The REASON Europe is in such a snit about media player, is they realise that everybody will need it to view streaming news/information. This will become more and more popular, to the point where that is where you watch all your news. Think about it, what would the web be like if microsoft (or any other corporation for that matter) OWENED the standards? If the streaming media is done to a published standard, this is not really a problem - but we all know how microsoft deals with HTML and tried to with JAVA. An awful lot of people write pages to suit IE at the expense of the standard- so if you ar'nt using it your fucked not because other browsers are bad but because people HVE to have it work on IE first. If the same thing happens with streaming media- You will need to pay MS to see the news. The soulution is to write a streaming standard and implimentation and get government to ENFORCE it. Ie you want to stream media? here are the tools there're free, here's all the documentation - it's free, go wild. Oh BTW, you break this standard and you and the CEO will be going to prison, not pay a fine, weasel in court for eight years but straight to"enlarge my asshole at your pleasure bubba" prison. then it doesn't matter if Microsoft bundle it or not the fact that realplayer and other companies may or may not make money is irrelevant.
I hate to break it to all those naysayers out there, but the polution problems of the two stroke have been solved via direct injection of fuel along with a small charge of compressed air. See link> http://www.orbeng.com.au/orbital/orbitalTec hnology/combustProcess.htm This now being implemented by scooter and moped manufacturers due to tighter pollution laws. The reason this wont get up is LEGAL, not due to engineering difficulties. In Oz power assist on bicycles is limited to 300watts (less than 1/2 a hp)small enough to ensure uselessness. After that the vehicle becomes a "motorbike" requiring a licence, helmet, proper headlight, indicators, tyres meeting motorcycle standards, and best of all - expensive insurance.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
The REASON Europe is in such a snit about media player, is they realise that everybody will need
it to view streaming news/information. This will
become more and more popular, to the point where
that is where you watch all your news.
Think about it, what would the web be like if
microsoft (or any other corporation for that matter)
OWENED the standards?
If the streaming media is done to a published standard, this is not really a problem - but
we all know how microsoft deals with HTML
and tried to with JAVA. An awful lot of people write pages to suit IE at the expense of the standard- so if you ar'nt using it your fucked
not because other browsers are bad but because people HVE to have it work on IE first.
If the same thing happens with streaming
media- You will need to pay MS to see the news.
The soulution is to write a streaming standard
and implimentation and get government to ENFORCE
it. Ie you want to stream media? here are the tools
there're free, here's all the documentation - it's free, go wild. Oh BTW, you break this standard
and you and the CEO will be going to prison, not pay a fine, weasel in court for eight years but straight to"enlarge my asshole at your pleasure bubba" prison.
then it doesn't matter if Microsoft bundle it or
not the fact that realplayer and other companies
may or may not make money is irrelevant.
Cheers
Stephen
I hate to break it to all those naysayers out there,c hnology /combustProcess.htm
but the polution problems of the two stroke have been solved via direct injection of fuel along with a small charge of compressed air. See link>
http://www.orbeng.com.au/orbital/orbitalTe
This now being implemented by scooter and moped manufacturers due to tighter pollution laws.
The reason this wont get up is LEGAL, not due to engineering difficulties. In Oz power assist on
bicycles is limited to 300watts (less than 1/2 a hp)small enough to ensure uselessness. After that
the vehicle becomes a "motorbike" requiring a licence, helmet, proper headlight, indicators, tyres meeting motorcycle standards, and best of
all - expensive insurance.
Cheers for beers
Lebbeck