I propose a new term - Freedumb Movement. This is to apply to any movement by groups of people who believe they could have greater freedom by having fewer choices - or having someone else make those choices for them.
Steve Jobs is, if not the messiah, at least the great prophet of this freedumb movement.
You make it seem like the muslims are only intolerant of anything remotely resembling criticism if it comes from the western world - that is patently not true. It doesn't matter if you are black, brown, yellow, blue.. whatever.. if you say anything that looks like it isn't fawning over the muslims and their "sentiments", you can expect to be attacked brutally.
HTML5 will be CPU-intensive at least for a while before the browsers improve. HTML5 vector graphics will have to go through all the iterations of development and improvement that Flash has already gone through - in a few years, HTML vector graphics will be where Flash is now.
I don't expect HTML5 to crush Flash even for video.
Unless a majority of users move over the HTML5 compatible browsers, it isn't going to work.
Considering how long has IE6 been around despite all of the security vulnerabilities and when you consider that these companies haven't thought these security vulnerabilities as important enough reasons to move their users over to a decent browser, what makes you think that these companies would think the ability to see video on the web being a good enough reason to transfer their users to HTML5 compatible browsers?
If anything, it would discourage employees from using up the bandwidth looking at some random video on the web - all the more reason not to encourage the move to HTML5 browsers.
before there are authoring tools for HTML5 which are on par with Adobe's Flash authoring tools.. and not before HTML5 becomes as ubiquitous as the Flash plugin.
Great. You know what, there are also a lot of amazing demos, presentations, etc, written in ASM for the C-64.
This is the dumbest comment against flash that I have ever heard.
Why don't you point me to a single platform apart from Java applets (which are not supported on iphone) for doing these sorts of interfaces apart from Flash?
Pray tell, what alternative do you have for flash apps (not video)? HTML5? Show me a single authoring environment for HTML5 which can compare with Adobe's flash authoring environment - I am referring to authoring environment for scripted apps not video.
All this discussion about Flash vs HTML5 seems to miss the point that Flash isn't just video - there are tons of apps and interfaces out there written in Flash - not just slideshows and ads. There are games, presentations, demos etc.
There is not a SINGLE content creation tool for HTML5 which can hold a candle to Adobe's flash authoring environment.
Oxburgh's credibility has already been trashed because of his association with bodies which will gain from all the climate scaremongering. Kerry Emanuel had this to say about CRU even before the inquiry started:
"What we have here," says Kerry Emanuel, are "thousands of emails collectively showing scientists hard at work, trying to figure out the meaning of evidence that confronts them. Among a few messages, there are a few lines showing the human failings of a few scientists" Emanuel believes that "scientifically, it means nothing," because the controversy doesn't challenge the overwhelming evidence supporting anthropogenic warming. He is far more concerned with the well-funded "public relations campaign" to drown out or distort the message of climate science, which he links to "interests where billions, even trillions are at stake..." This "machine has been highly successful in branding climate scientists as a bunch of sandal-wearing, fruit-juice drinking leftist radicals engaged in a massive conspiracy to return us to agrarian society"
This was said during an MIT debate months before the CRU investigation started. So he had already made up his mind about everything to do with CRU even before the investigation.
All these discussions about how Flash needs to be replaced seems to miss the point that there is a lot more content out there in Flash format - not just video. What alternatives are there for replacing Flash presentations on the web, flash demos, games etc? Are we talking about replacing them with java applets? But java doesn't run on the iphone, does it?
So then what is actually being said is that ALL content in flash format - whether video or plain actionscripted files, should all be replaced with....what exactly? Javascript and HTML canvas? so Jobs is recommending that content which has taken 100s of 1000s of hours to develop in Flash should all be recreated in HTML5 ? for what? so that Apple can continue to prevent users who purchased Apple products from running content on the devices they purchased?
I am an Indian. It doesn't give me any joy to say this - in fact, it is with much shame that I have to admit that a lot of people are treated in a very inhumane fashion in India despite all the advances. As much as I would like to believe that the caste system in India is dead, I cannot delude myself into believing that. Caste oppression is still very common. Dalits (the lower caste and the erstwhile untouchables) are still very, very badly treated across most of the country.
Feel free to search for more such news on the web. There are numerous reports each day on this sort of violence. Many temples in India still do not allow lower caste people from entering them - including some of the biggest temples in India. Again, please feel free to search the web for information on how the dalits have been prevented from entry into temples.
So while I am happy that you weren't mistreated despite belonging to a lower caste, I have to say that your experience isn't typical.
Michael Mann used the same tree ring data as temperature proxies for his studies and has published papers on this. But now the very same scientists who collected the tree ring data claim that data cannot be used as a temperature proxies - even though they haven't mentioned a word about how this would invalidate Michael Mann's work.
what if the situation was reversed? would you hold to your stand when american troops are targeted and those who survive the attack are then killed along with the rescuers.
There are a number of organisations in both India and China doing considerable amount of research. However, both these nations have had trouble finding enough people who have experience in taking a product from the concept stage to the manufactured and shipping stage.
India, for example, has been good at making satellites because satellites are essentially one-off pieces put together in a lab by scientists. But India has had very limited success in manufacturing missiles, tanks, planes despite having original designs for decades.
That is because creating one-off pieces for demonstration is easy.. now arriving at a plan for how a prototype could be finally manufactured in volume is a whole different game altogether.
You can't learn this in a university - a lot of this stuff has to be learnt on the job.. while manufacturing things.. a lot of trial and error will be involved.
When you start to ship off all the manufacturing to China and India, you will remove these opportunities for learning from the US. This will severely impede US's abilities to innovate.
I speak this as an Indian who has seen the decline in R&D capabilities in the west over the past 10-15 years.
Just because scientists can manipulate the brain to cause the person to feel "spiritual" (whatever that means), it does not immediately imply that spirituality is just a construct of the mind.
That would be equivalent to arguing that since it is possible for scientists to stimulate the human brain to see a dog, then surely dogs are only a result of the brain being manipulated and don't really exist.
Foreign capital is fine. India has multiple options for transferring capital to India. What the regulators don't want is unregulated transfers happening - possibly due to the old bogey of terrorism.
That is not true. All US banks allow wire transfer of funds - there is normally a $40 (or thereabouts) charge for it, but it is possible to transfer money across the globe. Also, there is no arbitrary $1000 limit either. How do I know? because that is how I get paid each month.
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I propose a new term - Freedumb Movement. This is to apply to any movement by groups of people who believe they could have greater freedom by having fewer choices - or having someone else make those choices for them.
Steve Jobs is, if not the messiah, at least the great prophet of this freedumb movement.
You make it seem like the muslims are only intolerant of anything remotely resembling criticism if it comes from the western world - that is patently not true. It doesn't matter if you are black, brown, yellow, blue .. whatever.. if you say anything that looks like it isn't fawning over the muslims and their "sentiments", you can expect to be attacked brutally.
HTML5 will be CPU-intensive at least for a while before the browsers improve. HTML5 vector graphics will have to go through all the iterations of development and improvement that Flash has already gone through - in a few years, HTML vector graphics will be where Flash is now.
I don't expect HTML5 to crush Flash even for video.
Unless a majority of users move over the HTML5 compatible browsers, it isn't going to work.
Considering how long has IE6 been around despite all of the security vulnerabilities and when you consider that these companies haven't thought these security vulnerabilities as important enough reasons to move their users over to a decent browser, what makes you think that these companies would think the ability to see video on the web being a good enough reason to transfer their users to HTML5 compatible browsers?
If anything, it would discourage employees from using up the bandwidth looking at some random video on the web - all the more reason not to encourage the move to HTML5 browsers.
before there are authoring tools for HTML5 which are on par with Adobe's Flash authoring tools.. and not before HTML5 becomes as ubiquitous as the Flash plugin.
Great. You know what, there are also a lot of amazing demos, presentations, etc, written in ASM for the C-64.
This is the dumbest comment against flash that I have ever heard.
Why don't you point me to a single platform apart from Java applets (which are not supported on iphone) for doing these sorts of interfaces apart from Flash?
Also this.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2009/10/05/full_flash_support_headed_to_android_webos_symbian_blackberry_and_winmo
Not true.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/nokia_s60.html
To the morons who modded this as a troll, what about this comment is a troll? Everything I have stated is factual. Frigging idiots.
Pray tell, what alternative do you have for flash apps (not video)? HTML5? Show me a single authoring environment for HTML5 which can compare with Adobe's flash authoring environment - I am referring to authoring environment for scripted apps not video.
All this discussion about Flash vs HTML5 seems to miss the point that Flash isn't just video - there are tons of apps and interfaces out there written in Flash - not just slideshows and ads. There are games, presentations, demos etc.
There is not a SINGLE content creation tool for HTML5 which can hold a candle to Adobe's flash authoring environment.
Oxburgh's credibility has already been trashed because of his association with bodies which will gain from all the climate scaremongering. Kerry Emanuel had this to say about CRU even before the inquiry started:
"What we have here," says Kerry Emanuel, are "thousands of emails collectively showing scientists hard at work, trying to figure out the meaning of evidence that confronts them. Among a few messages, there are a few lines showing the human failings of a few scientists" Emanuel believes that "scientifically, it means nothing," because the controversy doesn't challenge the overwhelming evidence supporting anthropogenic warming. He is far more concerned with the well-funded "public relations campaign" to drown out or distort the message of climate science, which he links to "interests where billions, even trillions are at stake..." This "machine has been highly successful in branding climate scientists as a bunch of sandal-wearing, fruit-juice drinking leftist radicals engaged in a massive conspiracy to return us to agrarian society"
This was said during an MIT debate months before the CRU investigation started. So he had already made up his mind about everything to do with CRU even before the investigation.
All these discussions about how Flash needs to be replaced seems to miss the point that there is a lot more content out there in Flash format - not just video. What alternatives are there for replacing Flash presentations on the web, flash demos, games etc? Are we talking about replacing them with java applets? But java doesn't run on the iphone, does it?
So then what is actually being said is that ALL content in flash format - whether video or plain actionscripted files, should all be replaced with....what exactly? Javascript and HTML canvas? so Jobs is recommending that content which has taken 100s of 1000s of hours to develop in Flash should all be recreated in HTML5 ? for what? so that Apple can continue to prevent users who purchased Apple products from running content on the devices they purchased?
I am an Indian. It doesn't give me any joy to say this - in fact, it is with much shame that I have to admit that a lot of people are treated in a very inhumane fashion in India despite all the advances. As much as I would like to believe that the caste system in India is dead, I cannot delude myself into believing that. Caste oppression is still very common. Dalits (the lower caste and the erstwhile untouchables) are still very, very badly treated across most of the country.
From 22 April 2010:
http://www.siasat.com/english/news/two-dalits-burnt-alive
Feel free to search for more such news on the web. There are numerous reports each day on this sort of violence. Many temples in India still do not allow lower caste people from entering them - including some of the biggest temples in India. Again, please feel free to search the web for information on how the dalits have been prevented from entry into temples.
So while I am happy that you weren't mistreated despite belonging to a lower caste, I have to say that your experience isn't typical.
Michael Mann used the same tree ring data as temperature proxies for his studies and has published papers on this. But now the very same scientists who collected the tree ring data claim that data cannot be used as a temperature proxies - even though they haven't mentioned a word about how this would invalidate Michael Mann's work.
http://climateaudit.org/2010/04/21/mann-of-oak/#more-10811
This is a straw man argument. The data has to be public - I don't want the scientific community impose their own version of the nanny state.
why have fixed rules? I thought truth/morals/values etc are all subjective and varies from person to person?
what if the situation was reversed? would you hold to your stand when american troops are targeted and those who survive the attack are then killed along with the rescuers.
Other problems:
1. No support for returning more than one value from a function.
Example:
var1, var2 = doSomething()
2. No support for default values for function parameters:
Example:
public int doSomething(int var1, int var2, boolean var2=false, int var3=0) { ..
}
3. When running an app from a jar file, the classpath cannot be specified in the commandline.
Example: This won't work: .....
java -jar something.jar -classpath
Groovy is really very, very slow. You are probably better off doing the development in scala or jruby.
Softmaker doesn't appear to support Office 2007 (.xlsx, .docx, .pptx etc) formats. You should try softmaker with the older .doc, .ppt or .xls format.
Softmaker not having support for the Office 2007 format is a major negative.
Thank you. Great post.
There are a number of organisations in both India and China doing considerable amount of research. However, both these nations have had trouble finding enough people who have experience in taking a product from the concept stage to the manufactured and shipping stage.
India, for example, has been good at making satellites because satellites are essentially one-off pieces put together in a lab by scientists. But India has had very limited success in manufacturing missiles, tanks, planes despite having original designs for decades.
That is because creating one-off pieces for demonstration is easy.. now arriving at a plan for how a prototype could be finally manufactured in volume is a whole different game altogether.
You can't learn this in a university - a lot of this stuff has to be learnt on the job.. while manufacturing things.. a lot of trial and error will be involved.
When you start to ship off all the manufacturing to China and India, you will remove these opportunities for learning from the US. This will severely impede US's abilities to innovate.
I speak this as an Indian who has seen the decline in R&D capabilities in the west over the past 10-15 years.
Just because scientists can manipulate the brain to cause the person to feel "spiritual" (whatever that means), it does not immediately imply that spirituality is just a construct of the mind.
That would be equivalent to arguing that since it is possible for scientists to stimulate the human brain to see a dog, then surely dogs are only a result of the brain being manipulated and don't really exist.
Foreign capital is fine. India has multiple options for transferring capital to India. What the regulators don't want is unregulated transfers happening - possibly due to the old bogey of terrorism.
That is not true. All US banks allow wire transfer of funds - there is normally a $40 (or thereabouts) charge for it, but it is possible to transfer money across the globe. Also, there is no arbitrary $1000 limit either. How do I know? because that is how I get paid each month.