UK to start busting speeders from orbit.
You guys are seriously overdue for one of those bloody revolutions I read about in AP Euro.
UK to start busting speeders from orbit.
You guys are seriously overdue for one of those bloody revolutions I read about in AP Euro.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Have been reading a little bit about this. It ain't going to happen, despite the big brother stupidity in this country.
~
In other news ...
No crash rise after Swindon speed camera turn-off
The number of accidents on roads next to Swindon's shrouded speed cameras is the same now as when they were active, according to council figures.
The five fixed cameras were covered in July last year after the Conservative-run borough council withdrew funding.
The council said it wanted to divert the money spent on cameras to alternative road safety measures.
Swindon's Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors said they would turn the cameras back on if they had the chance.
Oh - and bonus point to the Tories there ...
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
Just started re-playing Dragon Age after a week off the PS3, quite near the end of the game I'm guessing: Except now the game keeps crashing!
Don't know what's to blame, the disc has no visible scratches (and hasn't been removed since I played it last), but suspicious that last night did a software update to the PS3 itself and now its crashing
Why do modern consoles need so many updates? My NES coped fine for over a decade without ever having one. OK a bit fatuous perhaps, no internet, but still ...
Technology's a wee bit more complex these days, plus the corporations have to shove everything out the door as soon as possible so bugs and such remain, never mind optimizing for the capabilities of the hardware before launch, etc.Why do modern consoles need so many updates?
With the NES and SNES the 'updates' were on the shoulders of the game devs who spent years squeezing out every last bit of performance from the machine's hardware; see Kirby's Dream Land 3 for the SNES, for example.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I do get irritated that it seems every time I have the urge to play a game on the PS3, there's another update and I have to wait 10 minutes for it to finish.
After 3 attempts to play my game I gave up
Will check another day whether another game works.
To be fair, the accident rate at any point doesn't look high enough to make an argument for cameras, pro or con. They'd need to do a much bigger study to be able to assess accident rate vis a vis speed cameras.In other news ...
No crash rise after Swindon speed camera turn-off
The number of accidents on roads next to Swindon's shrouded speed cameras is the same now as when they were active, according to council figures.
The five fixed cameras were covered in July last year after the Conservative-run borough council withdrew funding.
The council said it wanted to divert the money spent on cameras to alternative road safety measures.
Swindon's Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors said they would turn the cameras back on if they had the chance.
Oh - and bonus point to the Tories there ...
Gotta love people trying to make statistical arguments from tiny data sets. And no, I'm not taking a position either way, just pointing out that nobody should be able to claim jack from this.
Half a year is a decent enough time period to draw conclusions from. The main flaw in that "study" is that it doesn't say what the accident rate was before the cameras were installed. For all we know, the accident rate was abnormally high during that time period, and has just returned to the mean now. Another issue is that the half a year that had the cameras might, on average, have more accidents than the half year where they weren't installed (in any year, not just this one).. There's also the problem of a pretty small sample size (7 accidents in half a year), which suggests that pure chance could have been responsible for the difference.
Hope is the denial of reality
In my haste to make things safe for baby, I cut the cords on the blinds in her room too short, so they won't go down all the way. Hubby is now having to add extra cord to both blinds.
Aw. But that's sweet, cat. You'll be a good mommy
I've seen a rather alarming amount of 3.30 firmware complaints. With Sony, you need to watch what you're updating into. 3.30's focus was adding 3D game support (warning sign for game breakage), while keeping 3D movies disabled, and the update before that was only released to disable the OtherOS feature (but I think you own a slim anyway). Most of the time Sony doesn't force updates like Microsoft, so if you don't use the feature don't rush to update.Why do modern consoles need so many updates? My NES coped fine for over a decade without ever having one. OK a bit fatuous perhaps, no internet, but still ...
Of course, now that you're on firmware 3.30, Sony doesn't need further permission to fuck with your property.
Got to love those EULAs.From time to time, SCE may provide updates, upgrades or services to your PS3™ system to ensure it is functioning properly in accordance with SCE guidelines or provide you with new offerings.
Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you are online, and others may be available to you through SCE's online network or authorized channels. Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, new technology or revised settings and features which may prevent access to unauthorized or pirated content, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3™ system.
Additionally, you may not be able to view your own content if it includes or displays content that is protected by authentication technology. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 04-25-2010 at 05:31 PM.
30 year old windows suck
FFFFUUUUU
Guess you probably saw on /. the other day (yesterday?) that Sony's had their fist class action lawsuit filed against them over the 3.30 update (remove other OS feature).
So, there ya go Rand... maybe you can get yourself attached to that class action and get a $25 check (or whatever) from Sony in a few years. As compensation for their shitty, crash-tastic gaming experience Gah. Death to consoles. Computer >> any gaming console.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Duct Tape.30 year old windows suck
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The portfolio website I'm building for myself has, unless when I finally show it everybody hates the feature, a small semi-transparent navigation bar that is fixed at the top of the page. When you scroll, it stays there, like your tabs or address bar stays there. I've given users the option to toggle its visibility in case they find its getting in the way (again, if it turns out people hate it outright, I'm just going to change it so it behaves like every other address bar). The problem is that I would like to be able to pass its state between different pages, so that if you hide it on the index page, its still hidden when you click a link to the résumé page. I've discovered that you can do this using query strings, however...I can't find any clear sources of how to easily get the data in query string using javascript. Well, nothing as absurdly easy as php which seems to simply be using: htmlspecialchars($_GET["your query string value here"]).
So in php if I had, for example: www.theworldforgotten.com/somepage.php?pagenumber=1 ...in the address bar, I could use: htmlspecialchars($_GET["pagenumber"]) ...and it would return a value of 1. The javascript I've found so far is paragraphs of code that makes relatively little sense to me due to the lack of a true knowledge of programming.
Edit: While away I've come up with what I think is a rather inelegant solution. Use php to get the values of the query string, and use those values in an echo that makes a javascript.
Last edited by Illusions; 04-30-2010 at 07:36 PM.
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Right, blame it on the kid.30 year old windows suck
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Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Passing variables, eh? Sounds like something any *real* programming language can do.
I'm positively giddy that my contempt of j* is demonstrated to be well-founded yet again.
But, to be fair, the easiest way with JS is to put the variable in the url.
Longer tutorial at the link, blah blah, click linky if any of that looks useful to your site.If the next page is accessed through a link, then the <a> tag can be used alone.
<a href="redirect.html?page=1">Page 1</a>
<a href="redirect.html?page=2">Page 2</a>
<a href="redirect.html?page=3">Page 3</a>
etc.
The other way is through form values. For your form tag:
<form name="tform" action="redirect.html" method="get">
<select name="page">
<option value="1" selected="selected">Page 1</option>
<option value="2">Page 2</option>
<option value="3">Page 3</option>
</select><br>
<input type="submit" value="Go!">
</form>
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Stupid mektek installer not working has wasted the last three hours of my life. urghhhhhh
I enjoy blank walls.
Thanks for the link. I'll give it a try if my combo PHP/Javascript thing doesn't work out. I think I've entered the realm of that one meme with xzibit though. I've wrote code (PHP) that writes code (javascript), that writes more code (HTML).
. . .
I can't sleep. Oh, and I hate that most meaningless of words "meme".
Congratulations America
We just used a clothes peg to keep the cords up high out of reach when our kids were little.In my haste to make things safe for baby, I cut the cords on the blinds in her room too short, so they won't go down all the way. Hubby is now having to add extra cord to both blinds.
Those child proof latches on the cupboard doors in the kitchen, laundry and bathroom were a cheap and effective idea too - though they take some getting used to.
My kids are teenagers now though so making it "safe" for them involves hiding all the good snacks long enough for US to get some - I swear they eat their body weight in food each week!
[edit] My groove is a little messed by the fact my son can now get his Learners Permit to drive a car...
Such is Life...
Had to take the wedding band off.
So
How you doin'?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Heh.
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
I can imagine the meatloaf crammed in there.
Yes, meatloaf is the technical term.
Even easier way: Use cookies / sessions. That's what they're there for since HTTP is stateless.Passing variables, eh? Sounds like something any *real* programming language can do.
I'm positively giddy that my contempt of j* is demonstrated to be well-founded yet again.
But, to be fair, the easiest way with JS is to put the variable in the url.
Longer tutorial at the link, blah blah, click linky if any of that looks useful to your site.
And, Cain, it's not a question of the language involved, it's a limitation of the protocol used.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Like I'm gonna let facts get in the way of mocking j*.
(Though, as noted, it *is* somewhat an issue of language used, as it's trivially easy to do in PHP.)
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
It's equally easy in Javascript. Cookies / Sessions, done.
document.cookie = "whatever";
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
So, you're saying that creating a cookie and then fetching the variable from it is as easy as "$_GET[variable]"? Seems like you add at least one step with the cookie thing.
What is this compulsion you have with talking out of your ass?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
It's considered bad form to pass such variables in the query string because an URI beyond 255 characters may not be supported by all clients (the actual limit varies depending on platform and browser)So, you're saying that creating a cookie and then fetching the variable from it is as easy as "$_GET[variable]"? Seems like you add at least one step with the cookie thing.
What is this compulsion you have with talking out of your ass?
And, my dear, I know what I'm talking about here and you're the one trolling. As I said before, there is a place for client-side variable storage - and that is the session / cookie. You're trying to shoehorn something into a method it's not meant for. I mean, would you store a username/password hash in the query string as well? That just asks for a cross-site scripting attack. Best not even to begin with such things.
Furthermore, you're forgetting that he has to create a query string somehow. That will become more complicated as he adds more variables.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
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