And Intel is backing VAAPI as well as apparently considering extending XvMC to support more recent video codecs as a stop-gap measure.
It's rather unfortunate that they're all separate and mutually incompatible (and presumably proprietary, for the first two), which will no doubt hinder adoption by application developers, but it's a lot more than what we had until now.
I would think that the artists have some say in what manner their works are used
Why, they do - right up to the moment when they sign the paper saying they don't. If they like to have some say, maybe they shouldn't agree to contracts that give them no say, don't you think?
Only reason labels have so much power is that most artists are spineless sniveling worms that do anything for a quick buck.
What part of the definition of "web browser" makes you think it's defined to be a "service"?
How about the part where they specifically define "service" to include SOFTWARE AND PRODUCTS, in addition to the usual Google services and web sites?
For crying out loud, READ the damn thing, please.
Do you think the terms might be there to cover the cases when Chrome is used to post to Google's actual services, using the integration into Google Search, their anti-phishing list, the geolocation services, GMail, and other services that are integrated with Chrome through the inclusion of Gears?
No, because those services are already covered by their own terms, regardless of which application you use them through.
It's perfectly acceptable for a web service - they all have similar clauses - and granting them some rights is even necessary, my post is intended to be public, and they do need to permission to show it to others.
It's certainly not acceptable for a browser to do with private data.
Do you really fail to see the difference, or are you just building strawmen for fun?
I suspect that fire-resistance doesn't equal inert.
So what? Air is not inert either, it's full of oxygen and other nasty reactive substances, doesn't seem to stop anyone from immersing their computers in it.
Locked down and controlled by Apple, or Locked down and controlled by AT&T/Verizon/TMobile/Sprint/whoever, or hack your way to freedom. Those are the options we have right now.
Have you people really been so brainwashed by those companies you can't even consider including buying the handset in the list of choices?
You can march into the nearest shop, drop a wad of cash on the counter and walk out with your choice Palm, Symbian, or Windows Mobile phone. No hacking required. No locks in sight. Yeah, sure, it costs you, unlike the subsidized locked down piece of crap you get from the network, but you get what you pay for.
a ranch would qualify under this definition, so access rights would not apply. Wrong. The "associated land" in the definition means the yard and other such things in the immediate vicinity in the house, where roaming violates domestic peace.
It does NOT mean the ginormous tracts of land included in your state-sized ranch, even if it's part of the same property and as such technically associated with house.
I don't know about you, but i like the outdoors, nature, and fresh air. Yeah, plenty of those on the Moon.
You can get outdoors and fresh air on a space habitat, and you can't get nature on a terraformed planet either, because it's just as much an artificial, controlled environment as the habitat is, at least initially.
I don't think you really mean that, or if you do, then you're quite wrong. And pray tell, why would he not mean that, or why would he be wrong if he did?
Someone successfully sabotaging food production is IMMENSELY more terrifying than few brainwashed kids blowing up themselves and few other - or even few thousand other - people.
For a rational person, it's one of the very few things that could actually warrant that label.
It's not black, and yes, it's shiny, it looks black because it reflects something dark. It's pretty obvious if you look at the very top, slightly left from the center at the white thingy and it's mirror image.
The bottom right quarter actually looks a lot worse off.
So if OS X became the number one operating system, they'd have to stop shipping with iTunes? They would probably at the very least have to discouple it from iPod, and the iTunes shop, to allow others a fair chance to enter the market.
It's assuming that a monopoly will always be evil, essentially. This has shown several times to be the case, but are we saying this is always the case? It's eventually fairly likely to become such, and the different rules are supposed to make it less probable.
Just shipping a media player might not be enough to get them into trouble even with the different rules, but the fact that the media player makes use of their own proprietary formats, and so leverages them in a way that would not otherwise happen, does.
You're correct of course. But look beyond the HTML/XHTML... This project isn't about that, it's about sharing of biological information and data. If someone criticized building a skyscraper on mud would you dismiss them as irrelevant and tell it isn't about that, it's about building the tallest building in the world?
You can't "look beyond" the foundations of something. The data is useless if it's so bad it can't be easily worked on, and the information might as well not exist if it's hidden in the bad data.
People power is cheap and a lot more efficient than what we normally use. It's a lot cheaper to power a lamp like this in the third world than it is to extract fossil fuels in one country, transport them thousands of km, then burn them to produce electricity and send it over wires to the home to... power lightbulbs. As opposed to extracting fossil fuels in one country, transporting them thousands of km, then burning them to power agricultural machinery and create fertilizers to produce food, wait for the plants to use even more energy through very inefficient form of solar power, burn more fossil fuels to send it to their homes in a car?
People power is insanely less efficient than electricity. There's about trillion steps and conversions, each of which introduces huge losses along the way. If you want a solar powered lamp, make a solar powered lamp, not solar+fossil powered lamp diluted millionfold through long-winded conversion to muscle power.
A plant clipping will naturally re-grow, you don't really need to do much with it, because plants have evolved to propagate this way. Put the damned thing in water, and it grows. Hell, it's not even a clone, it's the same original plant essentially. We're cool with that. Some plants will. Some won't. Even if we were dealing with ones that do, we sure as hell don't put the damned things and let it grow the way it evolved to do.
We graft it to rootstock, another plant, which is usually NOT EVEN OF THE SAME SPECIES.
Natural? Rest assured, there's nothing natural in the way we grow fruits.
Likewise... I switched from a 21" CRT @ 1920x1440 3 years ago, when I bought a Gateway 2185W 21" widescreen LCD at 1680x1050. I love it. It's not that resolutions are going down. It's that the standard aspect ratio has changed. Except they are going down, obviously. Your "widescreen" display has less pixels in width, too, in case you did not notice. If it was just aspect ratio, the height would've staid the same, and width would have increased, instead, both went down, and the total resolution is just 64% of the old one.
That said... later this week I'm taking delivery of a 47" screen at 1920x1080 resolution.... Which, needless to say has by far the lowest physical resolution (in DPI) of all the displays you've mentioned so far (the laptop is highest, and only one of the non-CRT lot that is sane), reversing the trend how?
He's heavily involved with Gnome, and on a bug report within an open source project that is Gnome related he is regurgitating a corporate policy that is totally at odds with the free and open source world? The application bug report is for is neither an open source project (or even one that, using your weasel words, is "supposed to be") nor related to gnome, what the hell are you talking about?
Agreed, the internet tablets are THE devices for e-book reading at the moment.
Amazing screen, open, FBreader has amazing format support, pretty good user interface (I like zoom buttons for page browsing, in addition to the thumb press). And while they might not get quite 30 hours of battery life, if you're just reading without using wifi/bt or anything cpu intensive, my 770 gets at least twelve hours. While the paper-like screen could, in theory, be better for your eyes, much of the eye-relief of paper comes from huge resolution, and e-ink just doesn't have that yet - the Tablets actually have quite a bit better resolution (~225DPI) than the amazon gadget (167 DPI), so it just might be that they're actually better to read on, to boot.
And of course, as you say, while they're good book readers, they can do a whole lot more for almost half the price (n800 is going for just over 200 now that n810 is out).
As far as delays go, few months (supposed to be december now) are hardly uncommon. You can start talking about bad signs if it's not there a year from now.
I agree, that if we could get consenting, well-informed volunteers for this it would be great, but how do you inform an embryo? How do you get consent? You could argue the same thing about people with hereditary diseases. What right have they to inflict it on their children without consent? And they're not just doing an experiment that MIGHT harm the child, they KNOW it will.
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Yeah, bit like. In that it would use the same marketing phrases but different in that it would actually work.
Because goretex is neither breathable or waterproof in the real world.
With a little luck, all of them will, pretty soon.
NVidia just released their HW accelerated video decoding API
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123091
AMD pretty close to doing the same with their alternative
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvmc_xvba&num=1
And Intel is backing VAAPI as well as apparently considering extending XvMC to support more recent video codecs as a stop-gap measure.
It's rather unfortunate that they're all separate and mutually incompatible (and presumably proprietary, for the first two), which will no doubt hinder adoption by application developers, but it's a lot more than what we had until now.
Type? Maybe not, click link on a phishing email with font specifically chosen to make them look the same?
You bet.
I would think that the artists have some say in what manner their works are used
Why, they do - right up to the moment when they sign the paper saying they don't. If they like to have some say, maybe they shouldn't agree to contracts that give them no say, don't you think?
Only reason labels have so much power is that most artists are spineless sniveling worms that do anything for a quick buck.
The speakers might be useful for drowning all the screaming.
What part of the definition of "web browser" makes you think it's defined to be a "service"?
How about the part where they specifically define "service" to include SOFTWARE AND PRODUCTS, in addition to the usual Google services and web sites?
For crying out loud, READ the damn thing, please.
Do you think the terms might be there to cover the cases when Chrome is used to post to Google's actual services, using the integration into Google Search, their anti-phishing list, the geolocation services, GMail, and other services that are integrated with Chrome through the inclusion of Gears?
No, because those services are already covered by their own terms, regardless of which application you use them through.
It's perfectly acceptable for a web service - they all have similar clauses - and granting them some rights is even necessary, my post is intended to be public, and they do need to permission to show it to others.
It's certainly not acceptable for a browser to do with private data.
Do you really fail to see the difference, or are you just building strawmen for fun?
I suspect that fire-resistance doesn't equal inert.
So what? Air is not inert either, it's full of oxygen and other nasty reactive substances, doesn't seem to stop anyone from immersing their computers in it.
Locked down and controlled by Apple, or Locked down and controlled by AT&T/Verizon/TMobile/Sprint/whoever, or hack your way to freedom. Those are the options we have right now.
Have you people really been so brainwashed by those companies you can't even consider including buying the handset in the list of choices?
You can march into the nearest shop, drop a wad of cash on the counter and walk out with your choice Palm, Symbian, or Windows Mobile phone. No hacking required. No locks in sight. Yeah, sure, it costs you, unlike the subsidized locked down piece of crap you get from the network, but you get what you pay for.
It does NOT mean the ginormous tracts of land included in your state-sized ranch, even if it's part of the same property and as such technically associated with house.
You can get outdoors and fresh air on a space habitat, and you can't get nature on a terraformed planet either, because it's just as much an artificial, controlled environment as the habitat is, at least initially.
I don't think you really mean that, or if you do, then you're quite wrong. And pray tell, why would he not mean that, or why would he be wrong if he did?
Someone successfully sabotaging food production is IMMENSELY more terrifying than few brainwashed kids blowing up themselves and few other - or even few thousand other - people.
For a rational person, it's one of the very few things that could actually warrant that label.
It's not black, and yes, it's shiny, it looks black because it reflects something dark. It's pretty obvious if you look at the very top, slightly left from the center at the white thingy and it's mirror image.
The bottom right quarter actually looks a lot worse off.
Just shipping a media player might not be enough to get them into trouble even with the different rules, but the fact that the media player makes use of their own proprietary formats, and so leverages them in a way that would not otherwise happen, does.
You can't "look beyond" the foundations of something. The data is useless if it's so bad it can't be easily worked on, and the information might as well not exist if it's hidden in the bad data.
People power is insanely less efficient than electricity. There's about trillion steps and conversions, each of which introduces huge losses along the way. If you want a solar powered lamp, make a solar powered lamp, not solar+fossil powered lamp diluted millionfold through long-winded conversion to muscle power.
We graft it to rootstock, another plant, which is usually NOT EVEN OF THE SAME SPECIES.
Natural? Rest assured, there's nothing natural in the way we grow fruits.
It's not that resolutions are going down. It's that the standard aspect ratio has changed. Except they are going down, obviously. Your "widescreen" display has less pixels in width, too, in case you did not notice. If it was just aspect ratio, the height would've staid the same, and width would have increased, instead, both went down, and the total resolution is just 64% of the old one. That said... later this week I'm taking delivery of a 47" screen at 1920x1080 resolution.... Which, needless to say has by far the lowest physical resolution (in DPI) of all the displays you've mentioned so far (the laptop is highest, and only one of the non-CRT lot that is sane), reversing the trend how?
Agreed, the internet tablets are THE devices for e-book reading at the moment.
Amazing screen, open, FBreader has amazing format support, pretty good user interface (I like zoom buttons for page browsing, in addition to the thumb press). And while they might not get quite 30 hours of battery life, if you're just reading without using wifi/bt or anything cpu intensive, my 770 gets at least twelve hours. While the paper-like screen could, in theory, be better for your eyes, much of the eye-relief of paper comes from huge resolution, and e-ink just doesn't have that yet - the Tablets actually have quite a bit better resolution (~225DPI) than the amazon gadget (167 DPI), so it just might be that they're actually better to read on, to boot.
And of course, as you say, while they're good book readers, they can do a whole lot more for almost half the price (n800 is going for just over 200 now that n810 is out).
As far as delays go, few months (supposed to be december now) are hardly uncommon. You can start talking about bad signs if it's not there a year from now.
Cameras and speed displays don't have radars in them.
They use induction loops buried below the road, and work exactly the same way you do - compare times at positions A and B.