After reading this guys posts, I realise now how foolish I've been. He says:
"It's also scary because, since it will be used for EVERYTHING"
How could I have been so blind to this evil, yet convinient ploy. But seriously, why does everyone think that having an ID automatically means the state is tracking your every movement? Surely the reasonble use of it will be when you need to prove your identity, when flying, when opening bank accounts etc. It just seems that everyone is getting carried away with paranoia even though they have no previous example to go on. People seem to be making scenarios up and using that as fact. Hate to break it to you folks, the state(s) have a lot of info on your already, from drivers license databases, to tax databases, to birth records, to hospital records - why is this going to be any different?
Also, this guys post seems to link the shooting of the Menzezes guy in London to information tracking. The truth of it was that someone fucked up by taking a piss when they were meant to be watching a door and hastilly mistook him for the suspected terrorist who lived in his building. Not sure what the hell that has to do with ID cards...
I really do think the age of the record company is coming to an end, I would think in 10 years time the concept of buying a small disk with music on it will seem a little bizzare. Musicians will suddenly realise that publishing an album purely on the net means a record company is redundant and thus more $$$ directly for them. I think sites like iTunes will eventually turn into music brokers, dealing directly with the artists. For the bigger artists, promotional activities will just be down to a marketing company, not a record company as such. Anyway, thats my 2 cents, what do i know....
It's a worrying trend that more and more people want to block all ads on sites and web services, as people seem to think they have some right to get stuff for free. Hate to break it to you, but without the ads, great free services like GMail will cease to exist - companies are there to make money, at the point when they are no longer making money off web advertising they will either pull the product or start charging a service fee for it. I know which I would rather have....
802.11g runs at 54Mbps (theoretically), 802.11b runs at 11. And DSL uploads have nothing to do with as we're talking about copying files from within a wireless LAN, not over the net...
Last time I checked, a full length DivX encoded movie is about 700-800 MBs, so that should take about 20-30 mins max. Even a full DVD rip is what, about 3 Gigs, that wouldn't take more than 2 Hours to copy across a wireless LAN, where does 12 hours come from?
Don't use an AJAX call where someone might expect a page refresh.
Why not?
I expect to fail a course and die a smelly virgin, but if I pass the final and get laid, I won't complain.
How about the fact that it breaks the back/forward buttons and means you cannot add the page to favourites/bookmarks. Small issues for some, but could be damn irritating for people who bookmark a page for the bookmark just to resolve back to the original page.
With that said, it's best to try to cache frequently accessed items in memory (regardless of whether you're doing AJAX calls). ASP.NET does a good job of this
Sorry, I don't think that's where you should be focussing. Cache frequently accessed items in client memory. In the javascript. Oh, and he's probably not using ASP.NET if he's using MySQL.
I think you missed his point, Caching would normally be used for application wide data, to save a round-trip to the database if a previous request has fulfilled a similar query. If you store data on the client, you've still got to get the data from somewhere, so it's useful to get it from a server-side cache.
I'm amazed at moves like this from Sony, because as this DRM chaos goes on, it's actually EASIER to download music illegally than to buy it on CD. Sony are just alienating their paying customers and pushing them to piracy. Idiots.
I think using XML + XSLT is quite an elegant way of seperating content from presentation, but I wouldn't expect my users browser to be able to do XSLT transforms (mobile devices, old browsers etc), so why not just do the transform server side to product XHTML for them?
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There are thousands of users talking about "Wii" here, job done for the Nintendo marketing team....
After reading this guys posts, I realise now how foolish I've been. He says: "It's also scary because, since it will be used for EVERYTHING" How could I have been so blind to this evil, yet convinient ploy. But seriously, why does everyone think that having an ID automatically means the state is tracking your every movement? Surely the reasonble use of it will be when you need to prove your identity, when flying, when opening bank accounts etc. It just seems that everyone is getting carried away with paranoia even though they have no previous example to go on. People seem to be making scenarios up and using that as fact. Hate to break it to you folks, the state(s) have a lot of info on your already, from drivers license databases, to tax databases, to birth records, to hospital records - why is this going to be any different? Also, this guys post seems to link the shooting of the Menzezes guy in London to information tracking. The truth of it was that someone fucked up by taking a piss when they were meant to be watching a door and hastilly mistook him for the suspected terrorist who lived in his building. Not sure what the hell that has to do with ID cards...
I really do think the age of the record company is coming to an end, I would think in 10 years time the concept of buying a small disk with music on it will seem a little bizzare. Musicians will suddenly realise that publishing an album purely on the net means a record company is redundant and thus more $$$ directly for them. I think sites like iTunes will eventually turn into music brokers, dealing directly with the artists. For the bigger artists, promotional activities will just be down to a marketing company, not a record company as such. Anyway, thats my 2 cents, what do i know....
It's a worrying trend that more and more people want to block all ads on sites and web services, as people seem to think they have some right to get stuff for free. Hate to break it to you, but without the ads, great free services like GMail will cease to exist - companies are there to make money, at the point when they are no longer making money off web advertising they will either pull the product or start charging a service fee for it. I know which I would rather have....
802.11g runs at 54Mbps (theoretically), 802.11b runs at 11. And DSL uploads have nothing to do with as we're talking about copying files from within a wireless LAN, not over the net...
Last time I checked, a full length DivX encoded movie is about 700-800 MBs, so that should take about 20-30 mins max. Even a full DVD rip is what, about 3 Gigs, that wouldn't take more than 2 Hours to copy across a wireless LAN, where does 12 hours come from?
Don't use an AJAX call where someone might expect a page refresh.
Why not?
I expect to fail a course and die a smelly virgin, but if I pass the final and get laid, I won't complain.
How about the fact that it breaks the back/forward buttons and means you cannot add the page to favourites/bookmarks. Small issues for some, but could be damn irritating for people who bookmark a page for the bookmark just to resolve back to the original page.
With that said, it's best to try to cache frequently accessed items in memory (regardless of whether you're doing AJAX calls). ASP.NET does a good job of this
Sorry, I don't think that's where you should be focussing. Cache frequently accessed items in client memory. In the javascript. Oh, and he's probably not using ASP.NET if he's using MySQL.
I think you missed his point, Caching would normally be used for application wide data, to save a round-trip to the database if a previous request has fulfilled a similar query. If you store data on the client, you've still got to get the data from somewhere, so it's useful to get it from a server-side cache.
I'm amazed at moves like this from Sony, because as this DRM chaos goes on, it's actually EASIER to download music illegally than to buy it on CD. Sony are just alienating their paying customers and pushing them to piracy. Idiots.
Don't like ViewState? Why don't you just avoid using it?
Page.EnableViewState = False - not hard dude
No one forces you, the options there if you want. I think viewstate is a pretty inventive feature.
I think using XML + XSLT is quite an elegant way of seperating content from presentation, but I wouldn't expect my users browser to be able to do XSLT transforms (mobile devices, old browsers etc), so why not just do the transform server side to product XHTML for them?