Whenever I'm handed mod-points, the FAQ is quick to point out that I should not mod posts based on my opinion, in fact, I should be as impartial as possible. Considering the submitter's opinion is blatant to see, I'll just go and brazenly smash my point of view into his open-source skull. His, and everyone else's who think that Flash has everything to do with you-tube, and nothing to do with artistic license:
The submitter is a cretin. An arrogant fool. He or she probably thinks that HTML5 is the be-all and end-all of browser programming, and has wet dreams about Javascript one day pulling off something more complicated than a fade in/fade out effect. Flash exists because there is a gap between making disgusting prefabbed square forms, and fluid, interesting and deeply creative content; Something that tells your customers and competitors "hey, we have style!". Yes, it is possible to commit atrocities with Flash, but don't blame Adobe for that, the next time you see someone using AS1/2, tell them to use Flex instead.
Flash makes the web interesting, it's what powers the little widgets you find on the sides of blogs, it's what makes the Most Interesting Man in the World interesting, it's what lets me tell the designers "yes! I can render our company's portfolio in 3D". It lets people do stupid little games and animations that make things interesting. So, until one of your open source tree humping hippy tossers makes something as extensible, easy to use and creativity empowering as Flash, well, I'm sorry but Flash is going to be here to stay. Because let's face it, not everyone browses the web through Steve Job's little slab of crap.
That'd be because "Israel", formerly known as Palestine, was given away by the British to the Jewish. Understandably the locals were a little bit miffed at that.
Windows is no more secure than Linux, or whatever hippie OS you're into. Any OS as popular as Windows is going to get the crap hacked out of it, the only reason Linux (assuming you're into that, but substitute it for whatever you like) is 'more secure' is because your grandmother doesn't open.exe attachments on it.
Javascript is probably among the most horrible languages ever created. Trying to create something with the same level of complexity as your average actionscript 3 programmed flash or flex application would be a debugging nightmare.
You do realise that video wasn't the only thing Flash did, right? What exactly in HTML5 is going to replace the ease with which you can create animations and games with a unique look and feel in Flash?
I haven't a clue, as I said in my original post, I deduced the way the device appeared to work by images taken of it in action and from my experience with a similar device. It might work differently.
Would an eye tracker be able to detect such small movements in the eye and accurately translate them to a point on a grid?
The kind of mind reading that this article implies, and what some posters are worried about (is it 1984 again?) is a long, long way off, about "50 years" in scientific terms.
I worked with a student on a similar Brain-Computer-Interface to what appears to be shown here. In actuality, the interface barely reads your mind at all, the grid of letters you see flashes while you focus on the letter you want to type. When that letter flashes, your brain registers this, and your 'surprise' at seeing the flash is what's measured. Knowing the time that this happened, it is possible to eventually deduce what letter on the grid the patient is focusing on.
So as you can see, "Computer that can read your mind" is a rather sensationalist article title to say the least. It's also a massive pain in the ass to try to use a device like this, you literally have to focus on the letter you want to type and absolutely nothing else, or it'll take longer and longer to determine what letter you are 'typing'.
Rubbish. The EU has Nukes just like every other country worth its salt. It doesn't matter if they have 10 or 1000, they'll wreck Amerika just as well as Amerika will wreck them.
Now I know you just quoted an article, where it is stated that modern cars have around 100 million lines of code, but did you stop to think if this was actually true? Seriously, think about it. 100 million. And you're a software engineer, for real?
Of course, Natural Selection is one of my favourites. The worlds in MMOs are usually far more engaging than ns_eclipse though, the exception being Aion Online, which is the most soulless korean grinding drivel I've ever thrown my money at.
Here here! I made the massive mistake of rolling on a PvE server to join a group of chumps who I socialised with. I remember when we had a Christmas pvp brawl in GB arena and me and my Arena buddy wiped 6 of them out. Instead of backing off and regrouping and wondering why a Rogue and a Mage could decimate them, half of them just up and logged out.
This seems to be the mentality on PvE servers, if you screw up, go home and cry. It's really sad, and when BGs and Arena came along, world PvP almost completely died. It got to such a point that a handfull of us got cried about on forums, and people would call us cowards and social failures and the rest, conveniently forgetting that when they finally did gang up on us, we stayed and fought.
It's nothing to do with free time, people just don't like a challenge, they want to be spoonfed the latest purples along with 24 of their bestest buddies. I personally really enjoy playing in a lawless world, where a mistake can have real consequences. I've been griefed many, many times, sometimes by people 70 levels above me, other times by people 2 levels below me who were simply better than me. It makes the getting even that bit sweeter.
To clarify, programming anything visual for the web has a million pitfalls; different browsers, resolutions, versions of browsers, hardware capability, etc. Mouse over events not working well for touch screens is hardly going to be the nail in the coffin of flash running on touch screen phones. Apple not wanting flash to run on their iTampon is a somewhat bigger problem.
Wow, how is this news? I acquired a touch screen phone yesterday, and being a flash developer myself, gave consideration to how I might design a touch screen enabled flash game for it, the issue of mouse over was the first thing I thought about, and I quickly decided that I would have to code around it, and not use mouse over events. Adobe wants existing applications to run on a touch screen that use mouse over? One tap is mouse over, the other tap is a click. Wow, that was hard. Then you throw up a post on Adobe.com "hey guyz, if you want to make apps for touch screen, take this into consideration".
If you want a real doozey to consider for flash programming for phones, how about the wonky resolutions most of them run at? And the fact that a lot of flash apps do not scale well to low resolutions. Most of the flash stuff I design for landing pages requires a minimum resolution of 1024x768, you know what? I make sure that those landing pages will scale down to something a lot smaller, just in case, y'know?
So *you're* the guy who pitted his army of battle tanks against my 5 terminator marines the first time I ever played Warhammer 40k, and laughed when I lost. Damn man, how have you been?
You know what else pisses me off? Those bloody adds with spinning text, you know, some stupid slogan that spins 90 degrees, enlarges, and another word slams next to it possibly starting from one of the letters from the first? Fucks sake, the Shaw Cable ads in Canada are a good example. The only thing worse are the local ads for furniture stores with a dodgy Italian dude who's apparently the owner talking with 0 enthusiasm and awful techno music in the background. Christ.
So it is a clip of sound, that you put onto your mp3 player, I apologize, I stand corrected.
PS "clip" refers to a portion or cut of something, sound refers to the stuff you hear through your ears. Perhaps you meant a sample? Something traditionally played through a Sampler (jfgi).
iSwear, iF iHear another God-damn iPhrase iM going to kill everyone of those iFreaks. It's NOT a podcast, it's a SOUND CLIP you DOWNLOADED onto your MP3 PLAYER. People have jumped onto the iBandWagon the same way Businesses started calling all their services 'Solutions'... So yeah, definitely not a member of the iGeneration, oh how I hate that letter.
Hmm I'm not sure what you mean by that, could you elaborate?
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I didn't say lasers would be ideal. Although how you think that a laser would reveal someones position worse than a bullet certainly is amusing. Lasers are both silent and invisible.
Years away from resupply on a planet with variable gravity, I would prefer a weapon that is silent and invisible, and whose ammunition can be resupplied instead of manufactured and whose line of fire is essentially straight.
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There are many disadvantages to bullets too:
They can hit your own people
They can miss
They can reveal your position
They can deliver too much power to the target, which is a waste of energy
In 140 years I'm pretty sure they'd come up with something better than good ol' bullets
Exactly, they want nothing, nothing at all. Their lives are so completely perfect that they have entirely forgone advancing themselves as a species. They depend upon their God to keep their planet and them safe and healthy, for everything basically. Hence my comment about idiocracy (the film), the very fact that they apparently want nothing from Humans makes them a stagnant species. Perhaps a better comparison would be the end of the human race in Texhnolyze - their race has hit an evolutionary plateau that they will never pass. May as well bomb them from orbit tbh, boring fuckers!
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Whenever I'm handed mod-points, the FAQ is quick to point out that I should not mod posts based on my opinion, in fact, I should be as impartial as possible. Considering the submitter's opinion is blatant to see, I'll just go and brazenly smash my point of view into his open-source skull. His, and everyone else's who think that Flash has everything to do with you-tube, and nothing to do with artistic license:
The submitter is a cretin. An arrogant fool. He or she probably thinks that HTML5 is the be-all and end-all of browser programming, and has wet dreams about Javascript one day pulling off something more complicated than a fade in/fade out effect. Flash exists because there is a gap between making disgusting prefabbed square forms, and fluid, interesting and deeply creative content; Something that tells your customers and competitors "hey, we have style!". Yes, it is possible to commit atrocities with Flash, but don't blame Adobe for that, the next time you see someone using AS1/2, tell them to use Flex instead.
Flash makes the web interesting, it's what powers the little widgets you find on the sides of blogs, it's what makes the Most Interesting Man in the World interesting, it's what lets me tell the designers "yes! I can render our company's portfolio in 3D". It lets people do stupid little games and animations that make things interesting. So, until one of your open source tree humping hippy tossers makes something as extensible, easy to use and creativity empowering as Flash, well, I'm sorry but Flash is going to be here to stay. Because let's face it, not everyone browses the web through Steve Job's little slab of crap.
That'd be because "Israel", formerly known as Palestine, was given away by the British to the Jewish. Understandably the locals were a little bit miffed at that.
Windows is no more secure than Linux, or whatever hippie OS you're into. Any OS as popular as Windows is going to get the crap hacked out of it, the only reason Linux (assuming you're into that, but substitute it for whatever you like) is 'more secure' is because your grandmother doesn't open .exe attachments on it.
The problem, of course, is that Runescape looks absolutely hideous.
that's like saying Assembler is pretty awesome when it's implemented correctly, one particularly good implementation out there is called C++
There's also the graphics card acceleration features offered by Flash which are pretty neat
Javascript is probably among the most horrible languages ever created. Trying to create something with the same level of complexity as your average actionscript 3 programmed flash or flex application would be a debugging nightmare.
You do realise that video wasn't the only thing Flash did, right? What exactly in HTML5 is going to replace the ease with which you can create animations and games with a unique look and feel in Flash?
I haven't a clue, as I said in my original post, I deduced the way the device appeared to work by images taken of it in action and from my experience with a similar device. It might work differently.
Would an eye tracker be able to detect such small movements in the eye and accurately translate them to a point on a grid?
Exactly, although the way it works is quite clever, it's definitely orders of magnitude away from actual mind reading.
The kind of mind reading that this article implies, and what some posters are worried about (is it 1984 again?) is a long, long way off, about "50 years" in scientific terms.
I worked with a student on a similar Brain-Computer-Interface to what appears to be shown here. In actuality, the interface barely reads your mind at all, the grid of letters you see flashes while you focus on the letter you want to type. When that letter flashes, your brain registers this, and your 'surprise' at seeing the flash is what's measured. Knowing the time that this happened, it is possible to eventually deduce what letter on the grid the patient is focusing on.
So as you can see, "Computer that can read your mind" is a rather sensationalist article title to say the least. It's also a massive pain in the ass to try to use a device like this, you literally have to focus on the letter you want to type and absolutely nothing else, or it'll take longer and longer to determine what letter you are 'typing'.
Rubbish. The EU has Nukes just like every other country worth its salt. It doesn't matter if they have 10 or 1000, they'll wreck Amerika just as well as Amerika will wreck them.
Now I know you just quoted an article, where it is stated that modern cars have around 100 million lines of code, but did you stop to think if this was actually true? Seriously, think about it. 100 million. And you're a software engineer, for real?
Of course, Natural Selection is one of my favourites. The worlds in MMOs are usually far more engaging than ns_eclipse though, the exception being Aion Online, which is the most soulless korean grinding drivel I've ever thrown my money at.
Here here! I made the massive mistake of rolling on a PvE server to join a group of chumps who I socialised with. I remember when we had a Christmas pvp brawl in GB arena and me and my Arena buddy wiped 6 of them out. Instead of backing off and regrouping and wondering why a Rogue and a Mage could decimate them, half of them just up and logged out.
This seems to be the mentality on PvE servers, if you screw up, go home and cry. It's really sad, and when BGs and Arena came along, world PvP almost completely died. It got to such a point that a handfull of us got cried about on forums, and people would call us cowards and social failures and the rest, conveniently forgetting that when they finally did gang up on us, we stayed and fought.
It's nothing to do with free time, people just don't like a challenge, they want to be spoonfed the latest purples along with 24 of their bestest buddies. I personally really enjoy playing in a lawless world, where a mistake can have real consequences. I've been griefed many, many times, sometimes by people 70 levels above me, other times by people 2 levels below me who were simply better than me. It makes the getting even that bit sweeter.
To clarify, programming anything visual for the web has a million pitfalls; different browsers, resolutions, versions of browsers, hardware capability, etc. Mouse over events not working well for touch screens is hardly going to be the nail in the coffin of flash running on touch screen phones. Apple not wanting flash to run on their iTampon is a somewhat bigger problem.
Wow, how is this news? I acquired a touch screen phone yesterday, and being a flash developer myself, gave consideration to how I might design a touch screen enabled flash game for it, the issue of mouse over was the first thing I thought about, and I quickly decided that I would have to code around it, and not use mouse over events. Adobe wants existing applications to run on a touch screen that use mouse over? One tap is mouse over, the other tap is a click. Wow, that was hard. Then you throw up a post on Adobe.com "hey guyz, if you want to make apps for touch screen, take this into consideration". If you want a real doozey to consider for flash programming for phones, how about the wonky resolutions most of them run at? And the fact that a lot of flash apps do not scale well to low resolutions. Most of the flash stuff I design for landing pages requires a minimum resolution of 1024x768, you know what? I make sure that those landing pages will scale down to something a lot smaller, just in case, y'know?
So *you're* the guy who pitted his army of battle tanks against my 5 terminator marines the first time I ever played Warhammer 40k, and laughed when I lost. Damn man, how have you been?
You know what else pisses me off? Those bloody adds with spinning text, you know, some stupid slogan that spins 90 degrees, enlarges, and another word slams next to it possibly starting from one of the letters from the first? Fucks sake, the Shaw Cable ads in Canada are a good example. The only thing worse are the local ads for furniture stores with a dodgy Italian dude who's apparently the owner talking with 0 enthusiasm and awful techno music in the background. Christ.
So it is a clip of sound, that you put onto your mp3 player, I apologize, I stand corrected. PS "clip" refers to a portion or cut of something, sound refers to the stuff you hear through your ears. Perhaps you meant a sample? Something traditionally played through a Sampler (jfgi).
iSwear, iF iHear another God-damn iPhrase iM going to kill everyone of those iFreaks. It's NOT a podcast, it's a SOUND CLIP you DOWNLOADED onto your MP3 PLAYER. People have jumped onto the iBandWagon the same way Businesses started calling all their services 'Solutions'... So yeah, definitely not a member of the iGeneration, oh how I hate that letter.
Hmm I'm not sure what you mean by that, could you elaborate?
I didn't say lasers would be ideal. Although how you think that a laser would reveal someones position worse than a bullet certainly is amusing. Lasers are both silent and invisible.
Years away from resupply on a planet with variable gravity, I would prefer a weapon that is silent and invisible, and whose ammunition can be resupplied instead of manufactured and whose line of fire is essentially straight.
There are many disadvantages to bullets too:
They can hit your own people
They can miss
They can reveal your position
They can deliver too much power to the target, which is a waste of energy
In 140 years I'm pretty sure they'd come up with something better than good ol' bullets
Exactly, they want nothing, nothing at all. Their lives are so completely perfect that they have entirely forgone advancing themselves as a species. They depend upon their God to keep their planet and them safe and healthy, for everything basically. Hence my comment about idiocracy (the film), the very fact that they apparently want nothing from Humans makes them a stagnant species. Perhaps a better comparison would be the end of the human race in Texhnolyze - their race has hit an evolutionary plateau that they will never pass. May as well bomb them from orbit tbh, boring fuckers!