with the exception that Gibson didn't indulge himself in the insipid stoned-high-school-student philosphizing that the Matrix series was so slathered in. "Omg, what if we're just simulations inside a totally big computer!!" "whooooaaaa, duuuuude..."
Gleh.
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First, just how many installs of the ASV do you think there are?
Second, the ASV is pretty buggy and hasn't seen a non-security update in something like 5 years. It was languishing before Adobe bought Macromedia, and it's gonna be even languishinger now.
ps: languishinger is my favorite made-up word this week.
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No there aren't. There are reasons, yes, but none of them are good!
I'm not going to argue this on slashdot.
This doesn't count even as a small advantage of Flash, let alone the "crème-de-la-crème" of features!
also Ico and Deus Ex, as noted a jillion times. And FF7 and later, depending on just what "Highbrow" means to you.
I haven't seen any in a while, but since the kid, I haven't really had a chance to stay current.
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Well, this is sort of awkward. I have vivid memories of reading through that some time ago and talking with a friend about making our own customized, halfassed flash player. I wonder if it's been changed by Adobe recently?
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Oh please, don't be willfully dense. There are good reasons people distribute 'obfuscated' videos on the internet, and they all center around making it difficult for people to copy them.
But now you appear to be talking about implementing a modified version of Flash Player itself such that it would be a stand-alone application capable of running on platforms that Flash (as distributed by Macrom^WAdobe) doesn't support (which doesn't make any sense to me). Which is it?
That one. No Flash 8 player for linux? Write one, no one's stopping you.
In fact, here's a newsblurb about someone making an open-source flash 7 implementation:
Not sure why they're not going with 8, but whatever.
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That's true. But as you point out, even the mechanism for this interop is vapor, to say nothing of the other stuff it's supposed to be interoperable with. There's many years of work between here and there.
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I'd agree, but put yourself in the position of someone who wants to, for instance, not simply give away their movie over the internet. Simply linking an.mpeg may not really be the solution to all your problems.
And it's good that you can build your own player because if Macromedia won't make a player for your OS, you're free to. I believe the conditions under which you are allowed to make your own player have some conditions in it that specify that it must act in large part like the Macromedia versions.
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SVG has several disadvantages as well that no one ever seems to mention:
No support for video or audio. I know SVG is a vector -graphics- format, but when you compare it to flash you have to compare it with all of flash.
No support for -any- kind of gui widgets. Want to make a radio button? You have to draw it from graphics primitives and provide all the logic (rollover effects, press effects, callbacks, etc). Hell, there's not even built-in text wrapping (it's in the 1.2 spec, I believe, but no one is even talking about the possibility of making a 1.2 viewer)
And when you DO make those widgets, oh god, they are slow as a butt.
No animation timeline support. This is kind of a pain in the butt in a lot of applications. You can roll your own, but that's just more work on top of the previous item.
Incomplete implementations. The Adobe SVG plugin is pretty buggy (and I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to fix it), and the Firefox implementation is still incomplete: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html
And that's just what's on the top of my head now.
I was a big fan of SVG when it came out. But I'm just not seeing it as a popular success in the long run, not without a ubiquitous viewer shipped with IE. My view is that SVG will follow in the path of VRML - still a success in some niche markets, but forgotten by most.
The ESRP exists to give an opinion of what the game should be rated. This rating carries with it the force of law. Yes, they should have to play through the entire fucking thing. I fail to see how this is anything but immediately obvious.
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I just love the random poopsearch that pops up out of nowhere.
No one (no one who matters) is criticising good features. They're criticising the "photocopier" joke followed in rapid succession with features that are obviously lifted directly, or 'photocopied' if you will, from elsewhere.
If folksonomies aren't tagged by the technorati, who or what will linkroll the mashups? The impact on the remixability of emergent systems will likely be severe.
"But you see, they hang up if I try to get put on their "don't call list", ask for a supervisor, or try to find out what company is calling me."
As you noted, there is no do-not-call list for political stuff. Until such a thing exists - which I think we can all agree would be a Good Thing - just hang up. Don't kid yourself that anyone cares if you say you'll just vote for the other guy or whatever, they just move on to the next card in the stack. Simply waste as little of your time as you can.
As soon as I realize it's a telemarketer, instead of getting all riled up about this microscopic inconvenience, I just hang up.
"Political surveys are done by real people, but they hang up on me if I stray from answering their questions. "
As well they should. Polls are not about your feelings, their accuracy is almost completely dependant on people answering very carefully worded questions in very precise ways. If you don't want to take the poll, hang up.
As humans change stuff more quickly, only creatures with shorter lifespans are going to be able to genetically adapt. Of course, perhaps there's some species in the ocean like the raccoon, which seem to be adept at adapting rapidly to new conditions, I dunno. Aquacoons or something, I guess.
"Or you can hire people who are good and who you trust. "
Or you could do both!
Automated QA tools are cheap insurance against mistakes, and I'm surprised by the resistance to them I see in these comments. No, of course no one likes out-of-control bureaucracy, but that's not an argument against using automated tools to check your code.
also, people should have to start with assembly before they're allowed to use higher-level languages, because if you just start with Perl, all you're doing is using tools and you don't really understand why things work.
So which are you - the guy who didn't know he was supposed to put an apostrophe in "don't" or the guy who did? Seems like either way, a grammar checker might have helped.
My point isn't that you made a typo and that you should feel bad, it's that everyone makes mistakes, including people who know what they're doing. That is why tools like this are useful.
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with the exception that Gibson didn't indulge himself in the insipid stoned-high-school-student philosphizing that the Matrix series was so slathered in. "Omg, what if we're just simulations inside a totally big computer!!" "whooooaaaa, duuuuude ..."
Gleh.
First, just how many installs of the ASV do you think there are?
Second, the ASV is pretty buggy and hasn't seen a non-security update in something like 5 years. It was languishing before Adobe bought Macromedia, and it's gonna be even languishinger now.
ps: languishinger is my favorite made-up word this week.
I'm not going to argue this on slashdot.
I agree.
also Ico and Deus Ex, as noted a jillion times. And FF7 and later, depending on just what "Highbrow" means to you.
I haven't seen any in a while, but since the kid, I haven't really had a chance to stay current.
Well, this is sort of awkward. I have vivid memories of reading through that some time ago and talking with a friend about making our own customized, halfassed flash player. I wonder if it's been changed by Adobe recently?
That one. No Flash 8 player for linux? Write one, no one's stopping you.
In fact, here's a newsblurb about someone making an open-source flash 7 implementation:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13436
Not sure why they're not going with 8, but whatever.
That's true. But as you point out, even the mechanism for this interop is vapor, to say nothing of the other stuff it's supposed to be interoperable with. There's many years of work between here and there.
An uneducated opinion about Flash? On Slashdot?? I am shocked and appalled. If I was wearing a monocle, it would be popping off as I write this.
The swf format is well-documented and no one is constrained from making their own flash player.
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/
I'd agree, but put yourself in the position of someone who wants to, for instance, not simply give away their movie over the internet. Simply linking an .mpeg may not really be the solution to all your problems.
And it's good that you can build your own player because if Macromedia won't make a player for your OS, you're free to. I believe the conditions under which you are allowed to make your own player have some conditions in it that specify that it must act in large part like the Macromedia versions.
And that's just what's on the top of my head now.
I was a big fan of SVG when it came out. But I'm just not seeing it as a popular success in the long run, not without a ubiquitous viewer shipped with IE. My view is that SVG will follow in the path of VRML - still a success in some niche markets, but forgotten by most.
Insightful? Are you kidding?
The ESRP exists to give an opinion of what the game should be rated. This rating carries with it the force of law. Yes, they should have to play through the entire fucking thing. I fail to see how this is anything but immediately obvious.
I don't know why, but this just makes me giggle:
...
17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 wife killer
17556639 how to kill a wife
17556639 poop
17556639 dead people
17556639 pictures of dead people
17556639 killed people
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
I just love the random poopsearch that pops up out of nowhere.
Wow, what are the odds of the Apple store being down during the keynote at a major Apple event?
Someone's gonna lose their jobs over this one, lol!!
No one (no one who matters) is criticising good features. They're criticising the "photocopier" joke followed in rapid succession with features that are obviously lifted directly, or 'photocopied' if you will, from elsewhere.
what does the 'u' in BuG FoG stand for?
If folksonomies aren't tagged by the technorati, who or what will linkroll the mashups? The impact on the remixability of emergent systems will likely be severe.
Hilarious and true.
"But you see, they hang up if I try to get put on their "don't call list", ask for a supervisor, or try to find out what company is calling me."
As you noted, there is no do-not-call list for political stuff. Until such a thing exists - which I think we can all agree would be a Good Thing - just hang up. Don't kid yourself that anyone cares if you say you'll just vote for the other guy or whatever, they just move on to the next card in the stack. Simply waste as little of your time as you can.
As soon as I realize it's a telemarketer, instead of getting all riled up about this microscopic inconvenience, I just hang up.
"Political surveys are done by real people, but they hang up on me if I stray from answering their questions. "
As well they should. Polls are not about your feelings, their accuracy is almost completely dependant on people answering very carefully worded questions in very precise ways. If you don't want to take the poll, hang up.
Mod parent up, as it is obviously correct.
As humans change stuff more quickly, only creatures with shorter lifespans are going to be able to genetically adapt. Of course, perhaps there's some species in the ocean like the raccoon, which seem to be adept at adapting rapidly to new conditions, I dunno. Aquacoons or something, I guess.
"Or you can hire people who are good and who you trust. "
Or you could do both!
Automated QA tools are cheap insurance against mistakes, and I'm surprised by the resistance to them I see in these comments. No, of course no one likes out-of-control bureaucracy, but that's not an argument against using automated tools to check your code.
also, people should have to start with assembly before they're allowed to use higher-level languages, because if you just start with Perl, all you're doing is using tools and you don't really understand why things work.
So which are you - the guy who didn't know he was supposed to put an apostrophe in "don't" or the guy who did? Seems like either way, a grammar checker might have helped.
My point isn't that you made a typo and that you should feel bad, it's that everyone makes mistakes, including people who know what they're doing. That is why tools like this are useful.