I'd be careful using words like 'always' when talking about cable speeds in the UK. Take a look at Virgin Media's customer support forums some time, you'll find an abundance of people that aren't getting anywhere near the advertised speeds...

Only an ignorant (or should that be arrogant and stupid?) dev chooses a language that is strongly typed and requires compilation when a less strict scripting language is the right tool for the job.

They bought the company that invented the Android platform back in '05, sure. Are you really saying that in the last five years they've done absolutely nothing innovative with the platform though? I'm not saying they have (my knowledge of Android isn't as vast as my knowledge of the underlying tech, like the Linux kernel), but just because they bought the start-up that created the platform initially, doesn't mean they shouldn't get credit for all the work they've done since.

Sounds shitty. Everyone has operator horror stories, though. Myself, I've never had any problems with Vodafone in the five or so years I've been using them here in the UK. My old phones (all Sony Ericsson handsets) were branded, but not to buggery like they tried with the Desire. And on the rare occasions I had to deal with their customer service department, they were always very helpful and eager to resolve my (minor) issues as quickly as possible. I guess they saw me as a valuable customer... pits operators don't treat all of their customers this way.

O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Virgin on the other hand have all shafted me, cost me hundreds of pounds, wasted countless days (if not weeks!) of my time, leaving me to wish that one day they might die in a fire. ;)

Dude, when one sits at home on the weekend, writing fiction (with utterly shite grammar btw) involving the iPhone, beating women and rape, one knows that it's time to get some help, get out of that basement and get a life.

I may be wrong, but a class library isn't a complete implementation. If GNU Classpath was an incomplete reimplementation of the class libraries, compiler, VM etc., then they might have reason to worry.

You'd think a paralegal like PJ would actually do her research. Even I know the answer to the question "how can anyone be sued for anything like this?" - it's because the patent grant doesn't apply to random implementations, like Dalvik!

What are you insinuating, that AC is some dumb American who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'sodomy'?

Don't forget Guantanamo Bay. Didn't he win the election in part thanks to those promises to shut that hellhole down?

Care to provide a link to this post? I've just looked through the entire comment stream, and all I can find is this review: New iPhone 4..., which I have already seen and read.

It's possibly down to the graphics chipset I've got in this machine (like yours, only no-frills Intel). However that doesn't explain why video decode in Windows Media Player, or VLC results in normal CPU utilisation and the same decoding done in Flash results in complete CPU over-utilisation, though.

I'd ask Adobe why my experience is so different to yours, however they deleted my account and bug report after I asked politely (in plain English) why they hadn't at least acknowledged my bug report four months after it was created... and I haven't been able to create another account from this IP address since.

Please point me to the bit where I missed jcr referencing a press couference, because I cannot see it. Evidence and pointing to "Anandtech's findings" are not one and the same.

I use both extensions (Flashblock and AdBlock) with Chrome for exactly that reason. If I had the choice, I'd not have Flash installed on my desktop, alas there are some things that it is an absolute must for at the moment (like BBC iPlayer). I refuse to have it installed on my phone, though; Adobe's security track record is too poor for my liking, so my Samsung Galaxy S shall have to remain without that particular attack vector.

I'm not quite sure what this has to do with Firefox though, but since I don't use it, I guess that is moot. ;)

My use of Flash is limited: video only (YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Channel 4's 4oD and the occasional video review), and much of that is H.264. Flashblock keeps all the other crap away from me, thankfully. Now, you mention poor configuration, and I guess that's certainly a possibility: I wasn't aware that one needed to configure Flash for good performance. Unless you're talking about the minimal settings dialogue, wherein you can enable hardware acceleration... if that is what you're referring to, well, it's enabled and doesn't make much of a difference (~5% less CPU utilisation).

Then countless others users on Adobe's bug tracking system also have messed up computers. And considering that my tests were based on a fresh install of Windows 7 with lots of unnecessary crap disabled, I'm wondering whether you're either very lucky or whether Hulu (which I don't use) have found a way to stop Flash video decode taking up massive amount of resources...