Actually he was the person I wanted him to be. I got to meet him a few years ago. He was doing young Eagle flights at an EAA fly in. He meet thousands of kids and spent a ton of time with each of them. He didn't sell out and use his fame to become mindbogglingly rich. He didn't sell out and become a politician. Frankly he should have been in the world spot light but wasn't because he wasn't on the machine could make money on. I don't think he could have done what you think he could have. To keep that spotlight he would have serve the fame machine. He would have had to sold is integrity and would have been left with nothing. Sorry but to me his speaking now is far louder of a statment than if he tried to do what you have suggested. Plus it comes down to this. It is his life and by any stretch of imagination one filled with accomplishments. We all should live our lives as well.
"other than running his national campaign organization which was effectively a successful $800 million business." Wouldn't that have been the campaign manager?
"Jim Lovell might have a business degree, but quite frankly, I'd need to know more before ascribing him business savvy." A degree from Harvard. You must at least say that he has a good business education. "The fact that I'm questioning their ability to properly assess a business decision has no impact on their past achievements - I'm sure we can agree on that." You are so willing to support this and keep throwing hero worship into it let me ask you. Obama has zero business, economic, and engineering experience and or education. All there of these men have multiple degrees in engineering and I am pretty sure all of them have at least one in Aerospace engineering. Which when judging this program I think is very valid. Even without comment form these men the current plan sounds like a giant waste to me. Keep building the Orion but not the launch vehicle so we can use it for a lifeboat on the space station? Really? Isn't that what the Soyuz is used for now? So we pay but get no capability. He wants to keep spending money on a new heavy lift system but no mission requirement! So no hero worship from me. These men make a good point and I do respect their judgment based on there education and life experience. Frankly if you compare their life experience and education to the Presidents they on average are as well or better educated. Jim Lovell has more degrees than President Obama. They have more business experience of which President Obama has none. And a lot more education and experience in engineering than President Obama has. If anything I would say your acceptance of President Obama's space plan is based on hero worship more so my feelings that it is a disaster.
Actually I have to wonder if OS/2 might not make a great embedded OS these days. It is super reliable and by today's standards petty light weight. OS/2 Mobile on your next phone?
Actually he went there after challenger disaster. Odds are he went out of a sense of duty to see that things where done right. He as since retired so I would say he no longer has a vested interest. Frankly at his age and in his position I doubt that anything but doing what is right really motivates him. Lets face it if being rich motivated him he had every chance in the world to pimp him self out over the years and didn't.
Don't throw the wasted lives thing in. They all wanted to go. Over 300 people have died since 1945 Boxing. "Barbaric activity I feel and never watch it" In 2006 42 people dies skateboarding. People die doing many activities so that death count is no reason to stop.
"You realize the rockets used were based on Nazi technology to deliver payloads?" Actually not really. When the captured they asked Von Braun how he developed the V2 his response was "ask Goddard". The V2 was a scaled up version of Goddard's last rockets right down the the graphite vanes controlled by a gyroscope. The US put Goddard to work during WWII building rockets to help flying boats take off quicker...
What a waste. A great man that decided to not use his fame to push his own agenda and to become of all things a TEACHER! I mean really what good is that. Actually I give him more credit because of that. This finally pushed him to take a stand. It is a shame really that he needed to.
"how many tax dollars have been wasted because some penny-pinching bureaucrat decided it would be "cheaper in the long run?"" Politicians don't care what is cheaper in the long run. They care what is cheaper in the short term. And I have to wonder where they get there advice from. I have a good amount of respect for Sen McCain but he is a prime example. He used to tweet his biggest boondoggles. You know things that seem like a huge waste of money. At one time his number one was for a few million dollars for seismic research in of all places St. Louis MO! Not California or Alaska where we get earthquakes but in the Midwest!.... A place that I just happen to know has a huge fault that was the source of one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded. One that was so powerful it was felt in Charleston SC! That pork barrel project actually makes a lot of sense but how many people know that their was a huge quake there in 1812? But as I said it is about the short term...
Armstrong is also an engineer and served on the Challenger shuttle accident investigation board. Up till now he has stayed clear of politics and has been on the board of directors of many companies so yes he is also a business person.
Jim Lovell has fromal education includes University of Wisconsin–Madison United States Naval Academy (BS, 1952) United States Naval Test Pilot School, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (1958) Aviation Safety School, University of Southern California (1961) Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School (1978) I think that last one means that he has a firm grasp of business as well as engineering.
Cernan only has two degrees in engineering so he may be the least qualified of the group but then President Obama has zero education or experence in business, engineering, or accounting. His degree is in law.
Frankly these man have nothing to gain at this time. They have all done what a very select few people have done. They are all pretty much set for the rest of their lives so they don't need any more money. To dismiss them I think is the height of arrogance.
And to make matter worse President Obama isn't saving money by killing the Ares he is changing it from a program with at some goals to a welfare program! We are going to keep spending money on developing the Orion but instead of using it for maned flights we are going to use it as the worlds most expensive life boat for the space station. We are still going to depend on Russia for manned access to space. We are going to spend money on developing a HLLV with no goal or mission for it! Yea this is A FREAKING NIGHTMARE OF A PLAN! What this will let President Obama do is kill them off piece by piece but only after dropping many billions of dollars on them. Frankly this plan seems to be to be the WORST POSSIBLE plan. Frankly it sounds like something Col Hogan would talk Col Clink into doing! So to all those that willing to dismiss these three well educated, extremely brillant, and wise men I just want you to think about it long and hard. This is a freaking disaster.
I think you are mistaking socialism with a mature and financially stable company. Bell back in the regulated monopoly days was with out a doubt mature and financially stable. They could do research that might not pay off for 30 years because they knew they would be around in 30 years to benefit from it. They also built infrastructure that would last for decades even if it cost more for that same reason. IBM still produces a lot of basic science for that same reason. They believe that they will be around for another 100 years. GE, DuPont, and Dow chemical used to and probably still do a lot of basic research for that same reason. They are mature and frankly a lot of their profitability is based on science so they benefit from research. Even folks like Chrysler back in the 50s got into some pretty wild stuff. Did you know the rocket that launched the first US satellite and the first Mercury sub orbital flight was made by Chrysler? Intel is probably reaching the level of maturity and long term profitably that they will start doing a lot of long term research. The problem is that the best research will come from companies that do some kind of manufacturing which the US is doing less and less of. Take Apple for example. They are not a manufacturing company they are closer to a fashion design house combined with a software developer. Nothing wrong with it but they just don't make stuff. They make pretty packages that they pay other people to fill with stuff Intel and others make. I honestly don't expect anything really ground breaking from them.
Honestly no they can not. At least not yet. Adobe has yet to deliver mobile Flash on any platform yet. They promised it for the Palm Pre and Android a while ago. They do have Flash lite but it really is useless.
Frankly until Adobe show Flash on these other devices I don't see any reason to fuss about it not being on the iPhone. If Flash is important to you and it doesn't suck you will have the choice to get an Android, Palm, and maybe a WinMo phone. So you may in the future have a choice but right now Adobe isn't giving you one.
In my office we have I think two iPhones seven Palm Pre's, three Android devices, and a goodness knows what else. So? Both are not accurate statistical samples.
I read that and I have to say. I don't care how Adobe treats Apple or Apple treated Adobe. I don't work for Apple and I don't work for Adobe.
The only thing that should matter is would Flash on the iPhone be good fro iPhone users. Would the Flash cross development tool be good for iPhone users? I have not seen Flash yet on any mobile platform. Flash lite sucked. Adobe has not delivered Flash for the Palm Pre or Android yet so as far as Flash on a mobile device we are have no idea if it is good or bad yet. If Adobe produces a good flash experience for those platforms then people will buy them instead of the iPhone. If they suck people will not use it. Seems simple to me.
So? It is their platform and they don't hold a monopoly in the market. No differen't that what Microsoft does on the XBox, Sony does on the PS2 and PS3, or Nintendo does on Wii and Gameboy line. You may not like it but how is it illegal?
"It's like calling the iPhone the 'Apple phone'." If you look at the chart that is exactly what they do. The chart is not market share by device it is market share by device OS vendor. Microsoft and Google don't make phones at all.
Not really. You still have to sell them through iTunes and apple will still get it's cut. I think it is more to do with Apple being control freaks. The iPhone has increased the number of Objective-C + OS/X developers as it is so more potenal Mac developers. It also forces people to choose to put X amount of effort into iPhone development. The effort does not translate to Android, Palm, WinMo, or RIM apps. In theory this Flash translator could allow an easy port of your smash iphone app to other platforms. But over all I think it is Steve hates Flash and he loves his OS/X framework. Use it or play someplace else. Not the way I would like to see things work but so is life.
As I said Wikileaks needs to clean up it's act. I didn't say ban them or arrest them but in more than one case I felt they where practicing yellow journalism. I will not rush to say why I think they are doing it but if your theory is right isn't it reprehensible to take something as seriously as this and inflate and manipulate it for fund raising? To post the video at the URL collateralmurder.com is prejudging this video! If I didn't think they where at least a little worth while I would say that people should just not go there. My suggestion to them is to clean up their act, remove the bias and commentary, and still release the data. Let us decide for ourselves. Is that too much to ask or suggest? I criticize manipulation when I see it. The problem is most people can not see it when the agree with it. Even I probably miss subtle bias when it follows my own world view but this was anything but subtle.
Actually you should read more. My grip is with the edited version that Wikileaks has published. I feel it is biased as was the URL the posted it under. They are using emotional manipulation to push viewpoint. That is not how a news service works.
My defending the Apache crews really comes down to. I don't have all the data and I am not in the position too judge them. All I have to go on is the video. I am not going to damn anybody without having all the data. Your have a lot more experience than so your opinion of their actions should without a doubt hold more weight than mine.
What way to many people don't get or care is that I think that it is good that Wikileaks got and released this. I think it is terrible that they edited and added cometary that introduced bias to it. I am sick of news services and other groups feeling the need to "guide" public opinion through manipulation. Wikileaks should have just released the unedited video under their standard URL with the title like video of the "Apache attack that resulted in the death of two journalists". We the people need data and not manipulation and if you think wikileaks isn't trying to manipulate people then your mistaken.
My attacks reactions to people claiming that I have lost my humanity or don't care because I will not jump to judgment over the video and because I dare to point out how wikileaks is being manipulative. Funny thing is I just said they need to clean up their act.
Actually I did stop when he told me to because I didn't want to get shot. The rifle butt between the shoulder blades was not nessasry at the time since I was unarmed and frankly had nothing to do with anything just a kid from the US hanging with my cousins. They just happen to have been in Belfast. The private that hit me was only 19 and had just seen his several of his mates die. Looking back my wounds where probably a lot less than his and healed faster.
I am not justifying the actions of the Military in not releasing the footage. I am condemning the bias and editorial manipulation of the video by Wikileaks. I was trying to understand how the solders in the Apache could have made the errors. The cover up and not releasing the video is bad and inexcusable. The bias that Wikileaks showed in this case is also inexcusable. Their was no reason for except for manipulation. Are the acts equal? Nope. Do two wrongs make a right? No. If Wikileaks had simply released the unedited video and hand not dramatized it then that would have been fine. But do not excuse the press being manipulative just because you happen to believe that their point of view is correct. How many historical examples do we need to get past the idea that the end justifies the means?
Well It is probably an external drive but over all it is just dumb. I can get a 500GB external for less than $100. DRM is makes it a none starter for me. And I have NetFlix so I just put them on my list. Just seems like the king of bad idea. What I worry about now is are the Movie companies going to infect External drives with anti piracy crap? "I am sorry but it looks like you are ripping your DVDs I can not let you store these illegal files. Just pay for a digital copy to go along with that DVD like a good boy and all will be forgiven."
Codec for what? X86? X64, Sparc, ARM, PowerPC, Mips? Windows, Linux, Solais, BSD, OS/X............ Even if you are going to use something like java or.net you will have a lovley layer of complexity that just me be too much for a small mobile device. I sure as heck wouldn't want to use a JIT compiler on a mobile device. Also it would be hard to provide hardware acceleration with a portable format. I don't want anything in.NET because it is too under the control of Microsoft and their track record of openness is terrible. I just don't as a viable solution to what I feel is a minor problem.
Nope. All they have to do is use the OS supported playback framework. On Linux/BSD/Unixish Gstreamer. On OSX Quicktime On WIndows DirectShow or what ever they call it this week. Even Mobile devices have multimedia frameworks "usually H264" that you can use so their is NO technical or legal reason to not use the the OS frameworks available.
Well you forgot one import thing. Hardware support. This is where H.264 has a clear win. Many mobile devices already have hardware support for H.264 playback. Video cards are falling all over themselves to provide hard support for H.264 playback. This is what gives H.264 it's advantage over Theora, DIrac and VP8. Google is supporting the effort to port Theora to the ARM which is a good thing but I feel it will not be enough.
Your are correct on the desktop but we now have lots of Mobile devices like Phones, Tablets, and Arm based notebooks that will need hardware decoding to play video well. Add in things like set top boxes and TVs that will support streaming and you have a large number of video devices that are not your typical PC. BTW Flash is more of a container than a codec. Flash has used many different codecs over the years including VP8.
I hate to say it but I fear that this move is too little too late.
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Actually he was the person I wanted him to be.
I got to meet him a few years ago. He was doing young Eagle flights at an EAA fly in.
He meet thousands of kids and spent a ton of time with each of them.
He didn't sell out and use his fame to become mindbogglingly rich.
He didn't sell out and become a politician.
Frankly he should have been in the world spot light but wasn't because he wasn't on the machine could make money on.
I don't think he could have done what you think he could have. To keep that spotlight he would have serve the fame machine. He would have had to sold is integrity and would have been left with nothing. Sorry but to me his speaking now is far louder of a statment than if he tried to do what you have suggested.
Plus it comes down to this. It is his life and by any stretch of imagination one filled with accomplishments. We all should live our lives as well.
"other than running his national campaign organization which was effectively a successful $800 million business."
Wouldn't that have been the campaign manager?
"Jim Lovell might have a business degree, but quite frankly, I'd need to know more before ascribing him business savvy."
A degree from Harvard. You must at least say that he has a good business education.
"The fact that I'm questioning their ability to properly assess a business decision has no impact on their past achievements - I'm sure we can agree on that."
You are so willing to support this and keep throwing hero worship into it let me ask you.
Obama has zero business, economic, and engineering experience and or education. All there of these men have multiple degrees in engineering and I am pretty sure all of them have at least one in Aerospace engineering. Which when judging this program I think is very valid.
Even without comment form these men the current plan sounds like a giant waste to me.
Keep building the Orion but not the launch vehicle so we can use it for a lifeboat on the space station? Really? Isn't that what the Soyuz is used for now?
So we pay but get no capability.
He wants to keep spending money on a new heavy lift system but no mission requirement!
So no hero worship from me. These men make a good point and I do respect their judgment based on there education and life experience. Frankly if you compare their life experience and education to the Presidents they on average are as well or better educated. Jim Lovell has more degrees than President Obama. They have more business experience of which President Obama has none. And a lot more education and experience in engineering than President Obama has. If anything I would say your acceptance of President Obama's space plan is based on hero worship more so my feelings that it is a disaster.
Actually I have to wonder if OS/2 might not make a great embedded OS these days. It is super reliable and by today's standards petty light weight.
OS/2 Mobile on your next phone?
Actually he went there after challenger disaster. Odds are he went out of a sense of duty to see that things where done right. He as since retired so I would say he no longer has a vested interest.
Frankly at his age and in his position I doubt that anything but doing what is right really motivates him. Lets face it if being rich motivated him he had every chance in the world to pimp him self out over the years and didn't.
Don't throw the wasted lives thing in.
They all wanted to go.
Over 300 people have died since 1945 Boxing. "Barbaric activity I feel and never watch it"
In 2006 42 people dies skateboarding.
People die doing many activities so that death count is no reason to stop.
So get back to me after you ban skateboarding.
"You realize the rockets used were based on Nazi technology to deliver payloads?"
Actually not really. When the captured they asked Von Braun how he developed the V2 his response was "ask Goddard". The V2 was a scaled up version of Goddard's last rockets right down the the graphite vanes controlled by a gyroscope.
The US put Goddard to work during WWII building rockets to help flying boats take off quicker...
What a waste. A great man that decided to not use his fame to push his own agenda and to become of all things a TEACHER! I mean really what good is that.
Actually I give him more credit because of that. This finally pushed him to take a stand. It is a shame really that he needed to.
"how many tax dollars have been wasted because some penny-pinching bureaucrat decided it would be "cheaper in the long run?""
Politicians don't care what is cheaper in the long run. They care what is cheaper in the short term.
And I have to wonder where they get there advice from.
I have a good amount of respect for Sen McCain but he is a prime example.
He used to tweet his biggest boondoggles. You know things that seem like a huge waste of money.
At one time his number one was for a few million dollars for seismic research in of all places St. Louis MO! Not California or Alaska where we get earthquakes but in the Midwest!.... A place that I just happen to know has a huge fault that was the source of one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded. One that was so powerful it was felt in Charleston SC! That pork barrel project actually makes a lot of sense but how many people know that their was a huge quake there in 1812?
But as I said it is about the short term...
Armstrong is also an engineer and served on the Challenger shuttle accident investigation board. Up till now he has stayed clear of politics and has been on the board of directors of many companies so yes he is also a business person.
Jim Lovell has fromal education includes
University of Wisconsin–Madison
United States Naval Academy (BS, 1952)
United States Naval Test Pilot School, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (1958)
Aviation Safety School, University of Southern California (1961)
Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School (1978)
I think that last one means that he has a firm grasp of business as well as engineering.
Cernan only has two degrees in engineering so he may be the least qualified of the group but then President Obama has zero education or experence in business, engineering, or accounting. His degree is in law.
Frankly these man have nothing to gain at this time. They have all done what a very select few people have done. They are all pretty much set for the rest of their lives so they don't need any more money. To dismiss them I think is the height of arrogance.
And to make matter worse President Obama isn't saving money by killing the Ares he is changing it from a program with at some goals to a welfare program! We are going to keep spending money on developing the Orion but instead of using it for maned flights we are going to use it as the worlds most expensive life boat for the space station.
We are still going to depend on Russia for manned access to space.
We are going to spend money on developing a HLLV with no goal or mission for it!
Yea this is A FREAKING NIGHTMARE OF A PLAN!
What this will let President Obama do is kill them off piece by piece but only after dropping many billions of dollars on them.
Frankly this plan seems to be to be the WORST POSSIBLE plan. Frankly it sounds like something Col Hogan would talk Col Clink into doing!
So to all those that willing to dismiss these three well educated, extremely brillant, and wise men I just want you to think about it long and hard.
This is a freaking disaster.
I think you are mistaking socialism with a mature and financially stable company.
Bell back in the regulated monopoly days was with out a doubt mature and financially stable. They could do research that might not pay off for 30 years because they knew they would be around in 30 years to benefit from it. They also built infrastructure that would last for decades even if it cost more for that same reason.
IBM still produces a lot of basic science for that same reason. They believe that they will be around for another 100 years. GE, DuPont, and Dow chemical used to and probably still do a lot of basic research for that same reason. They are mature and frankly a lot of their profitability is based on science so they benefit from research.
Even folks like Chrysler back in the 50s got into some pretty wild stuff. Did you know the rocket that launched the first US satellite and the first Mercury sub orbital flight was made by Chrysler?
Intel is probably reaching the level of maturity and long term profitably that they will start doing a lot of long term research.
The problem is that the best research will come from companies that do some kind of manufacturing which the US is doing less and less of.
Take Apple for example. They are not a manufacturing company they are closer to a fashion design house combined with a software developer. Nothing wrong with it but they just don't make stuff. They make pretty packages that they pay other people to fill with stuff Intel and others make. I honestly don't expect anything really ground breaking from them.
Honestly no they can not. At least not yet.
Adobe has yet to deliver mobile Flash on any platform yet. They promised it for the Palm Pre and Android a while ago. They do have Flash lite but it really is useless.
Frankly until Adobe show Flash on these other devices I don't see any reason to fuss about it not being on the iPhone. If Flash is important to you and it doesn't suck you will have the choice to get an Android, Palm, and maybe a WinMo phone.
So you may in the future have a choice but right now Adobe isn't giving you one.
In my office we have I think two iPhones seven Palm Pre's, three Android devices, and a goodness knows what else.
So?
Both are not accurate statistical samples.
I read that and I have to say. I don't care how Adobe treats Apple or Apple treated Adobe. I don't work for Apple and I don't work for Adobe.
The only thing that should matter is would Flash on the iPhone be good fro iPhone users. Would the Flash cross development tool be good for iPhone users?
I have not seen Flash yet on any mobile platform. Flash lite sucked. Adobe has not delivered Flash for the Palm Pre or Android yet so as far as Flash on a mobile device we are have no idea if it is good or bad yet.
If Adobe produces a good flash experience for those platforms then people will buy them instead of the iPhone.
If they suck people will not use it.
Seems simple to me.
So? It is their platform and they don't hold a monopoly in the market. No differen't that what Microsoft does on the XBox, Sony does on the PS2 and PS3, or Nintendo does on Wii and Gameboy line.
You may not like it but how is it illegal?
"It's like calling the iPhone the 'Apple phone'."
If you look at the chart that is exactly what they do.
The chart is not market share by device it is market share by device OS vendor. Microsoft and Google don't make phones at all.
Not really. You still have to sell them through iTunes and apple will still get it's cut.
I think it is more to do with Apple being control freaks.
The iPhone has increased the number of Objective-C + OS/X developers as it is so more potenal Mac developers.
It also forces people to choose to put X amount of effort into iPhone development. The effort does not translate to Android, Palm, WinMo, or RIM apps. In theory this Flash translator could allow an easy port of your smash iphone app to other platforms.
But over all I think it is Steve hates Flash and he loves his OS/X framework. Use it or play someplace else.
Not the way I would like to see things work but so is life.
As I said Wikileaks needs to clean up it's act. I didn't say ban them or arrest them but in more than one case I felt they where practicing yellow journalism. I will not rush to say why I think they are doing it but if your theory is right isn't it reprehensible to take something as seriously as this and inflate and manipulate it for fund raising? To post the video at the URL collateralmurder.com is prejudging this video!
If I didn't think they where at least a little worth while I would say that people should just not go there. My suggestion to them is to clean up their act, remove the bias and commentary, and still release the data. Let us decide for ourselves. Is that too much to ask or suggest?
I criticize manipulation when I see it. The problem is most people can not see it when the agree with it. Even I probably miss subtle bias when it follows my own world view but this was anything but subtle.
Actually you should read more.
My grip is with the edited version that Wikileaks has published. I feel it is biased as was the URL the posted it under. They are using emotional manipulation to push viewpoint. That is not how a news service works.
My defending the Apache crews really comes down to. I don't have all the data and I am not in the position too judge them. All I have to go on is the video. I am not going to damn anybody without having all the data. Your have a lot more experience than so your opinion of their actions should without a doubt hold more weight than mine.
What way to many people don't get or care is that I think that it is good that Wikileaks got and released this. I think it is terrible that they edited and added cometary that introduced bias to it. I am sick of news services and other groups feeling the need to "guide" public opinion through manipulation.
Wikileaks should have just released the unedited video under their standard URL with the title like video of the "Apache attack that resulted in the death of two journalists".
We the people need data and not manipulation and if you think wikileaks isn't trying to manipulate people then your mistaken.
My attacks reactions to people claiming that I have lost my humanity or don't care because I will not jump to judgment over the video and because I dare to point out how wikileaks is being manipulative. Funny thing is I just said they need to clean up their act.
Actually I did stop when he told me to because I didn't want to get shot. The rifle butt between the shoulder blades was not nessasry at the time since I was unarmed and frankly had nothing to do with anything just a kid from the US hanging with my cousins. They just happen to have been in Belfast.
The private that hit me was only 19 and had just seen his several of his mates die. Looking back my wounds where probably a lot less than his and healed faster.
I am not justifying the actions of the Military in not releasing the footage. I am condemning the bias and editorial manipulation of the video by Wikileaks. I was trying to understand how the solders in the Apache could have made the errors.
The cover up and not releasing the video is bad and inexcusable.
The bias that Wikileaks showed in this case is also inexcusable. Their was no reason for except for manipulation. Are the acts equal? Nope. Do two wrongs make a right? No.
If Wikileaks had simply released the unedited video and hand not dramatized it then that would have been fine.
But do not excuse the press being manipulative just because you happen to believe that their point of view is correct.
How many historical examples do we need to get past the idea that the end justifies the means?
Well It is probably an external drive but over all it is just dumb.
I can get a 500GB external for less than $100. DRM is makes it a none starter for me. And I have NetFlix so I just put them on my list.
Just seems like the king of bad idea. What I worry about now is are the Movie companies going to infect External drives with anti piracy crap?
"I am sorry but it looks like you are ripping your DVDs I can not let you store these illegal files. Just pay for a digital copy to go along with that DVD like a good boy and all will be forgiven."
Codec for what? .net you will have a lovley layer of complexity that just me be too much for a small mobile device. I sure as heck wouldn't want to use a JIT compiler on a mobile device. Also it would be hard to provide hardware acceleration with a portable format. .NET because it is too under the control of Microsoft and their track record of openness is terrible.
X86? X64, Sparc, ARM, PowerPC, Mips?
Windows, Linux, Solais, BSD, OS/X............
Even if you are going to use something like java or
I don't want anything in
I just don't as a viable solution to what I feel is a minor problem.
Nope. All they have to do is use the OS supported playback framework.
On Linux/BSD/Unixish Gstreamer.
On OSX Quicktime
On WIndows DirectShow or what ever they call it this week.
Even Mobile devices have multimedia frameworks "usually H264" that you can use so their is NO technical or legal reason to not use the the OS frameworks available.
Well you forgot one import thing.
Hardware support. This is where H.264 has a clear win. Many mobile devices already have hardware support for H.264 playback. Video cards are falling all over themselves to provide hard support for H.264 playback.
This is what gives H.264 it's advantage over Theora, DIrac and VP8.
Google is supporting the effort to port Theora to the ARM which is a good thing but I feel it will not be enough.
Your are correct on the desktop but we now have lots of Mobile devices like Phones, Tablets, and Arm based notebooks that will need hardware decoding to play video well.
Add in things like set top boxes and TVs that will support streaming and you have a large number of video devices that are not your typical PC.
BTW Flash is more of a container than a codec. Flash has used many different codecs over the years including VP8.
I hate to say it but I fear that this move is too little too late.
Well there was Minix "I know it wasn't a full Unix" but I heard a lot of good things about Coherent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system) back in the day.