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As long as there is a media player which works on the ipad, porn will too. On a side note. I find the example very very funny. If Apple did indeed hurt Adobe's

by dbz 17y ago

As long as there is a media player which works on the ipad, porn will too. On a side note. I find the example very very funny. If Apple did indeed hurt Adobe's feelings, then I think the best way to say "You need me" is to show why. Gosh. Am I the only one who finds this example amazing on so many different levels? 1) Movies wont work 2) Flash sites wont work 3) Tv sites like Hulu wont work (based off of the example?) 4) Porn, what the internet is really really great for, wont work

jrockway 17y ago
I usually browse with Flash disabled, and I have never needed to enable it to find porn. This is the first I'm hearing of a porn site that requires Flash, in fact...
- dbz 17y ago
  Truth be told I'm not a porn surfer. I'm not a member of any porn site or anything, so I have no idea whether porn sites actually use flash. The thing which really gets me, is that adobe is clearly attempting to get a message across. I like sticking it to the man. I'm not one of those people who spend their life sticking it to the man, but I always find it humorous when other people do it. Especially one big company to the other. One big company to a country. Makes me happy to see people challenging and keeping others in check- so to speak.
  - grandalf 17y ago
    One doesn't have to be a member of a porn site to look at porn on the internet. Most of it is completely free. Check out redtube.com, youporn.com, wide6.com, etc.
- chrischen 17y ago
  Porn comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and formats, just as about everything else on the internet. You're bound to be able to find most things on the internet not requiring flash, but many other sites do too. Flash enabled rich internet applications first, and was there to enable such functionality before our browsers could natively handle such things. Flash is an extension of the browser, an extension featuring functionality heralded now by HTML 5. I don't get why people hate Flash. Sure it's proprietary, but it was there first, doing something we all wanted before anyone else came around. And frankly it's still serving that purpose because HTML 5 still isn't ubiquitous enough. It probably contributed to YouTube's success, and the general flourishing of online video. It's enabled rich browser based games. I think it contributes greatly to the advancement of the internet, if not by any other means than by encouraging the proliferation of rich applications.
  - mcav 17y ago
    If flash was more performant and stable, I think people would be less opposed to its continued dominance.
    - stcredzero 17y ago
      FOSS advocates should thank some deity that Adobe is as marketdroid infested and incompetent as it is. There's nothing so good to shore up your case as your enemy making a hash of his.
      - chrischen 17y ago
        Yea, thank Flash for rushing HTML 5 into our browsers, don't blame them. Not like there was a viable alternative before.
        stcredzero 17y ago
        Doesn't excuse them for making Acrobat installs that are clearly marketdroid-devised bloatware. For heaven's sake, they once installed stuff with Acrobat that wasn't VBScript malware but might as well have been! (Yes, they had VBscript background processes bogging down Windows.) Thanks in part to them HTML5 is seen as a blessing by many, even as late as it is.
catch23 17y ago
If they support html5 video, why wouldn't video work? You can still encode the video to add advertisements like traditional media.
- dbz 17y ago
  I was attempting to be general and be the background voice which says "Well, if it can be done, it will be done"
- jonknee 17y ago
  Hulu and similar sites use advertisements that can't be skipped. Can't do that with HTML5.
  - catch23 17y ago
    Why not? You could encode the original video as multiple segments, in order to watch the next segment, you have to watch an ad. Maybe use some kind of long polling to ensure that the advertisement was watched in its entirety -- supply a unique key at the end of the 30 seconds that the client has to rehash. It's a relatively minor engineering challenge, but I'm sure it can be solved.
  - smcq 17y ago
    It's really quite easy to do with a bit of javascript magic and some backend work. Not sure why you'd think it's impossible.
walkandre 17y ago
I believe Adobe should show that flash works on both the Iphone and the Ipad. I heard some people saying that apple reject their implementation because was draining all the battery in 30 minutes and suggested that they should "rewrite" it using gpu to make it faster. Adobe show the flash player working!!!!!
stcredzero 17y ago
3) Tv sites like Hulu wont work (based off of the example?) I don't suppose Silverlight is going to get on the iPad either. It's how I started to watch Netflix streaming on OS X. I see now that it's used on the PC side too.

by dbz 17y ago

jrockway 17y ago

I usually browse with Flash disabled, and I have never needed to enable it to find porn. This is the first I'm hearing of a porn site that requires Flash, in fact...

dbz 17y ago
Truth be told I'm not a porn surfer. I'm not a member of any porn site or anything, so I have no idea whether porn sites actually use flash. The thing which really gets me, is that adobe is clearly attempting to get a message across. I like sticking it to the man. I'm not one of those people who spend their life sticking it to the man, but I always find it humorous when other people do it. Especially one big company to the other. One big company to a country. Makes me happy to see people challenging and keeping others in check- so to speak.
- grandalf 17y ago
  One doesn't have to be a member of a porn site to look at porn on the internet. Most of it is completely free. Check out redtube.com, youporn.com, wide6.com, etc.
chrischen 17y ago
Porn comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and formats, just as about everything else on the internet. You're bound to be able to find most things on the internet not requiring flash, but many other sites do too. Flash enabled rich internet applications first, and was there to enable such functionality before our browsers could natively handle such things. Flash is an extension of the browser, an extension featuring functionality heralded now by HTML 5. I don't get why people hate Flash. Sure it's proprietary, but it was there first, doing something we all wanted before anyone else came around. And frankly it's still serving that purpose because HTML 5 still isn't ubiquitous enough. It probably contributed to YouTube's success, and the general flourishing of online video. It's enabled rich browser based games. I think it contributes greatly to the advancement of the internet, if not by any other means than by encouraging the proliferation of rich applications.
- mcav 17y ago
  If flash was more performant and stable, I think people would be less opposed to its continued dominance.
  - stcredzero 17y ago
    FOSS advocates should thank some deity that Adobe is as marketdroid infested and incompetent as it is. There's nothing so good to shore up your case as your enemy making a hash of his.
    - chrischen 17y ago
      Yea, thank Flash for rushing HTML 5 into our browsers, don't blame them. Not like there was a viable alternative before.
      - stcredzero 17y ago
        Doesn't excuse them for making Acrobat installs that are clearly marketdroid-devised bloatware. For heaven's sake, they once installed stuff with Acrobat that wasn't VBScript malware but might as well have been! (Yes, they had VBscript background processes bogging down Windows.) Thanks in part to them HTML5 is seen as a blessing by many, even as late as it is.

catch23 17y ago

If they support html5 video, why wouldn't video work? You can still encode the video to add advertisements like traditional media.

dbz 17y ago
I was attempting to be general and be the background voice which says "Well, if it can be done, it will be done"
jonknee 17y ago
Hulu and similar sites use advertisements that can't be skipped. Can't do that with HTML5.
- catch23 17y ago
  Why not? You could encode the original video as multiple segments, in order to watch the next segment, you have to watch an ad. Maybe use some kind of long polling to ensure that the advertisement was watched in its entirety -- supply a unique key at the end of the 30 seconds that the client has to rehash. It's a relatively minor engineering challenge, but I'm sure it can be solved.
- smcq 17y ago
  It's really quite easy to do with a bit of javascript magic and some backend work. Not sure why you'd think it's impossible.

walkandre 17y ago

I believe Adobe should show that flash works on both the Iphone and the Ipad. I heard some people saying that apple reject their implementation because was draining all the battery in 30 minutes and suggested that they should "rewrite" it using gpu to make it faster. Adobe show the flash player working!!!!!

stcredzero 17y ago

3) Tv sites like Hulu wont work (based off of the example?) I don't suppose Silverlight is going to get on the iPad either. It's how I started to watch Netflix streaming on OS X. I see now that it's used on the PC side too.