and then Adobe will wonder why they ever hired Shantanu as ceo - a man so determined to wreck the company, they might as well have just thrown the towel in, there and then.
his latest brainwave is to move the firm away from creative stuff and onto tools that can analyze the data from digital marketing. wow, what a great idea!!!!! except hasn't he ever heard of google - they've been working on this for a while and are really quite good at it from what i hear.
what this piece of ordure will come up with next is anyone's guess - maybe he will move adobe onto stage shows - and how about a musical version of spiderman - oh dammit someones done that, well how about a musical planet of the apes!
Although the effects and the sets were fairly poor it wasn't at all bad in the story department.
I watched it again recently and was pleasantly surprised by how well it stands up.
I knew the actor that played Vila, and like the rest of the crew he was pretty good in his role, a great Shakespearean fool. Without his 'difficult' relationship with the computer expert Avon (and Orac) it wouldn't have been nearly as entertaining.
Not at all crappy sci fi, and imho, very good in the aspects of a programme that matter - script, acting & story.
Html5 ads are hard to block in a browser, it stops adblockers from working. And that's the main reason the browser vendors are pushing for it so hard. If ads move to HTML/CSS there will be no way of blocking them without hiding all images and/or css on screen.
Another reason that the browser vendors are trying so hard to get html5 off the ground is that Flash on mobile threatens the appstore model which apple and google love so very much.
Not only do apps allow them to charge people for their web pages, but how are you supposed to block an advert that appears in an app...?
If you like being advertised at constantly, then you're in for a real treat. html5 is just what you need. For the rest of us...
This story reminded about a couple of painted AD&D figures I pinched from their shop in hammersmith many years back. The best of them, was a thief/assassin that I still have somewhere.
Now the slight sense of guilt over how he came to join my little crew of dungeon explorers has been allayed by the workshops dastardly behavior, I shall find him and he'll have a proud spot on my mantelpiece. His backstabbing days can be relived, free of shame. Thanks slashdot!!!
As a fellow ipad user, I resent the suggestion that we wouldn't be able to hold one the right way around (screen towards.) I can only speak for myself, but it took less than half an hour to work that one out, you insensitive clod!
Agree; slashvertisments are showing up more and more on this site and its a real shame.
Looking at slideshare is not very encouraging- their site is covered with intrusive adverts and the comments indicate that the latest presentations don't seem to work on all browsers - with navigation buttons missing on the latest browsers.
I'm not sure that people will choose to use their service above http://prezi.com/ the clear leaders in this field.
There may be, but Flash gaming is still streets ahead in just about every respect.
And with the gpu powered 3d that the next version of the Flash plugin offers, and the swf export in the latest unity IDE (complete with physics, paths etc) it would be silly to bet against it.
There are reasons for the massive growth of flash games compared to other parts of the industry, which are mostly in decline, and these reasons are not going to go away.
perhaps you could point out where i suggested that cameron would instigate a cover-up...
why on earth would he need to?
e.g. in spite of the criminal and immoral activities that news international engages in, it seems that they are getting a very clear thumbs up from the government in their efforts to take over a british tv channel! after all, the ceo of news int in the uk is the exact person responsible for hacking into the phone of a murdered teenage girl, interfering with the criminal investigation, giving false hope to her family, and all in an attempt to increase the circulation figures for her vile and hateful publication.
no tinfoil hat, i was just taking the opportunity to point out that the corrupt and loathsome individuals that control our media are in bed with the individuals that are at the head of our government.
(just to be clear, when i say 'in bed' i don't literally mean that they are in bed or indeed sleeping with each other)
its worth pointing out that the police in Britain are tangled up in this mess - they were paid off handsomely by the 'journalists' involved and it is fairly clear they were very much embroiled in this business.
also, our prime minister is a personal friend of the newspaper editor that was responsible for a lot of the hacking, including the incidents where the murdered girl had messages deleted from her phone and false hope given to her family.
david cameron also hired Andy Coulson (under criminal investigation for his part in phone hacking) as communications director.
this scandal goes all the way to the top and anyone who thinks that the truth will fully emerge must be deluded - it's actually pretty hard to believe the depths to which Britain has sunk.
the british media have always been fairly unpleasant and disreputable but the facts of this case are quite incredible - you could hardly make them up.
Apple actually managed to do Flash a huge favor - the fact that a phone or tablet can run Flash is now a feature that customers value highly - if you doubt that then look at the advertising for these products.
It's a reality thing - most web devs i know are not at all interested in html5 or whatever it's called this week. After all, why would they want to spend precious time ironing out cross-browser issues, when the customers and businesses aren't interested?
It's lucky for Tolkien and his parasitical offspring that no one owns the 'intellectual property' for Merlin - Gandalf was so blatant a ripoff that it probably wouldn't last more than five minutes in court.
Nope, for me the question is why not. projects like this don't have to have a practical benefit but in this case there's a good chance you will expand your knowledge of electronics and low level coding quite a bit.
I mean, when i was young i used to put certain numbers into a calculator that spelled something rude upside down. e.g. 28008 918.
A bit crude in comparison to full 3d graphics maybe, but we were happy.
Add to that the fact that both sequels came across like very poor philosophy lectures, given by professors that couldn't really be bothered to learn the differences between causality, determinism and fatalism.
I avoided watching both movies for years but when i finally did the overall effect might be compared to drinking the Wachowski brothers' stale bong water. Grim viewing.
'Life is both river and mountain, forest and sea. To know life is to be part of life. Give me your bank account number immediately.' Thus far that seems to be their official response.
Yes, it seemed a bit strange to me as well when i found out too.
But what astounded me is that a similar thing applies to websites. One of the apps that people keep holding up as an example of how powerful the ipad is and apple even features in their ads, is an animated periodic table...
What really amazes me about this business is the behavior of the mainstream media in relation to the development of this 'story' in the first place.
Wakefields paper was just a collection of 12 anecdotes - meaningless in any clinical sense. He's clearly an idiot and should simply have been struck off and ignored.
You don't need to be an expert to work out that MMR and autism are both fairly common, and to find some cases of kids that have both is not that unusual - certainly not enough to start the newspaper and TV frenzy that occurred. That the media decided not to ignore him and tried instead to promote the scare, is to their great shame.
What is also incredible is the fact that that media deliberately ignored studies that proved no connection at all between MMR and autism.
It's appalling that this effort to boost ratings almost certainly cost the lives of infants and probably still does.
It looks like a lot of the studies that suffer from this effect are concerned with people and their behavior. Personally I don't think its a matter of whether the science is hard or soft but just that the domain has some issues that are not so important with other fields, e.g. the structure of a galaxy or the behavior of a gas with respect to pressure.
The main problem is that when you're looking at anything that has something to do with humans then the tool with which you carry out the investigation is in part the very thing you are investigating [the mind.] This increases the potential for bias no end, and in the opinion of some, renders the whole exercise a completely futile and confounded endeavor. But I would tend to believe that this problem is the exact reason why one should study the mind, exactly because it is the lens through which we view the universe.
In many respects it's a flawed tool for research. Not only filters but active perceptual mechanisms are at work, and function in such a way as to ensure that people seem to create a large part of the reality that they live in. This shouldn't stop scientists from investigating imho, but means that in looking at an area such as the mind, humility is indeed appropriate.
Soft science as you call it should not be conflated with astrology - like many other practices astrology is closer to a very ancient and wonderful art- that of separating people from their money, than it is to scientific investigation. But then perhaps i would say that, being a virgo.
I quite liked the computer graphics and the look they achieved on the first Tron movie really - apart from Sin City I don't really think that any of the modern cgi looks that good - but that's just me.
Ken Perlin (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/) did some fantastic work on the code behind Tron - very clever guy.
I didn't say anyone was dumb. When i referred to idiots i was talking about fanboys that might deliberately introduce bias into their test.
The point is that if I've seen evidence that something works (youtube vids) and i also have direct personal evidence that it works (my own experience) then when someone suggests that this something does not work then i will tend not to believe them, and will question whether they are testing in a fair way.
Let me know if this is clear or i can rustle up a car analogy for you:)
Unless their phones are faulty - the simplest explanation is that there are some idiots out there with an axe to grind on this issue - something it would be quite difficult to argue against.
This is something of an achievement really when you consider flash is not just about video but in every situation needs to hold the capacity to render vector and dynamic raster graphics at the same time as/overlay on the video.
I think the fact that android is picking up steam and the way that flash is along for the ride is great news, but maybe not for everyone...
Who would want to compete fairly with a product that already has almost complete ubiquity and is well on the way to becoming a write once and then deploy anywhere platform...?
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and then Adobe will wonder why they ever hired Shantanu as ceo - a man so determined to wreck the company, they might as well have just thrown the towel in, there and then.
his latest brainwave is to move the firm away from creative stuff and onto tools that can analyze the data from digital marketing. wow, what a great idea!!!!! except hasn't he ever heard of google - they've been working on this for a while and are really quite good at it from what i hear.
what this piece of ordure will come up with next is anyone's guess - maybe he will move adobe onto stage shows - and how about a musical version of spiderman - oh dammit someones done that, well how about a musical planet of the apes!
Although the effects and the sets were fairly poor it wasn't at all bad in the story department.
I watched it again recently and was pleasantly surprised by how well it stands up.
I knew the actor that played Vila, and like the rest of the crew he was pretty good in his role, a great Shakespearean fool. Without his 'difficult' relationship with the computer expert Avon (and Orac) it wouldn't have been nearly as entertaining.
Not at all crappy sci fi, and imho, very good in the aspects of a programme that matter - script, acting & story.
Follow the money indeed.
Html5 ads are hard to block in a browser, it stops adblockers from working. And that's the main reason the browser vendors are pushing for it so hard. If ads move to HTML/CSS there will be no way of blocking them without hiding all images and/or css on screen.
Another reason that the browser vendors are trying so hard to get html5 off the ground is that Flash on mobile threatens the appstore model which apple and google love so very much.
Not only do apps allow them to charge people for their web pages, but how are you supposed to block an advert that appears in an app...?
If you like being advertised at constantly, then you're in for a real treat. html5 is just what you need. For the rest of us...
This story reminded about a couple of painted AD&D figures I pinched from their shop in hammersmith many years back. The best of them, was a thief/assassin that I still have somewhere.
Now the slight sense of guilt over how he came to join my little crew of dungeon explorers has been allayed by the workshops dastardly behavior, I shall find him and he'll have a proud spot on my mantelpiece. His backstabbing days can be relived, free of shame. Thanks slashdot!!!
You've got it backwards.
As a fellow ipad user, I resent the suggestion that we wouldn't be able to hold one the right way around (screen towards.) I can only speak for myself, but it took less than half an hour to work that one out, you insensitive clod!
Agree; slashvertisments are showing up more and more on this site and its a real shame.
Looking at slideshare is not very encouraging- their site is covered with intrusive adverts and the comments indicate that the latest presentations don't seem to work on all browsers - with navigation buttons missing on the latest browsers.
I'm not sure that people will choose to use their service above http://prezi.com/ the clear leaders in this field.
There may be, but Flash gaming is still streets ahead in just about every respect.
And with the gpu powered 3d that the next version of the Flash plugin offers, and the swf export in the latest unity IDE (complete with physics, paths etc) it would be silly to bet against it.
There are reasons for the massive growth of flash games compared to other parts of the industry, which are mostly in decline, and these reasons are not going to go away.
perhaps you could point out where i suggested that cameron would instigate a cover-up...
why on earth would he need to?
e.g. in spite of the criminal and immoral activities that news international engages in, it seems that they are getting a very clear thumbs up from the government in their efforts to take over a british tv channel! after all, the ceo of news int in the uk is the exact person responsible for hacking into the phone of a murdered teenage girl, interfering with the criminal investigation, giving false hope to her family, and all in an attempt to increase the circulation figures for her vile and hateful publication.
no tinfoil hat, i was just taking the opportunity to point out that the corrupt and loathsome individuals that control our media are in bed with the individuals that are at the head of our government.
(just to be clear, when i say 'in bed' i don't literally mean that they are in bed or indeed sleeping with each other)
its worth pointing out that the police in Britain are tangled up in this mess - they were paid off handsomely by the 'journalists' involved and it is fairly clear they were very much embroiled in this business.
also, our prime minister is a personal friend of the newspaper editor that was responsible for a lot of the hacking, including the incidents where the murdered girl had messages deleted from her phone and false hope given to her family.
david cameron also hired Andy Coulson (under criminal investigation for his part in phone hacking) as communications director.
this scandal goes all the way to the top and anyone who thinks that the truth will fully emerge must be deluded - it's actually pretty hard to believe the depths to which Britain has sunk.
the british media have always been fairly unpleasant and disreputable but the facts of this case are quite incredible - you could hardly make them up.
Apple actually managed to do Flash a huge favor - the fact that a phone or tablet can run Flash is now a feature that customers value highly - if you doubt that then look at the advertising for these products.
It's a reality thing - most web devs i know are not at all interested in html5 or whatever it's called this week. After all, why would they want to spend precious time ironing out cross-browser issues, when the customers and businesses aren't interested?
html is great for static txt but that's about it.
Have a look at http://blog.tametick.com/2011/01/why-im-moving-from-html5-to-flash.html if you want to look at some of the real world issues.
Sorry to say but html5 is several years away, and always will be.
hey, this is an apple thread, we don't want to hear about geeky stuff in here!!!
adjust your field amplifier or leave now please!!!
Well if you don't find the actual and brutal reality of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9IKsH9BXg at least a little bit exciting then SETI is not for you.
Agreed.
It's lucky for Tolkien and his parasitical offspring that no one owns the 'intellectual property' for Merlin - Gandalf was so blatant a ripoff that it probably wouldn't last more than five minutes in court.
Nope, for me the question is why not. projects like this don't have to have a practical benefit but in this case there's a good chance you will expand your knowledge of electronics and low level coding quite a bit.
I mean, when i was young i used to put certain numbers into a calculator that spelled something rude upside down. e.g. 28008 918.
A bit crude in comparison to full 3d graphics maybe, but we were happy.
But he didn't say how he'd respond to someone trying to buy a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range...
Sorry, but if he can't be clear on that situation right upfront then it's doubtful he should be in that line of work.
Yes, that's right. Kongregate is a really dangerous source of malware and so is flash.
You clueless fucking prick - stay out of discussions when they're about things you don't understand, at all.
Add to that the fact that both sequels came across like very poor philosophy lectures, given by professors that couldn't really be bothered to learn the differences between causality, determinism and fatalism.
I avoided watching both movies for years but when i finally did the overall effect might be compared to drinking the Wachowski brothers' stale bong water. Grim viewing.
'Life is both river and mountain, forest and sea. To know life is to be part of life. Give me your bank account number immediately.'
Thus far that seems to be their official response.
Yes, it seemed a bit strange to me as well when i found out too.
But what astounded me is that a similar thing applies to websites. One of the apps that people keep holding up as an example of how powerful the ipad is and apple even features in their ads, is an animated periodic table...
but instead of paying quite a lot of cash for it http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-a-visual-exploration/id364147847?mt=8# you could just visit the website http://periodictable.com/; its almost exactly the same and completely free. When you consider that the app is 2 gigabytes and apparently crashes quite a bit (from the reviews) it seems even more strange...?
Easy enough to say that the product isn't aimed at me, but still, magical is not the word that springs to my mind.
What really amazes me about this business is the behavior of the mainstream media in relation to the development of this 'story' in the first place.
Wakefields paper was just a collection of 12 anecdotes - meaningless in any clinical sense. He's clearly an idiot and should simply have been struck off and ignored.
You don't need to be an expert to work out that MMR and autism are both fairly common, and to find some cases of kids that have both is not that unusual - certainly not enough to start the newspaper and TV frenzy that occurred. That the media decided not to ignore him and tried instead to promote the scare, is to their great shame.
What is also incredible is the fact that that media deliberately ignored studies that proved no connection at all between MMR and autism.
It's appalling that this effort to boost ratings almost certainly cost the lives of infants and probably still does.
It looks like a lot of the studies that suffer from this effect are concerned with people and their behavior. Personally I don't think its a matter of whether the science is hard or soft but just that the domain has some issues that are not so important with other fields, e.g. the structure of a galaxy or the behavior of a gas with respect to pressure.
The main problem is that when you're looking at anything that has something to do with humans then the tool with which you carry out the investigation is in part the very thing you are investigating [the mind.] This increases the potential for bias no end, and in the opinion of some, renders the whole exercise a completely futile and confounded endeavor. But I would tend to believe that this problem is the exact reason why one should study the mind, exactly because it is the lens through which we view the universe.
In many respects it's a flawed tool for research. Not only filters but active perceptual mechanisms are at work, and function in such a way as to ensure that people seem to create a large part of the reality that they live in. This shouldn't stop scientists from investigating imho, but means that in looking at an area such as the mind, humility is indeed appropriate.
Soft science as you call it should not be conflated with astrology - like many other practices astrology is closer to a very ancient and wonderful art- that of separating people from their money, than it is to scientific investigation. But then perhaps i would say that, being a virgo.
I quite liked the computer graphics and the look they achieved on the first Tron movie really - apart from Sin City I don't really think that any of the modern cgi looks that good - but that's just me.
Ken Perlin (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/) did some fantastic work on the code behind Tron - very clever guy.
I didn't say anyone was dumb. When i referred to idiots i was talking about fanboys that might deliberately introduce bias into their test.
The point is that if I've seen evidence that something works (youtube vids) and i also have direct personal evidence that it works (my own experience) then when someone suggests that this something does not work then i will tend not to believe them, and will question whether they are testing in a fair way.
Let me know if this is clear or i can rustle up a car analogy for you :)
I've seen quite a bit of evidence to suggest that Flash video runs fine on Android ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stW8gS6rBvg & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9jfdltkUU ) and I don't have any problems myself - so the youtube tests showing awful Flash performance would have to be entirely disregarded.
Unless their phones are faulty - the simplest explanation is that there are some idiots out there with an axe to grind on this issue - something it would be quite difficult to argue against.
Well it's a surprise because its not true - people have had video working fine with version 10.1 of flash on their mobiles - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stW8gS6rBvg & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9jfdltkUU
This is something of an achievement really when you consider flash is not just about video but in every situation needs to hold the capacity to render vector and dynamic raster graphics at the same time as/overlay on the video.
I think the fact that android is picking up steam and the way that flash is along for the ride is great news, but maybe not for everyone...
Who would want to compete fairly with a product that already has almost complete ubiquity and is well on the way to becoming a write once and then deploy anywhere platform...?