Judge tosses NSA Spy Cases
This is why I have read George Orwell's "1984" about a dozen times and never cease to marvel at that author's observations and how they become more and more relevant as Time marches on and Globalization becomes the curse of Humanity.
YouTube Videos now available in HTML5: Good Riddance Flash!
YouTube Videos in HTML 5
I am so glad to see some attempts at "good" coding. Although this is still in the Beta form, it is an attempt to snap Adobe's long time monopoly on various formats. To those in the 'know', Adobe is now the IE of the NET. What with the incursions of hacking of PDF's, Adobe Reader and Flash, the constant "security" updates have become Windows-ish in their frequency and ineffectiveness. And let's face it, Adobe apps usually have a HUGE footprint - as Mr. Rogers used to say, "Can you say 'Bloatware'?"
Whatever happened to programming in Assembly? Yes Folks, it's still alive and well and only the real serious developers use it anymore only because it's a real pain-in-the-ass to use. The High End Languages have taken over and removed all the slickness, speed and solidity that an app composed in Assembly can deliver.
It's Laziness, pure and simple. I have to confess that I had fallen into that condition when I was doing my thing because it was way easier and faster to use a High End Language rather than slave and expend hours, nay, days, over the composition of an app in Assembly. I even confess to jumping onto the scripting bandwagon of Perl because it was way faster to come up with something that would just work. No compiling was needed, dubugging wasn't as intensive and annoying and the syntax was so C+-ish without the constant, nagging need for proper structure and protocols of C+ that one could almost call it "Draft Programming" - a tool Programmers use to flesh out a programme without really writing it, just to build ideas and structure.
It's been so long since I've even attempted to use Assembly that I've forgotten it and would have to relearn it again - ahh, gawd! Even now I can feel those cerebral, cirrhotic cells in my head squirming in apprehensive discomfort at the mere thought of dueling with the evasive and subliminally syntactical miasma that is Assembly code.
As far as HTML 5 is concerned, it's just another step in the development of HTML as was the step from HTML 1.1 to 2; from 2 to 3; from 3 to 3.5 and currently the running standard is HTML 4. Time moves on.
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