Hopefully these actions will lead to the outlawing of vaguely wide-ranging NDAs which state that employees may not work for "competitors" for X years after leaving their companies.
Why would it? That has absolutely nothing to do with what this probe is about. Secondly, such non-compete contracts are already illegal in California which already covers Google, Apple, Yahoo! and Genetech already.
Have you used the Wiimote to play Wii games? In the form it's in, it is a gimmick. It's basically a tacked on feature to most games outside of those made by Nintendo themselves and has poor sensitivity and tracking.
They're cooked up by the console makers as a bludgeon to kill off competition.
Isn't trying to beat their competition precisely what corporations should be doing? This isn't a special olympics race where everyone ends up winning regardless of how you badly you do.
Also, expect it to be full of DRM so you can't make your own.
I don't think that term means what you think it does. DRM has to do with restrictions on the copying and playback of digital media files. What exactly does that have to do with a gaming controller?
Nothing beats Xvid for low bitrates. (The bitrates which create ~350MB videos)
h.264 gets quite blocky well before Xvid does; mind you,
If you are getting worse quality at lower bitrates with h.264 over an ASP codec, you are doing something wrong. H.264 was designed precisely to be better than ASP at lower bitrates.
Except that the amount the licensing fees they would have to pay, since they do cap out at just a few million a year, would barely be 1/2th of 1/10th of a percent of their total yearly revenue. They would spend more on employee lunches in a year, which has been approximated to around 70-80 million a year, than they would on the H.264 licensing fees.
h264 will impose moneys to be paid to the MPEG-LA for each second of encoded video after 2010... and that, my friend, is a big no-no
But no end user is going to pay any of the patent royalties and for a company like Google the cost of using h.264 will be pocket change as the patent fees top out at just a few million a year. So since Google is more than able to pay the fees it would be well worth that investment to not drop it in favor of some garbage format like Theora.
It's not. The submitter just doesn't understand what the term irony means. Popular misconception seems to be that people think that irony means something that is incongruent.
I read that part. VP3 was garbage, as was the alpha version of Theora included in ffmpeg2theora 0.19. But even the corrected graph shows that Theora has gone from garbage to only 3 dB behind x264.
Yeah, on one single clip using the default settings of x264 which hardly give the highest attainable quality.
Sort of related, because a lot of people have DivX on their PC or in their DVD player: how does Xvid (an MPEG-4 ASP video encoder) compare to recent Theora and x264?
Theora can't beat XviD and XviD is inferior to x264.
Actually their list of support for HTML5 doesn't include the video object only the audio object/element. And that includes up to the latest 9.64 version that has been released.
I would assume that most users would prefer not to have to download Flash plugins..
Most users are probably more inclined to download the flash plugin that happens automatically for them versus downloading a whole new browser to get HTML5 video tags to work.
You're just pissy because your first post in this discussion was marked Flamebait.
No, I hadn't even noticed it was marked as flamebait till you said so and I couldn't care less.
So now you just repeat yourself uselessly though you were careful to make it look like a useful reply because you're devious like that. What a sore loser crybaby you are!
I didn't just repeat myself. I provided the word of the people who did that comparison that the GP's story linked to where they showed that the only way they beat x264 was by calculating the PSNR graph wrong. In fact the only person who is pissy is apparently you.
But Theora has come a long way since then, coming much closer to x264's fidelity.
You must have missed the retraction that was done when it was shown that they were calculating PSNR wrong for x264. Theora is nowhere near the quality of even a low-range h.264 codec.
'Publishing' the graph like that drew well-deserved scrutiny and unfortunately our own data was also off (although by considerably less). ffmpeg had another bug we didn't know about which caused it to mishandle the colorspace on x264 output, so the x264 PSNR value was too low by 1-4dB. Greg fixed the error in the data collection and immediately set about collecting new measures:
Oh and let's look at this list of 50 senators who took campaign contributions from the RIAA in 2007 and let's notice that 28 of the 50 were Republicans. Hmmm... now who exactly is in their pockets?
Yeah because no Republicans have ever supported DRM, the RIAA/MPAA and the DMCA. Oh wait, only 1 Republican obstained from the DMCA vote and the rest all voted for it in the Senate. Oh and I won't even bring up that the DMCA was introduced in the House by a Republican and considering how the House at the time had a Republican majority that they would have had to have backed it in a significant amount for it to pass. And I also won't mention how in 2003, Republican Mitch Bainwol become the CEO of the RIAA in 2003. Yep those Republicans sure are anti-DMCA, DRM and RIAA/MPAA. *rolls eyes* Or maybe we can stop with the stupid rhetoric and recognize that both parties are in bed with the copyright interests.
Unless it's being awarded from a diploma mill like Patriot University, then yes they are more than barely passing. No accredited university worth anything is going to hand out Ph.Ds to people who don't deserve them.
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Hopefully these actions will lead to the outlawing of vaguely wide-ranging NDAs which state that employees may not work for "competitors" for X years after leaving their companies.
Why would it? That has absolutely nothing to do with what this probe is about. Secondly, such non-compete contracts are already illegal in California which already covers Google, Apple, Yahoo! and Genetech already.
How else is a Slashdotter gonna pick up a hooker?
Have you used the Wiimote to play Wii games? In the form it's in, it is a gimmick. It's basically a tacked on feature to most games outside of those made by Nintendo themselves and has poor sensitivity and tracking.
They're cooked up by the console makers as a bludgeon to kill off competition.
Isn't trying to beat their competition precisely what corporations should be doing? This isn't a special olympics race where everyone ends up winning regardless of how you badly you do.
Also, expect it to be full of DRM so you can't make your own.
I don't think that term means what you think it does. DRM has to do with restrictions on the copying and playback of digital media files. What exactly does that have to do with a gaming controller?
Nothing beats Xvid for low bitrates. (The bitrates which create ~350MB videos)
h.264 gets quite blocky well before Xvid does; mind you,
If you are getting worse quality at lower bitrates with h.264 over an ASP codec, you are doing something wrong. H.264 was designed precisely to be better than ASP at lower bitrates.
So what if it's cheaper than employee lunches? What does that have to do with anything?
That the licensing fees they would pay would be a pittance in their entire budget.
If they saved a few millions a year, that is more money they can throw at another project that they actually control
They already have 20 billion in cash. A few extra million is a drop in the bucket.
Except that the amount the licensing fees they would have to pay, since they do cap out at just a few million a year, would barely be 1/2th of 1/10th of a percent of their total yearly revenue. They would spend more on employee lunches in a year, which has been approximated to around 70-80 million a year, than they would on the H.264 licensing fees.
h264 will impose moneys to be paid to the MPEG-LA for each second of encoded video after 2010...
and that, my friend, is a big no-no
But no end user is going to pay any of the patent royalties and for a company like Google the cost of using h.264 will be pocket change as the patent fees top out at just a few million a year. So since Google is more than able to pay the fees it would be well worth that investment to not drop it in favor of some garbage format like Theora.
It's not. The submitter just doesn't understand what the term irony means. Popular misconception seems to be that people think that irony means something that is incongruent.
That's because they still don't have support for the video tag yet. The GP is full of shit to claim that Opera has support for it yet.
I read that part. VP3 was garbage, as was the alpha version of Theora included in ffmpeg2theora 0.19. But even the corrected graph shows that Theora has gone from garbage to only 3 dB behind x264.
Yeah, on one single clip using the default settings of x264 which hardly give the highest attainable quality.
Sort of related, because a lot of people have DivX on their PC or in their DVD player: how does Xvid (an MPEG-4 ASP video encoder) compare to recent Theora and x264?
Theora can't beat XviD and XviD is inferior to x264.
Actually their list of support for HTML5 doesn't include the video object only the audio object/element. And that includes up to the latest 9.64 version that has been released.
I would assume that most users would prefer not to have to download Flash plugins..
Most users are probably more inclined to download the flash plugin that happens automatically for them versus downloading a whole new browser to get HTML5 video tags to work.
You're just pissy because your first post in this discussion was marked Flamebait.
No, I hadn't even noticed it was marked as flamebait till you said so and I couldn't care less.
So now you just repeat yourself uselessly though you were careful to make it look like a useful reply because you're devious like that. What a sore loser crybaby you are!
I didn't just repeat myself. I provided the word of the people who did that comparison that the GP's story linked to where they showed that the only way they beat x264 was by calculating the PSNR graph wrong. In fact the only person who is pissy is apparently you.
But Theora has come a long way since then, coming much closer to x264's fidelity.
You must have missed the retraction that was done when it was shown that they were calculating PSNR wrong for x264. Theora is nowhere near the quality of even a low-range h.264 codec.
'Publishing' the graph like that drew well-deserved scrutiny and unfortunately our own data was also off (although by considerably less). ffmpeg had another bug we didn't know about which caused it to mishandle the colorspace on x264 output, so the x264 PSNR value was too low by 1-4dB. Greg fixed the error in the data collection and immediately set about collecting new measures:
It would be nice if some big sites like youtube get rid of flash too, but I'm not holding my breath.
No it wouldn't be nice. The h.264 codec that is used to stream their content is far and away better than that Theora garbage format.
The preferred term is Latina
No shit, Sherlock. That was kind of the whole point of my post which was mocking his use of a masculine version of the adjective to describe a female.
Yes, I replied to myself to provide additional information that was left out of the first post.
Flamebait? Awww, did the truth hit a little to close to home for some little Republican troll?
Oops the link got cut off. It's this page that has the list.
Oh and let's look at this list of 50 senators who took campaign contributions from the RIAA in 2007 and let's notice that 28 of the 50 were Republicans. Hmmm... now who exactly is in their pockets?
Yeah because no Republicans have ever supported DRM, the RIAA/MPAA and the DMCA. Oh wait, only 1 Republican obstained from the DMCA vote and the rest all voted for it in the Senate. Oh and I won't even bring up that the DMCA was introduced in the House by a Republican and considering how the House at the time had a Republican majority that they would have had to have backed it in a significant amount for it to pass. And I also won't mention how in 2003, Republican Mitch Bainwol become the CEO of the RIAA in 2003. Yep those Republicans sure are anti-DMCA, DRM and RIAA/MPAA. *rolls eyes* Or maybe we can stop with the stupid rhetoric and recognize that both parties are in bed with the copyright interests.
Not necessarily.
Unless it's being awarded from a diploma mill like Patriot University, then yes they are more than barely passing. No accredited university worth anything is going to hand out Ph.Ds to people who don't deserve them.
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What's a latino female? Is that a codename for hispanic shemales?