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In a move to stop CPU waste from processing bloated content, Virgin Airlines has trash-canned all of their FLASH content. I commend them on this move; someone needed to start the movement. Flash is bloated. End of story. There is no standard, there is no open source, and there is no relief. As soon as you start adding flash to a site, you’ve degraded the ability of the browser.

“Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy… Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash…The world is moving to HTML5.” — Wired

(HAHA!). But flash has it’s place, it is the best medium to deliver video on a web page and play web-games.

Hopefully, HTML5 can fix the web game problem.

Adding my own flavor to this post:

Over the technology years, flash has been metaphorically turned into a baseball bat by business owners and web publishers. This proverbial baseball bat has been beaten across every web developer’s face (repeatedly) for the last 11 years and there hasn’t been anything that the developers can do about it. You MUST specialize in flash, to make flash.

New personal hero: Ravi Simhambhatla

He has some sweet open source ideals as well.

Smack! Looks like the PS3 has finally been hacked. The ‘researcher’ supposedly bypassed the hypervisor and gained full read/write access to all the inner workings of the long un-touched gaming console beast machine known as the Playstation 3. Sony, what’s up?

The researcher named George Hotz goes by geohot. We won’t find out soon how he did it because he’s not releasing his information yet, but you can follow the updates on the researcher’s blog or his twitter.

Shouldn’t be long now, ps3. I May have to get one!

[found at hack a day]

Omg! It’s almost here! I’m getting wet just imagining the possibilities that we will share and the creations that we will freaking have. Woo! Can I just scream “CARL SAGAN” when ever I want? That’s how joyous of an occasion this is to me.

Forget the upcoming holiday woes and come blast me and my friends in the face with virtual projectiles (like bullets, plasma shells, rockets, swords, frisbeez, you name it). All you have to do is get yourself hyped for Saturday (November 14th) and then bring your computer over on Saturday…

There is going to be a keg so keep that in consideration when deciding what to bring. Entrance fee is $7 (7 United States Dollars). There will be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 or Netflix Instant watch for friends that don’t bring computers. No violent attitudes, you will be forced out of the location left to wait for your things. Gaming starts at Noon, drinks later, show up any time. We may be playing some Heros of Newerth, so grab a key from a friend if you don’t have that yet. Don’t be pissed when we play network hearts. It’s a lan, when else would we have that opportunity?!

facebook event page

DON’T FORGET YOUR NETWORK CABLES AND POWER STRIPS!!

If you can bring a table, please do. Also if you could please let me know that your coming somehow, that would be nice. Thank you.

FantomLAN XXI (21) is official!

Entrance fee is $7.

The event will be at a house in the north east suburbs of the twin cities on Saturday November 14th from 12:00PM CST till Sunday November 15th ??:??AM.

There will be LAN games, that’s for sure. Game suggestions welcome in comments below.

We will be getting a keg. Must be 21 to drink! LAW!

There will be enough ports for everyone so remember to bring a network cable.

If you can bring a table and/or chair(s), please do.

Location and more info available here on the facebook event listing.

My buddy shawn is throwing a lan on nov. 7th to kickoff the winter. They will be playing Half Life (non source) mods, CS (not 1.6), star craft 1, Quake OGL, and UT3.

Check out the facebook event page here.