Hedgecutter Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: They really should have Why Does it Always Rain on Me as the club song. 'Turn' would be more fitting actually: I want to sing, to sing my song I want to live in a world where I belong I want to live, I will survive And I believe that it won't be very long... Edited January 2, 2021 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 6 hours ago, Tynierose said: Falkirk fans are angry delusional weirdos. In my lifetime they've spent the vast majority of their time in tier 2 yet somehow a lot of them seem to think they have some right to be in the top flight. Stay doon you Grangemouth wallopers. Nearly all supporters come to see the high water mark as their perceived natural position in life, but Falkirk's presentation of that is even more ludicrous than the others at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Thats yer adobe flash officially pan bread Adobe Flash Player, the browser plug-in that brought rich animations and interactivity to the early web, has officially reached the end of its life. Released in 1996, Flash was once one of the most popular ways for people to stream videos and play games online. But it was plagued with security problems and failed to transition to the smartphone era. Adobe will no longer offer security updates for Flash and has urged people to uninstall it. It will also stop videos and animations running in its Flash Player from 12 January. Why was Flash popular? When Flash was first released, a majority of internet users connected via dial-up connections that were very slow by today's standards. But Flash let web designers and animators deliver exciting content that could be downloaded relatively quickly. "You could make a full three-minute animation with multiple characters, backgrounds, sounds and music less than 2 megabytes (MB) and viewable from within the browser," explained animator David Firth. His surreal animations and characters - such as the gangly, green hunchback Salad Fingers - enjoyed viral success before the advent of social media. "I just made the stuff I wanted to see that I felt was missing: dark, surreal comedy," he told the BBC. "There were no shortcuts to viral content. No corporate fingers twiddling the algorithms. It was simply attention-grabbing and quality material that rose to the top." Sites such as Newgrounds - described as "the YouTube of Flash" by Mr Firth - sprung up to serve the growing demand for cartoons and interactive games. "It was the first website I'd ever seen that allowed anyone to post content and it be available in real time. If the community felt the content was low quality, it would get removed at the end of the day so you actually had to take that into account when posting," he said. What happened? Flash was about more than just animations - it also let websites such as YouTube stream high-quality video. By 2009, Adobe said Flash was installed on 99% of internet-connected desktop PCs. But by then the world was shifting towards mobile devices and Adobe was slow to react. "We had optimised for lower-end phones with Flash Lite," explains David Mendels, former executive vice president of products at Adobe. "It was incredibly successful in places like Japan, but it wasn't the same as the full desktop Flash. It wasn't fully compatible." In April 2010, Apple's Steve Jobs wrote a blistering open letter headlined Thoughts On Flash, in which he laid out why Apple would not let Flash run on iPhones and iPads. Flash, he argued, was cumbersome to use on a touchscreen, unreliable, a security threat and a drain on battery life. He said videos and animations could instead be delivered with HTML5 and other open technologies, making Flash redundant on a smartphone or tablet. "When the iPhone came out, Flash wasn't quite ready," Mr Mendels told the BBC. "But also I think Apple wanted to create an Apple-only ecosystem." Eventually, Adobe did get a version of its Flash Player working on smartphones. But the internet had moved on. Big brands such as Facebook, Netflix and YouTube were already streaming videos to smartphones without Flash and in November 2011 Adobe ended development of Flash for mobile devices. It continued to produce Flash for desktop computers, but the software suffered from multiple security flaws. In 2015, Apple disabled the plug-in in its Safari web browser by default, and Google's Chrome started blocking some pieces of Flash content. In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would retire Flash in 2020. It said other technologies, such as HTML5 had matured enough to provide a "viable alternative", without requiring users to install and update a dedicated plug-in. What happens to all the old animations? Since Adobe will prevent Flash Player from displaying content from 12 January, there are concerns that years of animations, games and interactive websites will be lost. Gaming company Zynga closed the original version of its FarmVille video game on New Year's Eve after 11 years, as it relied on Flash to run. An open, collaborative project known as Ruffle is working to develop software that can play Flash content in a web browser, without requiring a plug-in. The Internet Archive is currently hosting more than 2,000 items. Its collection includes episodes of Salad Fingers, although David Firth has posted official copies on YouTube, which he considers to have been a "Flash killer". "As time went on and YouTube offered higher and higher-quality video formats, there was simply no reason to post in the Flash format," he explained. But since Flash was also used for interactive websites and games, there was "every reason to preserve the format", he told the BBC. Many of the features animators used are still available in Adobe Animate. In its final update, Adobe said: "We want to take a moment to thank all of our customers and developers who have used and created amazing Flash Player content over the last two decades. "We are proud that Flash had a crucial role in evolving web content across animation, interactivity, audio, and video." How can I remove Flash from my computer? Adobe has provided instructions for removing Flash on Windows and Mac computers on its website. It has warned: "Uninstalling Flash Player will help to secure your system since Adobe does not intend to issue Flash Player updates or security patches after the end-of-life date." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Orton Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 47 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Nearly all supporters come to see the high water mark as their perceived natural position in life, but Falkirk's presentation of that is even more ludicrous than the others at the moment. Absolutely disgusting that a part time team had the temerity to beat them today, don't they know their place, Fawkirk should be in the top flight ffs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 . 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, Romeo said: . Oh no, not reaper cushions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 13 minutes ago, Romeo said: . Huh, who knew Mrs Mathematics run a village store. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, Perkin Flump said: Oh no, not reaper cushions. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 The most astounding thing about that is the boy knew how to spell cushions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 **Cough. Falkirk... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 21 hours ago, virginton said: the gift that just keeps on giving. Yup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Jack (Hamilton) and The Beanstalk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Mr. Alli said: Huh, who knew Mrs Mathematics run a village store. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBo10 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 In the away team dressing room at Chelsea's stadium, the coat-hangers are very high up to strain the players' limbs; the tactics board is at the back of the door, which is a fire exit and must stay open; and the mirrors give players the impression of being smaller than they actually are. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/revealed-footballs-most-devious-away-153056008.htmlThe Arsenal one is smaller than the home one with no massage table but a huge table right in the middle of the changing area that is a height the players can’t see over when sitting down and the away manager can’t see all the players at once when talking to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 20 minutes ago, BigBo10 said: The Arsenal one is smaller than the home one with no massage table but a huge table right in the middle of the changing area that is a height the players can’t see over when sitting down and the away manager can’t see all the players at once when talking to them. Luxury. We had to stand on seat of pan of Station Park dressing rooms to deliver team talk to team and t'b*****ds had coated it in Bridie grease to make it slippy. And if you tell t'youth team that they won't believe you... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Seeing an early Attenborough documentary about tribes in Papua New Guinea who had never encountered the outside world reminds me of a trip to Auchinleck. In all seriousness, I'm pretty sure I met somebody who had never met somebody outside of Ayrshire and had never been to Glasgow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 The Arsenal one is smaller than the home one with no massage table but a huge table right in the middle of the changing area that is a height the players can’t see over when sitting down and the away manager can’t see all the players at once when talking to them. There also is or was some kind of grippy surface on the floor from the home changing room to the tunnel at the Emirates to stop players in boots slipping, but not from the away changing room. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: Seeing an early Attenborough documentary about tribes in Papua New Guinea who had never encountered the outside world reminds me of a trip to Auchinleck. In all seriousness, I'm pretty sure I met somebody who had never met somebody outside of Ayrshire and had never been to Glasgow. Auchinleck/similar East Ayrshire bumpkins head to Carlisle for their big city day out instead of Glasgow, which anyone who has had the privilege of the Saturday train journey to Dumfries would recall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 If you ever get the opportunity to eat New Mexico hatch chilles take it. Nectar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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