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Adobe Goes To Flash 10.1, Forgoes Security Fix For 10
An anonymous reader writes "The recent critical zero-day security flaw in Flash 10 may have fast-tracked the release of Flash 10.1 today. Adobe 10.1 boasts the much anticipated H.264 hardware acceleration. Except for Linux and Mac OS (PDF): 'Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS. Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs.' Your humble anonymous reporter, who is using Fedora Linux with a ATI IGP 340M, is very pleased that the developers of the OSS drivers have provided hardware acceleration for my GPU ('glxinfo : direct rendering: Yes,' 'OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R100 (RS200 4337) 20090101 NO-TCL DRI2'), but even if Adobe did provide hardware acceleration for H.264 on Linux, they wouldn't provide it for me because they disable it for GPUs with SGI in the Client vendor string. Adobe 10.1, with all its goodness, now gives me around 95% CPU usage as opposed to about 75% with the previous release. Good times. I anticipate my Windows friends will have a much better experience."
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You've obviously never used it on an Athlon 64 lacking the lahf_lm instruction.
as Finder and quite a few other parts of OS X were still Carbon until Snow Leopard.
Apple has been quite the busy technology company in the last 10 years. Apple has had to tactically allocate their resources, stretched quite thin at times, to pull off the wins that they have. It's true, Finder has been carbon crap until snow. But it's not much of a wonder why. As for Adobe, just WTF have they done since CS?? Evangelized a web platform that gets more bothersome with every revision, and fleeced their flagship customers with absolute bullshit upgrades. If someone doesn't come out and say it, I will: Adobe is bad for technology, bad for the economy, and bad for America. OK, maybe I got a little carried away. But no kidding Adobe sucks and has for years.
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They are feeding you bullshit and you bought it hook line and sinker.
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As for Adobe's announcement, this is precisely why I, as a mac/linux user, was in favor of Jobs tell Adobe to go to hell. Flash has always sucked on anything non-windows, it's awful.
And I concur.
I use Mac, Linux and Windows. On Windows, Flash is rather awful. On anything else, it is unbearable.
Flash has got to be the worst piece of code since Windows Me and I for one can’t wait to see it die a quick but horrible death.
And while some Adobe fans (including some in the magazine I work in) praise Adobe and Flash and whatnot, I think Jobs’ decision to ditch Flash support is about as bold and visionary as the decision to use USB peripherals exclusively on the first iMac. That horror simply has to die, and this is the first nail in its coffin.
I just want to know what the stake through its heart will be.
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