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Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web
nakhla writes: "This article at News.com details how Macromedia is expanding its Flash product to be more of an all-in-one web solution. Rather than relying on HTML codes to design web pages and embedding Flash as one component, Macromedia wants Flash to be used to design the entirety of a site. Pre-built components, such as scrollbars and buttons, are included to allow designers to write everything using the new Flash product. With websites becoming more and more complex, and the trend to move towards providing web services rather than application software, could something like this be the answer? The article also mentions how Macromedia is on a campaign to have its Flash plugin included in all Internet-compatible devices. How long before we see a Qt based plugin for the Qtopia handheld project?"
The Twelve Steps, originated by Alcoholics Anonymous, now applied to Slashdot. This is the spritual foundation for personal recovery from the effects of Slashaholism, not only for the slashaholic, but also for their friends and family.
Many members of 12-step recovery programs have found that these steps were not merely a way to stop commenting, reading, and retardedly clicking on every link (including all those Goatse links you fags like), but they became a guide toward a new way of life.
Step 1: Honesty
After many years of denial, recovery can begin when with one simple admission of being powerless over CmdrTaco -- for Slashaholics and their friends and family. The Goatse man also owns you, so you should admit that too.
Step 2: Faith
Have faith in the fact that if you stop now - you will be saved. Not only saved but you will never ever have to read or hear about Jon Katz again. Well, I take that back - you will hear about him again, on a legitimate news site where you read that he was finally caught and convicted to the Goatse Man chamber for raping kids.
Step 3: Surrender
A lifetime of slashdot will destroy your soul. Keep in mind that Slashdot is worthless. It does you no good and it is hurting your family. Surrender to the temptation of posting a useful article to slashdot. Surrender to the temptation of even visiting this disease.
Step 4: Soul Searching
Search your soul - why did you first come to Slashdot? WHY? What is here for you? These people are not your friends. They are disgusting dirties that give a general smell to themselves and everyone around you. You all probably notice it when you go places at people look at you funny. It's because you smell like shit.
Step 5: Integrity
Integrity. Not much more needs to be said here. Of course to have integrity one must not smell, and one must have a positive self image. This is also to say - you cannot be the dirty hippie you want to be. So, stop praying to your sun crystals and take a shower.
Step 6: Acceptance
Accept that you will never visit the Slashdot site again. Katz wants you around because you are most likely 14 and he digs little kids.
Step 7: Humility
Practice some humility in your life. Know your place - it is not being a bottom rung goatse link follower at slashdot. The sooner you break the chains of slashdot the sooner you can raise yourself out of the gutter.
Step 8: Willingness
Making a list of those harmed before coming into recovery may sound simple. Becoming willing to actually make those amends is the difficult part. Think of what your parents think about you...are they proud of their dirty anti-shower homosexual hippie child? What about your friends - and not your imaginary friends you fuck hippies. The trees are not alive.
Step 9: Forgiveness
Making amends may seem like a bitter pill to swallow, but for those serious about recovery it can be great medicine for the spirit and soul. Once you have stopped visiting Slashdot - you should take the steps to appologize to your friends (not your imaginary friends, fags) and your family about what an ass you have been over the past X months/years at slashdot. Tell them you are sorry and you didn't know. Tell them you were sucked in my the Goatse Man's ass chamber.
Step 10: Maintenance
Nobody likes to admit to being wrong. But it is absolutely necessary to maintain spiritual progress in recovery. You've visited slashdot and actively engaged in the slashdot moderation system. While this makes you a complete flaming homosexual - there is still hope. You've done wrong in the past - let's make the future a brighter and better place, for everyone.
Step 11: Making Contact
Break the bonds of slashdot that hold you prisoner. You can simply GO OUTSIDE! You fuck hippies could probably use the fresh air - at least it would give your parents a chance to clear out the old smelly air within your room.
Step 12: Service
As a community service. Stop using the internet for at least 1 year. Why you ask? You do this because you have committed sins against the internet community by actively being a part of slashdot. This year off will give you time to reflect about what you have done and about who you have hurt. Also, keep in mind - by the time your year is up - there is no way in hell Slashdot will be online. For one, Jon Katz will surely have been found raping children in the slashdot offices which will destroy the company. If not Katz then the website will fail with it's to be introduced subscription services. Not only will the temptation of slashdot be gone - but the year off of the internet will give you a chance to meet real people - and actually make friends.
Follow these steps are your life will be rich and full.
I would be most interested in licensing the "sauce code" to your Troll Library software. At your discretion, further development will ensue in our ultimate goal of capitulating Slashdot itself. I have recently embarked on a project which will scan a Slashdot article for key words, do a google search for those words and extract insightful comments out of a web page, then post them to slashdot for karma. Unfortunately, the project sauce code was originally designed in illegal hacker languages like PEARL, and thus can effectively be shut down by the legal team unless we can both unite our goals and projects under a banner of legality.
If you are interested in licensing your sauce code, or providing a legitimate "executable" not licensed under viral and replicating terms such as the "GPL", I would be most grateful. Please contact me at webmaster@scbackstab.com if you do so choose. Thank you very much, you do a great service for Slashdot.
-Bodero
...everything looks like it should be done in flash. That's assuming you hit yourself in the head with the hammer first. Ah.... Macromedia. The company that made "skip intro" such a familiar phrase. I come not to curse it, but to praise it.
Flash is great for cartoons. It's great for little games and gimmicks on your site. That's it. End of story.
If I want cross platform development, I'll use something I can commit to: Java, C if it's applicable, C# if it turns out that I have to.
If Macromedia wants to compete with Java, great. Another VM/language combo with multimedia capability is welcome. That doesn't mean I'm going to use it instead of HTML--just like I wouldn't try to use Java in place of HTML.
I realize that as a corporation, they have a duty to shareholders to try and expand into as many markets as possible. Why, if it were possible to crack nuts with Flash they would be remiss in their duty to shareholders if they didn't tout that.
That doesn't mean I have to buy it. Web developers that do are just asking to have their site ignored. If a page takes more than a few seconds to load, and there is an alternative (and there usually is) I hit "back".
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
.. big companies encouraging the use of closed standards nobody else can do anything with.
If Macromedia really want to make the web a better place, they should concentrate on SVG, working with the W3C to extend it and making stuff that supports it well, not writing evil closed stuff and making sure they're the only people who can possibly support it with tools that don't even let you use the clipboard.
Of course, that will never happen, because anyone can develop an SVG tool; it's even human readable. Not something a company like Macromedia want to hear.
Hmm, can't seem to find it. Are you sure your "open sores" operating system supports accessibility at the API level?
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