I think its the same. Its not the speed that it gets out that matters but the idiot ratio.
The idiot ratio (henceforth called the iRatio) is the ratio of people that are in fact idiots or are having an idiot moment at the time of communication compared to those who are not.
Now when a story is told by someone (we ignore if its an idiot for now), the number of people(blogs etc) that need to repeat the story to get out there is perhaps about the same(roughly). Now if the iRatio is 90% then on average it will go 10 "levels" of people/blogs deep before hitting someone who is not an idiot. The number of people who believe the story with this model is completely defined by the iRatio.
The only different is when the idiots hear the story.
So then if a machine is defective then why isn't the casino boss charged or at least investigated for money-laundering?
Because it BS excuse not to payout. But hay you know the score when you are about to enter a casino, so i do wonder why people keep going to these places.
A) How can I write *any* software without violating a patent?
B) What OS software is not violating a patent?
The answer to both questions is warped up in many billable patent attorney hours. After you have paid these huge fees (about 50k per patent checked IIRC), it can still be wrong, and its not the attorney's fault and not his/her problem. Hell if someone else wants to know if the patent covers the same thing, that same patent attorney will charge another 50k for that same analysis.
In my option, lawyers and attorneys are not professionals. Thats the problem. An engineer gets in trouble when he/she is wrong, and if you are wrong too often you don't get to call yourself an engineer. While lawyers don't get anything at all. They can be incompetent and wrong every time, and yet its your money and your companies cease and desist order.
MPEG-LA do *not* offer indemnification of any sort. Its even in the dam licence you have to sign after paying a lot of cash for fees and laywers. MPEG-LA codecs have not been without patent claims from third parties.
At least with webM the initial outlay is zero. And when folks troll about covered by patents, no patent numbers are ever mentioned. Why, because about the only patents that probably do "cover" it will last all of 5min in court by failing even the most lax patentability requirements.
I am not a teenager. Also i don't really need movies to be free either. Since a DVD only costs a little more than a few beers, while renting is cheaper than a beer where i live cost is simply not a factor.
The last DVD i rented didn't work on 2 dvd players (it would skip 2-5min at chapter boundaries) or the 3 computers i have (played the chapters in random order). The DVD store said its not their problem.
So now it really isn't a problem for them anymore. I don't rent DVD's.
Lets also not forget that in a few countries you are breaking the law, just watching a DVD in Linux.
Ubuantu and apple should have taught you that no, most don't want to configure anything, they don't want to customize, they don't want to have a choice (kde or gnome or xcfe etc). They just want you to tell them what to click on.
The biggest problem with 4.0 was that it was a developer release. RedHat etc should have done more internal testing an shipped with kde 3.5 as default (as Slackware did). By 4.2 is was half decent. 4.4 is great and quite an improvement over 4.3.
Define worse than ever. I switched from kde 3.5 to 4.4 yesterday on the laptop. I have had no problems at all. It works just as fast if not faster, and so far is just as stable (My uptimes with kde3.5 was over 30days). All the apps are snappy to start and this is on a 2 year old lower end laptop.
I was going to say i have had no problems at work with 4.X on 2 monitors. But then i have a black background and I don't want the plasma spanning two screens and set it to auto hide.
I'm on 4.4 now. I switched from kde 3.5 yesterday on this laptop. Its just as fast and just as useful. I am quite happy with it. However as someone who was using 3.5 till yesterday, why do you need them to give it back to you? Can't you just install it?;)
Or are you a Gnome user that fells a little trollish....
You know the people who released their software--the ones that did the work don't care, or are even happy. Thats why they use a BSD license.
Or do you believe that the people writing the code don't have the right to release the code as they see fit?
When i release code under a BSD license or even public domain, its so people like Apple have the freedom to take my code, change it a bit, make money and not release the changes. I *want* to give them and others that freedom.
Its not. If you read some of the patents they probably won't last long in court. But the starting price for court proceedings in about $1M, and 1000 patents makes challenging the patents untenable.
Its not just the cost, its the contract. You must abide by the licensing terms. Licensing terms that include "professional cameras" that need extra licenses if you want to make money from your movie. Licensing terms that could be changed in the future to include DRM. Zone flags on DVDs are enforced this way. Its part of the license.
When we investigate about 7 months ago. HP came out cheaper per page than Brother, Xerox etc in the laser market. My P1005 that cost about 50EU per tonner (IIRC) gets about 3000 pages out of it and I am on my 3 toner (not counting the one it comes with). Also it works real nice with my Linux home network and the quality is top notch.
One reason i am using slackware on all my home machines, is that you really don't need to upgrade. One desktop is running slack 13, the laptop and one more desktop is running 12.2. If its not broke --don't fix it.
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Well there was the "cool background image" award from '03, the "don't release dev version to the public" award for KDE 4 (though i understand that has more to do distros carrying it too early). Then there was "doesn't sux as much as gnome and doesn't use the memory of windows" award in '05.
Seriously though "simple elegance" is not a description i would use for kde 3.5 kede 4 or gnome. I say this typing on kde 3.5 and the other machine in the room uses kde 4 (its fine, don't know what the fuss is about). When i want simple elegance outside a command line, I stick with icewm.
~10Mbit to 40Mbit (blu Ray iirc) peek is a long way from lossless. Yet quite a lot professionals do say that at these bit rates codecs are similar. On the Doom forums they will complain at such a "shootout" with comments along the lines that every codec looks good at that bit rate.
But hay if you like good looking shit on your 1080 wide screen, you can have your 700MByte BluRay rip for all i care.
Encoder quality make more difference that format. So yes this really could be the issue. The other issue is that most OSS dev time on codecs goes into x264 and they wonder why theora has taken so long to get half decent.
MPEG-LA loves x264. Without it h264 would not be considered nearly as good.
Now the question is, which of h264 and VP8 is better. For now, the answer seems to be h264, by a whisker.
The other question of license fees seems to have slipped your mind. Not only that, but what kind of terms and conditions you must agree too to get that license is also another very important question.
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I think its the same. Its not the speed that it gets out that matters but the idiot ratio.
The idiot ratio (henceforth called the iRatio) is the ratio of people that are in fact idiots or are having an idiot moment at the time of communication compared to those who are not.
Now when a story is told by someone (we ignore if its an idiot for now), the number of people(blogs etc) that need to repeat the story to get out there is perhaps about the same(roughly). Now if the iRatio is 90% then on average it will go 10 "levels" of people/blogs deep before hitting someone who is not an idiot. The number of people who believe the story with this model is completely defined by the iRatio.
The only different is when the idiots hear the story.
In other news, horses can be modeled as a sphere.
I find it strange that so many people seem to "trust" casinos....
So then if a machine is defective then why isn't the casino boss charged or at least investigated for money-laundering?
Because it BS excuse not to payout. But hay you know the score when you are about to enter a casino, so i do wonder why people keep going to these places.
That's basically a scam.
When you can get banned from a casino/s for winning too much, what part of a casinos operation isn't a scam?
Perhaps a better question is:
A) How can I write *any* software without violating a patent?
B) What OS software is not violating a patent?
The answer to both questions is warped up in many billable patent attorney hours. After you have paid these huge fees (about 50k per patent checked IIRC), it can still be wrong, and its not the attorney's fault and not his/her problem. Hell if someone else wants to know if the patent covers the same thing, that same patent attorney will charge another 50k for that same analysis.
In my option, lawyers and attorneys are not professionals. Thats the problem. An engineer gets in trouble when he/she is wrong, and if you are wrong too often you don't get to call yourself an engineer. While lawyers don't get anything at all. They can be incompetent and wrong every time, and yet its your money and your companies cease and desist order.
MPEG-LA do *not* offer indemnification of any sort. Its even in the dam licence you have to sign after paying a lot of cash for fees and laywers. MPEG-LA codecs have not been without patent claims from third parties.
At least with webM the initial outlay is zero. And when folks troll about covered by patents, no patent numbers are ever mentioned. Why, because about the only patents that probably do "cover" it will last all of 5min in court by failing even the most lax patentability requirements.
This study is lots of things. Scientific is not one of them.
Where was downloading mentioned by GP?
I am not a teenager. Also i don't really need movies to be free either. Since a DVD only costs a little more than a few beers, while renting is cheaper than a beer where i live cost is simply not a factor.
The last DVD i rented didn't work on 2 dvd players (it would skip 2-5min at chapter boundaries) or the 3 computers i have (played the chapters in random order). The DVD store said its not their problem.
So now it really isn't a problem for them anymore. I don't rent DVD's.
Lets also not forget that in a few countries you are breaking the law, just watching a DVD in Linux.
I didn't say that.
Ubuantu and apple should have taught you that no, most don't want to configure anything, they don't want to customize, they don't want to have a choice (kde or gnome or xcfe etc). They just want you to tell them what to click on.
The biggest problem with 4.0 was that it was a developer release. RedHat etc should have done more internal testing an shipped with kde 3.5 as default (as Slackware did). By 4.2 is was half decent. 4.4 is great and quite an improvement over 4.3.
You can choose your look and feel. Some people do choose the weird and ugly.
Define worse than ever. I switched from kde 3.5 to 4.4 yesterday on the laptop. I have had no problems at all. It works just as fast if not faster, and so far is just as stable (My uptimes with kde3.5 was over 30days). All the apps are snappy to start and this is on a 2 year old lower end laptop.
I was going to say i have had no problems at work with 4.X on 2 monitors. But then i have a black background and I don't want the plasma spanning two screens and set it to auto hide.
Candy is just not that important to me.
I'm on 4.4 now. I switched from kde 3.5 yesterday on this laptop. Its just as fast and just as useful. I am quite happy with it. However as someone who was using 3.5 till yesterday, why do you need them to give it back to you? Can't you just install it? ;)
Or are you a Gnome user that fells a little trollish....
ps I have nothing against gnome users.
You know the people who released their software--the ones that did the work don't care, or are even happy. Thats why they use a BSD license.
Or do you believe that the people writing the code don't have the right to release the code as they see fit?
When i release code under a BSD license or even public domain, its so people like Apple have the freedom to take my code, change it a bit, make money and not release the changes. I *want* to give them and others that freedom.
Its not. If you read some of the patents they probably won't last long in court. But the starting price for court proceedings in about $1M, and 1000 patents makes challenging the patents untenable.
No i am not a lawyer, but i did get legal advice.
Its not just the cost, its the contract. You must abide by the licensing terms. Licensing terms that include "professional cameras" that need extra licenses if you want to make money from your movie. Licensing terms that could be changed in the future to include DRM. Zone flags on DVDs are enforced this way. Its part of the license.
When we investigate about 7 months ago. HP came out cheaper per page than Brother, Xerox etc in the laser market. My P1005 that cost about 50EU per tonner (IIRC) gets about 3000 pages out of it and I am on my 3 toner (not counting the one it comes with). Also it works real nice with my Linux home network and the quality is top notch.
One reason i am using slackware on all my home machines, is that you really don't need to upgrade. One desktop is running slack 13, the laptop and one more desktop is running 12.2. If its not broke --don't fix it.
Well there was the "cool background image" award from '03, the "don't release dev version to the public" award for KDE 4 (though i understand that has more to do distros carrying it too early). Then there was "doesn't sux as much as gnome and doesn't use the memory of windows" award in '05.
Seriously though "simple elegance" is not a description i would use for kde 3.5 kede 4 or gnome. I say this typing on kde 3.5 and the other machine in the room uses kde 4 (its fine, don't know what the fuss is about). When i want simple elegance outside a command line, I stick with icewm.
~10Mbit to 40Mbit (blu Ray iirc) peek is a long way from lossless. Yet quite a lot professionals do say that at these bit rates codecs are similar. On the Doom forums they will complain at such a "shootout" with comments along the lines that every codec looks good at that bit rate.
But hay if you like good looking shit on your 1080 wide screen, you can have your 700MByte BluRay rip for all i care.
Encoder quality make more difference that format. So yes this really could be the issue. The other issue is that most OSS dev time on codecs goes into x264 and they wonder why theora has taken so long to get half decent.
MPEG-LA loves x264. Without it h264 would not be considered nearly as good.
Now the question is, which of h264 and VP8 is better. For now, the answer seems to be h264, by a whisker.
The other question of license fees seems to have slipped your mind. Not only that, but what kind of terms and conditions you must agree too to get that license is also another very important question.