All Things Superman: An Open Discussion - - - Part 40

[AnneFan]

I think its a good idea to just ignore it.
When the trailer is there,
We will know, we will hear about it .

Fans can't do that.

 

[Visceral]

so they cant figure out the static til monday?

 

[SpideyFan866]

You guys must've missed it. After looking into the source code, we discovered a countdown within it.

That countdown doesn't end until Monday.

 

[Kevin Smith]

We must decode it. The members of this thread and 88 guests are currently counting on us.

 

[gomez147]

You guys must've missed it. After looking into the source code, we discovered a countdown within it.

That countdown doesn't end until Monday.

A few pages back, a guy told us that it's more likely a 25 hours countdown

 

[Mysteryman]

Your probably right .
But it is going to be hours possibly days before we find anything out .

 

[SpideyFan866]

Interestingly, inside the javascript function that uses that variable...90000 (seconds?) is immediately subtracted from the value of deltaT (the parameter is dTL inside the function). This would translate to -25 hours. I'm still studying the code, but it's possible that 0 could get here a little sooner.

Also, I noticed if you're using a mobile device, you get a looping gif of the static, rather than a video:
http://www.manofsteel.com/transmissi...9/incoming.gif

Here's a link to the javascript if anyone else wants to check it out:
http://www.manofsteel.com/js/src/transmission.js

A couple of other things:

The transId variable determines the URL the video and audio come from.

The deltaT (- the 25 hours) variable eventually gets stored in a value called tRem. I'd wager that's short for 'time remaining'.

I also think that as things get closer, we'll end up with a visible countdown. There's no need to have javascript counting down on the client side...unless you want to show the client how much time is left, either explicitly, with an on screen countdown...or 'covertly', with exposed javascript that you didn't bother to obfuscate. So, either it's a visible countdown...or they WANT us to poke around in their code and come up with the answer ourselves. Or I'm wrong.

This really makes me wish I had listened to me Web developement teacher in High school and gotten my Javascript certification.

 

[Smallville13]

Ah... Remember a week ago when we were soulless husks getting into fights about arguing about arguing about arguing there was nothing to talk about?

 

[jasvll]

A few pages back, a guy told us that it's more likely a 25 hours countdown

Not quite. It's the original guess - 25 hours.

And with the way it's rounding internally, I think that translates to:

aM = 2777.383333333333 = 2777 (minutes)*
aH = 46.28972222222222 = 46 (hours)
aD = 1.928738425925926 = 2 (days)

..from now

*The minutes are probably about a half hour off by now.

 

[N7 Joseph Shepard]

Ah... Remember a week ago when we were soulless husks getting into fights about arguing about arguing about arguing there was nothing to talk about?

what....WHAT!!....you wanna fight ...YYYYOOUU WANT OT FIGHT!!!!!

I'm sorry all this waiting is making me a bit jumpy

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Not quite. It's the original guess - 25 hours.

And with the way it's rounding internally, I think that translates to:

aM = 2777.383333333333 = 2777 (minutes)*
aH = 46.28972222222222 = 46 (hours)
aD = 1.928738425925926 = 2 (days)

..from now

*The minutes are probably about a half hour off by now.

So, Sunday night?

 

[gomez147]

Well, we are going to see... But I hope it releases this weekend

 

[Smallville13]

So, Sunday night?

Seems like. Hopefully it doesn't lead to the 'actual' countdown or something. But I'm guessing we'll see the trailer then.

 

[X Knight]

when is the MTV awards thing?? is it this weekend?

 

[Excel]

Is it true the trailer is 3 minutes and 5 seconds?

 

[gomez147]

Is it true the trailer is 3 minutes and 5 seconds?

Yep.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

when is the MTV awards thing?? is it this weekend?

Sunday night.

 

[Kryptonian Warrior]

when is the MTV awards thing?? is it this weekend?

Yes, it's this Sunday night.

 

[jasvll]

My best guess for that javascript, is that it loads the video/audio initially, then every half second, checks to see how long it's been since the page was loaded. If it's been long enough [ (the hour you loaded the page + 3)/5 != (current hour +3 /5)] (that's every 5 hours, if my math is right), it refreshes the page, which would load new audio/video (if it's time for it) or the old one (if it's not).

The question for me still is, how does the code know when it's time for the next audio/video, and is it predictable?

Also, it's not clear what happens when the countdown hits 0..other than it forces a hard refresh of the page and clears all the countdown variables.
That hard refresh is called displayDriver_finish, which is probably a good sign.

Edit:

So, Sunday night?

Only if I have any idea what I'm talking about.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

My best guess for that javascript, is that it loads the video/audio initially, then every half second, checks to see how long it's been since the page was loaded. If it's been long enough [ (the hour you loaded the page + 3)/5 != (current hour +3 /5)] (that's every 5 hours, if my math is right), it refreshes the page, which would load new audio/video (if it's time for it) or the old one (if it's not).

The question for me still is, how does the code know when it's time for the next audio/video, and is it predictable?

Also, it's not clear what happens when the countdown hits 0..other than it forces a hard refresh of the page and clears all the countdown variables.
That hard refresh is called displayDriver_finish, which is probably a good sign.

Edit:


Only if I have any idea what I'm talking about.

I have faith.

 

[X Knight]

Sunday night.

Yes, it's this Sunday night.

hmmmm.........the page looks like TV static.

the MTV awards are this Sunday......

hmmmm............

 

[DarthSkywalker]

hmmmm.........the page looks like TV static.

the MTV awards are this Sunday......

hmmmm............

Which would make my long boring call for something at the MTV movie awards right. t:

 

[Kevin Smith]

hmmmm.........the page looks like TV static.

the MTV awards are this Sunday......

hmmmm............

Holy Television special reveal, XKnight!

 

[Naite22]

I can't believe we're actually getting a 3 minute plus trailer. I only seem to remember Titanic and Avatar having trailers that long as well! Incredible. Wuhuuu!

 

[JimJimBinks]

hmmmm.........the page looks like TV static.

the MTV awards are this Sunday......

hmmmm............

MTV has 3 letters...

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