Unfortunately my fun was short lived.

I got to the level where venom fights the electrical dude, and it froze … arg …

Played it quite a few times, and it kept freezing.  Maybe the ps2 is getting hot, or it’s like Beyond Good and Evil where it works better on an older ps2.

So I hooked up my son’s ps2 that I got him for his birth day.

Alas same thing happened it froze during that battle.

Maybe it’s getting hot, so I put it on it’s side, and pointed a fan at the bottom.  Froze again.

Argh … I just want to beat the level, and go on.  Well maybe it’s the disk. Halle isn’t exactly good at taking care of dvd’s cds, and video games.

So maybe it’s the disk.  I went to the pawn shop and bought one, loaded my saved game, and unfortunatly the battle froze again.

I don’t know what to do.  I’m pretty sure it’s not a hardware issue considering I’ve played it on 2 different machines, with the outcome being the same.  I even turned on the game shark, and attempted to beat him that way.  Nothing nadda still freezes.

I can’t come up with any other ideas at this time.  Maybe if I put the ps2 in the freezer for 30 minutes before I played it won’t freeze, and I’ll get past that level.

Its almost like I’ve beaten the boss, but the next level doesn’t load.

If anyone else out there has had this problem it’d be nice to know, and possibly we can discover the solution together.

Rick Rolled to child porn = you’re a pedophile, says FBI

Why?! Well you’re all a bunch of jerks. Why? Well I’ve been working on an upload progress bar. Yup something simple, something really simple, or so you would think.

For those of you who don’t know anything about uploads on a web page, they look a little like this:


<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
<input type="file" name="somefile">
<input type="submit" value="Send File" />
</form>

That basically tells your browser, hey send this file when visitor presses submit.

What bothers me is I’ve spent the last 10 hours of my life working on something that isn’t going to work on all browsers, and should have been implemented in the browser to begin with.

To get your browser to show those upload progress bars on web pages, is a hideous hack.

It should have never been invented. Ya sure it’s nice to know how much you’ve uploaded to a web page, but it should NOT be up to the web developer to design one of those things.

The problem is when you see those the browser is actually contacting the server twice. Every time the status updates, your browser has connected to the server to get it. You also have the upload stream going. So adding an upload status bar on your web page actually makes the upload slower.

It’s stupid that this isn’t built into the browser to begin with. I mean come on guys, every thing out there has a progress bar, even rsync and wget - a command line programs - have progress bars. I can cp -v ./souce_dir ./destination_dir and get a print out of what has been copied. scp will show you the last file transfered.

Every instant messenger I’ve ever used has told me how much of a file has been sent to my friend on the other end when I’m uploading a file. Every ftp, sftp client has told me how much has been copied. Every time I do a drag and drop of files into other folders, on my desktop it has a progress bar. I’ve copied things over a network with samba, and gotten a progress bar.

So why is it that when I upload a file on a web page nothing comes up? Why is it that you’ll obsess for millions of man hours on proper rendering of a web page, and not implement such a simple, and useful feature?

It would take 1 person who has knowledge about your browser/project code less than 40 hours to add an upload progress dialog. Is a the size of a file divided by the number of bytes sent that hard to figure out with http? Is it that hard to create a dialog?

No it’s not, instead you waste thousands of collective hours for us web developers. Some of the unlucky ones have to recompile their apache server, and php just to do it, only to find out it works on some browsers, and not others. Plus the code isn’t portable if we change servers … we have to recompile all over again.

If 10 web developers like myself have spent 10 hours, then that’ is already 100 hours lost on it. Something that should have been in the browsers to begin with. Even if it took 1000 man hours for a browser developer add a progress upload bar it would dwarf in comparison the collective time web developers waste to implement it.

I know that their has been at least 1000 people who try to add an upload status bar to their web page. Chances are their has been 10,000. And at 1 hour each we still waste 9,000 hours.

I’d like to write a plugin for firefox that does it, but man … I have no clue where to start. It’s a daunting task for someone like me. I’d venture to guess it’d take 100 hours just to research it. You’ve got to be dedicated to want to learn xul for some things. Something as simple as fopen() in php is a whole new level of insanity in firefox when you’re wrighting an addon. You’ve got to have quite a few lines of code calling this service, and that service … then finally opening the code … sheesh.

Well I guess I’m at the end of my rope on this one. So I’ll give up, and watch the browser war, as they tout their “new features” and can’t even think to add something as simple as this.

Erm

I think one of the first things I would do is get a terabyte drive … maybe bigger, then go back in time, and visit mp3.com before it was sold.  Then download everything I could.  I might even make a bot that did it.  I’d probably spend a lot of time on audiogalaxy, and join all the groups I used to belong to and send myself all my favorite songs.  The challenge would be NOT to send a song that wasn’t released yet, but to be honest.

I’ve always wondered if just by chance someone in the riaa came across an mp3 player from the future.  It’d be kinda funny if they did.  It’d be an inside track on what is going to be hot, and what is not.   What would be really funny is a time traveler from the future actually mentioned, that the internet was going to destroy their current model, and soon they would be toast no matter how hard they tried.  Mostly because artists would no longer need them in the future.

This is just plain unconstitutional, and if it passes, America is no longer America.

You know there are many “reasons” to have increased airport security.   In the end this is the sort of thing that happens.  People who have time dependent life or death situations are dying.

Honestly, we need to stop harassing innocents in the name of security.

More likely than not nobody is going to get in trouble for this.  Because like the SS Storm Troupers they were just doing their job.

A friend of mine recently released some some tracks on myspace.  I gotta tell you this is the best produced stuff I’ve heard from them.  Stop by give em a listen.

If time is a river, then one could travel back in time, and their presence would have just as much effect as a stick, or rock in a stream. Time would flow as normal around the rock or stick, and once removed, time would once again resume it’s normal coarse.

If time is a like a calm lake, then even the smallest rock thrown into it would send ripples to the farthest shore, but let’s be honest. Not many lakes are that calm during a storm, so even throwing a rock into lake isn’t going to effect it much.

In the end I’m not sure if someone going back in time is going to effect the future that much, unles you do something like throwing a bolder in the middle of a lake.

Eventually the ripples stop, and time is just there like a pool of water.

It seems hardly fair to compare time to water, but you get the gist of it. I mean after all time happens, not much you can do about it.