I agree completely. However, are you suggesting that given HTML5 (or other Flash successor), restaurants will be prevented from making hard to read text, black-on-maroon, etc.?
I fail to follow your logic, and in any case, have never used IE--I went Mosaic -> Netscape -> FireFox...
I switched because the later browsers did everything their predecessors did, and more--when that statement can honestly be made about Flash, I will have already switched, as it's not my choice but the website's...
No, I set the standard at there being a viable alternative.
I never stated Flash was a requirement, but it is useful as being a virtually omnipresent feature. How did we ever live without (proto-)HTML5? I personally hate Flash mostly because it enables really obnoxious advertisements (the "flash" in "Flash"). But I can easily block it, which I wouldn't be able to do with HTML5, should all its grandiose feature set actually be standardized and implemented...
I have to boycott real world restaurant to support your view that Flash shouldn't exist? Shitty websites are not shitty because of Flash, nor do they suddenly become less shitty because of whatever it is that eventually replaces Flash.
Restaurants--this is circular logic--you can't assume that HTML5 *shall* replace Flash to justify that Flash will be replaced by HTML5
Maybe JS, SVG & WebGL *could* be a replacement, but they aren't yet. And WebGL is far from accepted
Strike YouTube and some clones and you'll find most Flash usage is NOT video
If you're trying to suggest that my browser currently supports all the replacements for Flash you suggest, you'd be wrong, and secondly they still don't even exist yet--HTML5 video doesn't even specify a format, and all the other aspects of HTML5 have yet to even be solidified as a proposed standard. My point is that these things have to have already existed before Flash outlives its usefulness.
Of course I do use it, but alongside Gnus, which has been trucking away for me since around 1995, and whose speed hasn't degraded--it was never fast (not much written in emacslisp is...)
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I agree completely. However, are you suggesting that given HTML5 (or other Flash successor), restaurants will be prevented from making hard to read text, black-on-maroon, etc.?
I fail to follow your logic, and in any case, have never used IE--I went Mosaic -> Netscape -> FireFox...
I switched because the later browsers did everything their predecessors did, and more--when that statement can honestly be made about Flash, I will have already switched, as it's not my choice but the website's...
No, I set the standard at there being a viable alternative.
I never stated Flash was a requirement, but it is useful as being a virtually omnipresent feature. How did we ever live without (proto-)HTML5? I personally hate Flash mostly because it enables really obnoxious advertisements (the "flash" in "Flash"). But I can easily block it, which I wouldn't be able to do with HTML5, should all its grandiose feature set actually be standardized and implemented...
I have to boycott real world restaurant to support your view that Flash shouldn't exist? Shitty websites are not shitty because of Flash, nor do they suddenly become less shitty because of whatever it is that eventually replaces Flash.
Very funny...
Of course I do use it, but alongside Gnus, which has been trucking away for me since around 1995, and whose speed hasn't degraded--it was never fast (not much written in emacslisp is...)
Nope.
Did I notice any slowdown at all?
Nope....
Solutions for problems that (to me) don't exist...
That's $2.50 per bit!
Outrageous!
Tape a piece of cardboard over it.
"Pike also spoke out against the performance of interpreted languages and dynamic typing."
So, something for everyone to disagree with...
You sheep don't understand!
When the news of this leaked out "they" decided they could hide it by pretending it was humor--why do you think it ended up on The Onion?
1) Then they can't write on C: drive! Try locking it down better...
2) Their network-mounted drives can be locked down so that only they can access.
There are simpler solutions to these issues--as it is clear your users run MS Windows, do this:
- Restrict receptionist-class users' rights--don't give everybody Administrator rights reflexively
- Make "My Documents" non-local--i.e. the user's "My Documents", Desktop, etc. are only on the shared network drive.
For gods' sake--never use tabs ever!
Maybe they can license good signal strength to Apple? I still keep an old Nokia "dumbphone" around just in case I have a low signal need...
Guess this Cal-Stanfurd rivalry is really heating up!
But does it have a sassy attitude?
Oh we got these nifty vacuum cleaner suction things to hold your ladder steady...
You'll love those "clumsy" ladders when someone trips on your power cord...
We can't allow you to have free speech, because free speech helps terrorists and pedophiles!
Make sure to plug your ethernet, lest somebody passes out from the fumes.
And apparently some whiny (and probably pimply) moderators didn't get the reference. Try Google next time, losers. :)
Apparently he was just miffed that someone put an "alien pubic hair" on his can of coke.
They're blocking all the Google sites that don't start with a Turkish man's given name...
You sank my battleship!