Prev: Special Technology deals from Office MAX ends Feb, 20th
Next: HotSpot Software
From: Warren Oates on 25 Feb 2010 19:30
In article <250220101327159530%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> there's a video of flash on the google nexus one, and you can see the
> battery level indicator drop from one-half to one-quarter in 6 minutes.

Mmm hmm. Just like our MacBook Pro with Photoshop.
--
Very old woody beets will never cook tender.
-- Fannie Farmer
From: Todd Allcock on 25 Feb 2010 20:39

"nospam" <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:250220101652368828%nospam(a)nospam.invalid...
> In article <8fChn.3630$mn6.1114(a)newsfe07.iad>, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
>
>> If I want to
>> watch, say, the last episode of "Lost" on Hulu, I need flash, at least
>> until Hulu decides to roll out an App For That(tm).
>
> and they're reportedly doing just that

IIRC, they've been "reportedly doing just that" for well over a year.


>> I'm not a fan of
>> flash- I just want content. If that content is wrapped in flash, I need
>> flash, at least until that content is offered in an alternative form.
>
> transitions sometimes are tough.

Only if you make them tough. There's no good reason not to support both
flash and HTML5 now, then wean yourself off of one in favor of the other
later. All the "buggy" and "battery eating" problems can and should be
end-user decisions. If I'm sitting in my car with a cigarette lighter cord
powering the device, or in an airport plugged into AC, "battery life" is no
longer an issue. If the phone is at 20% battery life and external power is
no where to be found, I guess I won't be using flash, (or WiFi, or heavy
data sessions, or anything else that will squander my battery power.)

When Apple stopped including 3.5" floppies, which was very forward thinking,
how did Mac users benefit, other than having the bragging rights of being
first to ditch old tech? 3.5 internal drives cost under $10 wholesale at
the time, and I personally still had a box of 3.5" disks on my computer
table. The transition to a floppyless world wasn't tough for me at all- my
PCs had one until AFTER they were obsolete, rather than before! Someday,
decades from now, when we control our PCs by sheer power of thought alone,
we won't need keyboards or mice, either. Are you ready to ditch yours today
in anticipation? ;)



From: alexd on 26 Feb 2010 11:32
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:15:18 -0700, Todd Allcock wrote:

> I agree. Hulu has been blocking certain platforms (mobiles,
> internet-connected gaming systems) based on the device's User Agent
> (easy enough to circumvent for those who really want to.) My poison-pen
> email to Hulu about that got a form-letter reply about how the content
> providers consider those platforms a separate medium than the computer
> and hadn't finalized distribution plans (read: decided whether/how much
> to charge for access!)

Ironic that, because the BBC only offers un-DRMed content to iPhones,
which is successfully exploited by get_iplayer sending an iPhone UA
string.

--
<http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx)
16:25:39 up 22 days, 8:47, 4 users, load average: 0.61, 0.25, 0.18
DIMENSION-CONTROLLING FORT DOH HAS NOW BEEN DEMOLISHED,
AND TIME STARTED FLOWING REVERSELY
From: Larry on 26 Feb 2010 13:09
"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote in
news:d1Hhn.317$NH1.51(a)newsfe14.iad:

> Hulu has been blocking certain platforms (mobiles,
> internet-connected gaming systems) based on the device's User Agent
> (easy enough to circumvent for those who really want to.) My
> poison-pen email to Hulu about that got a form-letter reply about how
> the content providers consider those platforms a separate medium than
> the computer and hadn't finalized distribution plans (read: decided
> whether/how much to charge for access!)
>

When you connect to Hulu on the N800 Linux tablet, it refuses to let you
watch and directs you to adobe.com for a "new version" of Flash that
doesn't exist for the tablets. There aren't many Flash-based websites that
won't work on the Maemo Linux tablets, but this is one of them.....dammit.



--
"iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!"

Larry

First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5
Prev: Special Technology deals from Office MAX ends Feb, 20th
Next: HotSpot Software