Posts by Matt 75 32 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2009
Oh yeah - they built the Horizon system at the Post Office. And that went really well didn't it? The judge in the Bates vs Post Office trial said he had "grave concerns" about the "veracity of evidence given by Fujitsu employees to other courts in previous proceedings about the known existence of bugs, errors and defects in the Horizon system".
from the TOS for Google Pay: "Information Google May Share. In order for Google to provide Google Pay services, you permit Google to disclose to apps and websites that you have set up Google Pay, and to share your device, payment, location, and account information with your payment method's issuer and network. Where necessary to process your transactions, you also permit Google to share your personal information with merchants, payment processors, and other third parties."
that (according to an article published here on El Reg) in 2014 Chrome, Firefox and (no surprise) IE all had more vulnerabilities than Flash.
So everyone complaining about the dangers of running Flash - maybe you need to switch to a Mac running Safari too as that was the only major browser that had fewer vulns than Flash did....
What is this hell of coporate GMail of which you type?
Do you use or have you used corporate GMail?
I haven't, so I am interested in hearing your businesses experience with it
Did look into it and decided not to go with it, mainly due to there being no equivalent to the Exchange 'calendar attendant', so would have meant giving someone a considerable amount of work processing meeting room requests - or buying third party software to handle it which would have wiped out any saving.
Also just doesn't integrate with Active Directory as well as Exchange does.
Presumably you can still publish Flex apps as native apps for iOS and Android using Adobe AIR... so this would still give these products an option for running on mobile/tablet.
I think it's going to be a while before HTML5 really catches up with everything that can be done in Flash... and even longer before Internet Explorer catches up with that!
Yep, YouTube does use Flash as the default video format.
Why? Because Flash - for all its faults - is still much, much better at handling video than the various browsers' HTML5 implementations.
http://transitioning.to/2012/01/the-world-of-pain-that-is-html5-video/
yeah, cause of course you couldn't possibly fire off sounds automatically in a webpage via HTML5 audio... oh no, wait - you can!*
And - you've no way of blocking it!
People can design absolute crap using any technology. At least Flash content is easy to block and small to download. Just you wait until everyone starts doing ad banners with whacking great PNGs in HTML5!
*except in Safari where such hideousness is blocked by the browser
Guess I'll be the first to point out that comparing a '302 per cent increase in job postings for Android developers' to a '220 per cent jump for iOS developers' is meaningless unless you have some other numbers for comparison... there might have only been 1 Android job posting originally and 5000 iOS postings!
What do they expect when each 'upgrade' just introduces more problems (and doesn't fix existing ones?). We're still on CS4 as we found that CS5 often breaks content written in ActionScript 2.0. Would have preferred to stay on CS3 but it became impossible to obtain more licences without resorting to piracy.
Have never seen a firm so junk mail happy. even cancelling the service did nothing to stem the tide, nor did phoning them up and asking to be removed from their mailing list. I have since moved house but I bet they're still sending it through to the old address.
I also never once got sent the top choice from my list.
Wow that initial selection on Netflix is hilariously bad!
They probably weren't still making them - it's just any time a company like this wants a bit of free publicity they announce that they're going to stop making such-and-such an antiquated device and the media slavishly publish their press release giving free publicity.
It's getting pretty tedious quite frankly.
the simple answer is for all web developers to start charging more for developing for IE6 so that suddenly it's not quite so cost-effective to stick with it!
so this is basically their answer - they are NEVER going to upgrade away from IE6? How's that going to work, they'll have to do so sometime surely??
Any time some company wants a bit of free press, they make a big announcement about how they're going to stop making/selling such-and-such a nearly out-of-date technology. And every time, without fail, journalists across the land run the story, giving the company the free press they're after.
Come on El Reg, rise above it...
Programmers in most of the areas where something like Flash or Silverlight actually makes sense (i.e. web games, e-learning, RIAs, annoying stupid ad banners and - for the moment at least, web video) already tend to know ActionScript and all the foibles of the Flash API back to front. So where's the advantage of switching to Silverlight programming - especially when all designers work in Flash?
Even Adobe's efforts to make the Flash IDE the most annoyingly crash-happy application ever would be unlikely to make anyone switch over.
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