[OLPC-devel] Re: [One Laptop Per Child] #59: Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS

[Ivan Krstić]

supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> My current .swf movie eat 2xx MB RAM.

You need to either split that movie up, or declare that you've found a
bug in Flash. There's no reason *any* computer should support playing a
Flash file that consumes a quarter gigabyte of RAM.

> BUT when students need to learn some thing effectively they must
> access the web that always contain huge .swf

That's absolute nonsense. All of Wikipedia, for example, contains no
Flash; it'd be a much more accurate statement to say that "the web
sometimes contains moderately-sizes Flash". Large Flash files are not
the norm, nor they should they be, particularly not for educational
purposes.

> The most 2 famous web in Thailand namely http://pantip.com/ and
> http://manager.co.th/ always contain 20 MB RAM to eat .swf

That's an order of magnitude less than what you're talking about.

> BUT who can guarantee that the size will not increase to 338 MB RAM eat

No one can guarantee it -- but if it happens, the OLPC laptops won't
play it, and that's perfectly acceptable. The onus is with Flash authors
not to make enormous movies, *not* with OLPC to accommodate these.

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