Exactly, can't they just instead use an open standard (pleonasm, if it ain't open it doesn't deserve the name standard) like VAAPI ?
And eventually submit extensions to it...
That's what standards are for!
It's on my list already;)
Well, Ubuntu will have to go there anyway, subnotebooks (netbook is a PSION trademark) have been announced with ARM soon, so they can't escape.
You know what's funny, intel will make money on those anyway, since they also have ARM licences:D
I don't need faked hardware, I just want the real specs to port Haiku to them!
After all the marketing buzz about "mobile desktop", that means those are the same as PCs, for which at least here tied sale is illegal. But of course providing alternative OSes means specs are needed...
Flash itself is the first DRM hit when you are not on a mainstream platform... really, no need to add more, you won't play anyway.
So really, I don't care if they are "developing video players that present clearer images than the site's standard player." The standard one already doesn't work for me. I have to use tricks to get the flv or mp4 to watch it in a real player, but it's painful. That's not the Web how it was meant to be.
That's why I said *cpu* not core:D
Oh, and BeOS and Haiku have always been tickless, which helps on battery as well, though it wasn't a concern back then.
I don't care if it draws more polygons per second!
I'd rather have 4 cpus I can independantly switch on and off at will when needed, as BeOS could!
This would help with battery probably more than speedstep.
I've been dreaming about this for a decade. (Why didn't I patent this btw ?)
It's nothing but fair that Microsoft tastes a bit of the very issue they created in the first place. They were the one inducing makers in releasing only drivers for Windows by maintaining their monopoly, right? It's actually funny it comes back to bite them...
Releasing specs instead of wasting time on making Vista/Windows7 drivers will ensure fair support for every OS out there, and maybe even provide jobs for many devs to write those drivers.
I just
wrote about this spec issue some days ago...
P.S. their site is plain stupid, allows writing comments seemingly anonymously, then asks to register anyway.
P.P.S. Is it me or/. JavaScript code is getting really slow ? It's painful.
1. Exactly why we need a standard, open format (and codec! Real actually filed an RFC describing the.rm format, but not the codecs). 2. ditto. 3. Yes I hated RealPlayer just as you, but not as much as flash. 4. Ditto, not as much as flash. 5. goto 1. 6. goto 1. Yes I know flash is a technically simpler answer for windows and OSX people, but it's ethically wrong. It is supposed to make it easier for everyone, but actually only makes it simpler in appearance to some (even though they happen to be the majority), but lock them in and allows for DRM (which is both ethically and technically an abberation), and it forbids other users to use the feature.
If I had to cite only 1 of the hundreds of reasons to dismiss flash... It's just not usable by blind and visually impaired people, because it's just a black box to the browser. Of course that doesn't matter for video (but for audio it does).
Great, we can finally throw away all those flash-based player junks which don't work on all OSes and thus fails at the very purpose of the Web! We can finally go back to what worked. The EMBED and OBJECT tag like way, so each OS can use their native player, with the user's prefs and their native features, instead of imposing a non interoperable, DRM-crippled, often ugly player. I wish...
Yeah it's funny how they switch from a crappy proprietary solution, to yet another, even heavier. No silverlight here, has it been ported to BeOS yet ? What about *BSD, AROS, Haiku ?
I still can't understand why one needs a whole VM to play a video, be it flash or whatever. There is absolutely no point... Damn, "the net was so much better, simpler before". They wouldn't have any problem using the EMBED tag if they didn't insist on using DRM. And this works on all platform, using whatever player is installed, instead of enforcing an ugly and slooooow player on everyone that doesn't always work. http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_I_banned_flash.png http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_flash_sux_even_on_linux.png
And I've yet to find someone who can show me formal proof of work of DRMs. They are inherently... http://www.defectivebydesign.org/
Mind you it's sometimes slow as well in France... Mostly nonwebsites (flash, but its blazing fast to load a white page when I disable it...) and ads...
Oh, and/. is awfully slow in the comments page with all the javascript loading everything at once... on firefox on both BeOS and XP it hogs the cpu... it *looks* easy to use until you get 30 comments, but we all know only stories about Cowboy Neal gets less than 30.
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Exactly, can't they just instead use an open standard (pleonasm, if it ain't open it doesn't deserve the name standard) like VAAPI ? And eventually submit extensions to it... That's what standards are for!
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API
It's on my list already ;)
Well, Ubuntu will have to go there anyway, subnotebooks (netbook is a PSION trademark) have been announced with ARM soon, so they can't escape.
:D
You know what's funny, intel will make money on those anyway, since they also have ARM licences
Oh well, must finish my m68k port first...
Those proteins don't do their work. But I may be biased, I'm part of it.
Because they switched to being windows-bootable. http://bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php
I don't need faked hardware, I just want the real specs to port Haiku to them! After all the marketing buzz about "mobile desktop", that means those are the same as PCs, for which at least here tied sale is illegal. But of course providing alternative OSes means specs are needed...
Flash itself is the first DRM hit when you are not on a mainstream platform... really, no need to add more, you won't play anyway. So really, I don't care if they are "developing video players that present clearer images than the site's standard player." The standard one already doesn't work for me. I have to use tricks to get the flv or mp4 to watch it in a real player, but it's painful. That's not the Web how it was meant to be.
Dangit!
That's why I said *cpu* not core :D
Oh, and BeOS and Haiku have always been tickless, which helps on battery as well, though it wasn't a concern back then.
I don't care if it draws more polygons per second! I'd rather have 4 cpus I can independantly switch on and off at will when needed, as BeOS could!
This would help with battery probably more than speedstep.
I've been dreaming about this for a decade. (Why didn't I patent this btw ?)
definitly helps. It would help /. at least... I *always* get the "busy script" alert in Firefox here. Painful.
http://www.lolix.com/ brings together proposals for FOSS jobs and resumes of FOSS developers.
Why not Ask Google?
It's nothing but fair that Microsoft tastes a bit of the very issue they created in the first place. They were the one inducing makers in releasing only drivers for Windows by maintaining their monopoly, right? It's actually funny it comes back to bite them...
/. JavaScript code is getting really slow ? It's painful.
Releasing specs instead of wasting time on making Vista/Windows7 drivers will ensure fair support for every OS out there, and maybe even provide jobs for many devs to write those drivers.
I just wrote about this spec issue some days ago...
P.S. their site is plain stupid, allows writing comments seemingly anonymously, then asks to register anyway.
P.P.S. Is it me or
Hmm riiiight.
Maybe it would actually be easier if it had a proper stable DDI... At least it's certainly not the thing they are "doing right".
1. Exactly why we need a standard, open format (and codec! Real actually filed an RFC describing the .rm format, but not the codecs).
2. ditto.
3. Yes I hated RealPlayer just as you, but not as much as flash.
4. Ditto, not as much as flash.
5. goto 1.
6. goto 1.
Yes I know flash is a technically simpler answer for windows and OSX people, but it's ethically wrong. It is supposed to make it easier for everyone, but actually only makes it simpler in appearance to some (even though they happen to be the majority), but lock them in and allows for DRM (which is both ethically and technically an abberation), and it forbids other users to use the feature.
If I had to cite only 1 of the hundreds of reasons to dismiss flash... It's just not usable by blind and visually impaired people, because it's just a black box to the browser. Of course that doesn't matter for video (but for audio it does).
Great, we can finally throw away all those flash-based player junks which don't work on all OSes and thus fails at the very purpose of the Web!
We can finally go back to what worked. The EMBED and OBJECT tag like way, so each OS can use their native player, with the user's prefs and their native features, instead of imposing a non interoperable, DRM-crippled, often ugly player.
I wish...
Now I just need to port it to Haiku :)
Yeah it's funny how they switch from a crappy proprietary solution, to yet another, even heavier.
No silverlight here, has it been ported to BeOS yet ? What about *BSD, AROS, Haiku ?
I still can't understand why one needs a whole VM to play a video, be it flash or whatever. There is absolutely no point... Damn, "the net was so much better, simpler before". They wouldn't have any problem using the EMBED tag if they didn't insist on using DRM. And this works on all platform, using whatever player is installed, instead of enforcing an ugly and slooooow player on everyone that doesn't always work.
http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_I_banned_flash.png
http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_flash_sux_even_on_linux.png
And I've yet to find someone who can show me formal proof of work of DRMs. They are inherently ... http://www.defectivebydesign.org/
In china ppl are paied to plant trees to stop desertification... so why not ?
(I hope they pay well enough !)
Why not just stop accepting software patents instead ?
They are just insane.
Software is Speach!
Mind you it's sometimes slow as well in France...
Mostly nonwebsites (flash, but its blazing fast to load a white page when I disable it...) and ads...
Oh, and /. is awfully slow in the comments page with all the javascript loading everything at once... on firefox on both BeOS and XP it hogs the cpu... it *looks* easy to use until you get 30 comments, but we all know only stories about Cowboy Neal gets less than 30.
or citizenship, even?
I think you meant Facebook, LinkedIn, and other lookalikes ?
Right, still very much alike in design.
He's called Professeur Tournesol in french btw :)
Tintin had this decades ago! ;) :)
http://www.sur-la-toile.com/images/articles/ben_1113361162.jpg
Once again Herge was visionary
Yes, it's all about technodiversity!