Well over 99% of computers in use today cannot play Theora over the web. If you ditch H.264 in favor of Theora, congratulations, you just ensured that the overwhelming majority of users can not use your site. That would have to be the single most idiotic business move imaginable. While you're at it, you might as well only offer your content in Klingon.
Do you think youtube relies on the fact that your browser can play the codec they are using? No, they implement the decoder in Flash. Would the end-user care if they switched to Theora Vorbis internally? No. Since when do we have to have only one codec? Can't websites offer a variety and the browser sends what it supports? We have that already for: Language/Locale, Gzipping Websites, Encoding,...
Web developers make the ugliest hacks, how ugly can it be to make a if that selects between two or three video codec algorithms?
I did. And then I read the body of the post. And then I wanted to know how many different locations he uses RFIDs to get into. So I posted a reply. Asking how many locations.
The open source software is good but the commercial software is better.
The difference is that the open source software will do a relatively good job but will require a decent amount of time to do the manual fixes and touch-ups. While the commercial software does a better job and you save time in the manual fixes and touch-ups portion.
Maybe machines can support the reading of documents (inference engines) like expert systems may help doctors. But law can not be interpreted by machines, because you have to understand what the law-maker wanted, not just the syntax of the texts. Judges will always have to look at the situation with common sense.
When you delete/modify your data, FB actually appends the new dataset to the end of their DB table and makes its "current" pointer point to that. The data actually never gets deleted. This is not an RDBMS.
I. The third party tries to find all pirates, so it tries to connect & track all users of one or more torrents. Then they might find your real address somehow and blackmail/sue you. This is a violation of privacy, no one is allowed to just snoop traffic or probe everyones computer just to stir something up. I can not believe such evidence would hold up in court. The only one who might take such action is the police (or other gov organisation), but they need some previous evidence and most likely a warrent.
II) The malicious client just knows your IP and wants to find out what you serve or if you serve illegal files. I assume you have set your bittorrent client to only allow encrypted c2c communication. If you use HTTPS to download the.torrent files, the malicious client does not know which file the torrent hash belongs to. If you use a Proxy or HTTPS trackers (do they exist?), the malicious client does not even know the hashs. So your bittorrent client will deny serving the malicious client because of a hash mismatch.
Well you could put the Bittorrent tracker traffic over Tor. It doesn't have to be responsive, and it is low-bandwidth. It occurs repeated though (probably every minute or so). Client-to-Client communication is encrypted anyway, so one can plausibly deny it has anything to do with (certain) torrents.
Dongles and laptops are bad for security. It is obvious that the IT department doesn't want them. Tell them you need a computer so you can stay productive, if they need control over it they should provide it. Why are people bringing their own equipment in the first place?
That's why Flash was successful in the first place! It is the only way you as a website provider can do something and escape the mess of browser inconsistence and provide a service that works for all users.
Like Opera Mini, earlier versions of Skyfire for Windows Mobile and Symbian were proxy browsers that compressed Web pages on the server side before transferring them to the phone. With this Android edition, the Skyfire folks are shifting strategy. Android’s Webkit-based rendering engine is already capable of displaying Web pages swiftly and accurately, they figure, so they’re not trying to duplicate it. Skyfire for Android uses the same Webkit rendering that Android’s default browser does–but rolls it into a browser with a bunch more features.
The most notable of these new capabilities is Flash video playback. For that, Skyfire still uses a proxy approach: When you come to pages with Flash videos, it identifies them, compresses them, and converts them to H.264 and HTML5, then transfers them to your phone for playback.
Would have been too cool if they had managed to do it on the client. I'd have wanted it as a Firefox plugin...
Is it too complicated to say in a presentation? Then a document is indeed right for you. Write one. Let people read it. MAKE them read it; don't give them a simplified spoon-fed version that produces false understanding. That's right, people need to actually read and write real text. Can't read and write? Sorry, you don't belong here.
In science, presentations are to motivate people to read the paper. I.e. what does it mean/help/effect instead of how does it work.
All these tips are nice, but there is not one right way to do a presentation.
But it might buy us the time to develop technology to defend ourselves. Having them nuke us from orbit (it's the only way to be sure) would not be so good for humanity.
This is not machine guns against bombs. This is speers against nuclear bombs. You can not just 'catch up' with a civilisation million years older. To stick with the analogy, would the Native Americans have been able to 'catch up' to Europe, if given a chance to hide?
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Well over 99% of computers in use today cannot play Theora over the web. If you ditch H.264 in favor of Theora, congratulations, you just ensured that the overwhelming majority of users can not use your site. That would have to be the single most idiotic business move imaginable. While you're at it, you might as well only offer your content in Klingon.
Do you think youtube relies on the fact that your browser can play the codec they are using? No, they implement the decoder in Flash. ...
Would the end-user care if they switched to Theora Vorbis internally? No.
Since when do we have to have only one codec? Can't websites offer a variety and the browser sends what it supports? We have that already for: Language/Locale, Gzipping Websites, Encoding,
Web developers make the ugliest hacks, how ugly can it be to make a if that selects between two or three video codec algorithms?
I did. And then I read the body of the post. And then I wanted to know how many different locations he uses RFIDs to get into. So I posted a reply. Asking how many locations.
What happened then?
Oh, this is slashdot? I was looking for digg ...
The open source software is good but the commercial software is better.
The difference is that the open source software will do a relatively good job but will require a decent amount of time to do the manual fixes and touch-ups. While the commercial software does a better job and you save time in the manual fixes and touch-ups portion.
I guess you can generalize that ...
Maybe machines can support the reading of documents (inference engines) like expert systems may help doctors.
But law can not be interpreted by machines, because you have to understand what the law-maker wanted, not just the syntax of the texts. Judges will always have to look at the situation with common sense.
Projects like these are probably the only way to down-size the ever-growing law texts.
That's why you only get 5 mod points at a time on /.. To avoid the panic mode of too much reward.
Can you please explain what the issue is you are trying to solve with this?
Warning: Your style of discussion hinders M$ bashing on slashdot and might get you banned.
When you delete/modify your data, FB actually appends the new dataset to the end of their DB table and makes its "current" pointer point to that. The data actually never gets deleted. This is not an RDBMS.
Good point. But then one of two scenarios happen:
I.
The third party tries to find all pirates, so it tries to connect & track all users of one or more torrents. Then they might find your real address somehow and blackmail/sue you.
This is a violation of privacy, no one is allowed to just snoop traffic or probe everyones computer just to stir something up. I can not believe such evidence would hold up in court. The only one who might take such action is the police (or other gov organisation), but they need some previous evidence and most likely a warrent.
II) The malicious client just knows your IP and wants to find out what you serve or if you serve illegal files. I assume you have set your bittorrent client to only allow encrypted c2c communication. If you use HTTPS to download the .torrent files, the malicious client does not know which file the torrent hash belongs to. If you use a Proxy or HTTPS trackers (do they exist?), the malicious client does not even know the hashs.
So your bittorrent client will deny serving the malicious client because of a hash mismatch.
So you argue that Google with Youtube has a bigger leverage on Internet users than Microsoft with IE?
Interesting development.
Well you could put the Bittorrent tracker traffic over Tor. It doesn't have to be responsive, and it is low-bandwidth. It occurs repeated though (probably every minute or so).
Client-to-Client communication is encrypted anyway, so one can plausibly deny it has anything to do with (certain) torrents.
Luckily, there are no software patents :-)
so you choose the famous last words "can't get worse, right?"
Dongles and laptops are bad for security. It is obvious that the IT department doesn't want them. Tell them you need a computer so you can stay productive, if they need control over it they should provide it.
Why are people bringing their own equipment in the first place?
That's why Flash was successful in the first place! It is the only way you as a website provider can do something and escape the mess of browser inconsistence and provide a service that works for all users.
It is neither, it works per proxy server.
Like Opera Mini, earlier versions of Skyfire for Windows Mobile and Symbian were proxy browsers that compressed Web pages on the server side before transferring them to the phone. With this Android edition, the Skyfire folks are shifting strategy. Android’s Webkit-based rendering engine is already capable of displaying Web pages swiftly and accurately, they figure, so they’re not trying to duplicate it. Skyfire for Android uses the same Webkit rendering that Android’s default browser does–but rolls it into a browser with a bunch more features.
The most notable of these new capabilities is Flash video playback. For that, Skyfire still uses a proxy approach: When you come to pages with Flash videos, it identifies them, compresses them, and converts them to H.264 and HTML5, then transfers them to your phone for playback.
Would have been too cool if they had managed to do it on the client. I'd have wanted it as a Firefox plugin ...
Woman to husband: "Please turn off the light so I can sleep."
World to USA: "Please turn off the computers on the weekend so we can get to work."
Is it too complicated to say in a presentation? Then a document is indeed right for you. Write one. Let people read it. MAKE them read it; don't give them a simplified spoon-fed version that produces false understanding. That's right, people need to actually read and write real text. Can't read and write? Sorry, you don't belong here.
In science, presentations are to motivate people to read the paper. I.e. what does it mean/help/effect instead of how does it work.
All these tips are nice, but there is not one right way to do a presentation.
Are you kidding? "Outside" is dangerous! It's full of viruses, [...]
There are more and more dangerous germs in your keyboard than outside.
Hiding will never work :)
But it might buy us the time to develop technology to defend ourselves. Having them nuke us from orbit (it's the only way to be sure) would not be so good for humanity.
This is not machine guns against bombs. This is speers against nuclear bombs. You can not just 'catch up' with a civilisation million years older. To stick with the analogy, would the Native Americans have been able to 'catch up' to Europe, if given a chance to hide?
That's why I use the .NET framework. Oh--I also hate freedom and kick puppies.
... that's fine as long as you keep seeding the torrents.
Good idea! They should require that the CEOs are on board the test flights.
Better losing billions with no flights and than one crashing flight. How much is a life worth? That can't be expressed in €.