heh, to be honest, a lot of those years were spent waiting for tapes to hurry up and load something...
and it was a luxury to have 8 colours (or by some occassional magic, 15 or 16 - I forget). I happily remember the first time I heard near-speech come out the little speaker - "Ghostbusters!" in a 4 bit crackle. "Intro's" were limited to a text message on the initial loading buzz that just mentioned the version of the interface used to make the ram dump. To save loading time, the title image that most games painfully loaded was removed, although I guess (now) that it wasn't in memory when the interface dumped the ram.
C64's and Amiga's were where the real fun started:)
Actually, I'm imagining a world that can do away with buggy, hard to configure inline Flash replacements for realtime custom font display. It's a good world:)
argh, forgot the cluster! Also, I never mentioned if linux would boot on it or not.
bonus marks for working in some flaming of slashdot 2.0 javascript, anything about the death of Flash, and any further comments about how things used to be when someone with a low userid was telling someone else with a low userid about telling some n00b to get off their lawn.
...followed by something about clods without feelings, you for one welcoming the AutoTune overlords, complaints that the article is merely advertising in disguise, and the obligatory assumption that no-one actually read the fk'in article.
good call - suggested and used this fix too many times to count. Usually arises when the user can't find the magic "paste from word" button and/or repeatedly forgets the solution suggested to them the previous time and the previous time before that...
ffs, there are plenty of irritating html sites as well...
I'm over this repetitive anti-flash argument. (Honesty disclaimer, yes, I develop quite a bit in flash. No, not banner ads, and no, not fully-flash online banking applications either.)
flash != junk people making junk with flash == junk
(and you can replace 'flash' with plenty of other technologies as well - regexp not supplied.)
If you don't install flash then that's fine and it's your choice, but you can't blame adobe or flash for webcrap. Blame the mofo's making the junk. Same applies for html+javascript badness - you don't blame the w3c and javascript interpreter writers... (or maybe you do, I don't know.)
If you don't want advertising, adblock/whatever the sites hosting it. If you don't like sites that are full of rubbish made in flash, simply don't visit them again etc. If they're pushing what you don't want then why are you there? If they're pushing what you want in a format you don't like then consider letting them know.
Sites that want to deliver rich media experiences, (increasingly) cross-platform interactive experiences, games, video, etc. will continue to use software like flash to deliver their products, messages and services until something better comes along. I don't know much about silverlight, but most articles I've read on slashdot don't exactly endorse it. Anyway, something better will come along and developers will be all over it, web standards or not unfortunately.
And yes, sure, you can jump up and down and complain that your favourite cross-browser javascript api+libraries can deliver what flash can, but currently that's not true in some or even a lot of situations, depending on what you're building. I accept that this statement is pretty broad, everything looks like a hammer or a nail or whatever analogy you prefer...
So, fitness for purpose. I'm sure most of us wish that more developers (ourselves included) used technologies appropriately, but not everyone has the same skills, audience, timeframes, etc. and certainly never the same morals.
Webcrap will continue to be made, no doubt - but I guess my point is that crap is technology agnostic.
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Nope... he would've had waaay more buckets in the alien lottery, though :)
heh, to be honest, a lot of those years were spent waiting for tapes to hurry up and load something...
and it was a luxury to have 8 colours (or by some occassional magic, 15 or 16 - I forget). I happily remember the first time I heard near-speech come out the little speaker - "Ghostbusters!" in a 4 bit crackle. "Intro's" were limited to a text message on the initial loading buzz that just mentioned the version of the interface used to make the ram dump. To save loading time, the title image that most games painfully loaded was removed, although I guess (now) that it wasn't in memory when the interface dumped the ram.
C64's and Amiga's were where the real fun started :)
Actually, I'm imagining a world that can do away with buggy, hard to configure inline Flash replacements for realtime custom font display. It's a good world :)
> it was a CLASS release (remember those folks!?)
Sure do. Multiface backups on the Spectrum, anyone? :)
argh, forgot the cluster! Also, I never mentioned if linux would boot on it or not.
bonus marks for working in some flaming of slashdot 2.0 javascript, anything about the death of Flash, and any further comments about how things used to be when someone with a low userid was telling someone else with a low userid about telling some n00b to get off their lawn.
I think that about covers it.
...followed by something about clods without feelings, you for one welcoming the AutoTune overlords, complaints that the article is merely advertising in disguise, and the obligatory assumption that no-one actually read the fk'in article.
Oh, and you are not a lawyer.
Oh, comon, there's not even a comment list with Profit! at the end yet...
only if you haven't loaded your mouse driver and slashdot.com into himem...
the extended edition, I trust... :)
yeah, why don't we put her in charge...?
...because the benchmark is still running :)
good call - suggested and used this fix too many times to count. Usually arises when the user can't find the magic "paste from word" button and/or repeatedly forgets the solution suggested to them the previous time and the previous time before that...
...or the beautiful death machine that is ShakeNBakeSQL.
That's handy, flash can deliver information as well.
Each to their own, though - I've got no problem with that. What's wrong is people blaming the platform, not how people (mis)use it.
ffs, there are plenty of irritating html sites as well...
I'm over this repetitive anti-flash argument. (Honesty disclaimer, yes, I develop quite a bit in flash. No, not banner ads, and no, not fully-flash online banking applications either.)
flash != junk
people making junk with flash == junk
(and you can replace 'flash' with plenty of other technologies as well - regexp not supplied.)
If you don't install flash then that's fine and it's your choice, but you can't blame adobe or flash for webcrap. Blame the mofo's making the junk. Same applies for html+javascript badness - you don't blame the w3c and javascript interpreter writers... (or maybe you do, I don't know.)
If you don't want advertising, adblock/whatever the sites hosting it. If you don't like sites that are full of rubbish made in flash, simply don't visit them again etc. If they're pushing what you don't want then why are you there? If they're pushing what you want in a format you don't like then consider letting them know.
Sites that want to deliver rich media experiences, (increasingly) cross-platform interactive experiences, games, video, etc. will continue to use software like flash to deliver their products, messages and services until something better comes along. I don't know much about silverlight, but most articles I've read on slashdot don't exactly endorse it. Anyway, something better will come along and developers will be all over it, web standards or not unfortunately.
And yes, sure, you can jump up and down and complain that your favourite cross-browser javascript api+libraries can deliver what flash can, but currently that's not true in some or even a lot of situations, depending on what you're building. I accept that this statement is pretty broad, everything looks like a hammer or a nail or whatever analogy you prefer...
So, fitness for purpose. I'm sure most of us wish that more developers (ourselves included) used technologies appropriately, but not everyone has the same skills, audience, timeframes, etc. and certainly never the same morals.
Webcrap will continue to be made, no doubt - but I guess my point is that crap is technology agnostic.
sure, that saves premium slashdot time for flaming, trolling, and not supporting non-issues...
woah, back up the truck... I have to de-lurk to comment.
:)
you're saying you *know* what causes BSOD's?