but here in Belgium we're still paying 50$ per month for a ridiculously fast (download speed at least) connection with 10Gb/month bandwith limit (you can get up to 50Gb per month, going to about 80$/month i think and that's about it).
with that kind of limits, i doubt we'll be streaming a lot of tv, we've got enough problems planning how to use the little bandwith we get, imagine if we started streaming tv...
(the penalty for exceeding the limit is smallband internet, modem speeds and zero reliability of the connection, even trying to receive your e-mail hardly works when you're on smallband...)
the game is nearly 5 years old, if you don't yet have it, you should be able to find it at very low price
besides, they have to use something for such a contest, i doubt they'll release it freeware/make an entire game to test people with, just to find a few skilled people
shockwave and flash are just plain different things i think, i usually see shockwave being used for more advanced 3d things and advanced online features.
and considering youtube/google video, i have seen tons of youtube movies with opera, no problems what so ever (it's all just flash, and flash works flawlessly). i haven't seen so many google videos yet, but haven't had any problems with them, and it owuld surprise me if you ever did. i've also seen movies from tons of other sites, no problems there either.
compatibility issues are rapidly decreasing:)
i use opera as my primary browser, and haven't had it crash on any flashes ever, although getting shockwave to work appears to be hard (due to a bad installer from adobe... i haven't bothered to get it to work yet, but from what i heard, i'd have to install firefox to get shockwave into opera -_-) all in all i love it as a primary browser, sometimes i encounter an incompatible site, and then i switch to IE because i know it's a site i can thrust, and otherwise i work with opera, knowing that so few people use it that noone bothers to write exploits for it.
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but here in Belgium we're still paying 50$ per month for a ridiculously fast (download speed at least) connection with 10Gb/month bandwith limit (you can get up to 50Gb per month, going to about 80$/month i think and that's about it). with that kind of limits, i doubt we'll be streaming a lot of tv, we've got enough problems planning how to use the little bandwith we get, imagine if we started streaming tv... (the penalty for exceeding the limit is smallband internet, modem speeds and zero reliability of the connection, even trying to receive your e-mail hardly works when you're on smallband...)
the game is nearly 5 years old, if you don't yet have it, you should be able to find it at very low price besides, they have to use something for such a contest, i doubt they'll release it freeware/make an entire game to test people with, just to find a few skilled people
shockwave and flash are just plain different things i think, i usually see shockwave being used for more advanced 3d things and advanced online features. and considering youtube/google video, i have seen tons of youtube movies with opera, no problems what so ever (it's all just flash, and flash works flawlessly). i haven't seen so many google videos yet, but haven't had any problems with them, and it owuld surprise me if you ever did. i've also seen movies from tons of other sites, no problems there either. compatibility issues are rapidly decreasing :)
i use opera as my primary browser, and haven't had it crash on any flashes ever, although getting shockwave to work appears to be hard (due to a bad installer from adobe... i haven't bothered to get it to work yet, but from what i heard, i'd have to install firefox to get shockwave into opera -_-)
all in all i love it as a primary browser, sometimes i encounter an incompatible site, and then i switch to IE because i know it's a site i can thrust, and otherwise i work with opera, knowing that so few people use it that noone bothers to write exploits for it.