On Wednesday 19 Nov 2008, comfederation wrote: > > If there are good free tools to do it, why should Adobe bother > > unless it can make a killer advantage. > > Is integration and a resulting much, much better experience not enough > of a reason?
That might well be killer, yes :-) > is the quite poor quality of most of the videos that are currently up > on YouTube. A lot of quality is lost in the process of using various > settings of frames per second and Kb or Mb per second, that may or may > not match what YouTube uses and then one's video ends up going through > yet another conversion, resulting in yet another decrease in quality. I think it's mostly 12 year old kids using cell phones, actually :-) > why ADOBE FLASH MOVIES look so bad on YouTube. Most of them know how > to right click on one that they are watching and BINGO, we know what > they see will UNFORTUNATELY in most cases cause them to erroneously > think that FLASH IS CRAP FOR VIDEO. I always imagined YouTube had a quality vs. bandwidth knob that they turned one way or the other depending on their bills. > Sorry Tom but since (with a statement like that) you seem to know very > little about how Microsoft operates, I will explain it to you. ...talking to a free software guy here, I know far too much about how that particular criminal works... > Time is the only thing that is on Adobe's side. Eventually, Microsoft > will end up eating everyone's lunch, at least on the desktop. Pfft. Look at the huge number of portable/low power devices that *dont* ship with MS sludge. Those devices are the future for the masses. > have a lot of catching up to do, within a couple of years they WILL > catch up to Adobe - technically speaking. With another 2-3 years, > they will catch up in the field as well - in terms of deployments. Don't see many people installing Silverlight, do you ? > Tom, like it or not, there will not be anything that will be more > beatiful then an end-to-end .NET code (C#, VB, take your pick) that > stretches from the clients/devices and all the way through the servers > and into the database itself (stored procedures). :looks at MAX Not end-to-end ActionScript then ? > beauty eye of the beholder'n'all that. > and a much, much better developer experience due to such an > end-to-end integration. Just the type of lousy integration, a small > piece of which I suggested earlier. :looks at MAX Right-click a data source in Eclipse to automatically wire it to a DataGrid is too bad an experience ? > frustration. Please take my comments constructively and not at all > personally, even though that might end up being hard to do, at least > from a first reading. I try not to take anything personally. I just don't understand why people think MS is going to be allowed to get away with Netscape all over again. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to enormously lead extensible networks **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
