When will the/. Flash-bashers ever get over their knee-jerk reaction and actually make a little bit of effort to learn something about the benefits of Flash?
However, don't try to sell the line that one has a "right" to something that they didn't produce. That is Communism, and not only does it not work practically, it's ethically and morally unjustifiable as well.
Quite right. I saw a load of people this morning on the freeway. They sure as hell didn't produce that road, and they sure as hell didn't pay any tolls to get on it. Damn commies!
You can use the posts at the side of the track (spaced out every quarter of a mile) and a stopwatch to calculate the speed. I once did this in Ireland, clocked the Dublin to Belfast Enterprise service at 115 mph between Drogheda and Newry.
The world as a whole benefits. Sure, the rich countries have to go and find other ways to stay rich, but in the grand scheme of things, the world is better off as a whole if more people are lifted out of poverty. That is what you want, isn't it?
Please inform the masses on Slashdot how lowering the standard of living for those in say - America, Britain and elsewhere - is a winning situation.
China and India are poor, EU and US are rich.
EU and US industry outsource to China and India
Wages in China and India rise, wages in EU and US fall*
Result: More even distribution of wealth
*The Economist newspaper has frequently reported findings that wages in developing countries are driven up by inward investment. Large corporations can easily afford to pay more than locally-based employers to attract the best workers, so that is what they do.
If you would like an example of how business can flourish in a largely unregulated environment, look at the changes to our lives that have occurred thanks to growth of the Internet. E-mail, VoIP, eBay and Google have greatly enhanced lives around the globe. What happens when there is too much regulation? Too often you wind up with tragic corporate sagas and employee fallout. Just look at what is happening to the airline business or to AT&T. Let's not throw a blanket over nanotech before it begins to blossom.
It's a fair point, but a more balanced article (minus the 'green gang' name-calling) would have also said that too little regulation can also be a bad thing. For example, the deregulation of the energy market in California was botched big time, and the energy consumers were gouged by the likes of Enron.
I'm sick of these thinly veiled propaganda pieces that take selective examples of private success and government failure to back up their market fundamentalist ideas.
I personally don't want any of my tax dollars used to fund any free/cheap technological service to anybody. Cities should just stick to funding the police, fire, water, and grounds maintenance, i.e., the traditional stuff cities are supposed to fund.
I didn't ask about user experiences good or bad. I said that it is not the fault of the technology. Blaming Flash for bad animations is like blaming steel for the failure of the Tocoma Narrows bridge. Are all steel bridges evil? Gimme a break!
So does XMLHTTP and is a whole lot more efficient. Incidentlally, one of the nicer things to come off MS. Google uses it for google suggest.
And your point would be...? "My motorbike can run on roads." "Well a car can too, so there!" And what's the basis of the claim that it does it more efficiently?
Springs up music, so does java and just plain MIDI embedded in HTML. Just because all do it, doesnt make it any better. Any user experience not expected by the user is bad. Simple.
Irrelevant. An abuse of a technology is not the technology's fault. Is Java and MIDI embedded in HTML evil too?
CPU usage.
Only an issue if it's a badly put together SWF. Again, not the technology's fault.
When the time comes for javascript, trust me, people have equal number of gripes against it.
Incorrect. Javascript
gets manys a mention on/., and everytime it does nobody bats an eyelid. Every time Flash is mentioned the 'Flash sucks' brigade bombard the thread with "I hate Flash because...." posts full of half-informed criticisms that are either totally bogus or could be applied to any other technology.
The biggest problem with Flash is the ignorance surrounding it on/.
Get your facts straight. Flash delivers content a lot more efficiently than HTML. Graphics take up next to no room because they are vector-based. Content can be streamed into a SWF and updated without having to refresh an entire page of HTML. Just because a few advertisers abuse it does not make the technology evil. Javascript is abused by people who make popup ads. Is javascript 'evil?'
The engine, which powers a pneumatic-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), works alongside an electric motor to create the power source.
The system eliminates the need for fuel, making the PHEV pollution-free.
Cheol-Seung Cho, of Energine Corporation, told CNN the system is controlled by a computer inside the car, which instructs the compressed-air engine and electric motor what to do.
The compressed air drives the pistons, which turn the vehicle's wheels.
The air is compressed using a small motor, powered by a 48-volt battery, which powers both the air compressor and the electric motor.
And that's just the first few paragraphs. Who writes this junk?
I saw this on Beyond 2000 about ten years ago where some bus operator was experimenting with storing energy up during braking by compressing a gas that was used to push the bus forward during acceleration. It was in commercial service too IIRC.
Why not make it capable of controlling robotic limbs, etc...things that are more useful than the volume of your tv?
Because even if they did, some people still wouldn't RTFA.
From the first two paragraphs of TFA:
There's a hand lying on the blanket on Matt Nagle's desk and he's staring at it intently, thinking "Close, close," as the scientists gathered around him look on. To their delight, the hand twitches and its outstretched fingers close around the open palm, clenching to a fist.
In that moment, Nagle made history. Paralysed from the neck down after a vicious knife attack four years ago, he is the first person to have controlled an artificial limb using a device chronically implanted into his brain.
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Show me an invention that could not be used by terrorists! I do wish you people would get over your obsession with people being out to get you!
When will the /. Flash-bashers ever get over their knee-jerk reaction and actually make a little bit of effort to learn something about the benefits of Flash?
Now watch out! Along comes WiFi funded by taxation. "You can't do that," they say, "That's Communism!"
That's the point I'm making. Double standards.
Well if the NY Post says it then it must be true.
Yeah, so what? The world as a whole isn't my problem. It isn't yours either, unless you've elected yourself god.Is your name Margaret Thatcher?
Corporate America is about making a profit. Globalisation helps them to do so. Poor countries benefit from it. Why is this a problem?
You can use the posts at the side of the track (spaced out every quarter of a mile) and a stopwatch to calculate the speed. I once did this in Ireland, clocked the Dublin to Belfast Enterprise service at 115 mph between Drogheda and Newry.
The world as a whole benefits. Sure, the rich countries have to go and find other ways to stay rich, but in the grand scheme of things, the world is better off as a whole if more people are lifted out of poverty. That is what you want, isn't it?
- China and India are poor, EU and US are rich.
- EU and US industry outsource to China and India
- Wages in China and India rise, wages in EU and US fall*
- Result: More even distribution of wealth
*The Economist newspaper has frequently reported findings that wages in developing countries are driven up by inward investment. Large corporations can easily afford to pay more than locally-based employers to attract the best workers, so that is what they do.I'm sick of these thinly veiled propaganda pieces that take selective examples of private success and government failure to back up their market fundamentalist ideas.
I didn't ask about user experiences good or bad. I said that it is not the fault of the technology. Blaming Flash for bad animations is like blaming steel for the failure of the Tocoma Narrows bridge. Are all steel bridges evil? Gimme a break!
The biggest problem with Flash is the ignorance surrounding it on /.
Mac OS X is proprietary. The iPod is proprietary. Are they evil too? Or do open source fundamentalists make a special exemption for Apple?
Er, the plugin is free.
Get your facts straight. Flash delivers content a lot more efficiently than HTML. Graphics take up next to no room because they are vector-based. Content can be streamed into a SWF and updated without having to refresh an entire page of HTML. Just because a few advertisers abuse it does not make the technology evil. Javascript is abused by people who make popup ads. Is javascript 'evil?'
Oh, so you think gif is better? Sure.
Anyone who mods me down for expressing this perfectly valid opinion needs to get out more.
I saw this on Beyond 2000 about ten years ago where some bus operator was experimenting with storing energy up during braking by compressing a gas that was used to push the bus forward during acceleration. It was in commercial service too IIRC.
From the first two paragraphs of TFA: