On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Guy Morton wrote: > On 30/04/2010, at 6:22 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: > That article is so wrong, in so many places, but the corrections will never > get the same exposure. Good tactic, unfortunately. > > I'm interested to know where you think he is factually wrong.
I believe Steve Jobs is factually wrong in the following claim: "We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash." On a modern Operating System a userland application can not crash the system. Only errors in hardware or in privileged processes (the kernel and drivers) running in ring 0 can crash can operating system. Ring 3 code can not. Now I immediately believe him if he wants to claim that Flash is the number one reason Safari or Camino crashes. But the only way I can imagine Flash crashing the system is if Mac OS X allows userland applications access to hardware. And operating systems that allow that deserve to crash. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/
