Let me tell you all the ways …

4 Responses to Let me tell you all the ways …

1. Mark says:

   July 26, 2010 at 19:43

   And not just memory, but CPU usage (which means ‘battery life’ in a laptop).

   I turn Flash off in Safari’s preferences, just turning it on temporarily when I absolutely need it. It gets me an extra 30 minutes or so of battery life on my MacBook Air; that works out to about an extra 15-20%!

   I hate it, and wish it would die.
2. Kalle says:

   July 26, 2010 at 20:20

   Very, very true. Goes to show that people pick convenience over “good” 8 days a week. If the world was a better place, people would’ve simply refused to use Flash until Adobe fixed it or a competitor made something more competent. (Edit: and they would’ve dissed Facebook too. ;-P)
3. Skout says:

   July 27, 2010 at 02:31

   Wah wah wah.

   I freakin love Flash. Honestly, I’d have named my children Flash and Shockwave if I thought I could have gotten away with it. It’s such an awesome package that just allows so much that the world was missing. That Apple fanbois despise it only makes it that much better!

   There’s only one thing better than Flash itself, and that’s the opportunities that Adobe gives all those miscreant would-be hackers out there by leaving vulnerability after vulnerability out there, just waiting to be found and exploited. Why is this a good thing, you wonder? Because it creates, almost single-handedly, an entire market called VDM (that’s Vulnerability Detection & Mitigation to you not in the government contracting biz!) and let me tell you, there’s some serious money to be made there!

   Okay, let’s just turn that bullshit off and be honest. Flash is a horrible product right alongside all of Adobe’s other products. Acrobat? Can you say Bloatware? When your competition puts out a product that does exactly what yours does at less than 1/10th of the size, you should recognize you’re doing it wrong, but Adobe just keeps on going.

   But I can also cheer them on, for while Flash is an unmitigated disaster from a programming and security standpoint, it is a godsend for gaming. Yes, all those cheesy little fucking flash games that sit out there on the web. *happy sigh* Yes, yes, of course 90% of it is garbage, but that remaining 10% is goodness through and through, and I can play it on the fly, right in a browser, with no installs, no hardware incompatibilities, just fast down and dirty fun. And that triumphs over all the petty little evils.

   Especially when combined with the “irking Apple fanbois” part.
4. Kalle says:

   July 27, 2010 at 10:41

   I agree about the games, man. But think about it… if people didn’t accept Flash there’d be some better competitor out there. This is kind of like MSIE and Firefox, all over again.

   But as I said over IM’s, I’m not an Apple fanboy. Faar from. I just hate everything. And Apple and Flash fucking each other over like they have been lately is pure, raw, unfiltered entertainment.

   And I hate Flash.

   I mean, dude, 800 MBs of RAM to do absolutely nothing? GTFO bitch.