Re: ia64 and i386

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:57:39 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

All very true - I wrote of YouTube specifically.
 
> > 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? ;-)

Better to grab, and then delete as necessary, than to kick yourself for
not grabbing when you had the chance.

> 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.

Yes - but it would still have the potential for great misuse, crufting
up all sorts of things that ought to be kept simple.

> Camaleón

Celejar
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