Published by Robert Scoble
I give you a front-row seat on the future. Focusing most of my efforts now on next-generation augmented reality and artificial intelligence, AKA "mixed reality."
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WATCH MY LATEST SPEECHES:
State of VR with Philip Rosedale (done in VR itself, very cool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAA1EVGUZU
At GEOINT, June 2017: http://trajectorymagazine.com/glimpse-new-world/
Augmented World Expo, June 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xHILvLD8E
At Leade.rs, April 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
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BIO:
Scoble gives you a front-row seat on the future.
Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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SPEAKER PITCH:
Apple and Facebook now have revealed their Augmented Reality strategies, which means your business needs one too. Rely on Robert Scoble, the world's top authority on AR, to bring to your conference what businesses should do next.
SPEECH ABSTRACT #1:
TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
Learn more about Robert's speaking style and contact his agent at http://odemanagement.com/robert-scoble/Robert-Scoble.html
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #2:
"The Next Two Clicks of Moore's Law."
Over the next four years, or two clicks of Moore's Law, a ton about our technology world will change. Scoble will bring you the best from his travels visiting R&D labs, startups, and innovators around the world.
He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #3:
"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
What role does augmented reality play in both worlds?
Get Scoble's insight into where augmented reality is going, see tons of real-world demos, and understand what he means by 'personalized meaning.'
CONTACT:
If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com.
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ENDORSEMENTS:
IZEA Top 25 Tech Influencers: https://izea.com/2017/07/07/25-top-tech-influencers/
Time: One of the top 140 Twitterers!
FT: One of the five most influential Twitterers!
Inc. Top 5 on list of Tech Power Players You Need to Know: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/30-power-players-in-tech-you-need-to-know.html
Next Reality: #4 on top 50 AR influencer list: https://next.reality.news/news/nr50-next-realitys-50-people-watch-augmented-mixed-reality-0177454/
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That Firefox and Flash issue is only on Vista. I noticed this as well. I had to use the flash exe installer to get it working. Also, I like WMV on Windows, and would not want quicktime…so at podtech you better offer WMV still!
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That Firefox and Flash issue is only on Vista. I noticed this as well. I had to use the flash exe installer to get it working. Also, I like WMV on Windows, and would not want quicktime…so at podtech you better offer WMV still!
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Robert, why that screenshoot looks like a bad resolution capture? Isn’t print-screen good enough?
BTW: I can’t wait till browsers start supporting seriously: SVG
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Robert, why that screenshoot looks like a bad resolution capture? Isn’t print-screen good enough?
BTW: I can’t wait till browsers start supporting seriously: SVG
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mini-d: that was probably my fault. I print screened, copied into Paint, then saved as GIF.
Brandon, I’ll check out my XP box right now.
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mini-d: that was probably my fault. I print screened, copied into Paint, then saved as GIF.
Brandon, I’ll check out my XP box right now.
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I’ve been trying Opera 9 – it supports SVG and you can download it for free:
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/archive/2006/07/09/141786.aspx
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I’ve been trying Opera 9 – it supports SVG and you can download it for free:
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/archive/2006/07/09/141786.aspx
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Robert: “beta” is a key word in your post too. Any beta product, be it from open source, microsoft, whoever, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to. Doubly so when using a new product (flash 9) on a beta (firefox) running on another beta (vista).
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Robert: “beta” is a key word in your post too. Any beta product, be it from open source, microsoft, whoever, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to. Doubly so when using a new product (flash 9) on a beta (firefox) running on another beta (vista).
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It’s just as bad on my XP box that has never had Firefox on it. It said “failed” after I got through the Flash download and install and Amanda’s site still said “plugin required.”
The only way around this is a manual install.
By the way, doing both required many, many clicks. I’m gonna do it again and count.
Same behavior happens on the shipping version of Firefox, by the way.
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It’s just as bad on my XP box that has never had Firefox on it. It said “failed” after I got through the Flash download and install and Amanda’s site still said “plugin required.”
The only way around this is a manual install.
By the way, doing both required many, many clicks. I’m gonna do it again and count.
Same behavior happens on the shipping version of Firefox, by the way.
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I get the same issue using Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Vista.
Phil
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I get the same issue using Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Vista.
Phil
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Ha, Robert, your talking about how bad a BETA of Firefox is…yet you constantly talk about how Windows Vista BETA 2 is so wonderful, and are quick to point out that it still is a BETA if something goes wrong.
You’re so fucking biased, it’s unbelivable.
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Ha, Robert, your talking about how bad a BETA of Firefox is…yet you constantly talk about how Windows Vista BETA 2 is so wonderful, and are quick to point out that it still is a BETA if something goes wrong.
You’re so fucking biased, it’s unbelivable.
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Cody: these comments aren’t aimed at Firefox, if you do some careful reading.
And, I’ll have plenty to say about Vista. It’s slow. It has poor driver support. The UI isn’t finished. And application support isn’t very good.
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Cody: these comments aren’t aimed at Firefox, if you do some careful reading.
And, I’ll have plenty to say about Vista. It’s slow. It has poor driver support. The UI isn’t finished. And application support isn’t very good.
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So, Robert, why don’t you just get a Mac? Everything works on a Mac. 😉
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So, Robert, why don’t you just get a Mac? Everything works on a Mac. 😉
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“we got rid of the stupid EULA”?
When have you ever used commercial software that didn’t have an EULA? Come on man, you’re starting to sound silly now.
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“we got rid of the stupid EULA”?
When have you ever used commercial software that didn’t have an EULA? Come on man, you’re starting to sound silly now.
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Whoa!!! Using bleeding edge builds and getting some erorrs? What a suprise. I’m assuming we’ll be seeing a post on how a lot of sites return error messages when I use IE 7 beta? The sites don’t even render, only give me an error message stating that I need to download the new version of IE. Lately I have been steering clear of a lot of beta and nightly builds and lo and behold I have a less hedaches.
Take a step back and you’ll see the banality of the post.
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Whoa!!! Using bleeding edge builds and getting some erorrs? What a suprise. I’m assuming we’ll be seeing a post on how a lot of sites return error messages when I use IE 7 beta? The sites don’t even render, only give me an error message stating that I need to download the new version of IE. Lately I have been steering clear of a lot of beta and nightly builds and lo and behold I have a less hedaches.
Take a step back and you’ll see the banality of the post.
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Don’t worry. The headaces of flash are well and good over on the Linux side of things, too. We have an outdated version that can’t be shipped with most distros because of the license. And did I mention the installer wants to be used from the command line? We’ve only had the Loki graphical installers for what, 8 years now?
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Don’t worry. The headaces of flash are well and good over on the Linux side of things, too. We have an outdated version that can’t be shipped with most distros because of the license. And did I mention the installer wants to be used from the command line? We’ve only had the Loki graphical installers for what, 8 years now?
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Cali: Not in this case. Robert’s talking about Flash 9, for which Adobe did not initially ship a universal binary. I called them out on it here: http://www.richbrownell.com/page.php?id=236 and they quickly got back to me so I updated: http://www.richbrownell.com/page.php?id=237
And to Robert again: if there is a problem with Flash, I’m sure it’ll have a fix soon. Adobe released new Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion all on the same day, so they have a lot to deal with.
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Cali: Not in this case. Robert’s talking about Flash 9, for which Adobe did not initially ship a universal binary. I called them out on it here: http://www.richbrownell.com/page.php?id=236 and they quickly got back to me so I updated: http://www.richbrownell.com/page.php?id=237
And to Robert again: if there is a problem with Flash, I’m sure it’ll have a fix soon. Adobe released new Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion all on the same day, so they have a lot to deal with.
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If the flash plugin is given away free to everyone, why don’t Adobe open source it? Then it could be included inside Firefox like any other regular tag.
Am I missing something basic here?
I’d like to see 2 versions of the firefox install, one for techies which is just firefox, and one for the rest of the world (me included) that installs every fucking extension I need, Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime and all the media playing stuff, everything baby.
I still haven’t been able to get Quicktime to work on my PC, and I’ve been using browsers since Mosaic. Does this make Apple suck?
BTW I love Firefox, it made MS up their game. Win win for everyone 🙂
monk.e.boy
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If the flash plugin is given away free to everyone, why don’t Adobe open source it? Then it could be included inside Firefox like any other regular tag.
Am I missing something basic here?
I’d like to see 2 versions of the firefox install, one for techies which is just firefox, and one for the rest of the world (me included) that installs every fucking extension I need, Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime and all the media playing stuff, everything baby.
I still haven’t been able to get Quicktime to work on my PC, and I’ve been using browsers since Mosaic. Does this make Apple suck?
BTW I love Firefox, it made MS up their game. Win win for everyone 🙂
monk.e.boy
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The difference between Vista, IE 7 and Firefox is that Firefox is “release candidate 1” – as in ready for release.
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The difference between Vista, IE 7 and Firefox is that Firefox is “release candidate 1” – as in ready for release.
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Many times when viewing Flash on Firefox 1.5 running on Windows XP, it starts using 100% of my processor and so I have to give it an end task. My guess is that you’re experiencing the same problem because of the same bug they haven’t fixed since 1.5 (or maybe even earlier).
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Many times when viewing Flash on Firefox 1.5 running on Windows XP, it starts using 100% of my processor and so I have to give it an end task. My guess is that you’re experiencing the same problem because of the same bug they haven’t fixed since 1.5 (or maybe even earlier).
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The answer to your screenshot nightmares is a great utility built in C# called cropper created by BRIAN Scott. It has been an essential for me for 2 years. Scott Hanselman had it listed as one of his developer tools.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MyGrokTalkTenToolsInTenMinutes.aspx
http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx
Get the tools, you will love them.
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The answer to your screenshot nightmares is a great utility built in C# called cropper created by BRIAN Scott. It has been an essential for me for 2 years. Scott Hanselman had it listed as one of his developer tools.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MyGrokTalkTenToolsInTenMinutes.aspx
http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx
Get the tools, you will love them.
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I always use EULAlyzer from javacool to help me with EULA’s. Just point it at the EULA box in the software you are installing and it will help analyse the EULA by pointing out the sections of interest (for instance third party tools or licences, or “without notice”,…) and assigning a level of interest to them.
Free download from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html
It saves a lot of time when reading EULA’s, since it makes one focus on the sections that are of importance. I hope you can find it useful as well.
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I always use EULAlyzer from javacool to help me with EULA’s. Just point it at the EULA box in the software you are installing and it will help analyse the EULA by pointing out the sections of interest (for instance third party tools or licences, or “without notice”,…) and assigning a level of interest to them.
Free download from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html
It saves a lot of time when reading EULA’s, since it makes one focus on the sections that are of importance. I hope you can find it useful as well.
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Comment on the screen shot, there’s a screen clipping tool in Vista that will allow you to save a screen shot as jpeg. Unless I’m mistaken, it should be under accessories.
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Comment on the screen shot, there’s a screen clipping tool in Vista that will allow you to save a screen shot as jpeg. Unless I’m mistaken, it should be under accessories.
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“the EULA is pages long with language that normal people can’t understand (does anyone really read those things anyway?). If I was a normal person instead of a tech geek I’d say “screw this” and hit the back button.”
That’s not true and you know it. The “normal person” will not read it, but *will* click ok to continue. If that wasn’t the case, noone would upgrade Windows either… and remember how long the EULA you have to accept in Windows Update for that wmf or jpg bug fix is, btw? It’s not to shabby either…
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“the EULA is pages long with language that normal people can’t understand (does anyone really read those things anyway?). If I was a normal person instead of a tech geek I’d say “screw this” and hit the back button.”
That’s not true and you know it. The “normal person” will not read it, but *will* click ok to continue. If that wasn’t the case, noone would upgrade Windows either… and remember how long the EULA you have to accept in Windows Update for that wmf or jpg bug fix is, btw? It’s not to shabby either…
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Thank you for considering not using wmv for video….
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Thank you for considering not using wmv for video….
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More on “codec silos” … we are thinking about short term user issues (installation) but we should also keep in mind the longer term issues if any one vendor makes it so easy that they force a lock-in on their proprietary format.
I think that our only hope is for Apple and RealNetworks to create a completely interoperable IPTV stack based upon the MPEG LA standard of H264 in MP4 or 3GP over RTSP or HTTP. We need two strong vendors to drive this effort together. When this happens Microsoft will eventually be forced to add this standard IPTV support to their media player and then we will have a good solution that will work out of the box for most consumers regardless of OS and browser or device.
If Microsoft just simply added support for ISMA standard MPEG4 codecs and formats these problems would go away for consumers. It is amazing that they have to push Windows Media format at the exclusion of the standard rather than letting it compete on its technical merits. Adopting standards would really improve the consumer experience with MS products. They are holding back the general IPTV industry with these practices.
I have a longer post on “codec silos” here: http://podslug.com/blog/?p=32
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More on “codec silos” … we are thinking about short term user issues (installation) but we should also keep in mind the longer term issues if any one vendor makes it so easy that they force a lock-in on their proprietary format.
I think that our only hope is for Apple and RealNetworks to create a completely interoperable IPTV stack based upon the MPEG LA standard of H264 in MP4 or 3GP over RTSP or HTTP. We need two strong vendors to drive this effort together. When this happens Microsoft will eventually be forced to add this standard IPTV support to their media player and then we will have a good solution that will work out of the box for most consumers regardless of OS and browser or device.
If Microsoft just simply added support for ISMA standard MPEG4 codecs and formats these problems would go away for consumers. It is amazing that they have to push Windows Media format at the exclusion of the standard rather than letting it compete on its technical merits. Adopting standards would really improve the consumer experience with MS products. They are holding back the general IPTV industry with these practices.
I have a longer post on “codec silos” here: http://podslug.com/blog/?p=32
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“The difference between Vista, IE 7 and Firefox is that Firefox is “release candidate 1″ – as in ready for release.”
That’s bullshit, Jarred. Firefox 2 isn’t even beta yet. It will be in a week or two.
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“The difference between Vista, IE 7 and Firefox is that Firefox is “release candidate 1″ – as in ready for release.”
That’s bullshit, Jarred. Firefox 2 isn’t even beta yet. It will be in a week or two.
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“And, I’ll have plenty to say about Vista. It’s slow. It has poor driver support. The UI isn’t finished. And application support isn’t very good.”
You saw it here first:
Robert Scoble gives his first “I wouldn’t have said it this harshly when I was a Microsoft employee” piece of post-Microsoft perspective-tude.
Micosoft defenders, please start your engines.
Robert, you are so0o0o0 in a new world.
“Hey, what’s different? He used to regularly criticise Microsoft on some stuff but say PR-friendly things about other Microsoft stuff”.
Yeah, but this latest stuff seems kind of, er, less subtle, less guarded, no?
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“And, I’ll have plenty to say about Vista. It’s slow. It has poor driver support. The UI isn’t finished. And application support isn’t very good.”
You saw it here first:
Robert Scoble gives his first “I wouldn’t have said it this harshly when I was a Microsoft employee” piece of post-Microsoft perspective-tude.
Micosoft defenders, please start your engines.
Robert, you are so0o0o0 in a new world.
“Hey, what’s different? He used to regularly criticise Microsoft on some stuff but say PR-friendly things about other Microsoft stuff”.
Yeah, but this latest stuff seems kind of, er, less subtle, less guarded, no?
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Ricky: absolutely! But on the other hand you’ll believe me when I say something nice about Vista too and there IS a lot nice to say about it.
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Ricky: absolutely! But on the other hand you’ll believe me when I say something nice about Vista too and there IS a lot nice to say about it.
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I guess they’re doing something right with the Flash plugin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mannu/148867953/
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I guess they’re doing something right with the Flash plugin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mannu/148867953/
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Beta software hangs on beta operating system. Gosh, I didn’t see that coming.
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Beta software hangs on beta operating system. Gosh, I didn’t see that coming.
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I used to love Flash and tout it as a solution to video compatibility problems across platforms… but I’m becoming less and less a fan, after running into problems with it in Firefox on Ubuntu 6.06. Although, in this case, WMV is certainly not a solution, nor is Quicktime.
Nice to know it isn’t just linux users having problems with Flash, though.
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I used to love Flash and tout it as a solution to video compatibility problems across platforms… but I’m becoming less and less a fan, after running into problems with it in Firefox on Ubuntu 6.06. Although, in this case, WMV is certainly not a solution, nor is Quicktime.
Nice to know it isn’t just linux users having problems with Flash, though.
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The difference is that now Scoble is SECRETLY on MS’s pay. So the next post will be about Vista’s new graphics sub-system that’s going to kill Flash. You see, it’s less obvious now and everything…
😉
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The difference is that now Scoble is SECRETLY on MS’s pay. So the next post will be about Vista’s new graphics sub-system that’s going to kill Flash. You see, it’s less obvious now and everything…
😉
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Naaa, wmv is not evil on the Mac, that’s what we have flip4mac for. It’s evil on Linux! This is where mp4 really shines. So far it seems to play on anything, mobile phones, media players, games consoles and even computers ^_^
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Naaa, wmv is not evil on the Mac, that’s what we have flip4mac for. It’s evil on Linux! This is where mp4 really shines. So far it seems to play on anything, mobile phones, media players, games consoles and even computers ^_^
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That’s because you use a PC! It took less than 3 minutes to install Flash Player 9 [beta] and a few minutes to use Firefox 2.0 b1!!! PCs suck! Macs are faster!!! PCs stole the interface, and they suck!!!
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That’s because you use a PC! It took less than 3 minutes to install Flash Player 9 [beta] and a few minutes to use Firefox 2.0 b1!!! PCs suck! Macs are faster!!! PCs stole the interface, and they suck!!!
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Plugin problems with a pre-beta browser on a beta operating system? Perish the thought!
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Plugin problems with a pre-beta browser on a beta operating system? Perish the thought!
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I think your just being rejected by the Flash installer based on your pure ignorance… you should put your machine back in the box and send it back.. leave technology alone, it doesn’t appear to be your strong suite
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I think your just being rejected by the Flash installer based on your pure ignorance… you should put your machine back in the box and send it back.. leave technology alone, it doesn’t appear to be your strong suite
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Myspace switched to Flash 9 for their embedded videos just recently and everyone that I know running on Windows (its NOT JUST Vista) and Firefox 1.5 has the problem with some Flash files. My friend uses Swishmax and they added a few patches because the new Flash has dropped support for older coding I believe or something similar…
I blame Adobe as well as those twits like Myspace who always HAVE to have the latest version of a plugin (Myspace claims they switched so quickly to Flash 9 because it offered less security holes than the previous version…)
The makers of Swish have reacted quickly to their communities needs. Let’s see how many months it will take for something to be done to this Flash piece og crap…
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Myspace switched to Flash 9 for their embedded videos just recently and everyone that I know running on Windows (its NOT JUST Vista) and Firefox 1.5 has the problem with some Flash files. My friend uses Swishmax and they added a few patches because the new Flash has dropped support for older coding I believe or something similar…
I blame Adobe as well as those twits like Myspace who always HAVE to have the latest version of a plugin (Myspace claims they switched so quickly to Flash 9 because it offered less security holes than the previous version…)
The makers of Swish have reacted quickly to their communities needs. Let’s see how many months it will take for something to be done to this Flash piece og crap…
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Scoble, many have pointed out that you are running beta on beta so no surprise there. What most have left out is the simple fact that THIS IS NOT A FLASH ISSUE! Firefox hangs on loading a EULA. Is that Firefox or the vendor? Blame it on Adobe, their site, or Firefox but not the plugin.
I HIGHLY doubt you would have created this post had you not received a hefty amount of blasting on your last “Flash Bash” post (http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/why-i-dont-use-flash/). At least you wouldn’t have pointed it at Flash. You would’ve either left it alone, bashed Adobe, or bashed Firefox.
As a side note, Flock wouldn’t install Flash either. It wasn’t Flash’s fault. Flock was an early beta release and I was on a buggy Vista release. 🙂
It is all about approach. 😉
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Scoble, many have pointed out that you are running beta on beta so no surprise there. What most have left out is the simple fact that THIS IS NOT A FLASH ISSUE! Firefox hangs on loading a EULA. Is that Firefox or the vendor? Blame it on Adobe, their site, or Firefox but not the plugin.
I HIGHLY doubt you would have created this post had you not received a hefty amount of blasting on your last “Flash Bash” post (http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/why-i-dont-use-flash/). At least you wouldn’t have pointed it at Flash. You would’ve either left it alone, bashed Adobe, or bashed Firefox.
As a side note, Flock wouldn’t install Flash either. It wasn’t Flash’s fault. Flock was an early beta release and I was on a buggy Vista release. 🙂
It is all about approach. 😉
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