I don't see what benefit there would be in having two wheels as opposed to one when you come to an icy patch. It's like the people who tell me they don't like the way my feet are clamped into my pedals on my bicycle. "What if you have an accident?" they ask. "When you're going down at 30mph, the ability to take your foot off your pedal more quickly doesn't do you one bit of good" says I.
In fairness I have gotten into scrapes on two wheels that I was able to get out of by shifting my weight around and keeping control. On a one-wheeler it'd all be down to the gyroscope. I wonder how well it would handle it.
Then there are the stabilisation wheels on the front. From the pictures they look a bit close to the main wheel. I would have thought that the wheelbase would need to have been a bit longer, especially under breaking.
Can't see how it would be any more difficult to see than a regular rice-rocket motorcycle, or even a pushbike for that matter. Hell I see guys around here riding recumbants in the traffic! Althoug they have a big flag sticking up. I digress.
When looking at it from the front it's no bigger or smaller than a two wheeler.
Personally, I'd love to see this thing in action, and I want one!
This is a serious question, but what happens when you go to a porn site that spawns a new window when you close the current one? Does it block that too?
we have the US: protector of political free speech
Quite right. Why, if George Bush shows up in town, he'll even get his cronies to set up a 'free speech zone' at least half a mile away from the President where you can get fenced into an enclosed area and protest into thin air to your heart's content. Rather than following that inconvenient constitution that insists that the whole country is a free speech area, now you can speak freely in designated areas chosen by heavy-handed cops.
That's the first thing I thought too. It's like selling cheap razor blades to drives sales of a razor, the opposite of what most business in a similar situation do. Unusual indeed.
Tell me this then. Can you create an SVG application that will run in a web browser, will parse XML from a web service (without you writing any lines of code), display it in dragable windows, and allow you to refresh the data without having to reload the entire page? Can you open a socket and push data into the application? Can you also have a video playing in the same application? Finally, can you guarentee that it'll run on a decent number of browsers? (I'm not talking about browsers in the open-source community here, I'm talking about the world beyond.)
Didn't know SVG had a built-in XML parser and video streaming. Oh, and Javascript + DOM is hopelessly inadequate when it comes to serving up dynamic content and developing web-based applications.
Macromedia are being unfairly battered on/. by people who clearly aren't familiar with the capabilities of Flash.
Nothing drives me crazier than the ill-informed Flash-bashers who think that it can do nothing but animation. Maybe they'd prefer huge gif animations instead. Or maybe they prefer the funtionality of HTML that insists that you re-load an entire page just to see one little piece of data that's different from the previous page. Or maybe they prefer Real Player embedded in their page when they want to watch video. Or maybe.....
Last time I used it, all Swish could do was create animations. It was very good at producing text effects and what-not, but animation is only 1% of what Flash is capable of.
LOL! I Can see it now. Imagine all those M$ drones drooling over this 'new' product and saying "Oh look! You can have scaleable vector graphics, a scripting language, an XML parser and unbelievably well compressed video on the Internet these days! Aren't Microsoft clever?"
I seem to remember a big hoo-ha about SVG being the open standard that would kill Macromedia. Since Flash has been extended to do much more than just animations and banner ads, that idea has gone by the wayside. This is no different. Once again M$ are at the cow's tail of the internet.
Moreover, the culture at M$ is just not conducive to making any headway in this market. I was at Macromedia's HQ in San Francisco the other night at a user group meeting, and the guy that was giving the presentation of Flash Professional 2004 summed it up beautifully. He said that the really cool things happen when artists and engineers collaborate properly. And that is what happens at Macromedia. "When was the last time anybody seriously used a Micro$oft image editing tool?" He asked. Everyone laughed, because M$ are crap at that sort of thing, although their technical stuff at the back end is supposedly okay (although I would dispute that.)
Go to Adobe and you'll find great tools for the artist, but when it comes to technical stuff for the web then they're a bit challenged.
Macromedia is a unique company that is full of renaissance people, people who are left brained and right brained. It has a good mix of engineers and artists, and that explains why their products are both slick and easy to use as well as being technical masterpieces.
Personally, whilst I have my doubts about the future uptake of certain products like Central, I think it's safe to say that with excellent products like Flash, DreamWeaver, Fireworks and Contribute, Macromedia are going to be around for quite some time to come.
... They have some sort of policy on who's a terrorist and who's a freedom fighter. Chechen separatists blowing up apartment buildings in Moscow? They're 'rebels.' IRA attacks on the British Army? 'Terrorists.'
Any chance of you commenting on the thousands of so-called 'felons' who were purged from the electoral rolls at the behest of Katherine Harris (Bush's campaign manager and person in charge of the Florida vote - the ultimate conflict of interest) and Jeb Bush?
The implications of true democracy (or 'direct democracy') like we have in California is indeed an uneducated electorate making decisions that they're not qualified to make. Just look at the tax-busting Proposition 13 and the damage it has done to the state. The poor end up subsidising the rich. The place is almost ungovernable since the legislators' hands are tied by voters' ballots. A two-thirds majority is required for any tax-raising measure.
The paradox of the electorate is that they want the best public services but don't want to pay a dime for them. Put the electorate in direct control of budgetary and taxation matters and you have a recipe for disaster.
There's a difference between O'Reily's rudeness and aggressive interviewing. The BBC's Jeremy Paxman is renowned for being one of the toughest interviewers on TV, and he doesn't have to shout people down. Nor does he have a bias, everyone who turns up on his show is given the same standard of grilling. Watch any edition of Newsnight and you'll see what I mean.
So when a young man was telling the story of how he felt about American foreign policy after losing his dad in the twin towers, he was "spewing incorrect/offtopic bs?" Riiiiight!
Let's get this straight. Bill O'Reily yelling at people to shut up as soon as they disagree with him. Constant references to "Palestinian attacks" and "Israeli retaliation." Zero references to "Israeli settlers." Zero references to the long list of UN resolutions that Israel are in breach of. Zero coverage of the theft of the 2000 election. Plenty of coverage of the crowds that oppose him but zero coverage of the much larger crowds that support hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
And right-wing bias at Fox News is just a figment of our imaginations? Give me a break!
Spot on mate. Parody is protected speech. I saw Al Franken at a book signing last week and he explained this, and how Fox News were laughed out of the courtroom for not having a leg to stand on when they sued him. He said "Now when people talk about being 'laughed out of the room' they're usually talking figuratively. But when I say that Fox News were laughed out of the courtroom, I mean it literally!"
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In fairness I have gotten into scrapes on two wheels that I was able to get out of by shifting my weight around and keeping control. On a one-wheeler it'd all be down to the gyroscope. I wonder how well it would handle it.
Then there are the stabilisation wheels on the front. From the pictures they look a bit close to the main wheel. I would have thought that the wheelbase would need to have been a bit longer, especially under breaking.
Can't see how it would be any more difficult to see than a regular rice-rocket motorcycle, or even a pushbike for that matter. Hell I see guys around here riding recumbants in the traffic! Althoug they have a big flag sticking up. I digress. When looking at it from the front it's no bigger or smaller than a two wheeler. Personally, I'd love to see this thing in action, and I want one!
Very interesting. I assume there were no gyroscopes or anything involved? Must have been tricky.
This is a serious question, but what happens when you go to a porn site that spawns a new window when you close the current one? Does it block that too?
Hurrah for the USA!
Screw you.
That's the first thing I thought too. It's like selling cheap razor blades to drives sales of a razor, the opposite of what most business in a similar situation do. Unusual indeed.
Tell me this then. Can you create an SVG application that will run in a web browser, will parse XML from a web service (without you writing any lines of code), display it in dragable windows, and allow you to refresh the data without having to reload the entire page? Can you open a socket and push data into the application? Can you also have a video playing in the same application? Finally, can you guarentee that it'll run on a decent number of browsers? (I'm not talking about browsers in the open-source community here, I'm talking about the world beyond.)
Macromedia are being unfairly battered on /. by people who clearly aren't familiar with the capabilities of Flash.
Nothing drives me crazier than the ill-informed Flash-bashers who think that it can do nothing but animation. Maybe they'd prefer huge gif animations instead. Or maybe they prefer the funtionality of HTML that insists that you re-load an entire page just to see one little piece of data that's different from the previous page. Or maybe they prefer Real Player embedded in their page when they want to watch video. Or maybe.....
The W3C today scrapped HTML in view of the burgeoning number of badly-written and ugly websites that are written using that standard.
Last time I used it, all Swish could do was create animations. It was very good at producing text effects and what-not, but animation is only 1% of what Flash is capable of.
First they kill Clippy, now they kill the registry. There's hope for them yet!
I seem to remember a big hoo-ha about SVG being the open standard that would kill Macromedia. Since Flash has been extended to do much more than just animations and banner ads, that idea has gone by the wayside. This is no different. Once again M$ are at the cow's tail of the internet.
Moreover, the culture at M$ is just not conducive to making any headway in this market. I was at Macromedia's HQ in San Francisco the other night at a user group meeting, and the guy that was giving the presentation of Flash Professional 2004 summed it up beautifully. He said that the really cool things happen when artists and engineers collaborate properly. And that is what happens at Macromedia. "When was the last time anybody seriously used a Micro$oft image editing tool?" He asked. Everyone laughed, because M$ are crap at that sort of thing, although their technical stuff at the back end is supposedly okay (although I would dispute that.)
Go to Adobe and you'll find great tools for the artist, but when it comes to technical stuff for the web then they're a bit challenged.
Macromedia is a unique company that is full of renaissance people, people who are left brained and right brained. It has a good mix of engineers and artists, and that explains why their products are both slick and easy to use as well as being technical masterpieces.
Personally, whilst I have my doubts about the future uptake of certain products like Central, I think it's safe to say that with excellent products like Flash, DreamWeaver, Fireworks and Contribute, Macromedia are going to be around for quite some time to come.
For the record, I think they're all terrorists.
...and hot, tall blonde chicks.
Any chance of you commenting on the thousands of so-called 'felons' who were purged from the electoral rolls at the behest of Katherine Harris (Bush's campaign manager and person in charge of the Florida vote - the ultimate conflict of interest) and Jeb Bush?
The paradox of the electorate is that they want the best public services but don't want to pay a dime for them. Put the electorate in direct control of budgetary and taxation matters and you have a recipe for disaster.
Who says a big difference between polls and results will prevent anyone from stealing elections? Just look at the 2002 Georgia gubanatorial election.
There's a difference between O'Reily's rudeness and aggressive interviewing. The BBC's Jeremy Paxman is renowned for being one of the toughest interviewers on TV, and he doesn't have to shout people down. Nor does he have a bias, everyone who turns up on his show is given the same standard of grilling. Watch any edition of Newsnight and you'll see what I mean.
So when a young man was telling the story of how he felt about American foreign policy after losing his dad in the twin towers, he was "spewing incorrect/offtopic bs?" Riiiiight!
Let's get this straight. Bill O'Reily yelling at people to shut up as soon as they disagree with him. Constant references to "Palestinian attacks" and "Israeli retaliation." Zero references to "Israeli settlers." Zero references to the long list of UN resolutions that Israel are in breach of. Zero coverage of the theft of the 2000 election. Plenty of coverage of the crowds that oppose him but zero coverage of the much larger crowds that support hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
And right-wing bias at Fox News is just a figment of our imaginations? Give me a break!
"Better news channels?!?!?!?!"
Spot on mate. Parody is protected speech. I saw Al Franken at a book signing last week and he explained this, and how Fox News were laughed out of the courtroom for not having a leg to stand on when they sued him. He said "Now when people talk about being 'laughed out of the room' they're usually talking figuratively. But when I say that Fox News were laughed out of the courtroom, I mean it literally!"
The word 'Australian' in big letters at the top still seemed to escape the notice of some people. See below. "Duh" indeed!