The point of android is to provide a new platform to compete with winmo, that isn't hampered by unstable, limited capability closed code and poor interfaces.
They are concerned with users being able to use google services on mobile devices, not catering to hackers.
They actually have modified See n' Say units, you pull the string and they spit out a new scam form letter ready to go. Its more of an instructional tool at this point:
Swap is a compromise, and ram is cheap now. You don't actually need swap at this point if you get enough ram. The only exception being Linux distros apparent obsession with using the swap file/partition for hibernation by default.
Get enough RAM and you can make your storage decisions based on the things that actually matter, speed, space and reliability over time.
Because the phone capabilities and the applications are all it has going for it right now, when it comes to things like video and music the G1 is nearly incompetent right now, and that seriously kneecaps its chances of competing with the ipod touch.
Vista ships with drivers for a lot of things on the disc, all the way back to RTM.
My BCM94311 works out of the box on Vista because Vista was released after that chip became common, hence MS probably demanded they be allowed to put the driver on the install disc.
Yea you can support more than one, and they support mpeg1 and 2 but only because they have to, same reason everyone supports mp3 (though it is superior to wma and aac in my own experience).
Most people aren't going to install the ogg components in quicktime, and the IE solution you outlined is even worse than flash.
"And maximum quality isn't the only factor for the success of a media format"
Maximum quality for the BITRATE is very very important in this situation, and apparently theora loses there, but i haven't actually compared for myself.
"software patents and actual implementations count much more IMO. Otherwise we will be all using JPEG2000 and not JPEG or PNG today."
We have actual implementations of h264 and vc-1 in use in very large installations. Patents don't matter as much as the free software community would like to claim either.
And the end result of all this, looking at the whole landscape with flash sucking, theora being adopted by practically no one, quicktime only present on macs and people with itunes installed......whats going to happen is MS is going to walk in with silverlight and its DRM support and win over content producers, and that will take flashes place.
It's good to have SUPPORT for as much as possible which is why supporting theora in the browser is a good thing but it is naive to assume that this support will magically take over for flash simply because it is patent-free.
Those are all good points. However the choice of Theora, with its apparent quality problems and very low use on the internet, means none of those things will matter. Even if it is in the browser, Theora will not solve the problem.
Apple is never going to use Theora, neither is Microsoft, and with good reason they both have better codecs. Even flash now supports h264 within the plugin, and thats the direction almost everything else is going right now, not Theora.
It won't be accepted if the program downloads and runs code on its own. That might even apply to interpreted languages like javascript, which would seriously screw a browsers chances of being useful if it couldn't do JS.
The best thing i can come up with would be the duplication factor.
People might waste bandwidth downloading podcasts in podcaster, the forthcoming 2.2 firmware that allows podcast downloads, and then also on the itunes system they manage the thing with.
Thats three downloads the podcast host sees (and therefor also the advertiser) but only one actual listener.
Last WinMo device i had, the manufacturer simply didn't feel like updating the software for my specific device when a new version came out, even though it could in fact support the newer version. A hardware manufacturer shouldn't have that level of control over the software.
That was the last WinMo device i bought and it's going to stay that way. Of course most of these upgrades to WinMo amount to "Now with 15% less suck!" so I'm sure i wasn't missing much, but it annoyed me into never buying one again.
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If you are a BT subscriber, it appears nothing is out of their reach at this point.
I don't recall saying anything about TPB....
I simply said it is ironic that a story about piracy lead me to a game i wouldn't have otherwise known about, BECAUSE of the piracy.
The fact that they are immune to gods wrath should tell you something about them....
I only heard about this game because of the piracy story here on slashdot, went and played the demo, and loved it. I'm gonna buy the full version now.
Hows that for irony?
We can't let them get away with that, we must force them to play each game to the end, maybe with some kind of technological method?
It is not yet the year of the linux desktop, we have time.
Every time you have sex outside marriage, god kills an economist (and a kitten)
The point of android is to provide a new platform to compete with winmo, that isn't hampered by unstable, limited capability closed code and poor interfaces.
They are concerned with users being able to use google services on mobile devices, not catering to hackers.
"The Ubuntu devs would have zero work to do if they ever bothered to contribute upstream..."
How so? Use of open source code isn't contingent upon contribution.
They actually have modified See n' Say units, you pull the string and they spit out a new scam form letter ready to go. Its more of an instructional tool at this point:
"The NIGERIAN says......."
They have started to use MLC chips in a lot of things to drive the cost per GB down faster, and MLC has a lower rated write lifetime.
Swap is a compromise, and ram is cheap now. You don't actually need swap at this point if you get enough ram. The only exception being Linux distros apparent obsession with using the swap file/partition for hibernation by default.
Get enough RAM and you can make your storage decisions based on the things that actually matter, speed, space and reliability over time.
In my mind, hence the name :D
"nearly 80% of all websites kill a kitten when you visit with out a spyware blocker?"
It's actually one of the HTTP status codes
463 - NO_MORE_KITTEN
They make AV software for OS X you just choose not to install it. That is the difference.
Careful what you bare, you saw how quick it cut off that dll file :D
I'd be more worried about that glass.....
Because the phone capabilities and the applications are all it has going for it right now, when it comes to things like video and music the G1 is nearly incompetent right now, and that seriously kneecaps its chances of competing with the ipod touch.
Vista ships with drivers for a lot of things on the disc, all the way back to RTM.
My BCM94311 works out of the box on Vista because Vista was released after that chip became common, hence MS probably demanded they be allowed to put the driver on the install disc.
Yea you can support more than one, and they support mpeg1 and 2 but only because they have to, same reason everyone supports mp3 (though it is superior to wma and aac in my own experience).
Most people aren't going to install the ogg components in quicktime, and the IE solution you outlined is even worse than flash.
"And maximum quality isn't the only factor for the success of a media format"
Maximum quality for the BITRATE is very very important in this situation, and apparently theora loses there, but i haven't actually compared for myself.
"software patents and actual implementations count much more IMO. Otherwise we will be all using JPEG2000 and not JPEG or PNG today."
We have actual implementations of h264 and vc-1 in use in very large installations. Patents don't matter as much as the free software community would like to claim either.
And the end result of all this, looking at the whole landscape with flash sucking, theora being adopted by practically no one, quicktime only present on macs and people with itunes installed......whats going to happen is MS is going to walk in with silverlight and its DRM support and win over content producers, and that will take flashes place.
It's good to have SUPPORT for as much as possible which is why supporting theora in the browser is a good thing but it is naive to assume that this support will magically take over for flash simply because it is patent-free.
Those are all good points. However the choice of Theora, with its apparent quality problems and very low use on the internet, means none of those things will matter. Even if it is in the browser, Theora will not solve the problem.
Apple is never going to use Theora, neither is Microsoft, and with good reason they both have better codecs. Even flash now supports h264 within the plugin, and thats the direction almost everything else is going right now, not Theora.
It won't be accepted if the program downloads and runs code on its own. That might even apply to interpreted languages like javascript, which would seriously screw a browsers chances of being useful if it couldn't do JS.
The best thing i can come up with would be the duplication factor.
People might waste bandwidth downloading podcasts in podcaster, the forthcoming 2.2 firmware that allows podcast downloads, and then also on the itunes system they manage the thing with.
Thats three downloads the podcast host sees (and therefor also the advertiser) but only one actual listener.
Last WinMo device i had, the manufacturer simply didn't feel like updating the software for my specific device when a new version came out, even though it could in fact support the newer version. A hardware manufacturer shouldn't have that level of control over the software.
That was the last WinMo device i bought and it's going to stay that way. Of course most of these upgrades to WinMo amount to "Now with 15% less suck!" so I'm sure i wasn't missing much, but it annoyed me into never buying one again.