I have been on the sending end of that problem. KOffice and OpenOffice generate ODT files that differ wildly in their interpretation of parts of the standard that aren't specified. For spreadsheet files in particular, there are more things that are unspecified than are specified. Trying to collaborate using KOffice and OpenOffice is worse than using different versions of Excel.
I don't think the money has an expiration date on it. You could buy a meager 5 albums per year at $10 each, 4 seasons of television shows at $50 a piece, and rent 12 movies per year at $4 a pop, for a total of $300/year, and would run out out of money in 33 years.
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It isn't just a problem with retailers not stocking the game. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony all prohibit AO content on their consoles. It is almost as bad as if MPEG-LA refused to license DVD patents to companies that that make NC-17 movies. That leaves the PC as the only place you can sell AO games, which is why publishers would rather modify their games rather than cut out 2/3 of their market.
In addition to the Rockchip that was mentioned, Broadcom has an FPGA-based chip on the market that has WebM support. The other hardware companies have not announced specific product details yet.
Over 20 Hardware vendors are working on WebM hardware acceleration right how, including Broadcom and Qualcomm.
Now figure in the amount the OEMs have invested in all those H.264 chips, along with the fact that all those consumer devices will have to be chunked (great for the environment) thanks to WebM killing the battery,
No, it means developers will have to support those devices until they fade out. Considering that most people replace their phone every 2-3 years anyway, that won't take too long. The only real problem here is if Apple refused to implement WebM even after hardware acceleration is available.
Three years ago, H.264 support on mobile devices was all but non-existent as well. There is no reason why WebM can't be just as widely distributed as H.264 in another three years if industry decides to support it. This isn't like Ogg Vorbis and Theora where the only supporters were FLOSS hobbyist. It is being supported by the biggest internet video company in the world, the biggest mobile chipset manufacturers in the world, the second and third biggest browsers in the world, and the second biggest (and fastest growing) mobile OS in the world. Hell even Flash is supporting it. Furthermore, unlike MP3->Vorbis transition, users won't have to do a thing to start using it; it will be entirely transparent to them.
Yes, it is possible that it won't succeed, but it is also very possible that it will, and if it does the web will be better off for. I don't understand the hostility that people have towards attempting to make things better, just because there is a chance it will fail.
Yeah, but if the order of the the polynomial is say, 2 million, then you can still pick key sizes that are so computationally expensive to break as to be secure for all practical purposes.
I think the First Amendment trumps whatever stupid law California passed. Parodies have a long history of being protected speech, and no reasonable person would mistake the Fake Steve Jobs blog as the real Steve Jobs, so it doesn't satisfy the precedent for libel.
Over 20 hardware manufacturers are working on WebM hardware implementations, including Broadcom and Qualcomm, the two biggest chipset makers for mobile devices. When H.264 was standardized, all computer implementations were done in software as well. The hardware acceleration came later. Three years ago, HD-DVD and BluRay war was still undecided, and smartphones that played streaming video all but non-existent. Who knows how much inroads WebM could make in the next three years.
SmugMug was starting to consider HTML5, but Google's latest decision has them moving back to Flash.
Firefox and Opera don't support H.264 either, and they have much greater market share than Google. So if this announcement changes anyone's plans, they obviously hadn't thought them through very well to begin with. Either you support two formats for the next several years until everything is sorted out, or you exclude a large portion of your audience. This is a draft standard we are talking about. You should expect early adopter issues.
There is no way I am going to let work enforce their Group Policy settings on my personal hardware. Or slow down my computer with mandatory Symantec junk, or all the crapware that comes with National Instruments software. Or wipe my machine when some idiot emails sensitive information.
I don't mind using RemoteDesktop from home every now and then if it saves me from coming into work, but that is about the limit.
Yeah, similar thing with the junk mail in Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy, although you got stuck earlier on. That was the only part of the game that I couldn't solve on my own and had to get a hint.
Think of it this way. You aren't going to be able to have all the women pregnant at the same time, since there is physical labor to be done that is best avoided when pregnant. And nursing a young child will also take time away from the other necessary tasks for survival. Thus you can only have a certain percentage of women pregnant at once, and so the rest of the people could be either men or women. Exchanging some of the women out for men wouldn't be increasing the travel weight. Furthermore, you can send eggs just as easily as you can send sperm, so you wouldn't be decreasing genetic diversity by sending some men instead of all women.
Those are the numbers are metric tons, not megatons and they are for low earth orbit. The purpose of a heavy lift vehicle is to get to the moon or beyond. The cargo capacity to the moon is exactly 0 for all existing rockets, and 0+0+0 still equals zero:) So you need something bigger just to assemble things in parts like you suggest.
Neither were clean sheet designs. They both adapted existing technology in new designs; Ares just adapted things a little more to better fit mission goals, while DIRECT adapted things less to cut schedule and budget.
IMHO, the problem with DIRECT is that it didn't advance our capabilities. They were basically just proposing a single medium sized rocket (with multiple variants). To get to the moon would require a two launches that joined in orbit - a step backwards from the Saturn V days. It wasn't scalable for Mars trips, or even bringing large amounts of cargo to the moon.
The Ares V on the other hand is a genuine heavy lift vehicle, that would exceed the capabilities of the Saturn V, allowing not only to return to the moon, but also Mars. We would finally have the capability to start building permanent stations on the moon (and if we aren't going to do that what is the point in returning).
I agree that something like the DIRECT rocket would have been a more capable (and possibly less expensive to design) replacement for Ares I, but it had nothing to bring to the table to compete with Ares V.
They failed to understand the mythical CD-Month. When will managers ever learn you can't just keep throwing more optical disks at a task and expect to get it done faster.
Scientists only managed to make a stable antimatter container for the first time a few months back.
To clarify, they have been able to store charged antimatter particles using magnetic containment for quite some time. It is only recently that they have been able to store neutral antimatter particles, like complete hydrogen atoms.
What are going on about? It was a single study concentrating on a single aspect of the spill. There were tons of other grants given to study the spill.
Only if you consider hunting to the be the sole legitimate use of guns. Self defense is a perfectly legitimate use of guns, and semi-auto handguns are generally the best option for self defense due to their size and maneuverability.
Furthermore, statistics about countries really don't show much. There are places with stricter gun control laws and which have higher gun crime, and places with lenient gun control laws with less crime and vice versa. If you pick and choose specific regions you can show a correlation in either direction. Either way socioeconomics almost always has a stronger correlation with gun crimes than the availability of guns.
Apple clearly stated their terms for the use of the service.
The problem is that they have terms of service at all.
Every store has to have rules or it'd be complete anarchy. Sometimes these rules are going to get in the way of someone's idea of how it should all work. This is one of those times. Obviously Apple's rules work for a lot of cases since there are tons of apps, both good and bad, in the app store.
So according to you the Mac is complete anarchy since you can buy and install software from anyone without Apple's approval.
One of the developers, Rémi Denis-Courmont, was calling on Apple to allow users to use VLC in the manner that the GPL requires. However Apple decided that they would rather remove VLC from the repository than modify their ToS to allow developers to set their own licensing terms.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Based on the summary I would have ignored this issue as my password is strong enough even without case sensitivity.
I have been on the sending end of that problem. KOffice and OpenOffice generate ODT files that differ wildly in their interpretation of parts of the standard that aren't specified. For spreadsheet files in particular, there are more things that are unspecified than are specified. Trying to collaborate using KOffice and OpenOffice is worse than using different versions of Excel.
I don't think the money has an expiration date on it. You could buy a meager 5 albums per year at $10 each, 4 seasons of television shows at $50 a piece, and rent 12 movies per year at $4 a pop, for a total of $300/year, and would run out out of money in 33 years.
It isn't just a problem with retailers not stocking the game. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony all prohibit AO content on their consoles. It is almost as bad as if MPEG-LA refused to license DVD patents to companies that that make NC-17 movies. That leaves the PC as the only place you can sell AO games, which is why publishers would rather modify their games rather than cut out 2/3 of their market.
In addition to the Rockchip that was mentioned, Broadcom has an FPGA-based chip on the market that has WebM support. The other hardware companies have not announced specific product details yet.
Over 20 Hardware vendors are working on WebM hardware acceleration right how, including Broadcom and Qualcomm.
Now figure in the amount the OEMs have invested in all those H.264 chips, along with the fact that all those consumer devices will have to be chunked (great for the environment) thanks to WebM killing the battery,
No, it means developers will have to support those devices until they fade out. Considering that most people replace their phone every 2-3 years anyway, that won't take too long. The only real problem here is if Apple refused to implement WebM even after hardware acceleration is available.
Three years ago, H.264 support on mobile devices was all but non-existent as well. There is no reason why WebM can't be just as widely distributed as H.264 in another three years if industry decides to support it. This isn't like Ogg Vorbis and Theora where the only supporters were FLOSS hobbyist. It is being supported by the biggest internet video company in the world, the biggest mobile chipset manufacturers in the world, the second and third biggest browsers in the world, and the second biggest (and fastest growing) mobile OS in the world. Hell even Flash is supporting it. Furthermore, unlike MP3->Vorbis transition, users won't have to do a thing to start using it; it will be entirely transparent to them.
Yes, it is possible that it won't succeed, but it is also very possible that it will, and if it does the web will be better off for. I don't understand the hostility that people have towards attempting to make things better, just because there is a chance it will fail.
Or give the cars away for free but charge for service :)
Yeah, but if the order of the the polynomial is say, 2 million, then you can still pick key sizes that are so computationally expensive to break as to be secure for all practical purposes.
I think the First Amendment trumps whatever stupid law California passed. Parodies have a long history of being protected speech, and no reasonable person would mistake the Fake Steve Jobs blog as the real Steve Jobs, so it doesn't satisfy the precedent for libel.
Over 20 hardware manufacturers are working on WebM hardware implementations, including Broadcom and Qualcomm, the two biggest chipset makers for mobile devices. When H.264 was standardized, all computer implementations were done in software as well. The hardware acceleration came later. Three years ago, HD-DVD and BluRay war was still undecided, and smartphones that played streaming video all but non-existent. Who knows how much inroads WebM could make in the next three years.
SmugMug was starting to consider HTML5, but Google's latest decision has them moving back to Flash.
Firefox and Opera don't support H.264 either, and they have much greater market share than Google. So if this announcement changes anyone's plans, they obviously hadn't thought them through very well to begin with. Either you support two formats for the next several years until everything is sorted out, or you exclude a large portion of your audience. This is a draft standard we are talking about. You should expect early adopter issues.
Actually, preliminary data from the LHC seems to invalidate the forms of string theory that predict that.
There is no way I am going to let work enforce their Group Policy settings on my personal hardware. Or slow down my computer with mandatory Symantec junk, or all the crapware that comes with National Instruments software. Or wipe my machine when some idiot emails sensitive information.
I don't mind using RemoteDesktop from home every now and then if it saves me from coming into work, but that is about the limit.
Yeah, similar thing with the junk mail in Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy, although you got stuck earlier on. That was the only part of the game that I couldn't solve on my own and had to get a hint.
Think of it this way. You aren't going to be able to have all the women pregnant at the same time, since there is physical labor to be done that is best avoided when pregnant. And nursing a young child will also take time away from the other necessary tasks for survival. Thus you can only have a certain percentage of women pregnant at once, and so the rest of the people could be either men or women. Exchanging some of the women out for men wouldn't be increasing the travel weight. Furthermore, you can send eggs just as easily as you can send sperm, so you wouldn't be decreasing genetic diversity by sending some men instead of all women.
Because it isn't for cargo only. It is intended for manned missions to the "moon and beyond".
Those are the numbers are metric tons, not megatons and they are for low earth orbit. The purpose of a heavy lift vehicle is to get to the moon or beyond. The cargo capacity to the moon is exactly 0 for all existing rockets, and 0+0+0 still equals zero :) So you need something bigger just to assemble things in parts like you suggest.
Neither were clean sheet designs. They both adapted existing technology in new designs; Ares just adapted things a little more to better fit mission goals, while DIRECT adapted things less to cut schedule and budget.
IMHO, the problem with DIRECT is that it didn't advance our capabilities. They were basically just proposing a single medium sized rocket (with multiple variants). To get to the moon would require a two launches that joined in orbit - a step backwards from the Saturn V days. It wasn't scalable for Mars trips, or even bringing large amounts of cargo to the moon.
The Ares V on the other hand is a genuine heavy lift vehicle, that would exceed the capabilities of the Saturn V, allowing not only to return to the moon, but also Mars. We would finally have the capability to start building permanent stations on the moon (and if we aren't going to do that what is the point in returning).
I agree that something like the DIRECT rocket would have been a more capable (and possibly less expensive to design) replacement for Ares I, but it had nothing to bring to the table to compete with Ares V.
They failed to understand the mythical CD-Month. When will managers ever learn you can't just keep throwing more optical disks at a task and expect to get it done faster.
Scientists only managed to make a stable antimatter container for the first time a few months back.
To clarify, they have been able to store charged antimatter particles using magnetic containment for quite some time. It is only recently that they have been able to store neutral antimatter particles, like complete hydrogen atoms.
What are going on about? It was a single study concentrating on a single aspect of the spill. There were tons of other grants given to study the spill.
Mb = megabit
MB = megabyte
Only if you consider hunting to the be the sole legitimate use of guns. Self defense is a perfectly legitimate use of guns, and semi-auto handguns are generally the best option for self defense due to their size and maneuverability.
Furthermore, statistics about countries really don't show much. There are places with stricter gun control laws and which have higher gun crime, and places with lenient gun control laws with less crime and vice versa. If you pick and choose specific regions you can show a correlation in either direction. Either way socioeconomics almost always has a stronger correlation with gun crimes than the availability of guns.
Apple clearly stated their terms for the use of the service.
The problem is that they have terms of service at all.
Every store has to have rules or it'd be complete anarchy. Sometimes these rules are going to get in the way of someone's idea of how it should all work. This is one of those times. Obviously Apple's rules work for a lot of cases since there are tons of apps, both good and bad, in the app store.
So according to you the Mac is complete anarchy since you can buy and install software from anyone without Apple's approval.
One of the developers, Rémi Denis-Courmont, was calling on Apple to allow users to use VLC in the manner that the GPL requires. However Apple decided that they would rather remove VLC from the repository than modify their ToS to allow developers to set their own licensing terms.
Just take a look at Sony - they are even more paranoid about piracy as a result of owning a movie studio.