Yeah... HTML5 video is sooooooo numerous these days, that you can't even find Flash based video content delivery these days. Right?
No. Expert opinion [multimedia.cx] is that WebM infringes on numerous patents in the H.264 pool
He's a technical expert. Or did the title stating that he's evaluation is a technical one throw you off.
He does not state that VP8 infringes on any H.264 patents.(Pulling pineapples like that out of your ass must hurt, right?) And in fact, he invalidates one H.264 related patent due to prior art...(Reread the damn text) He does state that it's done in a similar way, but similar != same.
It's been over half a year, that the VP8 sources and specs are out there. Admittedly, the specs are crap, but not a single patent holder has filed a single complaint against VP8 and Google. And VP8 isn't something that was developed 9 months ago by Google, it's a tech from the former On2 technologies.
Yeah! But his complaint was that GPL was not enforced/followed. So you could say, that there was one sane person requiring the essence of GPL to be adhered to...
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Tree non-functioning sites were "fear.microsoft.com.", "uncertainty.microsoft.com." and "doubt.microsoft.com."
The purpose of those sites is not known.
Oh please.... Everybody know what AppStore is like. It's not like it was different at launch. This issue lies with Apple not defining that GPL conflicts with their AppStore agreement and distribution model and the developers not being legally educated enough to understand what GPL stands for.
If Apple's market share shrinks to the point that serious handheld app developers no longer feel to make an iPhone version of their apps at all, maybe at that point Apple would be forced to switch, but until then, they're raking in the bucks.
If you were at the head of Apple, wouldn't you do the same? They have investments that they need to get their returns on.
Apple knows that they will "loose" this market. That does not mean that they will not be able to exist, look at their computer business... 5% and still very profitable. Android development has not just Google behind them, others also "pitch in". They actually take in patches from "ordinary folk". Therefore Android will continue to add new features and become better faster than any single company can manage.
Apple isn't in this game for the marathon, it's a sprint for them. Until they actually find the next product that will "revolutionize the market"(that is what they did with iPhone).
I know Slashdot is US oriented site, but come on! Even in countries where iPhone is available from everyone and their grandmother, Android devices(collectively) outsell iPhone.
Apple is demanding a lot from operators(that is what "carriers" are called in Europe), some operators in Europe will not touch iPhone with a ten foot pole, because Apple requires minimum sales numbers.
Well China is a signatory of the Berne Convention, therefore GPL and related copyrights can be enforced on Chinese companies. Just you have to file the case in China.
The speech is out of date. GPL was enforced multiple times, I remember not too long ago the case of the guy and code behind JMRIJMRI Defense: Recent Events
Presumption of innocence takes a real hit with your comment.
No matter how conclusive the evidence you think is, we have things called courts that have to conclude that the person is not innocent. Only when those fail, we can and should break our own rules.
BTW: Violation of privacy is not the same as making things publicly available.
Yeah.... And trusted Stalin to his deathbed.
BTW: Lenin was one of those that disbanded the elected national assembly, just because his party didn't get enough seats...
You can't imagine how many puppet states US has around the world. I mean literally, the ones that you would brand as "free and democratic"(per American definition) will most likely be one of those puppy states. If I wanted safety from US special services than there are only 3 options: countries where Russian special services have control, France and Israel(you'd have to be Jewish, though).
The only way to have control over gov't secret and confidential material is a totalitarian state like Stalinist North Korea. Whre people have no access to any uncontrolled information and channels.
No.... My dearie, you are not aware of the strictness of rules concerning privacy in European(EU in this case) countries. But it boils down to this: if you store some kind of personal information, only where you require it to conduct business(obviously), you have to actively make sure that that data stays private and confidential.
In most cases the company is actually responsible in actively making sure that private data does not leak and is in a secure place. Though there are some exceptions, where you can keep the data in some other EU country. When being hired, I actually had to give my employer(a US based company) written permission to digitally transfer my personal information to US - that's only for name, address and salary.
In some countries, by losing personal information you can effectively loose your permit to handle personal data and in those cases basically be out of business.
But the problem here is the general point: No one has any traction in the enterprise oriented cloud services.
So generally, that MS guy is still talking BS, just he's not aware that he's talking BS about MS as well as Google...
I believe that Microsofties will be surprised how much enterprises loathe giving away their systems to Microsoft, Google, Amazon or other Cloud services provider....
I have to agree, their researchers are very notable in the CS field. But recently Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Facebook have stared to appear on the scene as well(well Facebook not so much, yet)... I actually have read a lot of research papers published by Microsoft.
I bet that 99.9%(or a ridiculously high percentage something like that) of patents are never actually implemented within the first several years. We are out of the era where you can build some innovative, non-obvious, without prior art machine, patent it and get it to market in a year after patent granted.
IBM is not a company, it's a small country - about 400'000 employees(none of which are janitors and other support staff). And as in most countries, there are assholes and idiots. And out of thousands of patents there are destined to be some idiotic ones...
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Yeah... HTML5 video is sooooooo numerous these days, that you can't even find Flash based video content delivery these days. Right?
He's a technical expert. Or did the title stating that he's evaluation is a technical one throw you off.
He does not state that VP8 infringes on any H.264 patents.(Pulling pineapples like that out of your ass must hurt, right?) And in fact, he invalidates one H.264 related patent due to prior art...(Reread the damn text) He does state that it's done in a similar way, but similar != same.
It's been over half a year, that the VP8 sources and specs are out there. Admittedly, the specs are crap, but not a single patent holder has filed a single complaint against VP8 and Google. And VP8 isn't something that was developed 9 months ago by Google, it's a tech from the former On2 technologies.
Yeah! But his complaint was that GPL was not enforced/followed. So you could say, that there was one sane person requiring the essence of GPL to be adhered to...
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Tree non-functioning sites were "fear.microsoft.com.", "uncertainty.microsoft.com." and "doubt.microsoft.com."
The purpose of those sites is not known.
Oh please.... Everybody know what AppStore is like. It's not like it was different at launch. This issue lies with Apple not defining that GPL conflicts with their AppStore agreement and distribution model and the developers not being legally educated enough to understand what GPL stands for.
Rejecting VLC on the basis that Apple cannot comply with GPL would be a very wise move.
If you were at the head of Apple, wouldn't you do the same? They have investments that they need to get their returns on.
Apple knows that they will "loose" this market. That does not mean that they will not be able to exist, look at their computer business... 5% and still very profitable. Android development has not just Google behind them, others also "pitch in". They actually take in patches from "ordinary folk". Therefore Android will continue to add new features and become better faster than any single company can manage.
Apple isn't in this game for the marathon, it's a sprint for them. Until they actually find the next product that will "revolutionize the market"(that is what they did with iPhone).
I know Slashdot is US oriented site, but come on! Even in countries where iPhone is available from everyone and their grandmother, Android devices(collectively) outsell iPhone.
Apple is demanding a lot from operators(that is what "carriers" are called in Europe), some operators in Europe will not touch iPhone with a ten foot pole, because Apple requires minimum sales numbers.
On contract, yes, see the price off contract is 20% higher for iPhone4 than any top of the range Android phones.
Well China is a signatory of the Berne Convention, therefore GPL and related copyrights can be enforced on Chinese companies. Just you have to file the case in China.
The speech is out of date. GPL was enforced multiple times, I remember not too long ago the case of the guy and code behind JMRI JMRI Defense: Recent Events
Yeah... Sounds very much like the beginning of 1984.
They actually have access to Windows sources....
Presumption of innocence takes a real hit with your comment.
No matter how conclusive the evidence you think is, we have things called courts that have to conclude that the person is not innocent. Only when those fail, we can and should break our own rules.
BTW: Violation of privacy is not the same as making things publicly available.
Can it get access to Facebook app's info? For age, sex and more info?
Can it get the cell tower ID or some other non-obvious metric identify location?
Yeah.... And trusted Stalin to his deathbed.
BTW: Lenin was one of those that disbanded the elected national assembly, just because his party didn't get enough seats...
Yet a lot of citizens of EU member states consider EUC to be the sane ones!!!
You can't imagine how many puppet states US has around the world. I mean literally, the ones that you would brand as "free and democratic"(per American definition) will most likely be one of those puppy states. If I wanted safety from US special services than there are only 3 options: countries where Russian special services have control, France and Israel(you'd have to be Jewish, though).
The only way to have control over gov't secret and confidential material is a totalitarian state like Stalinist North Korea. Whre people have no access to any uncontrolled information and channels.
I can safely say, that if a person buys a Mac because of magsafe connector, then (s)he's an idiot.
Quick question: Do you use the enterprise Google Apps? Or the free, open, version?
No.... My dearie, you are not aware of the strictness of rules concerning privacy in European(EU in this case) countries. But it boils down to this: if you store some kind of personal information, only where you require it to conduct business(obviously), you have to actively make sure that that data stays private and confidential.
In most cases the company is actually responsible in actively making sure that private data does not leak and is in a secure place. Though there are some exceptions, where you can keep the data in some other EU country. When being hired, I actually had to give my employer(a US based company) written permission to digitally transfer my personal information to US - that's only for name, address and salary.
In some countries, by losing personal information you can effectively loose your permit to handle personal data and in those cases basically be out of business.
But the problem here is the general point: No one has any traction in the enterprise oriented cloud services.
So generally, that MS guy is still talking BS, just he's not aware that he's talking BS about MS as well as Google...
I believe that Microsofties will be surprised how much enterprises loathe giving away their systems to Microsoft, Google, Amazon or other Cloud services provider....
I have to agree, their researchers are very notable in the CS field. But recently Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Facebook have stared to appear on the scene as well(well Facebook not so much, yet)... I actually have read a lot of research papers published by Microsoft.
I bet that 99.9%(or a ridiculously high percentage something like that) of patents are never actually implemented within the first several years. We are out of the era where you can build some innovative, non-obvious, without prior art machine, patent it and get it to market in a year after patent granted.
IBM is not a company, it's a small country - about 400'000 employees(none of which are janitors and other support staff). And as in most countries, there are assholes and idiots. And out of thousands of patents there are destined to be some idiotic ones...