Unless you can force all the companies who manufacture video decoding ICs to also add Flash rendering capabilities to their chips, your argument is pointless.
My point is that those subjects, which 99% of people never use again in their adult life, are mandatory. And yet computers, which most of us use daily since there's now microcontrollers everywhere, are still magical boxes for most people.
If more people understood basic things like binary, base 2 vs base 10, basic CPU processing, memory, bandwidth, trojans vs viruses, we would have a lot less problems with stupid things like "Western Digital sold me a smaller hard drive than advertised" or "I'm going to upload this 30 megabytes, 12 megapixel photo to use as my avatar picture for that forum" or the ever-popular "I entered my account password so I could watch porn".
Teaching real-world examples would be good, such as "Netflix stopped working, where is the problem coming from? My playback device? My wi-fi router? My ISP modem? My ISP? Netflix?"
The answer to the last problem is, of course, "your iTunes account didn't have enough funds to renew your Netflix subscription".
By all means, offer programming classes, but don't require people to take them to graduate. Attempting to learn programming if your mind doesn't work the right way (detail oriented, highly logical) would be torture indeed. Understanding how to use them should be sufficient for most people.
The same arguments could be said about physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc.
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Were they texting while flying?
Unless you can force all the companies who manufacture video decoding ICs to also add Flash rendering capabilities to their chips, your argument is pointless.
Won't somebody think of the taxi drivers!
No carrier? Hurray, one less monthly bill to worry about!
The output we see isn't in flash, it's just video.
Flash should be relegated to "production tool only" status.
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By next fall, 100$ in Bitcoin might be 0.0022BTC or 22BTC.
Because only Netflix seems to understand there's huge markets outside of the U.S.A.
So... Red Dwarf meets Sliders?
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I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose
I write code with an hexadecimal editor. Now get off my lawn.
My point is that those subjects, which 99% of people never use again in their adult life, are mandatory. And yet computers, which most of us use daily since there's now microcontrollers everywhere, are still magical boxes for most people.
If more people understood basic things like binary, base 2 vs base 10, basic CPU processing, memory, bandwidth, trojans vs viruses, we would have a lot less problems with stupid things like "Western Digital sold me a smaller hard drive than advertised" or "I'm going to upload this 30 megabytes, 12 megapixel photo to use as my avatar picture for that forum" or the ever-popular "I entered my account password so I could watch porn".
Teaching real-world examples would be good, such as "Netflix stopped working, where is the problem coming from? My playback device? My wi-fi router? My ISP modem? My ISP? Netflix?"
The answer to the last problem is, of course, "your iTunes account didn't have enough funds to renew your Netflix subscription".
The same arguments could be said about physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc.
Vimeo or nothing, thanks.
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Digital synths are cool but analog synths overheat, hence the "warm" sound?
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I would have linked to their website, but it's a fucking Flash-only blob.
They're alien dicks.
I guess right now we're still into our Ferengi phase.
Throw it into the Sun, maybe? - Zoidberg
Or CBS blocking me from watching it in Canada, eh?
Don't worry, the UN will defeat them.
I really, really tried to follow the plot for Lost, but in the end and after all those years I just can't figure out why Maggie shot Mr. Burns.
Nope, there is only two options available: Télébec or no Internet at all.