Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194992 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #1060 on:** April 05, 2010, 05:09:00 AM »

That the iPad doesn't support Flash.

Büge · « **Reply #1061 on:** April 05, 2010, 11:46:54 AM »

I learned that not only did Andrew Lloyd Webber create a sequel musical to The Phantom of The Opera, but also that the plot reads like bad fanfiction.

TA · « **Reply #1062 on:** April 06, 2010, 10:07:36 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on April 05, 2010, 05:09:00 AM

That the iPad doesn't support Flash.

That the iPad can't be used outdoors.

Thad · « **Reply #1063 on:** April 06, 2010, 08:14:10 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on April 05, 2010, 05:09:00 AM

That the iPad doesn't support Flash.

I can see how you might have missed this, because it was only in EVERY SINGLE STORY THAT ANY OUTLET HAS EVER PUBLISHED ABOUT THE IPAD FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.

Seriously. Fucking NPR was talking about how the iPad doesn't have Flash support.

JDigital · « **Reply #1064 on:** April 07, 2010, 12:28:49 AM »

Youtube can be made to work without Flash. The Amiga web browser Origyn manages to let Youtube work without a native Flash plugin. It just looks for the FLV and displays it in the Flash applet's place using the browser's own player interface.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1065 on:** April 07, 2010, 03:27:21 AM »

Quote from: Thad on April 06, 2010, 08:14:10 PM

Quote from: Mongrel on April 05, 2010, 05:09:00 AM
That the iPad doesn't support Flash.

I can see how you might have missed this, because it was only in EVERY SINGLE STORY THAT ANY OUTLET HAS EVER PUBLISHED ABOUT THE IPAD FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.

Seriously. Fucking NPR was talking about how the iPad doesn't have Flash support.

... I don't spend much time reading about technological devices that I'm probably not going to use?

Büge · « **Reply #1066 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:53:52 AM »

I learned that there is still a market for Amiga.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1067 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:55:58 AM »

Quote from: Thad on April 06, 2010, 08:14:10 PM

Quote from: Mongrel on April 05, 2010, 05:09:00 AM
That the iPad doesn't support Flash.

I can see how you might have missed this, because it was only in EVERY SINGLE STORY THAT ANY OUTLET HAS EVER PUBLISHED ABOUT THE IPAD FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.

Seriously. Fucking NPR was talking about how the iPad doesn't have Flash support.

Thad, stop being a dick. I didn't know that until Mongrel posted it here for the exact reason he didn't know it. If I'm not going to get one why would I seek out information about it?

Lottel · « **Reply #1068 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:58:54 AM »

Thad's point was that he was shocked Mongrel didn't know that, regardless of his intent to buy.
iPad info is fucking everywhere. I don't want one but I can't click a link without hearing about one

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1069 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:12:59 AM »

I guess we are good at filtering out information we don't care about.

Catloaf · « **Reply #1070 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:36:55 AM »

Then why do I still know that tiger woods likes to have sex?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1071 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:52:21 AM »

I didn't say you were good at it!

Mongrel · « **Reply #1072 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:56:05 AM »

For once I must agree with Catloaf, with a hearty "Guh! Tell me about it!"

Büge · « **Reply #1073 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:31:32 AM »

Because I doubt you'd ever see the iPad on the cover of a magazine at the grocery checkout.

Detonator · « **Reply #1074 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:54:58 AM »

Quote from: Büge on April 07, 2010, 10:31:32 AM

Because I doubt you'd ever see the iPad on the cover of a magazine at the grocery checkout.

It was just on the cover of newsweek.

Büge · « **Reply #1075 on:** April 07, 2010, 11:58:14 AM »

Where the heck do you get your groceries?

Mothra · « **Reply #1076 on:** April 07, 2010, 12:29:22 PM »

at the local GIANT

Detonator · « **Reply #1077 on:** April 07, 2010, 04:04:08 PM »

Do they not sell news magazines at grocery stores over there?

I guess I learned something today!

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1078 on:** April 07, 2010, 04:39:31 PM »

The girl I go to to get my hair cut is actually transgendered!

Thad · « **Reply #1079 on:** April 08, 2010, 08:50:00 PM »

...frankly the notion that people should deliberately tune out any information that they haven't actively sought out for themselves is kinda absurd.

The "We are inundated with information we don't care about to the point that we can't ignore it" argument is a good one. That said, I wouldn't say the iPad is precisely analogous to Tiger Woods's sex life, as it has the potential to affect the production and consumption of media in the long term, which is something that might be relevant to our lives over the course of the next decade or so. Whether we buy the thing or not.

Moving on:

Quote from: Jonky Roodbu on April 07, 2010, 12:28:49 AM

Youtube can be made to work without Flash. The Amiga web browser Origyn manages to let Youtube work without a native Flash plugin. It just looks for the FLV and displays it in the Flash applet's place using the browser's own player interface.

Well yes, but the browser still has to be designed to play Flash-format video files. Which Safari/Webkit is not.

Apple creating its own Flash player isn't really what this is about -- they're trying to leverage built-in video options in HTML 5. Which I'm actually all for, because Flash honestly IS a bloated, unstable mess that we unfortunately find ourselves relying on pretty much every day.

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