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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."
VP8 doesn't suck
Then you've apparently never used it or you actually fell for that shitty comparison from their website which was nothing but misleading marketing material.
Political correctness might be misdirected, but posting "niggers" several times in the row is still vulgar, rude and a sign of a fucking moron.
who told the mods to mod him down and they did just like he told them to do because they know no other way except to knee-jerk react, even if that means rewarding a rude person by giving him the precise reaction he wanted. now do you see the mindlessness of political correctness, the lack of thought it inspires, its replacement of awareness and critical thinking with blind, automatic conformity for the sake of avoiding social ostracism and other severe personal consequences or threat of same?
why would a genuine philosophy need to be mindless, be instilled by indoctrination, be backed up only with a threat of some kind and not with reason, discourage individual critical thought, and encourage thinking of everyone in terms of group identity (such as "black" or "white")? what an insult to a black person to think of them first and foremost as "black", a member of a protected political group, and then start thinking of how that compares or contrasts with your own group identity to make sure you don't step out of line. at what point during that process is the person just a person, a human like you who has rights, hopes, dreams, beliefs, and worldviews that may or may not be like anyone else's? if you ask me the whole political correctness bullshit is one of the most racist/ethnocentrist dogmas still widespread on the planet.
if it's really just skin color, and it is, why attach all of those things to it? because of a history you did not create and cannot change? because it grants political power to certain parties and certain groups? because Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have to get a real job if we suddenly started thinking of it as skin color and only skin color, more like the way we think of eye color? those concerns benefit us how?
sorry but in the face of all of this, it's silly to get hung up on the rudeness of the first poster and i do agree he was rude. at least he was being deliberately rude in order to make a point, even if he did that only for his own gratification. the whole political correctness bullshit is not even deliberate. it's mindless like a virus. it does one hell of a lot more damage than anything the first poster decided to say. it does that while convincing you it's the right thing, the one true way, the only way to be a decent human being who cares about others. i'd say that's a hell of a lot more insidious and deceptive and damaging.
the politicians and media love it though, classic divide and conquer style. the more we squabble with each other the more they can control us. the more things there are that we will not seriously question for fear of what others will think, as though something true would not easily be affirmed with such questioning, the more stupid and docile we become. so yeah, the first poster was rude. what of it?
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