Have you ever migrated a large project from flash professional into a flex development environment?
It's not as simple as you're suggesting, because business-world library elements are often integrated into various base classes and possess ties throughout the project.

If you simply export them into a .swc, they will continue to be associated with those classes, and any code change will require you to re-publish from flash professional.. is flash builder even your development environment if you're not compiling from there?

Perhaps my google-fu is weak, but I've never seen a shred of useful documentation online about this migration process.
The best articles I've come across involve processes such as: step #1 convert all of your library elements into mxml format.

Yes, probably sounds like a lot of fun when you're staring down a couple hundred (or more) of those library elements, each with their own states, layers and base classes. And that's just step 1.

Thanks, we were on the verge of one-world government, your comment stemmed the tide.

My main point about this wasn't so much as it being a full-re-write or whatever Microsoft's marketing and PR department says, but that as long as it tenaciously holds on to legacy code and doesn't excise it completely will be unable to move forward and compete. But this means a new format, new bios, new memory allocation methods, new i/o mapping, and so on. Much of that "legacy code" is actually the interface between the OS and the older hardware, which is why 90%+ of all crashes and bugs occur. The OS asks the crappy hardware to do something it doesn't want to or is too slow to do and boom - you're back to square one.

Note - this also means a total re-working of motherboard designs to have more speed and better interfaces as well. We're essentially using recycled 1980s technology and tweaking it. It works fine, but it's just about hit a wall. For instance, find me a motherboard with actual PCIe 16X X2 specs. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2056 This seems to be the only one I could find, but what's next? It's hit a wall. (and any devices you use on the machine share that PCI bus - as do all motherboards for PCs)

So what happens when we have to get around that "wall" in five or ten years? As I see it, Microsoft has no game plan for the true next generation of computers.

Idiots and politicians don't need statistics. Anyone else that wants to do real science does.

This definitely does NOT deserve to be modded "insightful".

Corporations? Damned thieves can tramply anyone, and everyone, with no repercussions.

Really? If people don't like the actions of a corporation they have the right not to fucking buy that corporations products, and you'll see how quickly the things change.

Go ahead, people, cheer for the corporations. None of them are doing anything for you.

Except for everything you see around you. Was PC made by a government decree? Can you remind me which government invented, and made economically profitable electricity, car, airplane, TV, cell phone, etc etc?

Your government supplies your drinking water, builds your roads, responds in the event of disaster, and much, much more.

I'm glad you saved the most idiotic comment for last. The government DOES NOT do any of those things. It is the taxpayer money that pays for all of those things, the government simply manages it (usually in a notoriously inefficient, wasteful and corrupt way). Yes in some cases it is a necessary evil to put all our money together and pay for some things that way though it should be avoided wherever possible. In any case, there is nothing to be thankful to the government for! It is simply taking our money and paying for things on our behalf. Please try to remember that simple concept.

*cough*end-scene-of-fight-club*cough*

Please quit this homophobia. It's offensive to suggest that gay people would want to use Apple products.

I really can't agree with that. I've used an iPhone extensively (well, iPod Touch, which is the same user experience), and I've used my Droid extensively. In my opinion, there's no real difference between the two, except for the fact that the iPhone has those nice rounded edges and other such things that make the UI look very sleek.

iPod-sized? Really? Which one? nano, mini, classic, touch, ...
How about some real measurement, like a pack of cards or fractions of a VW Beetle?

>How about the postal service let me opt out of getting junk mail delivered?

In a lot of places (Britain particularly) the postal service relies on the money paid by junk mailers. No junk mail, no funding for delivering real mail.

Even Python, as much as I love to write in it, is the wrong answer for the web. Really, we need to have a standardized byte-code/virtual machine implemented (gasp, identically!) over all browsers :) Then for your standard situations you could choose whatever you wanted -- Python, JavaScript, etc. And for applications where it was advisable, you could pick Erlang or Haskell, etc., or hell, even Logo, if you wanted! It wouldn't matter! We'd be free to create compiler for whatever language we chose that target that virtual machine.

Projects such as SquirrelFish are great, because I think they will show the world exactly what the benefits of a virtual machine for the web will be. Once projects like it are incorporated into the browser, it is a relatively small step to abstract away from JavaScript and support any language that has a compiler targeting this VM. If you are interested there is a very interesting discussion on Lambda that addressed this and similar projects, and the trade-offs and advantages of different JIT implementations :)

I have to say, I've never understood this argument. I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life. Are you really going to tell me that the state can repay someone who spent 30 years behind bars for a crime they didn't commit?

They will have a hell of a better chance doing that if you aren't a corpse.

And what do you mean you don't understand it? If it's that horrible for you just go punch the ms13 leader if you can't bear it. Frankly I'm one of the people who would rather fight for thirty years than go with such a nihilistic attitude. Better off dead? Spare us the melodrama.

SSL interceptors (such as the one made by Bluecoat) work by intercepting IP traffic bound for port 443. They pull a MITM attack on you by making a new SSL connection to the actual site, extracting the site's public key from the real cert, wrapping it in a forged cert that is signed by their CA cert. All the IT department has to do is install the interceptor's CA cert into each employee's browser (IE lets the domain admin do it remotely) so that the forged cert appears to be valid. So you either check for IT-installed CA certs in your browser (the Certificate Patrol add-on helps with Firefox), or run a script to fetch the cert from the site (using the openssl command-line util) and compare it to a known-good copy of the cert before you visit the site.

Obviously, the right link is this one.

Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose.

True, old idea, new implementation, but its definitely an improvement over the last one.