I'll keep using Firefox as it is actually possible to download and install it. Since the day Google released Chrome you haven't been able to install their crappy 550k installer if you're behind a proxy.
Every time I see a Joomla article on Slashdot I look through it for Python or Django comments bashing Joomla. Now it seems there are no comments to search through.
Seems like nobody cares about Joomla.
90% of the comments in the past have been just bashing it..... it must really be aweful.
VP8 solves the compression problem: while still probably not as good as x264 (see the Addendum at the end for more details on this prediction), the gap is far smaller than with Theora, enough so that compression is far less of an issue. But it also brings up a host of new problems.
1. A few years ago, Microsoft re-released the proprietary WMV9 as the open VC-1, which they claimed to be royalty-free. Only months later, dozens of companies had come out of the woodwork claiming patents on VC-1. Within a year, a VC-1 licensing company was set up, and the “patent-free” was no more. Any assumption that VP8 is completely free of patents is likely a bit premature. Even if this does not immediately happen, many companies will not want to blindly include VP8 decoders in their software until they are confident that it isn’t infringing. Theora has been around for 6 years and there are still many companies (notably Nokia and Apple) who still refuse to include it! Of course this attitude may seem absurd, but one must understand who one is marketing to. One cannot get rid of businesspeople scared of patents by ignoring them.
2. VP8 is proprietary, and thus even if opened, would still have many of the problems of a proprietary format. There may be bugs in the format that were never uncovered because only one implementation was ever written (see RealVideo for an atrocious example of this). There will be only one implementation for quite some time; Theora has been around for 6 years now and there’s still only one encoder. Lack of competing implementations breeds complacency and stagnates progress. And given the quality of On2’s source releases in the past, I don’t have much hope for the actual source code of VP8; it will likely have to be completely rewritten to get a top-quality free software implementation.
3. It does nothing to solve the problems of hardware compatibility: most mobile devices uses ASICs for video decoding, most of which probably cannot be easily repurposed for VP8. This might be less of a problem if they’re targeting software implementations though; while it would eat more battery and be limited to mobile devices with powerful CPUs, it would not be unreasonable to play back VP8 on a fast ARM chip (see the Addendum for more on this).
The big advantage of VP8 is that it solves a problem that is unsolvable for Theora: Theora is forever crippled by its outdated technology and weak feature set. With state-of-the-art RD and psy optimization, as in x264, Theora can likely become competitive with Xvid or even maybe WMV9, but probably not x264. The only way to fix this would be a “Theora 2, and attempting to ensure Theora’s “patent-free” status while adding new features would be extraordinarily difficult in today’s software patent environment. VP8, on the other hand, offers an immediate jump to what is hopefully an H.264-comparable level of compression.
But now for the big question: why would Google want to open VP8, and if they did, how would they do it? Google probably doesn’t pay a cent in license fees for Youtube; H.264 is free until at least 2016 for internet distribution and encoder fees only apply if you have more than 100,000 encoding servers. The cost of the license fees for Chrome are minimal (a few million dollars a year, capped). But despite that, there are actually some very good reasons.
1. Control. Google may view the control of other companies over H.264 as a threat: even though H.264 is licensed under RAND terms (Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory, they legally cannot be anti-competitive), there are many reasons for Google to want more control. If they push VP8, they not only compete with Flash via HTML5, but they also prevent Flash from playing their video streams. As it is unlikely (for the reasons mentioned at the start of the article) that Adobe will im
I thought the new Apple agreement says that the program must originally be written against Apple's API and not go through any compatibility layers. If Opera runs on 10+ platforms, what are the chances that it doesn't contain any compatibility layers?
Minesweeper is sometimes NP-Hard, other times its NP-Impossible Minesweeper can get stuck where there are multiple solutions. I have been down to the point where I am 1 click away from winning or losing and either click would satisfy the numbers.
Why does Netflix need to release something as precise as a birthday in order to make movie recommendations? I mean, TV ratings are done in demographic groups. Couldn't Netflix get away by just stating a birth year?
I was born on Dec 4th so I am partial to movies about Pearl Harbor.
I'm sure people born on or around Dec 25th feel differently about Christmas movies than others.
You comb through enough data you'll find patterns. Who knows.
What if you're entertaining guests at your house and take a picture. In the background someone sees that you have a nice plasma TV, PS3, xbox 360, etc.... they have the lat / lon of where those goods are.
Shutting down for no good reason at all. Its like flickr, or Facebook, or GMail just disappearing.
Don't trust the cloud.
That stuff should never happen. I bet you can still find people playing Duke Nukem 3d on the internet. I played some Battlefield 1942 a couple months ago. Its nice to feel nostalgic.
Let some non-profit group take it over, or release it to the public so people can run their own servers.
What a bad design. Those who make the games should be able to have their own servers and release Linux servers for anyone who wants to run one on their microwave.
Side note... I remember there were some things you could run on a modded xbox that would make people on the internet appear to be on your own local network so that you could play games online without xbox live.
they've been making those things for years and except for a few niche markets, nobody has cared.
Yeah, so what I'm saying is that on top of it being something that nobody wants, it is even more restrictive (because of the app store) than those made by HP / Microsoft.
When I go on digg.com/videos and see a Top 10 XYZ videos of 2009, there will still be 10 embedded flash players on that page and will bring my system to its knees. This is only good for viewing youtube.com and not for people who embed stuff.
D-Link, meanwhile, is rumored to be scrambling to add Netflix streaming support to its BoxeeBox device as well, prior to inaugural shipments of that device. All three run embedded Linux OSes, and all are expected to sell for less than $200."
Why the hell can't I get Netflix working on my laptop running Linux? How are these guys doing it, why isn't it available for the rest of us? Netflix is the only reason I have VirtualBox installed.
One of the main reasons I got into open source software is because I didn't like the idea that newer versions of software could cost anything. Why invest time in learning Photoshop when this version costs $600 but the next version may cost $3,000. Some might say, just keep using the version you already bought. What happens when you can't buy a computer that comes with an OS that your version is compatible with?
Microsoft saying, "We won't sue users of Moonlight 2.0", is saying what about 2.0.1, or 2.5, or 4.0.
Do I really care about SPAM? Not nearly as much as I do junk mail. Why? I pay for my junk mail. It is delivered for next to nothing by the United States Postal Service. I pay taxes therefor I am actually paying for the delivery of this garbage. They are just like spam, they try to look legitimate to trick you into opening them. Also, they are more hazardous to the environment than spam. I get NetFlix. If I don't have a new netflix due in the mail I don't get my mail. Why... because ALL of it is garbage. I pay all my bills online. My car payment, everything. It is all garbage.
Bad idea. The fact that you have to use different languages separates domains as they should be. Django does something similar by using a templating language that is not Python and runs in a different context. I feel that if you start putting JS on both client and server you'll start to blur the line between client and server and make the code much harder to read. You'll start using some of the same routines in both client and server. With separate languages you make sure that those types of things are only done once, in the correct place.
I just got a radar ticket in FL and plan on fighting it. The thing that pisses me off is that these cops aren't policing anything, they're tax collecting. Florida is one of 50 states yet hands out 15% of all traffic tickets. They think they're doing good and generating revenue but they're hurting everyday innocent Americans. When you hand out tickets, only the greedy insurance companies win.
I don't even think I was speeding, they said I was doing 62 in a 45 but my ticket has both of those fields blank... possibly because he "cut me a break" and gave me a "violation of a traffic control device" (the speed limit sign). They always say they're cutting you a break but they're not.... its still points and your insurance goes up. All states, and Florida in particular need some kind of reform, or give the police more money so they don't need to go stealing it from safe drivers. Go out and stop real crime.
I would bet a lot of money on the fact that advertising giant Google's Chrome OS would have this built in. If I understand patents correctly, they don't need to patent it to be protected as long as they have been working on it for a while and can prove it.
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MP3 support on this thing would be cool.
You download an e-book along side the audio version.
You're at home reading your book on the Nook and when you hop in the car, it can play you the audio while you're driving. When you're ready to return to reading, it has your spot saved.
I'll use this slashdot post as evidence when I get in lawsuit over who patented the idea first.
I paid to get my TV ISF calibrated. It looks amazing. But if you brought it inside a Best Buy and sat it next to their other TVs your average Joe would think it looks like crap. The TV manufacturers increase the amount of blue to make things appear brighter. People's faces turn green so they up the amount of Red. Then they over-sharpen which introduces artifacts and over-contrast which creates banding.
Encoding audio in a lossy format no doubtingly does the same thing. They make sure the music still "pop"s to the point where it is exaggerated causing the music to "sound" better.
The people who say that 48Kbps sounds better than 160 would probably say the same thing compared to the original.
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I'll keep using Firefox as it is actually possible to download and install it.
Since the day Google released Chrome you haven't been able to install their crappy 550k installer if you're behind a proxy.
Every time I see a Joomla article on Slashdot I look through it for Python or Django comments bashing Joomla. Now it seems there are no comments to search through.
Seems like nobody cares about Joomla.
90% of the comments in the past have been just bashing it..... it must really be aweful.
Good read from....
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=292
VP8 solves the compression problem: while still probably not as good as x264 (see the Addendum at the end for more details on this prediction), the gap is far smaller than with Theora, enough so that compression is far less of an issue. But it also brings up a host of new problems.
1. A few years ago, Microsoft re-released the proprietary WMV9 as the open VC-1, which they claimed to be royalty-free. Only months later, dozens of companies had come out of the woodwork claiming patents on VC-1. Within a year, a VC-1 licensing company was set up, and the “patent-free” was no more. Any assumption that VP8 is completely free of patents is likely a bit premature. Even if this does not immediately happen, many companies will not want to blindly include VP8 decoders in their software until they are confident that it isn’t infringing. Theora has been around for 6 years and there are still many companies (notably Nokia and Apple) who still refuse to include it! Of course this attitude may seem absurd, but one must understand who one is marketing to. One cannot get rid of businesspeople scared of patents by ignoring them.
2. VP8 is proprietary, and thus even if opened, would still have many of the problems of a proprietary format. There may be bugs in the format that were never uncovered because only one implementation was ever written (see RealVideo for an atrocious example of this). There will be only one implementation for quite some time; Theora has been around for 6 years now and there’s still only one encoder. Lack of competing implementations breeds complacency and stagnates progress. And given the quality of On2’s source releases in the past, I don’t have much hope for the actual source code of VP8; it will likely have to be completely rewritten to get a top-quality free software implementation.
3. It does nothing to solve the problems of hardware compatibility: most mobile devices uses ASICs for video decoding, most of which probably cannot be easily repurposed for VP8. This might be less of a problem if they’re targeting software implementations though; while it would eat more battery and be limited to mobile devices with powerful CPUs, it would not be unreasonable to play back VP8 on a fast ARM chip (see the Addendum for more on this).
The big advantage of VP8 is that it solves a problem that is unsolvable for Theora: Theora is forever crippled by its outdated technology and weak feature set. With state-of-the-art RD and psy optimization, as in x264, Theora can likely become competitive with Xvid or even maybe WMV9, but probably not x264. The only way to fix this would be a “Theora 2, and attempting to ensure Theora’s “patent-free” status while adding new features would be extraordinarily difficult in today’s software patent environment. VP8, on the other hand, offers an immediate jump to what is hopefully an H.264-comparable level of compression.
But now for the big question: why would Google want to open VP8, and if they did, how would they do it? Google probably doesn’t pay a cent in license fees for Youtube; H.264 is free until at least 2016 for internet distribution and encoder fees only apply if you have more than 100,000 encoding servers. The cost of the license fees for Chrome are minimal (a few million dollars a year, capped). But despite that, there are actually some very good reasons.
1. Control. Google may view the control of other companies over H.264 as a threat: even though H.264 is licensed under RAND terms (Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory, they legally cannot be anti-competitive), there are many reasons for Google to want more control. If they push VP8, they not only compete with Flash via HTML5, but they also prevent Flash from playing their video streams. As it is unlikely (for the reasons mentioned at the start of the article) that Adobe will im
I thought the new Apple agreement says that the program must originally be written against Apple's API and not go through any compatibility layers.
If Opera runs on 10+ platforms, what are the chances that it doesn't contain any compatibility layers?
It is their 5 and 7 Home tablets, not their Internet tablets.
Minesweeper is sometimes NP-Hard, other times its NP-Impossible
Minesweeper can get stuck where there are multiple solutions.
I have been down to the point where I am 1 click away from winning or losing and either click would satisfy the numbers.
Why does Netflix need to release something as precise as a birthday in order to make movie recommendations? I mean, TV ratings are done in demographic groups. Couldn't Netflix get away by just stating a birth year?
I was born on Dec 4th so I am partial to movies about Pearl Harbor.
I'm sure people born on or around Dec 25th feel differently about Christmas movies than others.
You comb through enough data you'll find patterns. Who knows.
As bemymonkey said.... Videos Please
What if you're entertaining guests at your house and take a picture. In the background someone sees that you have a nice plasma TV, PS3, xbox 360, etc.... they have the lat / lon of where those goods are.
Shutting down for no good reason at all. Its like flickr, or Facebook, or GMail just disappearing.
Don't trust the cloud.
That stuff should never happen. I bet you can still find people playing Duke Nukem 3d on the internet.
I played some Battlefield 1942 a couple months ago. Its nice to feel nostalgic.
Let some non-profit group take it over, or release it to the public so people can run their own servers.
What a bad design. Those who make the games should be able to have their own servers and release Linux servers for anyone who wants to run one on their microwave.
Side note... I remember there were some things you could run on a modded xbox that would make people on the internet appear to be on your own local network so that you could play games online without xbox live.
they've been making those things for years and except for a few niche markets, nobody has cared.
Yeah, so what I'm saying is that on top of it being something that nobody wants, it is even more restrictive (because of the app store) than those made by HP / Microsoft.
Seriously, they released a tablet that won't run regular OSX apps but only stripped down sandboxed app store approved apps?... HAHAHAHA
HAHA
HAHAHAHA
What idiots. Definatly a huge step backwards. But Apple Fan Bois will say look at the interface and how thin it is... its a huge step forward.
When I go on digg.com/videos and see a Top 10 XYZ videos of 2009, there will still be 10 embedded flash players on that page and will bring my system to its knees. This is only good for viewing youtube.com and not for people who embed stuff.
Why the hell can't I get Netflix working on my laptop running Linux? How are these guys doing it, why isn't it available for the rest of us?
Netflix is the only reason I have VirtualBox installed.
One of the main reasons I got into open source software is because I didn't like the idea that newer versions of software could cost anything.
Why invest time in learning Photoshop when this version costs $600 but the next version may cost $3,000.
Some might say, just keep using the version you already bought. What happens when you can't buy a computer that comes with an OS that your version is compatible with?
Microsoft saying, "We won't sue users of Moonlight 2.0", is saying what about 2.0.1, or 2.5, or 4.0.
Do I really care about SPAM?
Not nearly as much as I do junk mail.
Why? I pay for my junk mail.
It is delivered for next to nothing by the United States Postal Service.
I pay taxes therefor I am actually paying for the delivery of this garbage.
They are just like spam, they try to look legitimate to trick you into opening them.
Also, they are more hazardous to the environment than spam.
I get NetFlix. If I don't have a new netflix due in the mail I don't get my mail. Why... because ALL of it is garbage.
I pay all my bills online. My car payment, everything. It is all garbage.
Bad idea. The fact that you have to use different languages separates domains as they should be.
Django does something similar by using a templating language that is not Python and runs in a different context.
I feel that if you start putting JS on both client and server you'll start to blur the line between client and server and make the code much harder to read. You'll start using some of the same routines in both client and server. With separate languages you make sure that those types of things are only done once, in the correct place.
.... and get r00t.
Then install Cyanogen to get wired tethering and give the middle finger to Verizon.
I just got a radar ticket in FL and plan on fighting it.
The thing that pisses me off is that these cops aren't policing anything, they're tax collecting.
Florida is one of 50 states yet hands out 15% of all traffic tickets.
They think they're doing good and generating revenue but they're hurting everyday innocent Americans.
When you hand out tickets, only the greedy insurance companies win.
I don't even think I was speeding, they said I was doing 62 in a 45 but my ticket has both of those fields blank... possibly because he "cut me a break" and gave me a "violation of a traffic control device" (the speed limit sign).
They always say they're cutting you a break but they're not.... its still points and your insurance goes up.
All states, and Florida in particular need some kind of reform, or give the police more money so they don't need to go stealing it from safe drivers.
Go out and stop real crime.
I would bet a lot of money on the fact that advertising giant Google's Chrome OS would have this built in.
If I understand patents correctly, they don't need to patent it to be protected as long as they have been working on it for a while and can prove it.
MP3 support on this thing would be cool.
You download an e-book along side the audio version.
You're at home reading your book on the Nook and when you hop in the car, it can play you the audio while you're driving. When you're ready to return to reading, it has your spot saved.
I'll use this slashdot post as evidence when I get in lawsuit over who patented the idea first.
My Android phone has a PDF reader on it. How will B&N prevent me from getting that program on their device and using books I downloaded illegally?
Imagine reading a pirated android development book on a rooted B&N Nook.... :: head explodes ::
From 1,000,000 to 10,000,000?
Are the minimum requirements for this system seriously 1 millions servers?
That doesn't seem to scale well. Should be able to at least scale down to 10 machines so I can run it at home ;-)
Yeah... then you could upgrade your camera too!
I paid to get my TV ISF calibrated. It looks amazing. But if you brought it inside a Best Buy and sat it next to their other TVs your average Joe would think it looks like crap.
The TV manufacturers increase the amount of blue to make things appear brighter. People's faces turn green so they up the amount of Red. Then they over-sharpen which introduces artifacts and over-contrast which creates banding.
Encoding audio in a lossy format no doubtingly does the same thing. They make sure the music still "pop"s to the point where it is exaggerated causing the music to "sound" better.
The people who say that 48Kbps sounds better than 160 would probably say the same thing compared to the original.