There are already - biological and chemical weapons. Remember nerve agent attack in Tokyo underground? Random bunch of religious loons managed to synthesise sarin. Only because they didn't have good enough equipment or enough patience it diluted enough to prevent any real catastrophe.
Dear telecomns, in case you have not noticed: you are 'dumb pipes' and always were. Get over it, stop whining and start providing the bandwidth you advertise.
And when you get tired of ranting look at European countries - they have universal medical care for long time and somehow there are no bills to regulate food intake, exercise or any other habit. US is finally replacing its third-world medical care with something better and people are moaning. Great job insurance companies and their press shills.
So Geneva convention started being relevant again? I thought that everybody (not American) in Iraq is "enemy combatant" anyway, so you can kill, torture or finish off the wounded as you please.
And you think this is impossible?
Now: your kid is noisy. Dope him with Ritalin to make him shut up or he gets suspended from school.
Tomorrow: you kind is colorblind. Fix him or don't even bother sending him to school.
PSN? I don't know, they probably want to play online. I had never seen single-player PS3 game that would not run without internet connection. And I had really crappy (several hours long outages) internet for some time so I would notice.
Or just buy a PS3. No insane 'always online' schemes, no rootkits destabilizing your system, no entering 50 characters long cd-keys. Just put BD in and play. And when you get bored resell it or exchange it for another game.
It's all nice and all, but if open video technology really wants to win, they have to be technically better. There is no other way.
No, actually as long as Theora is not significantly worse than h.264 it does not really matter.
However it's nice to see Open Video Alliance trying to partner with Wikipedia. In addition to being technically better, that's another aspect you need to take care of. You need to make sure websites, TV, phone, computer and so on manufacturers support your technology. You have to work with them to get it supported - not just put it out there and hope it catches up because its "open", because that's not going to happen.
Yeah, just look how popular Vorbis Ogg is in portable music players.
Personally I would also hate to see technically inferior solution being used, as it would eat huge amount of bandwidth. Theora just isn't on the same table with H.264 for Internet video. Theora is based on VP5 from On2 and now that Google acquired them, they're going at VP8.
Actually it is based on VP3 and it is way behind h.264 - it does not even support B-frames! Also being at least one generation behind, Theora is dead end - all that is being done at this point is tweaking the encoder.
What I'm more worried about is that I cannot watch Wikipedia videos with any other device than my PC. Want to see a video clip of a place you're traveling on your phone? Not possible. Want to see videos from Wikipedia with your PS3/360? Not possible.
Well then, make sure you complain to manufacturers of these devices. If enough people care, they will add Theora support.
It will create some serious problems, and I don't think Wikipedia is big enough to push the change alone.
Actually I think Wikipedia is about the only site that can push the change. It is biggest and most popular encyclopedia on the net, has no real competition and would be extremely hard to recreate. There is already bunch of Youtube-like sites, so even if YT switched to some unpopular format, lots of people would just go elsewhere. In case of Wikipedia there is nowhere else to go.
Or to be more precise, there are some US citizens accused of actively working with the Taliban. And some guy screaming any name he could remember, while being tortured is not exactly "proof". And even if it was, since when any US citizen can be just murdered without trial?
I strongly suspect that pope and most higher ups in catholic church are already atheists. Come one, guy who have enough brains to lead this big (and especially profitable) organization would believe in invisible man in the sky?
I am sure that broadband connection requirement will be plainly indicated on the box. So lawsuit on what grounds? Illiteracy? Or inability to control your children?
No, not really. H264 hardware acceleration is widespread so even devices with low-end cpu can decode it without any performance problem. No chip maker cares about Theora so it loses once again.
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Because for all those years student have not noticed that he or she is lactose-intolerant. Yeah, sure.
What part of "diluted" you failed to understand?
Both. They had 30% pure sarin instead of military-grade 95% (source: "War of nerves", J.B.Tucker). And yes, their dispersion method sucked too.
There are already - biological and chemical weapons. Remember nerve agent attack in Tokyo underground? Random bunch of religious loons managed to synthesise sarin. Only because they didn't have good enough equipment or enough patience it diluted enough to prevent any real catastrophe.
... but you can't afford it because some company grabbed a patent and there are no generics.
Mr. Habeas Corpus died several years ago in Gitmo. He was suspected of aiding terrorists so good riddance.
Of course you don't have to transcode. You can ask distributor to sell you the movie again in different format. More profit!
Neither. Ignore them, buy n900 and enjoy open platform with flash support. And lack of iFanboys as a bonus.
Dear telecomns, in case you have not noticed: you are 'dumb pipes' and always were. Get over it, stop whining and start providing the bandwidth you advertise.
Another name is 'Vatican roulette'. Yes, it is _that_ reliable.
And when you get tired of ranting look at European countries - they have universal medical care for long time and somehow there are no bills to regulate food intake, exercise or any other habit. US is finally replacing its third-world medical care with something better and people are moaning. Great job insurance companies and their press shills.
So Geneva convention started being relevant again? I thought that everybody (not American) in Iraq is "enemy combatant" anyway, so you can kill, torture or finish off the wounded as you please.
No, he just left him as bait so he could get some extra kills.
Was it ever advertised with this feature? No.
Yes. http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html
Are they taking it away? No (you don't have to take the firmware update)
Don't be surprised when your new Blu Ray movies won't play.
Was it removed for monetary or market gain? No
How do you know?
Was it removed to increase security of the platform Yes
How do you know? Because Sony said so? I guess next time they screw their customers it will be to promote world peace...
I hope you like throwing your money away, as that is what you are doing...
You stand a better chance of sueing George Holtz....
Unfortunately I have to agree.
And you think this is impossible?
Now: your kid is noisy. Dope him with Ritalin to make him shut up or he gets suspended from school.
Tomorrow: you kind is colorblind. Fix him or don't even bother sending him to school.
PSN? I don't know, they probably want to play online. I had never seen single-player PS3 game that would not run without internet connection. And I had really crappy (several hours long outages) internet for some time so I would notice.
Or just buy a PS3. No insane 'always online' schemes, no rootkits destabilizing your system, no entering 50 characters long cd-keys. Just put BD in and play. And when you get bored resell it or exchange it for another game.
It's all nice and all, but if open video technology really wants to win, they have to be technically better. There is no other way.
No, actually as long as Theora is not significantly worse than h.264 it does not really matter.
However it's nice to see Open Video Alliance trying to partner with Wikipedia. In addition to being technically better, that's another aspect you need to take care of. You need to make sure websites, TV, phone, computer and so on manufacturers support your technology. You have to work with them to get it supported - not just put it out there and hope it catches up because its "open", because that's not going to happen.
Yeah, just look how popular Vorbis Ogg is in portable music players.
Personally I would also hate to see technically inferior solution being used, as it would eat huge amount of bandwidth. Theora just isn't on the same table with H.264 for Internet video. Theora is based on VP5 from On2 and now that Google acquired them, they're going at VP8.
Actually it is based on VP3 and it is way behind h.264 - it does not even support B-frames! Also being at least one generation behind, Theora is dead end - all that is being done at this point is tweaking the encoder.
What I'm more worried about is that I cannot watch Wikipedia videos with any other device than my PC. Want to see a video clip of a place you're traveling on your phone? Not possible. Want to see videos from Wikipedia with your PS3/360? Not possible.
Well then, make sure you complain to manufacturers of these devices. If enough people care, they will add Theora support.
It will create some serious problems, and I don't think Wikipedia is big enough to push the change alone.
Actually I think Wikipedia is about the only site that can push the change. It is biggest and most popular encyclopedia on the net, has no real competition and would be extremely hard to recreate. There is already bunch of Youtube-like sites, so even if YT switched to some unpopular format, lots of people would just go elsewhere. In case of Wikipedia there is nowhere else to go.
Or to be more precise, there are some US citizens accused of actively working with the Taliban. And some guy screaming any name he could remember, while being tortured is not exactly "proof". And even if it was, since when any US citizen can be just murdered without trial?
Shhhh! GNOME devs may be listening.
I strongly suspect that pope and most higher ups in catholic church are already atheists. Come one, guy who have enough brains to lead this big (and especially profitable) organization would believe in invisible man in the sky?
And how the hell do you browse then net in background?
I am sure that broadband connection requirement will be plainly indicated on the box. So lawsuit on what grounds? Illiteracy? Or inability to control your children?
"Bringing democracy" is usually done by killing "enemies of democracy" (aka terrorists) to cow rest of population.
No, not really. H264 hardware acceleration is widespread so even devices with low-end cpu can decode it without any performance problem. No chip maker cares about Theora so it loses once again.