You forget that IE9 will play H.264. And Safari and Opera use the OSs facilities, as every sane design would. (Dunno about Chrome, but since Google owns YouTube the choice is obvious.) Now since H.264 is installed on EVERY Mac and modern Windows, only Firefox will be left out in the cold. Serves them right for making it a holy war, and only supporting their “one true codec”.
Give us a real codec. Linux beats the crap out of Windows. Firefox beats the crap out of IE. Vorbis beats the crap out of MP3. And Theora should beat the crap out of H.264!
But right now it’s a toothless tiger, slow, bad quality/size ratio, outdated technology... Until that changes, well... frankly nobody in the real world cares for evangelical wars. And I’m saying that as someone who almost exclusively uses open source software, and is very very happy with it!
I wish I could write codecs. I’t word night shifts to kick H.264s ass. ^^
But hey, as previously said: If Firefox just binds to generic facilities/libraries like ffmpeg, DirectMedia and CoreVideo, the whole discussion goes away, since everybody can choose what to use anyway. Unfortunately right now they play little dictators, enforcing what they see as “the one true codec” in their holy war. Maybe I can at least write a patch that creates these bindings.
By the way: “handy” is not used as a term for a mobile phone aka cell phone in the English language. I know it’s used in Germany, and people from there are prone to mess it up, because it’s a foreign English word in the German language.
Has anyone noticed how bad it is, that you have something that is supposed do be an open source Linux-based phone, and you don’t even have root access right out of the factory? Even worse, not only do you have to root it with a hack, but you are also supposed to feel bad about it when returning it for broken hardware (which has nothing to do with modded software)?
Sorry, but how can you stand something like that? I would never buy it, or be very very pissed. My Linux phone had root. I installed my own software, and various other packages. And it’s not only OK with the vendor. No, it’s even expected. (I’m not going to say which one, so I don’t sound like a retarded fanboi. But it’s pretty obvious which one it is, since it’s as far as I know the only one.;)
Go ahead Trollerators! Stay ignorant. Watch FOX News. Drink the Kool-Aid. How you love it. And get rolled over by China in about a decade. Which you will resemble anyway, by then. ^^
I actually dislike this article, it's exactly what gives ammunition against the internet movement for changes to copyright ||| because it feeds the idea that Hollywood can't win either way-
The part before the ||| does not match the part after it. They are not fitting.
Besides: It is a proven fact that Hollywood can’t “win”. Also “Hollywood” means the greedy management/producer types. Not any artists. Those are raped by the management/producer types anyway. Not by us.
3D is a fad, that will be new only for a short time, and then be nothing special anymore. You can not base your business model on it. Let alone a delusional outdated one that borders on criminality.
It’s stereo 2D. You can’t rotate it (or walk around it) on 3 axes and you can’t slice (= focus different parts) it on 3 axes. Or, if you want, you can say that the whole movie is a tuple of 3D cube stills. But that would stop it from being a movie, and make it a picture;)
It’s like drawing two vertical lines on the same place, and calling it a full (2D) picture.
It is possible to disagree with someone, or attempt to point out some information you think that person might not have, without dropping to the level of insult.
But then he wouldn’t be an Apple fanboi, hunting all the articles for mentionings of his holy words of Jobs, and insulting everything close to it, would he?
Some feel that regardless of what happens, users will only do the minimum required.
It is a known fact that all life that survives, is that which used the most efficient way. Even on other planets. And in fact in the whole universe. Because the laws of physics demand it.
And if you look at it, it does not look as if it would hurt them enough for it to be worth to do something about it. Even with a botnet client on their system.
Believe me, when they hear that their neighbor got to jail for hosting child porn, because of a trojan running on his system, they WILL try to prevent it. Or just die out. (Unless protected by false but politically correct “being social” saving those failures.)
Pff... Taliban... They only killed a couple of thousand people. There are people who are actively working with Bush and Cheney! And they kill that amount in Iraq and Afghanistan in what? A month?
(Just because I know that some totally retarded asshat will think that I would argue for the Taliban: I’m arguing that they BOTH are bad. Just that killing more people obviously is worse. But that does never make the first bad suddenly OK. It’s still bad.)
What? Are you scared? Of a bunch of criminals? There I said it: MLM = pyramid scheme = fraud/scam = criminals. Always. Period. It‘s the whole and only point. And they not only know it, but that’s the whole and only reason they did it. Also always. Also Period.
Come and try to sue me, fuckers. I’ll rip your balls off trough your throat!
Sorry, but there is no such thing as real MLM. It’s just a term, pyramid scheme criminal organizations use, to describe themselves, so they officially can stay legal. In reality, there is no difference between MLM and pyramid schemes. They are the same. Their purpose is fraud. Always. No exceptions.
Uuuum, do you know that there is a keyword search built into Firefox (and Opera for that matter) You can right-click on a input field of a form, and choose to create a keyword search. Enter the keyword, and off you go.
To search on urban dictionary, I do “ud myquery” for Youtube its “yt”, etc. That’s what it’s there for. I even removed my search field, removed all buttons, and moved the URL field to the left of the menu. Which makes FF really slim. Nobody needs buttons anymore anyway. We have mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and if we don’t know the function, there is a menu showing us everything there is.
Hell, my windows don’t even have buttons. It’s much more comfortable to just Win-Click anywhere on a window to move, resize or close it.;)
What is the reason that life forms without that ability won the evolutionary war in the first place? What bad could come from that ability? Side-effects? Because I really can’t see any downsides.
Anyone here who is a bit more of an expert than the random coward?;)
Damn, that Wikipedia farticle has it totally wrong! MASER is not the acronym for microwave lasers. As there actually are matter “lasers”, and they already own that term. Sorry for the bad link. I did not look at the Wikipedia text enought. Sorry.
What numbers? He brought up NOTHING to back his empty statements.
If I would say, that monkeys are green and have bat wings, so they can eat cups of moon ice cream, because the numbers prove that... would you also ask if those numbers account for the fact that the moon-earth distance gets bigger over time?;)
Patent wars and the global copyright delusion will definitely be the cause of the coming self-destruction of all industries, from crops to software. From babies to shoes. Everyone will sue the hell out of each other, counter-sue, counter-counter sue, question their commercial preference, suggest to settle, note to go bankrupt, and utter nonsensical statements involving plankton. Until the government responds to the the random lawsuits and treats to ban the opposing sides, unless words of praise for fishfood are expressed.
That’s nothing! Every single one of the Wolfenstein games hat ridiculous American accents for their German characters, and the whole think looked more like a parody.
MAIN LÄBBEN! JAHAHA! WUNDABAR! NAIN! FÄRBOTTEN!
It’s practically a meme here in Germany.
And the ridiculous German signs stating “ACHTUNG! VERBOTEN” (Attention! Forbidden!), but no other text explaining what it is that is forbidden. Which makes no sense at all!
Also the characters’ names... The best one was Dr. Betruger from DOOM 3. “Betrüger” is German for “scammer” or “cheater” (exact translation here), Which fits very well with his untrustworthy behavior.
On the other hand, a German game holds the title for the worst voice acting in human history: Far Cry! The enemies literally say things like “Hey du da mit dem Hemd! Dich mach ich fertig!” (Hey you there with the shirt! I’m finishing you!) Which is about the lamest possible thing you could say in German. That, out of the face of someone looking like a real evil soldier grunt... is incredibly silly. I always had to laugh my ass of when I heard it. ^^
Well, that would mean that you add a [citation needed] in there, or do it yourself, and cite your own work. And then you can cite your old work in your new work.;)
Of course, citing Wikipedia is illegal on any self-respecting university anyway.
My friends all told me, that here in Germany, Wikipedia is not allowed at all, and if you miss out even one citation, you’re seriously getting in trouble. Some professors even want to throw you out from the university for it. (But I doubt they actually can.)
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You forget that IE9 will play H.264. And Safari and Opera use the OSs facilities, as every sane design would. (Dunno about Chrome, but since Google owns YouTube the choice is obvious.)
Now since H.264 is installed on EVERY Mac and modern Windows, only Firefox will be left out in the cold.
Serves them right for making it a holy war, and only supporting their “one true codec”.
Give us a real codec.
Linux beats the crap out of Windows.
Firefox beats the crap out of IE.
Vorbis beats the crap out of MP3.
And Theora should beat the crap out of H.264!
But right now it’s a toothless tiger, slow, bad quality/size ratio, outdated technology...
Until that changes, well... frankly nobody in the real world cares for evangelical wars.
And I’m saying that as someone who almost exclusively uses open source software, and is very very happy with it!
I wish I could write codecs. I’t word night shifts to kick H.264s ass. ^^
But hey, as previously said: If Firefox just binds to generic facilities/libraries like ffmpeg, DirectMedia and CoreVideo, the whole discussion goes away, since everybody can choose what to use anyway.
Unfortunately right now they play little dictators, enforcing what they see as “the one true codec” in their holy war.
Maybe I can at least write a patch that creates these bindings.
By the way: “handy” is not used as a term for a mobile phone aka cell phone in the English language.
I know it’s used in Germany, and people from there are prone to mess it up, because it’s a foreign English word in the German language.
Need input! Input, input, input!
How about taking down...
The bloody botnet operator's and malware author's financer? Isn't this like fighting the symptoms instead of the cause ?
There, fixed that for you. ;)
No need to thank me.
But if you got any hot girls...
Wait. The N900 definitely is compatible with American networks. So shouldn’t that make it compatible with AT&T networks too?
Has anyone noticed how bad it is, that you have something that is supposed do be an open source Linux-based phone, and you don’t even have root access right out of the factory?
Even worse, not only do you have to root it with a hack, but you are also supposed to feel bad about it when returning it for broken hardware (which has nothing to do with modded software)?
Sorry, but how can you stand something like that? I would never buy it, or be very very pissed. ;)
My Linux phone had root. I installed my own software, and various other packages. And it’s not only OK with the vendor. No, it’s even expected.
(I’m not going to say which one, so I don’t sound like a retarded fanboi. But it’s pretty obvious which one it is, since it’s as far as I know the only one.
Go ahead Trollerators! Stay ignorant. Watch FOX News. Drink the Kool-Aid. How you love it.
And get rolled over by China in about a decade. Which you will resemble anyway, by then. ^^
I actually dislike this article, it's exactly what gives ammunition against the internet movement for changes to copyright ||| because it feeds the idea that Hollywood can't win either way-
The part before the ||| does not match the part after it. They are not fitting.
Besides: It is a proven fact that Hollywood can’t “win”. Also “Hollywood” means the greedy management/producer types. Not any artists. Those are raped by the management/producer types anyway. Not by us.
3D is a fad, that will be new only for a short time, and then be nothing special anymore. You can not base your business model on it. Let alone a delusional outdated one that borders on criminality.
It’s stereo 2D. You can’t rotate it (or walk around it) on 3 axes and you can’t slice (= focus different parts) it on 3 axes. ;)
Or, if you want, you can say that the whole movie is a tuple of 3D cube stills. But that would stop it from being a movie, and make it a picture
It’s like drawing two vertical lines on the same place, and calling it a full (2D) picture.
I guess you're stupid, ignorant or a bigot.
It is possible to disagree with someone, or attempt to point out some information you think that person might not have, without dropping to the level of insult.
But then he wouldn’t be an Apple fanboi, hunting all the articles for mentionings of his holy words of Jobs, and insulting everything close to it, would he?
Facial recognition -> Trigger.
There. Done.
And don’t think “OMG TEH TERRORISTZ” wouldn’t count as an excuse to do that.
Some feel that regardless of what happens, users will only do the minimum required.
It is a known fact that all life that survives, is that which used the most efficient way. Even on other planets. And in fact in the whole universe. Because the laws of physics demand it.
And if you look at it, it does not look as if it would hurt them enough for it to be worth to do something about it. Even with a botnet client on their system.
Believe me, when they hear that their neighbor got to jail for hosting child porn, because of a trojan running on his system, they WILL try to prevent it. Or just die out. (Unless protected by false but politically correct “being social” saving those failures.)
Pff... Taliban... They only killed a couple of thousand people.
There are people who are actively working with Bush and Cheney! And they kill that amount in Iraq and Afghanistan in what? A month?
(Just because I know that some totally retarded asshat will think that I would argue for the Taliban: I’m arguing that they BOTH are bad. Just that killing more people obviously is worse. But that does never make the first bad suddenly OK. It’s still bad.)
What? Are you scared? Of a bunch of criminals?
There I said it: MLM = pyramid scheme = fraud/scam = criminals. Always. Period.
It‘s the whole and only point. And they not only know it, but that’s the whole and only reason they did it. Also always. Also Period.
Come and try to sue me, fuckers. I’ll rip your balls off trough your throat!
Sorry, but there is no such thing as real MLM. It’s just a term, pyramid scheme criminal organizations use, to describe themselves, so they officially can stay legal. In reality, there is no difference between MLM and pyramid schemes. They are the same. Their purpose is fraud. Always. No exceptions.
Uuuum, do you know that there is a keyword search built into Firefox (and Opera for that matter)
You can right-click on a input field of a form, and choose to create a keyword search. Enter the keyword, and off you go.
To search on urban dictionary, I do “ud myquery” for Youtube its “yt”, etc. That’s what it’s there for.
I even removed my search field, removed all buttons, and moved the URL field to the left of the menu. Which makes FF really slim. Nobody needs buttons anymore anyway. We have mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and if we don’t know the function, there is a menu showing us everything there is.
Hell, my windows don’t even have buttons. It’s much more comfortable to just Win-Click anywhere on a window to move, resize or close it. ;)
What is the reason that life forms without that ability won the evolutionary war in the first place?
What bad could come from that ability? Side-effects?
Because I really can’t see any downsides.
Anyone here who is a bit more of an expert than the random coward? ;)
Damn, that Wikipedia farticle has it totally wrong! MASER is not the acronym for microwave lasers.
As there actually are matter “lasers”, and they already own that term. Sorry for the bad link. I did not look at the Wikipedia text enought. Sorry.
Pff, that’s so last millennium!
Nowadays we use matter amplification by stimulated emission of radiation on sharks’ heads!
Think about it! Interfering waves of matter, amplifying each other! If that isn’t cool, then what is?
What numbers? He brought up NOTHING to back his empty statements.
If I would say, that monkeys are green and have bat wings, so they can eat cups of moon ice cream, because the numbers prove that... would you also ask if those numbers account for the fact that the moon-earth distance gets bigger over time? ;)
Patent wars and the global copyright delusion will definitely be the cause of the coming self-destruction of all industries, from crops to software. From babies to shoes.
Everyone will sue the hell out of each other, counter-sue, counter-counter sue, question their commercial preference, suggest to settle, note to go bankrupt, and utter nonsensical statements involving plankton. Until the government responds to the the random lawsuits and treats to ban the opposing sides, unless words of praise for fishfood are expressed.
That’s nothing! Every single one of the Wolfenstein games hat ridiculous American accents for their German characters, and the whole think looked more like a parody.
MAIN LÄBBEN!
JAHAHA!
WUNDABAR!
NAIN!
FÄRBOTTEN!
It’s practically a meme here in Germany.
And the ridiculous German signs stating “ACHTUNG! VERBOTEN” (Attention! Forbidden!), but no other text explaining what it is that is forbidden. Which makes no sense at all!
Also the characters’ names... The best one was Dr. Betruger from DOOM 3. “Betrüger” is German for “scammer” or “cheater” (exact translation here), Which fits very well with his untrustworthy behavior.
On the other hand, a German game holds the title for the worst voice acting in human history: Far Cry!
The enemies literally say things like “Hey du da mit dem Hemd! Dich mach ich fertig!” (Hey you there with the shirt! I’m finishing you!) Which is about the lamest possible thing you could say in German.
That, out of the face of someone looking like a real evil soldier grunt... is incredibly silly. I always had to laugh my ass of when I heard it. ^^
Well, that would mean that you add a [citation needed] in there, or do it yourself, and cite your own work. ;)
And then you can cite your old work in your new work.
Of course, citing Wikipedia is illegal on any self-respecting university anyway.
Uuuum, is that even allowed?
My friends all told me, that here in Germany, Wikipedia is not allowed at all, and if you miss out even one citation, you’re seriously getting in trouble. Some professors even want to throw you out from the university for it. (But I doubt they actually can.)