>>>there is always the chance (especially on flash-games type sites) for interesting popups to..... diversify her web and life experience.
I don't see any harm if my child sees a nudie pic or two. And for the really nasty stuff, would not see that unless she's deliberately searching for it.
>>>everyone wastes their time in the edit war game that is Wikipedia. It's the worst example of centralisation of Internet control
Yeah I can understand your hate for Wikipedia. It's better than the pofessionally-written Brittanica Encyclopedia! Can't have that nonsense. These uppity commoners with their editing should not be able to outclass the upper Shits of society. No siree bob.
>>>May the next decade see it turn into something perceived as valuable to humanity as Facebook.
What the fuck. You're a loony bird.
RECOMMENDED ADDON - WIKILOOK: An addon that lets you highlight a phrase and a small preview window shows the wikipedia entry. Only works for Firefox, and I love it.
>>>I'd be very surprised if the original e-fence estimates were realistic without absolutely everything going as planned.
Kinda like Pelosicare. Unrealistic low-balled estimates that will probably cost 10 times more than what the CBO told us in 2009, and therefore not provide a savings for the government.
>>>the browser will wait to finish loading the ads before properly rendering the rest of the page.
Switch to a real browser like Opera, which renders the webpage in real-time, even if not all image/ads are loaded. .
Anon. Coward writes: >>>I'll choose what to load and not load on MY browser.
If I were a webmaster, and detected my ads did not load, I would block that IP address forever. The last thing I need is visitors who drive-up my monthly bill but never contribute back to me (i.e. view the ads). That's akin to having a person tap your phoneline and making long distance calls on MY bill.
Yeah I know. It makes me an ass to want to keep my bills as low as possible. So sue me.
>>>>>West German Wall (800). >> >>You mean the Berlin Wall? Where have you read 800?
And this friends is the product of the Government-run school monopoly, which teaches SERVITUDE and graduates ignorant people who don't even know history as recent as twenty years ago. Government fucked up the schools just like they fucked-up passenger rail and the nearly-bankrupt post offcie.
Don't you realize there was a WALL that extended the entire length of the West-East German border? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border Man. We have GOT to kill the monopoly, give people back THEIR money, and let them choose among dozens of private, competitive schools they want to attend. Just like how college works.
Yeah I can understand your hate for Wikipedia. It's better than the pofessionally-written Brittanica Encyclopedia! Can't have that nonsense. These uppity commoners with their editing should not be able to outclass the upper Shits of society. No siree bob.
WIKILOOK:
An addon that lets you highlight a phrase and a small preview window shows the wikipedia entry. Only works for Firefox, and I love it.
>>>May the next decade see it turn into something perceived as valuable to humanity as Facebook.
>>>what are the hundreds of millions of existing devices that only support h.264 supposed to do with WebM?
Probably the same thing my Insignia Player, or Nokia Phone does when it sees an AAC file. Refuse to play it. If customers want to play AAC or WebM, nearly all will need to go spend a few hundred dollars replacing my gadgets. Yay.
Funny you provide those links because this is what I noticed immediately: "No license fee..... for entities with gross revenue less than $100,000." I also note that I did not pay a dime in license fees personally. Not for my MP3 Player, or when I encoded my CDs to AAC (MPEG4), or when I turn on my television (MPEG2), or downloaded VLC Player (MPEGS 1-4), and so on.
If I did pay any hidden fees in the price, it must have been extremely reasonable since my last DVD player cost just $20 and it has MPEG2 in it. And Blurays with MPEG4 codecs have now dropped to $50. So where's this "onerous" burden at?????
If Google did Not provide WebM functionality to Microsoft Explorer, then they'd lose by default. They could safely ignore teeny-tiny browsers like Safari or Opera, but not the #1 IE. If 60% of the world can't see Youtube WebM videos, google loses its plan to make WebM the standard.
But by providing the WebM plugin, they ensure everyone will be able to see youtube. They can even provide a direct link on the site: "You need this plugin to view WebM content. Thank you."
So let's see: WebM is the container. --- VP8 is the video --- Vorbis is the audio
Google also has a WebP standard based on VP8, to replace GIFs/JPEGs - wonder why they're not pushing that too? Ya know: Remove image support from their Chrome. (shrug)
Like what? Only thing that could possibly replace gasoline/diesel is liquefied coal, and even though we have mountains of the stuff, it won't last forever. (And before you mention hydrogen fuel cells - where does it come from?)
>>>United States: 87.3 people per square mile >>>Mexico : 147 people per square mile
European Union: 290 people per square mile Saudi Arabia: 29 per square mile
- The reason I mention them is because(1) the EU and US and comparable in scale and (2) SA is a desert country, and so too is the United States (the area between the Pacific Coast and the Rockies) (the width of 1.5 time zones). So the US is more akin to the EU and SA merged into one unit. Europe would no longer be able to support a ~300 ppm density.
Which is why we should learn from their mistake.
- "Welcome stranger..." and 200 years later Indian America became British-French-Spanish America. (Of course that's nothing new... history shows the Indians were just the most-recent migration of several from Asia and Europe.)
ALSO: When oil skyrockets to $500/barrel aka $20/gallon, the US will have more mouths than it can feed. There will be no way to move the food from the center to the eastern cities, and the system will collapse on itself. Better to downsize now, rather than downsize circa 2030 via starvation. (in my humble opinion)
>>>Big Government Project has failed. Is there a lesson we can learn here?
Corruption. Avarice and ambition. "Love of money and love of power.... place before such men a place of Honor, which is also a place of Profit or Power, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast numbers of such places is what renders the government so tempestuous. The struggle is the true source of all these factions, hurrying the nation into fruitless wars and endeavors." - Ben Franklin.
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(goes off to ebay to sell Commodore 64, Nintendo 64, PS2, Xbox, Cube).
Yep I hope Steve survives so Apple survives. I'd hate to think of a future where Apple Mac disappears like Atari ST and Commodore Amiga disappeared.
Steve Jobs seems rather young to be having so many health problems?
>>>there is always the chance (especially on flash-games type sites) for interesting popups to..... diversify her web and life experience.
I don't see any harm if my child sees a nudie pic or two.
And for the really nasty stuff, would not see that
unless she's deliberately searching for it.
>>>everyone wastes their time in the edit war game that is Wikipedia. It's the worst example of centralisation of Internet control
Yeah I can understand your hate for Wikipedia. It's better than the pofessionally-written Brittanica Encyclopedia! Can't have that nonsense. These uppity commoners with their editing should not be able to outclass the upper Shits of society. No siree bob.
>>>May the next decade see it turn into something perceived as valuable to humanity as Facebook.
What the fuck.
You're a loony bird.
RECOMMENDED ADDON - WIKILOOK: An addon that lets you highlight a phrase and a small preview window shows the wikipedia entry. Only works for Firefox, and I love it.
I don't see that option in Mozilla/Seamonkey or Firefox.
Reactors need fuel too, and uranium is becoming quite scarce.
>>>I'd be very surprised if the original e-fence estimates were realistic without absolutely everything going as planned.
Kinda like Pelosicare.
Unrealistic low-balled estimates that will probably cost 10 times more than
what the CBO told us in 2009, and therefore not provide a savings for the government.
>>>the browser will wait to finish loading the ads before properly rendering the rest of the page.
Switch to a real browser like Opera, which renders the webpage in real-time, even if not all image/ads are loaded.
.
Anon. Coward writes:
>>>I'll choose what to load and not load on MY browser.
If I were a webmaster, and detected my ads did not load, I would block that IP address forever. The last thing I need is visitors who drive-up my monthly bill but never contribute back to me (i.e. view the ads). That's akin to having a person tap your phoneline and making long distance calls on MY bill.
Yeah I know. It makes me an ass to want to keep my bills as low as possible.
So sue me.
>>>>>West German Wall (800).
>>
>>You mean the Berlin Wall? Where have you read 800?
And this friends is the product of the Government-run school monopoly, which teaches SERVITUDE and graduates ignorant people who don't even know history as recent as twenty years ago. Government fucked up the schools just like they fucked-up passenger rail and the nearly-bankrupt post offcie.
Don't you realize there was a WALL that extended the entire length of the West-East German border? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border Man. We have GOT to kill the monopoly, give people back THEIR money, and let them choose among dozens of private, competitive schools they want to attend. Just like how college works.
Yeah I can understand your hate for Wikipedia. It's better than the pofessionally-written Brittanica Encyclopedia! Can't have that nonsense. These uppity commoners with their editing should not be able to outclass the upper Shits of society. No siree bob.
WIKILOOK:
An addon that lets you highlight a phrase and a small preview window shows the wikipedia entry. Only works for Firefox, and I love it.
>>>May the next decade see it turn into something perceived as valuable to humanity as Facebook.
What the fuck.
You're a loony bird.
Ice Age Park.
I'm sure giving birth to a mammoth will have no negative consequences. :-|
>>>what are the hundreds of millions of existing devices that only support h.264 supposed to do with WebM?
Probably the same thing my Insignia Player, or Nokia Phone does when it sees an AAC file. Refuse to play it. If customers want to play AAC or WebM, nearly all will need to go spend a few hundred dollars replacing my gadgets.
Yay.
Funny you provide those links because this is what I noticed immediately: "No license fee..... for entities with gross revenue less than $100,000." I also note that I did not pay a dime in license fees personally. Not for my MP3 Player, or when I encoded my CDs to AAC (MPEG4), or when I turn on my television (MPEG2), or downloaded VLC Player (MPEGS 1-4), and so on.
If I did pay any hidden fees in the price, it must have been extremely reasonable since my last DVD player cost just $20 and it has MPEG2 in it. And Blurays with MPEG4 codecs have now dropped to $50. So where's this "onerous" burden at?????
Apple block google addons? Nah. They are supposed to be the good company. Like Toyota. Or Toshiba (hd dvd).
>>>is willing to destroy themselves to prove it.
If Google did Not provide WebM functionality to Microsoft Explorer, then they'd lose by default. They could safely ignore teeny-tiny browsers like Safari or Opera, but not the #1 IE. If 60% of the world can't see Youtube WebM videos, google loses its plan to make WebM the standard.
But by providing the WebM plugin, they ensure everyone will be able to see youtube. They can even provide a direct link on the site: "You need this plugin to view WebM content. Thank you."
So let's see: WebM is the container.
--- VP8 is the video
--- Vorbis is the audio
Google also has a WebP standard based on VP8, to replace GIFs/JPEGs - wonder why they're not pushing that too? Ya know: Remove image support from their Chrome. (shrug)
MPEG4/h264 vs. VP8 comparison (h264 slightly better - specially on low bitrate connections):
- http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2010/vp8_vs_h264.html
HE-AACplus vs. Vorbis (HE-AAC wins):
- http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-48-1/results.htm
JPEG vs. WebP (WebP wins):
- http://englishhard.com/2010/10/01/real-world-analysis-of-googles-webp-versus-jpg/
>>>the current owners are not obligated to keep it that way
Have the MPEG raked us over the coals with MPEG1, MPEG2, JPEG, MP3, or AAC? Then why do you think they'll do it with MPEG4/h264?
>>>alternative fuels
Like what? Only thing that could possibly replace gasoline/diesel is liquefied coal, and even though we have mountains of the stuff, it won't last forever. (And before you mention hydrogen fuel cells - where does it come from?)
>>>United States: 87.3 people per square mile
>>>Mexico : 147 people per square mile
European Union: 290 people per square mile
Saudi Arabia: 29 per square mile
- The reason I mention them is because(1) the EU and US and comparable in scale and (2) SA is a desert country, and so too is the United States (the area between the Pacific Coast and the Rockies) (the width of 1.5 time zones). So the US is more akin to the EU and SA merged into one unit. Europe would no longer be able to support a ~300 ppm density.
Let's you highlight a phrase and a small preview window shows the wikipedia entry. Only works for Firefox.
Which is why we should learn from their mistake.
- "Welcome stranger..." and 200 years later Indian America became British-French-Spanish America. (Of course that's nothing new... history shows the Indians were just the most-recent migration of several from Asia and Europe.)
Read and learn young grasshopper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border
ALSO: When oil skyrockets to $500/barrel aka $20/gallon, the US will have more mouths than it can feed. There will be no way to move the food from the center to the eastern cities, and the system will collapse on itself. Better to downsize now, rather than downsize circa 2030 via starvation. (in my humble opinion)
My neighbors (European Union) have some cheetos and dew. Go visit them.
>>>thousand of miles of border is impossible.
1300 to be precise. That's tiny compared to the Wall of China (4000) and just slightly longer than the West German Wall (800).
BTW I consider the US to be overpopulated.
i.e. We don't need any more people.
>>>Big Government Project has failed. Is there a lesson we can learn here?
Corruption.
Avarice and ambition.
"Love of money and love of power.... place before such men a place of Honor, which is also a place of Profit or Power, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast numbers of such places is what renders the government so tempestuous. The struggle is the true source of all these factions, hurrying the nation into fruitless wars and endeavors." - Ben Franklin.