Actually, you can make Flash work with browser "back" by using named anchors in Flash MX. This also lets you bookmark a particular place in a Flash movie.
If you want to use this it is a big constraint on how you put content together though (no one frame movies, for example!)
I'd really like to see ministries/departments of education across the english speaking world get together to create open-source textbooks for elementary & highschool subjects.
This project would immediately fork over the number of "u"s to use.
Then there are the less serious cultural differences to take into account...
I have a BBC Records LP (remember those?) called "We Seem To Have Lost The Picture" -- the liner notes say "These fragments of voices and sounds are the only record that remains of the first thirty-odd years of television [...] The simple fact is that it was impossible to record television pictures until 1956". (Maybe they mean 20-odd rather than 30-odd).
I wonder what actually exists in those archives from the early years?
Surely, it's not only the rights to updatable characters, or the existence of MAME, but the fact that there is a whole new generation of platforms that these things could potentially get resurrected on -- Java enabled mobile phones, fridge magnets, hearing aids, nasal hair trimmers, biscuits, and so on. Ker-CHING!
Speaking as a UK-ian / Region 2 inhabitant, yes PAL / NTSC encoding is something you have to worry about in addition to region type.
I have a multi-region DVD player (in fact you have to try quite hard in the UK to find one that isn't), but I need to be using a TV that can deal with NTSC output when I play Region 1 discs. Luckily pretty much all new TVs in the UK will deal with both PAL and NTSC signals. However, I think the reverse is not true for US-ians and other natively NTSC folks -- you need to be careful your setup can deal with PAL if you are importing discs of that ilk.
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Actually, you can make Flash work with browser "back" by using named anchors in Flash MX. This also lets you bookmark a particular place in a Flash movie.
If you want to use this it is a big constraint on how you put content together though (no one frame movies, for example!)
I'd really like to see ministries/departments of education across the english speaking world get together to create open-source textbooks for elementary & highschool subjects.
This project would immediately fork over the number of "u"s to use.
Then there are the less serious cultural differences to take into account...
It would be so much more cost effective to simply enable people who were spammed to shoot the spammer
You'd have to legalise gun ownership first.
No probs with orbital sander ownership, though. Food for thought.
Jail time? How about death sentence.
Not in the UK. No death penalty.
We could force them to become morris dancers or something, I suppose.
I have a BBC Records LP (remember those?) called "We Seem To Have Lost The Picture" -- the liner notes say "These fragments of voices and sounds are the only record that remains of the first thirty-odd years of television [...] The simple fact is that it was impossible to record television pictures until 1956". (Maybe they mean 20-odd rather than 30-odd).
I wonder what actually exists in those archives from the early years?
Surely, it's not only the rights to updatable characters, or the existence of MAME, but the fact that there is a whole new generation of platforms that these things could potentially get resurrected on -- Java enabled mobile phones, fridge magnets, hearing aids, nasal hair trimmers, biscuits, and so on. Ker-CHING!
After you tweak the living hell out of an XP box, using additional software, apparently you can get virtual desktops as well. KewL!
Speaking as a UK-ian / Region 2 inhabitant, yes PAL / NTSC encoding is something you have to worry about in addition to region type.
I have a multi-region DVD player (in fact you have to try quite hard in the UK to find one that isn't), but I need to be using a TV that can deal with NTSC output when I play Region 1 discs. Luckily pretty much all new TVs in the UK will deal with both PAL and NTSC signals. However, I think the reverse is not true for US-ians and other natively NTSC folks -- you need to be careful your setup can deal with PAL if you are importing discs of that ilk.
SECAM is just a myth.