pub

[rob bone]

anybody not watching the football fancy a chin wag

 

[simon kerr]

What ya drinking?

 

[rob bone]

dry martini

 

[tonybloke]

bump*

 

[alexander]

What ya drinking?

At the mo, best drink in the world. Guinness. Heavens true nectar

 

[freethorpe bees]

Got a glass of sloe gin on the go!

 

[alexander]

Got a glass of sloe gin on the go!

while to wait for mine

 

[tonybloke]

Got a glass of sloe gin on the go!

still can't gain access to the pub, Janet?

 

[freethorpe bees]

Can't quite work out how to get Java Flash on the I-touch - no doubt there is a way!
See you at Easton tomorrow TB!

 

[tonybloke]

see you there, mate

 

[For want of a better word]

Found a new pub where all plastics are banned!
Real ale, real glasses, real pints and the landlord keeps bees too in real wooden hives no less!
I'm going to give it a try!

 

[tonybloke]

Found a new pub where all plastics are banned!
Real ale, real glasses, real pints and the landlord keeps bees too in real wooden hives no less!
I'm going to give it a try!

keep us informed of progress!!

 

[tonybloke]

pint anyone? bar is open

 

[freethorpe bees]

Just tried to install that flash worst but came up with a message about Apple not allowing it. Summat like that anyway . Must get shuteye, lots of digging to do tomorrow!

 

[Hombre]

Just tried to install that flash worst but came up with a message about Apple not allowing it. Summat like that anyway . Must get shuteye, lots of digging to do tomorrow!

Oh dear Freethorpe - Steve Jobs hates Adobe Flash. I don't quite remember the source, but one of the Regular online Tech editorials. I repeated the detail to a friend at the time.
What follows is the background and I have highlighted/boldened the key bit for you.

You seem to be out of luck because of squabbling kids.

Considering that Adobe was one of the key companies that made the Mac the desirable piece of equipment it became, this is a massive reversal of fortunes.

It all started with a number of people asking the honest question of when Flash would be making an appearance on iOS systems.

Steve Jobs (Apple) responded rather aggressively with an open blog letter in which he let Adobe and Flash have both barrels at point-blank range.

Among the highlights of diatribe was the stunning assertion that “We know that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash”. If that's so, then surely it's the browser that's the issue Steve? Or even the operating system for letting a minor tool get so out of it's box.

Adobe wasn't going to take that lying down and pointed out that “By 2012 it expects 53% of phones to be shipping with Flash Player 10.1 and that roughly 250 million devices will be supporting it at that time.”

This exchange went on with the **** coming when Adobe's platform evangelist, Lee Brimelow, finished a verbal broadside on his blog with “Go Screw Yourself Apple.”

Apple then removed Flash from the default installation of Max OS X, in possibly the most childish act of spite we got to see from a corporation in 2010.

From Apple's perspective, it doesn't want Flash inside it's' walled garden', because people can develop their own applications that Apple can't control through the App Store, and it would react the same if Microsoft tried to put Silverlight on iOS on there too.

In Steve Jobs blog rant, he goes on to say that Apple doesn't need Flash because it's committed to HTML5, which will offer the same sort of facilities. The only problem with that argument is HTML5 isn't finished or remotely as mature as Flash and it won't be for some years to come.

There's more, but I won't bore you with it any more. Basically Apple want total control of what goes on and requires customer lock in. Adobe didn't come out of it too well on the market either, which chose to perceive the whole spat as a weakness.​

So now you know. Sorry.

 

[freethorpe bees]

Thanks for that Hombre. What a bunch of overpaid bickering tw@ts!

 

[rob bone]

anybody fancy a chat

 

[Headnavigator]

Hi Hombre, many thanks, a little understanding helps a lot, I now grasp why my iPad goes useless on me at times.
As you say, kids in the playground, toys out the pram, they don't deserve to be in business, do they, and it's us mugs that keep 'em there!