barryfandango

Funny how these 2.0 young bucks consider a C-rewrite extreme, when for many coders is is the lingua franca, the bread and butter. I got started on high-level languages but I've made an effort to get familiar with C because it's small, beautiful, and fast as all hell. Fast is powerful.

If they used flash, this story would seem ridiculous: --

Adobe will offer U.S. Web surfers this month thousands of hours of free video direct from the Olympics in Beijing.

The service, produced in conjunction with NBC, is being hailed as a bold experiment in delivering on the original promise of the Web. For the first time, it will be possible to watch specific events on demand as well as many of the less popular sporting events, which have received scant attention in mainstream television coverage of the games.

But there's a catch. To view the video, it will be necessary to download a Adobe Web browser software component based on a new proprietary technology, Flash, that is intended to make it possible to display interactive animations, graphics, audio and video, all within a fixed window inside a Web browser display.

Flash will work for both Macintosh and Windows PC users, and a version for Linux is also available. A mobile version will be available on Windows Mobile and Nokia smartphones.

Fans of entertainment? So they're entertained by things they find entertaining. Great headline!

I know that counterexamples will not disprove the trend, but... What about the Curies? Or Thelonious Monk. Without Nellie to make his lunch and get him dressed in the morning, he would never have achieved the things he did.