Funny is they don't figure what actually made youtube succsessful.
Youtube would work in any browser which manages to run Flash in it. That is the trick. Nothing else needed. If Flash runs, Youtube is there even including mobile browsers (e.g. Nokia).
Can't IE really display comments and Google ads? That is all needed for youtube. Flash works in its own way, glory days of "live script" is over really. Sad but true.
IE 6 is still used on large corporations and there is no chance you will be able to "upgrade to chrome" unless you want a visit from BOFH with your manager asking what the hell you are trying to achieve. Yes, a managed client these days won't just stop you, it will also alert admin via security solution, "attempt to install unauthorised software" in recession would be a nice excuse for them.
Oh BTW, unless some miracle happens and a open source/standard commitee invents something which will be a 1.1 MB download, without any dictation of software, completely supported in number 1 pro design suite and various pro video authoring/serving solutions, Flash is there to stay.
HTML5 video would have a huge chance if they were wise to adopt H264 as standard and Dirac as optional codec. Also publicly bitching/whining/attacking both Apple and Adobe which are called "mecca of multimedia" won't really help.
My cell provider (Turkcell) has an excellent offer for digital signatures which is actually embedded in sim card itself. It can be used dynamically for realtime signing, logins (single login) etc.
Just before I jumped to it, I remembered I use OS X only and wondered what happens to actual signed mail (govt. accepted), pdf signing, login extensions... Guess what? No support even on such device independent (e.g. no Win Mo) solution. Absolutely nothing.
I think the digital signature schemes suffer from windows dependence these days especially if you think about iPhones (Unix) and Nokia. I don't know about Win Mobile scene, I wouldn't be surprised if they basically work.
I think they found the magic. Open source SDK, use open source OS and software, have a nice friendly blog with your friendly looking (b)millionaire developer and there you have community support against evil big companies. They somehow act like they are little guy and people fall for it.
Hell you can't exist without being a big company or doing dirty tricks. Who will pay for terabytes of data, infrastructure, staff, code?
Don't misunderstand, I don't hate them or last.fm which I pay 3 dollars a month to have their fake radio which is actually a jukebox based on my tastes. I just hate this "we are nice guys, now support us, you cool friend" junk fashion which was started by Google.
Only issue is, Pandora is NOT broad-casting. They are uploading individual tracks to people's computers over the internet which matches their taste. They are being a gigantic online jukebox.
Broadcast by definition is casting a single stream to an audience without any uniqueness.
Pandora is a jukebox. Yes a Jukebox with high technology. There is no similarity with a radio, even if the radio is web only broadcast.
Radios multicast since they were invented. If the entire planet somehow had multicast capability, could pandora multicast? No. They are streaming aac files to individuals, each individual gets their unique stream.
IMHO, after Last.fm backed by CBS giant went payware in markets excluding USA, UK etc., they also figured they won't really stay afloat with that kind of bandwidth use. As they see thousands of users coming from last.fm because it faced the sad reality mostly because of stupid advertisers can't understand where World is heading to, they now try to trick justice system also somehow troubling REAL RADIO which has nothing to do with them.
If anyone can confuse last.fm, pandora with a real traditional radio, I would be really surprised. The closest thing to real radio on that 'AI' fashion was Spinner which got acquired by AOL and wasted as usual. It was airing (!) same track on its channels.
Man exactly what kind of Apple planet you live instead of Earth and when did you move?
FM radio go in way of Dodo etc? Did you lose your mind? No, World doesn't consist of Apple Stores, Star Bucks and similar things. FM radio can't die because 10-20 people around you doesn't have FM radio capability since Apple was really horrified that they may dare to listen to top 40 crap 'free' instead of buying from iTMS. In fact, it will stay as FM form for a long time since every company except Apple fascists are putting FM radio to their low end cell phones these days. There hasn't been more FM capable devices in history than today. For example, Sony Ericsson are famous for putting a full feature (even including RDS) radio to every high end phone they use. My SE P1i phone doesn't just display RDS, it is also capable of "audio fingerprinting" currently playing track on radio (or actually the surrounding) and display it. That is the 'evil Sony!' for you. Now you have base score to see how evil Apple is for not putting a 10 cent chip inside iPod.
Ask CBS and Clear Channel giants if you want USA centric information about how FM radio is doing. You can also ask British people how "crap" FM sounds like since they didn't move to full digital DAB despite all the push of BBC which does make excellent music broadcast. I mean it is not NPR we talk about, it is the BBC giant. Their (!) DAB has failed because people didn't see (hear) a point. Of course, in British fashion, DAB owners will never get abandoned although DAB couldn't fulfil its promise.
Some people will always like the music chosen by them, by professionals, with a little chatter and information mixed and even ads. That is why radio survives. It should be dead right when the first 8 track shipped if you think that way. No, some people doesn't really want to bother with ''choice'' etc. too much. They want to hear their taste of music and information with minimum interaction as possible.
Isn't that some kind of justice that BSD in one form reached 10% Desktop use share as OS X?
If we listened to what people said, iPod would never take off, Apple would release 5-10 tablets and go out of business like 5 times, it would be year of Linux on desktop, Microsoft would be dead like 10 times etc.
Oracle is a OS company and produces Linux? I have gave up reading after it. Yes, I didn't read submission even and proud of it. Just like I just laughed at ''Java is doomed'' junk.
Look to N97 and aging E90. They all belong to 9000 family of Nokia which is particularly interesting since the user base of them are following the incarnation of the models. E.g. 9200 users moved to 9300, 9300 moved to E90 and they now consider N97. It is almost like iPod community.
Nokia has been making true netbooks for almost a decade while nobody seems to care. It started with Psion in fact, grandfather of Symbian.
Of course, Nokia was never stupid to think that users would want a non performing Windows on a 1990s technology CPU or... Were they stupid not to imagine it?
Of course, they should drop signed thing and allow everyone to do anything on OTHER PEOPLE's phones like calling premium lines, subscribing to premium SMS, setting a botnet.
When billion of dollars of poor end users wasted, they can come up with their own app store scheme rejecting things like Opera, Profimail because ''they duplicate functionality''.
Do you people have any clue what Symbian Signed prevents especially not being required for ordinary applications?
Do you know telecoms would be really happy if J2ME apps, not being signed could send messages all over the place without asking user?
I can tell you, you can really get robbed that way and you won't have a WORD to say against it except contacting police or FBI or whatever.
There are really bad guys out there who goes far as dealing with some island governments to pull their schemes.
If you talk about accessing phonebook, besides dangers above there is also a huge risk of privacy. I hope iPhone doesn't allow everyone to read phonebook?
Symbian World has settled on S60 V3 for a long time with the V5 (touch based) things getting popular for people using and enjoying a full touchscreen device. V3 and V5 doesn't differ too much.
Looking to future, it seems gaining a community&users with S60 V3 and keeping an eye open for Trolltech Qt UI makes sense. Of course one must not forget the Symbian handsets have surprisingly good, compatible J2ME with all kind of features you may want.
Qt will also bring discipline to scene. Obviously huge load of KDE 4 apps will be there and nobody will dare to code a trivial junk and put 20 dollar price tag. Those days are over soon.
S80 (9xxx) and UIQ3 has always been special anyway and the day E90 shipped with S60, S80 was dead. I tell as owner of S60 V3, S80 and UIQ3 handsets. Wouldn't it rock if UIQ3 lived and was even chosen of base of Symbian foundation? Of course but there are sad facts like huge S60 has developer support, market of thousands of apps and documentation. Motorola and Sony wasted UIQ3 but it seems their smart phone business got wasted too. No developer or user would trust them no matter whatever they ship.
I use that version on OS X, thanks to Fink project. While they don't promise any kind of 'final' version at this state, I can easily keep KDE 4 applications in my OS X Dock, using them instead of iTunes for example.
They are linked to actual OS X frameworks, down to Quicktime and very interestingly they use far less CPU and resources than regular OS X apps.
There are similar reports from Windows users who binary installed it and using Amarok 2 etc. right now. While on it, is there any reason why KDE 3.5 given up when KDE 4 installed? I keep using KDE 3.5 suite on OS X too. It doesn't conflict with anything at all including KDE 4.
I think what KDE 4 is and what a huge revolution it is will be understood in 1-2 years. For example when Nokia and other members of open source Symbian foundation starts using it in some form in their smart phones.
This is something like coming up with a spyware named 'Opra mini' and advertise it whenever users search for Opera Mini.
Opera browser, is of course a trademark for a product of that Norwegian company but it doesn't mean we can claim they are lunatic to trademark Opera music genre or laugh at them.
If a plugin crashes a browser, it is browser's fault. Yes, damn the plugin for crashing but "host app" is also responsible for crashing with it.
No, I don't speak about Windows or Firefox. I speak in general. Some company (not Opera this time) will prove it to you and hopefully they will be copied like many times resulting in the end of "plugin crashed browser" junk.
Sorry for cryptic message, there is some stupid NDA and I have issue with obeying whatever agreement I accept.
Failure of Microsoft means a lot philosophically. It would even mean a lot to OS X users who are one of the best Microsoft customers via MS Office and Windows XP/Vista (piracy isn't too popular here).
That is unless you are one of the types trying to clone their junk and expect respect and prestige from open source community.
Not just that, idiots still keep publishing Webkit incompatible pages. Microsoft logo is exactly on "Privacy Policy" text.
Do you know how easy to make a major media company to "support" your product? Give its IT manager some money under the table, give free servers, give a entire fscking grid for free. Right under this story "related items" you will see companies gave up Silverlight because of its horrible performance.
It is not racing with "VLC media plugin", it is racing or daring to race with THIS
"72% of online videos are viewed worldwide using Adobe Flash technology, making it the #1 technology for video on the web.* 99% of Internet-enabled desktops can view content compatible with Adobe Flash Player." (Adobe)
And the only actual, working, supported plugin is coded for Windows. In this age when people asks the very same desktop apps on their smart phones, iphone. They can't even support PowerPC, their code is tied to i386 and Windows in this ARM/MIPS/OS X/Linux/BSD circus.
Let me tell the unfortunate truth. There is no money to spend in media industry to Microsoft's another "Me too" junk. People had their lesson with Windows Media while converting millions of hours to h264 later. Silverlight is only interesting to some idiots who thinks they can get a job at MS as if Ballmer reads slashdot comments and browses some stupid open source sites.
I got a Powerbook 12" in use too, in fact 2 more G4s (Mini) and they are all fine with Flash, including video as long as the video is not HD. That HD problem is actually h264/system bus bandwidth and built in GPU problem. mplayer CAN play a lot of 720p content in fact because it is maniacally optimised/ ASM code.
My brother uses http://g.ho.st/ Flash based Virtual Machine on his 12" powerbook too. Of course, it is a bit slow but not torture.
Flash 10 didn't just continue to support PowerPC, they also multi core/CPU enabled it so dual G4/G5 quad G5 people will benefit.
"If yours isn't one of the platforms supported by Macromedia, you're still SOL"
These days (in fact, years), even Symbian handsets, Windows handsets have Flash support except that "app store will be broken" phobic company smart phone. That is a political/commercial decision rather than technical one, everyone knows.
No kidding, Adobe releases Flash and Air for Windows, even listens to 64bit whiners to release that version under linux, opens Flex, the spec, doesn't say a word to Gnash guys who ships a flash plugin in complete GPL license and Linux people sits there and prays for some sell out developer to beg to MS to have his "cool named" clone to have Silverlight 3 support.
OS X people never claim they are some "patent free" heroes but looking to Silverlight (intel only) release download numbers, the horrible feedback, man they really have some integrity.
Hell with your 64bit flash plugin really. Not only it exists at Adobe Labs, it is so stupid to demand a 64bit web browser plugin that even Microsoft hides their 64bit IE in Start Menu where "32bit" is at their Dock clone under Windows 7 RC 64bit.
Flash is at its 10th generation and has to support massive amount of operating systems, hardware architectures and even TV sets in some cases while maintaining full backwards compatibility down to its original "future splash" incarnation. It is not some "hey I coded super cool new version of my app using ruby but it won't be backwards compatible." toy.
Silverlight doesn't only exist on Linux, it doesn't exist on anything other than Windows and x86. It was coded just couple of years ago so it is easy to click that Visual Studio thing to make it 64bit.
My phones run Flash, what the heck you talk about?
What about "patent atrocity"? I hope nobody will dare to claim DirectX is not patented by Microsoft. It is their "real power", the Windows OS is impossible to give up by gamers because of DirectX games. For example, even if the entire earth says "OS X is better", EA will keep shipping their top selling titles in DirectX. Their "OS X" games are actually Windows executables you know.
So, the day you get "Moonlight with 3d!" from a camp who is only interested in cloning MS technologies and infecting Linux, you get the "DirectX" patent bomb too. They will probably find a idiot to code a cool app depending on it with no other reason than "it can".
Not like I can believe they can really clone directx, I am just saying where things are heading with this "me too" technology and monkeys trying to clone it.
1) Shockwave, which has state of art design tools is available since 1990s, does the exact same thing and easy enough to use by designers, not developers. Runs under both OS X and Windows. One of its powers is 3d support even extensible with other "engines", online. People even pack it to.exe and.apps to sell the games as some kind of native executables.
2) Adobe Air, it is there since 2006, there are already working (some even commercial, like earthbrowser) under 3 different operating systems, OS X, Linux, Windows (and *BSD). There is a huge major vendor support including AOL, major record companies, major online services. It can be used, designed completely open source without any kind of questionable licenses and runtimes.
What exactly causes the tone of submission and people with high IDs "partying" over this release while it is clear that there will be months to clone this technology which won't really be a perfect copy under Linux? Obviously, companies won't really bother with "GTK something layer", they will fire up Visual Studio and code for Windows clients in mind.
The question is: "Is this the biggest astroturfing ever?" If Slashdot or its parent needs money, let us subscribe or donate. This is really getting something that could mark the end of Slashdot.
I don't know if Google is fool enough to put a patent bomb in their "anti microsoft" operating system.
First of all, they don't need Microsoft's money as some "almost went chapter 11" company did, they don't have a sell out engineer which gained fame during "but Qt is not GPL" troll fights and later adopted a weird Microsoft license, poisoning the very same Gnome environment in every chance he/his friends get.
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Funny is they don't figure what actually made youtube succsessful.
Youtube would work in any browser which manages to run Flash in it. That is the trick. Nothing else needed. If Flash runs, Youtube is there even including mobile browsers (e.g. Nokia).
Can't IE really display comments and Google ads? That is all needed for youtube. Flash works in its own way, glory days of "live script" is over really. Sad but true.
IE 6 is still used on large corporations and there is no chance you will be able to "upgrade to chrome" unless you want a visit from BOFH with your manager asking what the hell you are trying to achieve. Yes, a managed client these days won't just stop you, it will also alert admin via security solution, "attempt to install unauthorised software" in recession would be a nice excuse for them.
Oh BTW, unless some miracle happens and a open source/standard commitee invents something which will be a 1.1 MB download, without any dictation of software, completely supported in number 1 pro design suite and various pro video authoring/serving solutions, Flash is there to stay.
HTML5 video would have a huge chance if they were wise to adopt H264 as standard and Dirac as optional codec. Also publicly bitching/whining/attacking both Apple and Adobe which are called "mecca of multimedia" won't really help.
My cell provider (Turkcell) has an excellent offer for digital signatures which is actually embedded in sim card itself. It can be used dynamically for realtime signing, logins (single login) etc.
Details in this pdf http://www.turkcell.com.tr/c/docs/bultenler/20081219_Turkcell_Mobile_Signature.pdf
Just before I jumped to it, I remembered I use OS X only and wondered what happens to actual signed mail (govt. accepted), pdf signing, login extensions... Guess what? No support even on such device independent (e.g. no Win Mo) solution. Absolutely nothing.
I think the digital signature schemes suffer from windows dependence these days especially if you think about iPhones (Unix) and Nokia. I don't know about Win Mobile scene, I wouldn't be surprised if they basically work.
What is the situation on Linux?
I think they found the magic. Open source SDK, use open source OS and software, have a nice friendly blog with your friendly looking (b)millionaire developer and there you have community support against evil big companies. They somehow act like they are little guy and people fall for it.
Hell you can't exist without being a big company or doing dirty tricks. Who will pay for terabytes of data, infrastructure, staff, code?
Don't misunderstand, I don't hate them or last.fm which I pay 3 dollars a month to have their fake radio which is actually a jukebox based on my tastes. I just hate this "we are nice guys, now support us, you cool friend" junk fashion which was started by Google.
Only issue is, Pandora is NOT broad-casting. They are uploading individual tracks to people's computers over the internet which matches their taste. They are being a gigantic online jukebox.
Broadcast by definition is casting a single stream to an audience without any uniqueness.
Pandora is a jukebox. Yes a Jukebox with high technology. There is no similarity with a radio, even if the radio is web only broadcast.
Radios multicast since they were invented. If the entire planet somehow had multicast capability, could pandora multicast? No. They are streaming aac files to individuals, each individual gets their unique stream.
IMHO, after Last.fm backed by CBS giant went payware in markets excluding USA, UK etc., they also figured they won't really stay afloat with that kind of bandwidth use. As they see thousands of users coming from last.fm because it faced the sad reality mostly because of stupid advertisers can't understand where World is heading to, they now try to trick justice system also somehow troubling REAL RADIO which has nothing to do with them.
If anyone can confuse last.fm, pandora with a real traditional radio, I would be really surprised. The closest thing to real radio on that 'AI' fashion was Spinner which got acquired by AOL and wasted as usual. It was airing (!) same track on its channels.
Man exactly what kind of Apple planet you live instead of Earth and when did you move?
FM radio go in way of Dodo etc? Did you lose your mind? No, World doesn't consist of Apple Stores, Star Bucks and similar things. FM radio can't die because 10-20 people around you doesn't have FM radio capability since Apple was really horrified that they may dare to listen to top 40 crap 'free' instead of buying from iTMS. In fact, it will stay as FM form for a long time since every company except Apple fascists are putting FM radio to their low end cell phones these days. There hasn't been more FM capable devices in history than today. For example, Sony Ericsson are famous for putting a full feature (even including RDS) radio to every high end phone they use. My SE P1i phone doesn't just display RDS, it is also capable of "audio fingerprinting" currently playing track on radio (or actually the surrounding) and display it. That is the 'evil Sony!' for you. Now you have base score to see how evil Apple is for not putting a 10 cent chip inside iPod.
Ask CBS and Clear Channel giants if you want USA centric information about how FM radio is doing. You can also ask British people how "crap" FM sounds like since they didn't move to full digital DAB despite all the push of BBC which does make excellent music broadcast. I mean it is not NPR we talk about, it is the BBC giant. Their (!) DAB has failed because people didn't see (hear) a point. Of course, in British fashion, DAB owners will never get abandoned although DAB couldn't fulfil its promise.
Some people will always like the music chosen by them, by professionals, with a little chatter and information mixed and even ads. That is why radio survives. It should be dead right when the first 8 track shipped if you think that way. No, some people doesn't really want to bother with ''choice'' etc. too much. They want to hear their taste of music and information with minimum interaction as possible.
Isn't that some kind of justice that BSD in one form reached 10% Desktop use share as OS X?
If we listened to what people said, iPod would never take off, Apple would release 5-10 tablets and go out of business like 5 times, it would be year of Linux on desktop, Microsoft would be dead like 10 times etc.
Oracle is a OS company and produces Linux? I have gave up reading after it. Yes, I didn't read submission even and proud of it. Just like I just laughed at ''Java is doomed'' junk.
Look to N97 and aging E90. They all belong to 9000 family of Nokia which is particularly interesting since the user base of them are following the incarnation of the models. E.g. 9200 users moved to 9300, 9300 moved to E90 and they now consider N97. It is almost like iPod community.
Nokia has been making true netbooks for almost a decade while nobody seems to care. It started with Psion in fact, grandfather of Symbian.
Of course, Nokia was never stupid to think that users would want a non performing Windows on a 1990s technology CPU or... Were they stupid not to imagine it?
Of course, they should drop signed thing and allow everyone to do anything on OTHER PEOPLE's phones like calling premium lines, subscribing to premium SMS, setting a botnet.
When billion of dollars of poor end users wasted, they can come up with their own app store scheme rejecting things like Opera, Profimail because ''they duplicate functionality''.
Do you people have any clue what Symbian Signed prevents especially not being required for ordinary applications?
Do you know telecoms would be really happy if J2ME apps, not being signed could send messages all over the place without asking user?
I can tell you, you can really get robbed that way and you won't have a WORD to say against it except contacting police or FBI or whatever.
There are really bad guys out there who goes far as dealing with some island governments to pull their schemes.
If you talk about accessing phonebook, besides dangers above there is also a huge risk of privacy. I hope iPhone doesn't allow everyone to read phonebook?
Symbian World has settled on S60 V3 for a long time with the V5 (touch based) things getting popular for people using and enjoying a full touchscreen device. V3 and V5 doesn't differ too much.
Looking to future, it seems gaining a community&users with S60 V3 and keeping an eye open for Trolltech Qt UI makes sense. Of course one must not forget the Symbian handsets have surprisingly good, compatible J2ME with all kind of features you may want.
Qt will also bring discipline to scene. Obviously huge load of KDE 4 apps will be there and nobody will dare to code a trivial junk and put 20 dollar price tag. Those days are over soon.
S80 (9xxx) and UIQ3 has always been special anyway and the day E90 shipped with S60, S80 was dead. I tell as owner of S60 V3, S80 and UIQ3 handsets. Wouldn't it rock if UIQ3 lived and was even chosen of base of Symbian foundation? Of course but there are sad facts like huge S60 has developer support, market of thousands of apps and documentation. Motorola and Sony wasted UIQ3 but it seems their smart phone business got wasted too. No developer or user would trust them no matter whatever they ship.
I use that version on OS X, thanks to Fink project. While they don't promise any kind of 'final' version at this state, I can easily keep KDE 4 applications in my OS X Dock, using them instead of iTunes for example.
They are linked to actual OS X frameworks, down to Quicktime and very interestingly they use far less CPU and resources than regular OS X apps.
There are similar reports from Windows users who binary installed it and using Amarok 2 etc. right now. While on it, is there any reason why KDE 3.5 given up when KDE 4 installed? I keep using KDE 3.5 suite on OS X too. It doesn't conflict with anything at all including KDE 4.
I think what KDE 4 is and what a huge revolution it is will be understood in 1-2 years. For example when Nokia and other members of open source Symbian foundation starts using it in some form in their smart phones.
This is something like coming up with a spyware named 'Opra mini' and advertise it whenever users search for Opera Mini.
Opera browser, is of course a trademark for a product of that Norwegian company but it doesn't mean we can claim they are lunatic to trademark Opera music genre or laugh at them.
So can you go to any newspaper and advertise your con business freely? Just try and see what happens.
World's number 1 advertising company needs some kind of control don't you think?
If a plugin crashes a browser, it is browser's fault. Yes, damn the plugin for crashing but "host app" is also responsible for crashing with it.
No, I don't speak about Windows or Firefox. I speak in general. Some company (not Opera this time) will prove it to you and hopefully they will be copied like many times resulting in the end of "plugin crashed browser" junk.
Sorry for cryptic message, there is some stupid NDA and I have issue with obeying whatever agreement I accept.
Failure of Microsoft means a lot philosophically. It would even mean a lot to OS X users who are one of the best Microsoft customers via MS Office and Windows XP/Vista (piracy isn't too popular here).
That is unless you are one of the types trying to clone their junk and expect respect and prestige from open source community.
And what exactly makes it different from this besides being Windows only?
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features/
BTW thanks for your Disclaimer, you have ethics unlike some commenters on this (and several other) recent Slashdot stories.
That page you reference requires Silverlight and it doesn't work under PPC.
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx?reason=macPPC&v=2.0
Not just that, idiots still keep publishing Webkit incompatible pages. Microsoft logo is exactly on "Privacy Policy" text.
Do you know how easy to make a major media company to "support" your product? Give its IT manager some money under the table, give free servers, give a entire fscking grid for free. Right under this story "related items" you will see companies gave up Silverlight because of its horrible performance.
It is not racing with "VLC media plugin", it is racing or daring to race with THIS
"72% of online videos are viewed worldwide using Adobe Flash technology, making it the #1 technology for video on the web.*
99% of Internet-enabled desktops can view content compatible with Adobe Flash Player." (Adobe)
And the only actual, working, supported plugin is coded for Windows. In this age when people asks the very same desktop apps on their smart phones, iphone. They can't even support PowerPC, their code is tied to i386 and Windows in this ARM/MIPS/OS X/Linux/BSD circus.
Let me tell the unfortunate truth. There is no money to spend in media industry to Microsoft's another "Me too" junk. People had their lesson with Windows Media while converting millions of hours to h264 later. Silverlight is only interesting to some idiots who thinks they can get a job at MS as if Ballmer reads slashdot comments and browses some stupid open source sites.
I got a Powerbook 12" in use too, in fact 2 more G4s (Mini) and they are all fine with Flash, including video as long as the video is not HD. That HD problem is actually h264/system bus bandwidth and built in GPU problem. mplayer CAN play a lot of 720p content in fact because it is maniacally optimised/ ASM code.
My brother uses http://g.ho.st/ Flash based Virtual Machine on his 12" powerbook too. Of course, it is a bit slow but not torture.
Flash 10 didn't just continue to support PowerPC, they also multi core/CPU enabled it so dual G4/G5 quad G5 people will benefit.
"If yours isn't one of the platforms supported by Macromedia, you're still SOL"
These days (in fact, years), even Symbian handsets, Windows handsets have Flash support except that "app store will be broken" phobic company smart phone. That is a political/commercial decision rather than technical one, everyone knows.
What platform Flash doesn't support?
No kidding, Adobe releases Flash and Air for Windows, even listens to 64bit whiners to release that version under linux, opens Flex, the spec, doesn't say a word to Gnash guys who ships a flash plugin in complete GPL license and Linux people sits there and prays for some sell out developer to beg to MS to have his "cool named" clone to have Silverlight 3 support.
OS X people never claim they are some "patent free" heroes but looking to Silverlight (intel only) release download numbers, the horrible feedback, man they really have some integrity.
Hell with your 64bit flash plugin really. Not only it exists at Adobe Labs, it is so stupid to demand a 64bit web browser plugin that even Microsoft hides their 64bit IE in Start Menu where "32bit" is at their Dock clone under Windows 7 RC 64bit.
Flash is at its 10th generation and has to support massive amount of operating systems, hardware architectures and even TV sets in some cases while maintaining full backwards compatibility down to its original "future splash" incarnation. It is not some "hey I coded super cool new version of my app using ruby but it won't be backwards compatible." toy.
Silverlight doesn't only exist on Linux, it doesn't exist on anything other than Windows and x86. It was coded just couple of years ago so it is easy to click that Visual Studio thing to make it 64bit.
My phones run Flash, what the heck you talk about?
What about "patent atrocity"? I hope nobody will dare to claim DirectX is not patented by Microsoft. It is their "real power", the Windows OS is impossible to give up by gamers because of DirectX games. For example, even if the entire earth says "OS X is better", EA will keep shipping their top selling titles in DirectX. Their "OS X" games are actually Windows executables you know.
So, the day you get "Moonlight with 3d!" from a camp who is only interested in cloning MS technologies and infecting Linux, you get the "DirectX" patent bomb too. They will probably find a idiot to code a cool app depending on it with no other reason than "it can".
Not like I can believe they can really clone directx, I am just saying where things are heading with this "me too" technology and monkeys trying to clone it.
I try my best not to get paranoid but...
1) Shockwave, which has state of art design tools is available since 1990s, does the exact same thing and easy enough to use by designers, not developers. Runs under both OS X and Windows. One of its powers is 3d support even extensible with other "engines", online. People even pack it to .exe and .apps to sell the games as some kind of native executables.
2) Adobe Air, it is there since 2006, there are already working (some even commercial, like earthbrowser) under 3 different operating systems, OS X, Linux, Windows (and *BSD). There is a huge major vendor support including AOL, major record companies, major online services. It can be used, designed completely open source without any kind of questionable licenses and runtimes.
What exactly causes the tone of submission and people with high IDs "partying" over this release while it is clear that there will be months to clone this technology which won't really be a perfect copy under Linux? Obviously, companies won't really bother with "GTK something layer", they will fire up Visual Studio and code for Windows clients in mind.
The question is: "Is this the biggest astroturfing ever?" If Slashdot or its parent needs money, let us subscribe or donate. This is really getting something that could mark the end of Slashdot.
I don't know if Google is fool enough to put a patent bomb in their "anti microsoft" operating system.
First of all, they don't need Microsoft's money as some "almost went chapter 11" company did, they don't have a sell out engineer which gained fame during "but Qt is not GPL" troll fights and later adopted a weird Microsoft license, poisoning the very same Gnome environment in every chance he/his friends get.