Do you know how I know you didn't read the whole thread? The discussion between Tepples and myself went on after the post you replied to.

It's been done. Link goes to a Javascript-based bitcoin miner that you can embed in a webpage.

Apparently, Google removed some deprecated APIs; I'm not sure of the details. There is someone who released a modified version of Flash yesterday that will work in the Dolphin Jetpack browser (link), so saying that you "can't" use flash on a newer device is no longer strictly true. Saying that it's completely "unsupported" (both by Google and Adobe) seems to be accurate, though.

"Hobbyist" development never meant "free" development. You've always had to buy the computer, keep it fairly up-to-date, buy your development environment (unless you worked in something with a free compiler/interpreter), etc. A hobbyist is more likely to work with what they have (since, yes, they're more likely to want to minimize costs). For instance, someone without a cellphone (or uninterested in mobile development) might start playing with WebGL and HTML5 for a desktop's browser (or work in a compiled language, like I do).
Android has the lowest barrier to entry to develop at the hobby level, with free, multi-platform tools, including a system emulator and non-cell devices of various descriptions and price points.
Apple provides free development tools, as long as you're not planning on releasing to the App Store. A hobbyist can develop on their own device. Of course, that requires either a Mac or the knowhow (and disregard of EULAs) to set up an OSX VM.
For Windows Phone, Microsoft offers AT&T and T-Mobile phones with no contract. Microsoft also provides a phone emulator in the development kit. Of course, you'd need a copy of Windows in the first place, and apparently Microsoft wants you to pay a subscription to even be able to transfer the app to a physical device. Then again, Adobe software has always needed a Windows or MacOS system to run on, anyhow.

So, Android seems like the cheapest solution. If I were a wannabe mobile app developer starting with nothing, I'd buy a cheap PC, a cheap Android tablet or personal video device (OK, so just the cheapest that should be able to run what I want to write), and work from there.

You know what you never see on your Nexus 7? Flash. Well....unless you don't upgrade to Kitkat, track down the apk and install it manually. That's not going to be a very popular option.

In spirit? Phones and mobile, produced using multi-platform game engines. I see people passing around goofy phone apps the way that they used to pass around goofy Flash games. As the closest-related technology? HTML5.

Again, like I said, it depends on your audience. Honestly, I've never met anyone with satellite internet. Still, HughesNet seems to offer some plans with some decent caps at decent prices (given what the service is).

Why would it have to be a non-Adobe program to create the animation? My problem's more with Flash/SWF than Adobe products. Edge produces HTML5 content, and is the Adobe product that's meant to succeed Flash. If you'd rather ditch Adobe products completely, from what I understand, there are alternatives.

Then again, Youtube videos play on more devices than Flash animations do and don't require installation of a plugin of waning relevance. Mobile devices, which tend to have a more restricting bandwidth cap than most users' home Internet connection, would also be the least likely to be able to play the animation in swf form. The answer of which one is better would really depend on your audience, I suppose, but Flash is becoming more and more of a niche filler instead of a first choice for content delivery.

This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...

Troll Tuesday a roaring success :)

Hope your turkey flavoured hannukah was enjoyable

Troll Tuesday a roaring success :)

Hope your turkey flavoured hannukah was enjoyable

I work for a dedicated software development division of a large corporation. I think there are perhaps 200 people in the office here, divided among development, quality assurance, product management, support, release engineering, etc. A "spot-check" of the org chart for the dev teams I usually work with gave me about 15% female, but I know that the count among the QA engineers is higher.

I can't say that I've noticed quality problems from the ladies (at least not any more than I do from the men I work with). We've got a couple of "rockstar" guys that really stand out, but I think that's more of a numbers game than anything. I can't say that I'm more impressed with the females than the males, but I'm not less impressed either, for whatever worth my opinion has.

Well, what do you mean by "code for a living"? Do you mean women that held an engineering position for that entire 30 year span of time? Most of my coworkers are male, granted, but I'd have to at least include my toes to count the number of female software engineers in the building with me right now.

Second link fixed: here. You'd think I'd've learned to use preview.

That doesn't seem to be true: here and here, there are several Thinkpad ultrabooks listed. Now, if you said that there were no Thinkpad ultrabooks prior to the "Chief River" set of Intel's specifications, that would be true.

she has made public request for a special northern economic zone with lower taxes.
where a lot of her mines do or will operate.
given the complaints by companies about the difficulty of getting labour kack if infrastructure and high cost of everything why does it need supercharging?

But she love tax breaks for corporations.
I think it might be kind of funny if the Chinese try and muscle her operations and our Defence organisations are called on to back her and there is no money in the kitty for it.

I tried again using your method got 6/10. Obviously I don't know the difference