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Take some lessons in dragon-drawing and get back to us later.

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I have to ask: why Flash?

Two words: Homestar Runner.

No, but friends make friends read Homestar Runner.

Step one: go to a computer with a flash player installed.

Step two: check out these. Or for giggles, maybe a couple of these. Or maybe just This.

Step three: tell me again that Flash is pointless.

WRONG! Flash is for..
Remixing songs
Music videos
Hitting penguins
Reading emails

Army

...cue cheesy techno music...

I have just knocked up a 3 minute sound file of a bell ringing. I AM NOW AN ARTIST

Well done, you've reinvented techno.

Strong Bad, over at homestarrunner.com, shares your frustration.

I have to agree that Flash used poorly is a horrible thing. But Flash does have its uses.

Who can argue with Strong Bad.

Seriously though, Flash, like many other tools, can always be used poorly. Its up to the web designer to use the tools properly and if you encounter a site that uses any tool in a way that you dont like, dont just degrade a tool for someone else's mistake, degrade that person or orginization for being braindead.

Note: For those people not using one of macromedia's supported operating system, there is an open source plugin that Im currently using to view all flash and I have seen only a few instances where it does not work.

is that you??

first, split it into it's two parts. man, which means -- well, man. drake, which means dragon.

so we have man-dragon. switch that around and we now have dragon-man. and who was a dragon-man? why TROGDOR, of course!

surely 'trogdor' is free of trademark issues

I believe the phrase you are looking for is "fhqwhgads" (pronounced fuh-hubba-gods).

Sources inside Strongbadia suggest that they considered changing the name to Firebert ... but apparently, it's just not a good commando name.

Cheers,
IT

Sources inside Strongbadia suggest that they considered changing the name to Firebert ... but apparently, it's just not a good commando name.

Cheers,
IT

What wouldst thou deau?
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Microsoft's muscular Herculean right arm has no idea what its tiny, flubbering nub of a left hand is doing.

Now imagining this congealing beast of a company with the head of Steve Ballmer gives me an interesting image. Kind of like the Trapper Keeper blob from South Park.

Actually I think he would look more like this guy.

Anime is just plain awful. No wonder it never wins any awards. To do that it would need actual facial expressions, decent motion animation (or any at all, really -- having a flashing background behind a stiff character is NOT motion), and far less annoying voices. Strongbad was right.

00:00 blinking on their VCRs

We've got lots of worms...and phytoplankton...

Would have been nice to see a conversion for the 2600, however it may have ended up a bit like the first game mentioned here.

One could argue that if one has one's 'filters' set to high, one can end up screening out anything NEW. New experiences are what keeps the mind growing. So - I have visions of hordes of drones soaked in a safe, porn-tinted perceptual cocoon. Not saying that the idea doesn't have merit, but I think it can be abused.

Well, considering most content seems to be created like This, it's no wonder we need content filters.

I could use some of these gloves for Anti-Burnination!

Poopsmith

One benefit is that I had to reinstall Flash. I didn't get around to doing it for a few days and I realized I could live happily without it.

Live happily without Strong Bad?? Say it ain't so! ;)

Flashy, animated image ads on websites are just about as annoying about as much as pop-ups. Fortunately the Mozilla family of web browsers allows the user to block images from specific servers, which seems to work well in targeting ad-serving servers (doubleclick.com being one of the worst) yet leaving the ornamental graphics intact.

Thanks to this, I've pretty much squashed the "Get 1,000 Smileys Free" advertisements.

Now if there were only a way to block certain Flash advertisements and still be able to watch Strong Bad answering his e-mail.

The difficulty in programming the PS2 VUs has prevented the port of Strongbad's Vector Graphics Based Game. Strongbadzone
Maybe one day technology will catch up. Strongbad E-mail "Video Games"

The difficulty in programming the PS2 VUs has prevented the port of Strongbad's Vector Graphics Based Game. Strongbadzone
Maybe one day technology will catch up. Strongbad E-mail "Video Games"

"No really, print a million dollars bill!"

I recommend the collected works of Strongbad. I've converted most of 'em to MPGs > VCD (they're SFWs initially). Fun for the whole family!

Trogdor!

beautiful 2d graphics and a fresh viewpoint to knights vs dragons

No, it doesn't have it's own bullet point. It's in an actual sentence. In an actual paragraph. Remember those? ;)

Since you're such a lover of grammar, I should point out that posessive "it" has no apostrophe. As Strong Bad sings:

"If you want to be posessive, it's just I T S, But if you want to form a contraction it's I T apostrophe S. Scallawag."

There are very few websites I regularly visit which I can't access with my Amiga browsers AWeb, IBrowse or Voyager. The main browser I use is IBrowse 1.22, which probably had its last revision in '98. (It since has been updated to 2.xx, but I haven't upgraded because 1.22 works great for me).

This is mainly due to my web browsing patterns, though. I tend not to go to the mega-sites that require CSS and Flash (and even JS). Instead, I tend to go to more technically oriented websites and message boards and the like, which work just fine due to their simple design.

Slashdot works great in all the browsers too.

A lot of Amiga fans are under the misguided impression that a Mozilla or Firebird port will bring a Java Virtual Machine and Flash to the computer. It won't, of course. Work was started and aborted on two different JVMs over the years, and a half-baked port of Kaffe exists. As far as Flash, of course nothing but basic spline rasterization could be possible without bogging down the 75mhz '060 in the fastest 68k-based Amiga. On PPC-equipped machines, more is possible, but even a 233mhz 603 will get choppy on sites like homestar runner.

I look at the BeOS port of Mozilla as a sign that an Amiga port is possible, but they had serious kernel issues they had to get around (and did so with the help of sidelined Be engineers -- the closest thing we have to help like that on the Amiga side are people like Olaf Barthel and other AmigaOS geniuses). I imagine that if a more modern OS like BeOS had limitations, so will AmigaOS; Be had a problem with maximum library size allowed in memory, and some sort of segmentation scheme had to be introduced to allow Mozilla's huge library collection to be available in RAM.

My Amiga is fast, but it's only got 32 megs of RAM, and this is fine for day-to-day use with native Amiga software. With most things loaded, I'm left with about 18 megs free. This is hardly enough to get NSPR and some GUI toolkit running, let alone an entire Mozilla experience.

Sorry, I'm getting off your topic. But yeah, for the old Amiga to get re-introduced and marketed toward mainstream, the lack of a wonderful browser would be a killer. But for everyday use by Amiga fans such as myself, the browsers all work fine, and they're fast. We know our limitations.

Honestly, Voyager (under AmigaOS and MorphOS) isn't a bad browser, and has decent support for CSS, though it's unstable. IBrowse (1.22) is stable and fast, but doesn't support CSS or JavaScript *at all*. AWeb supports JavaScript and is now open-source, and even lets me get on HotMail (which Safari on OS X.2 can't do anymore, and neither can Mozilla/Camino). So I think we've got a grand browser problem in general, and I'm used to not getting the whole web when I'm on anything except the sh*tty Explorer. (Interestingly, AWeb used to be AMosaic, based on the Mosaic source code, just as we all know earlier versions of IE was).

I was under the impression that CDDB and FreeDB (its free counterpart, and BTW please learn the spelling of its coz I'm only going to sing this one more time) just used the number and duration of all the tracks on a CD, hoping that few enough CDs in the database would have that particular combination of number of tracks / duration of each track that you could pick your one from a reasonably short list. That's why you often get some bogus completely unrelated hits from CDDB.

But back on topic, it's useless for naming a single song, only if you have a full audio CD of them and one that's in the database at that (so compilation cds are excluded, unless you add yours to freedb, which you could the last time I checked -- which may have been a few years ago).

StrongBad agrees :)

In my humble opinion, it's not how many clicks it takes for the user to get to the content they're seeking - it's how easy each click it.

No matter if it's 3, 7 or 10 clicks - if the user finds the content in a logical path without getting confused, then the UI has done its jorb.

I wonder in fear what kind of application the poopsmith might build with that library...

Especially if you tell them their address is http://www.homestarrunner.com/404. It evens comes with a free picture of a loving family scene.

That is a good point. So far as I see it Jazz has seemed to be the pinnacle of good intelligent music (lyrics aside). Forms after Jazz have seemed to become more minimalist and simpler to produce, and much easier to be analyzed using music theory. Heck techno music can be analyzed by a cartoon character. Jazz as an art form is a very complex and demanding performance where every player is allowed their self expression but yet they need to work in a team to make sure that they are fitting in with the other players. It requires a strung understanding on what sounds good, a keen ear, and understanding of the other players and their own style. These are a lot of features that cannot be broken down so mathematically. Unlike most other forms of music Jazz requires real teamwork. Classical music requires perfection which a computer can reproduce, Rock, well more Pop rock since a lot of older Rock had more of a Jazz element in it, Is a very simple type of music with a simple rhythm followed by simple cords, with a solo on top of it, Just the solo although can be complex just has to fit into the simple music behind it, so it is still easy for a computer to follow this because it knows it.

Check it out here.

I see what the reviewer means about the the pictures.
It looks like it was illustrated by The Cheat.

"Hey Pikachu! Say something normal, like: 'Douglas.'"

(Attention, Citizens of Cory)

"I'm sad that Machinima isn't as popular as I thought it would be by today... the one thing that worries me is that Machinima will be seen as a hobby and not taken seriously, and that very much annoys me." She also mentions: "We may open-source an academic version of [in-house movie tool] Machinimation in the very near future."

Poopsmith

Make sure to use lots of animated gifs... or so strongbad says.

VOIP! Kristen, you look burnt, or dead.

Homestar Runner is one of the best sites on the net. XiaoXiaoMovie is awesome as well. I can't think of any other sites like these off the top of my head, but I'm sure others can add to the list.

You've obviously never been here or here. Anybody who says that flash is a bad thing for some purposes after seeing fluffy ickle animals horribly maimed and killed deserves a bullet through THEIR head. ;o)

Granted, on most sites it's a pointless waste of time, but for genuinly engaging content sometimes there is no other option. Go on, do something akin to the above in DHTML or SVG, wait, what's that, you can't? Didn't think so.

A website that is succesful:

homestarrunner.com

Consistently good content, and they only make money by selling t-shirts.