...What is Flash? Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs"). Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript and supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL). Flex Adobe Flex is a software development kit (SDK) released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Flex applications can be written using Adobe Flash Builder or by using the freely available Flex compiler from Adobe. In February 2008, Adobe released the Flex 3 SDK under the open source Mozilla Public License and so Flex applications can be developed using any standard IDE, for example Eclipse. On November 17th, 2011, Adobe officially open-sourced Flex and donated it to the Apache Software Foundation. Flex SDK includes the Flex framework (also known as the Flex class library), Flex command-line compilers, the Flex debugger, the ASDoc utility, and the debugger version of Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® AIR® runtimes...
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...Flash Tutorials Trademarks 1 Step RoboPDF, ActiveEdit, ActiveTest, Authorware, Blue Sky Software, Blue Sky, Breeze, Breezo, Captivate, Central, ColdFusion, Contribute, Database Explorer, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FlashCast, FlashHelp, Flash Lite, FlashPaper, Flash Video Encoder, Flex, Flex Builder, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JRun, MacRecorder, Macromedia, MXML, RoboEngine, RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboPDF, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, SoundEdit, Studio MX, UltraDev, and WebHelp are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. Third-Party Information This guide contains links to third-party websites that are not under the control of Macromedia, and Macromedia is not responsible for the content on any linked site. If you access a third-party website mentioned in this guide, then you do so at your own risk. Macromedia provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of the link does not imply that Macromedia endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content on those third-party sites. Speech compression and decompression technology licensed from Nellymoser...
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...cost them more than the patent rights, but what the hell. You can't go around encouraging these pipsqueaks. I know that I sound just like a liberal, but at this point in history I am sick and tired of giant corporations running roughshod over decent people -- cutting their wages, polluting their work environment, denying them health care, forcing them to work unpaid overtime, busting their unions and other crimes we have never heard George Bush denouncing while he was cutting corporate taxes. I am sure lower taxes help corporations to function more profitably. Why is that considered progress, when many workers live in borderline poverty and executives have pissing contests over who has the biggest stock options? But enough. I have "Flash of Genius" to review. Yes, I am agitated. I am writing during days of economic meltdown, after Wall Street raped Main Street while the Bush ideology held it down. Believe me, I could go on like this all day. But consider the case of Robert Kearns, played here touchingly by Greg Kinnear. He was a professor of engineering, a decent, unremarkable family man, and had a eureka! moment: Why did windshield wipers only go on and off? Why couldn't they reflect existing conditions, as the human eyelid does? Working in his basement, Kearns put together the first intermittent wiper from off-the-shelf components and tested it in a fish tank. He patented it in 1967. He demonstrated it to Ford, but wouldn't tell them how it worked until he had a deal...
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...Renia Creative Writing 3/1/12 Flash Fiction She listened so effortlessly. I felt our connection through the eye contact she maintained to keep even when I shamefully dropped my head. It was from that moment I knew she had become more than a life time friend. She unwilling became my partner in crime. This secret that was burning a hole in my conscience would finally be extinguished. You see, about five years ago I got into some trouble with the Mafia. Nothing major though. Just a few accusations that the district attorney managed to get an alibi for (at the cost of snitching on my connect). This was life threatening in the drug industry. Almost everyone I knew who got acquitted for leaking names never made it any further than the front footsteps of the courthouse. But I had a plan. All I needed was a destination. After my last court date I knew it was time to put all of my meticulous planning to use. One wrong move and it was the end of me. I knew this. But all I could think about was staying. Something inside of me was holding me back. The weight of unfinished business is more than I was willing to bear. I had to apologize to the family of the man that would be spending the rest of his life in jail…because of me. I found myself at the front door of his parents Manhattan home. In a cold sweat, and hot panic, my fragile hands rang the doorbell. Within seconds I could hear footsteps approaching closer to the wall that separated me and my victim. All I remember is him starring...
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...Flash Mob Robberies Americans, despite their religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, never gave much thought to the terms like “flash mob robberies” or “organized looting.” However, these expressions have become acknowledge to the American society due to their criminal nature and the alarming frequency in which they take place. Historically, a flash mob was clearly an assembly of people who unexpectedly appeared at the same location at the same time. Now, flash mobs began to incorporate robberies, but they occurred infrequently across the country. Unfortunately, because of the economic collapse, flash mobs have become very notorious and are increasing in numbers in turning into criminal action in attempt to survive in America. Adolescents take advantage of social media, such as Facebook, and Twitter, to organize large group of other adolescents to assemble at a certain time and place. Once assembled, the large groups of delinquents run into a store steal as much merchandise as they can in a very short period of time. This is so the retail merchant does not have time to react. As a result, the once unfamiliar term is no notoriously known amongst all Americans. All across the country, retailers and other Americans have personally witnessed and reported multiple flash mob incidents. Law enforcement officers have recognized the accuracy of the flash mop epidemic and are taking the criminal manner very seriously. There are two important elements which make flash...
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...Write Endurance in Flash Drives: Measurements and Analysis Simona Boboila Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 simona@ccs.neu.edu Peter Desnoyers Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 pjd@ccs.neu.edu Abstract We examine the write endurance of USB flash drives using a range of approaches: chip-level measurements, reverse engineering, timing analysis, whole-device endurance testing, and simulation. The focus of our investigation is not only measured endurance, but underlying factors at the level of chips and algorithms—both typical and ideal—which determine the endurance of a device. Our chip-level measurements show endurance far in excess of nominal values quoted by manufacturers, by a factor of as much as 100. We reverse engineer specifics of the Flash Translation Layers (FTLs) used by several devices, and find a close correlation between measured whole-device endurance and predictions from reverse-engineered FTL parameters and measured chip endurance values. We present methods based on analysis of operation latency which provide a non-intrusive mechanism for determining FTL parameters. Finally we present Monte Carlo simulation results giving numerical bounds on endurance achievable by any on-line algorithm in the face of arbitrary or malicious access patterns. 1 Introduction In recent years flash memory has entered widespread use, in embedded media players, photography, portable drives, and solid-state disks (SSDs) for...
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...The Project Valuation Funding Projections Without Project With Project (Debt Financed) With Project (Equity Financed) Conclusions and Recommendations 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 6 7 8 Appendix Appendix 1 – Project Free Cash Flow and Valuation Appendix 2 – Balance Sheet and Income Statement of Company without Project Appendix 3 – Balance Sheet and Income Statement of Company with Project Financed with Debt Appendix 4 – Balance Sheet and Income Statement of Company with Project Financed with Equity 9 10 11 12 1 Executive Summary Flash Memory, Inc. is a small firm operating in the computer and electronic device memory market, competing against giants such as Samsung and Intel. This market is, due to its fast growth and continuous technological change, highly competitive, which requires companies to be ever more careful in choosing which projects to pursue and how to finance these projects. In this order of thought, Flash Memory currently holds an investment opportunity and, in case they decide to undertake the project, need to decide on the optimal way of financing it. In order to state if the company should invest in the new project we analyzed what impact the project would have on the company’s value. Following the analyses it is clear that the company should undertake the project regardless the way it is financed, since it is a positive net present value and will, therefore, create value for the company. Besides, the company would be undermining its current level...
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...The maintenance implications of the customization of ERP software Summary ERP is a dominant approach for dealing with legacy information system problems. In order to avoid invalidating maintenance support from the ERP vendor, most organizations reengineer their business processes in line with those implicit within the software. Some customization is required. While customization can give true organizational benefits, careful consideration is required to determine whether a customization is viable given its potential impact upon future maintenance. Introduction * Focus was upon the maintenance of legacy IS * From an IT perspective legacy IS problems are well documented * Legacy IT was never planned coherently and was designed for specific needs in specific times with no integration * Main consideration: memory optimization and processing speed * Impact upon the structure of systems, increasing maintenance problems 2. The rationale for ERP software adoption and its customization * ERP offers some benefits * Even in the light of the benefits of implementing ERP software, some organizations still choose to customize. In this paper, customization is meant to describe changes or additions to the functionality available in the standard ERP software. It does not refer to the switching on and off of functionality that is part of the blueprint of the software, sometimes referred to as software configuration. It is possible to argue that organizations...
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...import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.MouseEvent; //Declaring variables //ballMotionMc var ballMotion:MovieClip = ballMotionMc; var ballShape:MovieClip = ballMotionMc.ballShapeMc; //menuMc var menu:MovieClip = menuMc; var prevBtn:MovieClip = menuMc.prevBtnMc; var nextBtn:MovieClip = menuMc.nextBtnMc; var stopBtn:MovieClip = menuMc.stopBtnMc; var playBtn:MovieClip = menuMc.playBtnMc; var pauseBtn:MovieClip = menuMc.pauseBtnMc; //Init //ballMotionMc ballMotion.stop(); ballShape.stop(); //menuMc prevBtn.stop(); nextBtn.stop(); stopBtn.stop(); playBtn.stop(); pauseBtn.stop(); //Events playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,playBtnOver); playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT,playBtnOut); playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,playBtnDown); //Functions function playBtnOver(e:MouseEvent)( playBtn.gotoAndStop(2); ) function playBtnOut (e:MouseEvent)( playBtn.gotoAndStop(1); ) function playBtnDown (e:MouseEvent)( ballMotion.play(); ballShape.play(); ) import flash.media.Sound; import flash.media.SoundChannel; import flash.display.MovieClip; stop();// Assign The URL to the mp3 to play var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(".mp3");// Boolean value for button functions, to switch in the conditionals var isPlaying:Boolean = false;// Create the sound object var snd:Sound = new Sound(req);// Assign a var name for the sound channel var channel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();//...
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...Nathaniel N. Gonzales GE - 2241 Tips For Effective Global Communication Global communication is a major concern of every International business. The success of every International business depends on the effectiveness of the Communication. It is a well known fact that International businesses need communication with people of different cultures. Apart from the language differences, they need to focus on social attributes, attitudes and thought patterns of different cultures. All these communication terminologies are collectively known as intercultural communication. This Intercultural communication is the base for any International business and hence it has to be made effective. Just keep reading on the article to see the 3 most wanted tips for effective Intercultural communication. 1. Intercultural Communication - Not all about Language Many people have a misconception about Intercultural communication that, it is all about managing a different language. The true fact is that language is just a part of Intercultural communication. Intercultural communication is about understanding different cultures, languages and customs in a particular country. For example, if you are an American, traveling to India, you should be able to cope up with the Indian culture along with understanding the language in India. You should also make an approach to learn their culture which will induce a positive relationship with the host. Learning the culture of a Country is not that...
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...Ernesto Trejo 817268979 Finance 423 Tuesday & Thursday 2pm Flash Memory, Inc. Strategy Paper 1 For this company of Flash Memory Inc., there are a couple of problems the CFO must face. This company that is in the computer and electronic device market within the memory industry faces a problem with a growth rate within their company that is in result to the growing rate of the market and a result to constantly changing technologies. The other problem the company faces is the probability of accepting or rejecting an investment decision that it is faced with, that promises returns over five years, but not being able to obtain a loan from a bank. To further analyze the situation appropriately I would follow the following evaluation. Firstly Flash Memory Company must consider just how they will choose to raise funds for their possible investment, with their projected growth rate over the years they for saw a fast growing segment in market. Unfortunately they cannot issue out a loan from the bank, therefore they must come up with the sufficient funds from within. The options that they have is to either issue a form of securities to sell to the public or to contain retained earnings and reinvest into this new project line. In order to determine which is to be used they need to calculate the NPV of the future investment before they can determine how to invest in it. But the problem with Flash is that their sales are so high that more working capital is needed for the investment...
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...Why do flash crashes happen In May 2010, the stock market lost and regained almost 10% of its value within minutes. This behavior suggests that the markets are unhealthy. Markets are generally considered to accurately determine the underlying value of assets in the real world. During a flash crash, the price is determined by the dynamics of the market rather than by real-world value. Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Flash crashes can be understood by looking at how trades occur in the market. Figure 1 shows the standing buy and sell orders ("limit orders") at a particular time in the market. Each order is shown at the price it is offered. The shape of the buy order curve shows that at lower prices, traders want to buy more shares. But there are no orders at very low prices because nobody expects the price to drop that far. The reverse is true for sell orders: the number of orders increases as we go to higher prices and then disappears at still higher prices. In Figure 1, no trading would occur because there is no price with both a buy order and a sell order. Trades happen when someone enters an order to buy or sell at the current market price (a "market order"). Figure 2 shows the order book after a market sell order. The seller's shares go to the traders with the highest-priced standing buy orders. The executed buy orders disappear from the order book. The price drops to where the trade was executed. This is how selling a stock decreases its price. From this we can understand...
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...Flash Memory The forecast income statement (Exhibit 1) shows the profit projections for Flash Memory assuming they do not invest in the new product line. In summary, they maintain their 2009 Operating Margin of 5.5%. Net Income increases from $2,509 in 2009 to $4,096 by 2012 (a 17.8% CAGR over the three year period). All assumptions were provided in the case, but we did assume a reduction in the interest rate back to the 7.25% for the current loan in 2012, when the Notes Payable to Accounts Receivable ratio falls back below the 70% threshold. One concern not discussed in the case is the relative growth of Flash Memory vs. the SSD category. Based on the information provided, we estimate Flash’s share of the market at 15% in 2007 which rapidly declines to an estimated 2% by 2013. This underscores Flash Memory’s need to accelerate top line growth to remain a significant player in the market. The forecast balance sheet (Exhibit 2) shows the account balances for Flash Memory assuming they do not invest in the new product line. The financing requirements in 2010, 2011 and 2012 are $14,433, $17,120 and $13,228 respectively. This increase in debt levels has changed the capital structure of the firm over time, increasing debt as a percentage of capital from 28% in 2007 to as high as 39% by 2011 (vs. a target of 18%). We calculated WACC for both scenarios - funding by increasing notes payable or by the issuance of stock. For the notes funding, we assumed a 9.25% cost of...
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...designed to hold the cloth flash cards which act as stuffing like in a pillow. It also comes with a carrying bag and it can be rolled up and stored in the bag. When this bag is unzipped, it folds out completely to form a blanket. The lining of the bag comes in a variety of color and is made of a soft cloth that is comfortable enough for sleeping and napping. The outside of the bag has ten, one-foot by one-foot squares stitched into it with the numbers zero through nine stitched into each square. The numbers are stitched into each individual square in a variety of bright colors. The numbers also have different textures such as velvet or vinyl. The flash cards are six-inch by six-inch. The flash cards are made of the same material as the blanket and have basic addition and subtraction problems stitched into them on one side and the solution stitched on the other side with the solution equal to a number between zero and nine. The problems on the flash cards are stitched using the same colors and textures that are used on the blanket. For example, 4 + 5, if the 4 on the blanket is blue vinyl, then the 4 on the flash card will be same and the 5 will also be the same color and texture as the 5 on the blanket. The solution to 4+5 is 9, so the 9 is stitched on the back of the flash card and will be the same color and texture as the 9 on the blanket. When this bag is unzipped and laid on the floor it becomes a large blanket. The child takes the flash cards out of the smaller bag/pillow...
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...FLASH MEMORY INC. Name Summary Flash Memory Inc is a company operating in the computer and electronic device memory market, based in San Jose. Like many others Silicon Valley society was founded during the high tech boom of the 90s. All the founders cover the top management positions and owned the entire company’s equity. Its success was mainly due to a specialization in a niche of the market that allows it to compete with bigger and more consolidated companies. The lifecycle of their product is quite short and reflect a market with constant and quick innovation, so also the investment horizon is short term. The market in which the company is focused, SSDs, it’s raised from 400 Million $ in 2007 to 1.1 billion in 2009 and was projected to grow to 5.3 billion in 2013. Since 2007 sales steadily increased with an average growth of 7.6% per year, but investment in current asset are grown even more with an increase of 12.2 annual rate. Like the majority of the society in the technological sector they invest heavily in planning and innovation and one big question is the financial covering of its investments. Flash memory inc make an heavy use of notes payable from the company’s commercial bank and it was willing to lend up to 70% of the value of receivables but the company reached this limit and need ...
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