Comment Re:VAC (Score 1) 203
That shot showed 833 members.
The game has sold how many copies so far?
Comment Re:Yet Another Reason (Score 1) 88
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...)
Comment Re:Sorry Blairs not in at the moment (Score 1) 183
Doesn't matter - the act was still a petty attack on the French.
Comment Re:I have a better idea (Score 1) 220
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.
Comment Re:Monopoly? (Score 1) 74
PAYG accounts are free if you don't use them... so I doubt he'd be able to pay less.
Nokia Fears Carriers May Try To Undermine N900 307
An anonymous reader writes "Nokia is worried that networks may reject selling the N900 because it won't allow them to mess with the operating system. Nokia has previously showed the N900 running a root shell and it appears to use the same interface for IM and phone functions. Meanwhile, Verizon is claiming that 'exclusivity arrangements promote competition and innovation.' Is it too late to explain to people why $99+$60/month is not better than $600+$20/month?"
Comment Re:Compared to flash... (Score 1) 321
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.
Comment Re:Compared to flash... (Score 1) 321
Wow. Great contribution, yes I know what Java and JavaScript are, Processing.js renders Processing.org based code, a Java based library.
Comment Re:Compared to flash... (Score 2, Interesting) 321
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
HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come 321
An anonymous reader writes with an interesting and impressive demonstration of modern browsers' HTML 5 capabilities. "From the 9elements blog: 'HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. [...] We've created a little experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML 5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine.' The site warns "(beware: sophisticated browser needed)"; Firefox 3.5 seems to work fine.
U of Michigan and Amazon To Offer 400,000 OOP Books 160
eldavojohn writes "Four hundred thousand rare, out of print books may soon be available for purchase ranging anywhere from $10 to $45 apiece. The article lists a rare Florence Nightingale book on Nursing which normally sells for thousands due to its rarity. The [University of Michigan] librarian, Mr. Courant said, 'The agreement enables us to increase access to public domain books and other publications that have been digitised. We are very excited to be offering this service as a new way to increase access to the rich collections of the university library.' The University of Michigan has a library where Google is scanning rare books and was the aim of heavy criticism. (Some of the Google-scanned books are to be sold on Amazon.) How the authors guild and publishers react to Amazon's Surge offering softcover reprints of out of print books remains to be seen."
Comment Re:SOMEONE buy a copy for the /. coders! (Score 1) 171
Yeah, that did occur to me afterward... you'd think I've have tried that before.
Comment Re:SOMEONE buy a copy for the /. coders! (Score 1) 171
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.
Comment Re:IE doesn't support font-face (Score 1) 378
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.
Comment Re:IE doesn't support font-face (Score 1) 378
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.
