Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-31 Thread Anthony Pace
Truth about FITC: cons: -The workshops, even though they should be included, are overpriced. -Not enough technical presentations -Most of the presenters are just trying to build up their reputations, by telling you what they did, without actually telling you how to do anything. -Not sure

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-31 Thread Anthony Pace
Beware, the original message has tons of typos. I should have looked it over a second time before posting. On 7/31/2010 3:20 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Truth about FITC: cons: -The workshops, even though they should be included, are overpriced. -Not enough technical presentations -Most of

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-29 Thread Ktu
I am going to FITC. I'm pretty styked. =] Also turns out I may have something better than a brick to play pong with too. Hope to see some of you there. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:52 PM, co...@moock.org co...@moock.org wrote: if your brick can send dtmf, yup! by the way, for the record, this

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-23 Thread co...@moock.org
if your brick can send dtmf, yup! by the way, for the record, this will *not* be the world's first ever massively multiplayer, on-location game of pong. it turns out that at SIGGRAPH in 1991, loren carpenter presented massively multiplayer pong to an audience of 5000 using an

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-22 Thread Ktu
Can I participate in pong using a brick as my controller? Sigh... On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:16 PM, co...@moock.org co...@moock.org wrote: you could tell them you'd get to be part of the world's first ever 600-player game of pong! http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000302.html this

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-21 Thread co...@moock.org
you could tell them you'd get to be part of the world's first ever 600-player game of pong! http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000302.html this might help too: http://www.fitc.ca/participate/SF_convince_your_boss.zip : ) if you've never been to an fitc before, i think you will be shocked at

RE: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
Check on the Adobe Max page for convincing your boss. I'm sure there's some stuff in there you can steal: http://2009.max.adobe.com/cyb/ Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect Bank of America Global Learning Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-13 Thread Matt S.
Consider yourself blessed to be working somewhere where you can worry about convincing the C Levels of the value of a Flash *Conference*. Alot of us are spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to convince them of the continuing value of *Flash*, period. ;) .m

Re: [Flashcoders] FITC Excuses

2010-07-13 Thread Ktu
true dat Matt. Hopefully that will change soon. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Matt S. mattsp...@gmail.com wrote: Consider yourself blessed to be working somewhere where you can worry about convincing the C Levels of the value of a Flash *Conference*. Alot of us are spending a ridiculous