What you meant to write is "cannot be as easily pirated by people who don't know what they're doing".
Emphasis mine.
With a google search and a little effort, most people can bypass almost any DRM*. Yet they still cause inconveniences to legitimate players. Some time ago, I had a problem of unstable connection. During this time I couldn't be sure if I would be able to play (single-player) the games I legitimately purchased, since if I were online during a connection problem and tried to start a game/Steam, it wouldn't let me. Even in offline mode some games would refuse to play, which is even worse, since my main gaming equipment is a laptop and it doesn't always have a connection available. At the same time I had games from other places(GamesGate and such) that just worked once activated.
Currently I don't have problems with my connection or Steam anymore, but I can see why a legitimate game buyer would be annoyed. Maybe even more annoyed than a pirate, since they paid for it. Steam might be one of the less inconvenient DRM systems, but it is far from perfect.
* The ones that can't be bypassed tend to be the most inconvenient for legitimate players.
Feel free to ignore it then, but I still think to say the reason of it is that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship sounds too much like a conspiracy theorist rambling to be something I could take seriously, especially because it's from a fictional book. Even if they could create such hysteria, how could they be so sure it wouldn't backfire and make even more people oppose them. The would be going against one of the primary urges of every human being
They do have a problem with overpopulation. They aren't capable of managing the sexual life of their entire population and it wouldn't be any good if they simply convinced people to stop having sex(even if they discovered a way to do so), since they could end up having a population decline problem instead. People take time to change(and often avoid it). You can't flip a switch and change the entire population's mentality instantly, regardless of what 1984 says.
I said I can't see any other reason, but it doesn't mean there aren't others. I just think that Orwell's fictonal works are taken more seriously than they should, since their explanations not necessarily apply to reality. In this specific case, I don't think that the quoted explanation applies.
I think Orwell is taken far more seriously than it should. His works serve as a warning of some kind, but hyperbole is strongly present that I can't see why so much people rely on what they say so much. Other than stating that "Power is not a means; it is an end.", everything else you quoted is either obvious, an exaggeration or downright misleading.
"There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy." Well, correlation is not causaton. The same polygamy-allower Middle East religion that you mentioned often shows to be incredibly strict.
The only reason I can see for China trying to control sex is because of overpopulation.
But that doesn't mean that Flash is necessary for normal websites.
I never said that, but I did say this:
Flash is often misused, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have legitimate uses.
Some people seem to be too eager to see the death of flash, but once flash is gone, the misusers will just move to another tool. And it won't be necessarily better.
Flash benefits are not limited to games and animations, but also things like the Aviary web apps, Pixlr and others, which don't have HTML5 alternatives as good as them yet.
Or perhaps you are missing the point that HTML5 is not adequate for every purpose, at least not yet. It's specs are yet to be finished, there are divergences in the implementation among browsers, it doesn't perform as well and it doesn't have good authoring tools for designers and such. Flash is often misused, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have legitimate uses.
I also want HTML5 to replace Flash, but it's too early to ditch Flash yet. HTML5 isn't mature enough to fully substitute Flash. It wouldn't even be beneficial to drop Flash before HTML5 becomes more capable.
And like wtmoose said below, there is nothing stopping them from substituting Flash ads with HTML5 ads.
I was going to argue, as usual, how there are legitimate uses for flash, like animation, games and webapps, that HTML5 either doesn't have adequate authoring tools or isn't mature enough to fully replace. But since even the stated intention is to use this for displaying ads, I agree that it is bad news.
Oh well. Since I use adblockers, I don't have much to worry. Hopefully it will have some better uses.
It seems to be very slow to load. I wonder how it works with Flash preloaders, and to what extent it supports ActionScript.
I have played through all of them. Every single one is undeniably preachy and cleary centered around the theme. Their mistake is not being more subtle, because few people would go out of their way for playing a preachy game. People actually involved in a abusive relationship would probably actively avoid it, by of the abuser. Even if they were trying to escape, they would probably seek help, not play games. The only way it could help someone is by making the friends of the victims aware, but even then they would have to choose to play a game about it, which is somewhat unlikely to happen.
The winning one, "Grace's Diary", in a very short visual novel with nice aesthetics(IMO) abou a girl trying to prove to that her friend that she is in an abusive relationship and to convince her to seek help. It isn't very interactive, but visual novels don't tend to be.
The second one, "A Decision of Paramount Importance", is kind of interesting. It's about a victim of a previous abusive relationship investigating his new boyfriend's house to figure out whether he is a good guy before they have a dinner. Then she gets to choose whether she stays with him or leaves him. Some elements are randomly choosen, like names, background, weather and the boyfriend's behavior. I think it's nice that the boyfriend isn't always abusive, but it doesn't go beyond that. He is either perfect or a complete jerk and almost every single object in the house will indicate which one he is exactly.
The last two ones have little merit. Either the preachiness was the primary judging value or there weren't any other entries, because they are badly designed, unpolished, amateurish and uninteresting.
Jellia's Friends is a top-down exploration game with shabby art in which a jellybean princess, victim of an abusive relationship, goes to seek her friends. Avoiding the animal enemies is annoying because they are fast and sometimes move unpredictably. Every single dialogue is so artificially preachy it seems to be something taken out of a pamphlet. The villain is black. How politically correct of them/nitpick
Knowledge can be your bulletproof vest is a generic plataformer with graphics made out of letters in which you have to collect the letters of the 10 signs of stuff or whatever. Boring, annoying and badly animated. The game incentives you to fall on pits to get letters. Is that the right thing to incite abuse victims to do?/nitpick
I think everyone needs to just know that 2.2 pounds is 1 kg and 2.54 cm is 1 inch.
Only a few countries still use imperial units. The others don't have to deal with such conversions most of the time. It is not realistic to expect most people will know this off the top of their heads.
They are arguing for Flash because they want to choose the plataform they want to develop for. Apple is ignoring a significant amount of web content, making developers and animators go through hoops to have their content available for those devices. Additionally, now they are creating arbitrary rules to stop third-party tool from compiling into native code. Is there a legitimate reason to allowing only languages X,Y,Z?
They aren't just atacking Adobe, they are making the life of a lot of developers harder for no reason. HTML5 isn't mature enough and hasn't tools as good as Flash. It isn't an adequate substitute yet.
The second is animations. There are some very impressive things done in HTML5 and JS, and most of the stuff I see on the web done with flash could be done in HTML5 (or really just needs a redesign). Very few sites do more than make objects show and hide and move around. iPhone users don't need a special plugin to use terrible interfaces, they should be made in HTML5 or have a simplified version available. So Flash isn't necessary here for most users, especially mobile.
I guess you are talking about the kind of animation designers do. There is still animations from animators, of which is somewhat popular. There isn't a single animation tool for HTML5 as good as Flash(is for Flash). Just converting them to video isn't the best choice, since they often offer some interactive elements(like easter eggs, chapter selections) which would be lost. I don't think "compiling" into HTML5 would be a good idea either since HTML5 is still in an early stage, doesn't perform as well as Flash and has incompatibilities in the implementations between browsers.
I fear episodic games. I am under the impression that once they get common, even more games won't be properly finished. Many studios will begin some interesting storylines and then finish them too early or even leave them unfinished, because the first episodes didn't sell as well as they thought they would.
A religion is a set of beliefs, which people are free to believe to the extent they find adequate. The Church is an organization that becomes dangerous when it gets too much power, like any other.
Mod this up! The problem is not in the programmer side, it's in the designer/animator side. A programmer may have adequate tools without the Flash application, but the same cannot be said about the others.
Not only that, but often HTML5 apps don't work properly across browsers, and I'm not talking about IE. Flash is a plataform that works the same in any browser.
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Be glad that lord Steve still allows you to surf for porn.
You wrote "cannot be purchased".
What you meant to write is "cannot be as easily pirated by people who don't know what they're doing".
Emphasis mine.
With a google search and a little effort, most people can bypass almost any DRM*. Yet they still cause inconveniences to legitimate players. Some time ago, I had a problem of unstable connection. During this time I couldn't be sure if I would be able to play (single-player) the games I legitimately purchased, since if I were online during a connection problem and tried to start a game/Steam, it wouldn't let me. Even in offline mode some games would refuse to play, which is even worse, since my main gaming equipment is a laptop and it doesn't always have a connection available. At the same time I had games from other places(GamesGate and such) that just worked once activated.
Currently I don't have problems with my connection or Steam anymore, but I can see why a legitimate game buyer would be annoyed. Maybe even more annoyed than a pirate, since they paid for it. Steam might be one of the less inconvenient DRM systems, but it is far from perfect.
* The ones that can't be bypassed tend to be the most inconvenient for legitimate players.
Feel free to ignore it then, but I still think to say the reason of it is that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship sounds too much like a conspiracy theorist rambling to be something I could take seriously, especially because it's from a fictional book. Even if they could create such hysteria, how could they be so sure it wouldn't backfire and make even more people oppose them. The would be going against one of the primary urges of every human being
They do have a problem with overpopulation. They aren't capable of managing the sexual life of their entire population and it wouldn't be any good if they simply convinced people to stop having sex(even if they discovered a way to do so), since they could end up having a population decline problem instead. People take time to change(and often avoid it). You can't flip a switch and change the entire population's mentality instantly, regardless of what 1984 says.
I said I can't see any other reason, but it doesn't mean there aren't others. I just think that Orwell's fictonal works are taken more seriously than they should, since their explanations not necessarily apply to reality. In this specific case, I don't think that the quoted explanation applies.
I think Orwell is taken far more seriously than it should. His works serve as a warning of some kind, but hyperbole is strongly present that I can't see why so much people rely on what they say so much. Other than stating that "Power is not a means; it is an end.", everything else you quoted is either obvious, an exaggeration or downright misleading.
"There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy." Well, correlation is not causaton. The same polygamy-allower Middle East religion that you mentioned often shows to be incredibly strict.
The only reason I can see for China trying to control sex is because of overpopulation.
But that doesn't mean that Flash is necessary for normal websites.
I never said that, but I did say this:
Flash is often misused, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have legitimate uses.
Some people seem to be too eager to see the death of flash, but once flash is gone, the misusers will just move to another tool. And it won't be necessarily better.
Flash benefits are not limited to games and animations, but also things like the Aviary web apps, Pixlr and others, which don't have HTML5 alternatives as good as them yet.
Or perhaps you are missing the point that HTML5 is not adequate for every purpose, at least not yet. It's specs are yet to be finished, there are divergences in the implementation among browsers, it doesn't perform as well and it doesn't have good authoring tools for designers and such. Flash is often misused, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have legitimate uses.
I also want HTML5 to replace Flash, but it's too early to ditch Flash yet. HTML5 isn't mature enough to fully substitute Flash. It wouldn't even be beneficial to drop Flash before HTML5 becomes more capable.
And like wtmoose said below, there is nothing stopping them from substituting Flash ads with HTML5 ads.
Feel free to mod me down.
I was going to argue, as usual, how there are legitimate uses for flash, like animation, games and webapps, that HTML5 either doesn't have adequate authoring tools or isn't mature enough to fully replace. But since even the stated intention is to use this for displaying ads, I agree that it is bad news.
Oh well. Since I use adblockers, I don't have much to worry. Hopefully it will have some better uses.
It seems to be very slow to load. I wonder how it works with Flash preloaders, and to what extent it supports ActionScript.
I have played through all of them. Every single one is undeniably preachy and cleary centered around the theme. Their mistake is not being more subtle, because few people would go out of their way for playing a preachy game. People actually involved in a abusive relationship would probably actively avoid it, by of the abuser. Even if they were trying to escape, they would probably seek help, not play games. The only way it could help someone is by making the friends of the victims aware, but even then they would have to choose to play a game about it, which is somewhat unlikely to happen.
The winning one, "Grace's Diary", in a very short visual novel with nice aesthetics(IMO) abou a girl trying to prove to that her friend that she is in an abusive relationship and to convince her to seek help. It isn't very interactive, but visual novels don't tend to be.
The second one, "A Decision of Paramount Importance", is kind of interesting. It's about a victim of a previous abusive relationship investigating his new boyfriend's house to figure out whether he is a good guy before they have a dinner. Then she gets to choose whether she stays with him or leaves him. Some elements are randomly choosen, like names, background, weather and the boyfriend's behavior. I think it's nice that the boyfriend isn't always abusive, but it doesn't go beyond that. He is either perfect or a complete jerk and almost every single object in the house will indicate which one he is exactly.
The last two ones have little merit. Either the preachiness was the primary judging value or there weren't any other entries, because they are badly designed, unpolished, amateurish and uninteresting.
Jellia's Friends is a top-down exploration game with shabby art in which a jellybean princess, victim of an abusive relationship, goes to seek her friends. Avoiding the animal enemies is annoying because they are fast and sometimes move unpredictably. Every single dialogue is so artificially preachy it seems to be something taken out of a pamphlet. /nitpick
The villain is black. How politically correct of them
Knowledge can be your bulletproof vest is a generic plataformer with graphics made out of letters in which you have to collect the letters of the 10 signs of stuff or whatever. Boring, annoying and badly animated. /nitpick
The game incentives you to fall on pits to get letters. Is that the right thing to incite abuse victims to do?
The Hobbit is a lighter read than LotR, but it is not bad. Maybe it is intended for a different public.
I remember having liked it more than LotR, when I read it for the first time.
It might be the same thing
I think everyone needs to just know that 2.2 pounds is 1 kg and 2.54 cm is 1 inch.
Only a few countries still use imperial units. The others don't have to deal with such conversions most of the time. It is not realistic to expect most people will know this off the top of their heads.
Are you kidding? An overprotective parent would never let their kids to use a Nintendo Wii.Those things are dangerous.
Insightful, seriously? Some modders here seriously disappoint me.
It's a matter of preference. Disliking them doesn't make you more rational than the article writer.
They are arguing for Flash because they want to choose the plataform they want to develop for. Apple is ignoring a significant amount of web content, making developers and animators go through hoops to have their content available for those devices. Additionally, now they are creating arbitrary rules to stop third-party tool from compiling into native code. Is there a legitimate reason to allowing only languages X,Y,Z?
They aren't just atacking Adobe, they are making the life of a lot of developers harder for no reason. HTML5 isn't mature enough and hasn't tools as good as Flash. It isn't an adequate substitute yet.
The second is animations. There are some very impressive things done in HTML5 and JS, and most of the stuff I see on the web done with flash could be done in HTML5 (or really just needs a redesign). Very few sites do more than make objects show and hide and move around. iPhone users don't need a special plugin to use terrible interfaces, they should be made in HTML5 or have a simplified version available. So Flash isn't necessary here for most users, especially mobile.
I guess you are talking about the kind of animation designers do. There is still animations from animators, of which is somewhat popular. There isn't a single animation tool for HTML5 as good as Flash(is for Flash). Just converting them to video isn't the best choice, since they often offer some interactive elements(like easter eggs, chapter selections) which would be lost. I don't think "compiling" into HTML5 would be a good idea either since HTML5 is still in an early stage, doesn't perform as well as Flash and has incompatibilities in the implementations between browsers.
I fear episodic games. I am under the impression that once they get common, even more games won't be properly finished. Many studios will begin some interesting storylines and then finish them too early or even leave them unfinished, because the first episodes didn't sell as well as they thought they would.
Blame the Church, not the religion.
A religion is a set of beliefs, which people are free to believe to the extent they find adequate. The Church is an organization that becomes dangerous when it gets too much power, like any other.
But hey, if hypocrisy comes from Apple, it must be cool. I guess I will complain about this app just to join the trend.
Is this clause legal either?
Of course they do. Now go away and RTFM. Leave your geek card at the exit.
I don't see what is so amusing. The ones who are actually being hurt are the developers.
He only supports Wikileaks as charity work.
Mod this up! The problem is not in the programmer side, it's in the designer/animator side. A programmer may have adequate tools without the Flash application, but the same cannot be said about the others.
Not only that, but often HTML5 apps don't work properly across browsers, and I'm not talking about IE. Flash is a plataform that works the same in any browser.
Most people who say flash should be killed probably never saw a good flash animation or game and should take a look in the Best of All Time section in the Newgrounds Portal. I recommend watching some animations from Adam Philips.
Flash shouldn't be overused, but it shouldn't be killed either.
They were called “Gielemännchen“ (yellow mankins), and often wore yellow rain coats. Everyone hated them.
Wanna know what happened to them when the Nazis were gone? They were brutally killed by the villagers.
Remember me to never use a yellow raincoat in Luxemburg.
What if it isn't commercially available anymore?