Since you're not buying those servers and instead just using them for computing people who use this service wouldn't have to care about such things. That's dell's admin's problems.
Gaging by the amount of bullshit from AC trolls in these comments I think i'll reserve my judgement until someone has actually tried it out before bad mouthing it. I do have to kind of wonder why there is so much hate by ACs in these comments. The astro turfing is high today.
Actually I was just wondering if I could block all access from their IP range and get other sites I know to do the same. Once enough site owners do this they'll reconsider the idea.
Content providers take it up the ass too much from ISPs. Time to fight back, rally up people to stop this behavior by mass blocking of ISPs that attempt to do such things. All it needs is someone to organise the whole thing, provide information and a clear message to get people engaged.
I hope they can raise the quality of these things. I'd like to get one to print out electronic parts to fix my headphones. Things such as the tiny bits of plastic that hold the ribbon to the circuit board would be perfect for this thing to print. Unfortunately the size and quality needed makes it impossible for these things to print.:(
Screws would be another thing. All my electronics come with tiny weird screws, if it could print new metal ones that would be awesome.
Guess we're going to have to wait for the quality to get better though.
The goal is to use the laptops to further education and creativity, not to learn linux or the gnome desktop. I've seen a lot of open source advocates simply not get it and think the whole thing is about pushing linux. It's not.
There are plenty of office applications that implement ODF, hardy any at all with OOXML support. ODF doesn't have minor cases in its standard for backward compatibility with older versions of Microsoft word.
The GP is right and you are ignorant on the subject. I suggest reading up on it before commenting.
Firefox doesn't have it by default and neither does opera. Only safari and IE have h264 and they're both ignoring WebM because of their patent portfolio.
If browser makers didn't have such conflicted interests everyone would be moving to WebM. Instead we have Microsoft and Apple abusing their monopolies in their OS and patent portfolios to hold back the web and it's not even the first time they've done this..
So open source end users are pirates? Somehow I think your analogy needs tuning.
Coders, even ones that work on proprietary software do it for more then just money. Simple way to test this. Pay people to work on software that they know will be junked and not used; then see how many stay just for the money.
You might not care what others have to say about your programs but in my experience you're in the vast minority of free software developers.
Firefox and Opera are NOT supporting h264 in the video tag.
Mozilla’s Robert O’Callahan wrote a big “Thanks Google!” on his blog and said that he is “surprised” and “delighted” that Google has made that decisions. “Incidentally, it’s also a good day for us at Mozilla: the pressure that was building on us to support H.264 should ease off considerably,” he wrote
Also Opera's support for h264 has nothing to do with money.
Thomas Ford, Senior Communications Manager, Opera, told Muktware, "Actually, Opera has never supported H.264. We have always chosen to support open formats like Ogg Theora and WebM.
Firefox and Opera don't support h264 either, why hate just on Google? and if you really cared about choice you'd be ranting on Microsoft for not supporting WebM in IE9. Yay more IE hacks! Guess you're not a web developer..
1. You can define the terms for payment and they have more money then google to blow. 2. The competition fixes windows bugs? eh... Also, someone does work for you for money, gets better at their skill and may move jobs?! We can't let this happen! They must remain Microsoft's worker slaves forever!
As has been said many times in the other article. Firefox and Opera don't support H.264 now, so chrome not supporting it is just coming in line with the other browsers. You should be complaining that Microsoft refuses to put in WebM support rather then Chrome doing what everyone else is doing. Yeah, it sucks if you're used to h.264 encoding but technology moves forward and by popularity vote the industry is moving to WebM for the video tag in HTML 5.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes those weird pro-Google posts.. must really be fucking up the Microsoft astro turfing for your company.
So lets take a real world case rather then your made up case.
BlueJ comes up with an innovative way to display code. Microsoft implements and patents it in Visual Studio.
If prior art was taken out then Microsoft could sue the author of BlueJ? Fuck that shit. One set forward, two steps back. ugh...
Since you're not buying those servers and instead just using them for computing people who use this service wouldn't have to care about such things. That's dell's admin's problems.
Gaging by the amount of bullshit from AC trolls in these comments I think i'll reserve my judgement until someone has actually tried it out before bad mouthing it. I do have to kind of wonder why there is so much hate by ACs in these comments. The astro turfing is high today.
Meanwhile the NY Times is launching their own leaking site...
FTFY
Actually I was just wondering if I could block all access from their IP range and get other sites I know to do the same. Once enough site owners do this they'll reconsider the idea.
Content providers take it up the ass too much from ISPs. Time to fight back, rally up people to stop this behavior by mass blocking of ISPs that attempt to do such things. All it needs is someone to organise the whole thing, provide information and a clear message to get people engaged.
I hope they can raise the quality of these things. I'd like to get one to print out electronic parts to fix my headphones. Things such as the tiny bits of plastic that hold the ribbon to the circuit board would be perfect for this thing to print. Unfortunately the size and quality needed makes it impossible for these things to print. :(
Screws would be another thing. All my electronics come with tiny weird screws, if it could print new metal ones that would be awesome.
Guess we're going to have to wait for the quality to get better though.
I don't think you even get it named after you..
So it'll show you that you donated in three places.. big woop..
Well lets see now.. There is the:
One laptop per child project
http://hfoss.org/
Arduino was started by a bunch of teachers and lecturers.
but I guess these people don't qualify in your opinion because it would go against your whole argument. woops.
You don't speak for the whole open source community.
The goal is to use the laptops to further education and creativity, not to learn linux or the gnome desktop. I've seen a lot of open source advocates simply not get it and think the whole thing is about pushing linux. It's not.
There are plenty of office applications that implement ODF, hardy any at all with OOXML support. ODF doesn't have minor cases in its standard for backward compatibility with older versions of Microsoft word.
The GP is right and you are ignorant on the subject. I suggest reading up on it before commenting.
First problem is that it seems to just be a zip file with the code. Someone needs to stick it on git hub and get the ball rolling.
Firefox doesn't have it by default and neither does opera. Only safari and IE have h264 and they're both ignoring WebM because of their patent portfolio.
If browser makers didn't have such conflicted interests everyone would be moving to WebM. Instead we have Microsoft and Apple abusing their monopolies in their OS and patent portfolios to hold back the web and it's not even the first time they've done this..
If meta moderation doesn't solve the problem you can always email the slashdot admins to get moderations undone.
So open source end users are pirates? Somehow I think your analogy needs tuning.
Coders, even ones that work on proprietary software do it for more then just money. Simple way to test this. Pay people to work on software that they know will be junked and not used; then see how many stay just for the money.
You might not care what others have to say about your programs but in my experience you're in the vast minority of free software developers.
What a stupid question. Why would someone waste their time making a browser for you if they didn't care. Typical AC trolls killing slashdot.
Firefox and Opera are NOT supporting h264 in the video tag.
http://www.conceivablytech.com/5155/business/mozilla-celebrates-google-webm-delays-firefox-4-beta-9/
Also Opera's support for h264 has nothing to do with money.
http://www.muktware.com/n/12/2011/661
Your Tivo and Camera don't support the html 5 video tag.
It's not meant to be a salary, it's a reward. Some researchers don't even take the money.
Why not rip on Microsoft for not even offering a bounty rather then look a gift horse in the mouth?
Like who? Apple and Microsoft?
What about Firefox and Opera. That's three against two right there that are backing it.
Firefox and Opera don't support h264 either, why hate just on Google? and if you really cared about choice you'd be ranting on Microsoft for not supporting WebM in IE9. Yay more IE hacks! Guess you're not a web developer..
It's because slashdot broke it but they refuse to fix it. Maybe they hate chrome or something...
1. You can define the terms for payment and they have more money then google to blow.
2. The competition fixes windows bugs? eh... Also, someone does work for you for money, gets better at their skill and may move jobs?! We can't let this happen! They must remain Microsoft's worker slaves forever!
As has been said many times in the other article. Firefox and Opera don't support H.264 now, so chrome not supporting it is just coming in line with the other browsers. You should be complaining that Microsoft refuses to put in WebM support rather then Chrome doing what everyone else is doing. Yeah, it sucks if you're used to h.264 encoding but technology moves forward and by popularity vote the industry is moving to WebM for the video tag in HTML 5.