Yeah that's really dumb, they want to win back their fans trust and they do that by telling a big lie. They really must take us all for idiots; I can't wait to see an article from them discussing piracy. Keep this in your bookmarks folks.
All of that shit you listed you won't be using by the time webM gets popular (if ever). It'll take another 5 years before HTML 5 even gets standardised at least.
It's Microsoft refusing to support WebM while firefox and opera are doing the exact same thing as Chrome. It's the same old same old IE not supporting shit.
Opera, Firefox and now Chrome aren't going to have support for it. It's not Google pulling a Microsoft. It's Microsoft having a fit because the whole browser industry is going in the opposite direction they want it to go in. That leaves Safari and IE to either follow the herd or have developers bitch at them for having to add special videos for only those two browsers that refuse to add support (because of their patent interests in h264) for WebM.
Better for what though? Better for internet streaming?
Can I click anywhere in the video and the progressive download will start playing after downloading a few frames or do I have to wait a couple of minutes for it to download a huge chunk of the content? In my experience OGG gets this right, click anywhere and it'll start playing. H264, not so much..
Chrome, Firefox and Opera don't or will no longer support h.264 without nitpicking that's 50% of the browser market. If you look at the trend I think Microsoft has more to be worried about then youtube with its slow but constant drop of share.
Even if youtube forced everyone to use just chrome I predict more then 50% of users would do it, because nothing is going to stop them from watching their videos.
If you're using less then 5.3 then you're using a php version that is no longer being supported (with the exception of the emergency fix for this bug).
Ironically you yourself have proved exactly why forums are bad.
You are the only one who has consistently been negative in multiple threads. If this was a game forum then a developer skimming through might possibly consider your views to be the most popular when in actual fact it's simply a case of whoever shouts the loudest longest wins.
Problem with your multi page whining on different classes is that developers get this from every player. "The class I play is nerfed! Make me a powerful god!"
You need to start considering what it's like on the other side.
That pretty much disproves your "never going to happen" since it has already happened, in more then one country and for many years now. There are also similar things happening in Germany and France. I am also interested in starting one myself in my area.
It wouldn't take much to get the general public interested. You can put the routers in AP mode while still being part of the mesh network. This first encourages use of the network and allows normal users to connect which you can later on re-direct users to a page encouraging them to download the software that lets them become part of the mesh for perhaps faster speed. I'm sure that would get people using the network, people love getting something for free even if it's slower.
Next problem is coverage. This can only be solved by community investment. Set up some solar powered self sustaining mesh routers which act solely as traffic nodes to increase the coverage as the funkfeuer project have done.
Next problem would be connecting to the existing internet structure, that can be done lots of different ways by many different peers. The OLSR protocol has already thought of all this and find the quickest route out of the system.
All of the following can be done by just one person in the town. It only takes one person to purchase the equipment and hook it up around town (ignoring legal issues) for such a network to begin to take off. I'm personally interested in doing such a thing myself, so far I've costed it around the $100 per mesh node, the idea is that you hook up maybe 2 or 3 mesh nodes to your internet and let the thing organically grow out as other people hook themselves onto the mesh.
What I am describing isn't really forking the internet however finding a way to make the internet more peer to peer based all the way down to the home.
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go.
http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2011/01/max-splosion-man-mash-thumb-640xauto-18966.jpg
They pretty much ripped off everything. Even the name is similar.
Yeah that's really dumb, they want to win back their fans trust and they do that by telling a big lie. They really must take us all for idiots; I can't wait to see an article from them discussing piracy. Keep this in your bookmarks folks.
All of that shit you listed you won't be using by the time webM gets popular (if ever). It'll take another 5 years before HTML 5 even gets standardised at least.
It's Microsoft refusing to support WebM while firefox and opera are doing the exact same thing as Chrome. It's the same old same old IE not supporting shit.
Microsoft refusing to support the same features as other browsers?! I'M SHOCKED!
Opera, Firefox and now Chrome aren't going to have support for it. It's not Google pulling a Microsoft. It's Microsoft having a fit because the whole browser industry is going in the opposite direction they want it to go in. That leaves Safari and IE to either follow the herd or have developers bitch at them for having to add special videos for only those two browsers that refuse to add support (because of their patent interests in h264) for WebM.
Yes because if for no other reason vorbis actually IS better in that situation and its use should be encouraged by all vendors.
Better for what though? Better for internet streaming?
Can I click anywhere in the video and the progressive download will start playing after downloading a few frames or do I have to wait a couple of minutes for it to download a huge chunk of the content? In my experience OGG gets this right, click anywhere and it'll start playing. H264, not so much..
Chrome, Firefox and Opera don't or will no longer support h.264 without nitpicking that's 50% of the browser market. If you look at the trend I think Microsoft has more to be worried about then youtube with its slow but constant drop of share.
Even if youtube forced everyone to use just chrome I predict more then 50% of users would do it, because nothing is going to stop them from watching their videos.
Your blueray player uses chrome? wut...
They do much more then just throw a few patches back..
1) They pay most of the main contributors on wine.
2) You can download their full source off their site
3) They host the wine website
It's not about using the latest and greatest. PHP 5.2 support was stopped in mid December.
It's like complaining about bugs in windows 95.
Sure it might work for you but you can get off your high horse about using it.
namespaces was added in 5.3.
If you're using less then 5.3 then you're using a php version that is no longer being supported (with the exception of the emergency fix for this bug).
PHP has namespaces.
Joel hasn't worked for Microsoft for more then a decade now.
Did you even RTFA?
Lets see you say that being on the other side of the fence where you have people threatening, insulting and generally being a dick to you 24/7
Ironically you yourself have proved exactly why forums are bad.
You are the only one who has consistently been negative in multiple threads. If this was a game forum then a developer skimming through might possibly consider your views to be the most popular when in actual fact it's simply a case of whoever shouts the loudest longest wins.
Problem with your multi page whining on different classes is that developers get this from every player.
"The class I play is nerfed! Make me a powerful god!"
You need to start considering what it's like on the other side.
Then you've never submitted any stories to slashdot. I've had many of my own submissions edited before they were posted.
Why are you making the distinction? It will work over more then just the internet.
What you've just described already exists. It is called the OFF system.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/offsystem/
The shortest geometric route isn't typically the best one in most circumstances.
Protocols such as OLSR which already have huge mesh networks running in different countries are much more relevant.
$500 for the IPv6 allocation
$500 for the BGP AS number
$X dollars for the different ISPs charges and you're still going to be treated like a subscriber rather then a peer with all the same crap.
If nothing is going to convince you otherwise then you really are being closed minded on this subject.
Regardless, Austria already has a free wifi mesh network going which connects to the internet in many different towns and areas.
http://www.funkfeuer.at/index.php?id=42&L=1
That pretty much disproves your "never going to happen" since it has already happened, in more then one country and for many years now. There are also similar things happening in Germany and France. I am also interested in starting one myself in my area.
It wouldn't take much to get the general public interested. You can put the routers in AP mode while still being part of the mesh network. This first encourages use of the network and allows normal users to connect which you can later on re-direct users to a page encouraging them to download the software that lets them become part of the mesh for perhaps faster speed. I'm sure that would get people using the network, people love getting something for free even if it's slower.
Next problem is coverage. This can only be solved by community investment. Set up some solar powered self sustaining mesh routers which act solely as traffic nodes to increase the coverage as the funkfeuer project have done.
Next problem would be connecting to the existing internet structure, that can be done lots of different ways by many different peers. The OLSR protocol has already thought of all this and find the quickest route out of the system.
All of the following can be done by just one person in the town. It only takes one person to purchase the equipment and hook it up around town (ignoring legal issues) for such a network to begin to take off. I'm personally interested in doing such a thing myself, so far I've costed it around the $100 per mesh node, the idea is that you hook up maybe 2 or 3 mesh nodes to your internet and let the thing organically grow out as other people hook themselves onto the mesh.
What I am describing isn't really forking the internet however finding a way to make the internet more peer to peer based all the way down to the home.
Anyone else noticed this trend in companies where the bad news or damage control is always handled by spokeswomen?