>We lump a lot of animals together under the generic "dinosaur" tag.
In a sense, but it is correct to do so. There is very good evidence that Dinosauria is monophyletic, with two major branches: Saurischia (theropods and sauropods) and Ornithischians (duckbills, ceratopsians, stegosaurus, etc).
There are a very few, sometimes known as BANDits (Bird Are Not Dinosaurs) (see also: Birds came first). Most paleontologists consider BANDits to off their rocker.
Anyway, Mozilla, misguided as they may be in the matter of trademarks, are not so confused that they would use a non-Free codec even if they could afford to pay.
Not only was Linux the first to have USB3 support, when Intel got the physical aspect down and had to work on the programming interface (xhci), they used Linux. When the interface was stable enough they took the driver upstream. Linux is also the OS Oracle decided to use to create btrfs.
In November Greg K-H said "We change something like 5,000 lines a day, which is just scary. Fifty percent of that change will be in the drivers, and five percent will be in the core kernel."
According to LWN "2.6.32 is the result of 10,767 non-merge changesets sent in by 1,229 developers. This changes added a total of 1.17 million lines, while removing 611,000 lines, for a net growth of 559,000 lines of code." This isn't out of the ordinary, either (e.g. " 2.6.31 development cycle had seen the incorporation of 10,663 non-merge changesets from 1,146 individual developers. These patches added almost 903,000 lines of code and removed just over 494,000 lines, for a net growth of just over 408,000 lines.").
As for this stuff all being minor, read LWN, or the Kernel Newbies changelog, and see how long you keep that illusion.
Since the 2.4 -> 2.6 transition was so bad, Linus is unlikely to ever again do a "break the world" change, either with or without a long lived dev branch like 2.5. And really there is no need, short of switching to a microkernel or a managed language, everything can be done as a series of gradual changes (see: the ongoing TTY rework, KMS/DRI2, the relatively recent power-saving/suspend work, the gradual removal of the big kernel lock, the/x86_64/ ->/x86/ merge, the addition of mutexes (~2006Q1), someday the realtime stuff will probably be merged without a major version bump, etc)
nv - open source, but obfuscated, bare-bones 2d Xorg driver from Nvidia Nvidia - closed source 2d and 3d driver for Xorg and Mesa (classic) from Nvidia Nouveau - open source, reverse engineered driver for the kernel/Xorg (KMS) and Mesa (Gallium3d) from the Nouveau Community
Are you using the newest version? The current 64 bit version has been working great for me, no problems unless my browser has been up with lots of flash for a week. Admittedly, I never use fullscreen.
Yes, VP8 is what they (and everyone else) are thinking of. But you are quite right, neither On2 nor Google has said anything to encourage that idea, and they probably won't until the acquisition is complete.
HTML5 video doesn't inherently say anything about video "speed" or quality, because it does not define a codec. Some browsers support h.264, which is an option in recent flash, but not yet the standard. Other browsers support Theora, and some support whatever gstreamer/directplay/quicktime support.
Of course, if Google opens up On2's VP8 codec, and pushes it on Youtube (with fallbacks, of course), browsers will be all over it, and Flash (for video), Theora and perhaps even h.264 will irrelevant just like that.
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>What my ancestors were may not be what I am now.
Not at all. You are an Ape, a primate, a mammal, a synapsid, and a vertebrate.
Similarly, a sparrow is a type of theropod dinosaur.
>We lump a lot of animals together under the generic "dinosaur" tag.
In a sense, but it is correct to do so. There is very good evidence that Dinosauria is monophyletic, with two major branches: Saurischia (theropods and sauropods) and Ornithischians (duckbills, ceratopsians, stegosaurus, etc).
Cladistically they are.
Word to your mother?
It's all just a series of nested clades, and any clade can also be considered part of the encompassing clade(s)
Neornithes are Aves are Dinosauria are Archosauria are Diapsida
There are a very few, sometimes known as BANDits (Bird Are Not Dinosaurs) (see also: Birds came first). Most paleontologists consider BANDits to off their rocker.
probably not twice as much. maybe 1.5 times or so.
There are two ways FF could be supported: Google could add Theora, or they could free VP8 and switch to that.
you don't need flashblock, noscript blocks flash just fine. Just tell it to block flash and to apply restrictions to trusted sites as well.
>Theora is on par with other formats such as h.264 in all relevant categories such as file size, bandwidth and encoding quality
Much as I support Theora (i.e. totally), that is not even close to true. It is maybe comparable to MPEG-4 ASP (divx, xvid).
Epiphany, at least, uses GStreamer.
As long as h.246 is non-Free, it is irrelevant.
Adobe pays for h.264, VLC does not.
Anyway, Mozilla, misguided as they may be in the matter of trademarks, are not so confused that they would use a non-Free codec even if they could afford to pay.
This is the first time you have seen FLOSS instead of FOSS? How long have you been here, a week?
Not only was Linux the first to have USB3 support, when Intel got the physical aspect down and had to work on the programming interface (xhci), they used Linux. When the interface was stable enough they took the driver upstream. Linux is also the OS Oracle decided to use to create btrfs.
Nouveau is, in fact a full driver stack. The 3D part just isn't ready, because 3D drivers are really hard, especially when you have no documentation.
In November Greg K-H said "We change something like 5,000 lines a day, which is just scary. Fifty percent of that change will be in the drivers, and five percent will be in the core kernel."
According to LWN "2.6.32 is the result of 10,767 non-merge changesets sent in by 1,229 developers. This changes added a total of 1.17 million lines, while removing 611,000 lines, for a net growth of 559,000 lines of code." This isn't out of the ordinary, either (e.g. " 2.6.31 development cycle had seen the incorporation of 10,663 non-merge changesets from 1,146 individual developers. These patches added almost 903,000 lines of code and removed just over 494,000 lines, for a net growth of just over 408,000 lines.").
As for this stuff all being minor, read LWN, or the Kernel Newbies changelog, and see how long you keep that illusion.
Since the 2.4 -> 2.6 transition was so bad, Linus is unlikely to ever again do a "break the world" change, either with or without a long lived dev branch like 2.5. And really there is no need, short of switching to a microkernel or a managed language, everything can be done as a series of gradual changes (see: the ongoing TTY rework, KMS/DRI2, the relatively recent power-saving/suspend work, the gradual removal of the big kernel lock, the /x86_64/ -> /x86/ merge, the addition of mutexes (~2006Q1), someday the realtime stuff will probably be merged without a major version bump, etc)
no it isn't.
nv - open source, but obfuscated, bare-bones 2d Xorg driver from Nvidia
Nvidia - closed source 2d and 3d driver for Xorg and Mesa (classic) from Nvidia
Nouveau - open source, reverse engineered driver for the kernel/Xorg (KMS) and Mesa (Gallium3d) from the Nouveau Community
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
r700 specs came out some months after the chips did, the same is expected for r800 (should be soon now).
As for the Intel GMA500, its driver is shit and always will be, because is it actually a PowerVR mobile chip.
The other modern Intel chips are underpowered, but not really that bad (the old ones had bugs and serious misfeatures).
But I believe the post is otherwise correct. Someone started work on a Theora FPGA decoder for SoC 2006, and that is about it.
And that definitely isn't grammar, I think the correct word in this case is semantics.
Hardware Theora encoders don't exist
Hardware Theora decoders don't exist
Theora barely uses less bandwidth than flash video for a given bandwidth
Fixed. Stop conflating a wrapper (Ogg) with codecs (Theora and Vorbis, commonly used with Ogg), people!
Well, that does suck.
My Intel X3500 manages hq at least
Are you using the newest version? The current 64 bit version has been working great for me, no problems unless my browser has been up with lots of flash for a week. Admittedly, I never use fullscreen.
I still agree that Flash should go away, though.
Yes, VP8 is what they (and everyone else) are thinking of. But you are quite right, neither On2 nor Google has said anything to encourage that idea, and they probably won't until the acquisition is complete.
faster how? encoding? decoding? downloading?
HTML5 video doesn't inherently say anything about video "speed" or quality, because it does not define a codec.
Some browsers support h.264, which is an option in recent flash, but not yet the standard. Other browsers support Theora, and some support whatever gstreamer/directplay/quicktime support.
Of course, if Google opens up On2's VP8 codec, and pushes it on Youtube (with fallbacks, of course), browsers will be all over it, and Flash (for video), Theora and perhaps even h.264 will irrelevant just like that.