I agree that flash can be cpu intensive, and that flash games can be wildly so, this is because Actionscript is an interpreted language, it's done this way to keep the plug-in small. Which is why more people have the Flash Plug in than the far more powerful director shockwave plug in.
Also a lot of Flash developers code in an inefficient way, using onEnterFrame commands to control scripts, which means that code is continually running at 30fps even when nothing is happening. For a lot of us Flash guys it is our first OOP language....
It has been getting better and will continue to do so, some of the best work comes from guys from OOP backgrounds, (Branden Hall, Samuel Wan etc...)
You linux geeks might actually like it if you looked at the tools, not the piss poor results that the 'Flash Community' come up with (yeah we all started out as artsy designers... I myself completed a worthless degree in 'Interactive Media Production.)
But for a lot of people, it is a decent introduction to programming, and certainly introduced me to open source software like PHP.
And the Flash format is actually not 'that' closed off, there's nothing stopping people from writing an app that created Flash Content on Linux or any other platform, (SWISH etc...)
and Flash Code is fairly easily read, it's just browsers don't have a 'view source' button for it.
Most people agree that the silly ideas of the early 90's are now dead.
(Not trying to be insulting, you people like being called geeks, right?)
The Apple plug-in is significantly inferior to the PC one. Not trolling here, it just is, it's bigger, and runs slower. This is one of the easiest things to benchmark. MX2004 is supposed to be a big improvement, but I'm skint, so I don't know.
If we're doing shameless self promotion of sites we've done, then check out www.trax2burn.com (House Music: MP3 format 192kb/s tunes, no DRM) Not sure what % they give the artists... (warning: Flash)
yeah, I don't remember saying that "and then we burned all our Macs and made effegies of Steve Jobs". Tech support couldn't help me, and got mad, ditto the apple and xplay forums. I used Slashdot as a last resort, and in amongst the insults was some useful info, and now it's fixed, thankyou. I guess my mistake was in posing a technical question to a forum that turns everything into an ethical one. Thanks again to those that helped. Understand I wasn't suggesting anyone judge a company on one tech support or one small incident. I'm sorry for starting a flame war, and I will be more careful in future.
(Although it did get the thing working again!)
my mistake, this is very embarassing, but I didn't mean to come off as whinging, I was actually asking Slashdot for help.
I've come back to see six hundred people call me a fool, but it was worth it for the couple of people who took the time to help me. And they helped me get to fix it, you're almost right, and I did re-flash the firmware, but on a Mac. What I needed to do was flash the firmware on a PC and then a Mac to re-set it to Mac only iPod (which is what I primarily use it for, which is why I bought it.)
As an aside my post was more of a technical issue, not an ethical one, I didn't expect better customer support from Apple than I would from Sony or anyone else, the guys were angry and not especially technical. I don't have a problem with Apple as I don't expect more of them than I do from any other company. I asked them if they knew a way to fix it. Because they didn't, they acted like jerks. So did a lot of the people here. I never raised my voice in anger once. This was my first post, the last thing I wanted to do was the start some flame war. The whole thing is pretty surreal.
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this wasn't my issue. I care less whether i can USE it with iTunes, I just didn't want it broken. If you put a PS game in your PC, you don't expect your PC to catch fire... only if you put the PS game in your toaster. It's fixed now. see my other post on how to fix it if you're having the same problem
ok... If anyone is actually having the same problem, here's how to fix it without having to wade through a flame war I inadvertently started. Use the PC to download the PC updater from apple, restore it, then put it back on the Mac. Restore it again and it should go. But bear in mind that this does happen... I honestly didn't know and everyone screaming at me that I should've was not that helpful when I was staring at my 250 white brick.
Thanks to everyone that tried to help and didn't say I was too stupid to live and deserved to die and probably drink bleach or think I should be able to breathe underwater.
iTunes for Windows disables a hack that many people had been using. Here is a hack to work around it. Stop the flaming please.
I know I know. See, what I was actually doing was asking for help, to see if anyone knew why this happened and what I could do. Thanks to anyone who actually tried to help and didn't call me an idiot who drinks bleach, walks into walls and/or has sex with bears.
thanks man, I'll try this now. I was genuinely just asking for some kind of technical support. I didn't mean to start another flame war over here. Could I have phrased the question better? Maybe not mentioned windows or macintosh?
Of course I installed the most recent firmware. We do have Macs here, and I'm sure I'm not the only person to use the Macs and PCs together. As for this talk of being explicitly told that it wouldn't work. Not working is one thing, breaking is another. It's not like I'd complain if I'd tried to use it underwater. Jeez.
My problem is that it used to work until I installed APPLE software. And If someone can tell me where they say this, I'd be happy to withdraw my complaint.
I think you're missing my point, I don't care if iTunes works with it or not. Because it worked just fine for a year without it, then iTunes BROKE it. This is a different thing to being incompatible.
uh uh. It did play the stuff that was on it before... but I figured it to be just a glitch and re-installed the firmware (yes, on my mac, before anyone jumps down my throat) And now it won't play anything I transfer.
Oh man.... I didn't want to start a flame war, we've already heard it all before guys. Computers and companies aren't your friends, none of them. I'm concerned that there attitude was;
Them: "you can't do this"
me: "yes I can, it worked perfectly well before"
them: "well, you can't anymore, so there"
I bought a product and a year later they tell me what I can and can't do with it. When I'd been doing just fine.
iTunes doesn't say that it would break my iPod, Obviously I wouldn't have installed it.
exactly, thank you! The last thing I wanted was to start a flame war. I wouldn't mind if iTunes just didn't work with the thing. But to break it is another matter.
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http://www.trax2burn.com sells dance/house music.
I agree that flash can be cpu intensive, and that flash games can be wildly so, this is because Actionscript is an interpreted language, it's done this way to keep the plug-in small. Which is why more people have the Flash Plug in than the far more powerful director shockwave plug in. Also a lot of Flash developers code in an inefficient way, using onEnterFrame commands to control scripts, which means that code is continually running at 30fps even when nothing is happening. For a lot of us Flash guys it is our first OOP language.... It has been getting better and will continue to do so, some of the best work comes from guys from OOP backgrounds, (Branden Hall, Samuel Wan etc...) You linux geeks might actually like it if you looked at the tools, not the piss poor results that the 'Flash Community' come up with (yeah we all started out as artsy designers... I myself completed a worthless degree in 'Interactive Media Production.) But for a lot of people, it is a decent introduction to programming, and certainly introduced me to open source software like PHP. And the Flash format is actually not 'that' closed off, there's nothing stopping people from writing an app that created Flash Content on Linux or any other platform, (SWISH etc...) and Flash Code is fairly easily read, it's just browsers don't have a 'view source' button for it. Most people agree that the silly ideas of the early 90's are now dead. (Not trying to be insulting, you people like being called geeks, right?)
The Apple plug-in is significantly inferior to the PC one. Not trolling here, it just is, it's bigger, and runs slower.
This is one of the easiest things to benchmark.
MX2004 is supposed to be a big improvement, but I'm skint, so I don't know.
If we're doing shameless self promotion of sites we've done, then check out www.trax2burn.com
(House Music: MP3 format 192kb/s tunes, no DRM)
Not sure what % they give the artists...
(warning: Flash)
yeah, I don't remember saying that "and then we burned all our Macs and made effegies of Steve Jobs". Tech support couldn't help me, and got mad, ditto the apple and xplay forums. I used Slashdot as a last resort, and in amongst the insults was some useful info, and now it's fixed, thankyou. I guess my mistake was in posing a technical question to a forum that turns everything into an ethical one. Thanks again to those that helped. Understand I wasn't suggesting anyone judge a company on one tech support or one small incident. I'm sorry for starting a flame war, and I will be more careful in future. (Although it did get the thing working again!)
my mistake, this is very embarassing, but I didn't mean to come off as whinging, I was actually asking Slashdot for help. I've come back to see six hundred people call me a fool, but it was worth it for the couple of people who took the time to help me. And they helped me get to fix it, you're almost right, and I did re-flash the firmware, but on a Mac. What I needed to do was flash the firmware on a PC and then a Mac to re-set it to Mac only iPod (which is what I primarily use it for, which is why I bought it.) As an aside my post was more of a technical issue, not an ethical one, I didn't expect better customer support from Apple than I would from Sony or anyone else, the guys were angry and not especially technical. I don't have a problem with Apple as I don't expect more of them than I do from any other company. I asked them if they knew a way to fix it. Because they didn't, they acted like jerks. So did a lot of the people here. I never raised my voice in anger once. This was my first post, the last thing I wanted to do was the start some flame war. The whole thing is pretty surreal.
... this wasn't my issue. I care less whether i can USE it with iTunes, I just didn't want it broken. If you put a PS game in your PC, you don't expect your PC to catch fire... only if you put the PS game in your toaster. It's fixed now. see my other post on how to fix it if you're having the same problem
ok... If anyone is actually having the same problem, here's how to fix it without having to wade through a flame war I inadvertently started. Use the PC to download the PC updater from apple, restore it, then put it back on the Mac. Restore it again and it should go. But bear in mind that this does happen... I honestly didn't know and everyone screaming at me that I should've was not that helpful when I was staring at my 250 white brick. Thanks to everyone that tried to help and didn't say I was too stupid to live and deserved to die and probably drink bleach or think I should be able to breathe underwater. iTunes for Windows disables a hack that many people had been using. Here is a hack to work around it. Stop the flaming please.
I know I know. See, what I was actually doing was asking for help, to see if anyone knew why this happened and what I could do. Thanks to anyone who actually tried to help and didn't call me an idiot who drinks bleach, walks into walls and/or has sex with bears.
thanks man, I'll try this now. I was genuinely just asking for some kind of technical support. I didn't mean to start another flame war over here. Could I have phrased the question better? Maybe not mentioned windows or macintosh?
Of course I installed the most recent firmware. We do have Macs here, and I'm sure I'm not the only person to use the Macs and PCs together. As for this talk of being explicitly told that it wouldn't work. Not working is one thing, breaking is another. It's not like I'd complain if I'd tried to use it underwater. Jeez. My problem is that it used to work until I installed APPLE software. And If someone can tell me where they say this, I'd be happy to withdraw my complaint.
I think you're missing my point, I don't care if iTunes works with it or not. Because it worked just fine for a year without it, then iTunes BROKE it. This is a different thing to being incompatible.
uh uh. It did play the stuff that was on it before... but I figured it to be just a glitch and re-installed the firmware (yes, on my mac, before anyone jumps down my throat) And now it won't play anything I transfer.
Oh man.... I didn't want to start a flame war, we've already heard it all before guys. Computers and companies aren't your friends, none of them. I'm concerned that there attitude was; Them: "you can't do this" me: "yes I can, it worked perfectly well before" them: "well, you can't anymore, so there" I bought a product and a year later they tell me what I can and can't do with it. When I'd been doing just fine. iTunes doesn't say that it would break my iPod, Obviously I wouldn't have installed it.
exactly, thank you! The last thing I wanted was to start a flame war. I wouldn't mind if iTunes just didn't work with the thing. But to break it is another matter.