Comments on: Fraud science used to promote Flash performance over web standards

By: The fallacy of Flash: why Adobe’s ideological war with Apple is bankrupt — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:42:15 +0000

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By: Windows Phone 7: Microsoft’s third failed attempt to be Apple — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:16:25 +0000

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By: vaprrs

vaprrs — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000

Poster rufustfirefly is quite correct in stating there is no consensus amongst scientists about climate change being anthropogenic. I would estimate 2/3 are against at the government lab where I work. It is at this point dogma in the media, not science.

There is so much more to the debate than the CRU fraud. The climate models are interesting academic exercises, but the truth of the matter is that we are currently incapable of accurately modeling a global climate system even for short periods of time, and have no way to validate any model we might produce. Many over-reaching (and sometimes bordering on fraudulent) assumptions and simplifications used in these models greatly impact the results. Certainly nothing to base policy upon.

We should all be progressing continually towards clean renewable energy and conservation with or without “global warming” simply because it is the right thing to do in terms of efficiency, economy, and sustainability. The real tragety here is that the climate change scare and its fraud science drains resources away from those of us working to make a real defference in the world.

P.S. Dissapointing that rufustfirefly had to spell out the tongue-in-cheek. FYI, I have a PhD in Env. Eng. from a top school (as rated by US News).

[If you want to claim credibility for your opinion via your education, you can't really also post anonymously and cite a decorated (by US News, really?) but unnamed institution, because that just smacks of falseness - Dan]

By: Dorotea

Dorotea — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:23:26 +0000

I agree….. I need something while I wait for my new iPad

Puleeeeze!

By: FreeRange

FreeRange — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:01:54 +0000

Dan – where are you??????? We miss you…. lets get some new articles up!!!!!!!!!

By: PhilipWing

PhilipWing — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:23:17 +0000

Dan, I understand this is your own blog, but please stay on your main subject. I also understand you’re upset about a variety of issues, e.g., Kaiser bean counters trying to screw you over, but sometimes only enforcing currently law is necessary. Please write with your usually excellent work like your Microsoft Courier article, which I will forward my upline wanting to avoid $50 per month stuck with a device even our Windows Shop IT may ditch in going to Windows Mobile 7 (or iPhones as even she hopes). FYI, that’s with adding it to my AT&T iPhone Family plan.

By: paul_houle

paul_houle — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:19:24 +0000

Flash sux, use Silverlight.

[You might also have once said "AOL sucks, use MSN," but why not just promote web standards instead? - Dan ]

By: Matthew Fabb

Matthew Fabb — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:32:15 +0000

In the HTML5 vs Flash debate, many have claimed that Flash consumes too much CPU when running video and that HTML5 would be a more efficient way of viewing video. Jan Ozer’s tests and articles try to address that issue and that issue alone, not get into the larger HTML5 versus Flash debate.

Also Ozer writes books on video software outside of Flash and if HTML5 becomes the video standard, I imagine he would switch to writing HTML5 video instead of Flash video (if he isn’t already writing a book on HTML5 video). In the end his speciality seems to be in video not just Flash video.

As for quality Jan Ozer specifically chooses a video and switches to 720p and shows what YouTube video he’s using. Looking at both videos myself I don’t notice visible difference, but I would have to install a tool to capture the FLV file to compare to see if they are the same file. However, once again since they are both at 720p they seem to be at the same quality.

By: rufustfirefly

rufustfirefly — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:03:51 +0000

NEW HEADLINE — Fraud legislation used to promote Flash Health Care Mega Bureaucracy performance over Free Market and Free Choice.

(Please post if you understand what is in the 2000 – 3000 page “bill” which is to receive a final vote in the next few days. I would like a copy of the bill to review)

By: Robbie

Robbie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:51:09 +0000

@ rufustfirefly
You wrote:
“[...] and allows the Constitutional safeguards to block attacks on the individual – like that represented by both the current Health Care bill [...]”

It reads:
“[...] and allows the Constitutional safeguards to block attacks on the RICH individual – like that represented by both the current Health Care bill [...]”

Robbie