The problem really isn't and hasn't ever been animation sites. The problem is that Flash has often been used where it doesn't belong; forms on business sites, ENTIRE web sites built using flash so you cannot bookmark a page, and stuff like that, and Flash doesn't work particularly well on touch screens. Like BLINK, Flash has been used and abused to the point where it is an abomination.
You seem to have taken this very personal, resorting to personal insults for a post that had nothing whatsoever to do with you.
I suggest you change the relationship and automatically score mod my posts so you don't see them, because I will keep on ranting about things I feel like ranting about, out of the blue, without taking your feelings and opinions into consideration. They're worth exactly nothing to me - sorry.
What you talking about is spending 80% of total effort on 20% of the features of the product. Often these features are not even readily visible to anyone.
Apps not freezing or crashing or becoming unusable by the customers aren't features.
They're side effects of programmers (among other things) actually understanding the underlying system and what happens when you poke the beast.
Jeffrey A. Sterling, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, was convicted of espionage Monday on charges that he told a reporter for The New York Times about a secret operation to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program.
The case revolved around a C.I.A. operation in which a former Russian scientist provided Iran with intentionally flawed nuclear component schematics. Mr. Risen revealed the operation in his 2006 book, “State of War,” describing it as a mismanaged, potentially reckless mission that may have inadvertently aided the Iranian nuclear program.
While this comes as no surprise given the Obama administration's record on going after whistleblowers releasing secrets in public interest, the ramifications of these building cases could be twofold.
To an outsider, it seems there is widespread support for Snowden and responsible whistleblowing laws. Why is there no momentum for this in the government?
Exactly right! What a lot of people don't understand is that the First Sale Doctrine is a defense not an offense. In other words, if you buy a copyrighted item, like a book, and resell it, the First Sale Doctrine protects you from getting successfully sued by the copyright holder for doing so. In other words, it is a defense. It does not however, put any obligations on the publisher to provide any support to ensure that these later customers can use the product.
Neither does it give them a right to burn my book.
The problem here is that you don't buy a game. You buy a license to use a game. They revoke the license, which is their right, but by doing so, you are no longer bound by the license terms either, which includes the payment you made. Depending on the jurisdiction, you might have a good case for winning a small courts claim or similar, covering the purchase price and reasonable legal expenses.
The Army alone has about 500,000 soldiers. A lot of them are in support roles but a private military also needs support.
Where are the families of the people in the private military? Because if they have to go back to the USofA (the "enemy" in this scenario) to visit Mom and Dad then there's going to be a problem. So you'll need room on the uber rich estate for the families of your military. And your support personnel.
Which brings up the infrastructure to support those families. Schools, hospitals, etc. Which means more support personnel.
Which means more schools and hospitals, etc.
Of course you can skip that if you want to. But remember who has the guns.
I'm not talking about messing with IO requests. I'm talking about understanding what happens when they're issued, whether it's by you or a library you use, so you don't lock up a system for no good reason.
But these days, this is considered "arcane knowledge" and is ignored, in favor of blindly using magic toolkits and libs, and blaming the system for not performing when it's the app that is badly designed out of ignorance.
I've always thought programming is more like writing POETRY than just being literate
I disagree. You don't hire poets to design a space ship - it may be pretty, but it won't work. You don't hire sci-fi writers either - it may look workable to the masses, but the pesky laws of physics and economics will have their say.
Programming is more like engineering. As in being able to construct something that actually works.
Coding, on the other hand, is more like manufacturing, where you produce something based on what the engineers have come up with.
But too often these days, it's not engineers that came up with it, but bloody poets, and the poor coders have to steal bits and pieces they don't understand from people they have no reason to trust in order to make a workable mess out of it.
Hmm. If you can't read, you are restricted to looking at pictures. If there is someone to read for you, then you can hear the parts of text they choose to read for you, otherwise you are pretty much restricted to children's picture books. A lot of what happens in the world is simply a mystery to you.
That's happening more and more. I find myself going to web sites looking for manuals and specs, and all they have these days are videos. I don't want videos, I want text, with orders of magnitudes higher information density, searchable and editable.
Dumbing down seems to be across the board. User interfaces, recipes, clothing, handwriting, ability to add and subtract without a cash register or calculator, you name it.
And yes, "coding". Which has taken over for programming. The typical modern "coder" builds houses out of Lego. They may look colorful and shiny, but at the end of the day it's still Lego.
Gone are the days of programmers who actually devised algorithms and discussed them, instead of Googling for something that might be pressured into service. People who would understand what an OS call actually did, instead of treating it as magic. Something as simple as describing what happens behind the scenes when doing an IO request is beyond many newer coders (some of which I work with).
Programmers, they aren't.
We have to start expecting more, and stop rewarding and kowtowing to incompetence.
Solar sail can achieve 25% light speed, according to NASA, and Alpha Centauri is 4 light years away.
You want a manned mission (with robots doing all the actual work) to determine if the conventional wisdom that a manned mission to the outer planets is physically impossible is correct. Even if the pilot dies, you learn the furthest a manned mission can reach. There's seven billion people, you can afford to expend one or two. Ideally, they'd be volunteers and there'll be no shortage of them, but if you're concerned about valuable life, send members of the Tea Party.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
