I'm not a Mac user who likes staring at the shiny toolbar renderings and 3D compositing effects while watching billable hours go by.
Nor am I, I'm a Mac user who gets on with his work. Congratulations on making wild generalisations based on the default animation style of a persons window manager...
There are already abundant reasons not to give away your usage data to anyone who wants it; this just provides one more.
Please explain why you'd rather not reveal your referrer data. (New example from TFA aside.) Working with web analytics, I can say referrer information is extremely useful, and not in a way which would lead you to any downsides, that I can think of at least.
And gues wat? NOBODY visits any web site because it's "cool".
You're so wrong with this I don't know where to begin. The server logs from the company I work for, with their millions of hits and millions of £/€ in revenue strong suggest that you're utterly, irrecoverably wrong.
I did read it, the difference between you and I is that I understood what I was reading.
The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project that weâ(TM)ve created to javascript. Weâ(TM)re using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig.
Processing.js is used to render Processing code, a subset of Java, not JavaScript. FFS, if you're going to accuse someone of not RTFM, at least be sure you did so yourself.
The demo uses processing.js - essentially a Java library. Whether this has any more utility than Flash (remembering that the flash of today is not the monstrosity most of/. seems to remember and think it still is) could be debated, but it's definitely more in line with standards compliance.
Posting is certainly faster for me than it used to be before they switched to AJAX. It just looks like crap.
Really? It takes AGES to preview a comment, I'm thinking 10-20 seconds, during which time you can't scroll down or do anything else (well you can, you'd just have to remember to scroll back up). At least with the vanilla html version you could open a new tab, and I don't remember having any issues with speed back then.
The rest of the site is great though - keyboard navigation for comments is something I really miss when on other sites now.
That won't fly with my clients. You provide a design, they agree to it, then you build it and it looks different in their browser? Well then you didn't* deliver what you sold.
* as they see it. You can argue the semantics of whether delivering a site that works in all other modern browsers counts 'til you're blue in the mouth, but it's all academic.
I see no reason IE should hold everyone else back All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again... Despite huge gains made by other browsers, IE remains the most popular out there. If you're working on a commercial website, it is not viable to say "oh, fuck IE!", however much I'd like to.
The Apple reference is justified here - MSN spokesman claims new project will benefit Zune, but the two are not closely tied. Summary then cites an example of where a strong tie between device and service has benefited another company in a comparable situation.
Seems like a desire to attack Apple/Slashdot/both has clouded your reading comprehension.
I left Ubuntu at the start of the year after 4 relatively happy years - PulseAudio was one of my biggest complaints. Even if I could have got it working properly, I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get my computer to play sounds.
Sounds great to me - obviously you wouldn't call it that though! Consider gmail "labels" vs traditional email/imap folders - labels are both easier to use for novices and more flexible for capable users.
Most phones I've seen, except the iPhone, stores it's maps locally. They should even work with no GPS _or_ data reception (if you just want to use the map for setting up favourites, plan routes etc.)
This is Europe, as usual with mobile stories there are likely wild differences between EU and the US on this.
Doesn't work that way. Even if they didn't appeal, the Swedish prisons are full -- you actually have to queue to serve your sentence, and violent criminals always skip ahead of the queue.
Could you provide a source for this? I had a quick Google, but I'm not sure I'm even searching for the right thing. Thanks!
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1580746&cid=31459554&art_pos=21
Who indeed.
I'm not a Mac user who likes staring at the shiny toolbar renderings and 3D compositing effects while watching billable hours go by.
Nor am I, I'm a Mac user who gets on with his work. Congratulations on making wild generalisations based on the default animation style of a persons window manager...
That shot showed 833 members.
The game has sold how many copies so far?
There are already abundant reasons not to give away your usage data to anyone who wants it; this just provides one more.
Please explain why you'd rather not reveal your referrer data. (New example from TFA aside.)
Working with web analytics, I can say referrer information is extremely useful, and not in a way which would lead you to any downsides, that I can think of at least.
(Not trolling, I'm genuinely interested...)
Doesn't matter - the act was still a petty attack on the French.
And gues wat? NOBODY visits any web site because it's "cool".
You're so wrong with this I don't know where to begin. The server logs from the company I work for, with their millions of hits and millions of £/€ in revenue strong suggest that you're utterly, irrecoverably wrong.
GP hit it perfectly the first time.
PAYG accounts are free if you don't use them... so I doubt he'd be able to pay less.
I did read it, the difference between you and I is that I understood what I was reading.
The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project that weâ(TM)ve created to javascript. Weâ(TM)re using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig.
Processing.js is used to render Processing code, a subset of Java, not JavaScript. FFS, if you're going to accuse someone of not RTFM, at least be sure you did so yourself.
Wow. Great contribution, yes I know what Java and JavaScript are, Processing.js renders Processing.org based code, a Java based library.
The demo uses processing.js - essentially a Java library. Whether this has any more utility than Flash (remembering that the flash of today is not the monstrosity most of /. seems to remember and think it still is) could be debated, but it's definitely more in line with standards compliance.
Yeah, that did occur to me afterward... you'd think I've have tried that before.
Posting is certainly faster for me than it used to be before they switched to AJAX. It just looks like crap.
Really? It takes AGES to preview a comment, I'm thinking 10-20 seconds, during which time you can't scroll down or do anything else (well you can, you'd just have to remember to scroll back up). At least with the vanilla html version you could open a new tab, and I don't remember having any issues with speed back then.
The rest of the site is great though - keyboard navigation for comments is something I really miss when on other sites now.
That won't fly with my clients. You provide a design, they agree to it, then you build it and it looks different in their browser? Well then you didn't* deliver what you sold.
* as they see it. You can argue the semantics of whether delivering a site that works in all other modern browsers counts 'til you're blue in the mouth, but it's all academic.
I see no reason IE should hold everyone else back
All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again...
Despite huge gains made by other browsers, IE remains the most popular out there. If you're working on a commercial website, it is not viable to say "oh, fuck IE!", however much I'd like to.
Err, my previous comment was obviously intended for the AC, not yourself.
The Apple reference is justified here - MSN spokesman claims new project will benefit Zune, but the two are not closely tied. Summary then cites an example of where a strong tie between device and service has benefited another company in a comparable situation.
Seems like a desire to attack Apple/Slashdot/both has clouded your reading comprehension.
I left Ubuntu at the start of the year after 4 relatively happy years - PulseAudio was one of my biggest complaints.
Even if I could have got it working properly, I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get my computer to play sounds.
Sounds great to me - obviously you wouldn't call it that though!
Consider gmail "labels" vs traditional email/imap folders - labels are both easier to use for novices and more flexible for capable users.
YMMV, as ever.
Most phones I've seen, except the iPhone, stores it's maps locally. They should even work with no GPS _or_ data reception (if you just want to use the map for setting up favourites, plan routes etc.)
This is Europe, as usual with mobile stories there are likely wild differences between EU and the US on this.
The market for Flash is huge. That there is a need (perceived or real) is self evident, MS are simply trying to get in on this.
Players will feel like clones out there, so they'll buy things so that they can stand out.
How life imitates art...
Doesn't matter if he "enjoyed" it - ANY attention is bad. Please don't feed the trolls.
How does that help prevent people impersonating you?
You don't consider social security or healthcare "useful"?
Doesn't work that way. Even if they didn't appeal, the Swedish prisons are full -- you actually have to queue to serve your sentence, and violent criminals always skip ahead of the queue.
Could you provide a source for this? I had a quick Google, but I'm not sure I'm even searching for the right thing. Thanks!