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Intel Considers Hardware Acceleration For Google's WebM Format
CWmike writes "Intel is considering hardware-based acceleration for Google's new WebM video file format in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity, an Intel executive said on Thursday. Announced last Wednesday at Google I/O, WebM files will include video streams compressed with the open-source VP8 video codec, which was acquired by Google when it bought On2 Technologies in February. 'Just like we did with other codecs like MPEG2, H.264 and VC1, if VP8 establishes itself in the Smart TV space, we will add it to our [hardware] decoders,' said Wilfred Martis, a general manager at Intel's Digital Home Group."
What the fuck mods?
How the fuck is this flamebait? A MAJOR hardware manufacturer. Probably the most relevant and biggest hardware making in history is willing to support an open standard. And one of the biggest players in the industry is the one pushing that open standard (Google). It's already supported by all relevant Free Software packages (i.e: ffmpeg), Out of the 5 major browsers, 3 already implemented it, and another (no one but MS's IE) said it'll support it if you have it installed.
That's what I call a FUCKING MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH.
This is the closest we've ever been to having an actually open, compatible web. And my comment is flamebait? I'm just fucking happy that this is happening, and I'm just recognizing an incipient victory when I see it.
Now, go ahead an mod this down too if you want.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers! Niggers!
Mod me down dumb liberal faggots.
not all of us are so humor impaired that we can't laugh our asses off at this. seriously political correctness is destroying our culture. it is the tyranny of being terrified of offending someone. it is only right to resist it. that does not mean the opposite of political correctness is racism and bigotry, you narrow-minded indoctrinated fucks who were raised by a single mother and a TV. no. it means that both black people and white people alike learn to laugh at words like "nigger" and wonder why they were ever so damned divisive, why anybody ever got so upset over them in the absence of actual active discrimination, and celebrate that we can finally regard each other as human beings who might sometimes say crude things but that's okay because it's nothing to get upset over.
i like that a damned sight better than the childishness "oh no, he said a dirty word, persecute him! mod him down, fire him from his job, or in some countries prosecute him legally for "hate speech" because we got our panties in a wad over a particular combination of syllables".
just to be clear, not that the mods will do anything other than make this post -1 anyway, but for the hell of it, for my own enjoyment, i'll make this crystal clear for you all since reading comprehension is not the strong suit of childish reactionary knee-jerk types: deny somebody a job only because they are black and for no other reason and yes you do deserve to be punished for that, that is active discrimination and downright fucking evil and it is also taking the whole racial thing at least as seriously as the politically correct myrmidons. say a word that people get all offended over so they can climb their high horse and talk about how shitty of a person you are and look for ways to make you suffer, the problem there is with the easily offended and not with you for exercising free speech. see the difference?
They are the basis of way too many experiments over way too many years.
I'd welcome the new mutated fruit fly lords as overlords except that I'm pretty damn sure they're just out to kill us now.
So I'm off to Soviet russia, where i Hope the Mutated Fruit Flies Kill the mutate ...
Yeah, we're boned. //sobs
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Except for the fact, ironic though it seems, the people who use the word "nigger" the most these day are in fact coloured people. It has gone from being an insult to a term of endearment within the very group it was supposed to denigrate.
So, it's okay for one black guy to say "what's up nigger", when chatting with his black friend, but when a (presumed) white person uses the same term, it's a political correctness "no-no".
What a fucked up world we live in.
And I can ignore the dumb shit who thinks that yelling Nigger is somehow interesting. Which is what the -1 Mod is for. And if you think denying someone a job because they're black is somehow in any way similar to being modded on Slashdot... well, you'd have a ton of company here. Idiotic company, but company nonetheless.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
so yeah, the first poster was rude. what of it?
Nothing. And that's why he is sitting at -1. If he wants to make a political statement, there are better ways to do than post as AC on Slashdot.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Not always... :)
My other account has a 3-digit UID.