Set-top Boxes to Have Adobe Flash
Adobe the company behind programs like Photoshop and the ever so popular Flash. Has managed to secure a deal to have its Flash software be intergrated into chips for modern televisions, and-top boxes which will enable content providers to deliver weather reports, stock prices and news updates to a TV screen near you.
Flash will be intergrated with chips manufactured by Broadcom, Intel, NXP and STMicroelectronics unfortunately this deal does not cover two of the major players in the market Sony and Samsung who use Yahoo's media widgets instead.
According to the news article the Flash enabled TVs and set-top boxes will be available in early 2010.
With the large volume of TVs, media players and set-top boxes expected to ship in the next three years, Adobe hopes to get Flash into those machines.
This could mean the TV can possibly replace the role palmed off to computers and laptops for searching the internet, getting news feeds and various other digital content online without having to shell out for a computer or laptop.
Adobe has already got Netflix, Disney and the New York Times on the books to make the first series of applications.
Probably the main appeal of Flash for developers and content creators is Flash could possibly become a single standard that would allow them to distribute media and create programs that work on multiple platforms.
With an installation base of 98% on computers and 80% of online videos delivered with Flash, according to Adobe.
Flash has become in essence the standard for delivery of multimedia content; examples of this are Youtube, Newgrounds.com and BBC's iPlayer.
In recent times Microsoft has been pushing Silverlight its own rival to Adobe's Flash. Microsoft boasts that it has an installation base of over 300 million since Silverlight's second version was released six months ago.
Although the uptake of Silverlight has been slow with only a few set-top box manufacturers signing up, Microsoft does have its hands in the Xbox 360 market which already serves as a media player and a games console, so it is very likely that Microsoft could use the Xbox as a means to increase uptake of Silverlight.
Flash Platform Business Unit general manager and vice president David Wadhwani is optimistic that one day the Xbox 360 will be able to run Flash as they have already managed to get Flash to run on Sony's Playstation 3 and Nintendo's Wii.
It looks like Adobe is aiming to be the global standard for all sorts of media on all platforms - PC, television and mobile platforms.
Apparently 40% of all mobile phones shipped in 2008 had Flash Lite; the only exception is Apple's iPhone.
Of course Mr Wadhwani says that Adobe will continue to work with Apple to eventually bring Flash to the iPhone.
Sourced From BBC News
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Pedobear Plushy
First we had the cosplays.
Now I present to you - the Pedobear Plushy.
This is shaping up to be epic, I'm surprised that they're still looking for wholesalers and retailers.
Check out the maker's site here.
In Soviet Russia, women rape YOU!
A man attempts to rob a hair salon only to be subdued and raped for three days before his captor released him.
When he stormed into the hair salon brandishing his shotgun and demanding money, there was two staff on hand and a client in-store.
It just so happened that one of said staff was training in the arts of Judo and Taekwondo, she proceeded to beat the man into submission; after tying him up with hairdryer cord she disposed of him in the basement.
She assured everyone that she would summon police to deal with the would be criminal, this was not to happen.
When the others have left, she did not summon police instead she forced the felon to strip, and proceeded to force him to consume copious amounts of Viagra.
She kept her hapless victim chained and repeatly raped him for a period of three days, after which she released him either she was bored of him or she had broken his manhood.
The man later reported this incident to the police, only to have her claim that he had attempted to rob her.
Of course she denies all alogations against her stating:
"That’s ridiculous. We had sex just a couple times. I brought him brand new jeans. I fed him every day and gave him one thousand rubles ($25) before his release.”
Both are to face charges.
This case does bring up the old Russian Reversals.
Sourced From Sankaku Complex:
Snakes On A [Qantas] Plane
Just in this morning, a Qantas flight was grounded in Melbourn because four snakes had gotten loose from their container.
The snakes were four in a shipment of twelve non-venomous baby Stimson pythons, the snakes were packaged properly in a calico styrofoam bay with air holes. Their disappearance was discovered when Australia Air Express noticed that four of the snakes were missing from their container.
The aircraft was later fumigated, two flights were cancelled while Qantas staff searched for the snakes and passengers were put onto other flights.
It is still not known how the snakes managed to escape their containers as they were placed in appropriate packaging, there will be no investigations as to how the snakes escaped.
The plane was returned to service the following morning.
Sourced from News.com.au
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Loli Betroth to 47 Year Old Man
A Saudi Arabian judge has recently ruled that the union of an 8 year old girl to a 47 year old man was legal and legitimate.
Apparently the 8 year old girl's father had sold betrothed her to this man to clear him off all his financial debt, her mother upon hearing of this objected to this idea and put forward her case so that the union could be annulled.
Alas this was to bear no fruit, when the case when before Shiek Habib Al-Habib he stated that since Islamic law governs many of the country's domestic affairs the union was perfectly legitimate and legal.
The girl's embattled mother shocked at Al-Habib's ruling, petitioned a appeals court to have the verdict overturned although her case was originally rejected, the case eventually was passed but was given to Shiek Habib Al-Habib; who simply reaffirmed his position.
Shiek Habib Al-Habib did however manage to have the 47 year old man promise that he is not to have sex with the young girl until she reached puberty; Al-Habib stated that the girl upon reaching puberty can file for a divorce, unfortunately at such an age to request a divorce would give the impression that she's second hand goods for any potential suitors.
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