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With the possible exception of you're still using IE (don't know but if anything is going to be dumpsterfire enough to keep supporting it by default), your browser has blocked flash by default for a year or two. Without an explicit click through it won't play in any modern browser.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I don't take any chances with flash!
Too many old sites that played some crap music really loud put me right off it ever running again ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Edge blocks it by default for me.
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I'm driven to tears ... but don't tell anybody.
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abmv wrote: that flash player is going away
Haven't we been hearing this for years?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Adobe has a very bad cycle of pushing updates almost every other day. On top of it, they flag almost every second or third as security must update.
I am happy it is going away. HTML5 looks good enough.
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Quote: HTML5 looks good enough.
Meh.
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I won't miss Flash as such - but I still have fond memories of an animation style (2D comics-like) that was common many years ago, often to music. If you have seen/heard "Dear p*nis" in SWF format, you sure remember it. Then there was this poor girl falling forever, hitting balls of various sizes as she fell. There were hundreds of such funny, sometimes artistic, animations - sometimes like a cartoon movie, sometimes with interactive elements.
There were some more "serious" interactive animations as well, such as world history visualizations, and of magnitudes, ranging from the known universe down to string theory elements.
For "photographic" video, we can kick out Flash. But for the interactive SWF animations, we don't have very much of better replacements.
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OK, so I need a 3.3V supply for a little project, and I'm out of variable voltage regulators. Order half a dozen 3.3 fixed regulators but they'll be a few days.
Grab a couple of AA batteries and that'll do - just a quick meter, and ... 1.8V. Hmm. these are from my "new batteries" pack.
Measure one on its own: slowly climbs to 1.5V
Measure the other: Slowly climbs to 1.4V
Light bulb goes on. Get another meter (my clamp meter - it'll read VDC).
Instant reading: 3.178 V. Perfect.
Open up my main meter, and check the PP3 9V battery (with the other meter) - 8.8V
Ah. Close inspection and the battery has "Use by 2014" printed on it.
Have I got replacement PP3's? Nope. Shed loads of other types though ...
Perhaps I ought to check these things a little more often? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Perhaps I ought to check these things a little more often?
You would if you used them more often.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Quote: quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Who checks the checker?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Solar panel !
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Leaving aside such issues as day/night, weather, etc., The Sun is a mildly variable star (~4% IIRC). This does not make it a good standard. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm amazed that in this day, the AA's will still leak and bite you if you forget a device for a few months and leave the batteries in: Camera, game controllers, etc.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Well, it's difficult to reply without breaking the "no politics" rule, but ... just when you think get REDACTED over the top forkfull REDACTED Sasquatch position REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED with a melon ...
I think we can all go along with that, can't we?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Especially the melon
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Forgive me Father, Pastor, Priest, Vicar, Padre … for I have synonymed.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Forgive me, mathematician, for I have sined.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Going off on a tangent I see.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I hope this hasn't trig-gered anyone.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If it has, they'll have to sec solace somewhere else.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Only if they are not well-integrated.
Perhaps they need their reality checks cosined.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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