...is today's tuna. Add a little mayo, chopped onions, and sawdust -- who can tell the difference?

Yes! When he said it would cost 999 for a MONITOR STAND the crowd grunted and scoffed. I don't think he was expecting that. The whole presentation is a shit show. A Radeon 580x is a $700 retail GPU. So, you know that they're getting it for half or less. For a $6000 computer. Who the fuck are these people kidding?

that beats the new FB changes in 1... 2... 3....

I would suggest you take a look at Media Monkey. It's awesome. I've used it for 3 years now. It rocks, and can be modified with plug ins.

Canada is still a nightmare - Netflix.ca has got jack shit to view. The only way to make netflix useful in Canada is by way of proxies to access American Netflix. Otherwise, it's a waste of money.

Twitter is dying because of its open structure and limited message size. Facebook is eating their lunch. The basic difference? Message size. So, Twitter thinks they can out FB Facebook. I dunno. I don't bother with twitter because of the 140 char limit. Hmmmmm... This might lure me into bothering with it. But can I control who follows me? No. Nemmind.

It's just IRONIC science, per John Horgan.

RS

"Why should it ever "meet the designs that the public wants?" Seriously, why would anyone consider that as a goal?"

Are you making software for the public to use or not? If no, then fine - go back to text based interfaces. If you're making software for others to use, and these others may not be as smart and savvy as you, then fuck off - grow up and design what the public wants and needs.

I think many of these features have been pretty common for quite a while now...

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

I used to work for Macromedia - from 1995 - 1998. I was there when they bought Flash (It was called "FutureSplash") and yes, it was originally supposed to simply do vector based animation, because bandwidth back in the mid 90s sucked balls. Fairly quickly it became painfully obvious that Macromedia's flagship product, Director was doomed. Director did pixel based animations and a lot of other things thanks to its programming language, Lingo. A HUGE portion of the development cost for Director went into Lingo. Now with Director made (mostly) redundant by Flash they had to figure out what to do with the people. So, what better way to fuck it up than to shoehorn some crazy language into it and give it superpowers like Director? Enter ActionScript.

There was no reason to think about security - it was a tool to make stupid games and animations on the interweb thingie. And, like Director it became increasingly bloated and complex and pointless. Flash was dead long before the security gremlins appeared. Then Adobe bought the whole mess, hook, line, and sinker. Suckers. Between the headache that was Flash and the eye watering bilge that was ColdFusion, Macromedia got even with Adobe by serving them a hot buttered plate full of digital poo. The only thing, IMHO, that was worth a right flying fuck from Macromedia that Adobe got was FreeHand, and, Adobe, in it's infinite wisdom, killed FreeHand, even though it was a demonstrably better product.

Macromedia was poorly run by a bunch of wolverines. They got bought by the Borg. And now there's basically nothing left of value except Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and inDesign. And I'm not that certain about Premiere....

RS

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By that logic everybody of European and African descent should immediately leave the Americas.

Atom is completely built upon web technologies -- javascript, chromium, etc. It even phones home to Google analytics. It seems bizarre to have it solely as a desktop application -- why wouldn't this be implemented as a web app, or at least as a Chrome extension?

FUCK YOU!