Yeah, lets start this stupid argument about clouds again. Slashdot used to have knowledgeable persons commenting on stuff, not some idiots making remarks about things they know nothing about. Sigh.
but a business can and should hire IT people who don't think the whole world begins and ends in Redmond.
We've already been over the subject of user stupidity and that every OS is as insecure as the user many times, but I wanted to note regarding that line.. Most of the time, proprietary products (be it Microsoft or other large companies that cater to businesses) are the only viable choice. For example in browsers IE is the only one that has great support for internal deployment and policies. As a home user you most likely don't care, but if you're ever needed to handle a large amount of business computers you know how much easier IE makes it. Firefox, Chrome, Opera and all are tailored for home users. It doesn't have any policy handling and deploying. Personally I use Opera and wouldn't ever touch IE, but I understand and don't just ignore the reason companies want to use it. And it's not only IE, it's also Windows and many other commercial software.
but that WebM is theoretically safer to use than MPEG-LA.
That's upside down. H.264 is safer to use, but you have to pay license fees if your software encodes to H.264. WebM is a hope-for-the-best.. Even Google doesn't guarantee there won't be trouble with patents.
Has MPEG-LA caused any troubles or are people just assuming that one day MPEG-LA may do something dastardly evil?
They're asking a small percentage of the money you make using H.264. Evil, I know.
Eh, what else is MPEG-LA then? It's just like this consortium - you don't sue me, I dont sue you, let's all just use this technology peacefully. And now Google created an consortium for a less advanced technology.. Yeah if I ran a business and my revenue dependent on video codecs, I'd be sure to join Google's one instead of the much better MPEG-LA........
But the truth is, WP8/WebM is just too late. H.264 is already everywhere.. And it's not just about your video player on linux, but the actual real world usage. H.264 is on TV broadcasts, game consoles, computers, mobile phones, advanced video processing software and all that goes into actual production.. It's everywhere. WP8 on the other hand isn't, it's just on your computer. That is not good enough for the real world. And then theres the facts that H.264 is both faster and gives better quality (and that is the thing what matters to people, not licenses) and that H.265 is coming out in a few years and again contains significant improvements and new technology.
If you want to have an open video format, you have to look into the future. You cannot replace it now. Improve the open video format and it's algorithm and win the next round. But it wont be won just because it's "open" (H.264 is too), but because it's a better standard. By far WP8 is not.
The other stupid thing about current Wii games is that they don't all support Motion Plus. I really hope the standard Wii2 controller will be as accurate as the old one with motion plus. It makes a big difference.
Well, is there really anything worth it in the moon? If there was some precious metals or something, I'm sure there would be lots of companies trying to get them and turn it into money. But there isn't. On the other hand, Mars surely could have such.
If you have played Portal 2, you'd know there are some crazy investors putting out money there just because when something new gets invented or you're first in mars building the infrastructure and have won everyone else, the rewards are huge.
People always complain how someone got hugely successful just because he was there at the right time. Well, this might be one of those time, and it can be absolutely insane opportunity.
If he has any sense at all, he is probably worried about Chinese and Indians taking over the space business. Hell, if I ran a space company I would probably work out some deal either with Russians or Chinese. The only thing why US is good for it now is because of investors. But with the tens of russian billionaires and thousands of russian millionaires out there, it would probably be easy to get money from there too. After all, major Russian investor company owns big share of Facebook and other US based companies too..
Talk about missing the point here. The purpose of those animations isn't to make them most beautiful you can with video editing and all that shit, but make them the most beautiful you can given the limits of.gif.
I would love to see this conversation in some art gallery, where a geek starts lecturing everyone how mona lisa would be much better if it was filmed in 1080p and would include sound and music. And then he would go on and start jabbing how the DRM in mona lisa and the art gallery guards ruins the experience as you cant just walk away with it and put a linux on it.
It's your own fault for using plugins that break compatibility. Frankly I don't think Gawker even cares about you, since they're ad run site like most of the internet and rather just have the visitors that are worth something to them.
At least Apple buries the fact somewhere in some deep EULA (I guess). Google didn't ask anyone when it collected WIFI data, nor does it ask for permission when people use google's search engine (or 90% of the other sites on internet that have google analytics)
People are unfairly giving cloud hosting here bad name anyway - EC2 doesn't handle distributing your services in that way and it's directly noted.. You have to make sure you have backup locations set up in EC2. It costs more, but it's for situations like this. That is why Netflix didn't have any problems even while they were using EC2.
If you're being stupid and taking shortcuts thinking you won't need that, well, it's your choice. You would do it with any kind of service anyway.
It scales really well and can be significantly cheaper than buying your own servers which you won't be using all the time anyway. They are also extremely hard to go down, as seen on these huge amounts of reporting they get if they happen to go for a bit.
I really don't get the slashdots hate against cloud providers, but I guess it's mostly just people who haven't even used such or worked with them and compared them to other solutions. The same old elitist "this new shit is useless, I like my old ways thank you very much. And now get off my lawn".
I find it funny that the article calls it 'tricking' people into it. I sometimes play with my nvidia 3d set and I absolutely love the effect in some games (left4dead is a great example). It does trick my eyes into seeing the world in "3D" and makes the infected a lot more scarier. That's what I want, a trick or not.
Uh, there's still lots of players in all CoD games - MW1, World at War, MW2 and Black Ops. Don't blame the other players if you first spend the time on the internet bitching how you wont buy a new game at it's full price but buy it at $20 a few years later and they've moved to new games already.
Personally I like MW2 the best, the whole noobtube + one man army + danger close thing kind of makes it fun, for me at least. Not so sure about others.
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Yeah, lets start this stupid argument about clouds again. Slashdot used to have knowledgeable persons commenting on stuff, not some idiots making remarks about things they know nothing about. Sigh.
but a business can and should hire IT people who don't think the whole world begins and ends in Redmond.
We've already been over the subject of user stupidity and that every OS is as insecure as the user many times, but I wanted to note regarding that line.. Most of the time, proprietary products (be it Microsoft or other large companies that cater to businesses) are the only viable choice. For example in browsers IE is the only one that has great support for internal deployment and policies. As a home user you most likely don't care, but if you're ever needed to handle a large amount of business computers you know how much easier IE makes it. Firefox, Chrome, Opera and all are tailored for home users. It doesn't have any policy handling and deploying. Personally I use Opera and wouldn't ever touch IE, but I understand and don't just ignore the reason companies want to use it. And it's not only IE, it's also Windows and many other commercial software.
It's nice you can already visit it though. I visited there two years ago and the place really gives you weird feeling.
I had also just played the map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and it was funny seeing the same places.
Those tutorial videos are part of your product. Therefore you are using H.264 to make money.
Or are you saying that you aren't selling electricity so you don't need to pay for your company's electricity bill either?
So MPEG-LA is the root of evil because year after year they remain silent? Wow.
And nobody replaced MPEG2 with inferior technology. It got replaced when better codecs and algorithms were adopted.
but that WebM is theoretically safer to use than MPEG-LA.
That's upside down. H.264 is safer to use, but you have to pay license fees if your software encodes to H.264. WebM is a hope-for-the-best.. Even Google doesn't guarantee there won't be trouble with patents.
Has MPEG-LA caused any troubles or are people just assuming that one day MPEG-LA may do something dastardly evil?
They're asking a small percentage of the money you make using H.264. Evil, I know.
Eh, what else is MPEG-LA then? It's just like this consortium - you don't sue me, I dont sue you, let's all just use this technology peacefully. And now Google created an consortium for a less advanced technology.. Yeah if I ran a business and my revenue dependent on video codecs, I'd be sure to join Google's one instead of the much better MPEG-LA........
But the truth is, WP8/WebM is just too late. H.264 is already everywhere.. And it's not just about your video player on linux, but the actual real world usage. H.264 is on TV broadcasts, game consoles, computers, mobile phones, advanced video processing software and all that goes into actual production.. It's everywhere. WP8 on the other hand isn't, it's just on your computer. That is not good enough for the real world. And then theres the facts that H.264 is both faster and gives better quality (and that is the thing what matters to people, not licenses) and that H.265 is coming out in a few years and again contains significant improvements and new technology.
If you want to have an open video format, you have to look into the future. You cannot replace it now. Improve the open video format and it's algorithm and win the next round. But it wont be won just because it's "open" (H.264 is too), but because it's a better standard. By far WP8 is not.
The other stupid thing about current Wii games is that they don't all support Motion Plus. I really hope the standard Wii2 controller will be as accurate as the old one with motion plus. It makes a big difference.
But imagine if you would go and find a female-only race there. You would be the only man surrounded by tons of beautiful female aliens.
Well, is there really anything worth it in the moon? If there was some precious metals or something, I'm sure there would be lots of companies trying to get them and turn it into money. But there isn't. On the other hand, Mars surely could have such.
If you have played Portal 2, you'd know there are some crazy investors putting out money there just because when something new gets invented or you're first in mars building the infrastructure and have won everyone else, the rewards are huge.
People always complain how someone got hugely successful just because he was there at the right time. Well, this might be one of those time, and it can be absolutely insane opportunity.
But that sure is one expensive way to go!
If he has any sense at all, he is probably worried about Chinese and Indians taking over the space business. Hell, if I ran a space company I would probably work out some deal either with Russians or Chinese. The only thing why US is good for it now is because of investors. But with the tens of russian billionaires and thousands of russian millionaires out there, it would probably be easy to get money from there too. After all, major Russian investor company owns big share of Facebook and other US based companies too..
Talk about missing the point here. The purpose of those animations isn't to make them most beautiful you can with video editing and all that shit, but make them the most beautiful you can given the limits of .gif.
I would love to see this conversation in some art gallery, where a geek starts lecturing everyone how mona lisa would be much better if it was filmed in 1080p and would include sound and music. And then he would go on and start jabbing how the DRM in mona lisa and the art gallery guards ruins the experience as you cant just walk away with it and put a linux on it.
It's your own fault for using plugins that break compatibility. Frankly I don't think Gawker even cares about you, since they're ad run site like most of the internet and rather just have the visitors that are worth something to them.
At least Apple buries the fact somewhere in some deep EULA (I guess). Google didn't ask anyone when it collected WIFI data, nor does it ask for permission when people use google's search engine (or 90% of the other sites on internet that have google analytics)
People are unfairly giving cloud hosting here bad name anyway - EC2 doesn't handle distributing your services in that way and it's directly noted.. You have to make sure you have backup locations set up in EC2. It costs more, but it's for situations like this. That is why Netflix didn't have any problems even while they were using EC2.
If you're being stupid and taking shortcuts thinking you won't need that, well, it's your choice. You would do it with any kind of service anyway.
It scales really well and can be significantly cheaper than buying your own servers which you won't be using all the time anyway. They are also extremely hard to go down, as seen on these huge amounts of reporting they get if they happen to go for a bit.
I really don't get the slashdots hate against cloud providers, but I guess it's mostly just people who haven't even used such or worked with them and compared them to other solutions. The same old elitist "this new shit is useless, I like my old ways thank you very much. And now get off my lawn".
I find it funny that the article calls it 'tricking' people into it. I sometimes play with my nvidia 3d set and I absolutely love the effect in some games (left4dead is a great example). It does trick my eyes into seeing the world in "3D" and makes the infected a lot more scarier. That's what I want, a trick or not.
Or what about do like the rest of the world, where handset and services are two separate things and can be mixed by customers as pleased?
Uh, there's still lots of players in all CoD games - MW1, World at War, MW2 and Black Ops. Don't blame the other players if you first spend the time on the internet bitching how you wont buy a new game at it's full price but buy it at $20 a few years later and they've moved to new games already.
Personally I like MW2 the best, the whole noobtube + one man army + danger close thing kind of makes it fun, for me at least. Not so sure about others.