I think the difference here is that it aims mobile phone (or netbooks) market.
AFAIK, vorbis/theora does fine with low and medium quality video (to and including 360p I think, but I'm not sure) but has more problems with file weight and brandwidth usage for high qality videos.
So what I understand is that they promote Vorbis/Theora for "low-end" video streaming and prefear H.264 for "high-end" videos.
I'm really not sure about that, it's just the result of my tiny experimentations with converting h264 content to ogg content and streaming it with html5 for my own private use. Feel free to correct me if you have a more solid experience in that field.
(and yes., as a Chromium user I hate Google for shipping their html5 videos in H.264 and use TinyOgg links every time I can.)
My point is there is an existing system that involves large amounts of profit in doing it the old way, and the people making said profit have no reason to foster change just because science said so
Maybe the fact that 4x more product from the same ammount of raw material (in your example) could recude production cost per product unit, increase margin and make a step ahead from competitors ?
If I drive a car without driving license, without knowing what I'm doing, with no experience and no knowledge about what could go wrong, how it could go wrong and what to do not to kill myself or others, nobody will say I deserve an accident.
That's because everyone knows that I'm BEGGING for an accident.
I think the point here is that on linux systems, virii need a vulnerability to do a permission escalade to root. Without that they're pretty much harmless. (at least ah harmless as a stupid user can be, user actions still need to be managed, charted, to see if there is a worm or a nasty script running).
On Windows, by default, you're vulnerable to viruses, and when a new virus stronger than your AV comes aound, you have to upgrade your AV. If your AV is not active, has a failure, is not up-to-date, wants you to pay for protection, you're vulnerable to 100% of them.
On Linux, by default, you are protected against viruses, both by the built-in permission system, and by the way the system is built. When a vulnerability is revealed, it takes (usually) hours, sometimes minutes before it's fixed, if you don't trust your users, your NAT or your firewall, you upgrade your system (kernel or concerned application), apply a patch and you're safe again.
there is no way you get vulnerable again to 5yo virusses on Linux, unless you run a 5yo system with 5yo applications.
Well, yeah, and if you run win95 on a virtual machine, it could also get infected, but it has no chances to get root privilege... EVER (the virus being aimed at the win, not at the underlying linux). That argument is just wrong...
Google's Beta is Microsoft/Apple's post-Rock-Solid-Stable equivalent. Really, and for the last time, versions and release names are nothing but subjective marketing data.
because they belong to some WW2 era not the current world.
If you are also referring to the inability to keep an information secret, I should point out that during that WWII, the research on Enigma done by Alan Turing was kept secret for years after the end of the war, including to his close friends or relatives.
"The X-Files Le guide non officiel" (french for "non official guide")
N.E Genge
ISBN: 2-258-04504-5
(that, and some research about topics discussed in X-Files, like Spontaneous Combustion, UFO sightings, Roswell case, etc. They might be all lies, but thoses phenomenons where investigated or reported from time to time, and most people never heard of them before X-Files)
If you look closely, you will learn that most of X-Files episodes are based on real cases and mysteries.
While this includes people's imagination being debunked by FBI's investigation, it also includes references to "top secret" projects only known by early "conspiracy theorists" and some of them were sometimes revaled true a few years later.
That's why it got that sucessful (besides the quality of the show itself) : it mixed mystic theories, unbelievable myth, and real theories about government and UFO's that were sometimes factual.
I don't have much examples in mind right now, but I remember hearing much words like "aurora" "blackbird" or theories about UFO's when I was kid, and later, discover that those were based on real reports of people claiming to have experienced those things.
So you either burn the customer, who then spreads the word at what a shitty shop you have and soon you are out of business
While I do see your point,I have to point out that according to my personal experience, those customers, once burnt, are pretty unable to spread anything.
Oh wait... you were kidding, weren't you ? (Anyway, you should give it a try, really, it feels so good...)
Google won because it was nice and clean compared to altavista and yahoo.
Back then, yes, but now it's not enough, not anymore. The web is a total mess, and the categories Yauba lets you choose, and the pertinence algorythm it has (that you, sir, failed to test/mention)are just what we (I?) need to get through homonyms or searches with high probability to give HUGE amount of results
That's only one example of the tons of features each one of those two search engines has, and that you didn't even mention.
PS: anonymity is becoming something more than "no sessions and no cookies" nowadays, it's a serious issue. Just look at how much data Google possesses about you, and do NOT erase.
Or you can simply buy a 5$ adapter to plug your PS1/2 on your computer (USB) and use the actual PS controller. (linux even supports PS3's wireless controller)
Exalead is more powerful, and Yauba is a little less effective for specific search like "gentoo bug kernel 2.6.30 fglrx", but guarantees 100% anon, and is pretty powerful and useful in some cases.
Google is not the better search engine on the web, their new engine is very good, but google itself hasn't envolve since... I don't know, it's always the same, and we barely see new features added. (take a look at exdalead labs).
After testing several search engines, it appears that google is not the one with the best ideas, and that pertinence and engines of others like exalead aren't bad enough to consider them inferior to google. Google is the most known, and others well known like bing are not as powerful as those two less-known search engines.
Cause we deserve it, man, seriously, we were told 64bits is the future, that's just mean:(
Instead we have laggy JS, and/. takes a shitload of time to load comments:(
(more seriously: it's fun to notice that even if I'm pretty sure to have red somewhere that tracemonkey is disabled for 64bits, and that even/. is laggy in those conditions, Beta version of Google Wave (aka "3 tons of JS and some wave protocol somewhere under all that JS") works pretty fast, dunno why...)
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I think the difference here is that it aims mobile phone (or netbooks) market.
AFAIK, vorbis/theora does fine with low and medium quality video (to and including 360p I think, but I'm not sure) but has more problems with file weight and brandwidth usage for high qality videos.
So what I understand is that they promote Vorbis/Theora for "low-end" video streaming and prefear H.264 for "high-end" videos.
I'm really not sure about that, it's just the result of my tiny experimentations with converting h264 content to ogg content and streaming it with html5 for my own private use. Feel free to correct me if you have a more solid experience in that field.
(and yes., as a Chromium user I hate Google for shipping their html5 videos in H.264 and use TinyOgg links every time I can.)
mod parent "answers the GP question". Oh wait, just mod him "Insightful", then...
My point is there is an existing system that involves large amounts of profit in doing it the old way, and the people making said profit have no reason to foster change just because science said so
Maybe the fact that 4x more product from the same ammount of raw material (in your example) could recude production cost per product unit, increase margin and make a step ahead from competitors ?
mod parent up, he's seriously insightful and backed up by references. He may be wrong, but it's definately worth reading.
mod him up
If I drive a car without driving license, without knowing what I'm doing, with no experience and no knowledge about what could go wrong, how it could go wrong and what to do not to kill myself or others, nobody will say I deserve an accident.
That's because everyone knows that I'm BEGGING for an accident.
Linux immune to virii?
I think the point here is that on linux systems, virii need a vulnerability to do a permission escalade to root. Without that they're pretty much harmless. (at least ah harmless as a stupid user can be, user actions still need to be managed, charted, to see if there is a worm or a nasty script running).
On Windows, by default, you're vulnerable to viruses, and when a new virus stronger than your AV comes aound, you have to upgrade your AV.
If your AV is not active, has a failure, is not up-to-date, wants you to pay for protection, you're vulnerable to 100% of them.
On Linux, by default, you are protected against viruses, both by the built-in permission system, and by the way the system is built. When a vulnerability is revealed, it takes (usually) hours, sometimes minutes before it's fixed, if you don't trust your users, your NAT or your firewall, you upgrade your system (kernel or concerned application), apply a patch and you're safe again.
there is no way you get vulnerable again to 5yo virusses on Linux, unless you run a 5yo system with 5yo applications.
or users of Wine: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/24/1759213
Well, yeah, and if you run win95 on a virtual machine, it could also get infected, but it has no chances to get root privilege... EVER (the virus being aimed at the win, not at the underlying linux). That argument is just wrong...
And what's the story of the "" ( ... ) unicode character ? Is it supported already ? (looks like it isn't)
...break the internet, again.
Could you please explain the link between hardware requirements and game innovations ?
I just don't see it.
And it will be in beta for at least five years...
So should be Vista.
Google's Beta is Microsoft/Apple's post-Rock-Solid-Stable equivalent. Really, and for the last time, versions and release names are nothing but subjective marketing data.
because they belong to some WW2 era not the current world.
If you are also referring to the inability to keep an information secret, I should point out that during that WWII, the research on Enigma done by Alan Turing was kept secret for years after the end of the war, including to his close friends or relatives.
can't stop laughing... tears... can't breathe... heart stopped... death by Recursive Fail.
October 6, 2009. Today, a comedian died in Slashdot.
that's google talk's default privacy policy !
"The X-Files Le guide non officiel" (french for "non official guide")
N.E Genge
ISBN: 2-258-04504-5
(that, and some research about topics discussed in X-Files, like Spontaneous Combustion, UFO sightings, Roswell case, etc. They might be all lies, but thoses phenomenons where investigated or reported from time to time, and most people never heard of them before X-Files)
I'm not saying that X-Files is to be trusted and accurate, it's not the purpose. :)
"Trust no one" !
If you look closely, you will learn that most of X-Files episodes are based on real cases and mysteries.
While this includes people's imagination being debunked by FBI's investigation, it also includes references to "top secret" projects only known by early "conspiracy theorists" and some of them were sometimes revaled true a few years later.
That's why it got that sucessful (besides the quality of the show itself) : it mixed mystic theories, unbelievable myth, and real theories about government and UFO's that were sometimes factual.
I don't have much examples in mind right now, but I remember hearing much words like "aurora" "blackbird" or theories about UFO's when I was kid, and later, discover that those were based on real reports of people claiming to have experienced those things.
...from computer simulation, that this year is going to be the year of Zombies on the Desktop !
So you either burn the customer, who then spreads the word at what a shitty shop you have and soon you are out of business
While I do see your point,I have to point out that according to my personal experience, those customers, once burnt, are pretty unable to spread anything.
Oh wait... you were kidding, weren't you ?
(Anyway, you should give it a try, really, it feels so good...)
Google won because it was nice and clean compared to altavista and yahoo.
Back then, yes, but now it's not enough, not anymore. The web is a total mess, and the categories Yauba lets you choose, and the pertinence algorythm it has (that you, sir, failed to test/mention)are just what we (I?) need to get through homonyms or searches with high probability to give HUGE amount of results
That's only one example of the tons of features each one of those two search engines has, and that you didn't even mention.
PS: anonymity is becoming something more than "no sessions and no cookies" nowadays, it's a serious issue. Just look at how much data Google possesses about you, and do NOT erase.
Or you can simply buy a 5$ adapter to plug your PS1/2 on your computer (USB) and use the actual PS controller. (linux even supports PS3's wireless controller)
two words :
Exalead
Yauba
Exalead is more powerful, and Yauba is a little less effective for specific search like "gentoo bug kernel 2.6.30 fglrx", but guarantees 100% anon, and is pretty powerful and useful in some cases.
Google is not the better search engine on the web, their new engine is very good, but google itself hasn't envolve since... I don't know, it's always the same, and we barely see new features added. (take a look at exdalead labs).
After testing several search engines, it appears that google is not the one with the best ideas, and that pertinence and engines of others like exalead aren't bad enough to consider them inferior to google. Google is the most known, and others well known like bing are not as powerful as those two less-known search engines.
... yet ?
:( /. takes a shitload of time to load comments :(
/. is laggy in those conditions, Beta version of Google Wave (aka "3 tons of JS and some wave protocol somewhere under all that JS") works pretty fast, dunno why...)
Cause we deserve it, man, seriously, we were told 64bits is the future, that's just mean
Instead we have laggy JS, and
(more seriously: it's fun to notice that even if I'm pretty sure to have red somewhere that tracemonkey is disabled for 64bits, and that even
You couldn't use blanks, there is no projectile.
Yes you could, using the orientation of the barrel in space and math, instead of impact points.
They're not.
Nah.
I guess if I had mod points I would just mod that "Funny", I really can't think this is something else :p