This has nothing to do with Flash. Read up on CS5. They weren't trying to put Flash apps on the iPhone. But rather, trying to use their Flash IDE for coding iPhone apps.
Oh, and I used a Mac with numerous Flash apps and seldom had issues. Seldom had crashes. Maybe it was cause I didn't have a 64 bit Mac. But I never suffered the claims so many has made. I really wonder what made the difference.
Could that be because Apple changed their policy. Hmmm....
Apple decided on a whim to no longer allow the 64 bit advancement of their older code system. Demanding everyone move to their newer code base. The result, Adobe said there is too much code for them to convert it to the newer framework,. And 64 bit for Mac would have to wait for a later version under such requirement.
So, they push for one standard. And are closed on everything else. They lost the video war. And are now trying to build favor by supporting an open standard.
These are the same twits who wouldn't even let developers talk about iPhone development.
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BTW, Adobe has Open Sourced their Flex framework and who knows, might even do the same with Flash player at some point.
At least Microsoft never prevented you from putting your product on theirs. They just had the tendency to clone your product and give it away free.
But I don't believe Microsoft ever said you HAVE to use VB in order to write an application for Windows. And they never said you had to buy all your software through their store. Or prevent sale of software if they made a similar product.
In comparison. Microsoft was a dirty player when it came to getting their software pre-loaded on PC makers computers. But after that, they were pretty free.
Apple wants the best thing for it's shareholders. There is so much crap that Apple doesn't give two hoots about. Look at iTunes. You want to talk about bloatware. You want to talk about a nightmare POS software product.
I am lucky if I can go through a single sync without a problem. DRM issue. What not....
No this is all about control. Namely, to funnel all sales through it's market place, and to use the portables market to push it's PC sales.
I believe some of the issues in performance is access to core areas of the OS. There is a lot more control, checks, and what not in OS' today than in yesteryear.
"On the one side, this rule should be good for quality"
Really, well that sure explains why so many applications in Apple's iTunes store are crap, crash a lot. Clearly the natively written apps eliminates crashes.
Heck, it's quite possible that Adobe's IDE could help improve matters, by allowing for a bit more uniformity.
Funny, Flash doesn't crash my browsers. But AJAX does. Be it Facebook, Gizmodo, or what not. My browser crashes almost ALWAYS seem to be AJAX app related. And not even any significant app.
Facebook is always crashing Firefox. This on two different machines (one using XP and one Windows 7). Chrome isn't always supported.
So I am not impressed with AJAX. Always seems slower, clunkier and less visually impressive than Flash. And I am not sure it can handle the large applications that Flash does.
1. Proves that our government is full of idiots. 2. Proves that blind people are frakkin' blind.
Does one thing, destroys any good will people have toward the handicap. Frankly, I see this, and I want to cut all funding to blind people and shout at them "YOU'RE !@#$% BLIND!"
Look, our society does a lot for the handicap, perhaps we can do more, and I am all for doing more where and when it's feasible. But you have to accept a certain extent of your handicap. So you're blind and you can easily navigate your Kindle. It's not like you can walk into Barnes and Noble and read all the books either. Deal!
It's harsh, yes. But when you take our goodwill and slam it in our face, don't be surprised if you get tossed to the roadside.
It is very close to pseudocode, the language itself is nearly logic.
Examples:
Albeit the language is slightly more verbose. It is a rapid development language allowing for very fast production of smaller web projects. As skills develop your 12 year old can move to CFSCRIPT which is very similar to JavaScript and other C-syntax languages. But ColdFusion will allow a very easy entrance to programming concepts. Conditionals. loops and arrays. They can then progress to MVC model frameworks in ColdFusion. ColdFusion itself utilizes Java. Once they get the basics they can expand into the Java world.
I am sure there are some who will advocate going straight into a language like Java. But I think breaking up the learning of logic and the learning of syntax into two steps is very prudent in education. ColdFusion adheres closer to logic in it's syntax. It has not been super-optimized for coding efficiency.
ie: versus if(x=y)
But it's syntax is less cryptic. It is also very easy to work with SQL databases in ColdFusion. This allows the 12 yr old to start being productive much earlier than they would in something like Java. And once they have an understanding of 0the logic and design patterns they should be able to move to any syntax. Hence why I think CF is a good language. It greatly reduces syntax issues adhering very closely to logic based pseudo-code.
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And they did this right before release. It was meant to burn Adobe.
Steve Jobs is a prick. And frankly, I've been bothered by his more and more draconian practices. He's all about the money these days.
Frankly, I think Adobe should release Flash Player on RockYourPhone. And help to have the iPhone continually jailbroken.
This has nothing to do with Flash. Read up on CS5. They weren't trying to put Flash apps on the iPhone. But rather, trying to use their Flash IDE for coding iPhone apps.
Oh, and I used a Mac with numerous Flash apps and seldom had issues. Seldom had crashes. Maybe it was cause I didn't have a 64 bit Mac. But I never suffered the claims so many has made. I really wonder what made the difference.
Can I sue Firefox?
Firefox crashes several times a day. Whenever I use Facebook or other AJAX sites.
???
They're not just keeping Flash off their system. They're keeping iPhone apps developed without their IDE.
It's sorta akin to Toyota demanding you drive their cars only with Toyota gasoline.
Could that be because Apple changed their policy. Hmmm....
Apple decided on a whim to no longer allow the 64 bit advancement of their older code system. Demanding everyone move to their newer code base. The result, Adobe said there is too much code for them to convert it to the newer framework,. And 64 bit for Mac would have to wait for a later version under such requirement.
The fault > Apple
So, they push for one standard. And are closed on everything else. They lost the video war. And are now trying to build favor by supporting an open standard.
These are the same twits who wouldn't even let developers talk about iPhone development.
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BTW, Adobe has Open Sourced their Flex framework and who knows, might even do the same with Flash player at some point.
Sorry, I am all for science.
But certain experiments should be conducted OFF-PLANET (see President Obama, who just castrated space program).
Yes, yes, we always know that protections have been taken to ensure the safety and contain said virus. Yes, yes, they always say that....
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But seriously, humans are 70% water. A virus that breaks down water is just asking for the end of humanity.
Let's see....
Microsoft Market Cap = $266 billion
Apple Market Cap = $219 billion
Seems like we're there folks....and Apple has turned out to be far worse than the 1984 commercial
At least Microsoft never prevented you from putting your product on theirs. They just had the tendency to clone your product and give it away free.
But I don't believe Microsoft ever said you HAVE to use VB in order to write an application for Windows. And they never said you had to buy all your software through their store. Or prevent sale of software if they made a similar product.
In comparison. Microsoft was a dirty player when it came to getting their software pre-loaded on PC makers computers. But after that, they were pretty free.
BULLSH|T
Apple wants the best thing for it's shareholders. There is so much crap that Apple doesn't give two hoots about. Look at iTunes. You want to talk about bloatware. You want to talk about a nightmare POS software product.
I am lucky if I can go through a single sync without a problem. DRM issue. What not....
No this is all about control. Namely, to funnel all sales through it's market place, and to use the portables market to push it's PC sales.
I believe some of the issues in performance is access to core areas of the OS. There is a lot more control, checks, and what not in OS' today than in yesteryear.
"On the one side, this rule should be good for quality"
Really, well that sure explains why so many applications in Apple's iTunes store are crap, crash a lot. Clearly the natively written apps eliminates crashes.
Heck, it's quite possible that Adobe's IDE could help improve matters, by allowing for a bit more uniformity.
Flash has long ceased to be just an over-glofiried animation program. Maybe you should take a look at ActionScript 3.
Oh and NONE OF THIS is about Flash. Adobe wasn't going to be loading Flash on the iPhone. It was going to use the Flash IDE to create iPhone apps.
In fact, I think they expected that they would gain a lot of new sales just for iPhone development.
BS
This has nothing to do with Flash apps moron. The apps that were to be written by CS5 were going to be iPhone apps. Just developed in another IDE.
So what we're really saying is "How would you like it if you could only write for the web using Java?"
A little less than you hear gamers whine (or brag) that a game is only available on one platform.
Furthermore, they're requiring that you buy an Apple Macintosh in order to be able to code for the iPhone. Which is further anti-competitive.
HOLLYWOOD!!!!
1. This was done clearly as a work-for-hire. Therefore the ownership and rights should belong to the U.S. government, and by extension "We the People"
2. We shove his arse on the top of the statue.
3. We lock him in a room with 500 Korean war vets.
You're talking application design.
You could design an application to take account of touch, movement and tracking. In fact, I believe Flash has already been used on touch screens.
So I really question the merit of this guy's post.
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Funny, Flash doesn't crash my browsers. But AJAX does. Be it Facebook, Gizmodo, or what not. My browser crashes almost ALWAYS seem to be AJAX app related. And not even any significant app.
Facebook is always crashing Firefox. This on two different machines (one using XP and one Windows 7). Chrome isn't always supported.
So I am not impressed with AJAX. Always seems slower, clunkier and less visually impressive than Flash. And I am not sure it can handle the large applications that Flash does.
1. Proves that our government is full of idiots.
2. Proves that blind people are frakkin' blind.
Does one thing, destroys any good will people have toward the handicap. Frankly, I see this, and I want to cut all funding to blind people and shout at them "YOU'RE !@#$% BLIND!"
Look, our society does a lot for the handicap, perhaps we can do more, and I am all for doing more where and when it's feasible. But you have to accept a certain extent of your handicap. So you're blind and you can easily navigate your Kindle. It's not like you can walk into Barnes and Noble and read all the books either. Deal!
It's harsh, yes. But when you take our goodwill and slam it in our face, don't be surprised if you get tossed to the roadside.
Same plot as Avatar. Humans destroy their world. Humans are bad. Aliens are good, kind and gentle.
I think they must have caught wind of the plot and made a cheap knock off early. That or James Cameron stole the idea. One or the other.
Adobe's ColdFusion...
Here is why...
It is very close to pseudocode, the language itself is nearly logic.
Examples:
Albeit the language is slightly more verbose. It is a rapid development language allowing for very fast production of smaller web projects. As skills develop your 12 year old can move to CFSCRIPT which is very similar to JavaScript and other C-syntax languages. But ColdFusion will allow a very easy entrance to programming concepts. Conditionals. loops and arrays. They can then progress to MVC model frameworks in ColdFusion. ColdFusion itself utilizes Java. Once they get the basics they can expand into the Java world.
I am sure there are some who will advocate going straight into a language like Java. But I think breaking up the learning of logic and the learning of syntax into two steps is very prudent in education. ColdFusion adheres closer to logic in it's syntax. It has not been super-optimized for coding efficiency.
ie: versus if(x=y)
But it's syntax is less cryptic. It is also very easy to work with SQL databases in ColdFusion. This allows the 12 yr old to start being productive much earlier than they would in something like Java. And once they have an understanding of 0the logic and design patterns they should be able to move to any syntax. Hence why I think CF is a good language. It greatly reduces syntax issues adhering very closely to logic based pseudo-code.
They should have registered "Go.ogl", what a perfect name for a url shortener.
That in my bathroom I have had to replace my flourescent bulb 2 times now over a period of 3 yrs. But my incadescent bulb has remained.
So much for longer lasting.