Posted by Mimic on 04/14/06 00:50

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:07:00 +0100, Mimic <dev@null.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Considering you claim to be the god of video compression, that tiny WTC
>>clip takes minutes to fully load on 1mbit. Of course it could be that
>>many people are looking at it atm and eating your servers width.
>
>
> Yer on teh east side of the Transatlan, that always equates to slow on
> my sites cause my server is in Cali. I've actually been considering
> buying a second server in like D00tchie land (that way I can even host
> torrents). Lookin at last months server stats:
> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/BW_Usage_March_2006.png
>
> Some 130,000 or so unique visitors for March, teh UK and Poland are
> right up near the top at around 2k and 6k respectively.
>

Yuh could be, obviously you have to focus on your core/majority
demograph. I have a server in texas that runs at .... 136ms from here,
yours is.... 175ms ... maybe its something else?

>
>>You should make sure the pause button is pause/resume, I hate it when
>>people make video controls where you have to press play instead of pause
>>to resume/unpause :P
>
>
> Hrmmm...yeah I guess I could do it that way...seems a lil weird
> though...maybe it would make more sense to NOT have a play button,
> just a pause and stop button and then when you click on either one,
> the button turns INTO a play button...and then when you press the play
> button it turns back into pause or stop. Whatcha think about that?
>
> --
>
> Onideus Mad Hatter

Yeah I like that, a STOP and a changing play/pause button, just require
a quick gfx fix iirc. Maybe the whole unpause/play issue is cultural.

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