Is Wendy Testaburger using your lunch money to buy heroin?
Will someone stone a journalist to death for me?

I'm just asking the hard questions.
Signing off, this is casey miller

To the best of my understanding, this is why flash takes so much CPU processing power to play a video.
Hopefully they will be addressing this now that they're going mobile, and working on a lot of optimizations..

Check out this NetSteam class, which is used to stream videos from the internet or your hard drive:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetStream.html?allClasses=1

In particular, the bufferLength property reads:
"If any [thing] causes bufferLength to increase more than 600 seconds or the value of bufferTime * 2, whichever is higher, Flash Player flushes the buffer and resets bufferLength to 0"

Translation?
If flash player loads a video to the point that fills it's buffer size, it immediately flushes it's buffer and reloads the video into the buffer, and then it will flush it's buffer and reload the video into it's buffer, and then it will flush it's buffer.. etc

You can see where I am going with this. It's absurd.. but this is what appears to be going on to me.
The alternative is to set a really high buffer time, and make it so the entire video gets loaded into the buffer so the bufferLength is rarely greater than bufferTime*2. but then it will take much longer to begin playing so I doubt you have ever come across any code on the internet that actually does that..

I became aware of this when I was using flash to load a video on my local hard drive and received hundreds of buffer flush events.. one after another, after another, after another.
Having said all that, I think Flash has a lot of things going for it.. It just needs a little work still..

Adobe is obviously trying, but I think the talent is spread too thin. Some of their flash classes are written really well and some are written really poorly.

It requires the purchase of different rights if you want to stream content to a mobile device (at least that's what I read on the internet somewhere)

...recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single ***Florida courthouse***
Showing up in court is not a decision one makes. When you get a subpoena, you end up in court one way or another.

This notion: "Of course, mimicking the weight and feel of the top would require someone else had touched to totem before"

This whole movie is about people with the ability to go into dreams, and then steal real-world knowledge and ideas from the dreamer
It's absolute nonsense that you wouldn't be able to go into a dream, and then steal the knowledge of their totem.

what..? you can steal their deepest and darkest secrets, but you can't steal knowledge about some knick-knack?
How does that make any sense at all?

Not as great as everyone is making it out to be, but still an original and entertaining film
The plot was largely contrived, and an ounce of sense would have taken this team of "experts" a long way toward accomplishing their goal.

Here come the spoilers, as I highlight the nonsense:
it is explained in the film that shared dreamers may each "project" new energy and physical matter into the dream world if they so choose.
The reason this is avoided is because the root dreamers subconscious will start to detect it's being fiddled with, and all of their projections will become violent.

Certainly I can accept this premise, but it falls flat once they enter fischers subconscious and discover he has been trained to resist them.
The crew is ambushed, as trained military persons are firing semi-automatic weapons and constantly pursuing them.

Fischer is tied up in a room, alone and out of view, and none of the crew actually take advantage of the fact that they're in a dream.
A friend is shot and dieing, but nobody summons an ER doctor or staff. Their actual lives are threatened, but they do not transform their van to be bulletproof or into a tank.

For god sakes this guy is about to die, which is leo's only hope of seeing his children. I would have said hey look there is a futuristic alien healing device here!

Why not change reality? Are they afraid that the highly trained soldiers that are already trying to kill them are going to notice their presence and then start.. trying to kill them?
Later in the arctic, when the entire crew and fischer are in on the fact that it's a dream, they start freaking out because they only have an hour to get to their destination.

100% of the people in this dream are equipped with automatic weapons and already trying to kill them.
Still, nobody uses any dream powers. For god sakes, everyone knows it's a dream. Summon a flying tank. Put on an Iron Man suit.
What a bunch of idiots. If I wanted to watch people this stupid I would turn on reruns of bevis and butthead.

This was an excellent opportunity to do some great, fast action, special effects but instead they completely passed and kept things fairly grounded to the rules of our reality.
I was disappointed and expected the action sequences to be a lot sexier.

If your plot line only advances because your characters are too stupid to leverage the very powers that make them unique, then your plot is sorely lacking.
How can you have a movie in a dream-world that your characters control, and then have nobody leverage that control? Epic WTF.

Still it was unique and different and I wasn't bored.

Age old saying: "A person convinced against their will is of the same opinion still"

The more you argue with someone against their point, the more they will search their mind for reason to defend their point.
People are a lot more adept at convincing themselves of something than they are at convincing someone else.

This is just human nature at work

Isn't this the problem that Segways were supposed to fix?

IMHO they missed the mark on this one.
It's not about good or evil, it's about catering to the ego's sense of importance.

Speaking from personal experience, if I am going out of my way to commit a personal sacrifice in the name goodness, then my sense of importance becomes expanded for the duration of the act.
For example, if you're running a marathon for a charity you believe in. Suddenly, you may find the wordly measurements of your physical endurance to be exhibiting increased levels.

Are you a super human? No.
You're just willing to grit your teeth and take a little more pain. Because it's *important* and what you're doing is *important* and the ego just eats it up.

Twitter is SOCIAL, Engineers are ANTI-SOCIAL, and you wonder why the two aren't a match made in heaven?
Twitter lacks any sort of competitive appeal, sex appeal, or intellectual appeal.

It is used to disseminate socially relevant knowledge, and humor.
Sports. Celebrity Gossip. One-Liners.

These are the cornerstones of twitter.
Having said that, if you want the truly great tweets, you need a reliable third party to sift through the junk and gather them for you.

Unfortunately this process has become increasingly inefficient with the demise of Conan's Late Night Twitter Tracker.

Output to a PDF document and have them print it out.
PDF is an open format. Go for it! Enjoy.

Flash is an OKAY solution, but the printer support is hopeless unless your users have downloaded and installed an AIR application.

I got a ticket for 60 in a 55 once.
It was raining, and the officer told me that speed limits were designed for optimum conditions in daylight hours and that I needed to slow down.

What a prick.

In most cases, Eye Hand Coordination is a big factor in sports, and a big factor in gaming .
Obviously there are exceptions like soccer and checkers, but yeah there is a lot of cross over.

I would have thought this was immediately obvious as someone who has both played video games and sports competitively.
The biggest difference from a competitive point of view? Video games put you completely at the mercy of developers, and it sucks.

Who wants to spend a year refining a particular talent for a video game, and then have a new patch completely change the balance and gameplay dynamics.
Also if you put 8 years of your life into the game, what happens when it's out of date? Even if it's a game with big tournaments and prizes, they all go out of style.

Mainstream sports, on the other hand, date back thousands of years and should experience very few changes in our lifetime.

As an adult, I could never devote myself fully to a game in that manner...
As a child I guess I had nothing better to do =)

I think the key word here is "obsessed".
The characteristics you've ascribed to yourself are moderated, healthy behaviors. In contrast, true obsession is a psychological dysfunction.

That's the sense of it in a nutshell, no more or less than eating yourself to 600 pounds, owning 20 cats, or threatening murder over cartoons.

A news website, with a summary that sounds like a press release.. nothing wrong here.
Not a marketing guy, but as I understand it a press release is different than normal advertising copy - it's news (in this case, news for nerds)