Flash/Actionscript has had communication between Flash and the browser since Flash 3 (over 10 years ago). It started out as function calls like fscommand(), and is now a formal API in the form of ExternalInterface.
You had me at computer types making the kind of buggy crap and lost me at HATE flash and anything I can't name off the top of my head can go STRAIGHT to hell.
Do you hate flash and similar technologies that much? I guess that means you hate all the web video you get to watch for free daily? You must also hate google analytics and google street view? Do you hate that many sites allow you to embed their flash applications into your site?
The point is, Flash has it's place and can play nicely with HTML websites.
We had a similar experience with Flex 2/3. Flash would hold onto objects through invisible references that were almost impossible to track down and release. We even went so far as setting all object properties for all objects to null before unloaded, and still nothing. It got so bad at one point that each user click increased memory usage by 10mb without ever returning it.
This problem occurred both with our own custom code and with the base components provided by Adobe/Flex. This leads me to believe that it wasn't not our code that was the problem, but a fundamental problem with the Flash runtime. Oh yeah, objects instantiated through MXML are even harder to track down and release.
This parent is a troll masquerading as an insightful comment.
If humans are a detriment to the universe, it is better that we know we are a detriment so that we can do something about it. Killing yourself won't change a thing and the human race will continue on sucking the planet dry.
Trying to change our ways so that we don't destroy the planet is the way to go in my opinion. If we end up making out planet inhospitable for ouselvs, at least we died trying. The planet might even balance out and continue on without us.
But if the intent is only to work up to management that's usually the sign of someone who's not going to enjoy the programming, and therefore not be very good at it.
Not true in the slightest. A manager who is also a good programmer is such a hot commodity these days, you wouldn't believe.
Also, not many people can be a code monkey at 40. Most tend to burn out and start managing the 22 year olds.
Yes, but after you beat the game, you can continue playing with "crimes turned on" and there are just as many enemies as when you first start the game.
I don't know, but I was never bored with the game, even when I cleaned up most of a particular area. That just means it's time to move on to the next.
These two "hackers" seem quite sheepish and frustrated. Why are they attacking the Mac user-base when it's not the users that are the problem?
One 'hacker' claims,
We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something,
Users? Why is he picking on users here? The people featured in these ads are ACTORS hired by the marketing and advertising departmens of Apple. Nothing at all to do with the user base.
"Mac userbase aura of smugness on security,"
I don't think the 'smugness aura' is generated by the user base. It's apple's marketing and PR that make claims of being secure and virus free. Do they really think that an average user would come up with something sercurity related on their own? No, they just regurgitate what they hear from these ads.
Maybe some day these guys will grow up socially and learn how to pick their battles. They are attacking the people that they should be trying to win over. They should instead of bringing the fight to the faceless corporations.
Guys, give them a break, these guys are not a corporation or a 50,000 member foundation. I'm guessing it's a couple of guys who are trying to raise awareness. Who knows, maybe a designer will step up and help out instead of bitching them out.
Has microsoft ever built a cheap personal computer? No. Microsoft has in no way made the PC revolution possible, all they did was latch on to IBM and hung on for the ride.
The companies that made cheap PC's possible were the compaies who reverse engineered the original IBM PC (see Compaq). This is what forced prices down.
You forget the biggest benefit of owning a house, it's an investment.
Either you had no choise, or you have made a poor decision in purchasing a house in such poor contidion.
Seeing the way prices of houses are always going up (especially in the major cities) I would have to disagree. I would say purchasing a house is probably one of the most sound investments you can make.
Case in point, my brother's family was living paycheck to paycheck. They took out a loan for a house for 250,000. Two years later, the house was worth 400,000. He sold the house, and with the equity, bought a house in a state that has a lower cost of living. Now they own an even bigger house, pay no rent, and have a lower cost of living.
gorgeous graphics and effects do not make a game great, shit, I still put my nes to use from time to time.
I feel that far too much time in game development is spent on graphics and not on content. The reason why most people love Metroid Prime is because of the gamplay and level design. People hardly ever speak about how good the game looks; Prime does look really, really good (which is merely the icing)
However, I don't think you understand the point I am trying to make.The quotes I took from the article, the author claims that we have hit a plateau in graphics. He says we are on a technological plateau (in terms of graphics, not gameplay). I was disagreeing with him on those claims, not that the graphics were "good enough".
Both instances I quoted from the article, the author (and the person he was quoting) were clearly trying to say that graphics have not improved much in the last 7 years. He made a comparison with James bond of 97 and 2004. If you compare those games side by side in real time, the one from 97 would look and play horribly with its crappy frame rate (not to mention the cheesey popcorn looking explosions.)
Maybe the average gamer would not know if an explosion was realistic, but they would know if it looked asthetically pleasing.
Well if you read the context of my post it had nothing to do with gameplay. It had to do with the comments made by the writer of the article that we have hit a technological plateau.
From the article: We're on a technological plateau
And he believes gaming has hit the wall as far as graphics go.
I have to call bullshit on this one. GPU's are becoming faster and more programmable (the rate at which GPU's are evolving makes moore's law seem very modest indeed).
Right now the trend seems to be advancements in the programmability of gpu's, allowing coders to write their own routines instead of being limited to hard coded ones. This means more realistic textures, shaders etc.
Compare the real time graphics of a video game to the pre-rendered images you see in a full length 3d film like Finding Nemo. It is obvious that the real time graphics of video games look like shit compared to the pre rendered ones.
Real time graphics will parallel what we are seeing in pre-rendered movies; its just a matter of time.
Very few people will honestly admit to themselves that they can't
I agree and wish to add a bit. I can't count the amount of times a driver on a cell phone almost collided with me and kept driving as if nothing ever happened; they are oblivious. This leads me to believe that many people don't realize how horrible their driving is while on a cell phone. Unfortunately, it is left up to the rest of the responsible drivers on the road to avoid accidents with these people.
So you are expecting them to make billions of dollars instantly? Apple's fortune wasn't made overnight, just like the record company's fortune wasn't made overnight. If this keeps growing, it can be a very big deal. History has taught us that every change of medium takes time to take hold (see cd's, dvd, laserdisk - just kidding not laserdisk)
Not that Im saying that the future of the music industry is iTunes; iTunes is too proprietary. The audio format is not industry standard. I think the future of the music industry will be based on the iTunes model but with a format that most portable music players and computers can natively play.
Also, do you really think that Apple is interested in selling music? They just want to sell iPods. Why do you think the format an iTunes download can only be played on the iPod?
Who remembers being considered a freak when it wasn't cool to watch anime? Who remembers watching dragon ball Z over 15 years ago? Now the cartoon network can't show enough anime.
Its funny how people who are the first adopt something new are considered "crazy"
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since the 1800's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc
Flash/Actionscript has had communication between Flash and the browser since Flash 3 (over 10 years ago). It started out as function calls like fscommand(), and is now a formal API in the form of ExternalInterface.
You had me at computer types making the kind of buggy crap and lost me at HATE flash and anything I can't name off the top of my head can go STRAIGHT to hell.
Do you hate flash and similar technologies that much? I guess that means you hate all the web video you get to watch for free daily? You must also hate google analytics and google street view? Do you hate that many sites allow you to embed their flash applications into your site?
The point is, Flash has it's place and can play nicely with HTML websites.
We had a similar experience with Flex 2/3. Flash would hold onto objects through invisible references that were almost impossible to track down and release. We even went so far as setting all object properties for all objects to null before unloaded, and still nothing. It got so bad at one point that each user click increased memory usage by 10mb without ever returning it. This problem occurred both with our own custom code and with the base components provided by Adobe/Flex. This leads me to believe that it wasn't not our code that was the problem, but a fundamental problem with the Flash runtime. Oh yeah, objects instantiated through MXML are even harder to track down and release.
It wasn't a memory leak caused by the C# garbage collector, it's the fault of the programming team not removing their event listeners properly.
This parent is a troll masquerading as an insightful comment.
If humans are a detriment to the universe, it is better that we know we are a detriment so that we can do something about it. Killing yourself won't change a thing and the human race will continue on sucking the planet dry.
Trying to change our ways so that we don't destroy the planet is the way to go in my opinion. If we end up making out planet inhospitable for ouselvs, at least we died trying. The planet might even balance out and continue on without us.
Not true in the slightest. A manager who is also a good programmer is such a hot commodity these days, you wouldn't believe.
Also, not many people can be a code monkey at 40. Most tend to burn out and start managing the 22 year olds.
Yes, but after you beat the game, you can continue playing with "crimes turned on" and there are just as many enemies as when you first start the game.
I don't know, but I was never bored with the game, even when I cleaned up most of a particular area. That just means it's time to move on to the next.
Cheers
"So the next morning when Balaam arose, he saddled his ass, and went off with the princes of Moab."
Numbers 22:21
These two "hackers" seem quite sheepish and frustrated. Why are they attacking the Mac user-base when it's not the users that are the problem?
One 'hacker' claims,We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something,
Users? Why is he picking on users here? The people featured in these ads are ACTORS hired by the marketing and advertising departmens of Apple. Nothing at all to do with the user base.
"Mac userbase aura of smugness on security,"
I don't think the 'smugness aura' is generated by the user base. It's apple's marketing and PR that make claims of being secure and virus free. Do they really think that an average user would come up with something sercurity related on their own? No, they just regurgitate what they hear from these ads.
Maybe some day these guys will grow up socially and learn how to pick their battles. They are attacking the people that they should be trying to win over. They should instead of bringing the fight to the faceless corporations.
The pirate bay is offering you a service, if you use it to serve up illegal content, that's on you, not pirate bay.
Yup, you are right. This is my kind of ugly!
Guys, give them a break, these guys are not a corporation or a 50,000 member foundation. I'm guessing it's a couple of guys who are trying to raise awareness. Who knows, maybe a designer will step up and help out instead of bitching them out.
Yes, but Christians used to. See "crusades".
Has microsoft ever built a cheap personal computer? No. Microsoft has in no way made the PC revolution possible, all they did was latch on to IBM and hung on for the ride.
The companies that made cheap PC's possible were the compaies who reverse engineered the original IBM PC (see Compaq). This is what forced prices down.
Either you had no choise, or you have made a poor decision in purchasing a house in such poor contidion.
Seeing the way prices of houses are always going up (especially in the major cities) I would have to disagree. I would say purchasing a house is probably one of the most sound investments you can make. Case in point, my brother's family was living paycheck to paycheck. They took out a loan for a house for 250,000. Two years later, the house was worth 400,000. He sold the house, and with the equity, bought a house in a state that has a lower cost of living. Now they own an even bigger house, pay no rent, and have a lower cost of living.
Try playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on your oxygen8.
I feel that far too much time in game development is spent on graphics and not on content. The reason why most people love Metroid Prime is because of the gamplay and level design. People hardly ever speak about how good the game looks; Prime does look really, really good (which is merely the icing)
However, I don't think you understand the point I am trying to make.The quotes I took from the article, the author claims that we have hit a plateau in graphics. He says we are on a technological plateau (in terms of graphics, not gameplay). I was disagreeing with him on those claims, not that the graphics were "good enough".
Both instances I quoted from the article, the author (and the person he was quoting) were clearly trying to say that graphics have not improved much in the last 7 years. He made a comparison with James bond of 97 and 2004. If you compare those games side by side in real time, the one from 97 would look and play horribly with its crappy frame rate (not to mention the cheesey popcorn looking explosions.) Maybe the average gamer would not know if an explosion was realistic, but they would know if it looked asthetically pleasing.
Well if you read the context of my post it had nothing to do with gameplay. It had to do with the comments made by the writer of the article that we have hit a technological plateau.
We're on a technological plateau
And he believes gaming has hit the wall as far as graphics go.
I have to call bullshit on this one. GPU's are becoming faster and more programmable (the rate at which GPU's are evolving makes moore's law seem very modest indeed).
Right now the trend seems to be advancements in the programmability of gpu's, allowing coders to write their own routines instead of being limited to hard coded ones. This means more realistic textures, shaders etc.
Compare the real time graphics of a video game to the pre-rendered images you see in a full length 3d film like Finding Nemo. It is obvious that the real time graphics of video games look like shit compared to the pre rendered ones.
Real time graphics will parallel what we are seeing in pre-rendered movies; its just a matter of time.
Could be that most spam is coming from US servers is because the US owns most of the IP addresses.
And don't forget that IBM was considered evil before Microsoft was around.
I agree and wish to add a bit. I can't count the amount of times a driver on a cell phone almost collided with me and kept driving as if nothing ever happened; they are oblivious. This leads me to believe that many people don't realize how horrible their driving is while on a cell phone. Unfortunately, it is left up to the rest of the responsible drivers on the road to avoid accidents with these people.
So you are expecting them to make billions of dollars instantly? Apple's fortune wasn't made overnight, just like the record company's fortune wasn't made overnight. If this keeps growing, it can be a very big deal. History has taught us that every change of medium takes time to take hold (see cd's, dvd, laserdisk - just kidding not laserdisk)
Not that Im saying that the future of the music industry is iTunes; iTunes is too proprietary. The audio format is not industry standard. I think the future of the music industry will be based on the iTunes model but with a format that most portable music players and computers can natively play.
Also, do you really think that Apple is interested in selling music? They just want to sell iPods. Why do you think the format an iTunes download can only be played on the iPod?
Who remembers being considered a freak when it wasn't cool to watch anime? Who remembers watching dragon ball Z over 15 years ago? Now the cartoon network can't show enough anime.
Its funny how people who are the first adopt something new are considered "crazy"