What Mozilla and Opera are doing is trying to make it an end-user problem when it actually isn't.
And I, the end user, gave Mozilla the finger by switching myself and everyone I know to Chrome:)
Actually everyone already switched prior, but being independent of the whole issue, you really have to shake your head and wonder what Mozilla's real beef is. HTML5 video tag works flawlessly in Chrome, btw. Long live h.264(!)
Why not just buy h.264 outright? What's the market cap for the company that owns it? It's got to be a drop in the bucket compared to licencing fees down the road, plus what they paid (1 billion dollars) for YouTube.
There's no flashblock plugin for Chrome. Welcome to the 2010's, dude! Firefox is soooo 2000s. Plus I'm not going to put up with Mozilla's ideological Ogg vs. h.264 BS anymore.
No, the problem was that people had a display capable upwards of 1600x1200, but it was only 17" across diagonally, with a 15" viewable area. That's beyond the limits of daily usage for most people > 30 years old. Nowadays 21" (viewable ) and up is readily common on the desktop. With 1680x1050 you've actually got about 4% fewer pixels on a screen that's arguably 80% larger. That's why people aren't shrinking their resolution down from the "native" resolution of the CRT. You can actually see the damn pixels now.
Are you serious?? Us artsy type grew up with Photoshop, and Gimp is FINALLY going to introduce a more photoshop-like interface after YEARS. Photoshop has been, and will continue to be the standard upon which all others will be judged.
Sometimes it's a catchy song I want to listen to again later, but probably don't want to favorite. Or I did a search and found more than one interesting, tangential video I might want to watch later, but don't have time to now. Other times I simply forget to close them. Sometimes I leave them open to link to later in a blog or email/facebook etc. Maybe if there was some sort of intermediate between "youtube favorites" and "web browser history", I would replace my current system.
I think it's just a sign of the times. I regularly bump up against my 2GB ram limit (once a day) if I have GIMP/Photoshop open, 3 or 4 Chrome windows open with 10-20 tabs each (many of those being youtube videos), usually a videogame in the background (Windowed No Border mode at full or almost full screen resolution rules), along with whatever else I'm doing, a paused VLC video, steam, and any other background apps + whatever I'm working on currently. This isn't a problem in Win7, it's a problem of Leaving a Bunch of Shit open all the time.
In 8 months of netbook ownership, I've only once plugged mine into a TV, and that was to show my grandparents pictures of my trip. Most people plugging a computer into a TV use it as a dedicated home theater PC.
But for the most part it's very playable. Looks like today it's "just" silver. Heck I've gotten it to run briefly on my netbook using Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix with the unsupported GMA 950 and an atom processor(!). Most of the bugs listed are bugs in the windows version too (like multicore support)
I've been playing TF2 almost every week since shortly after release; I've never run across someone using an autoaim or wallhack. What server are you seeing this problem on?
Most HD video I've found on the web is 720p, when you can find it. The number of people transcoding 1080p bluray movies in their native resolution to playback on their netbook is vanishingly small. In either case, if you knew it was going on your netbook, you'd download/transcode the 720p to begin with. If you do video editing for a living you're not going to own a netbook anyways.
I'm curious what problems you've run into using the $25 crimpers found at big box stores? Maybe I was born with inherently good RJ-45 crimping skills, but I've never had a self-made cable fail in about 10 years, and in the few instances where I was able to use gig-E, they carried well over 100mb/s signal.
Ethernet cable is something like $100/1000 ft in boxes, there's no reason not to just pull Cat5e and be done with it. Pulling cable takes an afternoon at worst and then you're done with it forever. Having the coax already run makes it that much easier. We're talking a 2 hour, $100 project to convert the entire house.
Anyone who has watched the film industry knows the published budget number have nothing to do with the actual budget. They published 107 million? Actual cost was probably closer to 50 million. Producing such a movie today would probably cost 30 million (what did an episode of BSG cost by the 5th season? 1 million per hour?). Most of the budget is going to be Vin Diesel's fee, after that it's just production cost and advertising. The published cost of the movie will be 100 million again, for tax reasons
It helps that 90% of Brazil is in sugarcane's growing area, and that when Brazil needs more farmland, they just burn down more forest. The Problem is that the majority of Brazil's soil is actually quite poor and loses it's sustainability as arable soil after 2-3 seasons (which is why they keep burning more and more forest). Unchecked, yes, Brazil will have no problem feeding their population... for now. In 20, 30, 40 years Brazil is going to start running out of forest to burn for more farmland and you will see prices begin to skyrocket when the soil becomes as fertile as north africa's.
It's *very* profitable... for non profits. (Non Profits have to pay people salaries too... from their 12-14% "administrative overhead")...They just haven't been pushing their marketing as hard as they could lately.
Now Netflix, that's a different story. Videos are unwatchably glitchy unless I use IE, where they play fine (yes, on Windows).
My buddy reports the same thing. He's switched back to windows (7) due to a) win7s lack of shittyness and most importantly b) he can watch netlix on his laptop
It looks like Kensington is dumping their defective parts on the S. American street vendor markets. I took a month long trip through south america this last december/january, and the one thing street vendors were hawking were 4 and 8gb kensington USB thumb drives for between $3 and 4 USD (converted from the local currency. I saw these for sale in Bogota, Colombia, Lima and Cusco, Peru as well as Rio de Janerio Brazil and in every tourist town in Uruguay. I ran into some swedish girls who were having trouble transfering their pictures from their camera to their kensington memory stick (of course I offered to help them). Lo and Behold, they had a Kensington brand thumb drive that couldn't be recognized in either Windows or Linux, bought in La Paz, Bolivia, and another in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay.
You could claim they didn't dispose of their defective products properly, but clearly someone had the foresight to ship at least two shipping containers worth of these things to South America. No idea about the distribution network, but it must be huge and well run. They were clearly new, still in the plastic packaging, and the LED would light up and blink when plugged in, then stay lit. With a flip around protective cover.
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And I, the end user, gave Mozilla the finger by switching myself and everyone I know to Chrome :)
Actually everyone already switched prior, but being independent of the whole issue, you really have to shake your head and wonder what Mozilla's real beef is. HTML5 video tag works flawlessly in Chrome, btw. Long live h.264(!)
So then buy into the video codec cartel by buying a patent off of someone. I'm assuming being part of the cartel entitles you to free use of h.264.
Why not just buy h.264 outright? What's the market cap for the company that owns it? It's got to be a drop in the bucket compared to licencing fees down the road, plus what they paid (1 billion dollars) for YouTube.
1995 Called. You can have your CRT back.
There's no flashblock plugin for Chrome. Welcome to the 2010's, dude! Firefox is soooo 2000s. Plus I'm not going to put up with Mozilla's ideological Ogg vs. h.264 BS anymore.
No, the problem was that people had a display capable upwards of 1600x1200, but it was only 17" across diagonally, with a 15" viewable area. That's beyond the limits of daily usage for most people > 30 years old. Nowadays 21" ( viewable ) and up is readily common on the desktop. With 1680x1050 you've actually got about 4% fewer pixels on a screen that's arguably 80% larger. That's why people aren't shrinking their resolution down from the "native" resolution of the CRT. You can actually see the damn pixels now.
I keed! (Kidding!)
Are you serious?? Us artsy type grew up with Photoshop, and Gimp is FINALLY going to introduce a more photoshop-like interface after YEARS. Photoshop has been, and will continue to be the standard upon which all others will be judged.
I keed, I keed....
A glitch in the matrix, nothing more.
Sometimes it's a catchy song I want to listen to again later, but probably don't want to favorite. Or I did a search and found more than one interesting, tangential video I might want to watch later, but don't have time to now. Other times I simply forget to close them. Sometimes I leave them open to link to later in a blog or email/facebook etc. Maybe if there was some sort of intermediate between "youtube favorites" and "web browser history", I would replace my current system.
I haven't had any issues with sluggishness, it's just that Chrome tends to die when I hit the 2GB cap. It's speedy as all get out up until that point.
I think it's just a sign of the times. I regularly bump up against my 2GB ram limit (once a day) if I have GIMP/Photoshop open, 3 or 4 Chrome windows open with 10-20 tabs each (many of those being youtube videos), usually a videogame in the background (Windowed No Border mode at full or almost full screen resolution rules), along with whatever else I'm doing, a paused VLC video, steam, and any other background apps + whatever I'm working on currently. This isn't a problem in Win7, it's a problem of Leaving a Bunch of Shit open all the time.
In 8 months of netbook ownership, I've only once plugged mine into a TV, and that was to show my grandparents pictures of my trip. Most people plugging a computer into a TV use it as a dedicated home theater PC.
VAC secured TF2 for Linux is platinum rated on Wine, depending on how buggy the most recent update of TF2 was (it varies widely from week to week)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9901
But for the most part it's very playable. Looks like today it's "just" silver. Heck I've gotten it to run briefly on my netbook using Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix with the unsupported GMA 950 and an atom processor(!). Most of the bugs listed are bugs in the windows version too (like multicore support)
I've been playing TF2 almost every week since shortly after release; I've never run across someone using an autoaim or wallhack. What server are you seeing this problem on?
Most HD video I've found on the web is 720p, when you can find it. The number of people transcoding 1080p bluray movies in their native resolution to playback on their netbook is vanishingly small. In either case, if you knew it was going on your netbook, you'd download/transcode the 720p to begin with. If you do video editing for a living you're not going to own a netbook anyways.
Where can I buy a 10" 1080p netbook?
I'm curious what problems you've run into using the $25 crimpers found at big box stores? Maybe I was born with inherently good RJ-45 crimping skills, but I've never had a self-made cable fail in about 10 years, and in the few instances where I was able to use gig-E, they carried well over 100mb/s signal.
Ethernet cable is something like $100/1000 ft in boxes, there's no reason not to just pull Cat5e and be done with it. Pulling cable takes an afternoon at worst and then you're done with it forever. Having the coax already run makes it that much easier. We're talking a 2 hour, $100 project to convert the entire house.
Anyone who has watched the film industry knows the published budget number have nothing to do with the actual budget. They published 107 million? Actual cost was probably closer to 50 million. Producing such a movie today would probably cost 30 million (what did an episode of BSG cost by the 5th season? 1 million per hour?). Most of the budget is going to be Vin Diesel's fee, after that it's just production cost and advertising. The published cost of the movie will be 100 million again, for tax reasons
It helps that 90% of Brazil is in sugarcane's growing area, and that when Brazil needs more farmland, they just burn down more forest. The Problem is that the majority of Brazil's soil is actually quite poor and loses it's sustainability as arable soil after 2-3 seasons (which is why they keep burning more and more forest). Unchecked, yes, Brazil will have no problem feeding their population... for now. In 20, 30, 40 years Brazil is going to start running out of forest to burn for more farmland and you will see prices begin to skyrocket when the soil becomes as fertile as north africa's.
It's *very* profitable... for non profits. (Non Profits have to pay people salaries too... from their 12-14% "administrative overhead")...They just haven't been pushing their marketing as hard as they could lately.
My buddy reports the same thing. He's switched back to windows (7) due to a) win7s lack of shittyness and most importantly b) he can watch netlix on his laptop
It looks like Kensington is dumping their defective parts on the S. American street vendor markets. I took a month long trip through south america this last december/january, and the one thing street vendors were hawking were 4 and 8gb kensington USB thumb drives for between $3 and 4 USD (converted from the local currency. I saw these for sale in Bogota, Colombia, Lima and Cusco, Peru as well as Rio de Janerio Brazil and in every tourist town in Uruguay. I ran into some swedish girls who were having trouble transfering their pictures from their camera to their kensington memory stick (of course I offered to help them). Lo and Behold, they had a Kensington brand thumb drive that couldn't be recognized in either Windows or Linux, bought in La Paz, Bolivia, and another in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay.
You could claim they didn't dispose of their defective products properly, but clearly someone had the foresight to ship at least two shipping containers worth of these things to South America. No idea about the distribution network, but it must be huge and well run. They were clearly new, still in the plastic packaging, and the LED would light up and blink when plugged in, then stay lit. With a flip around protective cover.
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