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    Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks

    Flash 10.1 Tests: Hardware Accelerated HD Hulu and YouTube Video? Yes Please

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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    I think I like the Mimobot versions better.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    Just think how much more awesome Linux will be booting from Vader. I can feel the dark side coursing through my system already.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    11/23/09

    @Nathan Obbards: The proper distro in that case is Backtrack [www.remote-exploit.org]
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    "You don't know the power of the Dark Side... to store your data!"
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    Image of chocolatebanana chocolatebanana
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks
    So this doesn't really have anything to do with hackintoshes, but rather any slow PC and any operating system in general, yes? #flash101hacktintosh
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    11/17/09

    @chocolatebanana: "But this is good news for hackintoshes, and netbooks in general." This would suggest so, yes? #flash101hacktintosh
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    Image of JackTheTripper JackTheTripper
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks
    I have the same wind model. This is great news. I'll try it tonight. #flash101hacktintosh
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    Image of Pazu Pazu
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Tests: Hardware Accelerated HD Hulu and YouTube Video? Yes Please
    Adobe is so funny. "Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs" my ass.

    OpenCL on Snow Leopard will offload processing to the GPU, and if they implemented their decoder using OpenCL they'd get GPU acceleration, not only for H.264 but for for any codec they want to, and without relying on proprietary APIs, as OpenCL is a standard now maintained by the Khronos Group.

    Let's rephrase that: "Adobe does not have the manpower or capacity to code to the required APIs".
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    Edited by Pazu at 11/17/09 9:22 AM Pazu was starred Pazu was unstarred
    Image of pj_rage pj_rage
    11/17/09

    @Pazu: Let's rephrase that again.. "Apple does not want to work with Adobe on the iPhone, so Adobe does not want to work with Apple on OS X." #flash
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    Image of orthorim orthorim
    11/17/09

    @pj_rage: This goes way back... Apple was pissed Adobe ported everything 1:1 to Windows, Adobe was pissed about iPhoto, etc etc. #flash
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    Pazu promoted this comment orthorim was starred orthorim was unstarred
    Image of Pazu Pazu
    11/17/09

    @pj_rage: in other words, corporate piss contests screwing up consumers again.

    That's why we need to stop using flash (or any other proprietary bs), and brace for an open web. But then, it will be another decade before MS implements all the HTML5 goodness in IE... #flash
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    Image of Les Mikesell Les Mikesell
    11/17/09

    @Pazu: This is why hardware companies should never be permitted to tie software to the hardware they sell - and vice versa. #flash
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    valkilmerisawful promoted this comment Les Mikesell was starred Les Mikesell was unstarred
    Image of pj_rage pj_rage
    11/17/09

    @Pazu: I don't own a computer running OS X, so I don't care about flash on OS X. I do own an iphone though, so I actually don't mind this pissing contest if it gets me flash for my iphone.

    Sure, in the long run I'm all for open standards, but in the short term, I'd like flash. If these (controversial) tactics help to make that happen, then I'm sorry OS X users have to suffer. Switch to linux or windows :) #flash
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/17/09

    @Les Mikesell: I don't think we'll be abolishing free enterprise any time soon. But feel free to void warranty's and tear the boxes open and install whatever you'd like! #flash
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    Image of Eugenia Eugenia
    11/17/09

    In reply to Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Betas Released: Life Is Better Now
    Installed it. Youtube works great, even at 1080p (when you add the &fmt=37 on some brand new 1080p videos).

    The PureVideo2 implementation from Adobe is NOT as fast as CoreAVC's. Testing it on an older PC, a P4 at 3 Ghz (so we can see the speed difference more clearly), CoreAVC manages to playback 1080/30p video with just 15% CPU utilization, but Flash needs about 70%-90%.

    For 720p video, it seems to be caching some stuff in the beginning and so it uses about 70%-80% in the beginning, but after it's done with that, it goes down to about 20%.

    Vimeo.com on the other hand, has problems with Flash 10.1. Flash crashes when exiting from full screen (reproducible here), videos don't start to play when you press "play" (you will have to re-press play), if you press in the timeline to go to a different time in the video it won't play immediately (even if it's cashed), and in *some* h.264 Vimeo re-encodings (like for one of my videos, but not all), playing the video accelerated is *slower* than in just software (reproducible behavior for the specific video)! These problems didn't exist with Flash 10.0.32.

    GeForce 8600 GTS here, XP SP3 32bit, 3 GB RAM, with 186.18 nVidia drivers. If any interested Adobe engineer is reading this, I can provide more details.
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    Edited by Eugenia at 11/17/09 1:50 AM Eugenia was starred Eugenia was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/17/09

    In reply to Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Betas Released: Life Is Better Now
    Can we please banish flash already just like we (mostly) did with animated GIFs? I have tried to circumvent every Adobe product out there (save Photoshop) as they have become buggier, bulkier, demanding, and far too resource intensive over time. I remember a time when reader was actually somewhat lightweight. #flash
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/17/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Oh, you're not going to like their upcoming Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format with embedded Flash content then. #flash
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/17/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Well, that all depends on what the flash content is. Is it the good kind of flash or the adobe kind? I mean, if it's the good flashing, I can deal with the kriffing .pdf format. #flash
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/17/09


    @Nathan Obbards: Well, it's all rumors at this point, but perhaps they refer to The Flash content. I don't imagine that turning out well coming from Adobe though. #flash
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/17/09

    @Fractal the Meek: It's at moments like this that I lament the fact that fellow starred commenters cannot be promoted. Kudos to you sir. #flash
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    Image of whormongr whormongr
    11/17/09

    @Nathan Obbards: flash is actually the exact opposite of that, it is (and really has been) a safer and more simplified multimedia display tool for the web and web based applications- it is only now getting into it's full potential with video streaming- it isn't just people making dancing dogs or flashing colors or whatfuck #flash
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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    11/17/09

    @whormongr: Um, no. Flash is crap. It's not safer. And, it's not simpler.

    Flash was once used as a convenience, but the state of HTML has long since caught up.

    You don't have to stream video in a custom made flash video player. Many would prefer that you didn't. At least then, I'd have some hope of having hardware accelerated videos on my Linux box. #flash
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    Image of Felix26591 Felix26591
    11/17/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I wish we would remplace it in the HTML format. I mean pick one or just use both and have support for both h264 and theora and just get over with it and replace flash, and give native support to video on browser. #flash
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    11/12/09

    In reply to Vimeo Videos Get Friendly With iPhones and Android
    Wild guess: except for the iPhone, probably. Ugh.

    Don't be upset, Danny. Papa Jobs knows what's best and he only wants a good iPhone experience for you. Some day when you're older, you'll understand. Until then, just be patient, ok? #vimeoiphoneandroid
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    11/06/09

    In reply to Samsung's New Ultra Slim 30-Nanometer Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
    Your mom's practically anorexic #samsungflashmemorychip
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/06/09

    @Rejexted: She's not. #samsungflashmemorychip
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/06/09

    In reply to Samsung's New Ultra Slim 30-Nanometer Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
    Do we expect these to lower the prices of memory beyond the usual results of technology decreasing in cost over time? Small gadgets, absolutely - but I am not certain I see how it will change the pricing picture any further than it would normally. #samsungflashmemorychip
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    11/06/09

    In reply to Samsung's New Ultra Slim 30-Nanometer Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
    I kinda want to see what a bulimic flash chip would look like. #samsungflashmemorychip
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    met2art promoted this comment mattycakes was starred mattycakes was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    11/06/09


    @mattycakes: Like this...

    #samsungflashmemorychip
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    11/06/09

    @met2art: Nicely done, sir. You deserve a heartclick and a highfive for the MS-DOS barf. #samsungflashmemorychip
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    Image of don-don don-don
    11/06/09

    In reply to Samsung's New Ultra Slim 30-Nanometer Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
    Now this is shrinkage that I can be proud of! #samsungflashmemorychip
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    met2art promoted this comment don-don was starred don-don was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    11/06/09

    @don-don: It's not the size of your RAM that matters... it's how you address the locations... #samsungflashmemorychip
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    Image of madog madog
    11/02/09

    In reply to Adobe Gets Sharky Snarky With Apple's iPhone Flash Ban
    Warning: Adobe Flash for Mac OS X is coded so poorly that it doesn't run as well with an 8-core Mac Pro when compared to a Windows machine running on a Pentium III. Furthermore, our limited mobile version does not live up to Apples standards.

    So because the iPhone is running a modified version of OS X, and our software blows donkey balls (google it, there are pics), we will not fix it in any way but will instead blame Apple. Besides, we are running out of banannas to feed our Mac OS software engineers.

    //All kidding aside, this problem swings both ways, and the blame cannot be placed solely upon Apple. #iphoneflashsupport
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    Image of madog madog
    11/02/09

    @madog: lastly, Apple could be holding on to this trump card for a major update to the phone for the next generation. Otherwise they would have come out with the most badass phone right from the start and prevented several people from needing the new model. #iphoneflashsupport
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/02/09

    In reply to Adobe Gets Sharky Snarky With Apple's iPhone Flash Ban
    Until I'd be able to install an adblocker on mobile Safari, I don't want flash, because with flash comes lots of superfluous shit that slows the site loading and sucks the battery a bit faster. #iphoneflashsupport
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    Image of BoostedJZ BoostedJZ
    11/02/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You can, get Adblock from Cydia. Works just like the plugin in firefox. #iphoneflashsupport
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    Kaiser-Machead approved this comment BoostedJZ was starred BoostedJZ was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/02/09

    @BoostedJZ: Problem is I have to jailbreak my iPod, which I'd rather not do, so I guess I'd have to rephrase that to "officially" be able to install an adblocker #iphoneflashsupport
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