There's a lot of kerfuffle about Steve Jobs recent screed on why Flash is bad and must be blocked from our iApples
I actually sorta kinda agree with Steve here.
Crap flash is definitely the thing most likely to hang the computer or crash a browser on Apple lines, and it is being superseded by better, hopefully more robust, standards.
The antipope hisself thinks this goes deeper...
seriously, check out Charlie Stross's take, after you read Steve Jobs.
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One of my Christmas gifts this year was an external flash unit for my DSLR, replacing one that broke a while back. Given that the camera has a built-in flash, you might wonder why I need this extra bulky gadget, so to answer that question, here's a composite of five pictures I took today:
In keeping with the theme of illusions that result from
There's nothing cooler for a perception researcher (or writer) than a new visual illusion.
This is a guest post by Martina Mustroph, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007.
I now have this mental image of Steve Jobs yelling "open fire! allll weapons!"
Flash can be terrible, but overly restricted proprietary standards aren't that much better:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/pot-meet-kettle-a-response-to…
I read somewhere else, that very digital camera (including all the Professional Series) actually only give you a non-commercial personal license for the MPEGLA patent portfolio. After you make the big bucks, you get to pay their royalties.