I don't want the debugger to get focus. It's important, since I have to wait several minutes for it in that particular case, but I'd still like to finish the sentence I'm reading before checking out that breakpoint. I'd rather see the debugger's taskbar window flash at me to tell me that it is waiting for me. The biggest reason? I might be typing up a comment. Some key I press could totally screw up the debugger and then I'd have to wait several more minutes. That would just piss me off.
That's just not possible. No matter what you do or how you dress, I promise you that somebody finds it offensive.
Exactly. What if I find it offensive that my manager does everything in his power not to offend me or anyone else? That seems like the kind of guy who won't stick up for my exciting, genius ideas for new products when some board member doesn't think they will work.
On a related note, for ShieldW0lf, what if that goth, devil-worshipping hacker wants to become a manager some day? He might have excellent organization skills and he may even be a suave fellow that can sell any idea to anyone. Too bad he looks funny, so we can't make that extra million this year.
I have a few earrings myself, and I've always refused to remove them for any job. Thankfully, my skills have proven to my managers that I can be given a little extra special treatment. My point, however, is that my supervisors shouldn't have needed to secretly overlook them.
He's definitely a big Microsoft fan, but his article that we're talking about is pretty harsh on some serious issues with Vista RC1. If Super-Fan 1000 thinks you did something wrong, that means it's probably quite bad.
your dry ass LECTURE that's just regurgitated from the text they have to read anyways
Most kids don't read the text these days because they know that teachers will just cover it all anyway. If reading the text were better enforced, the teachers could actually spend time covering extra material that the kids might find more interesting.
I don't think he's trying to show humility. To me, it seems like he's just so interested in math that he wants to move on to the next challenge. Awards are just a distraction.
I don't consider it an inconvenient truth at all. So he got a blow job, big deal. The "inconvenient truth" is that the Republicans wasted our nations time and money trying to get Clinton out of the White House when he's probably one of the better presidents we've had in the last few decades. We had a budget surplus, a big tech boom (which may have burst, but it was fun while it lasted), and we weren't in the middle of a stupid fucking war that's bleeding way more money than it should.
Agreed. Not every webpage needs Flash. I'm a Flash developer and my own personal websites don't currently use any Flash as part of the layout. It's just not needed. I have plans to integrate a small amount of Flash in a future version of my blog, but I fully intend to optimize its size and CPU usage as much as possible.
Flash's bandwidth usage is mainly on the shoulders of the designers. It also depends on what sort of Flash content you're looking at. Cartoons and big Flash sites take a while to load because they're so complex. People hate Flash ads because they look and sound annoying, but they load pretty darn fast, don't they? If web designers would spend less time building full Flash websites, and use more HTML for content (which will bring some nice other benefits like better search engine ranking), Flash might have a better reputation... at least among techies.
You should check out Adobe Flex. It's a great application development framework that provides much of the functionality you're looking for. In the end, it's component system probably makes building complicated web applications easier than HTML because you don't have as much testing for compatibility across platforms. Plus, you can use MXML for layout (which should be pretty familiar for HTML users).
The latest version (Flex 2) is based on Flash 9, and it provides all sorts of new ways to connect to other sources. You can talk to Javascript on the webpage with ExternalInterface (if you're looking to use some of that AJAX functionality), there's the XML connections from previous versions, and Flash 9 adds a binary socket system. It has already been used to implement SMTP, POP3, AOL Instant Messenger, Telnet, and VNC protocols. It should be able to connect to just about anything.
I've seen screen readers working pretty well with Flex 2. There's still a bit of testing involved, but it's not much different than normal desktop applications.
Flash 8 will not be released for Linux. Adobe is going straight to 9. It's expected to be released within the year, with a beta probably appearing in the next couple of months.
The content loaded by AJAX can't be indexed by search engines. I'll admit that AJAX is still better in this space though, because the rest of the non-AJAX content is indexed. I just needed to point that out.
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There have only been two new versions of Flash since 7. We're at 9 now. During the beta stages, Flash Player 9 was called 8.5, but it's still the same player. The latest version of Flash works on both Windows and OSX (not "only on one"). The version for Intel Macs is in beta right now. The Linux version is currently in development. I will concede that the current Linux Flash player only works on x86, and as far as I know, version 9 will be the same. Likewise, 64-bit support will not be there yet either. Hopefully they'll consider additional architectures in the future.
You didn't mention it, but I'd like to clear up one other misconception that many Linux users have. Unfortunately, Flash 8 never came out for Linux. Why? Adobe decided to scrap it and go straight to Flash 9. They determined that fixing the issues in Flash 7 and adding support for the new features of Flash 8 would actually take longer than doing a clean port of the Flash 9 player. The Flash 9 code was written with operating systems other than Windows and Mac in mind, so it would be an easier port than previous versions.
As a Flash developer, I can tell you that Flash most definitely is not to blame. I haven't seen a Firefox crash in a long, long time. Of course, there are some pretty bad flash coders out there, so I suppose it's possible. Even so, I'm frequenting dozens of Flash-centric websites a day, and I would expect to have a crash every now and then, but I don't.
As one of those guys on the left, I've always considered the "For the children..." stuff to come from the right. I'm starting to get the feeling that there's a good deal of this crap coming from both sides.
...who claimed games were neither art nor media...
I hope at least one person near him laughed when that claim was made. By definition, a video game is media. Art... I'll let close-minded people think it's not art. They're wrong, but that's more plausible than saying that a video game isn't media.
Arguably, one might consider that a hate crime (or something similar that's not as bad, I don't know the exact laws). However, I know that if you're a landlord, you can't say something like "No Jews can live in my buildings." Barring a student because of lesbian guardians should be considered the same situation.
Not directly related, but this reminds me of my college days. I used to work at the technology help desk. It took years to get spam protection on the email accounts at the school because some crazy staff members demanded that they receive EVERY SINGLE email sent to them. Eventually, a system was set up, and it allowed a user to log into a service that showed them what spam was blocked. If the user wanted, he or she could have any message in that list delivered. Then after a week or so, a message was permanently deleted from the quarantine if not delivered.
We phone-jockeys were informed that the system had certain levels of spam probability assigned to each message, and we could tell the users that. What we couldn't mention was that spam with the highest probablility didn't even make it to the quarantine. The spam problem was just so bad that we had to get rid of some of it, but we tricked everyone into thinking that they could get everything they received.
I'd love to be able to carry only one device in my pockets. It would combine my cellphone with my iPod, AND be able to use the cell network to get things right from iTMS. Sadly, data transfer costs suck, the phone's interface sucks, and there are only 100 songs when it should be able to hold more. I think Apple would do well if they made their own phone based on the iPod. Partnering up with Motorola only gave us a crappy device that could be SO much better.
Adobe does include support for SVG in Illustrator and their SVG plugin has magically appeared in my Add/Remove Programs window. Seems to me they want to push this standard, and I could see the Flash plugin and dev environment including support for it within the next version or two.
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I don't want the debugger to get focus. It's important, since I have to wait several minutes for it in that particular case, but I'd still like to finish the sentence I'm reading before checking out that breakpoint. I'd rather see the debugger's taskbar window flash at me to tell me that it is waiting for me. The biggest reason? I might be typing up a comment. Some key I press could totally screw up the debugger and then I'd have to wait several more minutes. That would just piss me off.
That's just not possible. No matter what you do or how you dress, I promise you that somebody finds it offensive.
Exactly. What if I find it offensive that my manager does everything in his power not to offend me or anyone else? That seems like the kind of guy who won't stick up for my exciting, genius ideas for new products when some board member doesn't think they will work.
On a related note, for ShieldW0lf, what if that goth, devil-worshipping hacker wants to become a manager some day? He might have excellent organization skills and he may even be a suave fellow that can sell any idea to anyone. Too bad he looks funny, so we can't make that extra million this year.
I have a few earrings myself, and I've always refused to remove them for any job. Thankfully, my skills have proven to my managers that I can be given a little extra special treatment. My point, however, is that my supervisors shouldn't have needed to secretly overlook them.
Should you be required to distribute the source for the GIMP when you create a JPG for your website?
Should you be required to distribute the source for your GPL mail client when you write an email?
Pixar would only have to distribute modified sources when other parties are allowed to use those render farms.
If you work somewhere where you'll be terminated for installing a browser, you should probably get out now. You don't want to work there. Seriously.
That's an issue with being able to trust your friends, not with Facebook.
He's definitely a big Microsoft fan, but his article that we're talking about is pretty harsh on some serious issues with Vista RC1. If Super-Fan 1000 thinks you did something wrong, that means it's probably quite bad.
your dry ass LECTURE that's just regurgitated from the text they have to read anyways
Most kids don't read the text these days because they know that teachers will just cover it all anyway. If reading the text were better enforced, the teachers could actually spend time covering extra material that the kids might find more interesting.
I don't think he's trying to show humility. To me, it seems like he's just so interested in math that he wants to move on to the next challenge. Awards are just a distraction.
I don't consider it an inconvenient truth at all. So he got a blow job, big deal. The "inconvenient truth" is that the Republicans wasted our nations time and money trying to get Clinton out of the White House when he's probably one of the better presidents we've had in the last few decades. We had a budget surplus, a big tech boom (which may have burst, but it was fun while it lasted), and we weren't in the middle of a stupid fucking war that's bleeding way more money than it should.
Agreed. Not every webpage needs Flash. I'm a Flash developer and my own personal websites don't currently use any Flash as part of the layout. It's just not needed. I have plans to integrate a small amount of Flash in a future version of my blog, but I fully intend to optimize its size and CPU usage as much as possible. Flash's bandwidth usage is mainly on the shoulders of the designers. It also depends on what sort of Flash content you're looking at. Cartoons and big Flash sites take a while to load because they're so complex. People hate Flash ads because they look and sound annoying, but they load pretty darn fast, don't they? If web designers would spend less time building full Flash websites, and use more HTML for content (which will bring some nice other benefits like better search engine ranking), Flash might have a better reputation... at least among techies.
You should check out Adobe Flex. It's a great application development framework that provides much of the functionality you're looking for. In the end, it's component system probably makes building complicated web applications easier than HTML because you don't have as much testing for compatibility across platforms. Plus, you can use MXML for layout (which should be pretty familiar for HTML users).
The latest version (Flex 2) is based on Flash 9, and it provides all sorts of new ways to connect to other sources. You can talk to Javascript on the webpage with ExternalInterface (if you're looking to use some of that AJAX functionality), there's the XML connections from previous versions, and Flash 9 adds a binary socket system. It has already been used to implement SMTP, POP3, AOL Instant Messenger, Telnet, and VNC protocols. It should be able to connect to just about anything.
I've seen screen readers working pretty well with Flex 2. There's still a bit of testing involved, but it's not much different than normal desktop applications.
Flash 8 will not be released for Linux. Adobe is going straight to 9. It's expected to be released within the year, with a beta probably appearing in the next couple of months.
The content loaded by AJAX can't be indexed by search engines. I'll admit that AJAX is still better in this space though, because the rest of the non-AJAX content is indexed. I just needed to point that out.
There have only been two new versions of Flash since 7. We're at 9 now. During the beta stages, Flash Player 9 was called 8.5, but it's still the same player. The latest version of Flash works on both Windows and OSX (not "only on one"). The version for Intel Macs is in beta right now. The Linux version is currently in development. I will concede that the current Linux Flash player only works on x86, and as far as I know, version 9 will be the same. Likewise, 64-bit support will not be there yet either. Hopefully they'll consider additional architectures in the future.
You didn't mention it, but I'd like to clear up one other misconception that many Linux users have. Unfortunately, Flash 8 never came out for Linux. Why? Adobe decided to scrap it and go straight to Flash 9. They determined that fixing the issues in Flash 7 and adding support for the new features of Flash 8 would actually take longer than doing a clean port of the Flash 9 player. The Flash 9 code was written with operating systems other than Windows and Mac in mind, so it would be an easier port than previous versions.
You should get that checked out. Burning sensations down there aren't cool, man.
Could you please provide a link to this information? I was unable to find any.
As a Flash developer, I can tell you that Flash most definitely is not to blame. I haven't seen a Firefox crash in a long, long time. Of course, there are some pretty bad flash coders out there, so I suppose it's possible. Even so, I'm frequenting dozens of Flash-centric websites a day, and I would expect to have a crash every now and then, but I don't.
As one of those guys on the left, I've always considered the "For the children..." stuff to come from the right. I'm starting to get the feeling that there's a good deal of this crap coming from both sides.
Nah, I heard they made a deal with Microsoft, and we're going to see the innovation from Vista finally come to the Mac...
I hope at least one person near him laughed when that claim was made. By definition, a video game is media. Art... I'll let close-minded people think it's not art. They're wrong, but that's more plausible than saying that a video game isn't media.
Arguably, one might consider that a hate crime (or something similar that's not as bad, I don't know the exact laws). However, I know that if you're a landlord, you can't say something like "No Jews can live in my buildings." Barring a student because of lesbian guardians should be considered the same situation.
Not directly related, but this reminds me of my college days. I used to work at the technology help desk. It took years to get spam protection on the email accounts at the school because some crazy staff members demanded that they receive EVERY SINGLE email sent to them. Eventually, a system was set up, and it allowed a user to log into a service that showed them what spam was blocked. If the user wanted, he or she could have any message in that list delivered. Then after a week or so, a message was permanently deleted from the quarantine if not delivered.
We phone-jockeys were informed that the system had certain levels of spam probability assigned to each message, and we could tell the users that. What we couldn't mention was that spam with the highest probablility didn't even make it to the quarantine. The spam problem was just so bad that we had to get rid of some of it, but we tricked everyone into thinking that they could get everything they received.
Exactly. This movie most definately didn't slip under our radars. It was identified and ignored for the garbage it is.
I'd love to be able to carry only one device in my pockets. It would combine my cellphone with my iPod, AND be able to use the cell network to get things right from iTMS. Sadly, data transfer costs suck, the phone's interface sucks, and there are only 100 songs when it should be able to hold more. I think Apple would do well if they made their own phone based on the iPod. Partnering up with Motorola only gave us a crappy device that could be SO much better.
Adobe does include support for SVG in Illustrator and their SVG plugin has magically appeared in my Add/Remove Programs window. Seems to me they want to push this standard, and I could see the Flash plugin and dev environment including support for it within the next version or two.