There's also a Trogdor arcade machine in the basement of Strongbad's house in Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive etc. etc... But I haven't been able to play it yet - the joystick's broken & we're waiting for parts that Strong Sad has ordered.
You've just described the internet, except in that case the tools to create said art are the best available and the service is, well, as fast as your connection. Second Life as a means to create and distribute art is a novelty at best.
RTFA - Adobe has provided a version of the Flash Player that allows search engines to crawl dynamically loaded content. That's the whole point of the article. Google has been indexing static SWF content for years - this is all about dynamic content.
Google can currently index the static textual content embedded within a SWF file. What it cannot do is crawl any dynamic content that the SWF file subsequently loads (XML, web-services, other SWF files etc).
Adobe has provided to Google and Yahoo a version of the Flash Player that effectively crawls the UI of a Flash application as if it was a human (much like current search engines crawl HTML pages) - any dynamic/external content is therefore also indexed.
Mary: Hello Rob.
Me: Hi Mary, how's it hanging?
Mary: How are you today? I feel great.
Me: I'm great, how's it hanging?
Mary: Are you Really? I am great how's it hanging also!
The first website I designed & built for commercial purposes is still live, in use, and remains relatively unchanged. It went live back in 1995, when I was 18, and has been up since. I get a chuckle when I check the URL once a year or so and see that it's still there.
Don't worry - you're not a "get off my lawn" guy by waxing nostalgic about setting up network Doom. In fact, there are plenty of people around here who want you off their lawn.;)
I have those exact Sennheisers - I'm using them right now. Bang-for-buck, you can't beat a good pair of canal phones. They block out almost all outside noise, make an iPod sound amazing, and really show how terrible the standard iPod headphones are. They take a bit of getting used to, as they actually sit slightly inside your ear canal (like ear plugs), but I can't bear to use standard ear-bud headphones any more.
Fosters? No one in Australia drinks Fosters. It's just cat's piss that we export to the rest of the world. I'm not sure if we even bother to make it fizzy first.
Mod parent up. I'm an Aussie and I've had some truly outstanding, world-class US beers. The craft-beer industry over there is exploding and, quite frankly, one of the most exciting things to happen to the beer industry world-wide in centuries.
But if I was asked to build a large web based app with a rich-client feel and given the choice of Flash and Silverlight, not having ever tried either, I'd feel a lot better about the latter than I do the former.
(Emphasis mine.)
So in other words, you're almost completely unqualified to comment. Your comments comparing Flash to AJAX make that pretty clear. You should probably educate yourself about the latest changes on the Flash Platform, such as Flash Player 9, ActionScript 3 and Flex 2, before attempting to make any intelligent remarks comparing RIA platforms. Flash Player 9 has been rebuilt from the ground up, with no legacy support (FP8 and earlier content is handled by a separate, legacy virtual machine). AS3 and Flex is much closer to Java in syntax and functionality (event, data-binding etc) than JavaScript.
Microsoft is making a lot of promises with Silverlight, but until those promises are actually in the hands of developers and working, there is no competition for Flex as an RIA platform.
Slashdot Mirror
What, like this?
There's also a Trogdor arcade machine in the basement of Strongbad's house in Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive etc. etc... But I haven't been able to play it yet - the joystick's broken & we're waiting for parts that Strong Sad has ordered.
This guy has a different opinion.
Some people have tons of time and are low on money.
Solution - get a job!
Or you could use the open-source Flex SDK (which includes all GUI widgets) with the free Flex Compiler Shell to develop Flash content.
We've been developing Flash content without using the Flash IDE for years now. Time to check again?
You've just described the internet, except in that case the tools to create said art are the best available and the service is, well, as fast as your connection. Second Life as a means to create and distribute art is a novelty at best.
RTFA - Adobe has provided a version of the Flash Player that allows search engines to crawl dynamically loaded content. That's the whole point of the article. Google has been indexing static SWF content for years - this is all about dynamic content.
Google can currently index the static textual content embedded within a SWF file. What it cannot do is crawl any dynamic content that the SWF file subsequently loads (XML, web-services, other SWF files etc).
Adobe has provided to Google and Yahoo a version of the Flash Player that effectively crawls the UI of a Flash application as if it was a human (much like current search engines crawl HTML pages) - any dynamic/external content is therefore also indexed.
And since when have PC games NOT had to be dramatically dumbed down in order to be playable by the konsole kiddies???
We're talking about Diablo here, yeah?
The most dumbed-down action RPG of all time.
Mary: Hello Rob.
Me: Hi Mary, how's it hanging?
Mary: How are you today? I feel great.
Me: I'm great, how's it hanging?
Mary: Are you Really? I am great how's it hanging also!
The whole image is used. The transparent parts around the creature also contain data.. switching between alpha 0 and 1.
I'd guess that even alpha == 0, odd alpha == 1.
The creature data is encoded as binary in the alpha channel of the PNG. 2KB of compressed data. Simple but effective.
Very cool. The creature data is encoded as binary in the alpha channel of the PNG. That means any creature can be defined in under 2KB.
The first website I designed & built for commercial purposes is still live, in use, and remains relatively unchanged. It went live back in 1995, when I was 18, and has been up since. I get a chuckle when I check the URL once a year or so and see that it's still there.
mindflux.com.au
Woo!
Unless that's the domain name of the search engine...
"Hey man, what's the capital of Albania?"
"Dunno.. just G-H-R-six-six-four-dash-three-two-J-Y-Z-five it dude..."
"32, Male, across the room."
Not much of a conversation...
They're ads or, in your case, spaces for ads, as you probably have some sort of ad-blocker.
My first as well - awesome little machine! Spent countless hours programming BASIC on that thing.
But I was a bit jealous of my mate's C64.
Don't worry - you're not a "get off my lawn" guy by waxing nostalgic about setting up network Doom. In fact, there are plenty of people around here who want you off their lawn. ;)
I have those exact Sennheisers - I'm using them right now. Bang-for-buck, you can't beat a good pair of canal phones. They block out almost all outside noise, make an iPod sound amazing, and really show how terrible the standard iPod headphones are. They take a bit of getting used to, as they actually sit slightly inside your ear canal (like ear plugs), but I can't bear to use standard ear-bud headphones any more.
Fosters? No one in Australia drinks Fosters. It's just cat's piss that we export to the rest of the world. I'm not sure if we even bother to make it fizzy first.
Mod parent up. I'm an Aussie and I've had some truly outstanding, world-class US beers. The craft-beer industry over there is exploding and, quite frankly, one of the most exciting things to happen to the beer industry world-wide in centuries.
(Emphasis mine.)
So in other words, you're almost completely unqualified to comment. Your comments comparing Flash to AJAX make that pretty clear. You should probably educate yourself about the latest changes on the Flash Platform, such as Flash Player 9, ActionScript 3 and Flex 2, before attempting to make any intelligent remarks comparing RIA platforms. Flash Player 9 has been rebuilt from the ground up, with no legacy support (FP8 and earlier content is handled by a separate, legacy virtual machine). AS3 and Flex is much closer to Java in syntax and functionality (event, data-binding etc) than JavaScript.
Microsoft is making a lot of promises with Silverlight, but until those promises are actually in the hands of developers and working, there is no competition for Flex as an RIA platform.
And where does bitching on Slashdot about how other people spend their free time rate on your productivity scale?
The alien in Alien was designed by H. R. Giger. Not sure about the others.
Blade Runner is a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
Blade Runner was released before William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer".