What about flash sites that degrade to html for lynx, etc.? Believe it or not, such things *are* possible.
Plus, when I talk about browser independence I was referring more to look-and-feel being exactly the same on other browsers, the way pdf is. If you use xhtml/css you always run into versioning issues anyway so either way you lose sometimes.
But keep insulting me, I won't take it too personally...
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>>too proprietary
Check out osflash.org
>>doesn't work with all the features on linux
Neither does Photoshop or Word. What's Linux's market share again? Why should Abode worry? Plus version 7, which is available, is a mature version with the broadest penetration, and which people should be coding to anyway.
>>95% browser penetration isn't an excuse for leaving visually impaired people out.
Google "accessible flash".
>>it's an excuse for HTML impaired developpers to make pseudo websites.
I know nothing's leeter than html, but we do what we can...
AJAX: Javascript that connects to a server-side script to select / create / update / delete data and update the page.
Flash can do that too. It can communicate via text, xml, json, remoting, webservices and other ways that aren't coming to mind. I suggest you check out the book Flash for Server Geeks for more information
Flash for linux is up to version 7 which is about 3 years old.
However, I believe all sites should be coded to version 7 anyway since it has 95% penetration. Version 7 is still robust/advanced enough, and takes advantage of the "new" component architecture, so there should be no problem using it for a project. In fact, I always test on version 7 before I consider releasing anything.
Flash is in the same space as Ajax, and has been for a while. And with something like 95% browser penetration, Flash is a great way to create browser-independent websites.
Flash is far more robust and elegant than the slashdot crowd gives it credit for being. It has a powerful object-oriented language and frameworks enabling ant builds, unit testing, aspect-oriented coding, and almost every other buzzword out there. If you gave up on it 5 years ago, check it out again. It so isn't your daddy's flash these days.
Or better yet, keep insulting Flash while I keep making money off it.
"Flash hasn't supplanted the role that SVG could perform, and there still is a huge void waiting to be filled."
On the contrary, adobe's takeover of macromedia probably means that svg and flash will be more tightly integrated in the future. And svg doesn't have the mindshare or developer/designer tools that flash has so I'm willing to bet adobe will focus its resources behind flash, its 3 or 4 billion dollar purchase.
Humor will always be hit-or-miss. The funniest comedians out there have some material that doesn't work too well but is still part of their repetoire...
Whenever installing a game I try to install it in a foreign language that I've studied (if I have the option). That way I am completely immersed in the gaming environment.
Of course Neverwinter Nights in German was very annoying but it was worth a shot (I didn't know what the hell was going on and the baddies were A LOT more intimidating). I even use ATMs in foreign languages when the opportunity presents itself. Don't think I'm a snob though, because I actually don't have the self-discipline to study languages on a consistent basis anymore. In fact when I go to a foreign country I wind up clinging to the english-speakers over there (basically I don't leave my hotel).
When teaching coding classes, I usually use UML to demo basic object interactions and class structure on the blackboard. If I instead write a bunch of code I wind up receiving glazed looks from my students. It takes several days to teach the syntax of OO programming to students but I can have them drawing/comprehending rectangles in a matter of minutes.
For my own programming projects, I usually use UML to code stuff up with pencil and paper on the bus and I then "translate" it to actual code once I get home.
The name is just "terminal client" and it lets you telnet and ssh. The charge for it is $9.99 on my phone, but I think I got it for free way back when.
I've found that the The Sidekick is just incredible. It has an ssh client, decent webbrowser (though it has trouble with tables/frames/scripting, etc.) and convenient keyboard, as well as decent phone features.
And I am speaking as an owner of the color sidekick - supposedly the newest iteration is significantly enhanced. The only downsides are that
1) the reception isn't 100% (though I hear the newest one is a lot better wrt this).
2) it breaks a lot (though they do have a generous exchange policy).
Anyway, if it's available in your area, I'd definitely consider it. There is no extra charge for any internet usage (about $60/month gives me the package I need) and the ssh app is probably less than $5 to buy. If it doesn't work for you, I hope somebody else benefits from my recommendation.
How do you install linux? I love to "hack" and am sure I can make lots of programs. Do they give you a cd and see if it boots up on your hardware? Thanks for indulging my curiousity.
Now I just sit back and wait for the (4,interesting) to come my way too:)
Also meant to say that through speciation a species and its ancestor might happen to simultaneously exist. Doesn't necessarily disprove its ancestor's status as ancestor...
If modern humans existed before the emergance of those that evolutions posits we descended from, it renders all of the "evidence" of human evolution moot.
No...it could just mean it occurred at a different pace, or earlier branch. Much like those "modern" humans you're arguing about, the supposed ancestors could also have existed earlier than supposed. Big deal, science got another bunch of dates wrong. We know enough from the dna evidence that some common ancestor exists. Maybe it's this guy, maybe someone older, but the darwinists live to fight another day.
If they believe that all of creation is less than 20,000 years old, a two million year old modern human destroys their assumptions.
No, as I said they could argue that he placed the bones there. Since it's not inconcievable that an omnipotent being could fsck with carbon dating the creationists live to fight another day.
So both the darwinists and creations survive this little shakeup as they would evidence that human life was planted by et or any other conspiracy theory out there. These battles will be then fought in mid-west courtrooms for quite some time until ignorance eventually prevails...
If the emergence of humans occurred further back than assumed, all it means is that the emergence of humans occurred further back than assumed.
It need not offend the darwinists since our evolution still could have occurred according to his posited algorithm, just at a slower or quicker pace.
It need not offend the creationists since He might have placed the bones in the coal in accordance with His wisedom.
All it means is that science - which under ideal conditions freely admits to not having all the facts - doesn't have all the facts. This is NOT the equivalent to having a flawed premise to start with...
This is very much needed. A few years ago, I actually switched from linux to windows in order to do flash work and have stuck with xp since then (could/should have gone the os x route, but I already had my boxen picked out and was doing.net work anyway). If linux had flash 2004 I'd definitely switch back, but until then I'm a sellout...
"And no matter what you decide, if you can, just get out and vote tomorrow."
Methinks Mr. Taco stopped watching South Park before the last episode. By today's poll results "get out and vote" can be cynically read as "throw Kerry some votes" (not that I'm completely opposed to that per se - still undecided myself).
BTW, does anybody else find most of the "get out and vote" flunkies to be incredibly partisan? Something tells me the same clipboarded people pounding the pavements in NYC don't want the folks upstate to "get out and vote".
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What about flash sites that degrade to html for lynx, etc.? Believe it or not, such things *are* possible.
Plus, when I talk about browser independence I was referring more to look-and-feel being exactly the same on other browsers, the way pdf is. If you use xhtml/css you always run into versioning issues anyway so either way you lose sometimes.
But keep insulting me, I won't take it too personally...
>>too proprietary
Check out osflash.org
>>doesn't work with all the features on linux
Neither does Photoshop or Word. What's Linux's market share again? Why should Abode worry? Plus version 7, which is available, is a mature version with the broadest penetration, and which people should be coding to anyway.
>>95% browser penetration isn't an excuse for leaving visually impaired people out.
Google "accessible flash".
>>it's an excuse for HTML impaired developpers to make pseudo websites.
I know nothing's leeter than html, but we do what we can...
They can so be indexed: try searching google for "indexing flash".
Check out the osflash website. Or better yet, keep being closed-minded.
AJAX: Javascript that connects to a server-side script to select / create / update / delete data and update the page.
Flash can do that too. It can communicate via text, xml, json, remoting, webservices and other ways that aren't coming to mind. I suggest you check out the book Flash for Server Geeks for more information
Flash for linux is up to version 7 which is about 3 years old.
However, I believe all sites should be coded to version 7 anyway since it has 95% penetration. Version 7 is still robust/advanced enough, and takes advantage of the "new" component architecture, so there should be no problem using it for a project. In fact, I always test on version 7 before I consider releasing anything.
Flash is in the same space as Ajax, and has been for a while. And with something like 95% browser penetration, Flash is a great way to create browser-independent websites.
Flash is far more robust and elegant than the slashdot crowd gives it credit for being. It has a powerful object-oriented language and frameworks enabling ant builds, unit testing, aspect-oriented coding, and almost every other buzzword out there. If you gave up on it 5 years ago, check it out again. It so isn't your daddy's flash these days.
Or better yet, keep insulting Flash while I keep making money off it.
"Flash hasn't supplanted the role that SVG could perform, and there still is a huge void waiting to be filled."
On the contrary, adobe's takeover of macromedia probably means that svg and flash will be more tightly integrated in the future. And svg doesn't have the mindshare or developer/designer tools that flash has so I'm willing to bet adobe will focus its resources behind flash, its 3 or 4 billion dollar purchase.
whoops, the last link should have been: Imaginary friend.
Don't listen to the haters. You can probably improve the drawing a bit, but in general the comics are funny and a little bit sick. I liked the following best: baby, origin of species and http://simulatedcomicproduct.com/index.php?cid=20
Humor will always be hit-or-miss. The funniest comedians out there have some material that doesn't work too well but is still part of their repetoire...
are you willing to relocate?
1) One page for job history ...
2) One page for certifications
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4) Profit!!!
Whenever installing a game I try to install it in a foreign language that I've studied (if I have the option). That way I am completely immersed in the gaming environment.
Of course Neverwinter Nights in German was very annoying but it was worth a shot (I didn't know what the hell was going on and the baddies were A LOT more intimidating). I even use ATMs in foreign languages when the opportunity presents itself. Don't think I'm a snob though, because I actually don't have the self-discipline to study languages on a consistent basis anymore. In fact when I go to a foreign country I wind up clinging to the english-speakers over there (basically I don't leave my hotel).
When teaching coding classes, I usually use UML to demo basic object interactions and class structure on the blackboard. If I instead write a bunch of code I wind up receiving glazed looks from my students. It takes several days to teach the syntax of OO programming to students but I can have them drawing /comprehending rectangles in a matter of minutes.
For my own programming projects, I usually use UML to code stuff up with pencil and paper on the bus and I then "translate" it to actual code once I get home.
The name is just "terminal client" and it lets you telnet and ssh. The charge for it is $9.99 on my phone, but I think I got it for free way back when.
And I am speaking as an owner of the color sidekick - supposedly the newest iteration is significantly enhanced. The only downsides are that
1) the reception isn't 100% (though I hear the newest one is a lot better wrt this).
2) it breaks a lot (though they do have a generous exchange policy).
Anyway, if it's available in your area, I'd definitely consider it. There is no extra charge for any internet usage (about $60/month gives me the package I need) and the ssh app is probably less than $5 to buy. If it doesn't work for you, I hope somebody else benefits from my recommendation.
$300 item + reluctance to name technogadget on slashdot = ipod
I guess he just "had" to use those earphones.
How do you install linux? I love to "hack" and am sure I can make lots of programs. Do they give you a cd and see if it boots up on your hardware? Thanks for indulging my curiousity.
:)
Now I just sit back and wait for the (4,interesting) to come my way too
not to be a grammar nazi, but you set me up :)
hope you don't stay up too late poking your eyes out...
Also meant to say that through speciation a species and its ancestor might happen to simultaneously exist. Doesn't necessarily disprove its ancestor's status as ancestor...
No...it could just mean it occurred at a different pace, or earlier branch. Much like those "modern" humans you're arguing about, the supposed ancestors could also have existed earlier than supposed. Big deal, science got another bunch of dates wrong. We know enough from the dna evidence that some common ancestor exists. Maybe it's this guy, maybe someone older, but the darwinists live to fight another day.
If they believe that all of creation is less than 20,000 years old, a two million year old modern human destroys their assumptions.
No, as I said they could argue that he placed the bones there. Since it's not inconcievable that an omnipotent being could fsck with carbon dating the creationists live to fight another day.
So both the darwinists and creations survive this little shakeup as they would evidence that human life was planted by et or any other conspiracy theory out there. These battles will be then fought in mid-west courtrooms for quite some time until ignorance eventually prevails...
If the emergence of humans occurred further back than assumed, all it means is that the emergence of humans occurred further back than assumed.
It need not offend the darwinists since our evolution still could have occurred according to his posited algorithm, just at a slower or quicker pace.
It need not offend the creationists since He might have placed the bones in the coal in accordance with His wisedom.
All it means is that science - which under ideal conditions freely admits to not having all the facts - doesn't have all the facts. This is NOT the equivalent to having a flawed premise to start with...
This is very much needed. A few years ago, I actually switched from linux to windows in order to do flash work and have stuck with xp since then (could/should have gone the os x route, but I already had my boxen picked out and was doing .net work anyway). If linux had flash 2004 I'd definitely switch back, but until then I'm a sellout...
"And no matter what you decide, if you can, just get out and vote tomorrow."
Methinks Mr. Taco stopped watching South Park before the last episode. By today's poll results "get out and vote" can be cynically read as "throw Kerry some votes" (not that I'm completely opposed to that per se - still undecided myself).
BTW, does anybody else find most of the "get out and vote" flunkies to be incredibly partisan? Something tells me the same clipboarded people pounding the pavements in NYC don't want the folks upstate to "get out and vote".
to gaming in the kernel...