2010-03-10T21:44:10Z 10 Google reader <blockquote>Shared by Bud <br> The key finding here is that Apple is optimizing for html 5 on the mac and clearly getting results, way better than google chrome on any platform, and google might be described as the biggest corporate advocate of html 5. Flash performance on the mac platform seems to suck no mater how you parse these results.<br><br>So, Apple, the proprietary solutions champ, seems to be championing the open standards solution largely to its own ends.</blockquote> <p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/flash_jan_09.jpg">With the impending launch of the <a href="http://apple.com/ipad">Apple iPad</a>, the Cupertino-based company's shunning of Adobe Flash technology has been brought to the forefront of technological discussions. While it was one thing to forgo Flash on a small, mobile device such as the iPhone or iPod Touch, some are questioning whether lack of Flash support is going to be a <em>make-it-or-break it</em> feature for the new slate devices arriving next month - devices which, if you believe Apple CEO Steve Jobs - are "better than netbooks." </p><p>On the flip side, Apple supporters echo the company's sentiments that "Flash is a CPU hog" and including support for the technology in Apple's mobile line-up would negatively impact battery life. </p> <p align="right"><em>Sponsor</em><br><a href="http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=18645&amp;cb=18645"><img src="http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14&amp;cb=18645&amp;n=18645" border="0" alt=""></a></p> <p>However, recent tests have put Flash up against HTML5, the new web markup language that eliminates the need for the Adobe plugin. The results of these tests show that this is not a simple black-and-white issue. Is Flash really a CPU hog? Yes, in some cases. But, surprisingly, not all the time. In fact, sometimes HTML5 actually performed worse.</p> <h2>Testing Flash and HTML5</h2> <p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/sublimevideo_small.jpg" align="right"><a href="http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/users/jan-ozer-1.html">Jan Ozer</a> is an expert in video encoding technologies, has worked in digital video since 1990 and is the author of 13 books related to the subject. Recently, he put HTML5 up against Flash in a series of tests that pitted the two technologies against each other on both the Mac and PC and in different web browsers including Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox.</p> <p>The results of the tests in their entirety are published <a href="http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/flash-player-cpu-hog-or-hot-tamale-it-depends-.html">here on StreamingLearningCenter.com</a>. The summary in a nutshell? Flash isn't <em>always</em> a CPU hog, sometimes that honor goes to HTML5. </p> <p>Some of the highlights of Ozer's findings are below, broken up into both Mac and Windows test results. </p> <h2>Mac Tests</h2> <p> </p><ul> <li>With <strong>Safari</strong>, HTML5 was the most efficient and consumed less CPU than Flash using only 12.39% CPU. With Flash 10.0, CPU utilization was at 37.41% and with Flash 10.1, it dropped to 32.07%</li> <li>With <strong>Google Chrome</strong>, Flash and HTML5 were both <strong><em>equally inefficient</em></strong> (both are around 50%)</li> <li>With <strong>Firefox</strong>, Flash was only slightly less efficient than in Safari, but better than in Chrome</li> </ul> <h2>Windows Tests</h2> <p> </p><ul> <li><strong>Safari </strong>wouldn't play HTML5 videos, so there was no way to test that. However, Flash 10.0 used 23.22% CPU but Flash 10.1 <em>only used 7.43% CPU</em></li> <li><strong>Google Chrome</strong> was more efficient on Windows than Mac. Playback with Flash Player 10.0 was about 24% more efficient than HTML5, while <strong><em>Flash Player 10.1 was 58% more efficient than HTML5</em>.</strong></li> <li>On <strong>Firefox</strong>, Flash 10.1 dropped CPU utilization to 6% from 22% in Flash 10.0</li> <li>In <strong>IE8</strong>, Flash 10.0 used 22.41% CPU and Flash 10.1 used 14.62% CPU</li> </ul> <h2>Hardware Acceleration Key to Flash Performance</h2> <p>In analyzing the results of the tests, Ozer determined that the key to better Flash performance was dependent upon whether or not it could access hardware acceleration. This feature, launched in Flash 10.1, allows the plugin to use the graphics processing unit (GPU) on some computers to decode video. Depending on the video card and drivers, (NVIDIA, AMD/ATI and Intel offer products that support this), the video decoding process in Flash 10.1 can now work for all video playback, not just full-screen playback as was available in Flash 10.0. </p> <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10.1_hardware_acceleration_02.html">According to Adobe</a>, hardware acceleration is not supported under either Linux or Mac OS X, the latter because Mac OS X does not expose access to the required <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface">APIs</a>. Adobe goes on to say "The Flash Player team will continue to evaluate adding hardware acceleration to Linux and Mac OS X in future releases." </p> <p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ipad_html5.gif" align="right">Here's what this all means in layman's terms: Apple isn't <em>allowing</em> Flash to become more efficient on their Mac OS X/Safari platform (or their iPod/iPhone/iPad one, either) by not providing the access to the hardware it needs to reduce its CPU load. Adobe is waiting and watching to see if they do, but, as Ozer says "the ball is in Apple's court."</p> <p>Will Apple budge? At this point, it's unlikely. In blocking Flash on Apple devices, the company can easily claim that it's simply not an efficient technology...and that's true for now, considering how it's set up. But if the company <em>wanted</em> to allow it and make it work, it seems reasonable to believe that they could. This is what leads some insiders to believe that the decision to block Flash is less of a technological one and more of a business-minded one. After all, if you could easily visit Hulu.com (or, overseas, the BBC iPlayer, for example) to stream TV shows and movies, then why would you need to buy them from the iTunes Store? </p> <p>So while Flash's "CPU hogging" may be a contributing factor in Apple's decision to not support the technology on their mobile devices, that's probably not the only reason behind the block.</p> <p><em>Thank you to Dan Rayburn, who pointed us to Jan Ozer's article featured here on </em><a href="http://www.streamingmedia.com/"><em>StreamingMedia.com</em></a>.</p> <strong><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_html5_really_beat_flash_surprising_results_of_new_tests.php#comments-open">Discuss</a></strong> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4B_wQsUlAMUYP5r2AKrqBwTPEYU/0/da"></a><br> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4B_wQsUlAMUYP5r2AKrqBwTPEYU/1/da"></a></p><div> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:FFnlKYwJmN0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:Ij26kaj3iuU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:C2pbw5bZMiI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rbbYp2dlZvE:anB_8J-lSuU:OqabYuBsmOY"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/rbbYp2dlZvE" height="1" width="1"><p></p><p></p> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/rbbYp2dlZvE/does_html5_really_beat_flash_surprising_results_of_new_tests.php 2010-03-10T21:44:10Z 7056127 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-11T01:00:22Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10297721868 2010-03-11T01:00:22Z 7057878 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-11T01:00:22Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10293646485 2010-03-11T01:00:22Z 7057879 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T23:01:49Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10291518535 2010-03-10T23:01:49Z 7056851 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T23:01:49Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10291312321 2010-03-10T23:01:49Z 7056852 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T23:01:49Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10290639188 2010-03-10T23:01:49Z 7056853 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T21:02:37Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10288349148 2010-03-10T21:02:37Z 7055813 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T21:02:37Z 7 Twitter http://twitter.com/rizzn/statuses/10288333744 2010-03-10T21:02:37Z 7055814 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T15:43:07Z 10 Google reader <blockquote>Shared by Rizzn <br> Echo this sentiment: "I don’t mind Hollywood minions having an opinion about politics, but it would be nice if they’d keep them to themselves. That way I can at least enjoy watching the latest movie without thinking about the lead actor’s stupidity."<br><br>I can't watch a Sean Penn movie to this day.</blockquote> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Tom-Hanks2.jpg"><img title="Tom-Hanks2" src="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Tom-Hanks2.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="308"></a></p> <p>Although I am used to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=369">Hollywood</a> stars making the most outrageous, anti-American and downright stupid statements, I’ve got to admit that I was taken aback by <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/09/tom-hanks-on-wwii-we-wanted-to-annihilate-the-japanese-because-they-were-different/">this post</a> over at <em>Hot Air</em>, nonetheless. Its subject: Tom Hanks said recently that America wanted to ”annihilate the Japanese because they were different.” Yes, seriously:</p> <blockquote><p>He is pleased that The Pacific has fulfilled an obligation to our World War II vets. He doesn’t see the series as simply eye-opening history. He hopes it offers Americans a chance to ponder the sacrifices of our current soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. “From the outset, we wanted to make people wonder how our troops can re-enter society in the first place,” Hanks says. “How could they just pick up their lives and get on with the rest of us? Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. <strong>We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different.</strong> Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”</p></blockquote> <p>As John Nolte<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/03/09/tom-hanks-america-wants-to-annihilate-terrorists-because-theyre-different/"> explains </a>at <em>Big Hollywood</em>, “no matter how many times you read this passage the context is clear. By ‘different’ Hanks is clearly referring to race, culture and religion, not ideology.” <em>Hot Air</em>’s Ed Morrissey adds:<span></span></p> <blockquote><p>I thought it was the fact that they bombed us and then fought us relentlessly across the Pacific rather than surrender, but maybe I should tune in for The Truth. So screwy is his read, in fact, that I’m not sure it’s even fair to the Japanese: As I understand it, they hit Pearl Harbor not because “our way of living was different” but because they wanted the oil in the south Pacific and needed to neutralize the American fleet before they made their move. I’m also surprised to learn that whereas the Nazis were unambiguous evil, their strategic ally in the far east — whose imperial army utterly terrorized the civilian population of mainland Asia — was merely “different,” much as jihadists are now. That sure does help me get a handle on that Iraq election held a few days ago.</p></blockquote> <p>Hey Tom, perhaps you should stop reading <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/a-soundbite-on-howard-zinn-heard-round-the-world/">Howard Zinn</a>’s <em><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939">A People’s History of the United States</a></em> and buy and read a good history book instead. The United States fought Japan, because the Japanese attacked the US and tried to conquer the entire continent of Asia. Not only did they occupy other countries, they proceeded to pillage and ethnically cleanse them. They truly were ruthless. The US, on the other hand, was fighting for freedom and democracy. The Japanese were not being attacked because they were ”different,” but because they were the enemies of humanity.</p> <p>Please also note that he thinks the West is fighting in the Middle East nowadays, not because <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=183&amp;type=issue">Islamists</a> – who adhere to an extreme, intolerant, violent and hateful ideology – attacked us and want to destroy our way of living, but because we’re all racists. I’m sure that makes perfect sense if you’re a cocaine sniffing megalomaniac, but to everyone else, not so much.</p> <p>I don’t mind <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Hollywoods%20Love%20Affair%20With%20Castro.htm">Hollywood</a> minions having an opinion about politics, but it would be nice if they’d keep them to themselves. That way I can at least enjoy watching the latest movie without thinking about the lead actor’s stupidity.</p> <a href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsrealblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F10%2Ftom-hanks-us-wanted-to-annihilate-the-japanese-because-they-were-different%2F&amp;linkname=Tom%20Hanks%3A%20US%20Wanted%20to%20Annihilate%20the%20Japanese%20Because%20They%20Were%20%26%238221%3BDifferent%26%238221%3B"><img src="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/plugins/add-to-any/share_save_256_24.png" width="256" height="24" alt="Share/Bookmark"></a> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rcuqlyexNT36Ka4t5Kz6lyItdWg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rcuqlyexNT36Ka4t5Kz6lyItdWg/0/di" border="0" ismap></a><br> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rcuqlyexNT36Ka4t5Kz6lyItdWg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rcuqlyexNT36Ka4t5Kz6lyItdWg/1/di" border="0" ismap></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/newsrealblogfb/~4/ZJcBwD3zGYE" height="1" width="1"> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/newsrealblogfb/~3/ZJcBwD3zGYE/ 2010-03-10T15:43:07Z 7052942 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins 2010-03-10T15:43:07Z 10 Google reader <p>Brazilian president Lula da Silva says he <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=170648">"reluctantly accepts" the jailing of dissidents in Cuba</a> because--after all--everyone in Cuba is subject to the dictatorship's so-called "judicial system." According to Lula, the logic behind his astounding and contemptible statement is that he would not want Cuba telling Brazil how they should run their judicial system.</p> <blockquote><p>Touching on another sensitive issue, <strong>Silva said he reluctantly accepts the decisions of Cuba's judicial system in jailing dissidents who have subsequently gone on hunger strikes.</strong></p> <p><strong>"We have to respect the determinations of Cuba's judiciary and government in detaining people under Cuban legislation, as I would want them to respect Brazil's," he said.</strong></p> <p>Guillermo Farinas has been on a hunger strike since Feb. 24 to demand the release of ailing Cuban political detainees. Dissident Orlando Zapata died in February amid a prolonged hunger strike, while Silva was in Havana visiting President Raul Castro.</p> <p><strong>"I wish that (the detention of political prisoners) did not happen, but I cannot question the reasons why Cuba detained them, just as I wouldn't want Cuba to question why there are prisoners in Brazil," he said.</strong></p> <p>Silva himself carried out a hunger strike against Brazil's 1964-1985 dictatorship, an action he now calls "insanity."<br> <center><i><small>Emphasis Mine</small></i></center></p></blockquote> <p>I must say that it is quite big of Lula to look beyond the half-century of murders, imprisonments, and tortures committed against the Cuban people by a self-appointed dictator and afford the slave masters in Havana the benefit of the doubt. After observing President da Silva's deference and respect for the laws of another country, I wonder if he felt the same way about Pinochet's Chile, or Botha's South Africa, or Pol Pot's Cambodia, or even Hitler's Germany. </p> <p>We don't even have to go that far back in history: I wonder if da Silva felt the same way about Honduras.</p> <p>Oops, it seems he made an exception to his own vow to respect a sovereign nation's rule of law and judicial system when it came to Honduras. Hypocrisy goes by many names, and one of them is obviously Lula da Silva. </p> <p>The blame for Cuba's half-century of misery and death does not fall only on the hands of Fidel Castro, his followers in Cuba, and the soulless opportunists in Cuba who are more interested in gaming the system than helping their fellow Cubans. Blame also falls on the countless foreign leaders and dignitaries who over the past five decades have "reluctantly accepted" the subjugation and murderous oppression of the Cuban people.</p> <p>The blood of Cuban patriots is on many hands and not just their oppressors. Their blood is also on the hands of foreign enablers who not only accepted the vile atrocities committed in Cuba, but also provided cover and assistance for the Cuban dictatorship. </p> <p>The enslavement of Cuba cannot and will not last forever. And I can promise you, President da Silva, and the rest of the foreign dignitaries that share your respect for the Castro tyranny, that the Cuban people will not be as willing to "reluctantly accept" the role you and your cohorts played in lengthening the misery and repression of Cuba. </p> http://babalublog.com/2010/03/reluctuntly-accepts/ 2010-03-10T15:43:07Z 7052946 http://www.iminta.com/people/rizzn rizzn 7338862530 Mark Hopkins