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@ "who needs flash when u have javascript"

that made my morning... what a joke!

posted by : mister, 17 June 2009 Complain about this comment
agree with chris

Not only is flash evil for cpu time, but until it became widely known, it was used by evil govts to turn on the camera's on notebooks for voyeurism.

posted by : mogwai, 16 June 2009 Complain about this comment
The world would be better without Flash

Don't long for Flash support. We'd all be better off without it. It's way overused, uses heaps of CPU time, is mostly for ads and on top of it all - isn't needed. The javascript support in modern browsers (Not the old internet exploder) is more than fast enough. Flash support will only undo all the hard work the chip makers put into extending battery life.

posted by : chris, 16 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Flash & codecs

A friend of mine has a MIPS netbook which afaik is based on one of these chips. It's a great little machine and is actually quite low power (so the batteries last for hours) but the only problem is the lack of Flash and video/audio codecs. Saying that if Adobe sort that out (or SWFDec or Gnash get up to the standard of Adobe Flash which I dare say will happen eventually) then I can see it making a nice little machine.

Although saying that, ARM may stop it in it's tracks.

Rob

posted by : Rob Beard, 16 June 2009 Complain about this comment

Chinese licence MIPS

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