PensiveSage

Going back to the flashy websites discussion, if you look at corporate sites, say Pepsi.com, they don't focus solely on glamor and glitz, but create insightful content that incorporates some glamor and glitz into the overall product image. They use the aesthetics to draw in the user and provide a suggestion of a subculture. But these sites work to keep the look refined, and cater to their specific user base. In my own experience I have worked on sites that are all business, and sites that are meant to draw in users via interactivity. I've often found a good site uses both of these aspects. If I go to an informational site the arrangement of the text, and the structuring of the content can make all the difference between whether I can find what I'm looking for or not. And though these sites have little to no need for flashy web content, they still do require some thought of aesthetics.

I don't know all the technical standards of ISP servers and routers, but I think that they do store some of the transfer information (i.e. routes and requests of packets), and thus the government could seize these records, as they do with cell phone calls in certain investigative cases. It is my personal opinion that without having the freedom to browse without "Big Brother" watching over our shoulder, the very principles of freedom of speech and expression are brought into question. Technology has always faced the issues of open expression. When radio and television first came out, they stood as open medium for free expression. Though they were a bit more pricey to broadcast on, they were originally free of the commercialization and severe regulation that is held today. Though some of this is good, it generally is rather difficult for someone to "freely and openly" express themselves on either of these two standards. At present, the internet provides a relatively easily accessible standard of expression. But it could easily become another case of radio or television if the government doesn't work to keep it open rather than restrict it

I find it interesting that all the recent platform systems have suffered problems within the past year. The XBox facing technical failure issues, the PS3 facing major pricing issues, and the Wii facing a limited supply for the mass demand that it has received. All of these systems have had to resolve these issues, and are still working on them

A great place to go for technical details of most any internet language/standard is http://www.w3schools.com/. They have tutorials, lessons on syntax, and listings of commands, functions, and namespaces. Otherwise for ASP.NET, most of it is done via the language of your choice (VB, C#, etc.), with the addition of Application and Session variables. I hope this provides some help. Otherwise if you have any questions I know quite a bit of ASP.NET, C#, and VB so feel free to ask.

I'm just wondering if anyone here knows any good resources for learning OpenGL? I've seen plenty of books around, but am not committed to purchasing any without first getting some idea of what topics they cover. I've also looked at some sites, but haven't found any good comprehensive tutorials. As for programming languages I use: C#, VisualBasic, C++, ActionScript 2, and I'm starting to learn Java. Right now I find that Actionscript and the flash environment are nice resources for creating internet games. Personally, I find that Flash better facilitates the creation of animations for those, like myself, who don't have that great of animation tools nor skills.