FLV is a container, which up until very recently contained mostly Sorensen Spark contents. H.264 over FLV is a very recent variation, first supported in 2008.
You're welcome to preserve your iPhone / PSP / etc battery. Let's do that by standardizing around file formats that fill most or all of the necessary roles of an online file format, rather than having a protracted battle that serves no-one. There are niches that paid software can't fill. As long as we're creating standards that have to play nicely with unpaid or free software operating environments, H.264 just isn't going to be the standard.
The US has disclosure rules that protect investors in companies that have more than 500 investors. Goldman Sachs is creating a scheme where they are the singular investor, but then other investors buy into their shares of Facebook. This prevents Facebook from having to disclose certain information that is considered critical in deciding to invest in a company or not, and allows them to sell shares without informing the public about what they're buying.
This has been on the SEC's radar as potentially totally illegal, as it pretty blatantly is designed to get around this particular rule. The rule is there to protect small investors, and help create a more fair, less manipulated playing field.
Quite frankly, whatever Facebook will become in the future, the current valuations are crazy. This is protecting US investors from taking a bath, as the rule was intended to do in the first place.
If you have pop-ups enabled, it appears in the middle of your screen as it happens. You click on the pop-up to get to the message. Going back is a bit more convoluted. You have to tap the home button twice to bring up the list of running applications, then tap the app you were in to go back. It's not bad, though the double-tap of the home button for multitasking is not that intuitive.
Remember, though, that Android and other platforms are building from what was learned on iOS. The closest thing to an iOS type operating system was Palm, and there are many reasons why that was light years different. Don't get me started on the royal crap that was smartphones at the time of the iPhone launch.
It's a bit like The Matrix. If you go back and re-watch it now, you have to wonder what was so special about it. "They're doing eastern mysticism, hong-kong kung-fu wirework, and slow-mo fight scenes. So what? Every movie does that." Well yes, every movie does that because they're all based on The Matrix. Similarly, there are several good portable smartphone operating system choices out there, which all do certain things better than iOS. They all also happen to exist because they copied iOS. And then they built out, did some things better, and became their own animals. But credit where credit is due: nobody was copying Windows Mobile 6. Everyone built from the basis established in iOS.
Considering Chrome-the-browser is part of Google's push towards a Chrome-OS, one could argue that Chrome *is* handing it off to the OS... itself. Chrome ultimately needs to be more self-reliant than most pieces of software out there.
Also, while an OS is there to have a common framework, that only works on single-OS applications. If you have a cross OS application, you either need to implement standardized frameworks with hooks into the host OS, or you need expensive divergent development paths.
I think you missed the part where he said "unless I optionally choose." When someone buys a camera, and buys a software system that supports it, they expect that they own the chain and what they create with it. Since we're talking about the standardization of the tag in HTML 5 to H.264, we are talking about essentially forcing people into a royalty-based production chain. Already, there is the problem of H.264 being standard on many video cameras, and requiring undisclosed (at the time of purchase) royalty payments for wedding videographers, garage music video makers, and other semi-pro video producers.
It's an unexpected tax. If we're creating a web standard for an open and widely available internet, it should also be as unexpected-tax free as possible.
DIVX, FLV, and many other formats have been standard in the PC world without any sort of hardware-based acceleration at all. Why would you ever need to upgrade a computer because of a format change?
And for that matter, the iPhone 4 is fast enough to decode most modern video formats without any help at all. Phone-based devices are faster already than the desktops of ten years ago.
Don't let hardware concerns tie you into the wrong software implementation for the job.
Cell companies are probably going to get hit by data-anywhere aggregators + VOIP plans. I loved how you could drag a Vontage phone to any country in the world, and make VOIP calls as if you were local to your city, Oklahoma.
They'll get hit, but from in front. Just like landline phone companies have been marginalized by cellphone companies, cell companies are about to marginalized by wireless data companies.
Then have three times the ads on one page. Breaking across three pages is as much of a pain to read as those old credit-card sized pocket books were in the 90's.
1. About one hour of Netflix streaming, every day for a week. 2. One fully-featured Linux install, with the bells and whistles. 3. A Steam purchase of BioShock 2. 4. About 20 minutes of uncompressed video from a decent camera. 5. About 1% of a full system backup.
It's called a "business strategy". You may think its either smart or foolish, but it's a strategy. No one said businesses had to act in a democratic way.
And we as consumers have to make clear what we expect from businesses, punish the ones that act in was that disagree with our desires, and reward the ones that are better behaved. That's a consumer strategy. If the marketplace is any indication (Android taking over, Windows Phone 7 struggling), the market is speaking.
Maybe, but it's not like you can just pipe a television stream into the internet. You're going to have file conversions before getting to the end user anyway. You don't really think 16bit / 44.1 Hz audio is the standard all of the way from the recording studio to the CD, do you?
Also, the problem with H264/MP4 is that it is a patent-encumbered standard that can't legally be included in a lot of distributions. Any free OS, like Google's Chrome OS, won't be able to include it. That basically defines a vacuum, which one way or another some competing and unencumbered standard will be sucked into filling.
While I know what you mean, JPG compresses photographic imagery far, far smaller than PNG. And GIF handles solid sheets of single colors or vertical gradients far smaller and better than PNG. While I'd kill to have PNG's alpha transparency as a universal web standard in 2002, I can't imagine trying to whittle down a web page into 50k (like we did in 1997) without GIF.
I think he means embedded streaming video, like the tag in HTML5. Not the media player controls for playing back linked video files from within a browser.
Nor do I expect a lot of iphone users to immediately jump ship. Oh, they talk big in their hatred of AT&T, but when it comes to paying off that existing AT&T phone while starting a contract with VZW for the new phone the economics of the situation will quell their bravado.
I'm pretty sure every AT&T user in San Francisco will leave. My iPhone works just fine out here in Boston. But visiting with some friends in SF, the network was just unusably terrible. We theorized that a chip had come loose. No no, other AT&T customers assured me, that's just how it works in SF.
I recently installed DOS as a native OS on a Core 2 laptop. Damn was that thing fast. I bet a Commodore 64 phone would boot and be ready to go a heck of a lot faster than an iPhone.
The ultimate goal of "competition" is to achieve monopoly status
The ultimate goal of "competition" is to make as much money as possible. That may be through attempting to achieve a monopoly, or it may not. Also, depending on the competitor, the goal of competition in the market may include a: scratching a particular curiosity, b: not being left out of a burgeoning market in case it suddenly seems like the hot place to be, c: proving to daddums that you can make money too, d: all or any of the above.
a lot of school shootings involve guns that children take from their parents, which were not kept locked.
If you think your kids over 8 don't have access to every nook and cranny of your house, I have a bridge to sell you in New York.
Gun locks are great: They keep babies and small children away from guns. But if you think a lock is going to prevent a teenager from getting into anything... Let's just say this: does the vodka in your locked liquor cabinet taste suspiciously like tap water yet?
Saying that you won't buy a smartphone because you don't use your phone enough is like saying that you won't buy a computer because you don't use a typewriter enough.
A smartphone is basically a universal data device at your fingertips at all times and all places. When was that movie out? How late is that store open? Where is Grandma's? What was that server's IP? It's Star Trek, man. Star Trek. A phone just lets you talk. The scale of functionality difference is several orders of magnitude.
My university might provide a keyboard and mouse, but it would be illegal to use that to hack into the university mainframe. It's like going to an ATM that you know is broken, and withdrawing all of the money from it.
And maybe once would be more understandable. But using other people to cash out the winnings so as not to draw attention to himself? Asking technicians to enable the feature that allowed him to win? That's definitely exploiting a software error to extract money. How would that be different than, say, exploiting a flaw in how PayPal handles transfers in order to get unlimited credit in your account?
To be fair, the gentleman in question was asking technicians to enable an option that allowed him to get the software-glitch jackpot. This wasn't just a case of a Casino not wanting to make a big payout, but active, well-planned attempts to exploit a software flaw.
what's a ghost. Define the term, circle the nouns, and look for them.
Making some presumptions here, but I'd presume a ghost causes physical phenomenon that can be detected by people's senses. Otherwise, how would we know they were there?
The two obvious senses to focus on are video and audio. These are cheap these days, and can be done by most anyone with a pocket camera. Go around to your friends, and borrow about 20 cameras. Set them all to record. Wait an hour. Collect all of the cameras. Spend 20 hours watching the video. See if anything ghostly occurs.
While I can understand the concern, what are the advertising budgets for hotels now vs operating budgets? I know that in software projects spending 2x the development budget on advertising is normal. If the hotel is spending 1/2 as much on customer acquisitions as they do on product, giving 1/3rd to Expedia to funnel customers your way might make sense.
More than likely, in a work situation, you'd be using hardware which generates a key pair upon initial configuration. The scenario above is more likely to apply to SOHO, or to consumer wireless hardware in the home
I'm vaguely shocked that any home routers would be using hardcoded private keys. That would be like every Schlage front door knob having identical keys. It's not just a mistake, it's extremely negligent security 101.
That's when you start paying ambulances to default bringing emergency patients to your hospital. You have patients sign essentially gag orders before beginning treatments. And you rename / rebrand yourself every few years.
Heck, how many hospitals do you know of in 100 miles? If you heard that your wife or husband was just hit by a car and brought to a hospital, would you immediately google that hospital and search for its reputation? If it was a bad hospital, would you take him or her, still strapped to the firemen's board, into the back of your car and drive them somewhere else?
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FLV is a container, which up until very recently contained mostly Sorensen Spark contents. H.264 over FLV is a very recent variation, first supported in 2008.
You're welcome to preserve your iPhone / PSP / etc battery. Let's do that by standardizing around file formats that fill most or all of the necessary roles of an online file format, rather than having a protracted battle that serves no-one. There are niches that paid software can't fill. As long as we're creating standards that have to play nicely with unpaid or free software operating environments, H.264 just isn't going to be the standard.
The US has disclosure rules that protect investors in companies that have more than 500 investors. Goldman Sachs is creating a scheme where they are the singular investor, but then other investors buy into their shares of Facebook. This prevents Facebook from having to disclose certain information that is considered critical in deciding to invest in a company or not, and allows them to sell shares without informing the public about what they're buying.
This has been on the SEC's radar as potentially totally illegal, as it pretty blatantly is designed to get around this particular rule. The rule is there to protect small investors, and help create a more fair, less manipulated playing field.
Quite frankly, whatever Facebook will become in the future, the current valuations are crazy. This is protecting US investors from taking a bath, as the rule was intended to do in the first place.
If you have pop-ups enabled, it appears in the middle of your screen as it happens. You click on the pop-up to get to the message. Going back is a bit more convoluted. You have to tap the home button twice to bring up the list of running applications, then tap the app you were in to go back. It's not bad, though the double-tap of the home button for multitasking is not that intuitive.
Remember, though, that Android and other platforms are building from what was learned on iOS. The closest thing to an iOS type operating system was Palm, and there are many reasons why that was light years different. Don't get me started on the royal crap that was smartphones at the time of the iPhone launch.
It's a bit like The Matrix. If you go back and re-watch it now, you have to wonder what was so special about it. "They're doing eastern mysticism, hong-kong kung-fu wirework, and slow-mo fight scenes. So what? Every movie does that." Well yes, every movie does that because they're all based on The Matrix. Similarly, there are several good portable smartphone operating system choices out there, which all do certain things better than iOS. They all also happen to exist because they copied iOS. And then they built out, did some things better, and became their own animals. But credit where credit is due: nobody was copying Windows Mobile 6. Everyone built from the basis established in iOS.
Considering Chrome-the-browser is part of Google's push towards a Chrome-OS, one could argue that Chrome *is* handing it off to the OS... itself. Chrome ultimately needs to be more self-reliant than most pieces of software out there.
Also, while an OS is there to have a common framework, that only works on single-OS applications. If you have a cross OS application, you either need to implement standardized frameworks with hooks into the host OS, or you need expensive divergent development paths.
I think you missed the part where he said "unless I optionally choose." When someone buys a camera, and buys a software system that supports it, they expect that they own the chain and what they create with it. Since we're talking about the standardization of the tag in HTML 5 to H.264, we are talking about essentially forcing people into a royalty-based production chain. Already, there is the problem of H.264 being standard on many video cameras, and requiring undisclosed (at the time of purchase) royalty payments for wedding videographers, garage music video makers, and other semi-pro video producers.
It's an unexpected tax. If we're creating a web standard for an open and widely available internet, it should also be as unexpected-tax free as possible.
DIVX, FLV, and many other formats have been standard in the PC world without any sort of hardware-based acceleration at all. Why would you ever need to upgrade a computer because of a format change?
And for that matter, the iPhone 4 is fast enough to decode most modern video formats without any help at all. Phone-based devices are faster already than the desktops of ten years ago.
Don't let hardware concerns tie you into the wrong software implementation for the job.
Cell companies are probably going to get hit by data-anywhere aggregators + VOIP plans. I loved how you could drag a Vontage phone to any country in the world, and make VOIP calls as if you were local to your city, Oklahoma.
They'll get hit, but from in front. Just like landline phone companies have been marginalized by cellphone companies, cell companies are about to marginalized by wireless data companies.
Then have three times the ads on one page. Breaking across three pages is as much of a pain to read as those old credit-card sized pocket books were in the 90's.
I just wish I GNU what you were talking about.
5 GB is a lot of data? 5 GB happens to be:
1. About one hour of Netflix streaming, every day for a week.
2. One fully-featured Linux install, with the bells and whistles.
3. A Steam purchase of BioShock 2.
4. About 20 minutes of uncompressed video from a decent camera.
5. About 1% of a full system backup.
It's called a "business strategy". You may think its either smart or foolish, but it's a strategy. No one said businesses had to act in a democratic way.
And we as consumers have to make clear what we expect from businesses, punish the ones that act in was that disagree with our desires, and reward the ones that are better behaved. That's a consumer strategy. If the marketplace is any indication (Android taking over, Windows Phone 7 struggling), the market is speaking.
Maybe, but it's not like you can just pipe a television stream into the internet. You're going to have file conversions before getting to the end user anyway. You don't really think 16bit / 44.1 Hz audio is the standard all of the way from the recording studio to the CD, do you?
Also, the problem with H264/MP4 is that it is a patent-encumbered standard that can't legally be included in a lot of distributions. Any free OS, like Google's Chrome OS, won't be able to include it. That basically defines a vacuum, which one way or another some competing and unencumbered standard will be sucked into filling.
While I know what you mean, JPG compresses photographic imagery far, far smaller than PNG. And GIF handles solid sheets of single colors or vertical gradients far smaller and better than PNG. While I'd kill to have PNG's alpha transparency as a universal web standard in 2002, I can't imagine trying to whittle down a web page into 50k (like we did in 1997) without GIF.
I think he means embedded streaming video, like the tag in HTML5. Not the media player controls for playing back linked video files from within a browser.
Nor do I expect a lot of iphone users to immediately jump ship. Oh, they talk big in their hatred of AT&T, but when it comes to paying off that existing AT&T phone while starting a contract with VZW for the new phone the economics of the situation will quell their bravado.
I'm pretty sure every AT&T user in San Francisco will leave. My iPhone works just fine out here in Boston. But visiting with some friends in SF, the network was just unusably terrible. We theorized that a chip had come loose. No no, other AT&T customers assured me, that's just how it works in SF.
I recently installed DOS as a native OS on a Core 2 laptop. Damn was that thing fast. I bet a Commodore 64 phone would boot and be ready to go a heck of a lot faster than an iPhone.
The ultimate goal of "competition" is to achieve monopoly status
The ultimate goal of "competition" is to make as much money as possible. That may be through attempting to achieve a monopoly, or it may not. Also, depending on the competitor, the goal of competition in the market may include a: scratching a particular curiosity, b: not being left out of a burgeoning market in case it suddenly seems like the hot place to be, c: proving to daddums that you can make money too, d: all or any of the above.
a lot of school shootings involve guns that children take from their parents, which were not kept locked.
If you think your kids over 8 don't have access to every nook and cranny of your house, I have a bridge to sell you in New York.
Gun locks are great: They keep babies and small children away from guns. But if you think a lock is going to prevent a teenager from getting into anything... Let's just say this: does the vodka in your locked liquor cabinet taste suspiciously like tap water yet?
Saying that you won't buy a smartphone because you don't use your phone enough is like saying that you won't buy a computer because you don't use a typewriter enough.
A smartphone is basically a universal data device at your fingertips at all times and all places. When was that movie out? How late is that store open? Where is Grandma's? What was that server's IP? It's Star Trek, man. Star Trek. A phone just lets you talk. The scale of functionality difference is several orders of magnitude.
My university might provide a keyboard and mouse, but it would be illegal to use that to hack into the university mainframe. It's like going to an ATM that you know is broken, and withdrawing all of the money from it.
And maybe once would be more understandable. But using other people to cash out the winnings so as not to draw attention to himself? Asking technicians to enable the feature that allowed him to win? That's definitely exploiting a software error to extract money. How would that be different than, say, exploiting a flaw in how PayPal handles transfers in order to get unlimited credit in your account?
To be fair, the gentleman in question was asking technicians to enable an option that allowed him to get the software-glitch jackpot. This wasn't just a case of a Casino not wanting to make a big payout, but active, well-planned attempts to exploit a software flaw.
what's a ghost. Define the term, circle the nouns, and look for them.
Making some presumptions here, but I'd presume a ghost causes physical phenomenon that can be detected by people's senses. Otherwise, how would we know they were there?
The two obvious senses to focus on are video and audio. These are cheap these days, and can be done by most anyone with a pocket camera. Go around to your friends, and borrow about 20 cameras. Set them all to record. Wait an hour. Collect all of the cameras. Spend 20 hours watching the video. See if anything ghostly occurs.
While I can understand the concern, what are the advertising budgets for hotels now vs operating budgets? I know that in software projects spending 2x the development budget on advertising is normal. If the hotel is spending 1/2 as much on customer acquisitions as they do on product, giving 1/3rd to Expedia to funnel customers your way might make sense.
More than likely, in a work situation, you'd be using hardware which generates a key pair upon initial configuration. The scenario above is more likely to apply to SOHO, or to consumer wireless hardware in the home
I'm vaguely shocked that any home routers would be using hardcoded private keys. That would be like every Schlage front door knob having identical keys. It's not just a mistake, it's extremely negligent security 101.
That's when you start paying ambulances to default bringing emergency patients to your hospital. You have patients sign essentially gag orders before beginning treatments. And you rename / rebrand yourself every few years.
Heck, how many hospitals do you know of in 100 miles? If you heard that your wife or husband was just hit by a car and brought to a hospital, would you immediately google that hospital and search for its reputation? If it was a bad hospital, would you take him or her, still strapped to the firemen's board, into the back of your car and drive them somewhere else?