You must be mistaken, Sir. I was told that 9/11 was planned by Saddam Hussein, and that this justified the Iraq invasion. It is what I heard from Rumsfeld and Fox in 2003, so that had to be true. Or is it now one of those conspiracies that you are denouncing?
Well, that's true, but only in practice. But that would not answer the interrgogation of the original poster, which is the probblem of the egg and the chicken.
Well, ever thought that issue also happened for a gcc written in C? Compilers come with minimal bootstrap compilers written in assembler to initiate the first compilation. Then compilers compile themselves several times until they reach a final version.
1) Why is the video codec type hardcoded in HTML5? Tight coupling has been known to be bad practice in many engineering problems, especially in programming. Avoiding such pitfalls is the base of object oriented programming, isn't it ? Wouldn't it be more logical to let HTML5 use media codecs availabl from the underlying OS?
2) Even if HTML5 has to define a video codec in their specifications, why Firefox cannot instead create a plugin that would take advantage of codecs installed on the system? They would avoid distributing a H264 decoder, but at the same time would be able to use the one the user would install separately (of course with disclaimers such as do it at your own risk, etc).
Can anyone enlighten me about this, or give me links?
Nowadays, such practical joke would lead to cease and desist letters, followed by a lawsuit for $4,000,000,000 of compensation, damages and libel, and finally royalties for licensing the use of his first name in videogames, tv, cinema, songs, or any other media.
Well, that did work for MP3, didn't it ? After some time, consumers made interoperability between mp3 players prevail and vendors finally sold DRM-free mp3 music.
1) I can perfectly use IMAP or POP to download my Gmail emails and read them offline.
2) For all kind of web-based communications such as emails, HTTP or SSH I do expect to need a network connection. It does not need to be Gmail, but my personal email system is exactly the same. What you say is equivalent to: "I need a phone connection to be able to phone? What a scandal!" This is not the case for a game though, wghich I expect to work on a plane, a train or on a remote holiday location with no internet access.
The movie Antitrust was pretty realistic and accurate. The computer interface that was shown was Gnome. Even the lines of code that were displayed had been borrowed from Open source projects. Maybe that is because the producers listen to professional consultant (among which there was de Icaza). I am sure there are other examples of good UI, but indeed they are a minority.
Microsoft has issued an official rebuttal: "We never used OS X as a source of inspiration in the design of Windows 7. This is completely uninformed. We used KDE 4 instead".
My girlfriend and me have both a Sony-Ericson phone, bought 3 years apart. Guess what ? Both chargers and connectors are proprietary, fragile, weird and different! Of course if you lose it you'll have to spend an arm to get a replacement.
However this will only work if vendors give the option NOT to get a new charger with a new phone. Otherwise, this will not be really useful.
That would be nice to have a standard for Li-ion batteries too, from mobile phones to shavers and laptops. This way, it would be easier to recycle and replace batteries, lower costs and remove vendor-specific locks. I like alkaline batteries: around 4-5 different formats to power most of our stuff. With Li-ion, we have gained in power and time, but lost in flexibility. Is that so difficult to implement ?
No matter how much you 'understand what's driving those people even if you can't publicly condone their methods'.
Oh please, don't patronize me with this shit. I know where you coming from by writing this: you want to discredit me by interpreting my words. But you prefer to use scare tactics and by doing so you refuse debate and you act like a coward.
I loathe these people, I hate their ideas and religious extremism. At the same time, I don't think it is a good idea to label terrorism any kind of crimes. This is because of people like you that freedom is eroded with shit like Patriot act.
No that's not terrorism. That's a shameful, awful, assault made by cowards and they should go to jail for this. But in no way this is terrorism. Please stop calling terrorism any crime, because it fits your agenda, especially when we don't know the details of what happened and the perpretators. With such kind of claims, at the end of the day, there will be only two crimes left: terrorism and pedohilia. Steal a CD in a shop ? Terrorist ! Copyright infrigement ? Jail for life, think of the children ! This is ridiculous.
What id funny is how, when it comes to security, their OS is too much open (need to run in admin mode to be usable). They want to close it, but to restrict the user, not to make it more secure!
Also, how long will the public accept this ? This may be a very dangerous game, considering what happend woth the DRM debacle in the digital audio distribution.
Even if this were true, does that mean we should stop doing research on virus and vaccine ? Of course not !
Maybe confinment of labs should be improved if this were proven to be true. However, I prefer to live in the XXI century where smallpox has been eradicated thanks to Pasteur rather than banning all this research and having a life expectancy of 40 years.
PS: I am a biologist and have worked in confined labs.
In that case, what's the point of having laws, if they only concern an abstract idea of the Republic ? This is similar to people who say that private companies should have the right to discriminate by sex, or religion, or colour of the skin, since after all they are private and this should only concern the government. A constitution and laws encompass also the private area when fundamental interests are at stake, and this is the case here.
The only things I HAVE returned were some large electronics - but honestly, ONLY when there were defects or flaws in them. If it works well, I keep it. Period.
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You must be mistaken, Sir. I was told that 9/11 was planned by Saddam Hussein, and that this justified the Iraq invasion. It is what I heard from Rumsfeld and Fox in 2003, so that had to be true. Or is it now one of those conspiracies that you are denouncing?
A federal offense ? In the UK ? That's new for me.
Multiplied by the number of users, it may be a big sum. I don't know if Germany has class-action laws though.
Well, that's true, but only in practice. But that would not answer the interrgogation of the original poster, which is the probblem of the egg and the chicken.
Well, ever thought that issue also happened for a gcc written in C? Compilers come with minimal bootstrap compilers written in assembler to initiate the first compilation. Then compilers compile themselves several times until they reach a final version.
I'll answer to myself: regarding point 2, we have the opinon of a Mozilla dev against this idea:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/video_freedom_a.html
Something I do not understand with HTML 5:
1) Why is the video codec type hardcoded in HTML5? Tight coupling has been known to be bad practice in many engineering problems, especially in programming. Avoiding such pitfalls is the base of object oriented programming, isn't it ? Wouldn't it be more logical to let HTML5 use media codecs availabl from the underlying OS?
2) Even if HTML5 has to define a video codec in their specifications, why Firefox cannot instead create a plugin that would take advantage of codecs installed on the system? They would avoid distributing a H264 decoder, but at the same time would be able to use the one the user would install separately (of course with disclaimers such as do it at your own risk, etc).
Can anyone enlighten me about this, or give me links?
Nowadays, such practical joke would lead to cease and desist letters, followed by a lawsuit for $4,000,000,000 of compensation, damages and libel, and finally royalties for licensing the use of his first name in videogames, tv, cinema, songs, or any other media.
Well, that did work for MP3, didn't it ? After some time, consumers made interoperability between mp3 players prevail and vendors finally sold DRM-free mp3 music.
Your comparison is completely inappropriate.
1) I can perfectly use IMAP or POP to download my Gmail emails and read them offline.
2) For all kind of web-based communications such as emails, HTTP or SSH I do expect to need a network connection. It does not need to be Gmail, but my personal email system is exactly the same. What you say is equivalent to: "I need a phone connection to be able to phone? What a scandal!" This is not the case for a game though, wghich I expect to work on a plane, a train or on a remote holiday location with no internet access.
Mandriva has an excellent KDE integration imo. If you like the vanilla version, you might want to try Archlinux too.
The movie Antitrust was pretty realistic and accurate. The computer interface that was shown was Gnome. Even the lines of code that were displayed had been borrowed from Open source projects. Maybe that is because the producers listen to professional consultant (among which there was de Icaza). I am sure there are other examples of good UI, but indeed they are a minority.
It is as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Microsoft has issued an official rebuttal: "We never used OS X as a source of inspiration in the design of Windows 7. This is completely uninformed. We used KDE 4 instead".
My girlfriend and me have both a Sony-Ericson phone, bought 3 years apart. Guess what ? Both chargers and connectors are proprietary, fragile, weird and different! Of course if you lose it you'll have to spend an arm to get a replacement.
However this will only work if vendors give the option NOT to get a new charger with a new phone. Otherwise, this will not be really useful.
That would be nice to have a standard for Li-ion batteries too, from mobile phones to shavers and laptops. This way, it would be easier to recycle and replace batteries, lower costs and remove vendor-specific locks. I like alkaline batteries: around 4-5 different formats to power most of our stuff. With Li-ion, we have gained in power and time, but lost in flexibility. Is that so difficult to implement ?
I am surprised. Wolfenstein is based on Doom 3 engine, which is OpenGL. Isn't the alledged switch for the future engines ?
Also, I wonder if Doom 3 engine will be GPLed. id always GPLed their code after a while.
I hope they will carry on using OpenGL and providing Linux native binaries.
No matter how much you 'understand what's driving those people even if you can't publicly condone their methods'.
Oh please, don't patronize me with this shit. I know where you coming from by writing this: you want to discredit me by interpreting my words. But you prefer to use scare tactics and by doing so you refuse debate and you act like a coward.
I loathe these people, I hate their ideas and religious extremism. At the same time, I don't think it is a good idea to label terrorism any kind of crimes. This is because of people like you that freedom is eroded with shit like Patriot act.
No that's not terrorism. That's a shameful, awful, assault made by cowards and they should go to jail for this. But in no way this is terrorism. Please stop calling terrorism any crime, because it fits your agenda, especially when we don't know the details of what happened and the perpretators.
With such kind of claims, at the end of the day, there will be only two crimes left: terrorism and pedohilia. Steal a CD in a shop ? Terrorist ! Copyright infrigement ? Jail for life, think of the children ! This is ridiculous.
Hasn't that been done already ?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4860483760049380308
What id funny is how, when it comes to security, their OS is too much open (need to run in admin mode to be usable). They want to close it, but to restrict the user, not to make it more secure!
Also, how long will the public accept this ? This may be a very dangerous game, considering what happend woth the DRM debacle in the digital audio distribution.
Even if this were true, does that mean we should stop doing research on virus and vaccine ? Of course not !
Maybe confinment of labs should be improved if this were proven to be true. However, I prefer to live in the XXI century where smallpox has been eradicated thanks to Pasteur rather than banning all this research and having a life expectancy of 40 years.
PS: I am a biologist and have worked in confined labs.
In that case, what's the point of having laws, if they only concern an abstract idea of the Republic ? This is similar to people who say that private companies should have the right to discriminate by sex, or religion, or colour of the skin, since after all they are private and this should only concern the government. A constitution and laws encompass also the private area when fundamental interests are at stake, and this is the case here.
Why do you say he was a dick ? I quote him:
The only things I HAVE returned were some large electronics - but honestly, ONLY when there were defects or flaws in them. If it works well, I keep it. Period.
That's completely legal and fair.
Anyway, this shows once