Oh great, so when Adobe closes something, they're being assholes who doesn't embrace OS. When they do open it, they're assholes who expect people to fix their mistakes.
First, ActionScript (not "Flash") is based on ECMAScript, not the other way around. And I'd say it's hard for ECMAScript to try and "emulate" Flash. The ECMAScript specs aren't created by Adobe, you know, but by several engineers from companies like Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Opera, etc, with Mozilla in the lead.
Second, you've misunderstood the post, the press releases, and everything related to this news item. They're not open-sourcing the player. There's no "Flash Studio" (what?) libraries or features to be opened, and there's nothing for people to "code" like "normal effects".
This is not related to Flash. It's related to the ECMAScript virtual machine, and something Mozilla can directly benefit from since they use a similar VM for their JavaScript execution. If anything, having this properly applied (2008 on according to their roadmap) will make HTML (specially Ajax) sites faster on Mozilla browsers, and Mozilla's own execution, not Flash.
In sum, this is not the thread you're looking for.
Just because I know people will jump the gut and make comments totally unrelated to this news just so they have something to bitch about, here's what Mike (One of the lead Linux engineers at Adobe) had to say:
Today, Adobe released the source for its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation.
That's what Adobe did. Since this blog is a common stop for open source-minded folk, I thought it might be pertinent to use this space to discuss what Adobe didn't do:
* Adobe did not open source the Flash Player.
* Adobe did not incorporate the Flash Player into Mozilla.
* Adobe did not license Mozilla's HTML rendering engine.
* Adobe did not purchase Mozilla, or vice versa.
The project is specified by the name Tamarin, as in the monkey, in keeping with Mozilla's primate-naming conventions. Fun fact: Adobe is contributing around 135 KLOC (thousands of lines of code) of source code to the Tamarin project. So, in the grand tradition of open source collaboration, I invite you to jump right in.
Also see Tinic Uro's blog for more information.
This is not related to porting or open-sourcing Flash at all. It's all about ECMAScript, which is what JavaScript and ActionScript uses. This doesn't mean Mozilla will support ActionScript either, as it's just the virtual machine that's being opened, not the 'internal' functionality.
Welcome to Slashdot, where bashing Flash is always hip. EULA discussion, what a good opportunity.
Anyhow, forget about this whole EULA crap, this is just another opportunity to say that Flash sucks and everybody who uses it is doing bad "webdesign" and you won't buy from them.
I would wholeheartedly disagree with you. Cheating has always been rampant with Quake 1. Open-sourcing it didn't kill the game. If anything, the release of Quake 1 source allowed great, SECURE clients to be released like Mqwcl and Fuhquake, which kept their security verifications outside of the main EXE and not-open.
If you want to talk about bad practices on the DOS days, there's a lot to talk about on most software companies of that time. That "In Search Of Stupidity" book talk about a whole lot of them. I don't remember any example right now, but it sure is a good read for anyone that thinks "Microsoft == THE evil".
So, what I understand from the above quote, is that it will be basically the some thing with a few new small features, but requiring a computer with a lot more memory and a lot more power to run.
Sorry that this wasn't clear, but no, they're not buying their naruto headbands or their sharingan contact lenses from the company that makes naruto. It's all homebred, local, fan-made, pirate stuff. Quality stuff, sometimes, but still with no profit to the "Naruto" trademark owners.
The "buy two naruto headbands and get one chobits ear free" kind of store. I can't link them here because I lost the URL, sorry.
Cosplay is a generic term. You can find cosplay porn and you can find people doing cosplay with no sexual conotation at all. Saying cospla y is a sexual fetish in japanese is like saying "asian" is a sexual fetish in english.
This past weekend was AnimeFriends (www.animefriends.com.br) in Brazil, the country's largest yearly anime 'congress'. As usual, you have a huge amount of people doing cosplay. This year, a MAJOR part of the cosplaying people was inspired on Naruto.. I'd say, I don't know, around 1/3rd of the cosplayers were based on the series. Not counting the huge number of people with Naruto headbands that can be bought online on a local brazilian ecommerce site, I saw a lot of Narutos, all flavors of Sasukes, several different Rock Lees (even the "young" one), all Kakashis had their own "Gentleman series" booklet (I've forgot the name, sorry), there was a pic someone took that had three Kibas, women impersonating Oroshimaru... and so on and so forth.
But the thing is, Naruto isn't even broadcasted on TV here. It isn't even broadcasted outside of japan for that matter. It's all because of the torrent distribution and the people that buys it on dvd/vcd from other local shops (few, I think). Because the official, bureaucratic series version takes years to reach those countries (apparently we'll get Naruto on the end of this year, when we'll also get the local version of cartoon network's Adult Swim - yay!), people take matters in their own hands and end up getting used to it. Torrent is part of the anime culture now.
I also saw a lot of people from real obscure animes I barely know the name.
Torrent... I don't know *how* anime companies can profit from it.. I personally doubt they can. But that the format has some huge potential for distribution is undeniable.. even here, where broadband isn't so widespread, people are used to going online every thursday to get their weekly Naruto fix via torrent.
I had a lot of that in the past though, but the other way around: I'd surf to this and it'd redirect me saying the site doesn't support Netscape or something. Then if I used the fake agent extension, the site works and most of the times, pretty fine.
I agree with you this is kind of stupid, but in the end people are just doing what has been done in the past few years by some less-than-capable web admins, just the other way around.
If they install these machines at Tube stations, then terrorists will have a new target: at the point of inspection. They will be able to take out staff as well as passengers and entrance facilities. They do not have to even get on a damn tube.
Do you even know what this is all about? RTFA and you'll see this a modification. It's not like Rockstar left it there for anyone to push a button and make it active. The guys had to actually code the thing based on the existing content - places, models - and create what is ultimatelly original content. If you wish to blame Rockstar, it's like blaming any other random FPS engine (Quake, Unreal, Half-Life) just because someone can create 'a sex mod' if they wish to do so. Personally, I see your point. But technically, it's just stupid.
Windows users don't have a strong sense of belonging; there's no user community rallying around the platform
In other news, there's no 'user community' rallying about around the world. I don't see people running around and screaming "HELL YEAH EARTH FOR TEH WIN!" at least.
When something's so big and so vast and there's no majority to keep oppressing you, there's no "user community rallying". People just accept it how it is. If Mac was the dominant platform, if the niche feeling was lost, there would be no 'macintosh user community' feel anymore.
It's funny, because putting anime on a negative light like this (while forgetting you're talking about a subgenre) is like saying all western cartoons are about ducks and rabbits.
There are way too many different types of 'anime' for someone to judge it that way. You'll find anything, from all kinds of hentai (generic erotic/prn anime - 'tenticle rape' would be just one of them) to animes that are so introspective and philosophic that'll blow your mind of.
So you should first decide on what kind of thing you like before starting a 'path'. Evangelion is a good one, as it mixes action with a bit of the philosophic/deep story plot. Overall, picking up the most popular ones is a good choice, then once deciding on what you like about then, you'll be able to find some more you like.
Remember anime is not like most western cartoons; you'll find all kinds of stories for both kids and adults and all in between.
Maybe I'm too out of the loop, but does anyone have a list of big, generic, all-purpose online bookstores with good quality? With a global reach of course, since I'm not in the USA.
I left college after 2 years because I was bored to tears. Joined the Marines. Went back to college 6 years later *highly* motivated and enjoyed the heck out of learning - took CS classes for fun. My fellow undergrads, mostly straight from High School, hated their classes and hated me - I was the jerk who didn't listen to them whine about how hard their schedules were, or how much different classes sucked. My experience - most of them were too immature to appreciate the opportunity they had, and they had insufficient life experience to know that they should feel passionate about anything at all, let alone learning.
Wow! History of my life - almost. I started working on IT when I was on high school, finished high school, rested for a couple of years, then went to college. It sucked and I left after around 2 years, heavily burned. I decided it wasn't for me and I didn't need that crap. I was quite successfull at my field (even though I'm not my own boss/CEO etc) so I didn't care about college anymore.
Today, I've been working for ~11 years. I went back to college on january - finally planning on getting an 'interactive design' degree. I was kind of afraid it'd suck and get burned again, but I figured I'd try anyways.
Surprise, it's being marvelous so far. I'm kind of an old guy in the class - I'm 27, most of the students are around 18 - although it doesn't show, people think I'm like 22. However, the same thing you said applies here: while I've been enjoying classes greately, and learning a lot of stuff (I'd never have guessed!), most of my fellow students are fresh from high school and too spoiled to learn everything. There are exception, but most expect things delivered straight to them on a golden plate and doesn't have the ability or the will to make good use of the course (which is a jewel in itself). I work during the day, study at night, and do all the (difficult!) papers/assignments on weekends; still, I can get everything done AND get a very good great. Most of the other students bitch about how they don't have enough time to do it because it's too much, and do extremely poor jobs that even I get ashamed of... even though they don't work and stay at home during the day!
I'm with Jobs on this one; however, I think the lesson to be learned is that it depends a lot more of you than on what people are pushing to you. Even though I'm in good terms with everybody and I have lots of great friends there, I have no doubt that most of the people on my course will be total failures when it comes to getting stuff done - but we're still on the first semester, so hopefully they'll realize they're not on their rich kids' high school anymore and move their asses.
I'd forward that Jobs' speech to them, but they won't read because it's too long and it's english so... whatever. I wish them luck.
He was as much telling kids to drop out as he was telling kids to be fired or to get cancer.
Rather, he was talking about recovery, learning from it, and about keeping doing what you like to do.
Also, he was forced to drop out, but he kept going to school for another 18 months on selected classes (as a "drop-in" - whatever that means) and that's what he highlighted on the whole story.
Just like other animation industries, the quality on the anime depends on the series, the studio, the time it was produced, etc. You can get animations which were good at the time (ie, Dragonball Z) but that doesn't compare to today's standards. You can also get cheaply done animation (Sailor Moon) that will hold true to the most "Iron Man-ish" static animation.
However, if you have a look at some top-tier animes, like Naruto (some episodes) and FLCL (all the series -- watch it!), or some special stuff like Animatrix's Beyond, you'll see the best kind of 2d animation done, ever (with a small bit of 3d at times).
In the end, however, it's not only about the technique but about the story. That's why anime like Naruto can mix almost static character+background parts with incredibly complex fighting sequences and it will 'feel' ok: it's because the technique is not the *most* important thing. I think the western world will never 'get' it. Just ask Marvel...
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Oh great, so when Adobe closes something, they're being assholes who doesn't embrace OS. When they do open it, they're assholes who expect people to fix their mistakes.
Dude.
Technically, this won't change anything on any browser, just make JavaScript execution faster on Mozilla.
I find your theory pretty hard to follow.
First, ActionScript (not "Flash") is based on ECMAScript, not the other way around. And I'd say it's hard for ECMAScript to try and "emulate" Flash. The ECMAScript specs aren't created by Adobe, you know, but by several engineers from companies like Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Opera, etc, with Mozilla in the lead.
Second, you've misunderstood the post, the press releases, and everything related to this news item. They're not open-sourcing the player. There's no "Flash Studio" (what?) libraries or features to be opened, and there's nothing for people to "code" like "normal effects".
This is not related to Flash. It's related to the ECMAScript virtual machine, and something Mozilla can directly benefit from since they use a similar VM for their JavaScript execution. If anything, having this properly applied (2008 on according to their roadmap) will make HTML (specially Ajax) sites faster on Mozilla browsers, and Mozilla's own execution, not Flash.
In sum, this is not the thread you're looking for.
Also see Tinic Uro's blog for more information.
This is not related to porting or open-sourcing Flash at all. It's all about ECMAScript, which is what JavaScript and ActionScript uses. This doesn't mean Mozilla will support ActionScript either, as it's just the virtual machine that's being opened, not the 'internal' functionality.
Welcome to Slashdot, where bashing Flash is always hip. EULA discussion, what a good opportunity.
Anyhow, forget about this whole EULA crap, this is just another opportunity to say that Flash sucks and everybody who uses it is doing bad "webdesign" and you won't buy from them.
I would wholeheartedly disagree with you. Cheating has always been rampant with Quake 1. Open-sourcing it didn't kill the game. If anything, the release of Quake 1 source allowed great, SECURE clients to be released like Mqwcl and Fuhquake, which kept their security verifications outside of the main EXE and not-open.
In a nutshell, yes, the stratosphere (includes the ozone layer) blocks most of the stuff that's fatal to us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere
If you want to talk about bad practices on the DOS days, there's a lot to talk about on most software companies of that time. That "In Search Of Stupidity" book talk about a whole lot of them. I don't remember any example right now, but it sure is a good read for anyone that thinks "Microsoft == THE evil".
Chobits. Why carry a laptop around if you can have it walk by itself? And, you know, it can always have that little extra feature...
So, what I understand from the above quote, is that it will be basically the some thing with a few new small features, but requiring a computer with a lot more memory and a lot more power to run.
Sorry that this wasn't clear, but no, they're not buying their naruto headbands or their sharingan contact lenses from the company that makes naruto. It's all homebred, local, fan-made, pirate stuff. Quality stuff, sometimes, but still with no profit to the "Naruto" trademark owners.
The "buy two naruto headbands and get one chobits ear free" kind of store. I can't link them here because I lost the URL, sorry.
Cosplay is a generic term. You can find cosplay porn and you can find people doing cosplay with no sexual conotation at all. Saying cospla y is a sexual fetish in japanese is like saying "asian" is a sexual fetish in english.
I'll tell you this.
This past weekend was AnimeFriends (www.animefriends.com.br) in Brazil, the country's largest yearly anime 'congress'. As usual, you have a huge amount of people doing cosplay. This year, a MAJOR part of the cosplaying people was inspired on Naruto.. I'd say, I don't know, around 1/3rd of the cosplayers were based on the series. Not counting the huge number of people with Naruto headbands that can be bought online on a local brazilian ecommerce site, I saw a lot of Narutos, all flavors of Sasukes, several different Rock Lees (even the "young" one), all Kakashis had their own "Gentleman series" booklet (I've forgot the name, sorry), there was a pic someone took that had three Kibas, women impersonating Oroshimaru... and so on and so forth.
But the thing is, Naruto isn't even broadcasted on TV here. It isn't even broadcasted outside of japan for that matter. It's all because of the torrent distribution and the people that buys it on dvd/vcd from other local shops (few, I think). Because the official, bureaucratic series version takes years to reach those countries (apparently we'll get Naruto on the end of this year, when we'll also get the local version of cartoon network's Adult Swim - yay!), people take matters in their own hands and end up getting used to it. Torrent is part of the anime culture now.
I also saw a lot of people from real obscure animes I barely know the name.
Torrent... I don't know *how* anime companies can profit from it.. I personally doubt they can. But that the format has some huge potential for distribution is undeniable.. even here, where broadband isn't so widespread, people are used to going online every thursday to get their weekly Naruto fix via torrent.
I had a lot of that in the past though, but the other way around: I'd surf to this and it'd redirect me saying the site doesn't support Netscape or something. Then if I used the fake agent extension, the site works and most of the times, pretty fine.
I agree with you this is kind of stupid, but in the end people are just doing what has been done in the past few years by some less-than-capable web admins, just the other way around.
If they install these machines at Tube stations, then terrorists will have a new target: at the point of inspection. They will be able to take out staff as well as passengers and entrance facilities. They do not have to even get on a damn tube.
Please mod this up, +5 clear thinking.
...if you buy a NEW YORK TIMES newspaper and stick an x-rated picture on it, it becomes an x-rated newspaper. Yes, I know, it's shocking.
Do you even know what this is all about? RTFA and you'll see this a modification. It's not like Rockstar left it there for anyone to push a button and make it active. The guys had to actually code the thing based on the existing content - places, models - and create what is ultimatelly original content. If you wish to blame Rockstar, it's like blaming any other random FPS engine (Quake, Unreal, Half-Life) just because someone can create 'a sex mod' if they wish to do so. Personally, I see your point. But technically, it's just stupid.
Windows users don't have a strong sense of belonging; there's no user community rallying around the platform
In other news, there's no 'user community' rallying about around the world. I don't see people running around and screaming "HELL YEAH EARTH FOR TEH WIN!" at least.
When something's so big and so vast and there's no majority to keep oppressing you, there's no "user community rallying". People just accept it how it is. If Mac was the dominant platform, if the niche feeling was lost, there would be no 'macintosh user community' feel anymore.
It's funny, because putting anime on a negative light like this (while forgetting you're talking about a subgenre) is like saying all western cartoons are about ducks and rabbits.
There are way too many different types of 'anime' for someone to judge it that way. You'll find anything, from all kinds of hentai (generic erotic/prn anime - 'tenticle rape' would be just one of them) to animes that are so introspective and philosophic that'll blow your mind of.
So you should first decide on what kind of thing you like before starting a 'path'. Evangelion is a good one, as it mixes action with a bit of the philosophic/deep story plot. Overall, picking up the most popular ones is a good choice, then once deciding on what you like about then, you'll be able to find some more you like.
Remember anime is not like most western cartoons; you'll find all kinds of stories for both kids and adults and all in between.
Maybe I'm too out of the loop, but does anyone have a list of big, generic, all-purpose online bookstores with good quality? With a global reach of course, since I'm not in the USA.
I left college after 2 years because I was bored to tears. Joined the Marines. Went back to college 6 years later *highly* motivated and enjoyed the heck out of learning - took CS classes for fun. My fellow undergrads, mostly straight from High School, hated their classes and hated me - I was the jerk who didn't listen to them whine about how hard their schedules were, or how much different classes sucked. My experience - most of them were too immature to appreciate the opportunity they had, and they had insufficient life experience to know that they should feel passionate about anything at all, let alone learning. Wow! History of my life - almost. I started working on IT when I was on high school, finished high school, rested for a couple of years, then went to college. It sucked and I left after around 2 years, heavily burned. I decided it wasn't for me and I didn't need that crap. I was quite successfull at my field (even though I'm not my own boss/CEO etc) so I didn't care about college anymore. Today, I've been working for ~11 years. I went back to college on january - finally planning on getting an 'interactive design' degree. I was kind of afraid it'd suck and get burned again, but I figured I'd try anyways. Surprise, it's being marvelous so far. I'm kind of an old guy in the class - I'm 27, most of the students are around 18 - although it doesn't show, people think I'm like 22. However, the same thing you said applies here: while I've been enjoying classes greately, and learning a lot of stuff (I'd never have guessed!), most of my fellow students are fresh from high school and too spoiled to learn everything. There are exception, but most expect things delivered straight to them on a golden plate and doesn't have the ability or the will to make good use of the course (which is a jewel in itself). I work during the day, study at night, and do all the (difficult!) papers/assignments on weekends; still, I can get everything done AND get a very good great. Most of the other students bitch about how they don't have enough time to do it because it's too much, and do extremely poor jobs that even I get ashamed of... even though they don't work and stay at home during the day! I'm with Jobs on this one; however, I think the lesson to be learned is that it depends a lot more of you than on what people are pushing to you. Even though I'm in good terms with everybody and I have lots of great friends there, I have no doubt that most of the people on my course will be total failures when it comes to getting stuff done - but we're still on the first semester, so hopefully they'll realize they're not on their rich kids' high school anymore and move their asses. I'd forward that Jobs' speech to them, but they won't read because it's too long and it's english so... whatever. I wish them luck.
He was as much telling kids to drop out as he was telling kids to be fired or to get cancer.
Rather, he was talking about recovery, learning from it, and about keeping doing what you like to do.
Also, he was forced to drop out, but he kept going to school for another 18 months on selected classes (as a "drop-in" - whatever that means) and that's what he highlighted on the whole story.
Just like other animation industries, the quality on the anime depends on the series, the studio, the time it was produced, etc. You can get animations which were good at the time (ie, Dragonball Z) but that doesn't compare to today's standards. You can also get cheaply done animation (Sailor Moon) that will hold true to the most "Iron Man-ish" static animation.
However, if you have a look at some top-tier animes, like Naruto (some episodes) and FLCL (all the series -- watch it!), or some special stuff like Animatrix's Beyond, you'll see the best kind of 2d animation done, ever (with a small bit of 3d at times).
In the end, however, it's not only about the technique but about the story. That's why anime like Naruto can mix almost static character+background parts with incredibly complex fighting sequences and it will 'feel' ok: it's because the technique is not the *most* important thing. I think the western world will never 'get' it. Just ask Marvel...
And here I was thinking that John Titor was a liar.
Best post ever!