It should be obvious that this is a chicken and egg problem. There arent flash apps for the iphone hosted on newgrounds BECAUSE IT DOESNT SUPPORT FLASH. Support it, and they will appear overnight with the proper navigational elements.
Of course you dont. Its a chicken and egg problem. Why would anyone send you a link to Vimeo knowing it wont work on your iphone? People know youtube has a special deal with Apple and a special app, so they'll send those links out. Its corporatist control and the opposite of open.
>Name a popular flash-only site than a majority of iPhone users visit on a regular basis on their desktop or laptop.
Newgrounds. Vimeo. Viddler. and the dozens of flash gaming sites.
>as an iPhone user, its a small negative
Only because youve drunk so much of the koolaid and so used to be roughed up by corporations that you have no idea what its like to have a phone platform that does more.
I call BS on this. Usually a duoploy is just as bad as a monopoly. Considering the cost of rolling out cable, a lot of providers wont enter a market because what happens is a natural monopoly or duopoly forms. Both carriers exceed at poor service and slow upgrades because they know the government wont intervene.
Ironically, its the government with its line sharing laws that forced the competition to actually get off their laurels. Forcing telcos to sell service to third parties helps the consumer, thats how excellent ISPs like Speakeasy can even exist. So youre 100% wrong. The problem in telcos isnt the regulation its the lack of regulation and the lack of more line usage buying enforcement.
Not to mention, regulation was put there to curb corporate abuse not to limit corporate growth. A lot of what youre railing against was put in because these companies were doing an ever poorer job for the consumer.
Name me one big ISP or telco that isnt incompetent. I have been fighting with AT&T to get uverse without the video and they more or less told me. After several angry calls I finally got one person who would let me (after putting me on hold for 20 mins and being transfered 5x) and then on top of it all gave me another hard sell for the video service when I asked if they could minimize the downtime between DSL shutoff and uverse install. At that point I just hung up and called Comcast.
Comcast's phone number is published everywhere, unlike AT&T hiding theirs. A human answered in less than a minute and the cost was maybe 5 dollars more than the equivalent uverse package. They asked me for video service, I said no thanks, and that was it.
At this point in the game, Comcast isnt the worst out there. Probably AT&T residential is the worst while Comcast is upping its game (disclosing its cap, DOCSIS 3.0, more customer support agents, decently priced business services, 50mbps rollouts, etc)
Tivo is dying because the cable companies have rolled their own solutions. Perhaps it was freeer and more open it wouldnt be in the economic graveyard its in. Instead, it tried playing their game, like Apple is doing, and got burnt.
If I wanted a tablet, Id get something XP or 7 based, not this lock-in toy. With cable/sat I dont have this option, but in the computing world I sure as heck do.
>Yeah, that seems like great advice now, but hindsight is always 20/20, as they say. As recently as the early 90s, most Unix systems didn't even use shadow passwords.
Yet in 1993, Windows NT had ACLs, security groups, NTLM, etc. Theres no excuse for ignoring basic security principles. CS departments and tech companies the world over have understood these basic controls since the 50s or 60s.
Sadly, everyone has to reinvent the wheel. Look at how PHP has changed from "personal home page" which was a security nightmare to what it is now, which is more like a security bad dream. Starting with security first goes a long way. This isnt a 20/20 vision thing, its called getting off your ass and doing things right the first time.
The death of flash arrives after a standardized alternative has been put in place (what codec does video use, bueller, bueller?) Where is it? Who is using it?
It DOESNT HAPPEN when some DRM obsessed corporation decides its a challenger to its app store.
Really? Really, is this the scariest thing you can find? Heaven forbid he actually goes out and plays after his homework is done. I cant wait to have to sit on the bus next to your precious snowflake screaming and demanding instant gratification, invading everyone's space, and growing up into another self-entitled douche. I guess basic discipline is a thing of the past. On the plus side youre posting on slashdot, so the chances you will ever have kids is next to zil.
>But on reading the article, I can't help but compare it to medicating a kid so he doesn't run around as much and so he's docile and well behaved and compliant and conforming. That's scary to me.
Yeah, heaven forbid we give people tools to help their boredom. I live in a major city and riding the bus is the most mind-numbing thing I can do. I usually play with my phone but would prefer a faster connection or a laptop. If you want to "medicate" someone, but them on a bus without a bus or a computer.
Funny how there's this bullshit double-standard. If we put a TV on there or said "teens spend 8 hour watching The Hills" no one would be saying anything like "oh noes they is medicating our chillrenzz!!!" They would see it as normal. But give them a two-way technology like the web, then suddenly everyone is concerned. Funny how that works. If theyre not passive viewers of lowest common level drivel and commecial watchers, its suddenly a problem. I would prefer them to use the internet and have choice. Sorry grandpa, but the internet is not going away.
>Oh, it's SO AWFUL to have to carry a dongle around.
It absolutely is, especially for a portable device. Everything I own that uses a dongle quickly becomes useless. This dongle isnt going to be something you can easily replace either. It wont be at the kmart at 2am when you need one. Oh, but it'll be at the Apple or AT&T store for $19.95.
The purpose of standardized protocols like USB is so we can plug shit into other shit. Apple's anti-standard anti-user attitude will be their undoing. Theyre making MS look like a hippie commune.
Right. Not to mention, whats the speed of SIM reads and writes? From my experience theyre unusually slow, like 14.4kbps slow. Its an ID card, not a fast storage option. A lot of good thats going to do you when that internet connection is a 1mbps.
>I'm sorry, but I refuse to use any office suite that doesn't have animated characters telling me what to do.
Oh, I'd love to see what the OSS equivalant of Clippy would be. Perhaps, an otaku neckbeard sitting in front a PC playing WoW, surrounded by empty boxes of fast food and alternately yelling "RTFM" or "Read the manpage already!"
>I'm a little bit afraid of the person who thought Bioshock was "believable".
Dunno, obviously the fantastic elements are ridiculous, but there's no shortage of Randians and other nutters looking for some kind of new floating society. The last time I heard about this nuttiness was "The Freedom Ship," kinda a libertarian/randian/right-wing fantasy about living on the seas tax-free (ignoring the massive ship assessment fee of course!). I think its 100% believable to think that fanatics would attempt to try to start their own little society or compound. Religious types seem to do it all the time.
>Could someone explain that one cause I really don't get it or see the nod.
After a long mescaline trip Eric Schmidt and Larry Page decided the company should be called LEE00 (pronounced lee-ooooo) and the l33t-speak domain 1e400.net was born.
After poor reception from investors and users alike a memo was written up asking all employees to suggest a new domain name. A young intern, who later committed suicide in a bizarre self decapitation with a chainsaw, suggested that 1 to the 400th power was actually a gogool. Schmidt and Page were impressed and after accepting how less fun it is to say gogool than "leeee-oooooo" decided to change the name. Because its difficult to trademark a real word, they just went with "google." 1e400.net is a nod to the good old leeee-ooooo days.
I agree. The Lucas hate is just a fanboy fringe thing that gets too much play on the internet.
I didnt expect episodes 1-3 to be any good. You cant take a director who hasnt directed in 30 years and suddenly expect him to be in peak form. If you have realistic expectations in life then you'll find yourself less outraged. Creative people often peak, usually early in life.
I also think its important to remember that Lucas is one of the few owners of a popular franchise that didnt turn it into crappy licensed videogames. A lot of my Star Wars nostalgia has to do with the excellent games put out by Lucasarts as much as the original movies.
>Now, when there is a 3G 'smartphone', Android or not, that can handle both A&T and T-Mobile 3G, then locking becomes important again.
The next version of the Android will support both of them and will support CDMA. I figure by then it'll be on a second hardware revision or at least a second or third radio firmware and be safe to buy.
>EDGE sucks so bad you woild give the phone back.
Funny how the first iphone was EDGE only. It sold pretty well. While I wouldnt wish EDGE on my worst enemy, its funny how many people dealt with its speed limitations.
If you buy the phone for 529 you do not get on a contract. You simply pay a monthly fee and quit when you want to. There can be no ETF as nothing is subsidized.
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It should be obvious that this is a chicken and egg problem. There arent flash apps for the iphone hosted on newgrounds BECAUSE IT DOESNT SUPPORT FLASH. Support it, and they will appear overnight with the proper navigational elements.
Of course you dont. Its a chicken and egg problem. Why would anyone send you a link to Vimeo knowing it wont work on your iphone? People know youtube has a special deal with Apple and a special app, so they'll send those links out. Its corporatist control and the opposite of open.
>12 Years, 11 months of the sentence for using the pseudonym Iceman.
And after 12 years, 11 months he'll be using the pseudonym Assman.
The most popular apps on iphones are fart simulators, yet we accept that platform as important.
>Name a popular flash-only site than a majority of iPhone users visit on a regular basis on their desktop or laptop.
Newgrounds. Vimeo. Viddler. and the dozens of flash gaming sites.
>as an iPhone user, its a small negative
Only because youve drunk so much of the koolaid and so used to be roughed up by corporations that you have no idea what its like to have a phone platform that does more.
I call BS on this. Usually a duoploy is just as bad as a monopoly. Considering the cost of rolling out cable, a lot of providers wont enter a market because what happens is a natural monopoly or duopoly forms. Both carriers exceed at poor service and slow upgrades because they know the government wont intervene.
Ironically, its the government with its line sharing laws that forced the competition to actually get off their laurels. Forcing telcos to sell service to third parties helps the consumer, thats how excellent ISPs like Speakeasy can even exist. So youre 100% wrong. The problem in telcos isnt the regulation its the lack of regulation and the lack of more line usage buying enforcement.
Not to mention, regulation was put there to curb corporate abuse not to limit corporate growth. A lot of what youre railing against was put in because these companies were doing an ever poorer job for the consumer.
Name me one big ISP or telco that isnt incompetent. I have been fighting with AT&T to get uverse without the video and they more or less told me. After several angry calls I finally got one person who would let me (after putting me on hold for 20 mins and being transfered 5x) and then on top of it all gave me another hard sell for the video service when I asked if they could minimize the downtime between DSL shutoff and uverse install. At that point I just hung up and called Comcast.
Comcast's phone number is published everywhere, unlike AT&T hiding theirs. A human answered in less than a minute and the cost was maybe 5 dollars more than the equivalent uverse package. They asked me for video service, I said no thanks, and that was it.
At this point in the game, Comcast isnt the worst out there. Probably AT&T residential is the worst while Comcast is upping its game (disclosing its cap, DOCSIS 3.0, more customer support agents, decently priced business services, 50mbps rollouts, etc)
>Yes, this is exactly what has kept Tivo
Tivo is dying because the cable companies have rolled their own solutions. Perhaps it was freeer and more open it wouldnt be in the economic graveyard its in. Instead, it tried playing their game, like Apple is doing, and got burnt.
If I wanted a tablet, Id get something XP or 7 based, not this lock-in toy. With cable/sat I dont have this option, but in the computing world I sure as heck do.
>Yeah, that seems like great advice now, but hindsight is always 20/20, as they say. As recently as the early 90s, most Unix systems didn't even use shadow passwords.
Yet in 1993, Windows NT had ACLs, security groups, NTLM, etc. Theres no excuse for ignoring basic security principles. CS departments and tech companies the world over have understood these basic controls since the 50s or 60s.
Sadly, everyone has to reinvent the wheel. Look at how PHP has changed from "personal home page" which was a security nightmare to what it is now, which is more like a security bad dream. Starting with security first goes a long way. This isnt a 20/20 vision thing, its called getting off your ass and doing things right the first time.
I dont care if its 1974 ot 1794, human nature doesnt change. Put locks on your (virtual) doors.
The death of flash arrives after a standardized alternative has been put in place (what codec does video use, bueller, bueller?) Where is it? Who is using it?
It DOESNT HAPPEN when some DRM obsessed corporation decides its a challenger to its app store.
Really? Really, is this the scariest thing you can find? Heaven forbid he actually goes out and plays after his homework is done. I cant wait to have to sit on the bus next to your precious snowflake screaming and demanding instant gratification, invading everyone's space, and growing up into another self-entitled douche. I guess basic discipline is a thing of the past. On the plus side youre posting on slashdot, so the chances you will ever have kids is next to zil.
>But on reading the article, I can't help but compare it to medicating a kid so he doesn't run around as much and so he's docile and well behaved and compliant and conforming. That's scary to me.
Yeah, heaven forbid we give people tools to help their boredom. I live in a major city and riding the bus is the most mind-numbing thing I can do. I usually play with my phone but would prefer a faster connection or a laptop. If you want to "medicate" someone, but them on a bus without a bus or a computer.
Funny how there's this bullshit double-standard. If we put a TV on there or said "teens spend 8 hour watching The Hills" no one would be saying anything like "oh noes they is medicating our chillrenzz!!!" They would see it as normal. But give them a two-way technology like the web, then suddenly everyone is concerned. Funny how that works. If theyre not passive viewers of lowest common level drivel and commecial watchers, its suddenly a problem. I would prefer them to use the internet and have choice. Sorry grandpa, but the internet is not going away.
>Then why not send them information over the network instead of via USB stick?
Why not admit that Apple isnt perfect?. Seriously, you're all excuses. You're like a parody of a fanboy. How embarrassing for you.
>Oh, it's SO AWFUL to have to carry a dongle around.
It absolutely is, especially for a portable device. Everything I own that uses a dongle quickly becomes useless. This dongle isnt going to be something you can easily replace either. It wont be at the kmart at 2am when you need one. Oh, but it'll be at the Apple or AT&T store for $19.95.
The purpose of standardized protocols like USB is so we can plug shit into other shit. Apple's anti-standard anti-user attitude will be their undoing. Theyre making MS look like a hippie commune.
Right. Not to mention, whats the speed of SIM reads and writes? From my experience theyre unusually slow, like 14.4kbps slow. Its an ID card, not a fast storage option. A lot of good thats going to do you when that internet connection is a 1mbps.
>They're marketing to fanboys who want it to be trendy and 'just work', not to nerds.
Not having flash is the opposite of "just work."
>I'm sorry, but I refuse to use any office suite that doesn't have animated characters telling me what to do.
Oh, I'd love to see what the OSS equivalant of Clippy would be. Perhaps, an otaku neckbeard sitting in front a PC playing WoW, surrounded by empty boxes of fast food and alternately yelling "RTFM" or "Read the manpage already!"
With faster porn rendering and easier adult searching with bing, lets just say there are a lot less kittens in the world. Windows 7 - it was my idea.
>I'm a little bit afraid of the person who thought Bioshock was "believable".
Dunno, obviously the fantastic elements are ridiculous, but there's no shortage of Randians and other nutters looking for some kind of new floating society. The last time I heard about this nuttiness was "The Freedom Ship," kinda a libertarian/randian/right-wing fantasy about living on the seas tax-free (ignoring the massive ship assessment fee of course!). I think its 100% believable to think that fanatics would attempt to try to start their own little society or compound. Religious types seem to do it all the time.
>Could someone explain that one cause I really don't get it or see the nod.
After a long mescaline trip Eric Schmidt and Larry Page decided the company should be called LEE00 (pronounced lee-ooooo) and the l33t-speak domain 1e400.net was born.
After poor reception from investors and users alike a memo was written up asking all employees to suggest a new domain name. A young intern, who later committed suicide in a bizarre self decapitation with a chainsaw, suggested that 1 to the 400th power was actually a gogool. Schmidt and Page were impressed and after accepting how less fun it is to say gogool than "leeee-oooooo" decided to change the name. Because its difficult to trademark a real word, they just went with "google." 1e400.net is a nod to the good old leeee-ooooo days.
*actually its 1 to 100th power
I agree. The Lucas hate is just a fanboy fringe thing that gets too much play on the internet.
I didnt expect episodes 1-3 to be any good. You cant take a director who hasnt directed in 30 years and suddenly expect him to be in peak form. If you have realistic expectations in life then you'll find yourself less outraged. Creative people often peak, usually early in life.
I also think its important to remember that Lucas is one of the few owners of a popular franchise that didnt turn it into crappy licensed videogames. A lot of my Star Wars nostalgia has to do with the excellent games put out by Lucasarts as much as the original movies.
Sure, when everything works out. Something tells me F will mean something completely different when youre getting compiler errors or crashes.
>Now, when there is a 3G 'smartphone', Android or not, that can handle both A&T and T-Mobile 3G, then locking becomes important again.
The next version of the Android will support both of them and will support CDMA. I figure by then it'll be on a second hardware revision or at least a second or third radio firmware and be safe to buy.
>EDGE sucks so bad you woild give the phone back.
Funny how the first iphone was EDGE only. It sold pretty well. While I wouldnt wish EDGE on my worst enemy, its funny how many people dealt with its speed limitations.
If you buy the phone for 529 you do not get on a contract. You simply pay a monthly fee and quit when you want to. There can be no ETF as nothing is subsidized.