Re: ia64 and i386

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:37 -0400, Celejar wrote:

> On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530
> Mihira Fernando <mihiratheace@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>> Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit
>> player, I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that
>> the 64bit one seems to have (No need to have flash is evil debates
>> here. Some of us wants to watch youtube and other flash sites).
> 
> Just FTR (although you probably know this), Flash isn't required for
> YouTube; you can grab the videos with youtube-dl / clive, and play them
> with your favorite video player. There are many advantages to this
> method, including:
> 
> 1) Better playback controls (as per a recent thread here) 

I've found that those helper apps (like the "DownloadThemAll" firefox 
extension) do not always work with all of the flash video sites out 
there. I dunno exactly why though my guess is that they fail when 
javascript comes into play.

And don't forget that videos are only a litte part of the flash based 
sites, there games and online applications that depend on flash.

> 2) You have a copy of the video, in case it's removed from YouTube 

And who in this world wants to have his terabyte hard disk full of cute -
meow- cats? ;-)

3) Flash is evil ;)

Let me be a bit more picky here. Flash is evil because Adobe made it so. 
Adobe's Flash Player, completely open, properly done, developed and 
programmed could have its use.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón