Isn't enabling automatic updates in and of itself a vulnerability that could be potentially exploited by a hack that finds a vulnerability in Adobe' update system?
I'll never forget the day Adobe announcing they were buying Macromedia, arguably the trashiest of the major software companies of its day. I said to myself, Adobe may gain something in the short term by killing off their key competitor to Photoshop and Illustrator, but by taking on Flash, and even more foolishly promoting that piss poor pile of crap, that are also hanging an albatross round their necks that will haunt them for a years to come.
I could not agree more. It is time to sunset Flash. Formally kill it, and the stragglers reliant on it will have no choice but to get with the programme, or drift into obscurity, if not become fodder for angry mobs of villagers (afflicted users) with pitchforks and torches in the night, come to show them what for!
So Steve was right back in 2010. I remember his manifesto was excoriated and ridiculed by the tech press. They predicted Apple’s doom without Flash on iOS. The fAndroids went on and on about the ‘real’ Internet and such. These bozos always wind up with egg smeared all over their faces eventually. So much for Flash, so much for ‘open’ vs the walled garden, so much for just about everything the techies say about Apple. Techies are losers.
Linda.com is a video training site, I believe they use Flash exclusively. What happens to their content I wonder? Is there a way they can port existing content to some other format? What a headache for them!
Supposedly because there is so much granular detail, screen-in- screen demonstrations of video software, they claim that other platforms are unsuitable.
So Steve was right back in 2010. I remember his manifesto was excoriated and ridiculed by the tech press. They predicted Apple’s doom without Flash on iOS. The fAndroids went on and on about the ‘real’ Internet and such. These bozos always wind up with egg smeared all over their faces eventually. So much for Flash, so much for ‘open’ vs the walled garden, so much for just about everything the techies say about Apple. Techies are losers.
The sad thing is, you're probably right. It's the same reason I had to learn Rhino instead of SolidWorks in school. It's because that's what the professor knew, and so that's what got taught. I could have taken the SolidWorks elective, but it never came around at the right time. Oh well, my company just bought a few seats of SolidWorks so it's all good I guess
Rhino is more for Industrial Design and Art in my opinion, whereas SolidWorks is targeted at mechanical design for manufacture. With T-splines, you can import NURB surfaces into SolidWorks without issue; best of both worlds. The same might be said for Modo, but you have to use their export to SolidWorks workflow.
Autodesk owns T-Splines, and Siemens owns Parasolids, the kernel for SolidWorks.
Timely editorial. I actually removed Flash last night. Then is went to a critical web site I use and one key part used Flash. Big sigh. I reluctantly reinstalled Flash. Now I'm going to install Click to Flash.
If you use safari and trust the site you are using flash on, you can set the site to always use flash and have it disabled for all other sites.
Some sites won't load their HTML equivalent if flash is disabled for some reason, but you can enable the Developer menu in Safari and tell Safari to advertise it is an iPad, iPhone, etc when that happens. I have one site at work that they just won't get updated. I actually leave all plug-ins disabled and only turn it on for the very rare occasion that I need to use one. So once I enable them, then my whitelist is used. Plus by doing that sites usually load the plug-in free experience.
Java is the #1 - #3 server-side programming language in use in the world (depending on metrics). That's different than Java on the UI, which I reluctantly agree needs to die. JavaScript is the #1 client-side programming language by a large margin.
Java is the #1 - #3 server-side programming language in use in the world (depending on metrics). That's different than Java on the UI, which I reluctantly agree needs to die. JavaScript is the #1 client-side programming language by a large margin.
Everything about Flash is awful. The update process can be complicated for some, unless you use Chrome. Flash only works well with Windows. It has always been a problem with OS X and Linux, in my experiences. It is time for Flash to die.
And all Apple-haters have done for years is criticize them for not putting Flash on iPhone, now maybe people will finally see why, in addition to it being a battery life killer...
Java and JavaScript have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common whatsoever except part of their names.
Java used to have Java Applets on the Front End. Yahoo Games used to use them extensively. The user didn't say anything about Java and Javascript having anything in common.
I am unable to find the plugins tab in Chrome. I'm getting angry because It use Chrome alot.
Oh well, my company just bought a few seats of SolidWorks so it's all good I guess
SolidWorks is awful and has been abandonware for the last 5 years. People only learn SolidWorks because that's what they've been taught. As you recall, it was purchased by Dassault in 1997 and since then they've been trying to migrate it over to become CATIA lite. As tmay pointed out, it uses their competitor's solid modeling engine. Only problem is that CATIA is a completely incompatible change with a different engine, and second CATIA is a client-server environment, which means SolidWorks will become a subscription cloud environment.
At work, we dumped SolidWorks for Siemens NX (the lite version is SolidEdge) and everybody agreed it was better, especially since we didn't have the annual incompatible update madness.
Linda.com is a video training site, I believe they use Flash exclusively. What happens to their content I wonder? Is there a way they can port existing content to some other format? What a headache for them!
Supposedly because there is so much granular detail, screen-in- screen demonstrations of video software, they claim that other platforms are unsuitable.
I use Lynda all the time. Really excellent content. They do have an iOS app, although I have never used it so I don't know if it has the same transcript integration, which is one the Flash-centric aspects of the platform. I prefer the desktop with a large monitor. I makes learning complex topics like software development easier because you can see the details and also pause the video to test the code on your own.
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This seems like an unnecessary slam...
I could not agree more. It is time to sunset Flash. Formally kill it, and the stragglers reliant on it will have no choice but to get with the programme, or drift into obscurity, if not become fodder for angry mobs of villagers (afflicted users) with pitchforks and torches in the night, come to show them what for!
So Steve was right back in 2010. I remember his manifesto was excoriated and ridiculed by the tech press. They predicted Apple’s doom without Flash on iOS. The fAndroids went on and on about the ‘real’ Internet and such. These bozos always wind up with egg smeared all over their faces eventually. So much for Flash, so much for ‘open’ vs the walled garden, so much for just about everything the techies say about Apple. Techies are losers.
Supposedly because there is so much granular detail, screen-in- screen demonstrations of video software, they claim that other platforms are unsuitable.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
The sad thing is, you're probably right. It's the same reason I had to learn Rhino instead of SolidWorks in school. It's because that's what the professor knew, and so that's what got taught. I could have taken the SolidWorks elective, but it never came around at the right time. Oh well, my company just bought a few seats of SolidWorks so it's all good I guess
Rhino is more for Industrial Design and Art in my opinion, whereas SolidWorks is targeted at mechanical design for manufacture. With T-splines, you can import NURB surfaces into SolidWorks without issue; best of both worlds. The same might be said for Modo, but you have to use their export to SolidWorks workflow.
Autodesk owns T-Splines, and Siemens owns Parasolids, the kernel for SolidWorks.
Timely editorial. I actually removed Flash last night. Then is went to a critical web site I use and one key part used Flash. Big sigh. I reluctantly reinstalled Flash. Now I'm going to install Click to Flash.
If you use safari and trust the site you are using flash on, you can set the site to always use flash and have it disabled for all other sites.
Safari -> Preferences -> Security -> Allow Internet Plug-ins [x] -> Website settings
Some sites won't load their HTML equivalent if flash is disabled for some reason, but you can enable the Developer menu in Safari and tell Safari to advertise it is an iPad, iPhone, etc when that happens. I have one site at work that they just won't get updated. I actually leave all plug-ins disabled and only turn it on for the very rare occasion that I need to use one. So once I enable them, then my whitelist is used. Plus by doing that sites usually load the plug-in free experience.
Java is the #1 - #3 server-side programming language in use in the world (depending on metrics). That's different than Java on the UI, which I reluctantly agree needs to die. JavaScript is the #1 client-side programming language by a large margin.
https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
I get that these vulnerabilities are newly reported, but the idea that Flash is a stone around its users' necks is not new. I've been Flash free since Gruber gave detailed instructions back in 2010: http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome
Ditto.
Flash is a cpu-intensive, battery draining memory hog. My Macs have been much happier being Flash-free.
Java and JavaScript have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common whatsoever except part of their names.
Everything about Flash is awful. The update process can be complicated for some, unless you use Chrome. Flash only works well with Windows. It has always been a problem with OS X and Linux, in my experiences. It is time for Flash to die.
Java and JavaScript have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common whatsoever except part of their names.
Don't think anyone said they did.
Java and JavaScript have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common whatsoever except part of their names.
Java used to have Java Applets on the Front End. Yahoo Games used to use them extensively. The user didn't say anything about Java and Javascript having anything in common.
I am unable to find the plugins tab in Chrome. I'm getting angry because It use Chrome alot.
Java and JavaScript have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common whatsoever except part of their names.
I mentioned JavaScript due to its being predominately a client-side programming language - like Flash.
Oh well, my company just bought a few seats of SolidWorks so it's all good I guess
SolidWorks is awful and has been abandonware for the last 5 years. People only learn SolidWorks because that's what they've been taught. As you recall, it was purchased by Dassault in 1997 and since then they've been trying to migrate it over to become CATIA lite. As tmay pointed out, it uses their competitor's solid modeling engine. Only problem is that CATIA is a completely incompatible change with a different engine, and second CATIA is a client-server environment, which means SolidWorks will become a subscription cloud environment.
At work, we dumped SolidWorks for Siemens NX (the lite version is SolidEdge) and everybody agreed it was better, especially since we didn't have the annual incompatible update madness.
Linda.com is a video training site, I believe they use Flash exclusively. What happens to their content I wonder? Is there a way they can port existing content to some other format? What a headache for them!
Supposedly because there is so much granular detail, screen-in- screen demonstrations of video software, they claim that other platforms are unsuitable.
I use Lynda all the time. Really excellent content. They do have an iOS app, although I have never used it so I don't know if it has the same transcript integration, which is one the Flash-centric aspects of the platform. I prefer the desktop with a large monitor. I makes learning complex topics like software development easier because you can see the details and also pause the video to test the code on your own.
I followed this advice to nuke Flash:
http://briarkitesme.com/2015/01/26/how-to-nuke-adobe-flash-but-still-access-content/ ;