Theora lost because it wasn't as good as H.264 and it's still not as good as H.264 bit for bit. The only reason why the opensource world support it isn't because it's better, but because it's the only "open source friendly" option. Sorry, but that just because it fits an idelogoy doesn't mean much to the part of the world that uses the product. It's like suggesting that a professional 3D/video shop use Blender instead of Maya or Cinelerra instead of Final Cut Pro or Avid. The professionals are going to take a look at it for a while and go, "Nice toy, now I've got to get back to work."
If the opensource world wants Theroa to succeed, you're going to have to produce something that's better than H.264 end of story. Until then the people are working in Video are going to continue using H.264 because it's everywhere and is currently the best mainstream codec available.
I worked in Video production in the late 90's through about 2005. H.264 was a godsend when we finally had a single Codec that was adopted by pretty much all recording hardware and editing software. Before it was a Codec Hell. Nobody I talk to in the industry, and I still have a lot of friends who work everywhere from their basement to large production shops, have any interest in embracing Theora or anything else. They only want to support 1 Codec that works everywhere, and that's H.264. Even if it costs them a little bit of money. Because whatever it costs them is likely cheaper than the headaches of having to support multiple formats.
Now, if Theora or some other patent free format gets to the point where it can offer at least the same (really it has to be BETTER than H.264 in features and quality) only then will the production houses be interested in switching. And by better, offer at least the same quality as H.264 at a lower bit rate than H.264.
Then what you want is FreeBSD, not Linux. FreeBSD has had DTrace for a few years now and ZFS support for a couple years in experimental mode. As of FreeBSD 8-Release, ZFS is now considered "Production Ready". We've been slowly moving the last of our Solaris stuff over to FreeBSD the past year even before ZFS was officially supported in the FBSD 7.x series.
FreeBSD is a more likely replacement for some of the Solaris market. Especially since it's had DTrace for a while and now ZFS is now production ready on FreeBSD 8
I think the bigger issue with the HPV vaccines were that they were being mandated by government when the verdict was still out about long term effects. Especially given the amount of political lobbying done by the drug makers. Fortunately an issue I don't have to deal with for many years, but by then the research will be in and the long term effects known.
I agree. We've spent the better part of the past year getting our systems ready for PA-DSS certification (payment app) and our e-commerce operations PCI-Level I compliant. You want to know the best part about level 1 compliance is: no virtualization. I understand why "cloud" implementations are not allowed (you can't control the other account on the same hardware). But the way the hits on our website trend, I could get by with very little hardware about 9 hours a day. Our peak usage is only about 4 hours a day. However when we got to that level we were basically told to start looking at a mainframe (well mid-frame or whatever they call a db/400 system these days).
Our payment application is actually opensource, and the way the rules are written, it's damn near impossible to get an opensource project certified if you don't have a company like our willing to front the $30k to go through the process.
More like HTML5 & javascript. Recently we've been using that coupled with jQtouch and PhoneGap to create web apps that work across iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, and Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome, and Konqueror).
Thing is, wiretapping by the US Federal Government was long standing Standard Operating Procedure since Telephones were deployed in the 1900 and telegraphs since the 1860'. It was around a long time before Nixon. I don't think the government didn't need a warrant up until the 1920's.
Even then, phones can be tapped, it's just that evidence gathered isn't court admissible. But the type of work the NSA et. al. are doing is intelligence gathering. Whether or not it's court admissible isn't a grave concern.
Because human "listeners" on minimum wage would never take bribe, be susceptible to "We know where you and your family lives", the ones being shot at in the first place.
Typically in the fall we'll take on a couple juniors as interns, unpaid, and have them work on opensource projects to see what they are made of and whether or not they'll fit in with the company. If they do, they spend their next 3 semesters as paid interns working on our products and usually have coded their way into a job when they graduate.
Short answer is yes. And this day in age, it makes a hell of a lot of sense to incorporate and in a lot of states, incorporating is less than $300 for an S-Corp or LLC. Anyone that has more than $20k in assets should have a corporation.
Currently I have 3 LLC's and another S-Corp.
Two of those LLC's owns the family farms that my dad and I have inherited over the years. My dad oversees the farms. He's retired and it gives him something he likes to do. We don't farm, we rent out the land to the real farmers, but we've leveled the land, put in wells, and other capital improvements. LLC makes it extremely easy with a management agreement for him to run both his farms and my farms. He can sign any of the paper work needed, checks, etc.. As it stands, I'm too busy running another company in the start up phase to take an active interest in the farms.
Between the two of us, we have about 600 acres total. We have 280 Acres in one LLC and 320 in the other. If something happens and one farm is sued, we loose ~300 acres instead of all 600 acres. We don't loose either of our houses, cars, or retirement accounts. We're judgement proof outside the assets of the farms.
I have another LLC for my IT consulting company. I still do consulting work for several clients. Generally it's just a few days a year for each, but this company owns my car, pays for my cell phone, and any computers I buy become tax write offs. As does a lot of travel and other expenses. It's enough that if it would get sued, I'd loose about $35k in assets. That's about all I'm liable for. I wouldn't lose my house, my old car, or retirement investments.
Then the S-Corp is the company I am currently working for/own/getting off the ground. That is where I get my W-2 from. Again, if it gets sued, I'm out of a job. All I have invested in the company is 2 years of my life. Which has been a lot of hours worked, but worth it.
Now, it does make taxes a bit more complex. But if you have a program like MyOB or quickbooks, it's completely manageable so long as you take out 30 minutes a day to do your accounting work and an hour on the weekends to look over things.
For instance, this past year, I "lost" money on the consulting LLC after buying a new computer and new car and was able to write off those loses against my income from the S-Corp.
I'm not sure sure if stalling the update of eBooks isn't the point. The publishing industry doesn't want to happen to it what happened to the recording industry with iTunes. It didn't take long for the recording industry to loose control of their pricing to Apple. The publishers don't want to loose control of their pricing to Amazon, Apple, et. al.
I've been shopping for a new car. I was shocked to find that the 2010 Subaru Legacy gets BETTER gas milage in an automatic than a manual thanks to CVT. The other vehicle I'm looking at is the Kia Sorento which is a small cross over SUV. And it gets just about the same gas mileage as the Legacy and again has a CVT.
Same here. The only time my desktop even gets turned on is if I want to do a bit of video editing. But occasionally I still have to do some tech support work and that means dragging a $2,000 laptop around in my car in the trunk just encase I have to get on and fix something. In some cases I've used my iPhone and SSH when it was server side stuff, but now that we have a desktop client, I have to use something like RDP/VNC. And while I have those apps for the iPhone, it's not an ideal solution.
Also, my 3G wireless card costs the company $60/month for 5GB. Currently we have 3 Air Cards plus we pay $30 per month to each employee for data plans requiring they have a smartphone. (Blackberry or iPhone up to this point. Only one has a Droid).
The iPad is $30/month. Considering it's half the cost of a new MacBook Pro and half the monthly price of the air card, we're getting 3 in tomorrow for technical support staff. It's a lot easier to throw the iPad in to a glove box than a laptop if I'm out for dinner. And losing $750 instead of $1600 if it gets stolen isn't quite as bad and we're likely to cut out the $30/month per employee for data plans as well. Now we can send a text message notification, like we are doing now anyway, and they can use the iPad to do whatever it is they need. Which is usually logging in remotely, deleting a corrupted file, and restarting the app.
At one time, Solaris was Oracles preferred OS for their DB. They started to shift away from Sun when they rebranded RHEL. They figured, "ooh, we can give it away on our own hardware and make more money instead of having to invite a sun sales guy on the conference call.". Now that Oracle owns Solaris and a hardware business, I think we'll see the death of Oracle Linux and seem them move back to Solaris being their preferred OS again.
I'm not ashamed to say that Sun was my preferred Enterprise Unix. Over all I've had extremely good luck with their stuff. It was expensive, but most days you could come into work and not have to worry about it.
I was enthused about OpenSolaris and tried it out, but frankly when FreeBSD ported over DTrace and ZFS, it became my Free OS of choice. We're running FreeBSD and had plans to jump to Sun when the time came. But while I liked Solaris & Sun, I can't stand Oracle. They have a good OLTP database, probably the best, but given the choice between dealing with Oracle and IBM, I'll take IBM. DB/400 (or whatever the series is called today) may not be as flashy a Database platform, but it's been fast enough, rock solid, and reliable anytime I've used it.
You can start by rallying friends and family to vote for anyone but an incumbent. Get out and support their primary challenger. If that doesn't work, vote for other other guy. Send enough people packing and the rest will get the message.
Ah, but one point you failed to realize: the iPhone is not nor ever was for nerds & geeks. It was for everyone else. And there are a lot more everyone elses. And I for one consider lack of flash to be a feature, not a bug. And as someone who worked in video production in the earlier part of the last decade, H.264 won and for very good reasons. Primarily, it's the best Codec available. We now have a standard to which all devices/software should be writing & playing. The last thing I want to see is a return to Codec Hell.
Regardless I have heard from several people inside ATT that they are loosing exclusively and we're likely to see a CDMA iPhone for Verizon or Sprint later this year. Although if the wireless carriers in the US begin deploying 4G technology (which is supposed to be the same for everyone), then maybe we'll finally see a phone that will work on all carriers.
We've had a lot of problems with MySQL, especially the InnoDB engine corrupting datatables. It got bad enough during development that after the proof of concept, we ported to PostgreSQL and have been running ever since. And it's been night and day. All our DB's are now postgres save for our billing system, which was written by a 3rd party. PostgreSQL is taking far more traffic than we expected and honestly we were thinking that we'd be needing DB2 or Oracle at this point, but so far PostgreSQL has handled all we've thrown at it and with the new clustering/replication/HA hot-standby features in PostgreSQL 9, it looks like we can put off that large purchase another year or so.
That looks about right, but your missing an irrational number in there somewhere. I just can't remember if it's before or after the salesman's commission...
Think about this: look at the vision of Europe laid out by Hitler in Mein Kampf then look at Europe today. Not to Godwin or anything, it's worth just taking a an objective look. While the finer details maybe different, the general picture is eerily similar. Makes one wonder just who really won WWII sixty years later...
We're located a couple miles from a 20k+ student University. We're one of the few software development shops around, but we have a simple formula. We hire 1 - 2 interns who Jr's in the fall. Fall semester we expect 10 hours week and it's an unpaid internship. Usually it is on some type of utility that can help us in the long run, but hasn't been important enough to take way from the full time people. But whatever it is, it's something that is going to be put out into production. It has to work. Sometimes we send them into the fire working on opensource projects that need to be tweaked for our needs. Again, whatever it is, is something that will be put into production.
If they are worth a grain of salt, they start working for us part time for a monthly stipend that's about twice what they could make working 15 - 20 hours a week on campus. During the spring, summer, and their senior year. Only rule is get the tasks done. If they've made it to this point, typically we don't have to look over their shoulders. Generally at the end of their Sr. year, they either have a job offer back home (because they have real experience), or we've hired them full-time because while they were working as an intern they were building our next product. By the time they finish school, we're out selling said product to customers and usually it's enough revenue to pay their salary + benefits.
We call it our "Code your way into a job" programme.
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Theora lost because it wasn't as good as H.264 and it's still not as good as H.264 bit for bit. The only reason why the opensource world support it isn't because it's better, but because it's the only "open source friendly" option. Sorry, but that just because it fits an idelogoy doesn't mean much to the part of the world that uses the product. It's like suggesting that a professional 3D/video shop use Blender instead of Maya or Cinelerra instead of Final Cut Pro or Avid. The professionals are going to take a look at it for a while and go, "Nice toy, now I've got to get back to work."
If the opensource world wants Theroa to succeed, you're going to have to produce something that's better than H.264 end of story. Until then the people are working in Video are going to continue using H.264 because it's everywhere and is currently the best mainstream codec available.
I worked in Video production in the late 90's through about 2005. H.264 was a godsend when we finally had a single Codec that was adopted by pretty much all recording hardware and editing software. Before it was a Codec Hell. Nobody I talk to in the industry, and I still have a lot of friends who work everywhere from their basement to large production shops, have any interest in embracing Theora or anything else. They only want to support 1 Codec that works everywhere, and that's H.264. Even if it costs them a little bit of money. Because whatever it costs them is likely cheaper than the headaches of having to support multiple formats.
Now, if Theora or some other patent free format gets to the point where it can offer at least the same (really it has to be BETTER than H.264 in features and quality) only then will the production houses be interested in switching. And by better, offer at least the same quality as H.264 at a lower bit rate than H.264.
Then what you want is FreeBSD, not Linux. FreeBSD has had DTrace for a few years now and ZFS support for a couple years in experimental mode. As of FreeBSD 8-Release, ZFS is now considered "Production Ready". We've been slowly moving the last of our Solaris stuff over to FreeBSD the past year even before ZFS was officially supported in the FBSD 7.x series.
FreeBSD is a more likely replacement for some of the Solaris market. Especially since it's had DTrace for a while and now ZFS is now production ready on FreeBSD 8
I think the bigger issue with the HPV vaccines were that they were being mandated by government when the verdict was still out about long term effects. Especially given the amount of political lobbying done by the drug makers. Fortunately an issue I don't have to deal with for many years, but by then the research will be in and the long term effects known.
There is no justice system in international relations.
I agree. We've spent the better part of the past year getting our systems ready for PA-DSS certification (payment app) and our e-commerce operations PCI-Level I compliant. You want to know the best part about level 1 compliance is: no virtualization. I understand why "cloud" implementations are not allowed (you can't control the other account on the same hardware). But the way the hits on our website trend, I could get by with very little hardware about 9 hours a day. Our peak usage is only about 4 hours a day. However when we got to that level we were basically told to start looking at a mainframe (well mid-frame or whatever they call a db/400 system these days).
Our payment application is actually opensource, and the way the rules are written, it's damn near impossible to get an opensource project certified if you don't have a company like our willing to front the $30k to go through the process.
More like HTML5 & javascript. Recently we've been using that coupled with jQtouch and PhoneGap to create web apps that work across iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, and Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome, and Konqueror).
Thing is, wiretapping by the US Federal Government was long standing Standard Operating Procedure since Telephones were deployed in the 1900 and telegraphs since the 1860'. It was around a long time before Nixon. I don't think the government didn't need a warrant up until the 1920's.
Even then, phones can be tapped, it's just that evidence gathered isn't court admissible. But the type of work the NSA et. al. are doing is intelligence gathering. Whether or not it's court admissible isn't a grave concern.
Because human "listeners" on minimum wage would never take bribe, be susceptible to "We know where you and your family lives", the ones being shot at in the first place.
Typically in the fall we'll take on a couple juniors as interns, unpaid, and have them work on opensource projects to see what they are made of and whether or not they'll fit in with the company. If they do, they spend their next 3 semesters as paid interns working on our products and usually have coded their way into a job when they graduate.
Short answer is yes. And this day in age, it makes a hell of a lot of sense to incorporate and in a lot of states, incorporating is less than $300 for an S-Corp or LLC. Anyone that has more than $20k in assets should have a corporation.
Currently I have 3 LLC's and another S-Corp.
Two of those LLC's owns the family farms that my dad and I have inherited over the years. My dad oversees the farms. He's retired and it gives him something he likes to do. We don't farm, we rent out the land to the real farmers, but we've leveled the land, put in wells, and other capital improvements. LLC makes it extremely easy with a management agreement for him to run both his farms and my farms. He can sign any of the paper work needed, checks, etc.. As it stands, I'm too busy running another company in the start up phase to take an active interest in the farms.
Between the two of us, we have about 600 acres total. We have 280 Acres in one LLC and 320 in the other. If something happens and one farm is sued, we loose ~300 acres instead of all 600 acres. We don't loose either of our houses, cars, or retirement accounts. We're judgement proof outside the assets of the farms.
I have another LLC for my IT consulting company. I still do consulting work for several clients. Generally it's just a few days a year for each, but this company owns my car, pays for my cell phone, and any computers I buy become tax write offs. As does a lot of travel and other expenses. It's enough that if it would get sued, I'd loose about $35k in assets. That's about all I'm liable for. I wouldn't lose my house, my old car, or retirement investments.
Then the S-Corp is the company I am currently working for/own/getting off the ground. That is where I get my W-2 from. Again, if it gets sued, I'm out of a job. All I have invested in the company is 2 years of my life. Which has been a lot of hours worked, but worth it.
Now, it does make taxes a bit more complex. But if you have a program like MyOB or quickbooks, it's completely manageable so long as you take out 30 minutes a day to do your accounting work and an hour on the weekends to look over things.
For instance, this past year, I "lost" money on the consulting LLC after buying a new computer and new car and was able to write off those loses against my income from the S-Corp.
I'm not sure sure if stalling the update of eBooks isn't the point. The publishing industry doesn't want to happen to it what happened to the recording industry with iTunes. It didn't take long for the recording industry to loose control of their pricing to Apple. The publishers don't want to loose control of their pricing to Amazon, Apple, et. al.
Really, you like printing in Linux? Well the next time you want to print something in Linux, please goto http://localhost631./
I've been shopping for a new car. I was shocked to find that the 2010 Subaru Legacy gets BETTER gas milage in an automatic than a manual thanks to CVT. The other vehicle I'm looking at is the Kia Sorento which is a small cross over SUV. And it gets just about the same gas mileage as the Legacy and again has a CVT.
I'm not sure about android and chrome, but in the iPhone + Safari, there is away to make your web apps downloadable and useable offline.
I've not had any problems with HTML5 sites in Safari or Chrome for Mac. And routinely test both for iPhone/Droid compatibility.
Same here. The only time my desktop even gets turned on is if I want to do a bit of video editing. But occasionally I still have to do some tech support work and that means dragging a $2,000 laptop around in my car in the trunk just encase I have to get on and fix something. In some cases I've used my iPhone and SSH when it was server side stuff, but now that we have a desktop client, I have to use something like RDP/VNC. And while I have those apps for the iPhone, it's not an ideal solution.
Also, my 3G wireless card costs the company $60/month for 5GB. Currently we have 3 Air Cards plus we pay $30 per month to each employee for data plans requiring they have a smartphone. (Blackberry or iPhone up to this point. Only one has a Droid).
The iPad is $30/month. Considering it's half the cost of a new MacBook Pro and half the monthly price of the air card, we're getting 3 in tomorrow for technical support staff. It's a lot easier to throw the iPad in to a glove box than a laptop if I'm out for dinner. And losing $750 instead of $1600 if it gets stolen isn't quite as bad and we're likely to cut out the $30/month per employee for data plans as well. Now we can send a text message notification, like we are doing now anyway, and they can use the iPad to do whatever it is they need. Which is usually logging in remotely, deleting a corrupted file, and restarting the app.
Someone mod parent up as informative. It's a lot funnier once you understand the entire joke....
At one time, Solaris was Oracles preferred OS for their DB. They started to shift away from Sun when they rebranded RHEL. They figured, "ooh, we can give it away on our own hardware and make more money instead of having to invite a sun sales guy on the conference call.". Now that Oracle owns Solaris and a hardware business, I think we'll see the death of Oracle Linux and seem them move back to Solaris being their preferred OS again.
I'm not ashamed to say that Sun was my preferred Enterprise Unix. Over all I've had extremely good luck with their stuff. It was expensive, but most days you could come into work and not have to worry about it.
I was enthused about OpenSolaris and tried it out, but frankly when FreeBSD ported over DTrace and ZFS, it became my Free OS of choice. We're running FreeBSD and had plans to jump to Sun when the time came. But while I liked Solaris & Sun, I can't stand Oracle. They have a good OLTP database, probably the best, but given the choice between dealing with Oracle and IBM, I'll take IBM. DB/400 (or whatever the series is called today) may not be as flashy a Database platform, but it's been fast enough, rock solid, and reliable anytime I've used it.
You can start by rallying friends and family to vote for anyone but an incumbent. Get out and support their primary challenger. If that doesn't work, vote for other other guy. Send enough people packing and the rest will get the message.
Ah, but one point you failed to realize: the iPhone is not nor ever was for nerds & geeks. It was for everyone else. And there are a lot more everyone elses. And I for one consider lack of flash to be a feature, not a bug. And as someone who worked in video production in the earlier part of the last decade, H.264 won and for very good reasons. Primarily, it's the best Codec available. We now have a standard to which all devices/software should be writing & playing. The last thing I want to see is a return to Codec Hell.
Regardless I have heard from several people inside ATT that they are loosing exclusively and we're likely to see a CDMA iPhone for Verizon or Sprint later this year. Although if the wireless carriers in the US begin deploying 4G technology (which is supposed to be the same for everyone), then maybe we'll finally see a phone that will work on all carriers.
We've had a lot of problems with MySQL, especially the InnoDB engine corrupting datatables. It got bad enough during development that after the proof of concept, we ported to PostgreSQL and have been running ever since. And it's been night and day. All our DB's are now postgres save for our billing system, which was written by a 3rd party. PostgreSQL is taking far more traffic than we expected and honestly we were thinking that we'd be needing DB2 or Oracle at this point, but so far PostgreSQL has handled all we've thrown at it and with the new clustering/replication/HA hot-standby features in PostgreSQL 9, it looks like we can put off that large purchase another year or so.
That looks about right, but your missing an irrational number in there somewhere. I just can't remember if it's before or after the salesman's commission...
Think about this: look at the vision of Europe laid out by Hitler in Mein Kampf then look at Europe today. Not to Godwin or anything, it's worth just taking a an objective look. While the finer details maybe different, the general picture is eerily similar. Makes one wonder just who really won WWII sixty years later...
We're located a couple miles from a 20k+ student University. We're one of the few software development shops around, but we have a simple formula. We hire 1 - 2 interns who Jr's in the fall. Fall semester we expect 10 hours week and it's an unpaid internship. Usually it is on some type of utility that can help us in the long run, but hasn't been important enough to take way from the full time people. But whatever it is, it's something that is going to be put out into production. It has to work. Sometimes we send them into the fire working on opensource projects that need to be tweaked for our needs. Again, whatever it is, is something that will be put into production.
If they are worth a grain of salt, they start working for us part time for a monthly stipend that's about twice what they could make working 15 - 20 hours a week on campus. During the spring, summer, and their senior year. Only rule is get the tasks done. If they've made it to this point, typically we don't have to look over their shoulders. Generally at the end of their Sr. year, they either have a job offer back home (because they have real experience), or we've hired them full-time because while they were working as an intern they were building our next product. By the time they finish school, we're out selling said product to customers and usually it's enough revenue to pay their salary + benefits.
We call it our "Code your way into a job" programme.