loli've worked with many "comp sci" people, and they are some of the dumbest end users imaginable. being able to write a compiler from scratch is as useful to the end user PC experience is as useful as advanced knowledge of combustion physics is rally racing.a lot of these people leave berkeley or stanford with their CS PhDs and can't swap a ram module to save their lives.
Yes please !!! Kick Adobe out. No more bad crap.It's reader is BLOATED (Why the f**k does a reader need JS?), the photoshop file format is horrible, flash consumes 40% of my cpu.
I think he is partially right.Watching YouTube and some of the others he mentioned make the transition away from Flash will have a huge impact and defiantly trickle down.And by the way, Apple's mobile market share, and Apple's desktop market share are two very different things. Ton's of websites are making iPhone/iTouch/ and soon to be iPad compatible mobile sites. The iPhone just makes up too large a part of the Mobile market for them to ignore the fact that Flash won't be displayed on those devices.That being said, flash won't go away as fast as iPhone users might like. Plus, iPhone users don't really hate flash, they just hate how flash runs on mobile devices. The lite mobile versions I have used generally don't stream from Hulu anyway, and run kind of s**tty.As far as integrating video into web pages, I think flash is dead, but it will still be used for other components like advertising for a long time IMO.
Remember how the head of Adobe complained that Apple would not let Adobe get right at the hardware with their Flash plugin on the iPhone?Well, if that is how they are writing their software then it is going to be a bear maintaining Flash for different phone/device platforms. Each one will have its own memory map and graphics chips..Adobe has spread itself too thing. Flash crashes all the time, and in between crashes it is leaking memory enough to slow down a web browser and eventually the computer to a crawl. Meanwhile, in the background, hackers can exploit flaws in Flash to hack a user's system when he merely lands on a page - even a page with an ad on it from somewhere else - with an infected .SWF file.In out-of-date or poorly ported Flash on a smart phone would be a security nightmare.
@Johnny: 1 word - Sandboxing.And its funny how all iPhone defenders start up with regards to Flash - "Its bad for the phone", "It drains batteries", "ads", etc. The minute a passable solution is achieved, the chains get moved. Next thing you know it's downfall will be that it's not called iFlash.
enantiodromiaFeb 12, 2010
loli've worked with many "comp sci" people, and they are some of the dumbest end users imaginable. being able to write a compiler from scratch is as useful to the end user PC experience is as useful as advanced knowledge of combustion physics is rally racing.a lot of these people leave berkeley or stanford with their CS PhDs and can't swap a ram module to save their lives.
p5ychoFeb 12, 2010
Yes please !!! Kick Adobe out. No more bad crap.It's reader is BLOATED (Why the f**k does a reader need JS?), the photoshop file format is horrible, flash consumes 40% of my cpu.
Closed AccountFeb 13, 2010
I think he is partially right.Watching YouTube and some of the others he mentioned make the transition away from Flash will have a huge impact and defiantly trickle down.And by the way, Apple's mobile market share, and Apple's desktop market share are two very different things. Ton's of websites are making iPhone/iTouch/ and soon to be iPad compatible mobile sites. The iPhone just makes up too large a part of the Mobile market for them to ignore the fact that Flash won't be displayed on those devices.That being said, flash won't go away as fast as iPhone users might like. Plus, iPhone users don't really hate flash, they just hate how flash runs on mobile devices. The lite mobile versions I have used generally don't stream from Hulu anyway, and run kind of s**tty.As far as integrating video into web pages, I think flash is dead, but it will still be used for other components like advertising for a long time IMO.
johnnysoftwareFeb 14, 2010
That is not fair. Some PC users, for example working for the government in Massachusetts, have been framed for being child molesters.So, you should say "real and falsely accused" child molesters" to be more correct. <a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/09/malware_child_abuse_images_frame_up/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/09/malware_ch ...</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hijacking_risks/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hi ...</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/24/trojan_defence_clears_man/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/24/trojan_def ...</a>
johnnysoftwareFeb 15, 2010
Remember how the head of Adobe complained that Apple would not let Adobe get right at the hardware with their Flash plugin on the iPhone?Well, if that is how they are writing their software then it is going to be a bear maintaining Flash for different phone/device platforms. Each one will have its own memory map and graphics chips..Adobe has spread itself too thing. Flash crashes all the time, and in between crashes it is leaking memory enough to slow down a web browser and eventually the computer to a crawl. Meanwhile, in the background, hackers can exploit flaws in Flash to hack a user's system when he merely lands on a page - even a page with an ad on it from somewhere else - with an infected .SWF file.In out-of-date or poorly ported Flash on a smart phone would be a security nightmare.
mrspontaneousFeb 17, 2010
@Johnny: 1 word - Sandboxing.And its funny how all iPhone defenders start up with regards to Flash - "Its bad for the phone", "It drains batteries", "ads", etc. The minute a passable solution is achieved, the chains get moved. Next thing you know it's downfall will be that it's not called iFlash.