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I really like streetfilms, and this one is really interesting. I guess all we can do is wait till australia starts to do people freindly urban design and the we will do it ten years later. Actually that reminds me there are some good clips about melbourne on streetfilms.
viewWeird, the first time the page loaded it was showing this video:
Demdike Stare: Hashshashin Chant
which is interesting, but definitely not streetfilms
viewMatt had a look at both of these last night, I don't think he could follow the DH helmet cam footage. However, he enjoyed the Danny MacAskill video. He thought it was "silly" to jump off roofs but it still made him laugh.
I wonder what the effect of showing kids videos like this will be, there'll be a percentage who will be inspired to take it further when they are older but I'm not sure where that path leads.
viewOk changed the video to the link you posted and changed the setting so you should now get 'full html' as an option.
viewCheers man. Yeah I know about the embedding option but it doesn't work for me here. That wasn't the right video but the music is the right band.
Below the "disable rich text format" option the pull down allows me to choose the input (not import) format as filtered "HTML" or "WYSIWYG"
Pasting the code from the youtube page ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg73Vz2MN5g ) with filtered HTML selected doesn't work. I have pasted it below this text.
viewI edited your post.
Is that the right video? Seems to be some coked up Spaniards listening to bull fighting music or something.
To embed video you need to change the import format to 'full html' too (option is below the 'disable rich-text' thing).
And you don't need to take the page source from youtube there is a button on the player called 'embed' that provides the embed code.
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doh. Embedding doesn't seem to work Don. DO I take the raw html from the viewing the youtube page source and copy from object to object? You can see the outcome of that effort. Using the HTML Source Editor didnae help and the best I could get was a warning that I needed Adobe Flash Player to play it. See above. I can't remember the embed code from youtube including "iview" at its start and finish previously. You may notice a large void below these words, they appear to have arisen from my attempt to reverse engineer the correct html from a youtube video that you previously helped me with, I pasted the current videos link into the code. Awesome.
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Cool, i like how the boats move to the island and trigger buses.
here is a realtime map of the Swiss trains:
viewna, my one is cooler, lets see that guy play the quake soundtrack on that thing.
to insert a vid use the [HTML] view and insert the whole <object /> in there as raw html
viewDon't buy the hype Don. These Linux/open-source people are monsters and you should mistrust anything that associates itself with linux or open-source; these people were likely too evil for Microsoft to employ!!
it is not the first interesting new instrument to appear in the last 50 years. It appears to be a midi controller that's shaped like a guitar. That isn't new and it's a control surface rather than an instrument. It doesn't seem like a very good control surface to me, atleast a midi guitar and previous guitar-like midi controllers allowed guitarists to use their skill with strings to influence midi output, checkout searching EWI in youtube for an example of a mature controller of a similar ilk in action. Yes the sky is the limit my friend.
These are two guitar-like midi controllers that were produced by non-evil proprietary tech companies back in the 1980's.
Here's Allan Holdsworth demonstrating what the excitement is all, it's outrageous isn't it?
The Hang Drum is pretty cool and it desrves a new instrument tag given that it's come a long(ish) way from its tin drum roots.
Don, now that I've taught you a lesson (Matt currently uses this phrase when he wants to show me how to do something) you help me get the youtube video embedded? There's some great wild-eye at the end of it that needs to be seen.
viewYea ive seen that Danny MacAskill before, hes totally amazing that way back home video is teh awesome. Now i have this weird craving to drink red bull ... of to the shops...
viewCheers for the write up. Heading up (also from Welly) for the first time this year, so glad to read what to expect
viewOkay, an update: I have given up on OCaml, I was not producing results fast enough. However, now I have started with Go, it's awesome. It's almost as concise as Python, and in theory it should be close to C in speed. And although it is a new language, less than a year since it's launch, it has a strong following. Where as the OCaml community seems to be rather spread out and many of the tools and APIs are unmaintained.
viewMy OCaml is coming along, albeit slowly. I have found it has a steepish learning curve when coming from Java/C style upbringing. It's damn hard finding good material on the net and finding maintained add-on packages that simply install. Currently I am recompiling plplot for Ubuntu, just because someone at Ubuntu/Debian decided to remove OCaml support for plplot.
viewI see your doing some Ocaml programming there Simon. Hows that going?
Here an article where a guy using ocaml does a bit of a rant:
http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/why-ocaml-sucks/
Also heard about Scala (a functional language that uses the jvm) and the lift web framework? (foursquare use it, apparently).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(web_framework)
viewThats quite cool would be handy if you ware trapped in windows land like you are Simon. CoLinux has been around for quite a while, i remember reading about it quite a while back
viewOkay, regarding the stability. It stopped booting. I think this is more a problem with the coLinux wrapper (PUbuntu) than coLinux or Ubuntu itself. I learnt my lesson, now I will backup the image each time.
viewThe ODT was contacted by the 'idiots' and I assume the agreement was if you print the conversation you can't print our names. Stuff wasn't bound by any such agreement.
The statements by the car drivers are funny, what's confusing about that?
viewReally Mike?
If I edited the ODT I'd place it on the front page with a silhouette of the 'anonymous tipsters."
This story has everything. To ya'll, the link is well worth a read. Mike doesn't know comedy when he reads it.
viewI think all inventions, and most intelligence, that exists today is because of the invention of language. Without language we will still be in Africa running from lions.
viewOh I didn't really notice that iPhone was on the list. I guess I have a bit of a mental block when it comes to news stories with iPhone/iPad in them. It seems that every un-newsworthy story suddenly becomes newsworthy if "iPhone/iPad" can be added to the headline.
viewThe thing that strikes me is that iPhone is on the list, which conclusively proves that Britains don't deserve the rest of the items!
viewI have seen a couple of these surveys. The thing that strikes me is the fact that the technologies all depend on each other. To say that the lightbulb is more important than the computer (both of which depend on the invention of electricity). Or that the internet is more important than a computer (which are dependent on each other and both depend on the transistor). Is ultimately meaningless.
viewfor a small fee I could make your bikes look like that. then of course I woud give them away to local ruffians
viewThe idea doesn't work for plants but it's a goer for factory farming pigs and cows.
I believe, but can't be arsed finding the link, that a chinese eco-development planned to have factory farming floors. You can pack a lot of protein into a small space, edible plants don't scale that well, unless you go for some kind of photosynthetic algae. mmmmmmmm
viewI did an exaustive study on the maths of the economics the other night but then i had a few wines and forgot to write it down, pity I seem to recal it was quite interesting.
viewlooks like "eco geek" is skeptical about the vertical farms I haven't done the math on the economics and the author doesn't provide any numbers to back his claims. I'd be interested to see an article that actually does the analysis.
viewEven the staunch capitalists at the economist think that the copyright situation has gotten out of hand:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15868004
viewhttp://www.gopetition.com/map.php?petid=35443
dissapointing it hasent gone viral given its on boing boing and a whole bunch of other sites now.
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Great Mosaic Anna
I see that Socky and Rocky have not been included. Will have to take you some mug shots so they can be added.
Welcome to Ganna's world! They are very cute Anna, just nedd some shoots with your co-host Craig...
viewYea really good, i just watched it on the telly via gamma and the ps3 browser, looked good in fullscreen
viewYeah, a youngun at work mentioned finding some of the tracks above the outlet after 5 years of visiting Wanaka regularly. He wasn't sure how to get back to them so I tried to find them on tracks.co.nz, no dice. I've sent a letter outlining the encounter to Girlfriend's "How embarrassment" column.
I blame you Ca22um.
viewThis is due do the number of tracks we are displaying. not strictly openlayers fault. I imagine 200+ tracks would make firefox creak a bit when using google maps directly.
quote from Ians test results (http://tracks.org.nz/features/74):
On a slower laptop PC running Firefox 3.5.6, the limit for reasonable performance is around 100 tracks.view
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.
Script: http://openlayers.org/dev/OpenLayers.js:181
openlayers is great but i can kill firefox 3.5 very dead, Just think what it does to ie
viewThe KML file should now be updated daily, if you notice that it has broken, leave a comment here
viewThe loggers we bought were Holux m241s. I think they were about $160 NZD. They seem to have better sensitivity than my old gamin etrex, which can to loose signal easily (under trees etc.). If you want to add tracks to the tracks.org.nz site you don't strictly need a logger. In fact most of the tracks on there have just been traced in Google Earth. So if you know where the track goes just sign up, and add it.
viewAwesome! sounds like displaying all tracks in a given area is going to be do-able then? I think the area with the most tracks is Whakarewarewa with 36, and from your test cases you say even IE can handle 50 tracks. In conjunction with fullscreen, I think this would be a big UI improvement for tracks.org.nz.
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Just to see how many tracks the Google Maps API can cope with simultaneously, I've put together a set of test cases.
It turns out that, not surprisingly, the answer depends on the browser and particular computer. Some results are listed in a comment on Tracks feature request 74.
viewHmm perhaps i should update my script and start running it regularly since you seem to be doing something useful with it.
While its seems to render fine in Chrome even ff seems to choke on it a bit. I shudder to think what it does to ie. Is it just me or does the comment interface change every few days, is that a drupal feature?
viewEarlier versions of the Google Maps API would implode if it attempted to display more than a few tracks at once. More recent versions can cope with more tracks, and encoding the data (rather than using the kml files directly) also helps.
The net effect is that it is now possible to display quite a lot of data simultaneously - possibly all the tracks in an area, in most cases. I think a bit of experimenting is in order, to see how far the API can be pushed before it becomes too sluggish...
Cheers,
Ian.
viewCheers Ian, Yeah it'd be good to see fullscreen maps on tracks.org.nz (chipped in my 2c on that feature request). Also, now that I think about it, is there any reason that all tracks from a given area couldn't show on a map? So adjacent tracks would then only need to be added if they didn't belong to the same area as the current track.
viewNice. I've previously contemplated adding a full screen toggle to the www.tracks.org.nz Google Maps. Turns out to be quite straightforward, using a bit of borrowed code, as shown in the Full screen map feature request.
Cheers,
Ian.
viewThe council also plans to develop a cycleway over the Tararua Range from Shannon to Eketahuna.
Part of the Government's national cycleway, it would provide the first link between Horowhenua and Wairarapa.
Horowhenua District Council spokesman David Clapperton said: "It will boost economic development in the two small communities and provide some stunning vistas."
The council has applied for Tourism Ministry funding for a feasibility study for the 40-kilometre cycleway.
From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/new-zealand/3239811/Shannon-small-town-big...
sounds great
viewhttp://www.wellington.govt.nz/plans/policies/cycling/index.html the policy is an interesting read.
viewyou could borrow mine I guess. feel free to use my bikes any time you need a sensible bike to do a race, like round taupo or this SS worlds thing. I wont be able to go for baby reasons even though it sounds like a great time.
Anyway, gotta go, the computers aren't going to program themselves!
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yeah I bought that one. Seems to do the trick. Doesn't look like the photo cause I got the sprung not the fixed one.
viewThat is a great idea. Imagine if the Wellington City Council did that every Sunday, made one lane bikes only on the motorway out to Petone.
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Got a new tire with big nobs and soft compound on the bike. What a difference, the Aka is worse...
Cheers. Yeah, I had the Maxxis Advantage recommended to me and that seems a similar tire to the...
I have a Maxxis Minion which is pretty decent in mud and has soft rubber so sticks to roots and...
Here's an interview with the guy:
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Done it: ...
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