In many ways ActionScript is better [stackoverflow.com] than JavaScript
Actionscript doesn't have a modern execution engine and is terribly slow. Additional to that, that comparison is from 2010 and outdated by today's standards. If you really need those features, use the Typescript superset and compile it to javascript. Same result, just faster execution as js has actually fast interpreters and jit (ActionScript hasn't).
Adobe Flash just plays video/audio formats it's intended to play, vs. the dreaded HTML5 message, "Your browser doesn't support this media type" specially on platforms other than Windows.
This was an issue some time ago (when firefox didn't support h.264, but it changed in 2014...). Now you can use h.264: http://caniuse.com/#search=h.2...
93.01% of your users will support it, mobile users included. How many mobile users have flash?
Adobe Flash, at least on Windows, seamlessly accelerates video decoding and rendering vs for instance royalty free VP9 codec which drains your battery several times faster because it's decoded using only the CPU.
Most (maybe all?) modern hardware sold today has already hardware based VP9 decoding built in, so its more of an issue with legacy hardware. Your information is outdated!
And, if anything, its a problem with VP9 and not with HTML5. If you use h.264 for your videos (which flash uses as well), you get the same result.
This is quite preventable I think, if we actually manage to lock down certain areas of the world where pandemics pop up. The biggest threat is probably a combined threat of pandemics and terrorism where the contageous agent is released in multiple very busy places of the world simultaneously (new york+london+singapore+peking+tokio+paris+...).
Civil and international war
This is a threat, indeed.
The ongoing islamisation of the population
The problem is not the islamisation itself, but that most of the islam being spread is backwards minded, one which is from the time before the enlightment period and its concepts. The western world should get together and try to adapt islam to its culture, lifestyle, and legal system, and islamisation is no problem anymore.
Pollution and the depletion of natural resources, including fossil fuels
Already now we have figured out how to get rid of fossil fuels, we just need the political will to implement it. So I'm sure by the time the fossil resources are depleted, we will have found a way to live without them. For the other resources, we'll probably have to find a way to recycle them...
The bigger threat than depletion I think is pollution, not because global warming will kill us directly but due to the change of many environments and the gigantic refugee crisis and other turmoil it will cause.
Science denial
This is bad, but, while it certainly exists in other countries as well, mostly an US related problem I think. Fix your country!
Donald Trump
He hasn't been a single day in office yet. Even though I don't like him I don't think he will be worse than say bush. The worst he can (and probably will) do is lock down the supreme court for another few decades, and maybe he'll destroy the paris agreement.
The collapse of the European Union
This is (sadly) a big problem, as many countries in the european union still hate each other, and I'm sure that once the EU is gone, the countries will continue with their war efforts they gave up once they built the EU. The anti EU people obviously disagree on this one, but I think they are naive (and stupid as well, the EU brings so much power to the collective compared to each country doing its own little thing).
America's sovereign debt
If you actually started enforcing taxes, it wouldn't be much of an issue. But that probably won't happen.
Yeah, sadly corruption by the big money permeates the US political system, including the establishment of both parties. And the **AA our good friends just use the system.
I agree with that, but it makes life for green energies much harder when they have to compare to extraction costs directly. And there are many fossil resources which are very cheap to extract. So yeah, maybe cheaper engergy prices will make oil fracking not possible economically, but saudi arabia will be able to sell their oil for a long time to come.
The problem is that market forces apply here. Apple didn't prevent any coal from being fired, instead they just contributed to a smaller demand for coal and a larger demand for wind turbines. Obviously, if this causes wind turbines to be built this is a good thing, but the smaller demand for coal only means that coal is now cheaper. The only way to prevent fossil fuels from being blown into the air is to actually buy the exploitation rights and then chose to not extract. The moment it gets out of the earth and lighted up (whether by you or not), its bad for the climate, no matter how many wind turbines are next to it.
Its not like with vegetarians where not eating meat means less animals are raised for food processing. The owner of the fossil fuels still wants to get rid of them, and in many parts of the world people use poop for fire making, I'm sure they'd love to buy coal instead, if it just wasn't so expensive (from their perspective).
The reason is simple. If apple brought the money home and invested it in turbines in the USA, it would have had to pay taxes on them.
The bad thing about this is that apple is allowed to invest its money abroad while evading taxes in the first place. Yes, the pentagon wastes a lot of money, but that's no reason for not paying taxes.
The idea is that new superconductors can have much higher field strengths and this in turn allows for smaller reactors, which are cheaper. I think they estimate ARC which should be able to generate net plus power to cost around $5 billion, and SPARC around a few hundred million.
No. Its shameful that companies make a business in selling data of their customers, and the state is just another entity who buys them. What happened here was that they used a proxy company to purchase the data, because out of some reason (probably the snowden relevations), twitter didn't want them to give the data directly. Probably if everything you say (in private) on the platform will automatically lead to investigations against you, people will stop using twitter and maybe go to competitors that encrypt communications, which in turn means less profits for twitter.
He should be fair and review the criminal acts of both sides, not just of one side. But it shows how biased he is, sadly. 8 years ago, when he ran for president he was a real underdog. Now he is part of the corrupt establishment. Maybe because he couldn't do better and was forced to cooperate with it.
Only china and russia, as the allies of the USA are okay with being spied upon. And china and russia can just simply do a country level analogon of a hosts file edit to block the data from flowing, china already has a pretty good firewall in place.
This is a good idea, and in fact something like that was even required in europe when the old state owned telephone companies (which owned monopolies) were put on the market, to make it possible for competitors to enter it. But its no replacement for net neutrality, because people will still blame youtube for being slow, not the ISP, and they will still only chose one ISP at a time.
But bad for everyone else. The ISPs control a bottleneck of the usually meshed internet: the last mile. Everywhere else one can route around a bad actor, but there leads only one line to the end users, and it goes through the ISPs.
Every value in any economy is derived from a combination of resources and human labour. While what you say is true for economies that require human labour, and a big market to try out new products, or a wealthy middle class which can man the science apparatus (which benefits the rich as well, just look how the lives of rich people improved over the past 100 years through science), its not true for economies where machines can replace all this stuff. This almost follows from the definition of a fully automated economy: The first, human labour, factor gets irrelevant, and the only thing that matters now is who controls the resources.
Slashdot Mirror
Just with different rules about what needs to be banned?
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Signal. Although they didn't build it themselves.
Most of the stuff you say is utter bullshit.
In many ways ActionScript is better [stackoverflow.com] than JavaScript
Actionscript doesn't have a modern execution engine and is terribly slow. Additional to that, that comparison is from 2010 and outdated by today's standards. If you really need those features, use the Typescript superset and compile it to javascript. Same result, just faster execution as js has actually fast interpreters and jit (ActionScript hasn't).
Adobe Flash just plays video/audio formats it's intended to play, vs. the dreaded HTML5 message, "Your browser doesn't support this media type" specially on platforms other than Windows.
This was an issue some time ago (when firefox didn't support h.264, but it changed in 2014...). Now you can use h.264: http://caniuse.com/#search=h.2...
93.01% of your users will support it, mobile users included. How many mobile users have flash?
Adobe Flash, at least on Windows, seamlessly accelerates video decoding and rendering vs for instance royalty free VP9 codec which drains your battery several times faster because it's decoded using only the CPU.
Most (maybe all?) modern hardware sold today has already hardware based VP9 decoding built in, so its more of an issue with legacy hardware. Your information is outdated!
And, if anything, its a problem with VP9 and not with HTML5. If you use h.264 for your videos (which flash uses as well), you get the same result.
Pandemics
This is quite preventable I think, if we actually manage to lock down certain areas of the world where pandemics pop up. The biggest threat is probably a combined threat of pandemics and terrorism where the contageous agent is released in multiple very busy places of the world simultaneously (new york+london+singapore+peking+tokio+paris+...).
Civil and international war
This is a threat, indeed.
The ongoing islamisation of the population
The problem is not the islamisation itself, but that most of the islam being spread is backwards minded, one which is from the time before the enlightment period and its concepts. The western world should get together and try to adapt islam to its culture, lifestyle, and legal system, and islamisation is no problem anymore.
Pollution and the depletion of natural resources, including fossil fuels
Already now we have figured out how to get rid of fossil fuels, we just need the political will to implement it. So I'm sure by the time the fossil resources are depleted, we will have found a way to live without them. For the other resources, we'll probably have to find a way to recycle them...
The bigger threat than depletion I think is pollution, not because global warming will kill us directly but due to the change of many environments and the gigantic refugee crisis and other turmoil it will cause.
Science denial
This is bad, but, while it certainly exists in other countries as well, mostly an US related problem I think. Fix your country!
Donald Trump
He hasn't been a single day in office yet. Even though I don't like him I don't think he will be worse than say bush. The worst he can (and probably will) do is lock down the supreme court for another few decades, and maybe he'll destroy the paris agreement.
The collapse of the European Union
This is (sadly) a big problem, as many countries in the european union still hate each other, and I'm sure that once the EU is gone, the countries will continue with their war efforts they gave up once they built the EU. The anti EU people obviously disagree on this one, but I think they are naive (and stupid as well, the EU brings so much power to the collective compared to each country doing its own little thing).
America's sovereign debt
If you actually started enforcing taxes, it wouldn't be much of an issue. But that probably won't happen.
Welcome back to biblical ages, where your hand gets cut off if you use it to steal!
Yeah, sadly corruption by the big money permeates the US political system, including the establishment of both parties. And the **AA our good friends just use the system.
Interesting! I didn't know why Japan had so strong regulations on food imports, but now I do.
I fully agree. The entire gene analyzing startup industry does this though, like 23andme or others. They are basically grep inc.
Or try opening the file explorer and then try opening a tab inside it.
I guess someone has to put a (better?) cable on the sea floor and until then the cache sounds like a good idea.
I agree with that, but it makes life for green energies much harder when they have to compare to extraction costs directly. And there are many fossil resources which are very cheap to extract. So yeah, maybe cheaper engergy prices will make oil fracking not possible economically, but saudi arabia will be able to sell their oil for a long time to come.
The problem is that market forces apply here. Apple didn't prevent any coal from being fired, instead they just contributed to a smaller demand for coal and a larger demand for wind turbines. Obviously, if this causes wind turbines to be built this is a good thing, but the smaller demand for coal only means that coal is now cheaper. The only way to prevent fossil fuels from being blown into the air is to actually buy the exploitation rights and then chose to not extract. The moment it gets out of the earth and lighted up (whether by you or not), its bad for the climate, no matter how many wind turbines are next to it.
Its not like with vegetarians where not eating meat means less animals are raised for food processing. The owner of the fossil fuels still wants to get rid of them, and in many parts of the world people use poop for fire making, I'm sure they'd love to buy coal instead, if it just wasn't so expensive (from their perspective).
The reason is simple. If apple brought the money home and invested it in turbines in the USA, it would have had to pay taxes on them.
The bad thing about this is that apple is allowed to invest its money abroad while evading taxes in the first place. Yes, the pentagon wastes a lot of money, but that's no reason for not paying taxes.
Saw the first talk, and its quite convincing.
The idea is that new superconductors can have much higher field strengths and this in turn allows for smaller reactors, which are cheaper. I think they estimate ARC which should be able to generate net plus power to cost around $5 billion, and SPARC around a few hundred million.
No. Its shameful that companies make a business in selling data of their customers, and the state is just another entity who buys them. What happened here was that they used a proxy company to purchase the data, because out of some reason (probably the snowden relevations), twitter didn't want them to give the data directly. Probably if everything you say (in private) on the platform will automatically lead to investigations against you, people will stop using twitter and maybe go to competitors that encrypt communications, which in turn means less profits for twitter.
Wait: if you don't have another device to switch to, how are you going to call verizon then?
He should be fair and review the criminal acts of both sides, not just of one side. But it shows how biased he is, sadly. 8 years ago, when he ran for president he was a real underdog. Now he is part of the corrupt establishment. Maybe because he couldn't do better and was forced to cooperate with it.
This time, they use it for good, but what when its used for bad?
Only china and russia, as the allies of the USA are okay with being spied upon. And china and russia can just simply do a country level analogon of a hosts file edit to block the data from flowing, china already has a pretty good firewall in place.
Or once the lawyers find out about all the data that the OS sends to redmond, and what that means to company internal secrets...
I'm sure you'll like these movies then:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt28...
Also, what about the regulations for abortion clinics? They are made to destroy their business. This big government needs to be stopped.
This is a good idea, and in fact something like that was even required in europe when the old state owned telephone companies (which owned monopolies) were put on the market, to make it possible for competitors to enter it. But its no replacement for net neutrality, because people will still blame youtube for being slow, not the ISP, and they will still only chose one ISP at a time.
But bad for everyone else. The ISPs control a bottleneck of the usually meshed internet: the last mile. Everywhere else one can route around a bad actor, but there leads only one line to the end users, and it goes through the ISPs.
Every value in any economy is derived from a combination of resources and human labour. While what you say is true for economies that require human labour, and a big market to try out new products, or a wealthy middle class which can man the science apparatus (which benefits the rich as well, just look how the lives of rich people improved over the past 100 years through science), its not true for economies where machines can replace all this stuff. This almost follows from the definition of a fully automated economy: The first, human labour, factor gets irrelevant, and the only thing that matters now is who controls the resources.