On 08/05/2012 12:36 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
BTW, I wanted to thank those who proposed solutions for
the problems I've been having with Adobe Flash. Finally
my brother discovered one fix that worked, so now I can
watch videos on YouTube and other sources without
crashing my computer dead:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-crashes
To fix the problem, you pretty much have to uninstall
Flash 11.3 and backtrack all the way back to 10.3,
the last known stable version of Flash.
It's pretty fascinating to look this problem up on
Google. There are literally *thousands* of bug reports
from angry customers out there, and so far Adobe has
shown no signs of either being able to find out what
the problem is or fix it. In fact, up until recently
they've been fairly consistent in claiming that it's
somebody else's fault.
It's like an object lesson in How *Not* To Run A
Software Company.
I now understand completely why Apple didn't want to
provide support for Flash in its mobile OS's. It
would have meant exposing its customers to constant
crashes and problems caused by Adobe.
There's been a little war going on in the background. HTML5 doesn't
need Flash and Google bought On2's technology to replace Flash and h264
(MP4) with open source. Of course MPEG-LA (LA = Licensing Authority)
claims it would be impossible for a video codec to not violate one of
its patents. IOW, they hold a bunch of patents that should have never
been granted in the first place. These days we are seeing constant wars
because some companies won't innovate any longer but just sue. Maybe we
don't need a revolution to fix things as the big corporations may just
kill themselves off with their escalating wars with each other.
The big one right now is Apple vs Samsung. Most of us in the tech
industry know that Apple is claiming things that should have never been
patentable. But for the last thirty years, ever since some patent
attorney for some tech company figured out that the Patent Office was
clueless when it came to computer code they've gamed patents.
And of course don't get me started on copyrights. No way should a copy
right be good for the life of the author plus 50 years. It had nothing
to do with individual author's rights but big corprica (Disney) wanting
to sell every generation over and over again their animated shit.
Otherwise all those animated classics from the 30's, 40's and 50's would
be in the Public Domain and gee they might have to actually do some work
to make some money.
Now I see that DVDs not only have the FBI warning but some new
International organization for Intellectual property with it's shield
but also a Homeland Security shield and warning. Tip to the Hollywood
monkeys, entertainment has NEVER been a sure deal and treating your
customers like shit is not going to make it so.
