But is it *not possible* to deallocate memory in JS? That is (or used to be) the case with Flash player. Even using best practices and ugly hacks the memory still starts (started?) to bloat. I do a lot of dynamic games and by not importing graphics I've had pretty good success keeping the Flash player under control - though I do slam the CPU but that comes with the territory.
As far as I know Flash Player 10.1 has not fixed the graphics memory leak which was not caused by delveloper bloat. Flash was not releasing memory from loaded graphics according to Macromedia/Adobe. This was a big problem for developing browser based state pages. That may, however, be fixed in 10.1. Were you aware of that problem? Curious why my comment says I'm not experienced. The main problem I have with Actionscript is mobile penetration, and if canvas allows me to port client games and animations to iPhone/Pad it would be a big plus right now. jQuery takes the ugly out of javascript and makes lots of client friendly dynamic menu fades and swooshes easy that I used to push for Flash (to avoid javascript). That allows all updatable content in the html for easy (client?) update eliminating an XML import. I don't think Actionscript is going away and I do think html5 will eventually catch on, I just find it better for me as little guy to play both sides of some when-megacorps-rumble holy war.
This sounds better than the actual Flash player! I've been playing with canvas in an effort to get away from Actionscript but this, especially open sourced, sounds like the best of both worlds.
I don't care if they monetize which obscure pop song I quote in my status or have a record of an occasional flame war with old friends who have emerged from the decades across some political divide. (I probably shouldn't have posted my SS # as a status however...) What I find strange is the lack of certain kinds of innovation on the popular sites.
For instance... ahem... does Slashdot redirect for webkit? Doesn't seem to from my phone. What's up with that (flame away with instructions as I haven't looked around). Facebook's interface and aggregation pipeline are making my friends seem more boring than they actually are. Why are they stuck with the browser based Twitter model? Why do I get the feeling Google's biding their time and going to crush Facebook with something new and obvious?
> It wouldn't make sense for a local restaraunt or auto dealer to pay to advertise to people 500 miles away, let alone on the other side of the world.
If that's your opinion I won't be investing in your start up.
> And nobody came for the music business, they're killing themselves from their own greed and evilness,
The only disagreement I have with that statement is the tense. They killed themselves. It's all over but the drying up and blowing away. And pop music seems to be getting a little better lately but that's just IMHO.
... and I didn't speak up because the music business sucked.
Anybody in local newspapers had better have seen this coming since craigslist if not before. Can the blogosphere figure out how to monetize at a rate high enough to support independent reporting on a local level? That depends on how much money there is in advertising in an interactive medium where space is free (and the wind blows hot). One thing seems certain, we are entering an age where media skills are not based on specialization, have a limited shelf life and the playing field changes every 2 years. Kind of like the music business of the late 20th century.
As far as I know Marx never advocated a "Marxist" state and his contemporary Bakunin predicted many of the problems encountered later by the 20th century disasters.
Anyway I'm a lot more interested in Lennon.
Weird thing about Starship Troopers - in the movie the humans seem to be the bad guys. It's a distopian take on Heinlein's trains-running-on-time. Forever War by Haldeman was a response to the Heinlein.
" moore-money-moore-problems" is a very good gag. My personal "recent" favorite is "weapons-of-map-reduction" about big table IIRC, but I laugh out loud periodically. Good work/. editors! I think someone (else besides me) should put together a list of the best depts and hack some voting software together.
I made the last few records I wanted to on my home protools with a little bit of cash to do really loud stuff in a room. Payed some cash to mix with a friend in his true room with a couple of speaker sets. Made some money selling disks at gigs, kept all the money... profit! This is a great time to be a 21 year old in a rock (are they still calling it that?) band. There's no money, but there's no money anywhere in 2009, and you can sit around, make music, play music and get paid.
20th century media belongs to the past. That mechanism had died artistically a while ago. Around the time of the Paris Hilton sex tape it was all over. So all you lawyers get different jobs, all you audio engineers buy your own gear and make art.
I know that sounds weird. It's too big, too dense, but a strange piece of art. Appetite was a piece of its time, ages ago where the world and pop culture are concerned. After everything here's this really strange overblown symphonic hair metal techno(?). Riad is a cool groove and IMHO the best track.
Of course I didn't like it enough to buy it. I listened to it while they were streaming it free off myspace. Not great, but rock's finished anyway (unless some Radiohead fan wants to flame away)
Apologies in advance for posting without ranting about the RIAA.
Given how interesting tech topics get thread jacked into political food fights around here wouldn't it be a refreshing change of pace if this devolved into a technology discussion about NSA gadgets? As I have nothing on that right now I'm just complaining.
TODO: [insert informed inflammatory political troll]
... with custom papers. I go to my news stand and order up a paper, AP, NYT, Nature, NBA, Premiership, brassiere ads, lots of cartoons and comic strips (that's what I want). The size allows for bigger pretty pictures than my laptop. It's paper so I don't worry about spilling coffee on it or reading it in a crowd or leaving it in a restaurant. I do the puzzles and drop the paper off at a news stand where a magic process strips the ink with a minimum of energy and water foot print. The paper is recycled.
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> Every single study that shows positive results have been discredited,
(grammar alert above)
I call BS having done some writing on this subject. I'd drop some links but they're everywhere so if you have an open mind go look around. google: acupuncture nitrogen - and get back
Not 'proven', sure. 'Discredited', no.
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Didn't read the book but acupuncture has a body of clinical studies related to actual, verifiable physical changes in body chemistry. see: google. Tying acupuncture to backwards Stairway audio makes this look like generic straw man hack job.
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The author should get their act together before dismissing a body of scientific work in print. Acupuncture has verifiable effects on body chemistry. Review doesn't indicate whether there's more in the book than snark about homeopathy.
Given how Metalica is held in such high esteem in these parts I thought it should be pointed out that Metallica, number one on the Gitmo playlist with Enter Sandman, liked the idea. They thought it was cool their music was scary and were happy to help... uh... protect the... can't remember but they were happy.
Yes that was the reference. Silverberg published an article on how Tiptree had to be male.... doh! Which didn't make sense to this pre teen sci fi fan at the time as Forever on a Hudson Bay Blanket and Girl... Plugged In both seemed... uh.. female. Now that I know significantly less about women I wonder what I would think.
The weird thing is some of the Godzilla movies have entered the public domain. We used a piece in a TV commercial (years and years ago - think Morris worm) and Toho showed up and said no (or face the wrath of our suitcase baring legions). So we took the actual image of Godzilla out but still used the rays destroying tanks, people running, smoldering buildings and there was no problem. Used it again on MTV a couple of times.
Someone should do a bootleg Kiss Vs Godzilla for the asshole IP Olympics.
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But is it *not possible* to deallocate memory in JS? That is (or used to be) the case with Flash player. Even using best practices and ugly hacks the memory still starts (started?) to bloat. I do a lot of dynamic games and by not importing graphics I've had pretty good success keeping the Flash player under control - though I do slam the CPU but that comes with the territory.
As far as I know Flash Player 10.1 has not fixed the graphics memory leak which was not caused by delveloper bloat. Flash was not releasing memory from loaded graphics according to Macromedia/Adobe. This was a big problem for developing browser based state pages. That may, however, be fixed in 10.1. Were you aware of that problem? Curious why my comment says I'm not experienced. The main problem I have with Actionscript is mobile penetration, and if canvas allows me to port client games and animations to iPhone/Pad it would be a big plus right now. jQuery takes the ugly out of javascript and makes lots of client friendly dynamic menu fades and swooshes easy that I used to push for Flash (to avoid javascript). That allows all updatable content in the html for easy (client?) update eliminating an XML import. I don't think Actionscript is going away and I do think html5 will eventually catch on, I just find it better for me as little guy to play both sides of some when-megacorps-rumble holy war.
This sounds better than the actual Flash player! I've been playing with canvas in an effort to get away from Actionscript but this, especially open sourced, sounds like the best of both worlds.
I don't care if they monetize which obscure pop song I quote in my status or have a record of an occasional flame war with old friends who have emerged from the decades across some political divide. (I probably shouldn't have posted my SS # as a status however ...)
What I find strange is the lack of certain kinds of innovation on the popular sites.
For instance ... ahem ... does Slashdot redirect for webkit? Doesn't seem to from my phone. What's up with that (flame away with instructions as I haven't looked around). Facebook's interface and aggregation pipeline are making my friends seem more boring than they actually are. Why are they stuck with the browser based Twitter model? Why do I get the feeling Google's biding their time and going to crush Facebook with something new and obvious?
The problem is getting paid for it. Is there money in presenting local news on the internet? Yes. Is there "enough" money? Stay tuned ...
> It wouldn't make sense for a local restaraunt or auto dealer to pay to advertise to people 500 miles away, let alone on the other side of the world.
If that's your opinion I won't be investing in your start up.
> And nobody came for the music business, they're killing themselves from their own greed and evilness,
The only disagreement I have with that statement is the tense. They killed themselves. It's all over but the drying up and blowing away. And pop music seems to be getting a little better lately but that's just IMHO.
... and I didn't speak up because the music business sucked.
Anybody in local newspapers had better have seen this coming since craigslist if not before. Can the blogosphere figure out how to monetize at a rate high enough to support independent reporting on a local level? That depends on how much money there is in advertising in an interactive medium where space is free (and the wind blows hot). One thing seems certain, we are entering an age where media skills are not based on specialization, have a limited shelf life and the playing field changes every 2 years. Kind of like the music business of the late 20th century.
As far as I know Marx never advocated a "Marxist" state and his contemporary Bakunin predicted many of the problems encountered later by the 20th century disasters.
Anyway I'm a lot more interested in Lennon.
Weird thing about Starship Troopers - in the movie the humans seem to be the bad guys. It's a distopian take on Heinlein's trains-running-on-time. Forever War by Haldeman was a response to the Heinlein.
" moore-money-moore-problems" /. editors!
is a very good gag.
My personal "recent" favorite is "weapons-of-map-reduction" about big table IIRC, but I laugh out loud periodically. Good work
I think someone (else besides me) should put together a list of the best depts and hack some voting software together.
Looks interesting but behind pay wall.
Any related free links?
So if we pump a bunch of air into it and wear wings can we fly around?
Sorry I didn't read the story just can't resist the reference.
I made the last few records I wanted to on my home protools with a little bit of cash to do really loud stuff in a room. Payed some cash to mix with a friend in his true room with a couple of speaker sets. Made some money selling disks at gigs, kept all the money ... profit! This is a great time to be a 21 year old in a rock (are they still calling it that?) band. There's no money, but there's no money anywhere in 2009, and you can sit around, make music, play music and get paid.
20th century media belongs to the past. That mechanism had died artistically a while ago. Around the time of the Paris Hilton sex tape it was all over. So all you lawyers get different jobs, all you audio engineers buy your own gear and make art.
Thanks for link!
I know that sounds weird. It's too big, too dense, but a strange piece of art. Appetite was a piece of its time, ages ago where the world and pop culture are concerned. After everything here's this really strange overblown symphonic hair metal techno(?). Riad is a cool groove and IMHO the best track.
Of course I didn't like it enough to buy it. I listened to it while they were streaming it free off myspace. Not great, but rock's finished anyway (unless some Radiohead fan wants to flame away)
Apologies in advance for posting without ranting about the RIAA.
Given how interesting tech topics get thread jacked into political food fights around here wouldn't it be a refreshing change of pace if this devolved into a technology discussion about NSA gadgets? As I have nothing on that right now I'm just complaining.
TODO: [insert informed inflammatory political troll]
... with custom papers. I go to my news stand and order up a paper, AP, NYT, Nature, NBA, Premiership, brassiere ads, lots of cartoons and comic strips (that's what I want). The size allows for bigger pretty pictures than my laptop. It's paper so I don't worry about spilling coffee on it or reading it in a crowd or leaving it in a restaurant. I do the puzzles and drop the paper off at a news stand where a magic process strips the ink with a minimum of energy and water foot print. The paper is recycled.
Sci Fi I know, so flame away.
but I play one on TV
> Every single study that shows positive results have been discredited,
(grammar alert above)
I call BS having done some writing on this subject. I'd drop some links but they're everywhere so if you have an open mind go look around. google: acupuncture nitrogen - and get back
Not 'proven', sure. 'Discredited', no.
Didn't read the book but acupuncture has a body of clinical studies related to actual, verifiable physical changes in body chemistry. see: google. Tying acupuncture to backwards Stairway audio makes this look like generic straw man hack job.
The author should get their act together before dismissing a body of scientific work in print. Acupuncture has verifiable effects on body chemistry. Review doesn't indicate whether there's more in the book than snark about homeopathy.
It's how it all actually works before humans / philosophies / superstitions get involved.
Is physics a religion? YMMV
Given how Metalica is held in such high esteem in these parts I thought it should be pointed out that Metallica, number one on the Gitmo playlist with Enter Sandman, liked the idea. They thought it was cool their music was scary and were happy to help ... uh ... protect the ... can't remember but they were happy.
Yes that was the reference. Silverberg published an article on how Tiptree had to be male. ... doh! Which didn't make sense to this pre teen sci fi fan at the time as Forever on a Hudson Bay Blanket and Girl ... Plugged In both seemed ... uh .. female. Now that I know significantly less about women I wonder what I would think.
Genius short story by James Tiptree Jr(who just had to be a male)
This is a Tiptree thread troll.
The weird thing is some of the Godzilla movies have entered the public domain. We used a piece in a TV commercial (years and years ago - think Morris worm) and Toho showed up and said no (or face the wrath of our suitcase baring legions). So we took the actual image of Godzilla out but still used the rays destroying tanks, people running, smoldering buildings and there was no problem. Used it again on MTV a couple of times.
Someone should do a bootleg Kiss Vs Godzilla for the asshole IP Olympics.