£5 per month (£10 to include mobile) is much less than I would pay if I had to download and pay for everything I listened to. + all the extras like searching, sharing, bios etc...
Why would anyone use that virus-ridden "piece of eight" when you can listen to almost any piece of music you like, legally, on Spotify? (Legal film equivalents are being worked on too).
Aren't the banks kind of daft on this one? Trust has always been the main issue with banks since the first bank was ever set up and asked to look after your valuables/money.
Most of the things you list are already implemented in flash. Code signing, runtime warning, performance measurement(in the dev. environment) etc...
Why should the barrier to entry be set high? It's good that app desiogn is becoming more accessible. Native browser support is not always superior from a usability perspective. In fact browser user interaction objects suck on the whole. For instance drag and drop is really difficult for a designer to implement in HTML but works really well in flash.
The flash development environment allows the coder and the designer to work together and develop apps that are use-able, nice to look at, efficiently written from a coding point of view and allow loads of functionality (video, 3D etc...).
I know of no other development tool that allows such close working between the developer and the designer. C# hardly takes the designer into account, Silverlight is in it's infancy and HTML 5 is, frankly, a joke.
As developers, we need to learn to work with the designers and not get into the closed way of thinking that because we know how to make a DB query run 0.1 seconds faster that we automatically know how the end user uses their computer.
"... WebGL is currently doing stuff Flash can't dream of... "
Like what? The example you gave is rubbish. Most browsers I use give the option to close down a flash object that's running slowly. Although, I don't get the chance to test that very often as it rarely happens.
I know you are on Slashdot, but I suspect you don't have any stats to back that claim up, do you? HTML5 ads would be doing exactly the same thing as Flash ads.
Some people forget that even images ran as plugins in the very beginning. Name me one other app that does everything that flash does in the browser (incl. 3D, complex web apps, video. vector graphics etc...) and does it as fast as flash! Incidentally, flash runs on my machine with almost no CPU cost. It's almost un-noticable in task manager
I know this is slashdot where most people think that if it can't be written in 7 lines of perl then it's not worth doing but Flash has evolved into a serious development tool. It had a few security bugs to start with (and still occasionally has a few) but so does every other app that connects to the web. The majority of people who use the internet (and we slashdot users are a very small minority of internet users) don't care or even know if a site is written in flash/html 5/xhtml or not. If it's easy to use, doesn't steal their bank details and looks good, they will come back and use it again.
"... An error on google maps has caused an international conflict in Central America... "
And
"... (Note: I'm using the Google Translation of this original article)... "
Now is that wise given the content of the article?
The behaviour you are describing is close to being that of a stalker. Courts can already make decisions about what constitutes stalking, so making decisions on this should be just as easy.
Although a lot of people on slashdot are not affected as "currently entering mother's basement" is not really of interest to anyone.
I agree, and considering that the HTML5 spec. won't be complete till 202? (I can't remember the exact year) and W3C have said not to use HTML5 for production systems, I suspect Flash will be around for years.
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RTFA. He says he doesn't do Maths papers.
Not impossible. Many cancerous tumours have teeth, hair and other "normal" tissue embedded in them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma
" ... deliberately injure muscle fibers ... "
That's what exercise does. I damages the cells which are then repaired by the body's normal systems. I suspect stem cell treatment just speed this up.
Because this is slashdot, I assume that statement is false on more than one count!
£5 per month (£10 to include mobile) is much less than I would pay if I had to download and pay for everything I listened to. + all the extras like searching, sharing, bios etc...
Erm, Spotify is Swedish
Maybe your countries laws make it difficult for companies like Spotify to set up license agreements. Campaign for better laws on copyright etc...
Well, I've got good news and bad news. The good news you are clear of STDs. The bad news is your phone is buggered!
I dunno, maybe flash is better? Flex can certainly do everything Gosu appears to do!
Why would anyone use that virus-ridden "piece of eight" when you can listen to almost any piece of music you like, legally, on Spotify? (Legal film equivalents are being worked on too).
Aren't the banks kind of daft on this one? Trust has always been the main issue with banks since the first bank was ever set up and asked to look after your valuables/money.
Spotify - Fast, easy to use, very little drain on resources.
Speak for yourself. By today's standards, the 1990's internet sucked big time, even though it was amazing for it's time.
Most of the things you list are already implemented in flash. Code signing, runtime warning, performance measurement(in the dev. environment) etc ...
Why should the barrier to entry be set high? It's good that app desiogn is becoming more accessible. Native browser support is not always superior from a usability perspective. In fact browser user interaction objects suck on the whole. For instance drag and drop is really difficult for a designer to implement in HTML but works really well in flash.
The flash development environment allows the coder and the designer to work together and develop apps that are use-able, nice to look at, efficiently written from a coding point of view and allow loads of functionality (video, 3D etc...).
I know of no other development tool that allows such close working between the developer and the designer. C# hardly takes the designer into account, Silverlight is in it's infancy and HTML 5 is, frankly, a joke.
As developers, we need to learn to work with the designers and not get into the closed way of thinking that because we know how to make a DB query run 0.1 seconds faster that we automatically know how the end user uses their computer.
" ... WebGL is currently doing stuff Flash can't dream of ... "
Like what? The example you gave is rubbish. Most browsers I use give the option to close down a flash object that's running slowly. Although, I don't get the chance to test that very often as it rarely happens.
Is that a separate magic chip that runs on no power then? Where can I get one?
Not TRUE. Flash 10.1 does.
" ... an order of magnitude less power hungry ... "
I know you are on Slashdot, but I suspect you don't have any stats to back that claim up, do you? HTML5 ads would be doing exactly the same thing as Flash ads.
Thank you mcrbids. Please mod up.
...) and does it as fast as flash! Incidentally, flash runs on my machine with almost no CPU cost. It's almost un-noticable in task manager
Some people forget that even images ran as plugins in the very beginning. Name me one other app that does everything that flash does in the browser (incl. 3D, complex web apps, video. vector graphics etc
I know this is slashdot where most people think that if it can't be written in 7 lines of perl then it's not worth doing but Flash has evolved into a serious development tool. It had a few security bugs to start with (and still occasionally has a few) but so does every other app that connects to the web. The majority of people who use the internet (and we slashdot users are a very small minority of internet users) don't care or even know if a site is written in flash/html 5/xhtml or not. If it's easy to use, doesn't steal their bank details and looks good, they will come back and use it again.
Thats all very well but I can get 10 times that if I switch my laptop off.
How will that work if, say, a European citizen complains that Facebook (based in the U.S.) has been mis-using their personal data?
From the article:
... An error on google maps has caused an international conflict in Central America ... " ... (Note: I'm using the Google Translation of this original article) ... "
"
And "
Now is that wise given the content of the article?
Hey this is slashdot. I bet most sexual encounters are with their family.
The behaviour you are describing is close to being that of a stalker. Courts can already make decisions about what constitutes stalking, so making decisions on this should be just as easy.
Although a lot of people on slashdot are not affected as "currently entering mother's basement" is not really of interest to anyone.
Wow, nice link. My mistake.
It must be very rare though. I thought DC was really inefficient to provide.
I agree, and considering that the HTML5 spec. won't be complete till 202? (I can't remember the exact year) and W3C have said not to use HTML5 for production systems, I suspect Flash will be around for years.