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Alliare did not make flash for macromedia/adobe
these folks did –

I have flash animations with functionality that were up on the web 2 years before this guy came into the picture. Stop the tit for tat crap.

With the first self hosted DCR docs on the web and much flash development, I luv flash as a API over the clunky director API. But I also use many other tools to create content for clients and myself.

From a Apple point of view – Jobs is right most Flash apps suck – they suck in poor loading screens and can suck memory when poorly constructed. With an plugin or player it is or it is not. There is NO middle ground of some flash and new users hate crashed PCs or locked screens.

I have used Shockwave and now flash to create cross-platform applets because i know the limitation s of each platform (Mac-Windows-Web) not because of the high end  options these platforms provide.

From the Aukaurant CDRom(90s) to my Piece on TaintedMedia(2008) the main rule of thumb has been dont use OS specific API calls – (.net anyone) and it just works.

For Alliare to write a several hundred word screed about how he made Flash what it is and bla bla bla. iS just a waste of text space.

The MSM is all over the hype from Chaney and now Balmer, 2 people that love to talk out of there asses.
During theIPad week – I  found Cnet and PC  World to be about 20 good stuff about Ipad and 80 the Ipad is evil.

Now its all about how MS is in the game and only need to rip off IphoneOS and Andriod a little to jump back.

Thank goodness for even handed reporting.

So the financial world is buying into the hate speak of geekland.

Not one of the points in the article hit on what this device is or who the target market is.
How can you give advice without this information.???

I dont think any of that market has seen or used the ipad , the gripes are all from techies who would not need to have a simplified input device to access media and data.

The people i had to write -are you sure this is your choice- prompts for on ASCII input screens in the 80s ARE FAR FROM the small circle of command line zealots crowing about not open , nonmulti process flashlessness.

How many of the millions of Iphone owners are computer programmers and artists – i think a very small percent so Apples money is not going to come from them anyway.

Maybe they are mad Apple did not come out with the haptic magic laptop they hoped the Ipad would be. But the Ipad is not for them and their advice is not of any use.

OMG – you would think Apple pocked the eyes out of some of these folks, with there crowing about the not open Glass screen input device apple just unveiled.

These Media Artists ALSO seem to think Processing is an easy to use program. Well they may be right if you are part of the 2 to 5 percent of the population that has great math skills and art abilities.

Are these the only people that would want to browse Internet media?

Do these artists have an idea of customer service to the general public?

Even with THE NEW Windows 7 GUI the story is its at least as good as Mac OSX not that any ones grandma can use it.

This Ipad thingy, save for a cam is exactly what i thought Apple would give us and it as an Input device will give me more of my PC or Macs desktop for VNC use.

EDIT – update 2-23-2010

Just a note about the camera missing – ever wonder why the touch has no  -Built in cam- either  well its not because apple did not not want to put one in – its because ATT did not want to chance a user change to free video chat software. SMS makes to much money for them.

Beta tester Beware!!!

As i was about to convert NCP algorithms from an old game idea to the metaplace coding format i received a email stating that the site would be out of beta soon and as a early adapter tester they would offer me a good price to keep my worlds up. Ouch

Thank goodness i had only done general break downs and had not writtren any meta-code yet!!!!!!!. That is when i stopped using metaplace altogether. The idea of not grandfathering in the main creators of the site is poor business but its even worse when you choose the wrong business model.

The base for free with ads is a proven way to keep your base numbers up and generate revenues. If the users dont want ads or branding then make them pay. But meta place decided it was better to go full subscription for a game world that is 2 generations old.

When nearly every good platformer on PC or console already allows free end user design tools, how could Metaplace think people would play extra for this ability.

Well guess what? Metaplace is closing down and if you worked your ass off to create community objects you are up the creek.

Read the tea leaves as early as you can

So again , internetjoe is a taken name for the photoshop.com web site – makes me a bit more angry then Twitter , at least the jerk on twitter was not a artist or photographer.

At this point there is not even  a way for users to have recourse with this issue.

I was looking forward to using the iphone app but way waste my time now.

My comment to PBS about title of Afganastan coverage.

So how about
Obamas Response to One of Bushs Wars
As an accurate Frontline Title.

When did PBS become the Christian Rights point of view only.

Obamas Only War so far was to kill a bug.

j dauz

Calling it Obamas War is A GOP meme worthy of Rupie News

i read – i listen – i watch and compare… Its not hard.

Why are the sports associations so dumb?

I dont even agree with letting the substance abusers back as they are gambling with there bodies and the physical outcomes of games. But more lame then that is that they ignoring the Mike Vick return as though it was not gambling.

On Mike and Mike this morning someone even brouight up lenny dykstra AS a never hall of famer. He bet on something other then his sport…..just like Vick but Vick was worse as he raised the fighting dogs also. Why is he playing?

Has ANYONE said Vick is out of hall of fame forever weather he plays or not?

So The latest images of the Zune HD show the most important link on the main screen – MARKETPLACE – what i would think is the Zune store does not fit the screen width of the device.

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Zune_HD_Coming_On_Sept_15/551-105449-615.html

This is in store marketing material not a prototype or photoshop preview.
WTF!!!!!!!! Lets not even go into what the font might be – Vista Ariel Sans ????????