Each applet requires a separate instance of each and every data structure required to instantiate the Flash execution and display content. This overhead exists independently of the payload.
Displaying the same content as N instances of the flash execution environment requires more resources than displaying it as a single instance of the flash execution environment.
The technical part of the problem is that there's no way to enforce a legal solution.
Follow the lead of the TCPA and allow EVERYONE to take spammers to court, instead of this corrupt law that only permits ISPs to do so, and spam would stop in short order.
If you leave a communication channel wide open, expect people to message you whether you want it or not. You give implied consent to fill your inbox by setting up a daemon that copies all incoming message data to your mail.
You argue like a spammer.
On the contrary, if you set up barriers and filters and approval systems to keep people you haven't invited, you destroy the usefulness of the communications channel. In fact the greatest damage spam causes is the fact that it breaks the system. Cowering behind a web of trust, the Face Space model, prevents more useful communication than spam does.
Spam isn't a technical problem, it's a social problem. EVERY communication channel that gets created, gets abused by people like this until the law comes down on them to stop it. Whether it's email spam or loudspeaker trucks, it's the same problem.
You'll know the answer to that question when Avatar launches. Think before you type.
Let's see. The Matrix sequels laid a bit of Dan Brown pseudo-philosophy on top of a series of disconnected scenes strung together to show off the special effects. Avatar promises to lay a bit of cyberpunk/videogame explanations on a simplistic story to show off the special effects and set design. What's your point?
Thanks for the links (you, eulernet, and the ACs as well).
This is the first case I've seen where a software patent might actually be working the way it's supposed to... and I've been following the subject since the early '80s when the Hayes patent was screwing up the whole modem market. So you got to understand why I'm a little skeptical.
If I told you Flash is actually a vector graphics plugin originally?
It wouldn't make a difference. There's also been Postscript and Tcl plugins. I've been watching people try to use plugins to fix the lack of structured graphics in HTML for years, and except for the case where you have one or two graphical areas in the page it doesn't help. You have to drop back to putting rounded curve bitmaps on the corner of boxes (tables or frames or divs, same thing) and more complex graphical constructions are just not done.
Look to CPU usage having just that original flash open in browser, you will be surprised.
Goes up from 10% to 24%, and the applet is 40k. Now imagine Slashdot using 40k flash applets instead of 166 byte PNGs for the rounded corners of boxes.
I think you're missing the point: what this will do will be to allow people who want to use SVG for a single applet (or maybe a few applets) in their web page to use SVG where they previously couldn't... but people using image files for framing and other details of layout (like, say, slashdot) will still have to keep on using them, because it's not practical to have dozens of flash applets on the page.... and most of their viewers will still be using IE.
The OP wrote "But why on Earth would stocks rise on the news of..."
I'm pointing out that the rise was BEFORE the news. Which is, as you say, an indication of possible insider training. If insider trading was involved, it merely means that the insiders were expecting the stocks to rise even higher on the announcement. Betting on "greater fools" isn't a sure thing, but it's successful often enough to be worthwhile for someone riding the ragged edge of the law anyway.
It's not bad performance, and useful for applets, but you don't want to use it for layout unless having dozens of little flash applets all over the page turns you on.
RTFA: "authorities are looking for possible insider trading after Global Gaming's jumped a week before Global Gaming announced plans to acquire The Pirate Bay"
This is a patent case. A software patent case. A software patent *is* a dirty trick, and the target of the dirty trick in this case is Microsoft.
Haven't you ever seen one of those movies where the villains fall out with each other and there's a shootout in the hideout? Just because Microsoft's got a bad track record with software patents that doesn't mean the other guy isn't ALSO scum.
If you find they work for you, great, but there's a reason that most people use mice, and why laptops no longer have trackballs on them... it seems that most people just aren't comfortable using them. I've tried, I've had several trackballs, and while they work great for very small precise movements or for massive spin-the-ball videogame action they're just too hard for me to drive the mouse 500 pixels over and click on a word in a document.
On the other hand carrying a thin mousepad between the screen and keyboard of a closed laptop so it's always there and convenient to use is a hell of a lot cheaper than a dark field mouse.
Slashdot Mirror
The result derives from first principles.
Each applet requires a separate instance of each and every data structure required to instantiate the Flash execution and display content. This overhead exists independently of the payload.
Displaying the same content as N instances of the flash execution environment requires more resources than displaying it as a single instance of the flash execution environment.
The technical part of the problem is that there's no way to enforce a legal solution.
Follow the lead of the TCPA and allow EVERYONE to take spammers to court, instead of this corrupt law that only permits ISPs to do so, and spam would stop in short order.
If you leave a communication channel wide open, expect people to message you whether you want it or not. You give implied consent to fill your inbox by setting up a daemon that copies all incoming message data to your mail.
You argue like a spammer.
On the contrary, if you set up barriers and filters and approval systems to keep people you haven't invited, you destroy the usefulness of the communications channel. In fact the greatest damage spam causes is the fact that it breaks the system. Cowering behind a web of trust, the Face Space model, prevents more useful communication than spam does.
Spam isn't a technical problem, it's a social problem. EVERY communication channel that gets created, gets abused by people like this until the law comes down on them to stop it. Whether it's email spam or loudspeaker trucks, it's the same problem.
The overhead of one big flash applet is significantly lower than many small ones.
Did anybody ever think that there was a meaningful difference between fantasy & science fiction?
(followed by examples of fantasy works)
Well, Titan might be classified as softcore porn, but the other two are definitely fantasy.
If you want real science fiction, try Bob Forward.
You are correct, they plan to transition from silicon to unobtainium.
Which they will get from Pandora?
(cross threads with he Avatar movie article)
Worst case, they could grow him a new body.
You'll know the answer to that question when Avatar launches. Think before you type.
Let's see. The Matrix sequels laid a bit of Dan Brown pseudo-philosophy on top of a series of disconnected scenes strung together to show off the special effects. Avatar promises to lay a bit of cyberpunk/videogame explanations on a simplistic story to show off the special effects and set design. What's your point?
Is there something inherently bad about having dozens of little flash applets all over the page?
Because each flash applet is a new instance of the flash engine.
Unless there is some known inefficiency caused by having multiple flash elements on a page
One might say that, yes. If one were to understate the matter for ironic intent.
Thanks for the links (you, eulernet, and the ACs as well).
This is the first case I've seen where a software patent might actually be working the way it's supposed to... and I've been following the subject since the early '80s when the Hayes patent was screwing up the whole modem market. So you got to understand why I'm a little skeptical.
Insider trading is insiders telling investors about something they (the insiders) are going to do, to give those investors a chance to "get ahead".
And "getting ahead" may mean "getting a better deal on a stock that's going to be valuable long term".
Or it may mean "getting the stock and selling it when it bounces after the announcement".
If I told you Flash is actually a vector graphics plugin originally?
It wouldn't make a difference. There's also been Postscript and Tcl plugins. I've been watching people try to use plugins to fix the lack of structured graphics in HTML for years, and except for the case where you have one or two graphical areas in the page it doesn't help. You have to drop back to putting rounded curve bitmaps on the corner of boxes (tables or frames or divs, same thing) and more complex graphical constructions are just not done.
http://www.4dm.com/files/tech/blue.htm (Flash plugin needed)
A single plugin in the page.
Look to CPU usage having just that original flash open in browser, you will be surprised.
Goes up from 10% to 24%, and the applet is 40k. Now imagine Slashdot using 40k flash applets instead of 166 byte PNGs for the rounded corners of boxes.
I think you're missing the point: what this will do will be to allow people who want to use SVG for a single applet (or maybe a few applets) in their web page to use SVG where they previously couldn't... but people using image files for framing and other details of layout (like, say, slashdot) will still have to keep on using them, because it's not practical to have dozens of flash applets on the page.... and most of their viewers will still be using IE.
In other words, this means you can use SVG for situations where you are only using it in one or two places on the page.
For people who are looking to use SVG in layout (eg, to replace bitmapped images in borders) this is not useful.
The OP wrote "But why on Earth would stocks rise on the news of..."
I'm pointing out that the rise was BEFORE the news. Which is, as you say, an indication of possible insider training. If insider trading was involved, it merely means that the insiders were expecting the stocks to rise even higher on the announcement. Betting on "greater fools" isn't a sure thing, but it's successful often enough to be worthwhile for someone riding the ragged edge of the law anyway.
They partnered with i4i until they learned enough about the code, then kicked i4i in the butt and came out with their own implementation.
ORLY. Got a link? All of the stories about this I've found read like it's just another patent troll incident.
It's not bad performance, and useful for applets, but you don't want to use it for layout unless having dozens of little flash applets all over the page turns you on.
RTFA: "authorities are looking for possible insider trading after Global Gaming's jumped a week before Global Gaming announced plans to acquire The Pirate Bay"
This is a patent case. A software patent case. A software patent *is* a dirty trick, and the target of the dirty trick in this case is Microsoft.
Haven't you ever seen one of those movies where the villains fall out with each other and there's a shootout in the hideout? Just because Microsoft's got a bad track record with software patents that doesn't mean the other guy isn't ALSO scum.
If you find they work for you, great, but there's a reason that most people use mice, and why laptops no longer have trackballs on them... it seems that most people just aren't comfortable using them. I've tried, I've had several trackballs, and while they work great for very small precise movements or for massive spin-the-ball videogame action they're just too hard for me to drive the mouse 500 pixels over and click on a word in a document.
On the other hand carrying a thin mousepad between the screen and keyboard of a closed laptop so it's always there and convenient to use is a hell of a lot cheaper than a dark field mouse.
It's just another one of those silly floppy square 45's in a magazine.
You figured out the code!
If the methods a stylometry analysis uses are known (and they couldn't very well be a secret to hold up in court), of course you can game them.
Do not feed the elephant.
You fool! You have two second laws, and one of them's self-referential! No wonder the robots went mad and started killing people!