You're wasting your time, mate. Have a look in my journal and see the ignorance that abounds on/. about Flash. Of course it has moved on, hell I can't even remember the last time I saw a flash splashscreen on a website, but most people here just don't want to know. As far as they're concerned, it's not open source therefore it must be evil. (Unless it's Apple of course.)
Most javascript content I've seen is for annoying popup ads and popunders, especially from porn sites that make it almost impossible to clear your screen without quitting the browser. Scarcely a day goes by when I don't get irritated by at least one popup, and popunders are just evil. Who needs javascript?
And if it's Flash helping the content and functionality you want, go to www.broadmoor.com and click 'reservations.' Show me a _single_ web technology that can do all of that without having to combine ten other technologies and looking the same in all browsers.
A grammer error in the opening line, a photo that makes the guy look like he's smoking crack, and a writing style that makes him sound like a disgruntled MACR ex-employee. FUD from Macromedia? I think I know where the real FUD is coming from here.
Rebuttal already lined up for the 'Flash sucks' brigade. Take it away you 'Flash is a bad technology because it is abused by a few clueless web designers' merchants.
It was once said that CAD would render paper obsolete in the drawing office, but when I was a design engineer I found that everyone had to print the thing on paper in order to proof it properly. Somehow it was easier to miss mistakes on screen and easier to spot them on paper. The paperless office is a long way off. I don't know if anyone has done research on this or not, but there is something about paper that no electronic medium will ever match IMHO.
Now before I get too far off topic or ordered to RTFA, I am aware that this thing produces a printed book. However, the process of browsing a bookstore is a lot more pleasant and user-friendly among rows of books whose titles you can see at a glance just by scanning the shelves than it would be if it were just row upon row of computer terminals hooked up to a glorified printer that spits out your book on demand.
On the other hand I am a fan of Amazon and I do occasionally use it to buy hard-to-get material. But I see this device as an addition to the publishing industry (like Amazon) rather than a replacement for it. After all, Borders and Barnes & Noble aren't exactly dropping off the face of the Earth just because Amazon lets you search the text of all books and offers an amazingly convenient service, are they? Hell, you might even see these machines popping up in bookstores.
Then there's the social aspect of bookshops. They're a great place to go in the evening if you have a few hours to kill, want to go to a book-signing, want to sit and read, sip coffee, etc. I think they'll be around for another while.
It's a lot harder to call someone an "electronicafag."
I was just wondering how long it would take someone to mention this. In Europe, electronica is pretty mainstream. Everybody listens to it. It's only in North America that electronic music is associated with the gay community. Why this is, I have no idea.
The 'thin end of the wedge' argument is completely bogus. It's like arguing against lowering motorway speed limits on the basis that we'll soon all be forced to slow down to walking pace.
All that remains for Washington state legislators to be done is to ban all music talking about hate and violence toward law enforcement offers, ban all movies depicting anti-law enforcement scenes, and ban all TV shows that show or insinuate violence against law enforcement officers.
... yeah. This is just the thin end of a wedge that will end up with the entire population of the country being surgically altered so that they can't see anything (violent or otherwise) and then arrested, thrown in prison, and excecuted.
Why does every law have to be criticised because it supposedly might lead to some bogus, imaginary laws waaaaay into the future that haven't a hope of being passed? Sheesh!
At one time, the typical Mac user bought his machine because he was scared of DOS and the rest of the PC world.
No, he bought a Mac because they were better than PCs in every way except for price and software availability. He bought a system that didn't require an IT degree to operate, rather he bought a system that would just let him get on with more important work than maintaining a computer.
Airline schedules are to be taken off all websites like Travelocity, Expedia, and the airlines' own websites to prevent terrorists from planning their next hijackings. Anyone wishing to book a flight will now have to go to an old-fashioned travel agent's office, prove that they are not of Middle-Eastern extraction, take a polygraph test to prove that they plan to stay on the plane until after it lands, and only then will a limited amount of scheduling information be dispensed.
Seriously folks, this is getting f@*&ing ridiculous. The word 'terrorist' is becoming the modern version of 'communist' and 'witch.'
And electronic music? It is most definately not masculin, but that would fit with many Americans view of European males.
I dunno what you mean by 'not masculine' cos in Europe it's pretty mainstream and is neither masculine nor feminine. And the Euro view of American males is probably the same as the US view of Euro males if what you say is true. The shaved chest and shaved just about everything else is a bit, well, you know......
I'll tell you what, go into any Irish pub in this town and you'll get thumping electronic music loud and clear - and Irish pubs and gayness do not traditionally go hand-in-hand!
Wa? Are you for real? Everybody in Europe texts! Gawd you people associate the strangest things with being gay! I was in a supermarket once and bought some Axe deoderant which I've been using since I was a teenager like everybody I know back in Europe. The guy at the checkout said "the only person who I know that uses that stuff is gay." Then I turn on The Simpsons and find that electronic dance music is also perceived by Americans as being 'gay.' Unbelievable.
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Video. XML parsing (last time I checked SVG couldn't do that in its authoring tool). Show up on a decent proportion of the world's web browsers.
You're wasting your time, mate. Have a look in my journal and see the ignorance that abounds on /. about Flash. Of course it has moved on, hell I can't even remember the last time I saw a flash splashscreen on a website, but most people here just don't want to know. As far as they're concerned, it's not open source therefore it must be evil. (Unless it's Apple of course.)
And if it's Flash helping the content and functionality you want, go to www.broadmoor.com and click 'reservations.' Show me a _single_ web technology that can do all of that without having to combine ten other technologies and looking the same in all browsers.
A grammer error in the opening line, a photo that makes the guy look like he's smoking crack, and a writing style that makes him sound like a disgruntled MACR ex-employee. FUD from Macromedia? I think I know where the real FUD is coming from here.
Yeah, even though SVG is incapable of half the stuff Flash can do and isn't really what anyone should be comparing it with.
Rebuttal already lined up for the 'Flash sucks' brigade. Take it away you 'Flash is a bad technology because it is abused by a few clueless web designers' merchants.
It was once said that CAD would render paper obsolete in the drawing office, but when I was a design engineer I found that everyone had to print the thing on paper in order to proof it properly. Somehow it was easier to miss mistakes on screen and easier to spot them on paper. The paperless office is a long way off. I don't know if anyone has done research on this or not, but there is something about paper that no electronic medium will ever match IMHO.
Now before I get too far off topic or ordered to RTFA, I am aware that this thing produces a printed book. However, the process of browsing a bookstore is a lot more pleasant and user-friendly among rows of books whose titles you can see at a glance just by scanning the shelves than it would be if it were just row upon row of computer terminals hooked up to a glorified printer that spits out your book on demand.
On the other hand I am a fan of Amazon and I do occasionally use it to buy hard-to-get material. But I see this device as an addition to the publishing industry (like Amazon) rather than a replacement for it. After all, Borders and Barnes & Noble aren't exactly dropping off the face of the Earth just because Amazon lets you search the text of all books and offers an amazingly convenient service, are they? Hell, you might even see these machines popping up in bookstores.
Then there's the social aspect of bookshops. They're a great place to go in the evening if you have a few hours to kill, want to go to a book-signing, want to sit and read, sip coffee, etc. I think they'll be around for another while.
Okay then. It "increases the chances that it is true that life once existed on Mars." Happy now?
See also: Robot Builder's Bonanza. Lists where you can actually get your hands on stuff.
patent the process of getting a patent revoked.
The 'thin end of the wedge' argument is completely bogus. It's like arguing against lowering motorway speed limits on the basis that we'll soon all be forced to slow down to walking pace.
Why does every law have to be criticised because it supposedly might lead to some bogus, imaginary laws waaaaay into the future that haven't a hope of being passed? Sheesh!
Show me someone without an IT degree who can keep spyware off his PC without having to ask an expert.
Who she?
Seriously folks, this is getting f@*&ing ridiculous. The word 'terrorist' is becoming the modern version of 'communist' and 'witch.'
Lynx is for wimps. Links is for men!
I'll tell you what, go into any Irish pub in this town and you'll get thumping electronic music loud and clear - and Irish pubs and gayness do not traditionally go hand-in-hand!
It's a perfectly valid opinion and it's on topic.
Wa? Are you for real? Everybody in Europe texts! Gawd you people associate the strangest things with being gay! I was in a supermarket once and bought some Axe deoderant which I've been using since I was a teenager like everybody I know back in Europe. The guy at the checkout said "the only person who I know that uses that stuff is gay." Then I turn on The Simpsons and find that electronic dance music is also perceived by Americans as being 'gay.' Unbelievable.
SMS texters have been sending messages using their thumbs for years.