It actually is a little different because Flash is a plugin that has to first capture inputs.
In order to interact with Flash content you first have to click it so that it can capture the pointer input. Then you have to interact with the content. Then you have to be able to tell Flash to release the pointer so you can move throughout the rest of the page. But if you double-click should it zoom in, capture those inputs in Flash, or zoom out?
...but I'm sort of getting tired of user generated content and user powered free-for-alls. Everyone likes to hail Web 2.0 as a revolution in democracy, but it really isn't. It's who screams loudest, and who can afford the opportunity cost of sitting around all day reverting edits, creating their own Digg army, or spamming links all over the place. And everyone is doing it now, so the time it takes to find something worth reading, watching or listening too isn't worth it even when the price is free.
It's one of the reasons I find myself coming to Slashdot to actually find articles, instead of Digg/Reddit/etc. And on a larger scale, I actually find myself going back to "old media." Picking up a newpaper (or at least reading something with an editor online, like the NYT), listening to NPR, getting a subscription to Wired, buying CDs and box sets of old shows, and so on and so forth.
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No. There aren't currently any major sites using H.264 encoded video to stream to a Flash front-end. Flash Media Server still hasn't been updated to support H.264 yet.
What people forget is that there are a few codecs that Flash actually supports. YouTube uses the ancient VP3, as to many others, to avoid licensing costs since the codec is now open source. VP6 has existed for a while, and is actually a fantastic codec for the bit rates it's used at. It's nearly as good as H.264 in practice.
Stage6 had better quality video than YouTube, but it did not have better quality video than what Flash was actually capable of playing. Try it yourself if you have Flash 8 or CS3. Convert a video to VP6 and you can see that it's quite impressive. At reasonable bit rates for streaming media (say 1500Kbps), it's nearly as good as H.264 at the same bitrate, only a little "softer."
My favorite example of "unlimited" is Verizon's EV-DO broadband, where "unlimited" original meant 5GB/month and then they just turned off your service; and now it means 5GB/month and then we throttle your speed down to a max of 100Kbps/100Kbps, and might still cut you off.
The thing is, Apple didn't cut the price of the iPhone by $200. No chance in hell. Maybe $50-$100. The rest of that price cut is coming from AT&T, in the form of subsidy, because the iPhone is selling well. This is exactly what I expected. Don't be surprised if you see another $100 price drop before/after Christmas (assuming Apple allows it, as it could hurt other iPod sales--but as long as the margins are the same, it shouldn't matter to them). There's really no minimum on how low these things can go. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a $199 iPhone 9 months from now. You have to remember, AT&T is getting $1,700 from you. They have no problem throwing down a few hundred. They've sold almost 1m iPhones, so 1-in-30 people in the US. I can see that becoming 1-in-10 or better in another 18 months as long as Apple takes AT&T's money.
You get a lot of things confused, it seems, because you have no idea what you are talking about. I suggest you go to your local community college and take a semester of chemistry, astronomy, biology, physics, and maybe even geology, and then come back here and comment on Slashdot and not sound like a total idiot.
Hey toolbox, learn to not make such a fool of yourself.
They eyeball is a great example of why the designer isn't intelligent, because the eyeball is not prefect. If it were, you wouldn't have a freaking blind spot RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR EYE.
Morality does not come from the Bible, stooge. People had moral values before the Bible existed.
What the fuck does the rotation of earth have to do with God? Did he spin it like a top? No.
The "fact" that if the moon were father away we would have _no_ oceans? How did you come to that conclusion? Since when does the moon prevent all our precious water from floating off into space?
What the fuck does the distance of the Earth from the sun have to do with God? There are other planets in the universe the same distance from stars as our Earth.
You have no idea about chemistry, so just STFU before you embarrass yourself further.
Also, if the air I'm breathing was made up of 80% hydrogen, I'd be dead and the world would probably explode when someone lights a match.
Please do not ever go "on and on" about things you have absolutely NO IDEA ABOUT WHATSOEVER.
Let me ask you this: why do you take the Bible literally? The Bible was not written by God. The Bible was written by man, and man is fallible, thus anything in the Bible is capable of scrutiny. If they Bible were to have been written by God, then we could actually take everything in it at face value, but it wasn't. Don't even get me started on how the Bible you read today is completely different than that which existed 1,000 or 1,500 years ago. It's constantly changing, EVOLVING even, to meet the needs of the modern day Christian. To take the Bible literally means that you assert that it must be true, and thus you assume that man (and to some extent, yourself) is infallible. In doing so, you claim to have an attribute that only God can have. Do you claim to be God? No? Good. Shut the fuck up.
I bought CS3 Web Premium. I bought the student version though which was "only" $499.
The real shitty part is the fucking single-computer license w/activation. So if I want to run it on my notebook I need to shell out another $499? Legally, you can't even do that because you are only allowed one copy. You are supposed to buy the second in full. Moreover, your license is only good for a single OS. With the student version of Macromedia Studio 8 there was no activation, and you could install it on both Windows and Mac OS. Not anymore.
What credibility? Since when was Digg ever credible? Just look at it. Most of the users are between the ages of 14 and 16. They spend their days on YTMND and their nights on 4chan. Digg is their CNN.
Really, this is exactly how I'd expect the Digg userbase to respond. Everyone who's digging and posting the code doesn't even know what it means, or how to use it. Some people can't even copy and paste it right. Really, they are just trying to cause some trouble.
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It actually is a little different because Flash is a plugin that has to first capture inputs. In order to interact with Flash content you first have to click it so that it can capture the pointer input. Then you have to interact with the content. Then you have to be able to tell Flash to release the pointer so you can move throughout the rest of the page. But if you double-click should it zoom in, capture those inputs in Flash, or zoom out?
This man speaks the truth!
...but I'm sort of getting tired of user generated content and user powered free-for-alls. Everyone likes to hail Web 2.0 as a revolution in democracy, but it really isn't. It's who screams loudest, and who can afford the opportunity cost of sitting around all day reverting edits, creating their own Digg army, or spamming links all over the place. And everyone is doing it now, so the time it takes to find something worth reading, watching or listening too isn't worth it even when the price is free. It's one of the reasons I find myself coming to Slashdot to actually find articles, instead of Digg/Reddit/etc. And on a larger scale, I actually find myself going back to "old media." Picking up a newpaper (or at least reading something with an editor online, like the NYT), listening to NPR, getting a subscription to Wired, buying CDs and box sets of old shows, and so on and so forth.
No. There aren't currently any major sites using H.264 encoded video to stream to a Flash front-end. Flash Media Server still hasn't been updated to support H.264 yet. What people forget is that there are a few codecs that Flash actually supports. YouTube uses the ancient VP3, as to many others, to avoid licensing costs since the codec is now open source. VP6 has existed for a while, and is actually a fantastic codec for the bit rates it's used at. It's nearly as good as H.264 in practice. Stage6 had better quality video than YouTube, but it did not have better quality video than what Flash was actually capable of playing. Try it yourself if you have Flash 8 or CS3. Convert a video to VP6 and you can see that it's quite impressive. At reasonable bit rates for streaming media (say 1500Kbps), it's nearly as good as H.264 at the same bitrate, only a little "softer."
My favorite example of "unlimited" is Verizon's EV-DO broadband, where "unlimited" original meant 5GB/month and then they just turned off your service; and now it means 5GB/month and then we throttle your speed down to a max of 100Kbps/100Kbps, and might still cut you off.
Whoa. I didn't notice that.
lol, good call.
By that logic, Windows Vista costs less than a dollar "to make." A $50,000 BMW probably only costs $30,000 "to make."
The reality is that isn't what it costs to make, only what it costs in parts. Big difference. Learn 2 play.
And they will.
The thing is, Apple didn't cut the price of the iPhone by $200. No chance in hell. Maybe $50-$100. The rest of that price cut is coming from AT&T, in the form of subsidy, because the iPhone is selling well. This is exactly what I expected. Don't be surprised if you see another $100 price drop before/after Christmas (assuming Apple allows it, as it could hurt other iPod sales--but as long as the margins are the same, it shouldn't matter to them). There's really no minimum on how low these things can go. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a $199 iPhone 9 months from now. You have to remember, AT&T is getting $1,700 from you. They have no problem throwing down a few hundred. They've sold almost 1m iPhones, so 1-in-30 people in the US. I can see that becoming 1-in-10 or better in another 18 months as long as Apple takes AT&T's money.
You get a lot of things confused, it seems, because you have no idea what you are talking about. I suggest you go to your local community college and take a semester of chemistry, astronomy, biology, physics, and maybe even geology, and then come back here and comment on Slashdot and not sound like a total idiot.
Hey toolbox, learn to not make such a fool of yourself. They eyeball is a great example of why the designer isn't intelligent, because the eyeball is not prefect. If it were, you wouldn't have a freaking blind spot RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR EYE. Morality does not come from the Bible, stooge. People had moral values before the Bible existed. What the fuck does the rotation of earth have to do with God? Did he spin it like a top? No. The "fact" that if the moon were father away we would have _no_ oceans? How did you come to that conclusion? Since when does the moon prevent all our precious water from floating off into space? What the fuck does the distance of the Earth from the sun have to do with God? There are other planets in the universe the same distance from stars as our Earth. You have no idea about chemistry, so just STFU before you embarrass yourself further. Also, if the air I'm breathing was made up of 80% hydrogen, I'd be dead and the world would probably explode when someone lights a match. Please do not ever go "on and on" about things you have absolutely NO IDEA ABOUT WHATSOEVER. Let me ask you this: why do you take the Bible literally? The Bible was not written by God. The Bible was written by man, and man is fallible, thus anything in the Bible is capable of scrutiny. If they Bible were to have been written by God, then we could actually take everything in it at face value, but it wasn't. Don't even get me started on how the Bible you read today is completely different than that which existed 1,000 or 1,500 years ago. It's constantly changing, EVOLVING even, to meet the needs of the modern day Christian. To take the Bible literally means that you assert that it must be true, and thus you assume that man (and to some extent, yourself) is infallible. In doing so, you claim to have an attribute that only God can have. Do you claim to be God? No? Good. Shut the fuck up.
I bought CS3 Web Premium. I bought the student version though which was "only" $499. The real shitty part is the fucking single-computer license w/activation. So if I want to run it on my notebook I need to shell out another $499? Legally, you can't even do that because you are only allowed one copy. You are supposed to buy the second in full. Moreover, your license is only good for a single OS. With the student version of Macromedia Studio 8 there was no activation, and you could install it on both Windows and Mac OS. Not anymore.
You also get IP banned apparently when you leave a comment that says, "lol, niggers" but, "lol, naggers" is okay.
What credibility? Since when was Digg ever credible? Just look at it. Most of the users are between the ages of 14 and 16. They spend their days on YTMND and their nights on 4chan. Digg is their CNN. Really, this is exactly how I'd expect the Digg userbase to respond. Everyone who's digging and posting the code doesn't even know what it means, or how to use it. Some people can't even copy and paste it right. Really, they are just trying to cause some trouble.