* For sending SMS messages
* Custom UI controls
The Macromedia Flash IDE
* How do we architect apps in it?
* Take a look at other peoples’ Flash… :S
Flex - Declaritive UI Design.
* Lots of people know of it, not many used.
* User Interface XML syntax
* Separate data from Flex mark-up
* Flex mark-up linked to a Class
ARP (Ariaware RIA Platform)
* Available from OSFlash
Case Study: Marvel Brand Assurance Tool
* Architecture:
- Flex
- Flash Remoting (maintain synchronised client and server class states) < why is this amazing?(other than binary-goodness of protocol) - because you can use the same tools and idioms on both sides - you don't need to know two different languages and rememember the differences between the data structures on both sides? I guess! OIC. So, Flash ont server, flash int client? well, same language on both, i think. don't really know!
* Development Tools
- Eclipse
- FDT (Flash Develop??
- SVN (Subversion) & Trac based SourceSecure (Source Control)
- ServiceCapture
* Process Management Tool
* Built in 2 months
* ???100 screens
* Looks rather Appley/Microsoft Wordy
* Flash contains tech to manage multiple-file uploads
Summary:
- OS Flash is good
- Symbiosis with MM and OASFlash
- Swfmill, ASDT, MTASC,
ARP, Cairngorm
ActionStep (component framework), AsWing ()
Red5 (OS Media Server), Laszlo (Open Source alt. to Flex)
- Ruby + Flash = Flash On Rails??? (in actionstep?) < is that right??? Not an official name, just a concept, I think.
Check out Flex 2: http://labs.macromedia.com/
3:15 - 4 The Remix Economy by Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Alchemists
- Trying to turn lead to gold
- Mercury = poison if you drink
- Dark ages
- Alchemy is not about turning copper into gold, but turning Superstition into science = ???
We are all completely influenced by scientific traditions
- Net is a scientific network
- Quoting habits in e-mail/usenet due to scientific arguments
- Lawyers get told how long to make replies, and then they go off and do it themelves
- Lawyers never ‘fisk’, scientists/engineers do.
- Fisking = comms method of the enlightenment
Explicit and implicit encouragement to build on one another’s work
- Mitch Kapor founder of EFF
‘Architecture is politics’: way the net is designed affects the way we think about one another, way we interact with our social systems.
- Tim Berners-Lee made a light-weight hypertext.
- Lawyer would have tried to get this contracted.
- 1995 someone tried to get every copy of a doc to require seperate licences
(Proxy licence, frame buffer licence, cache licence, et cetera)
- Scientists = permission free environment
Next iteration - Web 2.0
* Suite of tools for mashups/remixing/whatever of disparate sources
* Next stage of scientific revolution that began when scientists started publishign
* Politics more important than something
* All of us can stand on the shoulders of giants
* Some industries think creation should require explicit permissions and so forth.
- Explicit copyright
- Copyright inherent with a social value - creation of new works.
- Copyright shouldn’t restrict new works
Copyright bundles:
- Right to perform
- Copy
Rights not reserved to rights holder:
- Right to create devices that may be used to copy/duplicate/whatever
- can’t copy copyrighted video casettes, CAN build VCRs…
- Tale of Sheet Music Publishers lobbying to ban music players - could not appreciate different ‘types’ of music.
- Sheet music creation should be approved by a cartel
We have a regime were politicians propose to put technology of the entertainment industry.
- Todays entertainment industry are yesterday’s pirates.
Another word for pirate is innovator
Copyright law evolves. Fix it, don’t break technology.
Job of the internet is to move as many bits as possible between two points at smallest cost.
Job of the internet is to move as many bits as possible between two points at smallest cost.
Lawmakers today think this should be broken to stop copying.
DVB has been hijacked to restrict uses of digital TV signals to ensure restrictions, rather than fidelity and quality
Looks like a regulation.
Has features no-one would pay for.
Majority of requests come from american entertainment giants.
Law will say can only build a device that meets the spec.
Spec will say device must respond to signals embedded in the video.
- should be able to set a limit on how many screens content can be viewed on.
- How far from receiver can be watched
- How many repeat views
DTV allows us to take stuff that used to be for free, and now they can charge for.
- Features have value, should be able to offer as value added service.
- Rather than offering more freedoms/features, freezing uses, taking away, and trickling back one drip at a time, at a price.
DRM systems contain renewability
- === revocability - system capable of being updated to change the deal without user’s knowledge.
- contract changes without agreement
Copyright expanding to new realms
- Control social policy
- allow only to be viewed in one household, but household is defined behind closed doors at DVB
- what constitutes a valid family? (not social norms - what the DVD companies say is)
Alchemy starts again when we have closed systems et al.
DVB published blue book last week http://dvb.org/ ???
Covers commodity hardware, restricts by government.
DVB published blue book last week http://dvb.org/ ???
Covers commodity hardware, restricts by government.
DVB equivalent of FCC.
EFF sued FCC over broadcast flag.
- broadcast flag doesn’t die, keeps getting pushed back in in a new, sneaky way.
We are funding an organisation trying to put us out of work.
We can help by joing Open Rights Group and EFF
Questions
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Should the entertainment industry drink mercury and die!?
Yes and no — remember how long the dark ages last!
500 long years of mercury drinking.
History is a pendulum.
How many martyrs do we want?
How many arrests for making new tech?
How many sites shut down?
How many innovations do we want to see NEVER realized because of
Copyright laws and social contracts should support us, not stop our innovation.
