What is this, 1990? All modern CPUs have protection against overheating and disabling that protection requires, at the very least, some crafty soldering or flashing a 3rd party BIOS. If you're capable enough to do that you're probably running some sci-fi prototype rig from the future using pressurized mercury phase transition cooling or something.

So no, I don't see how any properly set-up rig can make the CPU cook itself.

Like a week ago I had to resolder my headphones because the plug broke - again. About 10 days ago I had to resolder the fast-port connector on my 5-year old Sony Ericsson C702 because the shitty Pb-less solder keeps breaking under stress. Before that, about a month ago, I had to solder in new capacitors on my CRT monitor because the flyback transformer high-pitched squeal on my monitor was driving me crazy.

Last time I used the command line on a phone was about 15 days ago when I did the odd job of installing cyanogenmod and supercharger on one of those fancy smartphones, for like 9 bucks. I don't even own one of those.

I had to do all of those because I'm a poor codemonkey in an eastern-european cesspool who can't afford the new stuff. For me it's crucial that a device is properly designed - being repairable is a CRITICAL aspect of proper design. That's why I laugh at iFad users - even the techs don't repair the stuff, just give a new one on warranty. And frankly disassembling devices to learn how they work and find out what's broken, then getting it repaired is FUN!

Flash is dead, yes. It didn't run on all devices like HTML does and frankly for a web standard that is unacceptable. Good riddance.

Fortunately now we've replaced Flash with the Apple AppStore and it's apps. Using apps ensures literally 100% compatibility with the target device and a much smoother experience than Flash could ever provide.

It's a shame the low-end segment customers are getting bad impressions of Android based on the inexpensive no-brand phones they were able to afford at the time. I've got one lying around for compatibility testing and I can feel your pain.

The no-brand stuff is a scam aimed at poor, gullible customers who then have an experience as bad as yours. Then they sell or give away the no-name phone and get a used 2nd gen apple - which they don't use fully, apps and content all costing money on that platform, but it's a much better experience even gutted as it is.

Sounds like a 1-month to 2-month project, 6000 polish zloty (about 1700 USD) and it's done.

How can a watch represent my outfit and the way I act?

Sure, you can make an awful lot of assumptions about a person based on all sorts of random tidbits - favourite colour, handwriting, choice of sock material or watch model. However all that information is only relevant when the choice is uninfluenced by the "what will people think" - at that point I could alter what could be my default choice to create a false image of myself. Normally I'd go with a Casio Protrek - if I was aiming to scam someone I'd choose a Patek knock-off.

With that in mind men are very conscious about which watch they use and what it says about them. The "what will people think" factor plays a significant part in the decision process. Ergo by judging a man in any way based on the watch he wears you're most likely than not buying into the fantasy he's trying to sell you. Instead you should be completely oblivious as to what watch a guy is wearing and instead try to gather intel based on less obvious things.

And what odd world do you come from where respect comes from overpaying 10000 times for a device to tell time?

The luxury watch business is a giant ponzi scheme and a bubble that's getting bigger and bigger. There's no substance to it, just smoke and mirrors, tasteful marketing.

Joke's on them. I'm a deadbeat. What kind of product or service would you want to market to someone who doesn't have the money to buy anything?

Flash is very good for stuff like google maps actually. Look here: http://www.zumi.pl/namapie.html?qt=&loc=warszawa. It didn't have as much development time obviously, being an application targetted for just one country - but that's also part of the point. JS hasn't gotten it's rails yet, object-oriented programming is a mess, there's no type checking. MVC with JS is a pain, with AS3 it just works. What I'm saying is AS3 is a more mature language more suited for bigger applications.

As for iPads I had a request to redo an application ONCE, for an offshore client. Thanks to proper coding I just had to write new concrete I/O classes and some performance tweaks (which got merged into the main branch anyhow) - end result being the iOS APP had 90% common code with the desktop swf version. The inconvenience being the user has to download the app off the market. And when I added another compile target it turned out it works on android too.

And frankly I LIKE this separation. Having to write a version specifically for mobile devices forces you to test the application a lot more thoroughly - beyond just throwing the swf into the wild and assuming it works with the different controls, lower CPU power and resolution.

Flash forms and menus aren't a sane use for flash and you know it. If you're website isn't flash-based you don't want to have critical parts of it like data entry or navigation in flash. Then again the same goes with JS - unless JS is required for the core functionality, eg. maps, you want your fancy animated menu to gracefully work in noscript-ed browsers.

> Not at first but unless a customer absolutely demands flash, I code a requirement in HTML5 and show something that is smoother and better supported and Hey, works on the iPad. So much easier for the initial demo to just hand a tablet to show how nice the site works...

Not sure if you're joking or not..

javascript animations aren't smooth - they're clunky and ugly everywhere I see them. A friend recently showed me http://beetle.de/full/ - made using HTML5 and JS. The idea of scrolling the website is pretty neat actually but the performance and overall experience is pretty bad. Javascript actually reminds me of Flash 5 or 6 with the default framerate set to 20.

And in terms of possibilities it's not far beyond that really. Despite what you're saying it isn't faster than flash either - the VM is slower, rendering is slower, canvas for 3d rendering is slower..

If you wanted to write an application to do some serious client-side computing you go with Java or Flash. But since Flash is just so much more convenient it's the tool of choice. Since mobile devices weren't the hottest thing as they are not nobody optimized flash for low-powered devices. Hell, nobody optimized at all - there was plenty of CPU cycles to burn on desktops. You can make flash work fine for mobile devices - AIR is the practical implementation - however you need skilled developers (and only in the past 4 years or so have those risen to prominence among Flash users) and focus - actually design with those devices in mind.

Flash is buggy, true, but so is HTML5+JS. They're buggy in different ways - with Flash development is a breeze - the application always runs the same everywhere. No need to detect different user agents and serve workarounds for broken CSS implementations, no juggling of tags that one browser supports and the other doesn't. Embedding fonts, animations, importing various assets and creating a small self-enclosed application is faster and easier than it is in JS+HTML5, which is why I'm kind of reluctant to go back to that mess called JS (my last serious HTML development days were in 2005).

  It must be said that about 80% of problems with flash stem from badly coded applications. Memory usage, lockups, crashes, low framerate, bad design ect ect. As a webdev you should know serious flash websites don't actually embed the content but load it dynamically - which means adding a text-only version for crawlers is trivial. As is deeplinking, support for back/forward buttons - but all of that came pretty late in Flash's lifecycle, unfortunately much later than it became technically possible.

For the record I'm a flash developer in Poland. Haven't seen anyone asking about iPad compatibility.

Yeah and it's called HTML5.

Corrected that for you.

So basically I can file DMCA takedown requests en-masse against big-content promoted stuff like the entirety of WMG's channel and youtube would have to remove it?

If so why hasn't anyone tried this already?

1. Where should I send my CV?

2. Is free pot a perk?

3. Is speaking Spanish a requirement?

Hey,

If I'm the top 1% then I can't imagine how bad it must be for the remaining 99%. In fact I find it kind of odd, because the past year I wasn't able to pay my rent two times and had to change places (calling them apartments would be an overstatement). If I'm the top 1% then where are my 99 homeless peers?

You're not taking perspective into account.

And yes, I do realize that foreign workers are toiling away for meagre scraps so that big business elsewhere can make a buck off it. Trust me, I know that very well as I do outsourced java/python/flash myself. Out of curiosity I actually added up all the money I have actually received (unlike the money I was promised) and guess what, I make less than 4k USD a year. 3874 to be precise - but I guess according to your logic I should be thankful for the millions of people who earn even less?

I have the luxury of being able to move to any other country with high GDP and earn what amounts to considerable savings here by washing dishes abroad - probably a more pleasant job than refactoring a broken indecipherable mess left by some crackjob coder anyway - but the people who call those wealthy countries their home don't have anywhere to run.

I'm perfectly fine with earning even one dollar monthly, if I can buy a flat for ten. With all your insight you seem to be forgetting that living costs are, if for nothing else then by the forces of supply and demand alone, inevitably tied to local wages. Sure, Chinese factory workers may not be able to afford an iPhone as easily - or designer brand jeans. But they do have phones and they're certainly not walking naked.

Besides, iPhones are overhyped anyway.

And hello from eastern Europe.

Grab yer guns and prepare for red dawn! The Russians are coming! Ramirez, take out that aircraft carrier with your grenade!