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Comment Re:Before you get all excited... (Score 1) 300

by eigenstates (#30821866) Attached to: Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG)

"for, say, internet video sites to work."

And that is about it- no JS or SVG needed. The thing I think the demo is shooting for is the only thing people keep saying Flash does that HTML5 doesn't- the rendering of vectors in cutesy marketing pleasing animations. Evidently it does so pretty well.

And with the notion of Workers, it looks like HTML5 might be firing towards the AIR market as well.
Businesses

Former Exec Says Electronic Arts "Is In the Wrong Business" 180

Posted by Soulskill from the inspiring-internet-outrage-is-a-bad-business-model dept.
Mitch Lasky was the executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts until leaving the publisher to work at an investment firm. He now has some harsh things to say about how EA has been run over the past several years, in particular criticizing the decisions of CEO John Riccitiello. Quoting: "EA is in the wrong business, with the wrong cost structure and the wrong team, but somehow they seem to think that it is going to be a smooth, two-year transition from packaged goods to digital. Think again. ... by far the greatest failure of Riccitiello's strategy has been the EA Games division. JR bet his tenure on EA's ability to 'grow their way through the transition' to digital/online with hit packaged goods titles. They honestly believed that they had a decade to make this transition (I think it's more like 2-3 years). Since the recurring-revenue sports titles were already 'booked' (i.e., fully accounted for in the Wall Street estimates) it fell to EA Games to make hits that could move the needle. It's been a very ugly scene, indeed. From Spore, to Dead Space, to Mirror's Edge, to Need for Speed: Undercover, it's been one expensive commercial disappointment for EA Games after another. Not to mention the shut-down of Pandemic, half of the justification for EA's $850MM acquisition of Bioware-Pandemic. And don't think that Dante's Inferno, or Knights of the Old Republic, is going to make it all better. It's a bankrupt strategy."
Google

Submission + - Google hacked through 0-Day PDF hole? (computerworld.com)

Submitted by eigenstates
eigenstates writes: Not much of a scoop here- "Security researchers hinted earlier today that the attacks against Google, Adobe and dozens of other major firms were conducted using malicious PDFs that exploited one or more vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader."

"These kinds of targeted attacks using PDFs have been going on for quite a while," said Hypponen. "There's nothing new technically in any of these attacks, including the ones against Google and Adobe."

The interesting things here are that both companies have know about the security breaches for weeks and that everyone, including Adobe, has known about the PDF exploits for months. Why a) Were people on secure computers still allowed to use Reader for PDF? b) Why did it take so frikking long to patch Reader?

Here decision makers, a gift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software

Sumatra is my choice for reader.

Comment API? (Score 1) 216

by eigenstates (#30657562) Attached to: Adobe Security Chief Defends JavaScript Support

Why not just invent a new language exactly like javascript for Reader to use and then only expose the public API, which is similar to javascript. Make sure that main code base is securely sealed though so that when developer is trying to debug their script for some mystical, incomplete error message from the base classes it will be impossible. Call it something like actionPDFscript.

I am sure it will be a big hit.

Comment Re:I think it's funny (Score 1) 443

by eigenstates (#30545634) Attached to: All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop

I know don't feed the trolls, but I just wanted to pass along a Happy Holidays to this one. Sheesh.

Miguel, I have the choice of running VS 2008 (full version) in VMware or running Mono to do my work. The VMWare route is a pig on resources and is basically unusable for everything but the simplest of changed. I am very much enjoying using Mono. Yes, I am /actually using Mono/ where it seems most comments up to this point are not- with their referencing older builds and so on. You know I actually use that AS3 plugin from time to time as well. Mono has come a long way since I fist tried and admittedly abandoned it.

I really appreciate the work.

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