I suppose there must be an API that supports overlays, otherwise OSX media players wouldn't be able to do subtitles or controls. Thanks for taking the time to do some digging - looks like it's only a matter of time.
The impression I'm getting is that none of the OSX acceleration APIs allow the app to easily overlay other stuff on top of the video. Sounds like you give QT/CoreVideo a bounding rectangle, and that's the extent of your control. Whether this is really the case, I have no idea.
I'd wager that the difference is that Lame and VLC as organizations have no money whatsoever, whereas Mozilla Corp brings in $60 million a year and Canonical likely has cash worth losing as well.
An important question about the memory test: how does Windows Task Manager account for shared memory or clean copy-on-write segments? If each Chrome process shares 90% of its memory, then those test results are going to be highly misleading.
Rather than fighting with the e-brake or turning the engine off, could a driver of a runaway car not just kick the car into neutral? Waaaay less optimal than a brake-override but more effective than turning the car off.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's not true. I understand that sales (like employee vs. contractor) follow the duck test: if it looks like a sale, it is a sale. So this would apply, e.g. to a cellphone. Especially if you take into account used sales. So it is unusual that Apple can exercise control over an owner's use of the device.
I've read that WIND uses the right frequencies to use the N900 at 3G speeds. Apparently they may even be bringing it to Canada officially. People are running it right now though, just self-imported from the States.
It doesn't make sense to me though that Google etc wouldn't be spending an equal and opposite amount in lobbying to encourage FTTH. The lobbying should cancel out and leave municipalities to do what they want. WTF are the tech companies doing letting telecom companies pass regulation to harm their businesses? If I was a shareholder, I'd be upset.
Are you sure it would have no use? For example, I have an older iPod that doesn't display the length of a podcast unless you play it (and hence mark it as listened to). I would love to have that feature without buying an iPod Touch, but cannot. If the software was user-modifiable, then I could add that feature. For me, it's the little things like this where access to the internals is really nice.
Now, I totally agree with you in terms of voting with dollars; I'm one of the few people who bought an OpenMoko, and I'm drooling over an N900.
I guess the perspective of the FSF is that access to the source is one of the important issues that it's difficult to get people to think about at purchase time. There have been studies that show that people consider different criteria a purchase time and at "how much do I actually like this" time. I used the example elsewhere: people buying fridges don't give a shit about CFCs, but the net cost of using CFCs is high enough that as a society we banned their use. The FSF likely considers closed-source to be analogous to CFCs.
It continually surprises me that no municipalities or states have tried to implement this (or at least if they have, that it hasn't got a ton of press). The first place to do it will get a huge head start in connectivity. One of the cities trying to rival the SF bay area for tech people should do it and use it as a selling point; the tech companies located there should be pushing hard for it.
In the Canadian context, I'm surprised RIM hasn't pushed for it in Waterloo.
But they want that option to be there for their expert to fix it. Same thing with cars - I have no interest whatsoever in the internal state of my car, but I would be unhappy if I had to take it to the dealership instead of my personal mechanic to keep it running smoothly.
In the end people will buy and use products they like, and this is what drives development of new products. People don't buy what the FSF decides to be good or bad for the development of computing.
But this isn't always the best for society in general. Think about the use of CFCs for refrigeration - the reason we don't see CFCs anymore has nothing to do with people choosing not to buy CFC refrigerators and everything to do with regulation. The FSF thinks that the world would be better if users could modify the software running on any device they own, just like they can modify the physical aspects. Do you honestly believe that the world be worse if that was the case?
The whole point of the FSF is that once you buy a consumer device you should be free to modify it. It's like a car - if you want to replace the muffler with a coffee-tin, the car won't lock you out. Why should computing devices be different?
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at least half of all traffic on the net is currently BitTorrent
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I suppose there must be an API that supports overlays, otherwise OSX media players wouldn't be able to do subtitles or controls. Thanks for taking the time to do some digging - looks like it's only a matter of time.
The impression I'm getting is that none of the OSX acceleration APIs allow the app to easily overlay other stuff on top of the video. Sounds like you give QT/CoreVideo a bounding rectangle, and that's the extent of your control. Whether this is really the case, I have no idea.
I'd wager that the difference is that Lame and VLC as organizations have no money whatsoever, whereas Mozilla Corp brings in $60 million a year and Canonical likely has cash worth losing as well.
An important question about the memory test: how does Windows Task Manager account for shared memory or clean copy-on-write segments? If each Chrome process shares 90% of its memory, then those test results are going to be highly misleading.
Although Firefox somehow wins the "Page Load Times" category, which seems more important to me than javascript benchmark speed.
You can't fantasize about a simulation.
Ever heard of Second Life?
It ignores the gear shift too!? Damn. That is a huge bug.
They do have hands though. Clutch, throttle and ebrake.
Rather than fighting with the e-brake or turning the engine off, could a driver of a runaway car not just kick the car into neutral? Waaaay less optimal than a brake-override but more effective than turning the car off.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's not true. I understand that sales (like employee vs. contractor) follow the duck test: if it looks like a sale, it is a sale. So this would apply, e.g. to a cellphone. Especially if you take into account used sales. So it is unusual that Apple can exercise control over an owner's use of the device.
Because of the zombies that were wearing them, obviously.
You claim that the audience doesn't want human interest stories, but I'm not sure I believe it. I'd like to see some A-B tests of coverage styles.
Haha first example that came to mind, although I did laugh before I hit submit when I realized that it would play into the Slashdot-Apple conspiracy :p
Shouldn't it be "astrodynamic" for a spaceship?
I've read that WIND uses the right frequencies to use the N900 at 3G speeds. Apparently they may even be bringing it to Canada officially. People are running it right now though, just self-imported from the States.
Someone beat slashdot to the ACTA meme bandwagon: ACTA will burn your books.
Thanks for the link. Amazing that the legislature is even giving this a second thought. What can they possibly be thinking?
It doesn't make sense to me though that Google etc wouldn't be spending an equal and opposite amount in lobbying to encourage FTTH. The lobbying should cancel out and leave municipalities to do what they want. WTF are the tech companies doing letting telecom companies pass regulation to harm their businesses? If I was a shareholder, I'd be upset.
Are you sure it would have no use? For example, I have an older iPod that doesn't display the length of a podcast unless you play it (and hence mark it as listened to). I would love to have that feature without buying an iPod Touch, but cannot. If the software was user-modifiable, then I could add that feature. For me, it's the little things like this where access to the internals is really nice.
Now, I totally agree with you in terms of voting with dollars; I'm one of the few people who bought an OpenMoko, and I'm drooling over an N900.
I guess the perspective of the FSF is that access to the source is one of the important issues that it's difficult to get people to think about at purchase time. There have been studies that show that people consider different criteria a purchase time and at "how much do I actually like this" time. I used the example elsewhere: people buying fridges don't give a shit about CFCs, but the net cost of using CFCs is high enough that as a society we banned their use. The FSF likely considers closed-source to be analogous to CFCs.
It continually surprises me that no municipalities or states have tried to implement this (or at least if they have, that it hasn't got a ton of press). The first place to do it will get a huge head start in connectivity. One of the cities trying to rival the SF bay area for tech people should do it and use it as a selling point; the tech companies located there should be pushing hard for it.
In the Canadian context, I'm surprised RIM hasn't pushed for it in Waterloo.
The problem with jailbreaking is that you're voting with your dollars for companies to continue creating locked devices.
But they want that option to be there for their expert to fix it. Same thing with cars - I have no interest whatsoever in the internal state of my car, but I would be unhappy if I had to take it to the dealership instead of my personal mechanic to keep it running smoothly.
In the end people will buy and use products they like, and this is what drives development of new products. People don't buy what the FSF decides to be good or bad for the development of computing.
But this isn't always the best for society in general. Think about the use of CFCs for refrigeration - the reason we don't see CFCs anymore has nothing to do with people choosing not to buy CFC refrigerators and everything to do with regulation. The FSF thinks that the world would be better if users could modify the software running on any device they own, just like they can modify the physical aspects. Do you honestly believe that the world be worse if that was the case?
The whole point of the FSF is that once you buy a consumer device you should be free to modify it. It's like a car - if you want to replace the muffler with a coffee-tin, the car won't lock you out. Why should computing devices be different?