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Look in http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ They already show apps accepted into the store that were made by devs with prerelease versions of Flash CS5... I think this is cool as it will enable people skilled in Flash to stick to their tool of choice. I would love to see a comparison between developing the iPhone SDK and Flash.

http://elbitz.net/home.php is good, but they only open up registering every now and then (I remember I waited like 2 months to get my user). In general, though I just use the same popular torrent sites for everything else I get for books, too and I've gotten 6.28GB that way. Also, appear to have just found a .pdf with a huge list of ebook sites (and one for how to swear in all languages!). Haven't tried any of them, but go for it:
O'Reilly online http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ | http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/ Computer books and manuals http://www.hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html | http://www.informit.com/itlibrary/ | http://www.fore.com/support/manuals/home/home.htm | http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/webbuy/freebooks.html The Network Book http://www.cs.columbia.edu/netbook/ Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc links http://www.extrema.net/books/links.shtml Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc fiction http://194.58.154.90:4431/enscifi/ Pimpas online books (Indonesia) http://202.159.16.55/~pimpa2000 | http://202.159.15.46/~om-pimpa/buku Security, privacy and cryptography http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html | http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/ My own misc online reading material http://www.eastcoastfx.com/docs/admin-guides/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/reading/ Computer books http://solaris.inorg.chem.msu.ru/cs-books/ | http://sweetrude.net/~cab/books/ | http://alaska.mine.nu/books/ | http://poprocks.dyn.ns.ca/dave/books/ | http://58-160.skarland.uaf.edu/books/ | http://202.186.247.194/~ebook/ | http://hooligans.org/reference/ Linux documentation http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html FreeBSD documentation http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ Sun documentation http://osiris.imw.tu-clausthal.de:8888/ | http://uran.vvsu.ru:8888/ SGI documentation http://newton.unicc.chalmers.se/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb;td=2 | http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi IBM Online Redbooks http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ Digital Unix documentation http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40D_HTML/V40D_HTML/LIBRARY.HTM Filesystem Hierarchy Standard http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html | http://www.linuxbase.com/ UNIX stuff http://ww

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Just to back you up further, as if you had need of it :)

http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/

No, I mean Shockwave. The Linux Flash player doesn't support Shockwave content, only regular Flash animation. The majority of kids' interactive stuff is regular Flash, but enough of it uses Shockwave for it to be a problem.

OK, as an Adobe employee and the designated Adobe PDF Platform Architect let me put forward some facts.
o PDF has been an ISO standard for over a year (ISO 32000-1). (A free copy can be obtained here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html (bottom of the page).)
o There are no legal restrictions imposed by Adobe to develop software to process PDF. No money, no hassle, never was.
o There are thousands of applications created by hundreds of vendors that process PDF files in some way. (Do a Google search on PDF Software.)
o There are many of those that can create and verify PDF digital signatures. (Do a Google search on PDF Signatures.)
o People who are not developers have no desire to decipher the innards of the files that are on their computers, XML, binary or whatever.
o People in Europe use PDF files widely and they want a digital signature capability that meets the European Commission (EC) requirements. The new ETSI/ESI standard (TS 102 778), that was the subject of this press release, provides that. It is nicknamed PAdES (PDF based) and joins two previous ETSI signature standards CAdES (CMS Based) and XAdES (XML based) to support the ECs Advanced Electronic Signature (AdES) requirements. Europeans want these standards and the solutions they support!
o Security does not reside in a passive file. It resides in the software that processes that file.

This is about Try #4 for 3D on the Web. Web3D was an XML representation of VRML. Unfortunately, the effect of the Web3D consortium was to kill VRML in favor of a vaporware concept.

3D in the browser is done well in Macromedia Shockwave. Try this 3D driving game. The Shockwave player is supposedly available on 58% of PCs. Some versions of Shockwave even had the Havok physics engine, but Macromedia stopped paying Havok for the license and took that out.

The main problem with Shockwave is that it doesn't start as fast as Flash does. Flash has a nice scheme for interleaving the timeline and the asset data, so that playing starts very quickly. At least if the content is authored properly. Also, Shockwave authoring tools are expensive.

About Java 3D, the less said, the better.

The problem with offering OpenGL access to Javascript is that Javascript isn't a good language for fast matrix math. Also, authoring tools will have to be developed. You can't effectively author 3D content in a text editor.

You're not buying it, you're licensing it.
Adobe is a great example:
A CS 4 Master Collection license costs $2499.00
A CS 4 Master Collection DVD box set without the license costs $15.99

You're not buying it, you're licensing it.
Adobe is a great example:
A CS 4 Master Collection license costs $2499.00
A CS 4 Master Collection DVD box set without the license costs $15.99

I've created a bug report for this issue.

amen. OSS, alsa, pulseaudio, for christsake just give me sound that works without having a million handler processes.

So just use ALSA!

The situation on Linux is that there used to be OSS, and now there is ALSA. ALSA works fine, for pretty much everybody. There are a few legacy apps which use OSS because no one is updating them, and obviously, it would be nice if they would play nice. Pulseaudio is a bit strange, but nothing requires it's use, and IMHO there is no real reason for it to be used unless you want to do somewhat strange things (that you generally can't do on any other type of OS). Don't use pulseaudio if you don't want to; if your distro forces it on you, use a sane one.

This scary graph and related ideas tends to get mentioned in connection with this: this conflates libraries, sound servers, and drivers to some extent. One could draw a similar graph for windows, featuring programs using the Quicktime library, the WMP library, MME, DirectSound, WASAPI and various other APIs and libraries (and I haven't even gone into the changes to the audio driver model). WMP would have plenty of in arrows from applications using its libraries, and plenty of out arrows because it supports more than one API. And don't forget that there are still legacy applications which need to be the only app playing audio, just like on Linux.

Here is why I can't be bothered to learn enough about the driver layer to give examples: "UAA is intended to be a complete replacement for developing WDM Audio Drivers; however, in some cases it may be necessary for an otherwise UAA-compliant audio device to expose capabilities that cannot be done through UAA. Windows will continue to fully support audio drivers that use the PortCls and AVStream drivers.

Audio technology has evolved, lots. Having backward compatibility requires that things get slightly complex. Everybody is doing this. I think Linux is doing it rather well, although certain distros make some odd choices.

OSS was okay.

OSS made it impossible to play more than one stream at once on a lot of hardware.

My first google search result is Flash Player 10 which begins with the following text:

Update: Furthering Adobe's commitment to the Linux community and as part of ongoing efforts to ensure the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, an alpha refresh of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on 7/30/09 and is available for download. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation. Learn more by reading the 64-bit Flash Player 10 FAQ.

Click the "download" link and visit Adobe Labs Downloads - Flash Player 10" and you will find the x64 flash player download.
If you had actually read the page at the top of the google search results, you would have found the information you were looking for. Instead you were so sure that I was wrong, you made an idiot of yourself. Well, that's not particularly true. You showed us all that you are an idiot. In summary, you are a big dumbfuck who can't read. Please leave slashdot, you are making it dumber for all of us.
P.S. this is precisely the procedure I followed when I downloaded it for installation on my desktop system, upon which it is working right now. So far it works very well, albeit slowly. A drunken monkey could have figured this one out. You have to read to use the internets. Google is just a part of that.

My first google search result is Flash Player 10 which begins with the following text:

Update: Furthering Adobe's commitment to the Linux community and as part of ongoing efforts to ensure the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, an alpha refresh of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on 7/30/09 and is available for download. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation. Learn more by reading the 64-bit Flash Player 10 FAQ.

Click the "download" link and visit Adobe Labs Downloads - Flash Player 10" and you will find the x64 flash player download.
If you had actually read the page at the top of the google search results, you would have found the information you were looking for. Instead you were so sure that I was wrong, you made an idiot of yourself. Well, that's not particularly true. You showed us all that you are an idiot. In summary, you are a big dumbfuck who can't read. Please leave slashdot, you are making it dumber for all of us.
P.S. this is precisely the procedure I followed when I downloaded it for installation on my desktop system, upon which it is working right now. So far it works very well, albeit slowly. A drunken monkey could have figured this one out. You have to read to use the internets. Google is just a part of that.

Here's a page that checks your Flash version and lists the latest version for the different browsers/operating systems: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

That's nothing, I know a lot of pages that will check your flash version for the different browsers/operating systems, *and* attempt to install software for you. They might even entertain you while you wait.

The Flash video format was opened long time ago. Adobes Linux Mozilla plugin is still proprietary and sucks monkeyballs of course. But there is nothing stopping any open source developer from writing a good plugin themselves. That no developer has done that is not Adobe's fault. Meanwhile, if you know what you are doing (check the /tmp directory!), you can download the video and it will play perfect in fullscreen in any gstreamer based player such as totem.

Here's a page that checks your Flash version and lists the latest version for the different browsers/operating systems: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

But can you run Final Cut Studio on the machine you buy from new egg?

Of course not. That's what Adobe Premiere is for.

Interesting that Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 is actually cheaper than Final Cut Studio, though.

No, there is a native 64-bit plugin on Linux: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

It doesn't use 32-bit libraries and works just fine. I don't remember it crashing at all.

You could just use CS3. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/08/pscs3_on_snowleopard.html

Here's the most recent blurb from John Nack - basically it's a non issue.

Forgive my ignorance, but what does the operating system version have to do with anything? Why wouldn't Adobe CS3 (which isn't all that terribley old) not run on a new release of OSX? Is Apple really that retarded?

It's not that it won't run, it's that it's not fully supported. Adobe is supporting CS4 on Snow Leopard and won't devote resources to testing and fixing problems CS3 may have running on the new OS.

See here.

Also, it's part Apple being retarded by not keeping Carbon up to date without working out how Adobe would transition to Cocoa first.

[Update: No one said anything about CS3 being "not supported" on Snow Leopard. The plan, however, is not to take resources away from other efforts (e.g. porting Photoshop to Cocoa) in order to modify 2.5-year-old software in response to changes Apple makes in the OS foundation.]

And also things like:

I'd frankly be shocked if people at Adobe & Apple really hadn't tested CS3 on 10.6. I *think* it's just some corporate conservatism at work here, and Adobe doesn't want to over-promise anything.

So all in all: No Big Deal

just to clarify that they aren't kidding

The Adobe Linux flash devs have seen that comic too and reckon the issue with Linux full screen flash performance is down to graphics card driver capabilities and the difficulty in discovering them.

The Adobe Linux flash devs have seen that comic too and reckon the issue with Linux full screen flash performance is down to graphics card driver capabilities and the difficulty in discovering them.

There is already a 64bit version of flash:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

If having a plugin means Microsoft doesn't need to implement it, then the existence of the several-year-old plugin from Adobe has been doing that already. Looking at the project page, it seems like using this in IE means that the entire SVG part of the site ends up being rendered in an SVG-supporting browser implemented in Flash. Umm, yay?

And they're fixing this with a plugin? I'm confused, because the last time I ran IE was several years ago and back then it supported SVG just fine, via a plugin from Adobe. The only limitation was that, because it was a plugin, the SVG had to be in a separate file, you couldn't mix SVG and XHTML in the same XML document. You also couldn't use SVG for site layout and properly embed HTML in it, as you can in a browser that supports SVG natively. So, what advantage does a new Google SVG plugin over an old Adobe SVG plugin? I'd be very surprised if Google supports more of the (massive and crazy) SVG spec than Adobe.

A typical recent college grad who wants to freelance graphics design work might say "easily"purchasing Adobe's Creative Suite is all but impossible for their finances.

Which CS edition would that be, exactly?

They start at just a few hundred bucks for students...
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayEduConditions&store=OLS-EDU&nr=1 ...the Master edition is $999 but that's still a far cry from its commercial pricing ($2499). That's from Adobe direct - any number of edu resellers will offer an additional discount. This is hardly out of the reach of a student serious about pursuing freelance work with graphics. A student thinking they can just dabble with making a website with some dropshadow graphics might suddenly find that after spending all the beermoney, they don't have e.g. $299 left for the appropriate CS edition (not everybody needs Master). Them's the breaks.

If the student is an American, they even get to use it commercially during and after education. No such luck for non-Americans, of course:
http://www.adobe.com/education/students/studentedition/faq.html ( expand "How can I use my software -- during and after school?" )

Let's face it.. people pirate not because the software is sooo expensive or because there's no alternatives (if the graduate wants to freelance, then (s)he can use free alternatives just fine. If they want to join an existing studio where e.g. Photoshop is the rhythm the drum beats, then having some Photoshop experience can be worthwhile. So land a few jobs using free tools (or the edu version if you're an American student), then pick up the tools you need / the suite. ), but because $0 is still $N less than $N, no matter how small the amount N may be.

There is the whole debate about whether or not Adobe even cares (software lock-in, etc.), but that's for another thread entirely.

A typical recent college grad who wants to freelance graphics design work might say "easily"purchasing Adobe's Creative Suite is all but impossible for their finances.

Which CS edition would that be, exactly?

They start at just a few hundred bucks for students...
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayEduConditions&store=OLS-EDU&nr=1 ...the Master edition is $999 but that's still a far cry from its commercial pricing ($2499). That's from Adobe direct - any number of edu resellers will offer an additional discount. This is hardly out of the reach of a student serious about pursuing freelance work with graphics. A student thinking they can just dabble with making a website with some dropshadow graphics might suddenly find that after spending all the beermoney, they don't have e.g. $299 left for the appropriate CS edition (not everybody needs Master). Them's the breaks.

If the student is an American, they even get to use it commercially during and after education. No such luck for non-Americans, of course:
http://www.adobe.com/education/students/studentedition/faq.html ( expand "How can I use my software -- during and after school?" )

Let's face it.. people pirate not because the software is sooo expensive or because there's no alternatives (if the graduate wants to freelance, then (s)he can use free alternatives just fine. If they want to join an existing studio where e.g. Photoshop is the rhythm the drum beats, then having some Photoshop experience can be worthwhile. So land a few jobs using free tools (or the edu version if you're an American student), then pick up the tools you need / the suite. ), but because $0 is still $N less than $N, no matter how small the amount N may be.

There is the whole debate about whether or not Adobe even cares (software lock-in, etc.), but that's for another thread entirely.

Too late.
http://labs.mozilla.com/prism/
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
http://silverlight.net/
http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/sidebar-gadgets.aspx
http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Screenshots

One more thing to mention about this. Since Sony will be opening up the bookstore to any ebook reader that supports Adobe-encrypted ePubs, there's a page that lists the devices that use this particular DRM scheme. (The Bookeen Cybook Opus is apparently a very nice little device.) Ideally the DRM scheme will eventually be abandoned (much like it was for iTunes) and any non-DRM-supporting ePub reader will be supported. But for the time being, there's a fairly decent selection of devices that will be able to be used with the Sony store once the transition is completed.

Adobe and ARM Accelerate Flash and AIR for ARM Platforms

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200811/111708ARMAdobeFlash.html

An even better solution is on Adobe's own web site: How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control

The industry is stablizing for those that are general programmers.

Oh, is it? I missed that memo.

Ghostscript is very nice, but it has a long way to go to support the massive list of ISO standards Adobe has garnered of late with PDF. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/standards.html

How many of those standards do you actually use? I mean, really?

JavaScript? Manipulable 3D models (used nowhere outside of engineering whitepapers)? Flash?

Come on.

On Linux, Skype is buggy as hell. It would be actually good if they go away and someone like Google step in with something functional. They need it anyway for their Chrome OS.

That is due to the buggy nature of Linux... if Linux sound is so problematic, I can imagine that the video interfaces are no less shitty.

Mmmm. I think I will post this as AC... this kind of posts are not liked by Linux zealots around here

................obviously.. I'm not talking about Reader. I compared the size of Acrobat with ghostscript, which can also create postscript and PDF documents. It was relevant to GGP because he was talking about PDF bloat from Adobe.

Ghostscript is very nice, but it has a long way to go to support the massive list of ISO standards Adobe has garnered of late with PDF. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/standards.html

Does SumatraPDF and the rest remotely support the following PDF standards? http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/standards.html

The installer doesn't work for Chrome. Flash reports that I'm using 10,0,22,87 but the latest is 10.0.32.18. That means I have to extract the plugin from the installer with winrar and install it manually....... come on, get on top of this, Google.

I'm rather impressed Adobe even updated the alpha 64-bit plugin for Linux at the same time as all the other platforms:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

I was kinda expecting they had forgotten about it, so it's nice they didn't.

See http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html
It's fun to bash Adobe, but they have real problems on their hand. Even Google had trouble picking/developing a graphic toolkit for the Linux version of Chrome.

It's Linux's problem too. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html

Also, if the video drivers do not support acceleration, what do you expect Adobe to do? Develop graphic drivers and install them with flash?

No, it doesn't.
Windows XP originally came with Macromedia Flash Player 5 (http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2001/fp5_msxp.html)
This Microsoft update only applies to this ancient Flash Player distributed with Windows XP as a part of that agreement (versions 5 and 6).

Get rid of Acrobat reader while you're at it: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/326/326641.html

The fix to all Flash problems lies here on Adobe's own web site: How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control.

No, it's not just a media library. It's also a media player, and not a popular one. In fact, it's very unpopular. Did I also mention that it's shit? Well, it is. Objectively. Shit.

And what exactly makes it different from this besides being Windows only?

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features/

BTW thanks for your Disclaimer, you have ethics unlike some commenters on this (and several other) recent Slashdot stories.

The list of new features looks very familiar to the new Flash player that came out a while back: Hardware Acceleration, 3D Capabilities, Dynamic Streaming (Variable Bitrate), Etc.. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features/

I just assumed that by PDF they mean PDF/A. Isn't that controlled by ISO?

Yep

"On January 29, 2007, Adobe announced its intent to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). During 2007 and into early 2008 that intent was turned into a reality. ISO published the approved ISO 32000-1 standard based upon PDF 1.7 in July 2008. ISO will also produce future versions of the PDF Specification."

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html

except for the "extra" features adobe added and documented since the release of the standard.