-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 dermiste @ 2008/07/17 07:47: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, scar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marco Peereboom @ 2008/07/16 23:00: >>> Flash is only good for a few things such as "naked ladies performing >>> anatomic tricks", "dude getting punched in the ding-dong" & "Trogodor >>> the burninator". Nothing makes me happier than visiting a website and >>> having some ad puking its irrelevant content on me. >> there are a lot of informative and useful videos and documentaries on >> youtube, and a lot of news or otherwise "public service" websites >> utilize youtube for their own video content, as well. >> > > *cough* XviD + Vorbis *cough* > > And no, Flash does not help with content protection (read DRM). >
i'm not quite sure what you're saying, but i'll give interpretation a try. i'm not advocating flash over a fantastic alternative like xvid+vorbis. the point is the masses use flash now. i don't know or care why it has become popular as a medium, but it is. it is valuable in that it is not just used for stupid videos mentioned above, which many people might think, but is used for informative and other public service needs, like is mentioned elsewhere in this thread about skydiving equipment. if i had to guess i would compare it to your friendly government website requiring internet explorer. they don't have the skilled staff to write a web page based on standards since they have sold out to microsoft, so they continue on the easy route and use some microsoft website builder which breaks countless standards but is easy for them to implement. now they are serving 90% of internet users with a public service which was otherwise unavailable. meanwhile, the other 10% of people like us are bitter. overall, though, a great benefit has been bestowed upon society as a whole. blah blah viruses, blah blah security holes.. it obviuosly doesn't matter if it is easy and serves a large majority. and i'm not sure where content protection came into this or what it has to do with anything. i hate content protection though, i'll say that much. who are we to deny a user their right to the content on the internet? i think we should stop arguing on moral grounds and put effort towards a viable and secure solution to those without a microsoft operating system. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFIf8ZtXhfCJNu98qARCM8IAJ9XtBurknekhsa391d7c1UecrJ3tACgt6Zv V4CMykPr3qLMNnaXLKy54OA= =G8uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
