This is like if Google just suddenly started calling Hell's Kitchen something else.
My sarcasm detector's broken today but I think it's already officially known as Clinton. It's kind of hard to sell development with the moniker "Hell's Kitchen."
I've read the merchant agreements for MC, VISA and Amex. Their terms to merchants are nearly verbatim. If you can tell us how the two are "very different," be my guest.
Let me recommend three books: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Kuhn
tl;dr: Scientific progress is not a meritocracy because scientists are bickering little children whose petty political issues hamstring the pursuit of truth. It will not get better any time soon.
Shockwave is increasingly irrelevant -as a web technology- as more features get added to Flash. I would sincerely expect it to be shitcanned as a plugin platform within the next twelve months, especially since Flash apps can be compiled to standalone Projector executables just like Shockwave.
Remember, Macromedia created Shockwave/Director as a CDROM/kiosk platform for people who didn't want to learn OS specific programming, when the only comparable thing out there was HyperCard for System 7.
The Web lowered the bar to entry on creating platform-neutral multimedia presentations, diluting Shockwave's reason for existing. Macromedia bought out the Simple Web File format of a company named FuturespLASH (hence Flash), peppered it with a subset of Shockwave's features, and over time they've updated it more aggressively than Shockwave.
The document you quote was originally published at the moment Jobs announced the Switch and is now over a year old. It was specifically aimed at programmers who wrote to bare metal (e.g. people who wrote endian-dependent code), and was written before OS X had generic vector processing APIs that now compile to AltiVec/SSEx depending on target.
I think the reason is simpler. If I were a betting man, I'd say that Adobe's using XCode to develop the OS X version of the core application, but that the heavy computational lifting (encoding, transcoding, etc.) is being done by highly hand-optimized OS-neutral 686 binaries. Adobe can't devote the time to replicating this process for a defunct processor line when it's obvious they'd have to EOL support for it eventually, and if they're using commercial optimization tools those tools may not have PPC targets.
Stargate Infinity is the story of veteran Stargate explorer Major Gus Bonner and a group of young Air Force Academy cadets. Wrongly accused of treason, they must flee across the universe
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...the A-Team.
This was Ashcroft's pathetic argument. I've worked with the application that's used to generate 99.9% of all CGI porn out there (Poser), and its models are instantly recognizable. The lighting and rendering options are prosumer level at best, but more importantly the artists who create Poser porn have NO INTEREST in making their work indistinguishable from photography.
This is not a trivial point. CGI porn is created by artists who don't have the skills or talent to draw it themselves, not Hollywood-level techs looking to circumvent the law. And their paysite customers are comfortable in the knowledge that possession of images of recognizably non-real events means no exploitation of real-world models. No victim, no crime.
The unspoken presumption here is that what pervs want more than anything is photorealistic images which defy distinction. The number of people who subscribe to sites with hand-drawn furry porn says otherwise.
Maya is the gold standard for images indistinguishable from photos. People take college-level courses to learn it, never mind master it, and the investment of time and money is inconsistent with the ROI they could get using it to make loli porn.
When the police's argument devolves to "this means the burden of proof is still on us," I honestly don't give a fuck.
"All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted," lead engineer Bruce Peart commented shortly before being arrested by the RIAA for accidentally reproducing "I Want It That Way" on his desktop. Under the DMCA, monkeys are no longer allowed near typewriters, unless under contract to reality television producers.
OOo chokes on Mac Word files from 5.0 and before, and 5.0/Mac was a huge segment of the Word market in the 90s. The current MS Office apps on both platforms can read them. Trust me, I've tested this extensively. Sun has gone on record that they don't think pre-6.0 Word files for Mac are any kind of a priority for OOo, although they hint StarOffice might be able to do it.
Chen is the douche who hamstrung progress at Microsoft by mandating that all undocumented behavior should be supported in future OSes. He insisted on a patch to ensure SimCity for DOS could still work in XP.
I see a lot of business whiners here complaining that backwards compatibility is a dealbreaker. Interestingly, none of these people seem to believe a software vendor should be held responsible for their code NOT relying on undocumented behaviors, or a vendor being responsible for patching their apps to remain compatible. When I see PHBs and IT folks holding their vendors as accountable as they do one OS vendor, I'll buy this bullshit.
OS changes don't happen in the dark. MS and Apple repeatedly inform developers what's happening with their OSes, what's being deprecated and what isn't.
You and your customers do not have a God-given right to have seven year old code run flawlessly in perpetuity through OS upgrades. If you don't get this, don't fucking upgrade your computers. No one's holding a gun to your head, metaphorically or literally.
Change happens. Work like it happens or quit bitching.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Adobe is discontinuing SVG plugin support in 2008 on the grounds that SVG support, like PNG, should be innate to the browser. Of course, the fact that SVG is a competitor to SWF has absolutely nothing to do with this and should be construed as strictly coincidental.
I'd buy your argument if the screen didn't involve displaying a realtime feed from the non-prop webcam.
This isn't like seeing Wayne Knight in a supposedly streaming QuickTime video window in JP -- when you can see the playback scrubber moving at the bottom of the window (the one that doesn't appear on actual streaming videos).
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This is like if Google just suddenly started calling Hell's Kitchen something else.
My sarcasm detector's broken today but I think it's already officially known as Clinton. It's kind of hard to sell development with the moniker "Hell's Kitchen."
The good thing is it comes with a free frogurt.
I've read the merchant agreements for MC, VISA and Amex. Their terms to merchants are nearly verbatim. If you can tell us how the two are "very different," be my guest.
Since there really aren't too many instances of a 64-bit OS X running these days, it's kind of moot.
Wait. Is that US billions, or UK billions?
Let us know how the contrapositive works out for that.
You never saw "The Abyss," did you.
Hey, it's cheaper than bathing.
it is because the Japanese don't like root beer
It was as if I heard the lamentations of a million weeaboos, and then -- silence.
Let me recommend three books: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Kuhn
tl;dr: Scientific progress is not a meritocracy because scientists are bickering little children whose petty political issues hamstring the pursuit of truth. It will not get better any time soon.
There, I just saved you four hours of reading.
Hey, offhand, what was your luck trying to purchase an Atari 800 with MSBASIC burned into the ROMs instead of ATBASIC?
Shockwave is increasingly irrelevant -as a web technology- as more features get added to Flash. I would sincerely expect it to be shitcanned as a plugin platform within the next twelve months, especially since Flash apps can be compiled to standalone Projector executables just like Shockwave.
Remember, Macromedia created Shockwave/Director as a CDROM/kiosk platform for people who didn't want to learn OS specific programming, when the only comparable thing out there was HyperCard for System 7.
The Web lowered the bar to entry on creating platform-neutral multimedia presentations, diluting Shockwave's reason for existing. Macromedia bought out the Simple Web File format of a company named FuturespLASH (hence Flash), peppered it with a subset of Shockwave's features, and over time they've updated it more aggressively than Shockwave.
The document you quote was originally published at the moment Jobs announced the Switch and is now over a year old. It was specifically aimed at programmers who wrote to bare metal (e.g. people who wrote endian-dependent code), and was written before OS X had generic vector processing APIs that now compile to AltiVec/SSEx depending on target.
I think the reason is simpler. If I were a betting man, I'd say that Adobe's using XCode to develop the OS X version of the core application, but that the heavy computational lifting (encoding, transcoding, etc.) is being done by highly hand-optimized OS-neutral 686 binaries. Adobe can't devote the time to replicating this process for a defunct processor line when it's obvious they'd have to EOL support for it eventually, and if they're using commercial optimization tools those tools may not have PPC targets.
Stargate Infinity is the story of veteran Stargate explorer Major Gus Bonner and a group of young Air Force Academy cadets. Wrongly accused of treason, they must flee across the universe
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...the A-Team.This was Ashcroft's pathetic argument. I've worked with the application that's used to generate 99.9% of all CGI porn out there (Poser), and its models are instantly recognizable. The lighting and rendering options are prosumer level at best, but more importantly the artists who create Poser porn have NO INTEREST in making their work indistinguishable from photography.
This is not a trivial point. CGI porn is created by artists who don't have the skills or talent to draw it themselves, not Hollywood-level techs looking to circumvent the law. And their paysite customers are comfortable in the knowledge that possession of images of recognizably non-real events means no exploitation of real-world models. No victim, no crime.
The unspoken presumption here is that what pervs want more than anything is photorealistic images which defy distinction. The number of people who subscribe to sites with hand-drawn furry porn says otherwise.
Maya is the gold standard for images indistinguishable from photos. People take college-level courses to learn it, never mind master it, and the investment of time and money is inconsistent with the ROI they could get using it to make loli porn.
When the police's argument devolves to "this means the burden of proof is still on us," I honestly don't give a fuck.
EasyUbuntu did my laptop and it upgraded from 6.06LTS to 6.10 without a hitch.
"All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted," lead engineer Bruce Peart commented shortly before being arrested by the RIAA for accidentally reproducing "I Want It That Way" on his desktop. Under the DMCA, monkeys are no longer allowed near typewriters, unless under contract to reality television producers.
OOo chokes on Mac Word files from 5.0 and before, and 5.0/Mac was a huge segment of the Word market in the 90s. The current MS Office apps on both platforms can read them. Trust me, I've tested this extensively. Sun has gone on record that they don't think pre-6.0 Word files for Mac are any kind of a priority for OOo, although they hint StarOffice might be able to do it.
Chen is the douche who hamstrung progress at Microsoft by mandating that all undocumented behavior should be supported in future OSes. He insisted on a patch to ensure SimCity for DOS could still work in XP.
I see a lot of business whiners here complaining that backwards compatibility is a dealbreaker. Interestingly, none of these people seem to believe a software vendor should be held responsible for their code NOT relying on undocumented behaviors, or a vendor being responsible for patching their apps to remain compatible. When I see PHBs and IT folks holding their vendors as accountable as they do one OS vendor, I'll buy this bullshit.
OS changes don't happen in the dark. MS and Apple repeatedly inform developers what's happening with their OSes, what's being deprecated and what isn't.
You and your customers do not have a God-given right to have seven year old code run flawlessly in perpetuity through OS upgrades. If you don't get this, don't fucking upgrade your computers. No one's holding a gun to your head, metaphorically or literally.
Change happens. Work like it happens or quit bitching.
Sooner or later Republicans will try to categorize this as a breach of campaign finance reform and intimidate YouTube into making it impossible to do.
Does the en-NZ version render all the text upside-down?
I sense you're going somewhere with this, but the details are fuzzy.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Adobe is discontinuing SVG plugin support in 2008 on the grounds that SVG support, like PNG, should be innate to the browser. Of course, the fact that SVG is a competitor to SWF has absolutely nothing to do with this and should be construed as strictly coincidental.
I'd buy your argument if the screen didn't involve displaying a realtime feed from the non-prop webcam.
This isn't like seeing Wayne Knight in a supposedly streaming QuickTime video window in JP -- when you can see the playback scrubber moving at the bottom of the window (the one that doesn't appear on actual streaming videos).
This is why I don't hide comments from ACs. Thanks.