I think Macromedia has taken a cue from the OSFlash guys who have been using Eclipse and a bunch of other open-source tools to create Flash content for a while.
This 'Zorn' solution seem to be specific to Flex, which is a corporate, expensive, high-end server-side solution. For general Flash development - one without a large budget - the FAME/FAMES/FLAMES solution on the OSFlash site seem to be working really well for some people.
I thought someone said outsourcing would kill the IT industry in USA? And that the unemployment rate in the field was higher than ever? Now this article is saying there isn't enough professionals? What gives?
What are these guys smoking? The concept of the trackerless torrents wasn't created because of the need for protection of tracker servers, but for the ease of distribution... this is not about making it harder to identify trackers. The whole torrent system isn't about circumventing identification or about being completelly anonymous, and the BT author has mentioned this several times.
About time. I can tell you SVG adoption is some years late.
On a side note, I can't wait for advertisers to start using SVG for banner ads, or l33t people to start using it on 'co0L 1nTr0S'. THEN I want to see/. people claiming 'SVG is only good for banner ads and unneeded intros'.
This is the struggle of the past. It's hard shifting humanity's patterns that much.
There was a time it made some sense paying some big money for, say, movies and music. People not only had to create the content, but manage distribution and production. That gave you reason enough to pay. Nowadays, production and distribution can be esentially free - if it's done online. If you only have to pay for the content production costs, it'd be a good reason to pay. If you have to pay for production and distribution, when you know you can get it for free, people start to wonder if anything makes sense.
It's as if someone invented a duplicating machine that duplicated any object. Suddenly, duplicating your furniture or your home appliances would be illegal, and the government would try to force us to keep living in the past by the force of the law. Instead of adapt to what we can be, we must struggle in the line between what's legal and what's a crime and try to find an artificial balance.
We're living on a different world, we just can't accept it. Selling media as if it was a plastic object is dead, but we will stil take centuries to "get" it.
That sell homebrew software? Hm, I wouldn't know, I don't work on that field and never purchase local software (the software I usually purchase is american software like ultraedit, the all-seeing eye, pyrus' typetool, etc -- the kind of generic software you won't find done by local companies). I know there are companies that sell account and management systems, that kind of locally-needed stuff, but I don't know the numbers beyond that market.
SVG is used for one thing - vector graphics - and Flash is used for another - from apps to games, using vector graphics but not limited to it. There's so much else Flash does it's as far-fetched saying it's a competition to SVG as it's saying it's competition to Java or to Quicktime (it is, but to each in a different set of features). If you only know crappy banner ads and stupid site intros that serve no purpose and you actually don't know Flash features as a development platform, don't assume they're the same thing.
I'll say again, I can't wait for the day people will use SVG for banners and intros. That's all it will be good for, since it's all that Flash's good for, right?
Not only in North America, it happens everywhere. It's the same here (São Paulo, Brazil). It's kind of worse here, since our subway system just cover a tiny part of the city and you're barely human if you don't have a car. I say we destroy all those damn cars and make space for more buses or bicycles or whatever.
FH/AI, true. DW/GL, true. Flash/SVG, false. FFS, both Adobe and Macromedia use and support SVG. It's more likely that Flash will now output for SVG more than killing it.
Saying SVG is Flash's biggest rival is so wrong it's not even funny. It's like saying Java is Flash's biggest rival. Or Ajax. Or Javascript. Or HTML. It doesn't make much sense. They're different technologies for different purposes.
And for the last time, Adobe specifically says on their FAQ that both MM and Adobe will continue their support of the SVG format.
For people worried about SVG: RTFPDF. Adobe cites SVG in their PDF-based FAQ, saying both Macromedia and Adobe will continue to support SVG, as they're part of the W3C board that manages it and stuff.
Also, please get over with it: SWF isn't SVG and SVG isn't SWF. They're not competitive, they're two different technologies for two different situations. Adobe will not kill SVG, and SVG will not replace SWF.
This is more than a slashdotting. For example, the mailing lists about typography and actionscript I read are all over this. Two such different universes, all together in the same chaotic "what will be of the future!!?" discussion.
...this has been known. The dictatorship was largerly supported by USA after it was stablished, that's why even today people still see Brazil as a colony of USA of sorts. At the time, they were afraid Brazil would turn into a communist country.
It's a bit of a double-edged sword though. USA helped industrialization in Brazil by bringing in technology... it was a major step we probably wouldn't be able to do by ourselves, look at most of the others south american countries. But at the same time our goverment adopted some ill-fated decisions (copying USA solutions) that proved pretty wrong in the long run and hurted our economy and development. Some of them were still felt until very recently, like the crippled state of our telecommunications network, which was so shitty that a phone line costed as much as a car.
I think this is actually a bit funny because it's different from their recent strategy of spreading some major FUD about the linux adoptment by the government (some local MS employees said something to the likes of "This will hurt Brazil economy in the long run", "The country won't be able to stay competitive", really threatening). Now they're trying to play buddy-buddy and offering a crippled OS. Thanks, but no thanks.
The sooner we switch the better. Windows is still largerly used (pirated, of course) because that's what people have grown with. This is the kind of people who call Microsoft Word "The Windows". If, instead, this people had learnt to edit their documents on KDE with OpenOffice, it wouldn't make the slightiest difference for them today, it'd be the same thing. Damn, I have to install Mandrake or something on my parents' computer.
There's no going back now. I'm a Windows developer and I have no real grudges against MS (no more than I have for every other software company anyways), but everybody who thinks Brazil should be a market dominated by MS is completelly out of their minds. Scales between the two economies are too large for it to work properly.
Funny, I live in Brazil and I have legitimate bought software before without being warped to a higher-level country like the USA. I know, it sounds crazy!
Great, I already know where I can get my 0warez downalods -- from steam itself, considering it's so insecure there are simple exploits to get around it and 'buy' all available games
Thanks, valve. Due to your bloatware game verification system that actually makes it easy for pirate versions to play on legit versions (client side verification, wtf), I'm never buying a game from you again.
CD Key check on master servers is still the king of simplicity and functionality.
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...the password was "gaben".
I think Macromedia has taken a cue from the OSFlash guys who have been using Eclipse and a bunch of other open-source tools to create Flash content for a while.
This 'Zorn' solution seem to be specific to Flex, which is a corporate, expensive, high-end server-side solution. For general Flash development - one without a large budget - the FAME/FAMES/FLAMES solution on the OSFlash site seem to be working really well for some people.
F that, this is getting too complicated, there are way too many protocols. Gimme ZModem with error correction and we're all set.
I thought someone said outsourcing would kill the IT industry in USA? And that the unemployment rate in the field was higher than ever? Now this article is saying there isn't enough professionals? What gives?
What are these guys smoking? The concept of the trackerless torrents wasn't created because of the need for protection of tracker servers, but for the ease of distribution... this is not about making it harder to identify trackers. The whole torrent system isn't about circumventing identification or about being completelly anonymous, and the BT author has mentioned this several times.
I agree. Chris is not your regular stupid mainstream news writer, the guy know what he's talking about.
Granted, he's at CNN, so he has to write CNN-speak.
The pusher robot would smash them all by pushing them over the stairs.
...is a happy citizen.
Congratulations on letting the B's of today turn your country into Oceania.
About time. I can tell you SVG adoption is some years late.
/. people claiming 'SVG is only good for banner ads and unneeded intros'.
On a side note, I can't wait for advertisers to start using SVG for banner ads, or l33t people to start using it on 'co0L 1nTr0S'. THEN I want to see
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This is the struggle of the past. It's hard shifting humanity's patterns that much.
There was a time it made some sense paying some big money for, say, movies and music. People not only had to create the content, but manage distribution and production. That gave you reason enough to pay. Nowadays, production and distribution can be esentially free - if it's done online. If you only have to pay for the content production costs, it'd be a good reason to pay. If you have to pay for production and distribution, when you know you can get it for free, people start to wonder if anything makes sense.
It's as if someone invented a duplicating machine that duplicated any object. Suddenly, duplicating your furniture or your home appliances would be illegal, and the government would try to force us to keep living in the past by the force of the law. Instead of adapt to what we can be, we must struggle in the line between what's legal and what's a crime and try to find an artificial balance.
We're living on a different world, we just can't accept it. Selling media as if it was a plastic object is dead, but we will stil take centuries to "get" it.
Shhh, they don't know the Usenet exists.
That sell homebrew software? Hm, I wouldn't know, I don't work on that field and never purchase local software (the software I usually purchase is american software like ultraedit, the all-seeing eye, pyrus' typetool, etc -- the kind of generic software you won't find done by local companies). I know there are companies that sell account and management systems, that kind of locally-needed stuff, but I don't know the numbers beyond that market.
SVG is used for one thing - vector graphics - and Flash is used for another - from apps to games, using vector graphics but not limited to it. There's so much else Flash does it's as far-fetched saying it's a competition to SVG as it's saying it's competition to Java or to Quicktime (it is, but to each in a different set of features). If you only know crappy banner ads and stupid site intros that serve no purpose and you actually don't know Flash features as a development platform, don't assume they're the same thing.
I'll say again, I can't wait for the day people will use SVG for banners and intros. That's all it will be good for, since it's all that Flash's good for, right?
Not only in North America, it happens everywhere. It's the same here (São Paulo, Brazil). It's kind of worse here, since our subway system just cover a tiny part of the city and you're barely human if you don't have a car. I say we destroy all those damn cars and make space for more buses or bicycles or whatever.
FH/AI, true. DW/GL, true. Flash/SVG, false. FFS, both Adobe and Macromedia use and support SVG. It's more likely that Flash will now output for SVG more than killing it.
Also, there's photoshop/fireworks.
Saying SVG is Flash's biggest rival is so wrong it's not even funny. It's like saying Java is Flash's biggest rival. Or Ajax. Or Javascript. Or HTML. It doesn't make much sense. They're different technologies for different purposes.
And for the last time, Adobe specifically says on their FAQ that both MM and Adobe will continue their support of the SVG format.
It means happy /.ers with a lot more to whine about.
For people worried about SVG: RTFPDF. Adobe cites SVG in their PDF-based FAQ, saying both Macromedia and Adobe will continue to support SVG, as they're part of the W3C board that manages it and stuff.
Also, please get over with it: SWF isn't SVG and SVG isn't SWF. They're not competitive, they're two different technologies for two different situations. Adobe will not kill SVG, and SVG will not replace SWF.
This is more than a slashdotting. For example, the mailing lists about typography and actionscript I read are all over this. Two such different universes, all together in the same chaotic "what will be of the future!!?" discussion.
...this has been known. The dictatorship was largerly supported by USA after it was stablished, that's why even today people still see Brazil as a colony of USA of sorts. At the time, they were afraid Brazil would turn into a communist country.
It's a bit of a double-edged sword though. USA helped industrialization in Brazil by bringing in technology... it was a major step we probably wouldn't be able to do by ourselves, look at most of the others south american countries. But at the same time our goverment adopted some ill-fated decisions (copying USA solutions) that proved pretty wrong in the long run and hurted our economy and development. Some of them were still felt until very recently, like the crippled state of our telecommunications network, which was so shitty that a phone line costed as much as a car.
I think this is actually a bit funny because it's different from their recent strategy of spreading some major FUD about the linux adoptment by the government (some local MS employees said something to the likes of "This will hurt Brazil economy in the long run", "The country won't be able to stay competitive", really threatening). Now they're trying to play buddy-buddy and offering a crippled OS. Thanks, but no thanks.
The sooner we switch the better. Windows is still largerly used (pirated, of course) because that's what people have grown with. This is the kind of people who call Microsoft Word "The Windows". If, instead, this people had learnt to edit their documents on KDE with OpenOffice, it wouldn't make the slightiest difference for them today, it'd be the same thing. Damn, I have to install Mandrake or something on my parents' computer.
There's no going back now. I'm a Windows developer and I have no real grudges against MS (no more than I have for every other software company anyways), but everybody who thinks Brazil should be a market dominated by MS is completelly out of their minds. Scales between the two economies are too large for it to work properly.
The sooner we switch, the better.
Funny, I live in Brazil and I have legitimate bought software before without being warped to a higher-level country like the USA. I know, it sounds crazy!
Great, I already know where I can get my 0warez downalods -- from steam itself, considering it's so insecure there are simple exploits to get around it and 'buy' all available games
Thanks, valve. Due to your bloatware game verification system that actually makes it easy for pirate versions to play on legit versions (client side verification, wtf), I'm never buying a game from you again.
CD Key check on master servers is still the king of simplicity and functionality.
"Conectiva" was spoken in portuguese as in "conecteevah" so I think it's probably spoken as "Man-dreevah".
Not only has he debuted a video with really well done morphs (to be followed by hundreds of pretty bad copycats), but he's a morph himself.