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  1. Re:Just another offload. on Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    I'm familiar with SVG, Canvas Tag, and Flex. Learning Flex was a lot of investment, kind of funny; I'm not laughing. I turn out product faster with SVG, and the Canvas Tag. Flex is looking at a nasty monster, the clock.

  2. This is Not the First Time on Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    I guess the crew in India making Flex can't/won't figure out the iOS problem, not their fault. Adobe's optimizing themselves into oblivion is yet another business that listened to Wall Street, not Main Street. Adobe's radical change with Flex plainly states what the future is for folks and it's iOS/Android. If one looks at Flex coding, one will notice that *.ps, and *.ai files cannot be embedded, maybe this was an omen that no one saw? With Firebug, Eclipse, GIMP, and InkScape fully capable; I need Adobe for what?

  3. Re:My Name.... on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    What is all this crap about an enema? Oh...

  4. Re:Application link on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Could "Frequent Flyer Miles" be applied here?

  5. Re:Application link on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that Bill Gates?

  6. Re:Human spacecraft on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    And in order to get parts, you have to order from the manufacturer. The U.S. Patent process has to be reviewed.

  7. Re:Rejection letter on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    The word I hear from a very creditable source is that pilots fly, astronauts do what their told. And if it were me up there, I'd do what I'm told also.

  8. Re:Missed your chance on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    What is the altitude of LEO?

  9. Re:damn on Russia's MiG Aircraft Company Develops 3D Flight Simulator · · Score: 2

    Comrade! Why use X-Plane? With our 3D simulator you can imagine total air superiority! How would you like your Raptor? Skewered? or Smoked?

  10. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    Let me help you. the GP was not trolling. Fracking, and its waste products get the job done, but at price tag that ignores things like buildings, homes, and infrastructure. It does make a excellent weapon, for things like cities and regions. Useful, but not for energy needs. I'm surprised that wind farms haven't sprung up in the Sooner State.

  11. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    This goofball finds it interesting that gas comes out of a hole that doesn't exist in your definition; google "hole tunnel". Unless Newtons 2nd Law is foundation-less. And word is "leaking" out that its the waste products pumped into local fault systems. Funny, if you add water and "chemicals" into a hole, things slide, like rocks. I don't think for a minute that new observations will stop coming out. And most second year geology students know that changing water pressure in a fault system causes earthquakes. It makes me think about certain other historical events where earthquakes have happened, and it was all a tragic mystery...

  12. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    Fracking makes a hole, gas comes out; tunnel, google it. And your right. My apologies to Missouri, hopefully their psychological counseling will be short for this. Oklahoma is the "Sooner State", as can be seen from Timothy McVeigh's license plate from any high altitude satellite. You have to love the irony.

  13. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    Elementary research shows that the drillers are shoving their waste products into cracks underground. These experts never connected cracks in the ground with faults? Ya, right. Your thinking coal mines, I'm stating a hole in the ground that gas comes out. Class experiment boys and girls, eat a green burrito and a quart of water and you have "Fracking!"

  14. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    -1 for foundation-less comprehension. How do you think the gas gets out? Unless there's a team of drillers eating green burritos in someones storm celler.

  15. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    A tunnel only has to be a big as is required. Unless someone has quietly ignored Newtons 2nd Law. But there's hope! It seems like it's the trash product that is the cause of the problem. What the drillers are doing is shoving the waste into cracks underground. I guess no one in the oil geology department connected cracks with faults. What could possibly go wrong?

  16. Re:A BSG fan may ask... on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    Was the gender change because Starbuck felt uncomfortable?

  17. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    Gravity is not random. And what allows things to shift is that what was underneath, was weaker than what was above. I can't help but wonder if folks have started to "No Smoking" signs next to water facets north of Oklahoma city?

  18. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: -1

    What is "Fracking"? Well, it's the tunneling down in to the ground to extract natural gas. Tunneling leaves a hole, so if Fracking did not cause the earth quake, then the tunnels should be still there? All 181 of them. And the folks of the "Show Me State", believe this verification has been preformed? But lets consider that it "can't be done"; ya, right. Well, then, there's something called deep penetrating radar, that can be done.

  19. Re:Money... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Good point. How can one get Root access to Android or iOS?

  20. Re:Money... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Its easier than that. For winUser's, Cloud + iPad/Galaxy will do just as well, and cheaper.

  21. Re:Money... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    What are Apple's remedies? They would call the local Screw; or say, "that sucks, call us when you do decide to follow the directions on the box, and good luck."

    I use my wind blows cd's as coasters now, its make for interesting conversation.

  22. Re:FTFA: Not sharing so much as building together on Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing · · Score: 0

    I believe the correct word is Educator, the plural is Educators. This is a minor example of when someone believes they know all about Education, because, well, they did go to school.

  23. Re:Flash block on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    It should be easier to spot junk if one now has access to the anchor sites that generate the junk. Grease Monkey, and its variants are very helpful for this.

  24. Re:Artists? on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    When one considers the functions provided by Photoshop, and Illustrator; that's a lot. Combined? Even more. But not impossible to do. Fonts are going to be a heart breaker, consider using SVG? I know one can use GIMP, and Photoshop plug-in and now one has Photoshop... I don't know about Illustrator, maybe InkScape?

  25. Personal Observation, Adobe is at Apogee on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    When Apple said "no" to Adobe, I thought it was a pissing contest. I thought Adobe would get it figured out. Like when every printer manufacturer was told by Apple to write their interface drivers to Apple's specification or be ignored; now it's an assumed industry requirement standard for all platforms. Adobe says is can't make it work. My cynical self says, "I have no pity for outsourcing oneself into oblivion, like HP has." One would think that given all this time, Adobe would have converted its Flex source code to C++, and tuned it; obvious enough. This could actually be of some good; one idea comes to mind is to use this as a business school case study of what happens when a business listens to only to Wall Street, and ignoring Main Street. Last year when I got wind of this Apple-Adobe contest, and the way Adobe was crapping on Linux Developers, and that the Canvas Tag in HTML5 had been embraced by IE9; the handwriting was on the wall. I've seen many dynasties born, rise, and fall; it's painfully obvious, Adobe is at Apogee.

    From my office, the Universe is this. Adobe's Dream Weaver product is a far second to Eclipse. Adobe's Flex/Flash product won't let Photoshop, and Illustrator file formats be embedded into Flash, I can't figure out why. The industry is moving to the Tablet, and Phone. Flash has less to offer than HTML5. And I don't need Adobe to create using HTML5, simple economics can be applied here. Adobe has had a fine run, I'm reminded of the statement by a grateful spider, "good bye, friend of Flash."