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Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Whendilin - 04-28-2010
(04-27-2010, 10:56 PM)Greatbacon link Wrote: [quote author=LT Crow link=topic=1507.msg149291#msg149291 date=1272426642]Watch it to this music
[flash=200,200]http://gizmodo.com/5525888/this-is-how-air-space-reboots[/flash]
0.o
The Grid-Part Three
[/quote]
So good
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 04-30-2010
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html
Great read
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - rumsfald - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 08:25 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html
Great read
Interesting. I was having dinner the other night and making a similar argument, but without half the dots that he connects there. One thing he missed, though, is that apple has tried for years and years to make headway against MS, only to get marginal progress. But that was when the only real battleground was the desktop. I see the iphone/ipad as a way to stop fighting MS on MS's home turf - Apple's betting hard on mobile computing being a second front to vault past MS as the default OS.
That said, the "death of the pc as we know it" is always overblown.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 08:51 AM)rumsfald link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1507.msg149772#msg149772 date=1272633913]
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html
Great read
Interesting. I was having dinner the other night and making a similar argument, but without half the dots that he connects there. One thing he missed, though, is that apple has tried for years and years to make headway against MS, only to get marginal progress. But that was when the only real battleground was the desktop. I see the iphone/ipad as a way to stop fighting MS on MS's home turf - Apple's betting hard on mobile computing being a second front to vault past MS as the default OS.
That said, the "death of the pc as we know it" is always overblown.
[/quote]
Well now that the chips are on the table it looks like the new big fight is going to be between Google and Apple. This should be an interesting fight because everyone loves to love Google for being open but that very fact makes them harder to make money with, and everyone loves to hate Apple because they are closed and nazis but owning the only gateway to the device has benefits including making it hard to pirate and easy to pay people money for their products.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - HeK - 04-30-2010
I'm on week three of an ongoing argument with a mac fan-boy at work over Flash.
He is trying to tell me that Apple has forced many sites (like Google's Youtube to convert from flash to open standard like h.264) to move away from Flash simply by fear of incompatibility.
I keep telling him that h.264 and HTML5 are not replacements for Flash. They do different things.
I don't know if Apple's mouthpiece really understands how the web uses Flash, beyond the impact on the control that they have in corporate marketplace.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - A. Crow - 04-30-2010
they don't. Apple has become the avatar of hipster ignorant bandwagonism. Kinda like Fox news except for minimalism chic.Â
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - rumsfald - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 01:23 PM)HeK link Wrote: I don't know if Apple's mouthpiece really understands how the web uses Flash, beyond the impact on the control that they have in corporate marketplace.
Their mouthpiece may or may not (I'd say probably does), but it seems clear that their strategists understand that flash apps via the web offer a free (and cross-platform) alternative to app-store apps.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - A. Crow - 04-30-2010
I'd like to pretend they're just stupid kind of uniformly evil instead of the thinking type of market cornering evil. It helps me sleep better.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - at0m - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 08:37 PM)LT Crow link Wrote: I'd like to pretend they're just stupid kind of uniformly evil instead of the thinking type of market cornering evil. It helps me sleep better.Every successful corporation involves a decent chunk of the latter, rather than the former.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Squishy3 - 04-30-2010
Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ + Full length)
I want one of these now.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Chief - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 10:44 PM)Squishy link Wrote: Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ + Full length)wow
I want one of these now.
this is actually fucking amazing
i want one
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Geoff - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 10:56 PM)Dr. House link Wrote: [quote author=Squishy link=topic=1507.msg149961#msg149961 date=1272685480]wow
Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ + Full length)
I want one of these now.
this is actually fucking amazing
i want one
[/quote]
spent awhile looking for somewhere to buy one, no dice
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Squishy3 - 04-30-2010
(04-30-2010, 11:07 PM)jeff link Wrote: [quote author=Dr. House link=topic=1507.msg149967#msg149967 date=1272686161]wow
[quote author=Squishy link=topic=1507.msg149961#msg149961 date=1272685480]
Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ + Full length)
I want one of these now.
this is actually fucking amazing
i want one
[/quote]
spent awhile looking for somewhere to buy one, no dice
[/quote]Once it shows up somewhere I'm buying like 10.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Chief - 05-01-2010
(04-30-2010, 11:40 PM)Squishy link Wrote: [quote author=jeff link=topic=1507.msg149970#msg149970 date=1272686832]wow
[quote author=Dr. House link=topic=1507.msg149967#msg149967 date=1272686161]
[quote author=Squishy link=topic=1507.msg149961#msg149961 date=1272685480]
Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ + Full length)
I want one of these now.
this is actually fucking amazing
i want one
[/quote]
spent awhile looking for somewhere to buy one, no dice
[/quote]Once it shows up somewhere I'm buying like 10.
[/quote]ill buy one and then use the shovel as shown in the video to break into the house, and steal all ten
maybe nine because you could be there trying to defend them using the shovel as a shield
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - KarthXLR - 05-01-2010
Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Dirty Idler
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - copulatingduck - 05-01-2010
awesome
edit: A Robot That Balances on a Ball
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - A. Crow - 05-02-2010
(05-01-2010, 12:34 AM)Dr. House link Wrote: [quote author=Squishy link=topic=1507.msg149975#msg149975 date=1272688817]wow
[quote author=jeff link=topic=1507.msg149970#msg149970 date=1272686832]
[quote author=Dr. House link=topic=1507.msg149967#msg149967 date=1272686161]
[quote author=Squishy link=topic=1507.msg149961#msg149961 date=1272685480]
Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ + Full length)
I want one of these now.
this is actually fucking amazing
i want one
[/quote]
spent awhile looking for somewhere to buy one, no dice
[/quote]Once it shows up somewhere I'm buying like 10.
[/quote]ill buy one and then use the shovel as shown in the video to break into the house, and steal all ten
maybe nine because you could be there trying to defend them using the shovel as a shield
[/quote]
Do the right thing, buy American.Â
It's called an entrenching tool, and it's been around forever. And "chopping down a tree with your e-tool" is a giant joke in the Army. Because A) it is quite possible to do but B) if you can't find a better way to do it, you're an idiot or way too hooah for your own good.Â
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Geoff - 05-02-2010
but can you use it as a GRAPPLE?
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - A. Crow - 05-02-2010
Yes.
Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - copulatingduck - 05-02-2010
Lola Bunny