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Flash Player 10 On PowerPC?

Obsolescence and Inflation

I just bought a beautiful quadcore PowerPC and it does everything I need.

But they are trying to obsolete me anyway.

I DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY to upgrade every couple of years, to throw away a beautifully functioning machine. They are obsoleting 20 million power Macs by not supporting them any more—forcing us to go to Intel.

Today I tried to use Google Streetview and I can't, because it requires the new version of Flash. This is happening on many sites.

Where are we supposed to get the money? They don't even count obsolescence in inflation statistics, but if we have to throw out good machines, that's a BIG source of inflationary dollars.

The Internet has obsoleted all my professional skills. Everything I used to get paid for is now free on the Net. Sure, I love free stuff as much as everyone, I love the Net, but how are we going to pay for food and rent, especially if we have to keep throwing away good computer equipment?

Yes, the computer age has created new jobs, lots of them. But for every job it creates, it automates away 100 jobs.

I'm really unhappy that Flash is not supported properly on my quadcore and that the whole Net is going to Flash and making it impossible for me to use the Net. I'll be REALLY happy when HTML 5 catches on and makes FLASH obsolete. It was never that good anyway.
 
Facebook hacked Flash

...is a great concept, tricking sites into thinking you have 11.1 instead of 10.1. I found it worked as advertised for the most part, however a on few sites it would spit up a spinning wheel of doom, not load the flash. Trying hard to avoid flash altogether if possible, but sometimes you still gotta have it.
 
MRreader said:
I just bought a beautiful quadcore PowerPC and it does everything I need.

But they are trying to obsolete me anyway.

I DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY to upgrade every couple of years, to throw away a beautifully functioning machine. They are obsoleting 20 million power Macs by not supporting them any more—forcing us to go to Intel.

Today I tried to use Google Streetview and I can't, because it requires the new version of Flash. This is happening on many sites.

Where are we supposed to get the money? They don't even count obsolescence in inflation statistics, but if we have to throw out good machines, that's a BIG source of inflationary dollars.

The Internet has obsoleted all my professional skills. Everything I used to get paid for is now free on the Net. Sure, I love free stuff as much as everyone, I love the Net, but how are we going to pay for food and rent, especially if we have to keep throwing away good computer equipment?

Yes, the computer age has created new jobs, lots of them. But for every job it creates, it automates away 100 jobs.

I'm really unhappy that Flash is not supported properly on my quadcore and that the whole Net is going to Flash and making it impossible for me to use the Net. I'll be REALLY happy when HTML 5 catches on and makes FLASH obsolete. It was never that good anyway.
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For Streetview you can use this:
http://viewstreetnoflash.com/
Zoom in, then drag and drop the person icon on the point you want to view.
 
wow

B-G, you have an answer for almost everything!

Thanks for the bookmarklet links in your other post, they also work well.
 
Thanks, but to be honest that was the result of a quick google search. :)
I found it by pure luck.
 
Another example of Streetview not requiring Flash:
http://davidhall.co/map/
It allows searching for an address. Use it with a webkit based browser for best performance (the same is true for viewstreetnoflash.com)
 
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