I agree, this will be difficult for anything other than flat files with the text hardcoded in. Most modern Flash apps (hell, even a lot of punch-the-monkey-to-lower-your-mortgage banners) import XML files that contain all the text and paths to the other assets. The paths to these XML files are often created by PHP or JavaScript concatenation.
Even if you did index that, it would most likely be useless out of context.
From TFA: We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
So, basically, they'll index the labels of your buttons on non-localized apps, along with a slew of third-rate hardcoded flat-file hack sites.
While I do commend you for pouncing on my typo (it's a typo, honest, I know how to spell - my finger just slipped), I really think that that a kid who's been playing outside would be more likely to be called sweaty than one who's vegging out in front of the TV.
Looks like I won't be opening many work emails from now on. Those emails from my bank might go unread, too. It's about time they showed some leadership!
They're on the metric system, so clearly they're not going to be able to interface with the rest of country, as we all use foot-volts and hertz per yard.
So, you're saying that when a, let's say a country club, excludes, let's say blacks, they're not being racist, they just 'disagree' with other peoples' skin color.
Bigots are bigots, frigtard.
Flash is made to deliver rich multimedia - like highly compressed video and audio and, in the next release, 3d graphics and real-time video filters. If your computer can handle this, it should be able to handle a few compiler inefficiencies.
Also, some of the blame for the CPU abuse can be placed on the Flash developers who write sloppy code that no compiler can stand up to.
That's really neat and all, but please let me know when they find something that's immune to gravity, as it's essential to a project I'm working on. (I have a deadline.)
40% of companies surveyed investigated an e-mail-based violation of privacy or data protection regulations in the past 12 months. Shouldn't telling a third-party company about your own company's internal problems be considered a violation?
The problem isn't with the procedure in this study, but with the assumption that the stripes are there to hide the animal. Clearly, a zebra's vertical stripes are there for the slimming affect, so that predators will more likely eat the fat horse standing next to the zebra.
I love the fact that I can write an app in Flash (an app, not a banner ad or some BS website navigation menu that doesn't let you right click and select 'open in new' tab, but a fully self-contained app) and have it run on Windows, Mac, Solaris, or Linux without having to deal with all the special case crap that one has to deal with when using JavaScript and trying to get it to run in Safari, Firefox, and that awful piece of garbage that MS spews out.
When I hear people complain that something isn't working properly in Gnash, it always makes me laugh. I write for Flash. I don't write for Gnash. And I'm happy that I don't write for some spec that can be interpreted in 50 different ways. (Well, I have to use SCORM and AICC, but that's another story.) What works in Flash for Safari on Leopard will work on Flash for IE on Windows 2000. It's very nice.
My point is that sometimes the best way to deliver a consistent platform is to make it proprietary, or, at the very least, have a tyrant in charge of the project. Don't get me wrong, OSS is massively important, and I'm not disparaging the quality of OSS, but can't we embrace both models, as well as all the shades in between?
In the last quarter, Macs have made very impressive gains in market share. One of Apple's selling points (or talking points, anyway) is that Apple makes its own software to run on its own hardware.
Could this push for driver source be an attempt by PC makers to do the same?
Personally, I would try to provide a product that competes with what is available for free. Many of the things that you can download from pirate sites are actually better than what you can get from legitimate distributors.
For example, I can download a TV show in HD with no commercials and watch it on my TV. If I were to get the same show from the network, I'd need to first purchase DVR hardware so I can watch it on my own schedule, as I can with the download. Then I'd have to skip the commercials, which is something I don't have to do with the illegal download (but something that a U.S. judge has decided is perfectly legal to do). If I go to the network's website and try to watch a streamed copy there, not only do I end up having to sit through commercials, which are not present in the superior illegal version, but watching a streamed video from a network's website on my TV is not as straightforward as watching a divx/mp4/mpeg what have you, which can be played on whatever windows/linux/mac thing you decide to permanently attach to your TV.
All that being said, it would be much easier for me to subscribe to a download feed from the networks, if they were to offer their shows in a standard, non-protected format, so that I am not limited in what I can watch them on. I might even pay for such a service. I recently purchased an iTunes plus album, so I'm not just bluffing.
In short, competing with file sharing requires that you compete with all of the other benefits that it offers in addition to being free first - such as offering individual tracks from an album, and then you can charge for the convenience of buying directly from the source without digging through torrent sites.
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I agree, this will be difficult for anything other than flat files with the text hardcoded in. Most modern Flash apps (hell, even a lot of punch-the-monkey-to-lower-your-mortgage banners) import XML files that contain all the text and paths to the other assets. The paths to these XML files are often created by PHP or JavaScript concatenation.
Even if you did index that, it would most likely be useless out of context.
From TFA:
We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
So, basically, they'll index the labels of your buttons on non-localized apps, along with a slew of third-rate hardcoded flat-file hack sites.
Woo Hoo.
So, maybe the Warez scene should sue, too, if they're so upset about people stealing their stolen goods.
While I do commend you for pouncing on my typo (it's a typo, honest, I know how to spell - my finger just slipped), I really think that that a kid who's been playing outside would be more likely to be called sweaty than one who's vegging out in front of the TV.
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...that I, for one, welcome our concerned children over... I'll be off the computer in a minute sweaty, go watch TV.
Most problems with opening Word documents are that they were created with Word.
Have the critics finally become fed up with the words "for Dummies" being appended to everything?
Looks like I won't be opening many work emails from now on. Those emails from my bank might go unread, too. It's about time they showed some leadership!
They're on the metric system, so clearly they're not going to be able to interface with the rest of country, as we all use foot-volts and hertz per yard.
Perhaps IT would be less boring if every office had a Beowolf cluster or two.
Unless it was a Beowolf cluster of boring machines...
It's because lots of Vodka was consumed during development. 'Screaming' is bartender 'code' for 'vodka'.
Without the smitten, it would be hard for a species to evolve.
So, you're saying that when a, let's say a country club, excludes, let's say blacks, they're not being racist, they just 'disagree' with other peoples' skin color. Bigots are bigots, frigtard.
Shutting down P2P may be extreme, but somebody needs to stop to those annoying Domplayer torrents.
Flash is made to deliver rich multimedia - like highly compressed video and audio and, in the next release, 3d graphics and real-time video filters. If your computer can handle this, it should be able to handle a few compiler inefficiencies. Also, some of the blame for the CPU abuse can be placed on the Flash developers who write sloppy code that no compiler can stand up to.
That's really neat and all, but please let me know when they find something that's immune to gravity, as it's essential to a project I'm working on. (I have a deadline.)
So that I, for one, can welcome our African Einsteinien overlords.
The rest of you are not real.
The problem isn't with the procedure in this study, but with the assumption that the stripes are there to hide the animal. Clearly, a zebra's vertical stripes are there for the slimming affect, so that predators will more likely eat the fat horse standing next to the zebra.
Huh, didn't know that. This site is very informative.
How is that not obvious?
I love the fact that I can write an app in Flash (an app, not a banner ad or some BS website navigation menu that doesn't let you right click and select 'open in new' tab, but a fully self-contained app) and have it run on Windows, Mac, Solaris, or Linux without having to deal with all the special case crap that one has to deal with when using JavaScript and trying to get it to run in Safari, Firefox, and that awful piece of garbage that MS spews out.
When I hear people complain that something isn't working properly in Gnash, it always makes me laugh. I write for Flash. I don't write for Gnash. And I'm happy that I don't write for some spec that can be interpreted in 50 different ways. (Well, I have to use SCORM and AICC, but that's another story.) What works in Flash for Safari on Leopard will work on Flash for IE on Windows 2000. It's very nice.
My point is that sometimes the best way to deliver a consistent platform is to make it proprietary, or, at the very least, have a tyrant in charge of the project. Don't get me wrong, OSS is massively important, and I'm not disparaging the quality of OSS, but can't we embrace both models, as well as all the shades in between?
In the last quarter, Macs have made very impressive gains in market share. One of Apple's selling points (or talking points, anyway) is that Apple makes its own software to run on its own hardware.
Could this push for driver source be an attempt by PC makers to do the same?
Personally, I would try to provide a product that competes with what is available for free. Many of the things that you can download from pirate sites are actually better than what you can get from legitimate distributors.
For example, I can download a TV show in HD with no commercials and watch it on my TV. If I were to get the same show from the network, I'd need to first purchase DVR hardware so I can watch it on my own schedule, as I can with the download. Then I'd have to skip the commercials, which is something I don't have to do with the illegal download (but something that a U.S. judge has decided is perfectly legal to do). If I go to the network's website and try to watch a streamed copy there, not only do I end up having to sit through commercials, which are not present in the superior illegal version, but watching a streamed video from a network's website on my TV is not as straightforward as watching a divx/mp4/mpeg what have you, which can be played on whatever windows/linux/mac thing you decide to permanently attach to your TV.
All that being said, it would be much easier for me to subscribe to a download feed from the networks, if they were to offer their shows in a standard, non-protected format, so that I am not limited in what I can watch them on. I might even pay for such a service. I recently purchased an iTunes plus album, so I'm not just bluffing.
In short, competing with file sharing requires that you compete with all of the other benefits that it offers in addition to being free first - such as offering individual tracks from an album, and then you can charge for the convenience of buying directly from the source without digging through torrent sites.
Let's hope this chip manufacturer fares better than MOS.