Yeah, wtf-- there is no agreement on how to indent code. Personally I used to use 8 spaces but realized that 4 spaces is much nicer while still being visibly indented. Two space indentation looks retarded.

My Ubuntu 9.10 running Chrome at least has no troubles with the game. Though yes, the CPU usage is rather outrageous for a simple flash game.

I've got Linux and Windows... ::shrug:: I guess my moderately powered computer with Intel integrated graphics is just blessed by the Flash fairies.

Haha, no. It's unclear exactly what you are doing there in your "clarification". Are you trying to use enums for LargeDump? Because if you are, it's Dump.Large. Are you trying to say that there is a class called Shed or a method? If a class, you need new Shed("shed_name"). Beside all that, you are assuming a lot about what the CrapInShed (haha) method paramters are. Let me "clarify": public function CrapInShed (bool flush, string message); There.

Yeah see this is what I don't believe. Why would they have that process occur billions of times in the browser instead of doing it ahead of time... I mean, why don't they build a native precompiler which takes in an SWF and spits out a specialized Javascript. Then simply use the tag with the original SWF(s) and include the javascript for the SWF right below the object tag. Then when it runs, the Javascript could determine if Flash is available-- if not it would replace the with a and do it's thing. Hell, maybe that's what they're doing and the blog just had it wrong. Won't know until the source is out and they spit out some more documentation on how it all works.

Oh wow, why did we never think of that! Your right, we should dump Flash player and HTML5 and VP8 and h264. Who needs em? The world would be better served if we all just picked up a copy of RealPlayer. :-P OK but seriously. Smokescreen is not a video player. It's a vector graphics advertisement player. Which you only need on platforms without Flash. Like the iPhone. Running video frames through a Javascript engine is moronic, but that's not what they are doing. Someone mark as informed troll and we'll all move on.

Op, just got one of the ad demos to work on my phone and it runs just fine, no slowdown in scrolling, a very slight slowdown when zooming. 20MB of free memory though, with one tab in Safari, Phone, and Springboard running.

Are you talking about Flash *with* the plugin? Because that game does not "signficantly slow down" anything. What kind of computer are you using, a Commodore 64? I just know my (very stock these days) Core 2 Duo with Intel GM965 laptop is doing Just Fine. That being said, the GP is right, it's quite funny to see for myself (with these new demos on my iPhone 3G) how slow the canvas implementation is. I only got one of the strongbad demos to work on my iPhone 3G (the servers are quite stressed atm) but I would imagine that adverts (which are less intensive) would run better after it's all optimized.

The insanity goes much deeper than Xcode.
The C# way: obj.CrapInShed (true, "hrm");
The ObjC way: [obj didTakeACrapInTheShed:true withParameterNamedSomethingLikeBob: "hrm"]
I spent 3 months working on Cocoa stuff and my hands still haven't recovered from the torture.

That would be a con worthy of Microsoft, for sure.

I agree, I don't think it's Office. Maybe it's not really VS either but it's definitely not Office.

Albeit I haven't invested the time to really know Bing, I can say that any time I end up using a search engine other than Google (usually when I'm fixing someone else's computer who prefers something else), I actually have to craft my search query and look through maybe 10 results to find what I want. Maybe Google just knows what I want because I've used it so much, but it seems sometimes like I can type "my little pony" and it will recognize that I wanted the PHP reference for the substr function. And I did!

Right, so Apple changed their developer agreement to not allow .NET just in time to partner with MS to introduce the only sanctioned .NET implementation, thus cutting Mono out.... I don't really see the benefit to Apple for having .NET on iPhoneOS, especially since they don't need Microsoft's cash handouts (see the recent news about Apple's worth). Don't get me wrong, they should do it, but the double standard just ain't gonna last.

I think people are misunderstanding the situation. They seem to think that knowing where a MAC address is located in real life will somehow make it easier to map someone's Internet activity to their personal identity. However, this is just a MAC address. When you are talking to a client on the Internet it is trivial to gather the *IP ADDRESS*. It is NOT trivial to retrieve the MAC address of the router which is currently assigned an IP address (unless you happen to be on a local network and can use ARP to do the job). It seems people think Google is recording IP addresses, which I believe it could only do by associating to the network then asking an Internet server what IP address Google is at, which of course then would be useless since most IPs are allocated dynamically with DHCP, and change periodically.

Notice the "I knew that", just in case it *is* a determining factor of Slashdotters' general awareness. (it is)