Without hardware support, it will be worse on battery life than H.264.
Hardware acceleration only improves battery life by "up to 36%". That's not terribly significant. - http://blog.webmproject.org/20...
The power consumption of your screen still dominates. And that benchmark seems to be the best-case, with local media. So the savings from a smaller file being received over the cellular or WiFi radios will offer some incidental power savings for the WebM case, cutting even that modest 36% number down by a bit.
WebP support is nice, but pretty trivial. It's WebM (video) support that everyone has been asking Apple to add, for years now. You can bet iPhone users would like smaller YouTube videos, WebRTC video conferencing, etc., but Apple is holding-on tight to H.264 AVC as the only available video compression format. Any coincidence that they are among the companies earning patent royalties from patent licensing the format?
Apple is the one big hold out, preventing adoption of better, open and free video formats on the web. Though WebP is somewhat related, it doesn't get us any closer to WebM and the open web, which Apple is single-handedly holding-up. Absolutely every other major tech company has thrown their support behind the Alliance for Open Media.
there is a tradeoff between quality, file size, compression time and decompression time.
Only with video does complexity become a practical concern. With a few still images on a web page, even the lowest-end CPUs around can decode them instantly. In fact the speed-up you get from the lesser bandwidth required more than makes up for a little more decoding time.
The company defended its price hikes, writing that "while ungrandfathering and associated media coverage may moderate near term membership growth, we believe that ungrandfathering will provide us with more revenue to invest in our content to satisfy members, thus driving longterm growth."
That makes me feel MUCH BETTER. Their prediction of growth was much too high, but now they're predicting their other predictions will be much more accurate.
This from the company that brought you Qwikster... "The worst product launch since New Coke"! Launched in the tenth paragraph of a blog post from the CEO apologizing for some previous poor communication.
Ultimately, we decided that if you can't run classic DOS programs on a "modern" DOS, then it's not DOS anymore. So we decided [...] We won't be multitasking or multiuser or any other "modern" operating system functionality. That's not what it means to be DOS.
If memory serves, it was DR-DOS which added multitasking in a somewhat "GNU Screen" style. All DOS program ran just fine, and they just didn't know other programs were running at the same time.
I don't see how adding that would make it "not DOS" any more than would adding command history and completion to the shell, as FreeDOS did from the start.
Not that I see much future for it, either way. Linux has better Windows file system support and more Windows support utilities, these days, and the need to emulate old DOS programs drops significantly every year.
I would kill to get Panzer Dragoon 1,2 & Saga on PSN/Steam.
Besides the Sega Saturn, Panzer Dragoon was released on R-Zone, Windows PC, PlayStation 2, and as a bonus in sequel Panzer Dragoon Orta for Xbox. Is there some reason you just have to have the Saturn version of the game?
Bugs are still getting fixed, and a few stories still get posted, but it's very short on volunteer editors with time to spend, and that has kept readership low as well. It's one of those peculiarities of the market, that the best doesn't always do as well as the junk.
It's unfortunate that Soylent opened at the same time, got most of the attention and audience up-front, because it's basically all the worst parts of/. like HuffPo on slashcode.
If you counterfeit a handbag, no one dies, but certain mechanical items, medications, and other "life-dependent "products should have serious penalties,
If an incident of counterfeiting becomes high profile enough to be an embarrassment to China, the authorities will hold a mock-trial and in short order you will be taken out and shot. Is that serious enough for you?
The trade-off of the DMCA is that it holds the 3rd party blameless of the copyright infringement if they quickly obey the take-down request. Meanwhile, the 3rd party offering patent-infringing stuff gets no safe-harbor and can face big financial penalties, including retroactive before they were ever informed of the issue.
Air travel already involves sitting in a seat for too long. Why would I opt for a mode of travel that exchanges a few minutes of having to be polite to people in the aisles for one that involves several hours more in the same damn seat?
I'd prefer a coffin configuration. Lying flat there's less problem with blood-clots, and more ability to move around. You can load me onto and off of a flight quickly. I may be sedated and asleep the whole time (but belted in-place), viewing movies on a video screen, listening to music, or using the video screen as a faux window if I am even awake.
Loading people on would be very quick. Assemble all the coffins in the proper configuration on the tarmac, then when the plane pulls up, just use a bulldozer to push them on. Emergency disembarkation would be much quicker, still... The back end of the plane opens wide, and the whole collection of coffins slides directly out like a log sliding down a hill.
Automatically deploying 20lbs emergency parachutes can be attached to the top of the coffin. In the event of mid-air emergency, the plane opens, the log of passengers drops out, separates, and once it reaches an altitude with breathable air, parachutes deploy and people land just a little bit hard. Hopefully these coffins make buoyant little boats, in the event of splashdown.
It's OpenBTS, not Facebook's new project, that developed incredibly cheap 2.5G GSM service on cheap, software defined radio hardware. That made some sense at the time, but today, why wouldn't you build your wireless network on WiFi instead?
A WiFi AP costs less than $20, and is very powerful if upgraded to OpenWRT, enabling wireless repeaters, QoS, local services, billing, and whatnot. GSM hardware (even with OpenBTS replacing most of it) is still much more expensive, is crufty and old, with security issues and overhead from a different telcom era that doesn't make sense to copy, today.
People want data more than voice, and VoIP makes the later easy over WiFi, too, with open source apps like CSipSimple integrating well with the Android dialer, logs, and contacts. The only thing traditional cellular/GSM has going for it is smooth hand-off, and circa 2008 the 802.11r (fast BSS) addresses that issue nicely.
Don't bother mentioning LTE... It's more efficient, but hardware is astronomically expensive compared to WiFi or OpenBTS, and incredibly power-hungry, too.
Also, a thought for the city-dwellers: the lack of infrastructure such as broadband, non-well water systems, non-septic sewer, etc tends to keep people away from here.
Here in a metro area of 500,000+ people, the vast majority are on septic systems, and it's a huge ordeal with public outcry when some small areas are told they have to connect to the city sewer system. Same when water lines are extended and households are told they must stop using their wells and pay to connect to city water.
I can understand why. Meters cost money, so municipal sewer utilities just multiply your water usage by their (lower) rate to generate your bill. This despite the fact that 90% of some people's water goes to their lawns and NOT down the sewer. Septic systems can have big-ticket maintenance if you screw up your leech field, but mostly they're a one-time cost that people don't even spend a few hundred dollars to have pumped for a few decades, and replacement is typically only after 50+ years.
City services are an ordeal in general. You have to pay for services like water even if you don't use it, per city regs. This seems to be a tax on maintaining empty properties.
I barely get two bars of cell service on Verizon, none on any other carrier,
You're only talking about ground-level, though. Wireless is limited by line-of-sight, obstacles and curvature of the earth. Go up on top of your roof to see if signal strength improves, and either pole-mounted repeaters or fixed cellular antennas might get you service from the cheaper carriers with less than perfect coverage.
If you think the EU model of cellular could work in the US, go check on T-Mobile's prices (Deutsche Telekom). Oddly enough, their service costs just as much.
I use the AT&T gophone (prepaid) network. It costs me $50 (including tax+fees. $5 cheaper if you have auto-refill) and has unlimited data (capped after 3GB).
You could get almost that exact same thing for $35/mo with Cricket, using the same phone, still on AT&T's network.
If I could move to anyone but Verizon, I would. Unfortunately, no other carrier has decent signal where I live and work. Looks like I'm stuck.
Not entirely. There are carriers like Republic Wireless and TextNow who use WiFi for calls/sms/data if available, and seamlessly fail-over to cellular only when you go out of range.
Republic Wireless also has unlimited free (voice and sms but not data) roaming onto Verizon wherever there's no usable Sprint signal.
Fortunately, AT&T's coverage is just as good as Verizon's coverage almost everywhere, which makes Cricket the best deal out there right now. I don't even understand why anybody is on T-Mobile or Sprint when they charge more for service with their awful patchy coverage.
Introducing the EvilViper Streaming Music Service.
Front-end looks just like Pandora/iHeartRadio/etc. But on the back-end, it searches all the MP3s on your device to see if you already locally have the song it was going to play. If so, file is played locally, not streamed. No bandwidth is used, and no royalties need to be paid. Customers appreciate the superior sound quality, less cellular data usage, and fewer pauses between songs.
In addition, when you like/thumbs-up a song, in the background it is PURCHASED as an MP3 from Amazon or similar. You don't notice the purchase, but you now own the song. Repeated plays cost nothing. If your device is reset, or you use the music service on a different device, the songs you purchased are first downloaded from Amazon and playback resumes.
The EvilViper Streaming Music Service will also make deals with smaller and independent artists and labels. Those who offer the cheapest terms will see their songs featured more prominently, and repeated more often (until/unless customers vote not to hear them again), at the expense of a little less big-name music, for a big savings.
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Hardware acceleration only improves battery life by "up to 36%". That's not terribly significant. - http://blog.webmproject.org/20...
The power consumption of your screen still dominates. And that benchmark seems to be the best-case, with local media. So the savings from a smaller file being received over the cellular or WiFi radios will offer some incidental power savings for the WebM case, cutting even that modest 36% number down by a bit.
No idea why you're looking-up MS-DOS...
As my original comment said: "it was DR-DOS which added multitasking"
According to WP, very real and full-featured multitasking.
WebP support is nice, but pretty trivial. It's WebM (video) support that everyone has been asking Apple to add, for years now. You can bet iPhone users would like smaller YouTube videos, WebRTC video conferencing, etc., but Apple is holding-on tight to H.264 AVC as the only available video compression format. Any coincidence that they are among the companies earning patent royalties from patent licensing the format?
Apple is the one big hold out, preventing adoption of better, open and free video formats on the web. Though WebP is somewhat related, it doesn't get us any closer to WebM and the open web, which Apple is single-handedly holding-up. Absolutely every other major tech company has thrown their support behind the Alliance for Open Media.
See:
- http://pipedot.org/story/2015-...
- http://pipedot.org/story/2016-...
Only with video does complexity become a practical concern. With a few still images on a web page, even the lowest-end CPUs around can decode them instantly. In fact the speed-up you get from the lesser bandwidth required more than makes up for a little more decoding time.
Ah yes... The famous "+5: Dead Wrong" comment moderation option. Haven't seen that one used in a white.
That makes me feel MUCH BETTER. Their prediction of growth was much too high, but now they're predicting their other predictions will be much more accurate.
This from the company that brought you Qwikster... "The worst product launch since New Coke"! Launched in the tenth paragraph of a blog post from the CEO apologizing for some previous poor communication.
If memory serves, it was DR-DOS which added multitasking in a somewhat "GNU Screen" style. All DOS program ran just fine, and they just didn't know other programs were running at the same time.
I don't see how adding that would make it "not DOS" any more than would adding command history and completion to the shell, as FreeDOS did from the start.
Not that I see much future for it, either way. Linux has better Windows file system support and more Windows support utilities, these days, and the need to emulate old DOS programs drops significantly every year.
The AT&T of today is just an empty brand name that SBC was able to purchase for a pittance, as the withered husk of the old AT&T was practically gone.
There's no significance in buying a Polaroid DVD player, either.
Besides the Sega Saturn, Panzer Dragoon was released on R-Zone, Windows PC, PlayStation 2, and as a bonus in sequel Panzer Dragoon Orta for Xbox. Is there some reason you just have to have the Saturn version of the game?
Try again...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you log-in with your username & password on Pipedot.org, you can send e-mails to any other users via the web form:
http:/// YOUR_USERNAME .pipedot.org/mail/compose
That's some mighty fine editing work there, /.
Bugs are still getting fixed, and a few stories still get posted, but it's very short on volunteer editors with time to spend, and that has kept readership low as well. It's one of those peculiarities of the market, that the best doesn't always do as well as the junk.
It's unfortunate that Soylent opened at the same time, got most of the attention and audience up-front, because it's basically all the worst parts of /. like HuffPo on slashcode.
If an incident of counterfeiting becomes high profile enough to be an embarrassment to China, the authorities will hold a mock-trial and in short order you will be taken out and shot. Is that serious enough for you?
The trade-off of the DMCA is that it holds the 3rd party blameless of the copyright infringement if they quickly obey the take-down request. Meanwhile, the 3rd party offering patent-infringing stuff gets no safe-harbor and can face big financial penalties, including retroactive before they were ever informed of the issue.
I'd prefer a coffin configuration. Lying flat there's less problem with blood-clots, and more ability to move around. You can load me onto and off of a flight quickly. I may be sedated and asleep the whole time (but belted in-place), viewing movies on a video screen, listening to music, or using the video screen as a faux window if I am even awake.
Loading people on would be very quick. Assemble all the coffins in the proper configuration on the tarmac, then when the plane pulls up, just use a bulldozer to push them on. Emergency disembarkation would be much quicker, still... The back end of the plane opens wide, and the whole collection of coffins slides directly out like a log sliding down a hill.
Automatically deploying 20lbs emergency parachutes can be attached to the top of the coffin. In the event of mid-air emergency, the plane opens, the log of passengers drops out, separates, and once it reaches an altitude with breathable air, parachutes deploy and people land just a little bit hard. Hopefully these coffins make buoyant little boats, in the event of splashdown.
It's OpenBTS, not Facebook's new project, that developed incredibly cheap 2.5G GSM service on cheap, software defined radio hardware. That made some sense at the time, but today, why wouldn't you build your wireless network on WiFi instead?
A WiFi AP costs less than $20, and is very powerful if upgraded to OpenWRT, enabling wireless repeaters, QoS, local services, billing, and whatnot. GSM hardware (even with OpenBTS replacing most of it) is still much more expensive, is crufty and old, with security issues and overhead from a different telcom era that doesn't make sense to copy, today.
People want data more than voice, and VoIP makes the later easy over WiFi, too, with open source apps like CSipSimple integrating well with the Android dialer, logs, and contacts. The only thing traditional cellular/GSM has going for it is smooth hand-off, and circa 2008 the 802.11r (fast BSS) addresses that issue nicely.
Don't bother mentioning LTE... It's more efficient, but hardware is astronomically expensive compared to WiFi or OpenBTS, and incredibly power-hungry, too.
Here in a metro area of 500,000+ people, the vast majority are on septic systems, and it's a huge ordeal with public outcry when some small areas are told they have to connect to the city sewer system. Same when water lines are extended and households are told they must stop using their wells and pay to connect to city water.
I can understand why. Meters cost money, so municipal sewer utilities just multiply your water usage by their (lower) rate to generate your bill. This despite the fact that 90% of some people's water goes to their lawns and NOT down the sewer. Septic systems can have big-ticket maintenance if you screw up your leech field, but mostly they're a one-time cost that people don't even spend a few hundred dollars to have pumped for a few decades, and replacement is typically only after 50+ years.
City services are an ordeal in general. You have to pay for services like water even if you don't use it, per city regs. This seems to be a tax on maintaining empty properties.
You're only talking about ground-level, though. Wireless is limited by line-of-sight, obstacles and curvature of the earth. Go up on top of your roof to see if signal strength improves, and either pole-mounted repeaters or fixed cellular antennas might get you service from the cheaper carriers with less than perfect coverage.
If you think the EU model of cellular could work in the US, go check on T-Mobile's prices (Deutsche Telekom). Oddly enough, their service costs just as much.
You could get almost that exact same thing for $35/mo with Cricket, using the same phone, still on AT&T's network.
Not entirely. There are carriers like Republic Wireless and TextNow who use WiFi for calls/sms/data if available, and seamlessly fail-over to cellular only when you go out of range.
Republic Wireless also has unlimited free (voice and sms but not data) roaming onto Verizon wherever there's no usable Sprint signal.
Fortunately, AT&T's coverage is just as good as Verizon's coverage almost everywhere, which makes Cricket the best deal out there right now. I don't even understand why anybody is on T-Mobile or Sprint when they charge more for service with their awful patchy coverage.
Trump supporters were previously Bush supporters, and Bush did the exact same damn thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He even refused to turn over e-mails under subpoena: "The White House stated it might have lost five million emails"
At least 5 different investigations were hampered by his private e-mail account:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And Jeb did the same thing, too:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/je...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/...
Introducing the EvilViper Streaming Music Service.
Front-end looks just like Pandora/iHeartRadio/etc. But on the back-end, it searches all the MP3s on your device to see if you already locally have the song it was going to play. If so, file is played locally, not streamed. No bandwidth is used, and no royalties need to be paid. Customers appreciate the superior sound quality, less cellular data usage, and fewer pauses between songs.
In addition, when you like/thumbs-up a song, in the background it is PURCHASED as an MP3 from Amazon or similar. You don't notice the purchase, but you now own the song. Repeated plays cost nothing. If your device is reset, or you use the music service on a different device, the songs you purchased are first downloaded from Amazon and playback resumes.
The EvilViper Streaming Music Service will also make deals with smaller and independent artists and labels. Those who offer the cheapest terms will see their songs featured more prominently, and repeated more often (until/unless customers vote not to hear them again), at the expense of a little less big-name music, for a big savings.
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