HAL must die!

[Da Rock]

On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
>    
>> Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum discussion.
>>
>> "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."  :-/
>>      
> "I'm sorry Dave.  I'm afraid I can't do that."
>
> (full quote)
>
>      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk
>
> Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash now?
> Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
>    
Yay!

Unfortunately that dream may never be satisfied while stupid corporate 
media giants have a desire to keep things closed up. And now we have 
#%$^%& silverlight to deal with- open source cooperation my ass! Just 
got v2 running and now everything requires v3.0...

That may not affect too much in business, but any corp that has ties 
with M$ is pushed to use it., meaning desktop users are left without 
entertainment. My wife can't watch some tv sites because of that now- 
after finally! getting flash working and watching catch up tv and the 
like to come a cropper again with a new format... :(

If only people would stick to open standards...