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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 15 Mar 2010 12:23 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:24:33 +0000, Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: >In article <1jfeeo3.1vnana61geo7lsN%Howard.not(a)home.com>, Howard ><Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: >> Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> > >> > > >And by v.2 they may have ditched the ultimate lunacy, and found some way >> > > >to play Flash streams on it. >> > > >> > > With luck, Flash will be obsolete first. >> > >> > That'll be a long wait for v.2 then, and in the mean time you're >> > shafted. >> >> You mean thrilled. I have all flash blocked and my online experience is >> full and excellent. May it die a quick death. > >Right on H! > >Adobe has screwed the pooch. Once upon a time, in Macromedia's hands it >was one of the better games in town. Video snuck in via Sorenson and >Actionscript has smothered itself in feature bloat. Flash is now an >obese teenager and needs an ASBO. Although I'm very much of the same mind myself, I'm *dying* to see the number of people doing sudden U-turns if Apple use some of their $40bn spare cash to buy up Adobe! Cheers - Jaimie -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
From: Woody on 15 Mar 2010 12:30 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:24:33 +0000, Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> > wrote: > >In article <1jfeeo3.1vnana61geo7lsN%Howard.not(a)home.com>, Howard > ><Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > >> Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >And by v.2 they may have ditched the ultimate lunacy, and found > >> > > >some way to play Flash streams on it. > >> > > > >> > > With luck, Flash will be obsolete first. > >> > > >> > That'll be a long wait for v.2 then, and in the mean time you're > >> > shafted. > >> > >> You mean thrilled. I have all flash blocked and my online experience is > >> full and excellent. May it die a quick death. > > > >Right on H! > > > >Adobe has screwed the pooch. Once upon a time, in Macromedia's hands it > >was one of the better games in town. Video snuck in via Sorenson and > >Actionscript has smothered itself in feature bloat. Flash is now an > >obese teenager and needs an ASBO. > > Although I'm very much of the same mind myself, I'm *dying* to see the > number of people doing sudden U-turns if Apple use some of their $40bn > spare cash to buy up Adobe! I think that most peoples objection to flash is much more what it is used for than the technology, so they are going to have the same problem with html5 when that is doing the same. I used to really dislike flash until I saw some of the things you can do with it. Some of that stuff is hard to do by other methods without a lot more effort. Flash does have some serious security concerns, but I don't think many people really care about that, it is the animated adverts that people don't like, When advertisers realise that there is the iPad market who they will view as people with a fair amount of disposable income to buy non essencial items cannot see their flash adverts, they will find some other way of making irritating adverts. Unfortunately then there will be no way of blocking those on the iPad! -- Woody
From: Elliott Roper on 15 Mar 2010 13:53 In article <rlnsp551q7tcnn3efgt3c3n85i1eq6abph(a)4ax.com>, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:24:33 +0000, Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> > wrote: <snip> > >Adobe has screwed the pooch. Once upon a time, in Macromedia's hands it > >was one of the better games in town. Video snuck in via Sorenson and > >Actionscript has smothered itself in feature bloat. Flash is now an > >obese teenager and needs an ASBO. > > Although I'm very much of the same mind myself, I'm *dying* to see the > number of people doing sudden U-turns if Apple use some of their $40bn > spare cash to buy up Adobe! I hope they don't. Apple would only need to keep Photoshop and InDesign, and maybe Illy, although I'd prefer it if they started their re-write with Freehand. They have so much work to do to fix the horrible UI's and god knows what festering mess lies beneath, they'd be better off starting from scratch. I'd actually look forward to Flash done right, but it is too late for Flash now. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Bruce Horrocks on 15 Mar 2010 17:56 On 13/03/2010 23:04, Richard Tobin wrote: > When your iPad needs a new battery, you will send it to Apple and they > will send you a replacement (presumably second-hand) iPad, minus data. > Obviously they won't do this if your iPad is damaged, so it appears > that a scratched screen will mean throwing it out when the battery > expires (or more likely, getting an "unauthorised" replacement > battery). A poster on another site pointed out that the iPad appears to fall foul of the 'Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009' which require that devices with built in batteries and sold in the UK since Jan 09 be capable of being dismantled and the batteries removed. The manufacturer is obliged to provide instructions on how to do this. Providing a battery change service - at whatever price - does not meet the requirements of the legislation. -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: Richard Tobin on 15 Mar 2010 19:06
In article <807oofFjthU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: >A poster on another site pointed out that the iPad appears to fall foul >of the 'Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009' which require >that devices with built in batteries and sold in the UK since Jan 09 be >capable of being dismantled and the batteries removed. The manufacturer >is obliged to provide instructions on how to do this. > >Providing a battery change service - at whatever price - does not meet >the requirements of the legislation. I can't find such a requirement, but I haven't read the whole thing properly. But assuming the assertion is correct, it doesn't require batteries to be replacable. The instructions for my electric toothbrush specify how to remove the battery for recycling, but the procedure destroys the toothbrush - they actually provide a device to break it. -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind. |