... a thick artist journal with lined pages on one side and blank pages on the other, Acid free paper and leather binding... put it in a water tight envelope when not in use.
This option gives you the most flexibility of all. What I would take is the Paper Journal, A good digital camera with lots of memory and a Satellite Smartphone that can sync with the camera and has email. this way you get the best of both digital and traditional media... take pictures, draw diagrams, take notes and send yourself emails w/ backup options all around for whatever situation you find yourself in.
I believe it was the French President Sarkozy who was recently divorced by his wife who exemplifies this best.
Here in the states the divorce was a scandal... in France they took it in stride. They, Sarkozy and wife, at least had the balls to do what they needed to put their personal life in order... careers be damned. Cecilia Sarkozy made the decision she needed to make. Hillary could have done likewise if not for her interest in pursuing the Presidency.
Vengeance has nothing to do with it. It's a matter of being self-consistent within your life. Hillary and Bill are avowed Christians, they subscribe to the sanctity of marriage as a commitment of fidelity to one another. OTOH their marriage is and may never have been such a commitment... hence it is inconsistent with their values/beliefs.... thus lack of integrity. And yes it is Hillary's problem as much as Bill's. One time is a mistake, twice you may have a problem but after the number of times that Bill is known to have strayed, well that is not someone who is trying to work it out and if he is a sex addict - he should never have been elected and probably would not have been if Hillary had not covered up for him.
What I'm implying is that she and Bill both married for the status of being married, to further their careers... not for any sense of nobility or stupidity or any other reason. It was a strategic, calculated step they took towards political office.
:hey, that guy/girl is going to let their addiction influence their decisions." I feel the same way about someone who is addicted to power or sex to the point that they will make poor personal decisions which could easily begin to effect their professional life in negative ways.
i don't hold it against either on a personal level but when it comes to electing someone to the highest office and highest power... well that's not personal. FYI I didn't vote for Bill either for the same reasons, lack of integrity in his personal life is a mirror of what he was capable of as President. Would you vote for a heroin junky even if they were the smartest most capable person in every other way? No. You would say,
Maybe a person can maintain a professional life despite a floundering personal life, but why take the risk with that person when there are other equally qualified candidates who do not have this problem?
OTOH there was that whole White Water thing that still leaves people wondering.... and the fact that she chose her potential political career over divorcing her adulterous husband - many times... which leaves some people wondering what her priorities are (power/influence > integrity/values)... then of course she started her political career off the back of her husband (which isn't that strange but is a big deal for a president rather than a state rep or senator) and went to New York to do it (which was a perfectly strategic thing to do - hence the questionable move in the eyes of suspicious individuals).
All in all the above facts (mixed w/ my editorializing) lead up to a big ????? about her ability to be an *effective* President. A lot of americans don't like the idea of someone who positioned themselves to become president. See the post which quotes Douglas Adams. Who will follow and individual with these *qualifications*.
Other than that I think she's very smart, politically savvy... will hold her own on the international level (most leaders will actually respect her more for how well she manipulated everything to get into power) and knows how to pick a good cabinet of advisors = the most important part of the job.
"have a strategical advantage"
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You said "strategical" hehehehehe... must be from Texas
A wireless backup device/web connected file server they are rolling out any day now is what laptop owners want.
;-p and make it under $200 please
As a laptop only user I don't want to store everything on my system but I do want instant access to everything I have.
So my ideal hardware accessory is a RAID array attached to a wireless router which also has a coax in with cable converter and built in DVR
Since I'm an Apple customer I'd love for Steve-o to bring out a AppleTV/TimeCapsule(router w/ hard drive) that also serves as a webDAV server so I can mount the drive remotely.
Then it doesn't matter how much internal storage my laptop has.... enough to hold the OS/Apps and a few current files, say 32GB or so would be fine.
Yes but for patent purposed... is there a difference whether the mechanism for doing so was in the studio or in your home? If it's just miniaturization and aggregation of a process already in place, conveniently packaged at a price point for consumers, does it count as new and non-obvious?
They are called the Inhibitors... but in his mythos they were created by a long dead race during the dawn wars, millions of years before humanity sprang up.... and whose purpose was to stop new life from becoming space-faring species...
;-p
not that I read sci-fi books or anything
Nobody deserves to die but when they do things that are incredibly stupid like shooting at a tiger with a slingshot and climbing over the fence that holds the tiger in.... well, this stuff tends to happen.
People die all the time doing things they should not have been doing. Base jumping off tall buildings, walking on train tracks, driving while drunk, robbing banks... you can argue that all of these aren't enough to deserve death but who is at fault? The architects who designed the building, the city planners who put in the train line, the car manufacturers who designed the car, the legal system that outlawed stealing other people's money????
The guy put himself and others in danger by provoking a dangerous animal and providing it the opportunity to escape and run amok.... did you know the tiger actually climbed up the guy who was hanging over the fence in order to get out of the enclosure? It would have been much more difficult for it to escape if he hadn't been hanging over the fence (maybe impossible) providing a convenient ladder of sorts...
My friends and I back in 2002 came up with a phrase for this. We dubbed it "Porn Sourcing".
;-p
We thought about patenting it but then we sobered up and forgot about it
Sounds like maybe we should have done it anyways but in a more flexible manner.
Nothing manned I suspect.... still good for drones and satellites but anything living would get pulverized by the G forces.... rail guns don't do constant acceleration (which is what you want), they do one big bang of acceleration... big difference.
Your analogy is a misconception.
Pulling off a large meal is not multi-tasking.... it is careful, very careful planning in action. A cook who can do what you describe has planned each and every task needed to be done down to the minute. He/She keeps an eye on the clock the entire time and has everything prepped and ready to go well before starting the actual cooking process. Cook's do it by switching from one task to the next but they are never 'multi-tasking'... it's more like a one-person assembly line where you've planned how long each step will take and given yourself additional time between tasks to move from one station to the next.
The key point is that it has to be planned in advance and nothing can interrupt it.
"Get out of my kitchen!"
Doesn't that turtle get on your nerves? It's so slow. It takes forever when you give it a fractal equation to render;-p
Logo was my first language... we used it in Kindergarten and First Grade as an intro to Computers in both Colorado and South Carolina (divorced parents).
Ahhhh memories....
If it has the fewest flaws and yet people still don't like it.... so it must have been designed to be a poor replacement for XP. I guess if a feature sucks but works exactly the way it was intended then it's not a flaw.
Here's some news for you Bill Gates, Beta Max didn't have any flaws either and yet because it didn't give the users the features they wanted it didn't survive as a format. The DreamCast is another example of a flawless device that just didn't cut it.
We like to call these *Flops* and there are many of them... they did what they were designed to do, people just weren't interested cause what they were designed to do just wasn't good enough or worked against their wants/needs.
Ummm I know it's not your point but Apple has always provided an option (and there've always been 3rd party providers as well). There was an external floppy available via USB connect... the same is true of the Air... external optical drive || hook up via external PC and 'borrow' it's drive
Personally i think the information should be available by request and censored to your needs... moving, have kids.. you get an AOK that the neighborhood is pedophile free, no names, no addresses - just a response message that confirms your request.
Need more general info... you could get a result that tells you "yes there are sex-offenders, within 100 miles of the address listed. please contact your local police for more information."
Suspicious person... submit the name or address and you'll get a yes or no answer, with the type of crime and whether they are currently monitored or not. Republishing the information is a breach of privacy law....
Your anecdotes don't fit with my anecdotes... my Macbook Pro (2GB RAM) goes for weeks without a reboot... no problems. There are some 3rd party apps that give me issues... Firefox is even slower than on Tiger for instance... but overall I'm really liking Leopard.
Maybe it's a G5 vs. intel issue?
This is why schools need to forget *facts* as a basis for understanding and focus on *application*
It's easy to find facts but difficult to reuse them in a separate context. I can lookup any number of equations, algorithms, APIs, best practices, standard and methodologies BUT using them to solve a problem or create something new is a whole different matter.
In my industry we have this same problem with international employees (out-sourced labor). They are great at modifying existing working solutions (we call these facts), but give them something new to create from scratch and that's what they do, scratch their heads and look dumb.
It sounds to me like what our students are getting is what we used to call *Technical Training*... not education. They are learning very specific skills in a specialized area of study, as opposed to a broad liberal education in how to think through problems and be creative and discerning.
I suspect that it started in grade school for these kids... standardized testing is finally leaving it's mark.
The police, social services, doctors. That's it.
These groups should be provided instant access to this information, based on zip, address, phone number and any number of other criteria that might be useful.
When a member of these groups has a case they are on where any sort of violence has occurred (kid beat up, mom beat up, random woman/man beat up, etc.) they check the records on that person AND their address/phone to see if there is a potential abuser in their home/neighborhood whom they may be married to, dating, etc.
Domestic violence is not lethal if you catch it early... so they people who can do something about it need to know ASAP. The general public OTOH can't do a thing except cause a panic or Mob response.
Social services is very important here. Police have more dangerous (to the general public) perpetrators to worry about and Doctors can only report evidence. Once someone is identified though a social serv. rep should be assigned to check up on them and their family or any one they could be dating (and their doctors, firends, extended family).