You recall incorrectly. Opera Mini since the "Advanced" 3.0 version use 100% encrypted traffic from proxy to the browser (they are up to version 5.)
Thats not to say that you get true point-to-point encryption with HTTPS, since that traffic gets unencrypted on the proxy and then re-encrypted with your Mini key.
The Tea Party Movement is nearly 100% about a return to the States that which the Federal government has hijacked unconstitutionally over the past 80 years.
Little known fact:
UnrealEd was written in Visual Basic 6.
Mod this offtopic or something, because it is. I just thought that I would throw that out there.
The whole discussion is moot in my opinion. Hear me out.
What do we need of online video?
Well, it should be ubiquitous. Everyone should have it available, or else web developers will be chasing their tales.
You are missing the part that the web developers need to also stop hitting their head against bandwidth problems. Even the mighty Google has bandwidth problems with regards to YouTube and its low resolution H.264.
H.264 is the best, and its *still* not good enough.
Do you have any real arguments or are you just throwing personal attacks at me? If you can't say anything useful, just shut up...
I'm waiting for you to say something either useful OR meaningful. You have failed twice.
(Hint: I know more about OpenCL than you do.)
Probably not, but I'm going to give this one to you anyways Mr Big Bad OpenCL Developer. Did you think that your OpenCL knowledge gives you enough street cred to bullshit your way into not presenting a valid argument? It doesn't.
I pointed out why your argument isn't valid, and that came off as personal because the type of invalid argument you used means that you are an idiot for thinking that people on SLASHDOT would buy the shit you are trying to sell.
How can VLC and mplayer decode video so much better than the flash player, even though they have the same API access?
They don't have the same API access. Shit selling failed again.
You didn't know that "2.5 ghz" means nothing these days.
You didn't know that the number for the amount of memory is 768.
Not once mentioned what video hardware was available, even though Flash uses hardware accelerated rendering.
Adobe doesnt support FreeBSD and you run it under an emulator on a crappy big-assed-pipeline P4 system (worst case scenario.. even a pentium 3 would be preferable) and you are surprised that its software decoding of H.264 is slow? Really?
Turn in your geek card. You've failed too many times in this one post.
OpenCL - Only 2 years old, and requires Snow Leopard or newer.
Think about that. What you are saying is that Adobe has had all of 2 years to hardware accelerate some of Flash (not all of flash) and that the userbase for this new Flash will consist of only people who have purchased Mac's in the past 2 years.
Imagine if this was Microsoft that we were talking about. I know for certain that you would say that Microsoft is evil because up until 2 years ago, that they reserved feature access for themselves in a proprietary anti-competitive manner manner.
But this is Apple, and you didn't even know how long OpenCL has been available. You just know its one of them buzzwords that makes software great on your shiny new Mac system.
Have you ever used flash? It's slow as hell, shutters on pal resolution movies even, and often uses 100% of the CPU Time of one of my cores in my 8 Core Mac Pro.
BRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNG!!! CALLER ON CLUE PHONE LINE #1
Flash performs badly on Apples because Apple wants it to perform badly. You are mad at Adobe when you should really be mad at Apple. They have denied you the capability of having a good experience.
I am honestly quite surprised that Adobe has put up with this crap. Adobe made Apple what it is today by making Macintosh's the desktop publishing and graphics editing leader. Apple has been shoving a sharp stick in their eye in regards to Flash.
Actually, unless the engine is redesigned for the platform, often they DO suck.
Someone that doesnt know what they are talking about, like you, might think that "engine" means "game."
..and then present the idea that "engine" means "game" and that since many ports of "games" are crappy, that every author should be forced to architect their own "engine."
Thanks for offering your uninformed opinion. We are all better off for it.
Here's a tip: games with engines that arent "redesigned" for a platform wont compile. Engines are platform-specific middleware. Some engines are trans-platform, such as the Unreal engine, while others are single-platform. Crappy game ports are because of crappy game porters, not because of the engines they leverage.
Photoshop is at such an advanced state, that nobody would have a realistic alternative for many many years. The recent preview of some of the latest features in mind blowing. NOBODY is doing that stuff. Photoshop is not only are doing it, but its doing it very well and with user friendliness first.
Remember also that Adobe is also king of desktop publishing. InDesign (formerly PageMaker) has a strong following as well. The users of these products are not beholden to Apple: They are beholden to Adobe.
Even GIMP, with all the effort thats gone into it, does not replace photoshop. If adobe abandoned OS/X, I would have to say that nearly 100% of the existing Mac market for Photoshop would run to Windows 7/8 over the next 5 years.
I taught in both systems, back when I was working my way through grad-school in the 80s, and was on the school board for both my daughter's k-8 and high schools.
Translation: "The circles I was in always said they needed more money!"
ummm.... duh? of course they did. With few exceptions, everyone wants more money.
Do not simply declare that more money will help. Please explain how more money will help, and then we can tell you if you are full of shit or not.
The performance differences between VooDoo's and GeForce's, even at the end, wasn't that great overall. VooDoo's were great products all the way through to the end, when they went bankrupt through some bad decision making (cutting off the OEM's is ultimately what destroyed their revenue stream)
I would buy your we-shouldn't-act-now argument if it wasn't for the fact that cable lines laid down literally decades ago, with absolutely no consideration for data rates, are pumping 10 megabits (with a theoretical max under DOCSIS 3 of 42 megabits) into my home.
It didn't require trillions of dollars then, and it doesn't require trillions of dollars now.
The last mile is apparently cheap and can be laid down accidentally/coincidentally.
You are in error again. It comes out to a lot more than 18%, considering that its already at 35.5% in adoptions. Your annual figure is pulled right out of your ass.
Why do people regurgitate this cruft? Theora is only slightly worse than H.263.
There. Fixed that for you. You have been seeing what you want to see, without actually reading what is there on that comparison page. The comparison page begins with H.264 but ends with H.263. It is well crafted to confuse those with the expectation that Theora competes.
It gives you a nice baseline codec you can use on any platform, and quite frankly I don't think you'll mind (much) that you're streaming YouTube videos to your phone in only 480p.
Why exactly do I want Mozilla and Opera to encourage a 480p baseline, when all the hardware I have right now already supports 720p and/or 1080p?
In the long term, you take the margin while the system slowly equalizes. Taking the margin while prices chase equilibrium is what some businesses do exclusively.
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It's unencrypted too, as far as I recall
You recall incorrectly. Opera Mini since the "Advanced" 3.0 version use 100% encrypted traffic from proxy to the browser (they are up to version 5.)
Thats not to say that you get true point-to-point encryption with HTTPS, since that traffic gets unencrypted on the proxy and then re-encrypted with your Mini key.
Stop listening to MSNBC
The Tea Party Movement is nearly 100% about a return to the States that which the Federal government has hijacked unconstitutionally over the past 80 years.
Little known fact: UnrealEd was written in Visual Basic 6. Mod this offtopic or something, because it is. I just thought that I would throw that out there.
webkit does not rule handhelds.
Opera does, by a very very large margin. I guess that Opera Mobile just doesnt exist in your world, eh?
webkit rules the trendy american handheld scene, but does not rule the global handheld scene.
Everyone who supports the "video" tag already supports H264 except for Firefox.
The whole discussion is moot in my opinion. Hear me out. What do we need of online video? Well, it should be ubiquitous. Everyone should have it available, or else web developers will be chasing their tales.
You are missing the part that the web developers need to also stop hitting their head against bandwidth problems. Even the mighty Google has bandwidth problems with regards to YouTube and its low resolution H.264.
H.264 is the best, and its *still* not good enough.
PLEASE MOD PARENT UP. TX.
Web apps just can't compete with real apps
This will be a funny quote in a few years.
Nah, its THIS one that will be the funny one in a few years.
So passengers can't use their cell phone?
Well then, compare top public and top private schools. The results are similar and public schools are much cheaper.
Yes, *anything* but comparing regular public schools to regular private schools. Stick to only extreme non-representative samples, right?
Do you have any real arguments or are you just throwing personal attacks at me? If you can't say anything useful, just shut up...
I'm waiting for you to say something either useful OR meaningful. You have failed twice.
(Hint: I know more about OpenCL than you do.)
Probably not, but I'm going to give this one to you anyways Mr Big Bad OpenCL Developer. Did you think that your OpenCL knowledge gives you enough street cred to bullshit your way into not presenting a valid argument? It doesn't.
I pointed out why your argument isn't valid, and that came off as personal because the type of invalid argument you used means that you are an idiot for thinking that people on SLASHDOT would buy the shit you are trying to sell.
How can VLC and mplayer decode video so much better than the flash player, even though they have the same API access?
They don't have the same API access. Shit selling failed again.
You didn't know that "2.5 ghz" means nothing these days.
You didn't know that the number for the amount of memory is 768.
Not once mentioned what video hardware was available, even though Flash uses hardware accelerated rendering.
Adobe doesnt support FreeBSD and you run it under an emulator on a crappy big-assed-pipeline P4 system (worst case scenario.. even a pentium 3 would be preferable) and you are surprised that its software decoding of H.264 is slow? Really?
Turn in your geek card. You've failed too many times in this one post.
OpenCL - Only 2 years old, and requires Snow Leopard or newer.
Think about that. What you are saying is that Adobe has had all of 2 years to hardware accelerate some of Flash (not all of flash) and that the userbase for this new Flash will consist of only people who have purchased Mac's in the past 2 years.
Imagine if this was Microsoft that we were talking about. I know for certain that you would say that Microsoft is evil because up until 2 years ago, that they reserved feature access for themselves in a proprietary anti-competitive manner manner.
But this is Apple, and you didn't even know how long OpenCL has been available. You just know its one of them buzzwords that makes software great on your shiny new Mac system.
Have you ever used flash? It's slow as hell, shutters on pal resolution movies even, and often uses 100% of the CPU Time of one of my cores in my 8 Core Mac Pro.
BRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNG!!! CALLER ON CLUE PHONE LINE #1
Flash performs badly on Apples because Apple wants it to perform badly. You are mad at Adobe when you should really be mad at Apple. They have denied you the capability of having a good experience.
I am honestly quite surprised that Adobe has put up with this crap. Adobe made Apple what it is today by making Macintosh's the desktop publishing and graphics editing leader. Apple has been shoving a sharp stick in their eye in regards to Flash.
Actually, unless the engine is redesigned for the platform, often they DO suck.
Someone that doesnt know what they are talking about, like you, might think that "engine" means "game."
..and then present the idea that "engine" means "game" and that since many ports of "games" are crappy, that every author should be forced to architect their own "engine."
Thanks for offering your uninformed opinion. We are all better off for it.
Here's a tip: games with engines that arent "redesigned" for a platform wont compile. Engines are platform-specific middleware. Some engines are trans-platform, such as the Unreal engine, while others are single-platform. Crappy game ports are because of crappy game porters, not because of the engines they leverage.
Its really this.
Photoshop is at such an advanced state, that nobody would have a realistic alternative for many many years.
The recent preview of some of the latest features in mind blowing. NOBODY is doing that stuff. Photoshop is not only are doing it, but its doing it very well and with user friendliness first.
Remember also that Adobe is also king of desktop publishing. InDesign (formerly PageMaker) has a strong following as well. The users of these products are not beholden to Apple: They are beholden to Adobe.
Even GIMP, with all the effort thats gone into it, does not replace photoshop. If adobe abandoned OS/X, I would have to say that nearly 100% of the existing Mac market for Photoshop would run to Windows 7/8 over the next 5 years.
You are right. There isn't a fair way to measure teachers, but there is a fair way to measure their supervisors.
Put the onus on the school board and the principles to improve things. Give them the authority to fire teachers, change the curriculum, etc.
If things get worse, fire them. If things didn't get better but they should have, fire them.
If the teachers have a union that is making demands that will make things worse, let them go on strike and find some scabs.
In short: Do not tolerate bullshit.
I taught in both systems, back when I was working my way through grad-school in the 80s, and was on the school board for both my daughter's k-8 and high schools.
Translation: "The circles I was in always said they needed more money!"
ummm.... duh? of course they did. With few exceptions, everyone wants more money.
Do not simply declare that more money will help. Please explain how more money will help, and then we can tell you if you are full of shit or not.
..and by terrible you mean simply not #1?
The performance differences between VooDoo's and GeForce's, even at the end, wasn't that great overall. VooDoo's were great products all the way through to the end, when they went bankrupt through some bad decision making (cutting off the OEM's is ultimately what destroyed their revenue stream)
I would buy your we-shouldn't-act-now argument if it wasn't for the fact that cable lines laid down literally decades ago, with absolutely no consideration for data rates, are pumping 10 megabits (with a theoretical max under DOCSIS 3 of 42 megabits) into my home.
It didn't require trillions of dollars then, and it doesn't require trillions of dollars now.
The last mile is apparently cheap and can be laid down accidentally/coincidentally.
You are in error again. It comes out to a lot more than 18%, considering that its already at 35.5% in adoptions. Your annual figure is pulled right out of your ass.
Except that his message is to throw more money at schools as if that will fix the problem.
Why do people regurgitate this cruft? Theora is only slightly worse than H.263.
There. Fixed that for you. You have been seeing what you want to see, without actually reading what is there on that comparison page. The comparison page begins with H.264 but ends with H.263. It is well crafted to confuse those with the expectation that Theora competes.
It gives you a nice baseline codec you can use on any platform, and quite frankly I don't think you'll mind (much) that you're streaming YouTube videos to your phone in only 480p.
Why exactly do I want Mozilla and Opera to encourage a 480p baseline, when all the hardware I have right now already supports 720p and/or 1080p?
I for one welcome our new FireFox "-1: Troll" modding overlords.
Everyone stick their heads in the sand on the count of 3... 2... 1... GO!
In the long term, you take the margin while the system slowly equalizes. Taking the margin while prices chase equilibrium is what some businesses do exclusively.