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But over time more and more people used it who had an almost insane hatred of anything non-white.

Only on /new/, which was deleted. /b/ is just trolling (probably).

4chan is better known for endless lolcats then child porn which frankly in quite a few years of occasional use I have only seen in the form of deleted posts

It get's posted daily in every board that moves more than 5 post per minute. It is usually posted not to share CP, but out of anger that the mods deleted something that the poster liked.

But over time more and more people used it who had an almost insane hatred of anything non-white.

Only on /new/, which was deleted. /b/ is just trolling (probably).

4chan is better known for endless lolcats then child porn which frankly in quite a few years of occasional use I have only seen in the form of deleted posts

It get's posted daily in every board that moves more than 5 post per minute. It is usually posted not to share CP, but out of anger that the mods deleted something that the poster liked.

Macromedia/Adobe got/gets designers, and too many people don't realise that.

Even assuming this is entirely correct, Adobe is planning to produce authoring tools for HTML5 directly. As for existing content...

You may not be interested in it, but there are some gems buried in NewGrounds along with all the crap.

NewGrounds is hardly the reason Flash won't die. If it was just Newgrounds, well, hey, there are some gems buried in platform-specific native game binaries -- and not all of these are Windows, mind you, there are some real gems which ran on Mac OS 9. It's an issue, but it's not a point against moving forward to a viable replacement -- especially something like HTML, which is going to be a hello f a lot more future-proof than Flash.

Flash will die, and this kind of creative content will die with it until a new challenger appears; or more likely, Flash will just refuse to dies, and the geek elite just won't understand why.

So, of this, option one is a lot more likely. Flash refuses to die right now largely because of video, and it's being steadily replaced there. There are a few niche places where Flash can still do things HTML5 can't -- right now, audio strikes me as most likely, and even that is being addressed -- but it will eventually die.

In the mean time...

None of the other solutions are accessible to designer types the way Flash is.

If you're more than a one-man Newgrounds operation, it doesn't actually matter that much. You know what designers are good at? Designing. There's a reason Flash has a reputation for being slow and buggy as hell, a constant CPU drain, etc. Some of this is Flash's own fault, I'm sure, and I can back this up by comparing YouTube's performance with Flash versus any native player on the same video file. Most of it is enabling designers to attempt to program, with similar results to enabling executives to attempt to program in Excel.

The same tools will eventually come to HTML5, and I'm alright with that. Please don't take this as an elitist stance of, "Leave programming to the professionals." All I'm saying is that if the existing stuff isn't accessible to you, some of that is because it's overly complex, but a lot of it is because you aren't a programmer. There's no reason you couldn't be, and many designers do make that leap (or simply team up with a programmer). But you do have to invest some time in learning something about how computers actually think.

To put it another way, I don't think I would be taken seriously if I attempted to do serious design work with MS Paint. There are tools which let me easily throw together a comic, but I don't think this compares with this or this. These aren't the best examples of either, but honestly, if the ragecomics went up in smoke, I really couldn't care. That's kind of how I feel about Flash, especially when it's used by designers.

If you're neither willing to learn some real programming or work with a real programmer, then I'm not sure I will miss the loss of your content. If you are willing to do either, then I have to imagine that Flash vs HTML5 isn't a huge issue.

Here's another good example of how lying with pictures works.

http://i.imgur.com/t10qf.jpg

Also relevant:

http://i.imgur.com/3N3v6.jpg

I've had one of those black rectangle flatscreen mobile devices to play videos for the little one quite a while now, and it was on the market before the iPad. It has been mistaken for an iPad frequently, even though it doesn't even have a touchscreen.

Here is a picture, 'looks like an iPad', or, because it predates it, 'an iPad looks like this':

http://www.technotalks.com/reviews/aluratek-preps-in-cinepal-hi-def-portable-media-player/

I'm not saying it's an iPad, but it looks like one and it's a battery powered thing with a big screen you can carry around and it has screens with icons, menus, and stuff, it even plays videos and music.

And in the article you link to, a commenter also linked to this interesting image: http://i.imgur.com/3AlUc.jpg

Look at this URL and tell me you don't see a radical shift in Apple's look after the Prada. Can you not see the deception in yours?

Cherry picked comparisons? Here's my submission: http://imgur.com/6jlz0

This is my main problem with this ``movement''. I would love to see bankers and their lobbyist dragged into the streets, hanged upside-down from lamp post, and eviscerated just as much as the next guy. I, however, cannot stand the idea of supporting those people. 99% of them are stupid whores who have 3 kids, got a $100,000 degree in some bullshit subject like Black Studies, and then wonder why no one wants to hire them and that a nonprofit that gives out needles to dopeheads doesn't pay $100K a year. *click*

This is what see reading the blog on Linux. It doesn't bode well for the future of Skype...

I installed it a week ago while still in beta, and for the first time I didn't have to solve any unexpected situation, it was smooth. I actually rushed just to get an updated GIMP version (ppa never updated that version for 11.04, and the update fixes ORA support and single-window mode) , but didn't regret it.

Also, am I the only one that doesn't hate Unity? I don't use it, but I like what I see. I even adapted my KDE desktop to be kind of compliant (except for the shared menubar, I use panoramic and I have a setup of 1 big window and 3 side windows, and it's a mess to use a fixed menubar for all).
I jokingly name it Kunity: http://i.imgur.com/WvwDn.png
(The taskbar is Icon Tasks, a plasmoid that implements the Unity API. For launching I don't need dash, I use Kupfer. That that thing at the corner is a Conway's life plasmoid, I am addicted to that thing).

I see myself eventually using Unity2D if I ever dump KDE (2D to avoid lag when developing GL games. Some effects are hard to see with compositing enabled, I keep it disabled in KDE). And the Unity Launcher API is very fun to play with. Made myself a nice launcher for Zim and a way to switch firefox profiles very quickly in just 5 seconds (not literally, but less than 30 min. including checking the specs and examples).

Ugh, that final link should be this: http://i.imgur.com/5Fmab.png

See, no "All" option on that menu.

I appreciate the try, but I guess I'm screwed for another decade.

The link you told me to go to goes here: http://i.imgur.com/O6YLl.png

And the Discussions tab has no "Retrieve X Comments" menu in classic view. See: http://i.imgur.com/CAHTQ.png

Finally, when I set Discussions to the D2, there IS a "Retrieve X Comments" control, but it has no "All" option, only "Many" "Few" and "More". See: http://i.imgur.com/NNGxK.png

Does this option seriously exist, or are you just fucking with me?

I appreciate the try, but I guess I'm screwed for another decade.

The link you told me to go to goes here: http://i.imgur.com/O6YLl.png

And the Discussions tab has no "Retrieve X Comments" menu in classic view. See: http://i.imgur.com/CAHTQ.png

Finally, when I set Discussions to the D2, there IS a "Retrieve X Comments" control, but it has no "All" option, only "Many" "Few" and "More". See: http://i.imgur.com/NNGxK.png

Does this option seriously exist, or are you just fucking with me?

I appreciate the try, but I guess I'm screwed for another decade.

The link you told me to go to goes here: http://i.imgur.com/O6YLl.png

And the Discussions tab has no "Retrieve X Comments" menu in classic view. See: http://i.imgur.com/CAHTQ.png

Finally, when I set Discussions to the D2, there IS a "Retrieve X Comments" control, but it has no "All" option, only "Many" "Few" and "More". See: http://i.imgur.com/NNGxK.png

Does this option seriously exist, or are you just fucking with me?

So basically Apple's trying to patent this. http://i.imgur.com/m5O0Z.png

Yes, Samsung clearly didn't copy apple... not at all..

oh yes, because apple invented every single one of those things. you ignorant fool.

Yes, Samsung clearly didn't copy apple... not at all..

Be aware that the PC version has a serious texture popping issue. I've yet to read someone state they DON'T have this problem, no matter the hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5oEdfT4OWY BTW, and here's the extent of your in-game graphics options: http://i.imgur.com/Rlvr6.jpg The game is designed to set its quality settings automatically relative to your hardware capabilities, but this very rarely works well in practice and also doesn't account for people like me who prefers a lower, but still playable frame rate in exchange for higher quality graphics. Anyways, sounds like the game was designed for consoles first anyway (at time of writing the FOV can't even be changed despite someone finding out how to enable the console). Way to go Carmack.

This is why I always use a picture like this for any online public pics.

Note that the pic in question (a) does not show a face clearly and (b) may or may not be me.

Psh, nigga please.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
http://ifamericansknew.org/stats/children.html
http://www.rememberthesechildren.org/remember2010.html

Yup, yup

This is what happened to my post, shortly after linking it on Facebook... The link and preview are completely gone.

http://i.imgur.com/6k8tE.png

WTF, Facebook? U scared?

It finally gave me images and I took a screen shot/capture to upload to share: http://i.imgur.com/opSLl.jpg ... :)

http://i.imgur.com/vd2WA.jpg

GNAA Endorses Construction of "Ground Zero Mosque"

Leonard K. Isler - New York, NY

New York, NY - GNAA today announced its endorsement of the
construction of the now-infamous "Ground Zero Mosque"
that is planned to be built two blocks away from the site of the September 11th
World Trade Center Zionist attacks.

The construction of the mosque community center is mainly opposed
by the Zionist hate group "Stop Islamization of America" and its Jewish
supporters, who argue that the construction of a mosque community
center would be a "victory for Islam against America".

What SIOA fails to mention is that the September 11th attacks were, in fact,
not carried out by Muslims, but by Zionist Jews. To combat this misconception,
GNAA has endorsed the construction of the mosque community center.

"Ms. Geller is a known Jewish sympathizer", explains GNAA associate Klerck,
"she is more than happy to spread these lies through fearmongering and the
exploitation of public ignorance, using this Zionist hate group as a mouthpiece.
It's not even a mosque, it's a community center. There was no other way to
combat these Zionist lies, we simply had to endorse the construction of the
community center."

"The community center is a much-needed thing in the Muslim community of New
York", explains GNAA operative Jmax, "what other location would be the ideal
place to pray for the extermination of the Jewish race five times a day?
Insha'Allah!"

Ms. Geller declined to comment in person, speaking only in a brief interview
conducted over the phone. The Jewish mouthpiece merely said "we must secure the
existence of our people and a future for white children", wiping humus from her
mouth while dining at a Bruegger's in lower Manhattan, and dialing her cell
phone with her nose.

SIOA has declined to comment on the synagogue that is planned to be built on
Ground Zero.

About Ms. Geller

Hates darkies.

About SIOA

Supporters of the inhuman ideology known as "Zionism" that
slaughtered 3,000
precious souls on September 11, 2001, and funded by the Mossad.

About Jews

Did WTC.

About GNAA:

GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Too soon?

Yes, but you can't measure "good UI" in an Excel diagram

I beg to differ. http://i.imgur.com/teooN.png

Whats weird is I installed the adwords & google analytics optout addons for chrome. It messes up the rendering on certain pages (e.g. acid3 test)

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

This is what I get : http://i.imgur.com/HvY5U.png

Ah yes, the iPhone 4, a fine example of a Palm/WinCE handheld. Eat crow, eat it all up. LG proved to be a better company than Apple, you can hardly blame them for that.

Apple before and after the LG Prada.

*For all your LG Prada freaks, it was announced on December 12, 2006... You're telling me Apple conceived and designed the iPhone in 28 days?!!?

No, we are saying that Apple didn't design anything unique. Both the Prada and N800 came out that year, both look a lot like the iPhone (hell, the iPhone 4 looks like a shameless rip off of the Prada, at least of you live in a strange world were generic designs can be ripped off). The designers were headed that way, we are just pointing out how Apple shouldn't get to monopolise this trend towards generic black soap bars because their device is more popular.

http://i.imgur.com/NbDRW.jpg

FYI for its details and results if anyone is interested on my super long startup:

I used MS' old Bootvis v1.3.37.0 (is that the latest?). I am still confused what is pausing the long disk access and wait. I also notice this long disk access at XP's login screen before logging in so it is not the startup programs. If I am reading this analysis correctly, there are unknown drivers too. I also noticed if I wait a minute or more before logging in, then my desktop starts up fast. It's like prebuffering (prefetching?) or something?

http://i.imgur.com/EEWXh.gif for the screen shot (had to hide Boot and Resume Activities since they showed nothing).

Thank you in advance. :)

That link is deceptive since it ignores ipad like designs before the ipad and ignores the fact that the other form factors still exist. Here is a better example.

All I have is the video, and one measly picture of me doing a little research on the same lettuce batch in the video - http://i.imgur.com/lCMsw.jpg

http://www.designer-daily.com/android-device-design-before-and-after-the-iphone-ipad-18040

To deny the obvious design cloning is to reach an extreme level of Apple-hating that even I can't understand.

http://i.imgur.com/NbDRW.jpg

Yes, you can obviously make a tablet without fear getting sued by Apple - but Samsung decided they'd rather copy the design.

http://www.designer-daily.com/android-device-design-before-and-after-the-iphone-ipad-18040

To deny the obvious design cloning is to reach an extreme level of Apple-hating that even I can't understand.

http://i.imgur.com/NbDRW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/y38ox.jpg
"Are you the Police?"
"No ma'am, we're musicians"

Here's what they look like: http://i.imgur.com/CmLXu.jpg

A more reasonable comparison: http://i.imgur.com/NbDRW.jpg

So how many of the "after-the-iPad-tablets that don't look like the iPad" were made by Samsung? Yup, exactly - none. So you obviously don't have to copy the iPad. Thanks for pointing that out.

A more reasonable comparison:
http://i.imgur.com/NbDRW.jpg
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/09/samsung-digital-picture-frame-stores-pics-movies-music/

Yes, Apple operates in complete design vacuum, not influenced by anyone else.

How about a more realistic comparison?

I'd like to see Explorer beat XP in vertical space: (Really, I would... but I don't see it happening.)
http://i.imgur.com/Hw6Xy.png

Thanks, now I know what LDAP is, and I dont even have to read the article!

I don't know if you really know it, but just to be sure: it's a piece of shit.

LDAP means Lightweight Directory Access Piece-of-Shit-Protocol. It was created as a lightweight replacement for another protocol. Either the oldest one was designed by Cthulhu itself, or the designers were trolling the hell out of ourselves.

So, what's the deal with this PoS? The idea is to access data in a hierarchical storage. This was a system administrator's wet dream: every piece of information and configuration for a user, person, service, computer, and organizational unit, and everything neatly organized and in a single place. Even more, everything is Standard(TM)! Cool, you imagine. Yeah, I thought the same... but here ends the coolness. What follows is what happened at the IETF headquarters, just after the original idea was presented:

Someone said, "Surely not everyone should access the database! We must add authentication!". So, we bloated the protocol a bit, and now it's a directory access protocol that also handles authentication. Ok, maybe it's an acceptable tradeoff, everyone thought. But then someone else said "Since we added authentication to this protocol, we should use it as the central authority for all authentication purposes in our organizations!". WTF, this was designed for directory access, not for authentication. So, after this kludge, someone reasoned, "Since we now have to handle authentication, we need to use TLS on the same port where we handle the directory access! We wouldn't want authentication without an encrypted channel!". And then, another engineer, who was clearly stoned, said "Yeah, let's have that AND let's have an LDAPS protocol that is just like that but on another port". At this point, we can assume that he shared his drugs with the rest of the people involved and everyone said "YES!". And then, someone else, clearly influenced by object-oriented design and abstract data types, said, "We should have defined types, so people won't forget to add data that's important and everything stays consistent, even across organizations". And another one, clearly influenced by Stalin, demanded, "Ok, but people can add only what's explicitly defined, nobody is allowed to enter new data unless we allow it, no deviations whatsoever". Another engineer, clearly influenced by Evil(TM), added "Not only do they have to enter just the data that we will allow them to enter on our defined type, should they want new types for their organizations... they must ask an ID from IANA. Nobody is allowed to share their custom types on demand, they must first come to us". Finally, Cthulhu itself showed up, saw what they did, and said, "Puny insects, you can't design a protocol even if you tried. Protocols are tame unless they are difficult to manage and fail often". And everyone lost their minds and yelled "Let's make it painfully difficult to administrate! Let's add the worst databases the world has seen! Let's make it the most unaccessible service on Earth! Let's make DNS look like a failsafe service!".

This photograph was taken at the end of this meeting. It was 4th of July, and the engineers went outside while Washington DC was having a parade. A peaceful photo is superimposed to reduce trauma on the unlucky ones that choose to see it.

I am constantly having to dig for simple crap like "crop"

I don't think I've ever inserted a picture using 2007, but that sounded like crap to me. I loaded up Word 2007, dragged a picture into the document and looked at the ribbon tabs. I saw one had a pink "Picture Tools" annotation and lo and behold, Crop is the largest button on the entire toolbar.

Here's a screenshot for anyone who would otherwise happily believe what I think is baseless complaining.
http://imgur.com/9Um3d

I'll cop to never having played with garageband, but here is what I don't get:

If you're going to design a guitar or drum set to be played on a iPad screen, why would you draw them exactly like their real life counterparts? They are just buttons and GUI controls, why not arrange them in a way that makes sense for a hand tapping on the screen? It strikes me like those bad real world object analog GUIs that were so common in the 90's, shit like this: http://imgur.com/JML1H

That photo is clearly photoshopped. Spending more than five seconds looking at it will reveal that.

We're really to believe that Steve Jobs decided to put on a dress, stand outside, look off to the side, and get photographed? Really?

Really, Timothy, take out that link and the mention of being frail-looking. You have absolutely no idea how the guy looks. TMZ is clearly not a reliable source on this or, actually, anything else.

Please, when are you going to fix this cutoff? It's so annoying. Firefox 6 on latest Ubuntu.