"Adobe is working on creating a new product codenamed "Adobe Apollo" that integrates the Macromedia Flash Player with the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader. Adobe Apollo software will provide Macromedia Flash and HTML functionality and will run independent from the web browser."
Two of them involved a loop with something like while(a = b) instead of while(a == b)
That may be *legal* C/C++ code, but IMHO it ain't *moral*.
I always crank up my compiler warning level to 11 (and then set "treat warnings as errors") to warn about this sort of stuff.
"But, but, but, that's legal!" you cry. "And it makes for more-efficient code!"
Well, I submit to you that
(1) modern optimizing compilers really make this sort of code-squeaking an exercise in obsessiveness, and (2) if you REALLY want/need to use this construct, code it like this:
while ((a = b) != 0)// dodges the "possible unwanted assignment" warning in every compiler I've used
Wally: When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy "icons" and "windows". All we had were zeros and ones -- and sometimes we didn't even have ones. I wrote an entire database program using only zeros.
Dilbert: You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O".
Well, yeah, by definition. But that's like saying "computers are good for calculating projectile motion, they have no business being communication devices"... it's a robust technology with multiple uses.
Flex is a popular lexer based on Yacc and not some web2 buzzword
I presume you're being deliberately obtuse here, but just in case, let me help you out: Adobe Flex 2.0
My startup company has just released its first product, but since it is made up of geeks without a clue about marketing strategies
Well, that's your problem right there: at this point, you need to add some non-geeks to your company. (In fact, it sounds like you're well past that point.)
Look, you don't expect the marketroids to be able to do a decent job of C++ coding... so why would you expect geeks to do a decent job of formulating marketing strategies?
Sure, there are folks who have skill in both areas, but that's the exception, not the rule.
A lot of people use Flash instead of DHTML because it's Flash is more uniform across multiple configurations than DHTML is -- the need to adjust for the quirks and bugs of different browsers goes away. (Assuming the users have Flash installed, that is.)
Really, what sort of person thinks that getSystemLookAndFeelClassName is a sensible name for a function in a standard library?
I don't get your point.
I don't know Swing (thus, I don't know how frequently this method is called), but this seems not-unreasonable to me for something infrequently used. It's a bit on the long side, but so what?
Would you perhaps prefer something like "sysLookClsNm()" ?
Webmasters, repeat after me: users hate websites that play sound unprompted, and they hate weird popup thingies. It makes them avoid your site in the future.
Doesn't the FCC have anything say in this? Aren't they supposed to be in charge of standards?
Actually, I thought they were in charge of regulating the nipple content of sporting events, and making sure that radio personalities don't say too many arbitrarily prohibited words and phrases.
Google is not censoring these videos. A spokesperson at Google tells Boing Boing: Video uploaders, using Google Video's 'Advanced Options' feature, can choose to blacklist countries. In this case the uploader blacklisted the US and only the US. When uploading the video the content owner set a preference not to show this content to users in the US.
People do cry about the religious right, but if they had the power people claim, I wouldn't be seeing commercials about a gay cowboy movie which will likely clean up as the Oscars.
Ah, but you forget, the airwaves are controlled by The Liberal Media!
I was informed of this fact by Rush Limbaugh. And Thomas Sowell. And Ann Coulter. And Rich Lowry. And Bill O'Reilly. And William Safire. And Robert Novak. And William F. Buckley, Jr. And George Will.
And John Gibson. And Michelle Malkin. And David Brooks. And Tony Snow. And Tony Blankely. And Fred Barnes. And Britt Hume. And Larry Kudlow. And Sean Hannity. And David Horowitz. And William Kristol. And Hugh Hewitt.
And Oliver North. And Joe Scarborough. And Pat Buchanan. And John McLaughlin. And Cal Thomas. And Joe Klein. And James Kilpatrick. And Tucker Carlson. And Deroy Murdock. And Michael Savage. And Charles Krauthammer. And Stephen Moore. And Alan Keyes.
And Gary Bauer. And Mort Kondracke. And Andrew Sullivan. And Nicholas von Hoffman. And Neil Cavuto. And Matt Drudge. And Mike Rosen. And Dave Kopel. And John Caldara.
To muslims, pictures of the prophet are blasphemous
OK, but: so what?
A person -- or culture -- that responds to criticism of its ideas, with violence, has no place in a civilized society; this is simply a reversion to savagery.
At root, this sounds like an 8-year-old boy who gets into a fight on the playground, and excuses himself by saying "but he called me a doody-head!"
As a devout skeptic of all things supernatural, I find any elevation of beliefs to the level of dogma to be offensive -- but I also think that the superior ideas will eventually prove their worth.
Not to disagree with your point, but there's plenty of justification in the Christian Bible to justify killing-in-the-name-of. Mostly in the Old Testament, to be sure, but keep in mind that the punishment prescribed by Leviticus for breaking most of the Ten Commandments was death by stoning (and last I checked, no branch of the church has officially repudiated these sections as being inaccurate).
Slashdot Mirror
Yep:
"Adobe is working on creating a new product codenamed "Adobe Apollo" that integrates the Macromedia Flash Player with the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader. Adobe Apollo software will provide Macromedia Flash and HTML functionality and will run independent from the web browser."
http://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+apollo
If it's really "unlimited storage", I've got about 200GB of FLAC files I'd love to backup offsite...
Two of them involved a loop with something like while(a = b) instead of while(a == b)
// dodges the "possible unwanted assignment" warning in every compiler I've used
That may be *legal* C/C++ code, but IMHO it ain't *moral*.
I always crank up my compiler warning level to 11 (and then set "treat warnings as errors") to warn about this sort of stuff.
"But, but, but, that's legal!" you cry. "And it makes for more-efficient code!"
Well, I submit to you that
(1) modern optimizing compilers really make this sort of code-squeaking an exercise in obsessiveness, and
(2) if you REALLY want/need to use this construct, code it like this:
while ((a = b) != 0)
> How dare you ask for that! It's like asking Bush to impeach himself
Well, yeah, actually, I'd be all for that.
> In the free world, GIMP does what Photoshop does,
> except where prevented by clueless or greedy device makers.
You really don't have the slightest fucking clue what Photoshop does -- or who it's customers are -- do you?
Wally: When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy "icons" and "windows". All we had were zeros and ones -- and sometimes we didn't even have ones. I wrote an entire database program using only zeros.
Dilbert: You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O".
So, would you feel comfortable with someone going around saying something like this
Nope.
So, would you want such a nutcase to enter your country? Would you want them living down the steet from you?
Nope, and nope.
Free speech isn't a license to promote hatred
Well, see, the thing is, you're just plain wrong here.
Free speech is the license to promote any damn thing you want to, no matter how repugnant someone else finds it.
Anyone who uses this right to promote hatred is a repulsive person who deserves to be ostracized from polite society, to be sure.
But to prevent someone from expressing a point of view -- no matter how disgusting -- is to bring thoughtcrime into the legal canon.
I don't know of a good AJAX-y solution.
f /flash/print/PrintJob.html
Flex gives you a good deal of control over printed output.
A smattering of the API provided: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langre
Wait for the day when we have a real programming language
c ript_3:overview)
How about ECMAScript4?
You can have that now (in the form of ActionScript 3, Adobe's confusingly-named implementation) with Flex.
(Overview at http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionS
Web documents have no place being applications
Well, yeah, by definition. But that's like saying "computers are good for calculating projectile motion, they have no business being communication devices"... it's a robust technology with multiple uses.
Flex is a popular lexer based on Yacc and not some web2 buzzword
I presume you're being deliberately obtuse here, but just in case, let me help you out: Adobe Flex 2.0
My startup company has just released its first product, but since it is made up of geeks without a clue about marketing strategies
Well, that's your problem right there: at this point, you need to add some non-geeks to your company. (In fact, it sounds like you're well past that point.)
Look, you don't expect the marketroids to be able to do a decent job of C++ coding... so why would you expect geeks to do a decent job of formulating marketing strategies?
Sure, there are folks who have skill in both areas, but that's the exception, not the rule.
A lot of people use Flash instead of DHTML because it's Flash is more uniform across multiple configurations than DHTML is -- the need to adjust for the quirks and bugs of different browsers goes away. (Assuming the users have Flash installed, that is.)
Really, what sort of person thinks that getSystemLookAndFeelClassName is a sensible name for a function in a standard library?
I don't get your point.
I don't know Swing (thus, I don't know how frequently this method is called), but this seems not-unreasonable to me for something infrequently used. It's a bit on the long side, but so what?
Would you perhaps prefer something like "sysLookClsNm()" ?
Maybe, just maybe.
Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
and annoying auto playing video with sound!
Gah! No kidding!
Webmasters, repeat after me: users hate websites that play sound unprompted, and they hate weird popup thingies. It makes them avoid your site in the future.
Doesn't the FCC have anything say in this? Aren't they supposed to be in charge of standards?
Actually, I thought they were in charge of regulating the nipple content of sporting events, and making sure that radio personalities don't say too many arbitrarily prohibited words and phrases.
Hates software patents with the fiery rage of a million exploding suns...
But hates Flash even more.
Who to root for in this fight? Oh, the humanity...
The artists are, but not the coders.
I guess the workweek will have to go to 120 hours to make up for the lost revenue.
As other folks have posted, apparently the 'censorship' thing is a hoax, or at least, a misunderstanding:
r ing_ira.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/21/google_censo
Google is not censoring these videos. A spokesperson at Google tells Boing Boing: Video uploaders, using Google Video's 'Advanced Options' feature, can choose to blacklist countries. In this case the uploader blacklisted the US and only the US. When uploading the video the content owner set a preference not to show this content to users in the US.
I'm trying to figure out how my post could possibly be moderated "flamebait".
Is it "flamebait" to make an easily verifiable statement of fact about the contents of a religious work?
Especially when I didn't even espouse an opinion as to said contents?
Hoping the metamoderators will help me out here...
"This video is not playable in your country."
Holy crap.
And here we were all worried about Google censoring things in China.
People do cry about the religious right, but if they had the power people claim, I wouldn't be seeing commercials about a gay cowboy movie which will likely clean up as the Oscars.
Ah, but you forget, the airwaves are controlled by The Liberal Media!
I was informed of this fact by Rush Limbaugh. And Thomas Sowell. And Ann Coulter. And Rich Lowry. And Bill O'Reilly. And William Safire. And Robert Novak. And William F. Buckley, Jr. And George Will.
And John Gibson. And Michelle Malkin. And David Brooks. And Tony Snow. And Tony Blankely. And Fred Barnes. And Britt Hume. And Larry Kudlow. And Sean Hannity. And David Horowitz. And William Kristol. And Hugh Hewitt.
And Oliver North. And Joe Scarborough. And Pat Buchanan. And John McLaughlin. And Cal Thomas. And Joe Klein. And James Kilpatrick. And Tucker Carlson. And Deroy Murdock. And Michael Savage. And Charles Krauthammer. And Stephen Moore. And Alan Keyes.
And Gary Bauer. And Mort Kondracke. And Andrew Sullivan. And Nicholas von Hoffman. And Neil Cavuto. And Matt Drudge. And Mike Rosen. And Dave Kopel. And John Caldara.
(the above plagiarized from http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=169)
To muslims, pictures of the prophet are blasphemous
OK, but: so what?
A person -- or culture -- that responds to criticism of its ideas, with violence, has no place in a civilized society; this is simply a reversion to savagery.
At root, this sounds like an 8-year-old boy who gets into a fight on the playground, and excuses himself by saying "but he called me a doody-head!"
As a devout skeptic of all things supernatural, I find any elevation of beliefs to the level of dogma to be offensive -- but I also think that the superior ideas will eventually prove their worth.
Not to disagree with your point, but there's plenty of justification in the Christian Bible to justify killing-in-the-name-of. Mostly in the Old Testament, to be sure, but keep in mind that the punishment prescribed by Leviticus for breaking most of the Ten Commandments was death by stoning (and last I checked, no branch of the church has officially repudiated these sections as being inaccurate).
http://www.free-minds.org/bible.htm