Mod parent up, the video might be too intense for liberal (Tipper Gore) ears, but it's something everyone needs to see in order to understand how BP fucked up and how this failure was inevitable.
But I'd bet a fair sum that VP8 was specifically designed by On2 to skirt, but carefully avoid, every MPEG-LA patent
This. There's absolutely no other reason why the spec would "borrow" so much from h.264 and yet come out worse... unless they started with h.264 and removed everything that was patented.
Ding ding ding, the very existence of the database indicates that the government desires to exploit the Prosecutor's Fallacy to the max. There is absolutely no legitimate purpose to such a database, the money would be better spent developing faster methods of testing suspects and clearing out the horrible backlog of rape kits and such in many jurisdictions.
The HTML standard just says "play video here" just like the image tag just says "show picture here" it's up to the browser to decide how to do this, and up to the web developer to use a file format that's supported by people looking at their website.
TFA mentions that NASA was also soliciting new designs for a supersonic transport aircraft; given the reluctance of nations to allow those in their airspace and the resulting eventual demise of the Concorde (which, IIRC, never made a profit anyway), one has to wonder why.
At this point, it's probably because NASA is really hoping for military funds to save it.
serve them towards what they really want to do in life
Of course not, they're children, too stupid to be in charge of what they'll do in their life* until they turn 18** (* unless they kill someone ** 17 in some jurisdictions) Since their brains are still forming so there's no way they can decide if they want to be a plumber or a teacher or a mechanic or a programmer. Won't somebody think of the children?!
BTW, the "if your kid doesn't get a college degree he'll be a bum living out of trashcans" meme has been around for years and years now. "Jokes" about needing a degree to get a job flipping burgers predate NCLB.
As I run a small business, I already pay "by the bit". It encourages me to trim my website and keep bandwidth usage down. What I'm NOT happy about are the repeated threats by major ISP executives that they somehow deserve a single penny of my revenue for deigning to permit me to show my website to their users.
I live in a city of 50,000. It would not cost billions of dollars to enter this market
As long as you only want an "internet" of 50,000 people, sure. Eventually, some of your customers are going to want to watch youtube, and when you go to hook up your little network to a competitor's network to get their packets there, what are you going to do if the other company says "NO"?
Don't worry though, your work won't be in vain. I'm sure the national ISP will buy your carefully laid network at pennies on the dollar at your bankruptcy auction.
Most likely it'd be used in artistic installations first, eg a hallway that viewed from the outside, shows you the people who walked through a few minutes ago. Perhaps varying the thickness of the material so that people look to be warping around.
Part of the problem in counting these things is that by being here they've committed a crime, by working they've committed a crime, and if they used fake papers to get that job, that's two or three more crimes right there.
Once you subtract out the crimes they committed just to be here, I suspect the vast majority of illegal immigrants fit into two categories: squeaky clean, or victimizing other illegal immigrants they know are too scared to call the cops.
I think the thing that amazes me the most about that video is that even after bashing it against the blender a few times you can clearly see the on-screen keyboard through the cracks in the display. The iPad may be unusuable like that, but I think the fact that it is still running is incredible.
Chrome shows punycode in the address bar as well. It's actually a security issue (probably a setting to enable it somewhere) when punycode started being used within.com domains, people were registering things like paypal.com except with Greek or Cyrillic letters and rather than trying to explain to users that they've linked to a greek domain and if they don't think the website should be in greek it's probably fake, they just decided to show the punycode URL
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You should be ashamed of yourselves for reading my post when you should be off curing cancer or saving orphans or something useful!
Mod parent up, the video might be too intense for liberal (Tipper Gore) ears, but it's something everyone needs to see in order to understand how BP fucked up and how this failure was inevitable.
But I'd bet a fair sum that VP8 was specifically designed by On2 to skirt, but carefully avoid, every MPEG-LA patent
This. There's absolutely no other reason why the spec would "borrow" so much from h.264 and yet come out worse... unless they started with h.264 and removed everything that was patented.
Ding ding ding, the very existence of the database indicates that the government desires to exploit the Prosecutor's Fallacy to the max. There is absolutely no legitimate purpose to such a database, the money would be better spent developing faster methods of testing suspects and clearing out the horrible backlog of rape kits and such in many jurisdictions.
Fortunately, our system is set up such that it can always self correct, even if it takes a while.
In the long run we're all dea^H^H^Hin jail for a crime someone else committed.
you cannot create your own
Better tell that to all these people. On a smaller scale, some arcade games only take tokens.
Here's what you can't do:
1) let someone ring up a bill then tell them you only take "bananabux". Once they owe you money, "cash" has to be an option.
Here's what you can do:
1) Whatever else the fuck you want. Just remember you'll have to convert to USD to pay taxes.
But what if slashdot's servers die and the post is deleted?
If you've made the right friends...
How will be the HTML5 standards organised
The HTML standard just says "play video here" just like the image tag just says "show picture here" it's up to the browser to decide how to do this, and up to the web developer to use a file format that's supported by people looking at their website.
I think the most appropriate way is to prevent :visited from applying to any URL not within the current domain.
Since 1971 and counting? Talk about the mother of all fires!
That's child's play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania has been burning since 1962.
Ya and you also have a higher chance of getting cancer (yes birth control comes with side effects, some very nasty side effects)
Maybe you should get your condoms from somewhere other than China?
which says that juveniles cannot get life sentences for nonhomicides.
Unless they looked at kiddie porn, then they get a 3 year sentence that they serve for the rest of their life.
TFA mentions that NASA was also soliciting new designs for a supersonic transport aircraft; given the reluctance of nations to allow those in their airspace and the resulting eventual demise of the Concorde (which, IIRC, never made a profit anyway), one has to wonder why.
At this point, it's probably because NASA is really hoping for military funds to save it.
serve them towards what they really want to do in life
Of course not, they're children, too stupid to be in charge of what they'll do in their life* until they turn 18** (* unless they kill someone ** 17 in some jurisdictions) Since their brains are still forming so there's no way they can decide if they want to be a plumber or a teacher or a mechanic or a programmer. Won't somebody think of the children?!
BTW, the "if your kid doesn't get a college degree he'll be a bum living out of trashcans" meme has been around for years and years now. "Jokes" about needing a degree to get a job flipping burgers predate NCLB.
I hope you like paying by the bit.
As I run a small business, I already pay "by the bit". It encourages me to trim my website and keep bandwidth usage down. What I'm NOT happy about are the repeated threats by major ISP executives that they somehow deserve a single penny of my revenue for deigning to permit me to show my website to their users.
I live in a city of 50,000. It would not cost billions of dollars to enter this market
As long as you only want an "internet" of 50,000 people, sure. Eventually, some of your customers are going to want to watch youtube, and when you go to hook up your little network to a competitor's network to get their packets there, what are you going to do if the other company says "NO"?
Don't worry though, your work won't be in vain. I'm sure the national ISP will buy your carefully laid network at pennies on the dollar at your bankruptcy auction.
really useful apps
Most likely it'd be used in artistic installations first, eg a hallway that viewed from the outside, shows you the people who walked through a few minutes ago. Perhaps varying the thickness of the material so that people look to be warping around.
No, Slashdot is just fucked. Not even Google Chrome (faster than a speeding french fry!) can save it now.
Only those of us who can figure out how to get around their ajax crap stand a chance.
You have to charge the state's sales tax if the company has a branch in that state (aka the Apple Store).
Part of the problem in counting these things is that by being here they've committed a crime, by working they've committed a crime, and if they used fake papers to get that job, that's two or three more crimes right there.
Once you subtract out the crimes they committed just to be here, I suspect the vast majority of illegal immigrants fit into two categories: squeaky clean, or victimizing other illegal immigrants they know are too scared to call the cops.
What they do do is cause traffic
Schizophrenic road design that can't decide on the purpose of the road is what causes traffic.
What you describe is "driving the speed limit", which may or may not be set by insanity.
I think the thing that amazes me the most about that video is that even after bashing it against the blender a few times you can clearly see the on-screen keyboard through the cracks in the display. The iPad may be unusuable like that, but I think the fact that it is still running is incredible.
Chrome shows punycode in the address bar as well. It's actually a security issue (probably a setting to enable it somewhere) when punycode started being used within .com domains, people were registering things like paypal.com except with Greek or Cyrillic letters and rather than trying to explain to users that they've linked to a greek domain and if they don't think the website should be in greek it's probably fake, they just decided to show the punycode URL
Preventing similar characters from being used to make one domain look like another.
There wasn't one before (remember paypai.com?) there isn't one now.