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Title: Taking a poll
Post by Opus on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 1:26pm

Yesterday I saw a very funny Sunday comic and I was wondering how many people would get the joke.

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Do you get the joke. There are actually 2 of them in there.

Paul

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by Brew on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 1:48pm

Nope. Unless Flash Gordon is owned by Microsoft or something.

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by monty on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 2:01pm

Not really. Maybe 1) something about not using the newest, bestest technology, and 2) corporate control vs open standards. ?

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by Racer1_NC on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 2:05pm

Apple threw all the porn apps off the Ipod download site.......I'm assuming that the author is referencing "Flash" in that context.......

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 3:30pm

Poor Flash... maybe he's just in the wrong generation and didn't make it in the POLLS...

Nope - that one went right over my head.... :-*

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by Marc on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 3:44pm

Yes, I got the Flash part. Don't much care 'cause I won't be using one.

Adobe doesn't have a sense of humor either ;D

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by Kevin_M on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 5:45pm

I see an unencouraged little girl who still uses good ol' pencil and paper to express her fledgling creative interest, depicted as apparently unacceptable for pad support. Humorous itself.

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by Opus on Mar 25^th, 2010 at 1:17am

1 out of 6, that is about what I figured.

The first joke, "The Flash" ( not Flash Gordan) represents that the ipad won't be able to play flash based content.

The second joke, it is rumored that Apple blocks aps from it's devices, so Jasons comics, really the creator Bill Amend will be blocked from Apple products if Steve Jobs doesn't have a sense of humor.

I was amazed that Bill Amend would push such a geek centric cartoon out on Sunday. On the other hand, the CBS show The Big Bang Theory is a hit show even though it is full of Geek culture. Maybe Geek is ready for mainstream, even though mainstream doesn't understand it.

Footnote: The only reason there is no flash on Apples ARM processor products is because they don't want it. I think they are still mad that Quicktime went nowhere. Flash is an open standard and if Apple wanted to make a player for it, they could.

Paul

Title: Re: Taking a poll
Post by Not4Hire on Mar 25^th, 2010 at 8:28am

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