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Re: Keltrax: Secret Origins part 2

GregBulmash — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:32:04 -0000

GO super yeti!

Re: Bullfinch Returns!

GregBulmash — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:29:52 -0000

Yay!

Re: ClericpaintWEB

GregBulmash — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:57:58 -0000

Welcome to the side of the angels on the NBA. I've pretty much given up on all televised professional sports. Besides the fact that it's sort of like drug addiction where you keep sitting through crap, hoping to capture the cherry high of an awesome game, I think many of us realize at some point that "our" teams don't love us back, and being a sports fan is like being in an abusive relationship.

Nice to see some new work on the site and highly anticipating the return of the strip.

Re: Another week! Just gimme more time!

GregBulmash — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:24:48 -0000

Seriously, dude. Just let us know you're alive. Or are we going to have to wait for Brock Heasley's big announcement next week?

Re: Bullfinch on Vacation!

GregBulmash — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:27:52 -0000

Be careful. I still haven't come back from the hiatus on my second online novel.

Re: Action Cat and Skraggin’ Squirrel!

GregBulmash — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:10:05 -0000

Awesome art! From a wordsmith perspective, take out "plus" in panel 6. Taking it out gives the dialogue more immediacy.

Dude, you've had me hooked on this comic for over a year and a half. The only thing you have to apologize for is that there's not MORE! :-)

Re: Apple on NPD’s Android Outselling iPhone Claim: Whatever

GregBulmash — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:04:22 -0000

Apple's probably privately happy about the report, because it helps deflect the accusations of monopolistic practices in locking the iPhone/Pod/Pad product lines to the app store and recent actions aimed at locking out cross-platform development tools by Adobe.

Still Apple's arrogance is really reminding me of a 1990s Microsoft.

Re: Past Living.

GregBulmash — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:21 -0000

Wow, how did Gil's legs get so scrawny all of a sudden?

Re: When Can Androids HTC Hero and Samsung Moment Expect 2.1 Update?

GregBulmash — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:01:30 -0000

If you got the iPhone, you'd just be trading one type of lockdown for another. Adobe's now taking sign-ups for the Flash 10.1 beta for Android (currently in private beta, sign-ups are for notification when it goes public). And this won't be Flash Lite, this will be full Flash functionality. If it runs well, you'll see thousands of flash apps getting compiled into AIR wrappers and being made available as standalone apps for Android. Meanwhile, Apple's going to lock more and more developers out of the app store, while Android keeps welcoming new ones in.

Plus, I need a slider phone. I can't do that on-screen typing.

Re: Worst that could happen.

GregBulmash — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:31:14 -0000

"Stubing goes to work with KC too? that is one loyal squirell."

I noticed that too, 'cos Stubing was in the meeting. I figured a talking MacGyver-intelligent squirrel would fit right in and he'd been given a job.

Re: Reasonable Prices

GregBulmash — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:56:25 -0000

Dun dun dunnnn....

Re: Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks?

GregBulmash — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:05:54 -0000

I know nothing about Peter Farago, but anyone who uses the word "dialoguing" is a tool.

Re: The 401k of Fighting Evil.

GregBulmash — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:42:18 -0000

Gathering evil? Like someone's wife has been finding bits of evil at garage sales and stuffing them all into the closet under the stairs.

Re: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade of Creative Suite: It Can Bend Elephants, but Will It Make the “SoftWar” With Apple Worse?

GregBulmash — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:42 -0000

Simple example, a desktop/phone mail client.

I can code an IMAP mail client for a third party server in Flex/Flash + AIR without ever having to pass the user's mail through my server. In HTML5, no such luck because JavaScript will block that third party connection. I have to proxy the exchange through my server. The user also has to expose their mail server passwords to me, requiring an additional layer of trust I have to build to get people using my app.

I don't want to proxy the user's data through my server. It slows the process, raises my operating costs, and creates an additional point of failure.

If I want to make that mail searchable, IE and Firefox don't yet support a local SQL-like database on the desktop. I either have to get the user to use a plug-in for that, or I have to store their mail and execute their searches on my server, they have no offline access to their mail, one good security breach on my server and the mail of thousands of users is available for download by some hacker, and if my server goes down, people get cut off from their e-mail (additional point of failure).

So please explain to me again how HTML5 is superior to a local app. Straight HTML5 + Javascript in the browser is a fail. It's going to require some sort of wrapper/plugin to implement the local database on most browsers and third-party connection on pretty much all of them, or it has to be proxied through a web server which creates its own set of issues.

Re: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade of Creative Suite: It Can Bend Elephants, but Will It Make the “SoftWar” With Apple Worse?

GregBulmash — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:16:53 -0000

The problem with HTML5 is that it is inconsistently implemented across the major browsers. You may have awesome HTML5 abilities in the latest versions of Safari and Chrome, but IE and Firefox still own a lot of the market and are missing multiple HTML5 features.

Flash/Flex will run inside those browsers, and until such time as they not only offer better HTML5 implementation, but have pushed users of their older versions to adopt the latest (look at how many people still use IE6 despite all its many and major issues), developing HTML5 apps will not be profitable.

I'm working on an app that I want to work on desktops/laptops and phones. I can't afford to develop in HTML5 because it SEVERELY limits my market on the desktop. But until Apple's latest shot across Adobe's bow, Flex and AIR would have given me every major desktop and mobile platform by the end of the year.

Re: On the nature of Ectoplasmic Entities versus Small Mammals

GregBulmash — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:57:17 -0000

Donde esta el comic de Wednesday.

Re: Oscar?!

GregBulmash — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:30 -0000

Bad kitty. Bad.

Re: Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7

GregBulmash — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:14:50 -0000

On a number of machines, hardware virtualization is a BIOS setting that is disabled by default. It was on my HP laptop. I rebooted, went into BIOS setup, enabled it, and got OS X running.

The problem I'm encountering is that I installed it and it was working fine, but then I downloaded and installed the combined update for OSX from Apple and now it won't boot, saying the operating system is missing.

Re: Power management.

GregBulmash — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:11:06 -0000

Let's not forget, they put Homer Simpson in charge of a reactor and monkeys have him beat hands down.

Re: Power management.

GregBulmash — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:09:46 -0000

There is a pretty bad-ass teddy bear in the book. But when you mentioned him making killer teddy bears, my first thought was apocalyptic chocolate bunnies.

Re: Power management.

GregBulmash — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:38:18 -0000

Dave,

Your comment makes me think of a book title: "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" by Robert Rankine.

Re: Always look behind you…

GregBulmash — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:28:15 -0000

What happened to Gilgamesh?

Re: How Badly Do You Really Want Your MTV–Or Your ABC or Fox or Your Food Network? Cablevision Wants to Know.

GregBulmash — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:01:01 -0000

Basically, it seems your argument is in an a la carte world, if ESPN had 1/4 as many subscribers, they'd just charge 4x as much to make up the difference.

Seriously? Because everyone who likes ESPN would just pay *whatever* ESPN decided to charge? Did you sleep through Freshman Intro to Economics?

For every dollar the price goes up, a certain portion of the population decides the channel's cost has exceeded its value and they won't pay for it.

So if things go a la carte, ESPN and a whole lot of other channels need to figure out a pricing model that makes the biggest number from subscribers * fees + a sliding scale of ad revenues that different subscriberships will justify.

They might have to cancel some of their channels, lay off some employees, and work out some new product offerings. As might many channels.

I think a la carte might raise the price for some channels, but it would give individual households more control over their cable bill without being forced to help pay the salaries of people they intensely dislike (like Keith Olberman or Bill O'Reilly) through enforced subscription fees. In the end, you could set a budget and get more of what you want, less of what you don't wan't.

Re: The end of a Goblin…

GregBulmash — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:54:57 -0000

You sure he's dead? Goblins are harder to kill than cockroaches. Don't ask me how I know.

Re: Air Dracula…

GregBulmash — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:26:10 -0000

...he said as he fell into the conveniently placed cave. :-)