I've never understood why people who care about proper use of language are regarded at pedants.
Because you are? You do realize that the formalized spelling of words and grammar is only a recent development? Go read some primary source literature from only 200 to 300 years ago to see how varied even the same words were spelled by many people. As long as someone understands what is being said, it is truly pedantic to nit pick every single mistake.
That would be stupid - they could be out an unknown and tremendous amount of money if they did.
But they've repeatedly stated that there are no patents that VP8 infringes so then they have nothing to lose if their statements are true. The fact that they don't indemnify users is a clear sign that the don't believe that themselves.
i think MPEG LA has a lot more to lose if there is a H264 patent that isn't covered by MPEG LA's pool.
How and what would MPEG LA lose? They explicitly admit themselves that other patents could exist on the technologies they license. MPEG LA does nothing but license out those patents that have been brought forth and nothing more.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if when Google bought On2 and VP8 and got the patents with it, that they have some essential patent that H.264 violates and the G-men tell MPEG LA that they are going to shut down H.264 entirely?
You mean except for the fact that that's not how it works? Exactly what is there to "shut down"? H.264 is not some entity.
You can't yet use it to buy just any random thing online, but you can buy a lot of services.
Such as what beyond one internet service host, a half-finished beauty site, some random gadget store no one has ever heard of and some alpaca farm? If that's the sum total of where you can buy stuff that is not "a lot".
I like how you quoted only that part and yet ignored the more substantive part which is that this currency is only accepted by a half finished internet store and some alpaca farm. Get back to us when we can buy groceries, gas, clothes etc from REAL stores or places like Amazon, etc. Until then you can bleat all you want about your 5 million coins but they are just as worthless as flooz and beenz (Which in their heyday were at least accepted at more places).
because its impossible to do anything this dangerous or insecure in C++
The point of this irrelevant statement is what? Do C++ programmers en masse claim that you can't do dangerous things in C++? On the other hand, Java weenies continually beat drum about how Java is safer, etc yet there have been how many high profile exploits against the JVM just in the last few months?
we cannot compete with games that rely on innovative gameplay and new, fresh ideas which are cheap but risky!
And those would be what? Angry Birds and all it's clones? All the Mario platformer clones? All the tetris clones? The generic bejeweled clones? Care to actually point out a single example of one of those "innovative" games you refer to?
The usual remedy is for the offending party to correct the fault, which in this case would appear to involve (re)attaching the correct copyleft license to some files distributed to developers and a hefty "donation" to the FSF.
The reason for the notability requirement is because otherwise the good information gets lost in the chaff of articles for everybody's local chess club or WOW guild or band they formed with their high school friends that lasted for about a week before everybody lost interest after their dad said they couldn't practice in his garage anymore because he needs to put the car back in.
And in what way would the supposed "good information" get lost? Is the wiki search going to stop returning results just because there are 10000 junk articles?
Sure, in opposite land that is what his "extremely flawed" reasoning would conclude. The fact of the matter is that Iran is one of the worst places to live when it comes to human rights and to try to make it that the US is even remotely in the same league truly is a bunch of moral relativism bullshit.
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The article is wrong. The pictures of the Galaxy S II shows a microusb charging port in the same spot as on the original.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Galaxy S and S II use micro-usb for the charging cable. Micro-USB is neither Samsung's nor is it proprietary.
Sure as long as you pretend this story doesn't exist.
I've never understood why people who care about proper use of language are regarded at pedants.
Because you are? You do realize that the formalized spelling of words and grammar is only a recent development? Go read some primary source literature from only 200 to 300 years ago to see how varied even the same words were spelled by many people. As long as someone understands what is being said, it is truly pedantic to nit pick every single mistake.
That would be stupid - they could be out an unknown and tremendous amount of money if they did.
But they've repeatedly stated that there are no patents that VP8 infringes so then they have nothing to lose if their statements are true. The fact that they don't indemnify users is a clear sign that the don't believe that themselves.
i think MPEG LA has a lot more to lose if there is a H264 patent that isn't covered by MPEG LA's pool.
How and what would MPEG LA lose? They explicitly admit themselves that other patents could exist on the technologies they license. MPEG LA does nothing but license out those patents that have been brought forth and nothing more.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if when Google bought On2 and VP8 and got the patents with it, that they have some essential patent that H.264 violates and the G-men tell MPEG LA that they are going to shut down H.264 entirely?
You mean except for the fact that that's not how it works? Exactly what is there to "shut down"? H.264 is not some entity.
You can't yet use it to buy just any random thing online, but you can buy a lot of services.
Such as what beyond one internet service host, a half-finished beauty site, some random gadget store no one has ever heard of and some alpaca farm? If that's the sum total of where you can buy stuff that is not "a lot".
I like how you quoted only that part and yet ignored the more substantive part which is that this currency is only accepted by a half finished internet store and some alpaca farm. Get back to us when we can buy groceries, gas, clothes etc from REAL stores or places like Amazon, etc. Until then you can bleat all you want about your 5 million coins but they are just as worthless as flooz and beenz (Which in their heyday were at least accepted at more places).
Because that's the only way it will be accepted beyond a couple of internet sites no one has ever heard of?
If they had done an all Dire Straits release I would have been the first in line at the store to buy it;
So it would have had all of...1 sales?
You realize they AREN'T just talking about TLDs right?
the NTIA is asking for the power to object to any proposed Internet address for any reason.
Didn't even bother to read the summary, eh?
because its impossible to do anything this dangerous or insecure in C++
The point of this irrelevant statement is what? Do C++ programmers en masse claim that you can't do dangerous things in C++? On the other hand, Java weenies continually beat drum about how Java is safer, etc yet there have been how many high profile exploits against the JVM just in the last few months?
Awwww, is a Java weenie mad because all their supposed claims about the security of Java are lately being shown to be false?
we cannot compete with games that rely on innovative gameplay and new, fresh ideas which are cheap but risky!
And those would be what? Angry Birds and all it's clones? All the Mario platformer clones? All the tetris clones? The generic bejeweled clones? Care to actually point out a single example of one of those "innovative" games you refer to?
I did test it which is why you see no unicode characters in my post. I put about a dozen of them between the words that were actually posted.
Wouldn't a "modern" look involve supporting Unicode? Something that has been a standard for some 20 years?
And still no Unicode support...
Of course not. Doing useful things like adding Unicode support is apparently less important than adding more Web 2.0 junk to the site.
Because the last thousand plus years of fighting between both sides has really helped solve things, right?
The usual remedy is for the offending party to correct the fault, which in this case would appear to involve (re)attaching the correct copyleft license to some files distributed to developers and a hefty "donation" to the FSF.
FTFY.
How much does anyone want to bet that this supposed "anonymous reader" is Florian himself?
The reason for the notability requirement is because otherwise the good information gets lost in the chaff of articles for everybody's local chess club or WOW guild or band they formed with their high school friends that lasted for about a week before everybody lost interest after their dad said they couldn't practice in his garage anymore because he needs to put the car back in.
And in what way would the supposed "good information" get lost? Is the wiki search going to stop returning results just because there are 10000 junk articles?
Because the ./ masses are the vast majority of their customers? Yeah right...
Sure, in opposite land that is what his "extremely flawed" reasoning would conclude. The fact of the matter is that Iran is one of the worst places to live when it comes to human rights and to try to make it that the US is even remotely in the same league truly is a bunch of moral relativism bullshit.