They probably viewed it as this: If you're using that heavy of networking traffic, you probably are doing something very important. Most important stuff on that level would probably be in the workplace, not home use. Therefore they probably viewed media as not being a big factor here, because they figured no one would be playing media. Therefore, they were then thinking about the home networks that maybe had various spikes in network traffic from network drives on gigabit switches or something, in which case they decided in slowing down that transfer was a better solution because in this case A) the network traffic probably isn't *that* important and B) there's a greater chance there's music playing a C) music skipping is *really* annoying.
These are a whole lot of assumptions. Wouldn't it be better to just let the music skip, as that's most likely the more unimportant and can easily be shut off? Heck, if not listening to music makes the difference between going home on 5 and working for two hours longer I'd happily choose silence.
If you really need this bandwidth and you don't know about this limitation, how in the world are you supposed to find out that your media player is the culprit for bad network performance?
*Could* be some kind of camera that's able to directly shoot HDR images.
I *heard* this could be possible even with normal CCD arrays in one pass by not stopping a certain amount of time and looking which charge each cell holds, but stopping the amount of time each cell needs to charge. But, like I said, that's hearsay and I'm no expert in this field. I'd be glad if a fellow slashdotter who knows more could explain if that's possible.
Thank you very much for whoever modded me troll.
This proposal is an insult to anyone in China behind the Great Firewall. These people *know* that their Internet traffic is filtered. If you know that things like this exist you'll also know how to circumvent it. They're neither living in the stone-age, nor are they dumb. Thinking you'd help them by spamming lists of proxy servers is holding them for stupid. And this is a fucking insult!
Case closed.
How did this get accepted as a real question? Did it have too many words for the editors to read? Do we have to discuss *every* bullshit thought that comes out of the mind of Slashdot readers? Some things are simply so far beyond stupidity that it isn't *worth* spending a single thought arguing about.
... working. I for myself hold it with this xkcd comic:
http://xkcd.com/164/
I bet it was posted numerous times in this discussion already, but once more can't hurt.
Excuse me, but I still don't understand the issue.
When MS releases code under the GPL v3 it is pretty much *bound* to the license text as it stands there. When it's patented and they have the rights, who cares, now it's free. Doesn't have anything to do with Novell. What does Novell have to do with MS using the GPL v3?
Why would the GPL apply to *any* of Microsofts actions? As long as they don't use GPL'd code everything is fine and dandy, isn't it? And why would MS want to use code released under GPL, anyways?
Something in this thread sounds wrong to my ears. I don't know what it is, but it sounds wrong. Anyone else got this feeling? Should I get out my tinfoil hat?
> The are 243,023,485 (wikipedia) cars in the United States alone, monitoring all of those with GPS would be beyond a tremendous undertaking.
It's being done in the UK already and it's easily possible in Germany. Here in Germany we have this taxation system, "Toll Collect", which is used to track the movement of freight vehicles to tax them for each kilometer Autobahn they pass. There's a bridge every few kilometers, where *all* passing by vehicles are being photographed. A computer then determines if it's a car or a truck and currently allegedly throws away photos of cars. Photos of trucks then are being further analyzed for number plates and the number plates are being OCR'd. German politicians now want that *all* number plates are being OCR'd and saved for further usage, after a number of murders have occured near the Autobahn.
Of course it's not 24/7, every-inch-you-drive monitoring, but it's possible to track movement between various towns, for example.
[Sorry, had HTML formatting activated last time, which made this post quite unreadable - besides the obvious grammar and orthography errors;) ]
> The are 243,023,485 (wikipedia) cars in the United States alone, monitoring all of those with GPS would be beyond a tremendous undertaking.
It's being done in the UK already and it's easily possible in Germany. Here in Germany we have this taxation system, "Toll Collect", which is used to track the movement of freight vehicles to tax them for each kilometer Autobahn they pass. There's a bridge every few kilometers, where *all* passing by vehicles are being photographed. A computer then determines if it's a car or a truck and currently allegedly throws away photos of cars. Photos of trucks then are being further analyzed for number plates and the number plates are being OCR'd. German politicians now want that *all* number plates are being OCR'd and saved for further usage, after a number of murders have occured near the Autobahn.
Of course it's not 24/7, every-inch-you-drive monitoring, but it's possible to travk movement between various towns, for example.
I don't understand why this wasn't published as a new story! That other/. story lead me to believe one of the most important people in the Linux world hated GPL v3... why is this not corrected? That's a pretty major issue, IMHO.
I'm surprised you people are so upset about Manhunt 2 being canned. Anyone remembers Thrill Kill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_Kill ? Same old, same old... and I bet a lot of you people played it anyways. Anyone wants to bet when Manhunt 2 hits the internet, should it *really* not be published? You'll all be playing it by the end of this year, most likely.
> I believe that there is only one H.264 (but you might correct me) however different encoders and decoders have been created for it. All decoders should be equivalent (although some might choose to add some post processing) but the developer can vary the encoding method as long as the output still meets the standard.
No, unfortunately not. The widely used CoreAVC cuts some corners during decode, hence it has slightly worse picture quality then the other decoders. -> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=973294#pos t973294 and http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119187
Personally I wouldn't mind paying 3-4 EUR for a movie *without* ads in the beginning. You can get most movies little time after the release for 2-3 EUR more already, why should I waste my precious time just to save very little money? It'd also be naive to assume that you'll be able to skip these ads.
Just make this crystal clear: you mixed up.mp4, the container and h.264, the codec. Which actually is MPEG-4, layer 10. Just like XviD and DivX are implementations of h.263v2 or MPEG-4 Part 2 ASP.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but standardized by ISO only means anyone interested can ask at ISO for documentation - getting the official documents still costs your right arm. And.mp4 isn't h.264 -.mp4 is just the container that can contain h.264, just like Matroska can. Take a look around and you'll find plenty of h.264 encoded material in Matroska containers. Just to clear this up, x264 is a free implementaion of h.264.
: The.mp4 container format is the video equivalent of ODF
While I also would like AVI to go for good this comment needs clarification:.mkv/Matroska would be the equivalent to ODF, not.mp4 - the latter one is a proprietary Apple format again, even though it was standardized. And.mkv is already widely in use, if only for High Definition and Anime content.
> The.mp4 container format is the video equivalent of ODF
While I also would like AVI to go for good this comment needs clarification:.mkv/Matroska ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska ) would be the equivalent to ODF, not.mp4 - the latter one is a proprietary Apple format again, even though it was standardized. And.mkv is already widely in use, if only for High Definition and Anime content.
Has anyone here ever written a SMS before? T9 usually messes up every second word if you don't watch what you're typing, you'll *have* to constantly watch the screen. And that's impossible with the keypad above the display, as it'll be partially covered by your thumb.
So this is one of the most useless ideas I've ever seen! Unless someone invents a T9-like SMS input method that actually works, that is...
That might very well be possible, but it's stupid, nonetheless. If all they care about is the number of viewers they should broadcast boobs 24/7, not potentially interesting press conferences (which are, by definition, boring for 99.9% of TV watchers). I can partially understand that in CNNs case, as they're mainly financed by advertising, thus viewer rates - but why in hell did that BBC guy make the same stupid decision?
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These are a whole lot of assumptions. Wouldn't it be better to just let the music skip, as that's most likely the more unimportant and can easily be shut off? Heck, if not listening to music makes the difference between going home on 5 and working for two hours longer I'd happily choose silence.
If you really need this bandwidth and you don't know about this limitation, how in the world are you supposed to find out that your media player is the culprit for bad network performance?
*Could* be some kind of camera that's able to directly shoot HDR images.
I *heard* this could be possible even with normal CCD arrays in one pass by not stopping a certain amount of time and looking which charge each cell holds, but stopping the amount of time each cell needs to charge. But, like I said, that's hearsay and I'm no expert in this field. I'd be glad if a fellow slashdotter who knows more could explain if that's possible.
Thank you very much for whoever modded me troll. This proposal is an insult to anyone in China behind the Great Firewall. These people *know* that their Internet traffic is filtered. If you know that things like this exist you'll also know how to circumvent it. They're neither living in the stone-age, nor are they dumb. Thinking you'd help them by spamming lists of proxy servers is holding them for stupid. And this is a fucking insult! Case closed.
How did this get accepted as a real question? Did it have too many words for the editors to read? Do we have to discuss *every* bullshit thought that comes out of the mind of Slashdot readers? Some things are simply so far beyond stupidity that it isn't *worth* spending a single thought arguing about.
Incredible.
... working. I for myself hold it with this xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/164/ I bet it was posted numerous times in this discussion already, but once more can't hurt.
Actually, real men still use MP3.
;-)
Excuse me, but I still don't understand the issue. When MS releases code under the GPL v3 it is pretty much *bound* to the license text as it stands there. When it's patented and they have the rights, who cares, now it's free. Doesn't have anything to do with Novell. What does Novell have to do with MS using the GPL v3?
Why would the GPL apply to *any* of Microsofts actions? As long as they don't use GPL'd code everything is fine and dandy, isn't it? And why would MS want to use code released under GPL, anyways?
Yes, but it's not only the GP. Some of the other posts in this post sound strange, too. They sound so... similar.
But most likely I'm just becoming paranoid. If I just could find this damn tinfoil hat...
Something in this thread sounds wrong to my ears. I don't know what it is, but it sounds wrong. Anyone else got this feeling? Should I get out my tinfoil hat?
First Simpsons bootleg hit the net on July, 28th/Saturday.
> The are 243,023,485 (wikipedia) cars in the United States alone, monitoring all of those with GPS would be beyond a tremendous undertaking.
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It's being done in the UK already and it's easily possible in Germany. Here in Germany we have this taxation system, "Toll Collect", which is used to track the movement of freight vehicles to tax them for each kilometer Autobahn they pass. There's a bridge every few kilometers, where *all* passing by vehicles are being photographed. A computer then determines if it's a car or a truck and currently allegedly throws away photos of cars. Photos of trucks then are being further analyzed for number plates and the number plates are being OCR'd. German politicians now want that *all* number plates are being OCR'd and saved for further usage, after a number of murders have occured near the Autobahn.
Of course it's not 24/7, every-inch-you-drive monitoring, but it's possible to track movement between various towns, for example.
[Sorry, had HTML formatting activated last time, which made this post quite unreadable - besides the obvious grammar and orthography errors
> The are 243,023,485 (wikipedia) cars in the United States alone, monitoring all of those with GPS would be beyond a tremendous undertaking. It's being done in the UK already and it's easily possible in Germany. Here in Germany we have this taxation system, "Toll Collect", which is used to track the movement of freight vehicles to tax them for each kilometer Autobahn they pass. There's a bridge every few kilometers, where *all* passing by vehicles are being photographed. A computer then determines if it's a car or a truck and currently allegedly throws away photos of cars. Photos of trucks then are being further analyzed for number plates and the number plates are being OCR'd. German politicians now want that *all* number plates are being OCR'd and saved for further usage, after a number of murders have occured near the Autobahn. Of course it's not 24/7, every-inch-you-drive monitoring, but it's possible to travk movement between various towns, for example.
I don't understand why this wasn't published as a new story! That other /. story lead me to believe one of the most important people in the Linux world hated GPL v3... why is this not corrected? That's a pretty major issue, IMHO.
I'm surprised you people are so upset about Manhunt 2 being canned. Anyone remembers Thrill Kill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_Kill ? Same old, same old... and I bet a lot of you people played it anyways. Anyone wants to bet when Manhunt 2 hits the internet, should it *really* not be published? You'll all be playing it by the end of this year, most likely.
> I believe that there is only one H.264 (but you might correct me) however different encoders and decoders have been created for it. All decoders should be equivalent (although some might choose to add some post processing) but the developer can vary the encoding method as long as the output still meets the standard. No, unfortunately not. The widely used CoreAVC cuts some corners during decode, hence it has slightly worse picture quality then the other decoders. -> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=973294#pos t973294 and http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119187
TBH, I'm not sure if your concept of a Sysadmin and the Author's concept are the same... he's using Symantec software, after all.
Personally I wouldn't mind paying 3-4 EUR for a movie *without* ads in the beginning. You can get most movies little time after the release for 2-3 EUR more already, why should I waste my precious time just to save very little money? It'd also be naive to assume that you'll be able to skip these ads.
Higly doubt that 4-1 figure, never heard about it before. Substance please, gimme links. Preferably not ones from BluRay PR team.
Just make this crystal clear: you mixed up .mp4, the container and h.264, the codec. Which actually is MPEG-4, layer 10. Just like XviD and DivX are implementations of h.263v2 or MPEG-4 Part 2 ASP.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but standardized by ISO only means anyone interested can ask at ISO for documentation - getting the official documents still costs your right arm. And .mp4 isn't h.264 - .mp4 is just the container that can contain h.264, just like Matroska can. Take a look around and you'll find plenty of h.264 encoded material in Matroska containers. Just to clear this up, x264 is a free implementaion of h.264.
ARGH! This was "HTML formatted"...
.mp4 container format is the video equivalent of ODF
.mkv/Matroska would be the equivalent to ODF, not .mp4 - the latter one is a proprietary Apple format again, even though it was standardized. And .mkv is already widely in use, if only for High Definition and Anime content.
It should read like this:
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While I also would like AVI to go for good this comment needs clarification:
> The .mp4 container format is the video equivalent of ODF
While I also would like AVI to go for good this comment needs clarification: .mkv/Matroska ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska ) would be the equivalent to ODF, not .mp4 - the latter one is a proprietary Apple format again, even though it was standardized. And .mkv is already widely in use, if only for High Definition and Anime content.
Has anyone here ever written a SMS before? T9 usually messes up every second word if you don't watch what you're typing, you'll *have* to constantly watch the screen. And that's impossible with the keypad above the display, as it'll be partially covered by your thumb. So this is one of the most useless ideas I've ever seen! Unless someone invents a T9-like SMS input method that actually works, that is...
That might very well be possible, but it's stupid, nonetheless. If all they care about is the number of viewers they should broadcast boobs 24/7, not potentially interesting press conferences (which are, by definition, boring for 99.9% of TV watchers). I can partially understand that in CNNs case, as they're mainly financed by advertising, thus viewer rates - but why in hell did that BBC guy make the same stupid decision?