It doesn't matter how fast really. I tested it on latest official FF and it locked browser for good 30s. I couldn't change tabs or click links. Not even in second window. I always thought that separate FF windows run as separate processes (or threads at least) - apparently I was wrong.
I can live with slow JS as long as it doesn't block my browser.
I know they just started but still... what is the point of this? There is no upsides to rendering. It's slower (you need 4 servers), it looks worse (they had no antialiasing, ugly smoke, no complex lightning). You can do some things like reflections and refractions and portlas bit easier than with other methods but most of the time you don't need 100% correct reflections/refractions (simplified models work quite nice) and security cameras where implemented in Duke Nukem 3D on i486 machines without problems.
Other than selling Intel chips I see no purpose for this project.
If said employee is a nuisance (bad work ethic, loud mouth, does not get along well with others, causing problems, worthless at the job, superfluous) [...]
There is much simplier solution: bumbers. If your only concern is speed it's a perfect one too. Completely passive. Cheap. Unavoidable. And the best part: drivers enforce speed limit by themself.
in 100 years logic will all be spintronic coupled quantum states locates in googles tritium powered headquarters on mars. You'll communicate with it by quantum entanglement of the implants added to your brain when you were an infant. The division between thought and recall will not be perceptible and you won't even be aware that information storage actually exists. the idea of possessing a physcial storage device will confuse people, so no one will actually know what it is.
OK; it's possible that the Polish patents on the list are for pure hardware.
Note that what matters isn't only who can create encoders but also who can create decoders _and_ who can actually execute them.
Which matters only in countries where you have software patents. If you have no software patents you can legally create encoders and decoders as long as you do it in software.
And the H.264 patents aren't "software" patents under the European patent classifications. They're "method" patents.
If they are not software patents than you can create encoders in Poland without any legal problems. There are no "method" patents applicable to software.
Exactly, 90% of all the sites I go to are no faster on my home 20,000,000,000Mbps Ultimate speedboosted comcast platinum connection compared to the horribly slow 1024Kbps T1 line we have at work.
That's because you are not using Monster Cables ethernet cables.
Let's count down time to introduction of internet borders. You will have to have a internet passport to connect to site in foreign countries. It will stop cyberwars, terrorists and (you guessed it) child pornography.
To effectively communicate or do online banking all you need is 33k modem. You don't need broadband. Let them start from lower lever first if they can't afford watching YouTube in HD.
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Most likely there was no leak. Master key can be calculated if you have access to 50 different keys extracted from BlueRay players.
Yeah, but it's another OSI layer. I wonder what is a transfer using pidgeons over pidgeons.
Profit? What profit? Didn't you hear pirates take it all? And there is always Hollywood accounting after all.
It doesn't matter how fast really. I tested it on latest official FF and it locked browser for good 30s. I couldn't change tabs or click links. Not even in second window. I always thought that separate FF windows run as separate processes (or threads at least) - apparently I was wrong.
I can live with slow JS as long as it doesn't block my browser.
I know they just started but still... what is the point of this? There is no upsides to rendering. It's slower (you need 4 servers), it looks worse (they had no antialiasing, ugly smoke, no complex lightning). You can do some things like reflections and refractions and portlas bit easier than with other methods but most of the time you don't need 100% correct reflections/refractions (simplified models work quite nice) and security cameras where implemented in Duke Nukem 3D on i486 machines without problems.
Other than selling Intel chips I see no purpose for this project.
If said employee is a nuisance (bad work ethic, loud mouth, does not get along well with others, causing problems, worthless at the job, superfluous) [...]
Hi, boss.
Based on what criterion? Number of Negros in prisons?
There is much simplier solution: bumbers. If your only concern is speed it's a perfect one too. Completely passive. Cheap. Unavoidable. And the best part: drivers enforce speed limit by themself.
No, the GP is right.
Get a history book and try and work out if US military action is for the greater good or to secure 'capitalism', oil, gems or whaterver.
Occams razor.
No, he is wrong. History is not limited to history of US. Take a look at World War II. Poland for example did not fight for money but for survival.
in 100 years logic will all be spintronic coupled quantum states locates in googles tritium powered headquarters on mars. You'll communicate with it by quantum entanglement of the implants added to your brain when you were an infant. The division between thought and recall will not be perceptible and you won't even be aware that information storage actually exists. the idea of possessing a physcial storage device will confuse people, so no one will actually know what it is.
Dude, share the weed!
Last time I checked it had no automatic image rotating. Image viewing program which can't autoratate images based on EXIF is useless.
Try Fast Stone - free as in beer.
So they can search for porn. What can they do if they find it? Is porn illegal in Australia now?
More important question is: how they define porn?
iConji is lacking symbol for word "fuck". I see it as serious flaw.
OK; it's possible that the Polish patents on the list are for pure hardware.
Note that what matters isn't only who can create encoders but also who can create decoders _and_ who can actually execute them.
Which matters only in countries where you have software patents. If you have no software patents you can legally create encoders and decoders as long as you do it in software.
And the H.264 patents aren't "software" patents under the European patent classifications. They're "method" patents.
If they are not software patents than you can create encoders in Poland without any legal problems. There are no "method" patents applicable to software.
The article is wrong. According to the MPEG-LA, there are patents on H.264 in at least the following countries:
[...] Poland[...]
There are no software patents in Poland. Probably there are no software patents in any EU country.
Exactly, 90% of all the sites I go to are no faster on my home 20,000,000,000Mbps Ultimate speedboosted comcast platinum connection compared to the horribly slow 1024Kbps T1 line we have at work.
That's because you are not using Monster Cables ethernet cables.
Well, that chart didn't but this one does.
And yes, IE (all versions) is in a rapid decline, while FF is slowly climbing.
And if you want to look at interesting picture check this chart for Europe or Poland.
Let's count down time to introduction of internet borders. You will have to have a internet passport to connect to site in foreign countries. It will stop cyberwars, terrorists and (you guessed it) child pornography.
Half a billion for reinventing the wheel? I mean, we have USB for a long time already, how hard can it be to reimplement it in military harware?
Believe it or not Wikipedia isn't the ultimate source of information.
Citation needed.
To effectively communicate or do online banking all you need is 33k modem. You don't need broadband. Let them start from lower lever first if they can't afford watching YouTube in HD.
You forgot about:
1. Stanislaw Lem
2. Arkadij and Borys Strugaccy
3. Kiryl Bulyczow
PS. Their names are in Polish but you should have no problem googling them in Eglish.
PPS. Slashdot could really use Unicode.
I find the lack of mention of children and terrorists disturbing.
Apparently we need new world wars. It will speed up technology progress a lot.