a one time development cost, spread out over millions and millions of downloads. That comes perhaps down to $1 pr download, or even smaller once the base code is in place and only refinements are worked on.
Compare that to having to say say $10 each download, for as long as the H264 license terms have any weight.
That is the crazy thing about software (or anything in digital form, really). The development of the original version may have a large up front cost (tho with Chrome and Firefox that is distributed over a couple of people putting in a full time job, and a large collection of people pitching in spare time as available). But once that is done, the cost to make a N+1 copy is X zeros behind the decimal point and dropping. Yet various legal entities wants to apply a price on the N+1 as if it was a real world chair, fork or flower.
The basic "problem" (at least for economists and MBAs) is that classical economics only concerns itself with scarcity. The digital world is one of limitless abundance. End result, the people in charge have basically zero idea about what is going on. That has them worried, and attempting to pass all kinds of laws and such to attempt to force the digital world to behave as a scarce world that they can fit within their existing concepts. "The science of money", bah humbug. That kind of behavior is more in line with religion then science!
Iirc, they have separate sections for both microsoft and apple news. And most of their writers focus on one section or another, with the occasional visit over the fence to other sections. Bright is their "MS man".
Google demoed this feature in relation to chromeos by showing a newspaper "app" (NYT perhaps) that retained the latest content when the chromeos computer was offline.
and i think gmail already allows you to read and write emails while offline if your using a compatible browser.
Most of big media and a whole bunch of tech companies with ties to big media backs H264, sure. But then they can afford to fork over the license fees involved as they get payed pr "unit" sold, and can recoup it from there.
Google, Mozilla and the rest give their browsers away. This means that any license fees will end up being a running expense. And with the download rates they get on their browsers, that is a whole lot of red ink.
H264 is the last in the line that started with Edison's phonograph, a mental world where there are a few big broadcasters and millions of passive "consumers". Not so with the net, as anyone that can hook a computer to the net is a potential broadcaster! And trying to get a "pr use" license out of those, especially if the pricing is in the "big broadcaster expensive" range, is just not going to happen. Until the MPEG-LA steps up and states that the H264 will be licensed for free (price and use) for as long as the patents apply, this will continue to be a issue.
This is the equivalent of the catholic church having a patent on latin, and attempting to leverage a use fee from anyone writing something in that language.
Well there is always the chance that some sensor data from there will make a physicist go "huh, that goes against existing theories" and suddenly we have all kinds of new understanding of physical events that provides a tangible benefit to everyone (or a new terror weapon, like the nukes that came out of certain atomic energy calculations).
We have all kinds of things around us now because someone had the time and know how to sit down and study something in nature in detail. Hell, medical science basically came about by giving religion the middle finger when it came to carving up dead people.
The laser was first thought of as a neat trick of applied physics (as in, the equations hinted at the possibility so it got built to test the equations validity), but it resulted in a telecom and computing boom once someone fired it down a glass wire.
While true, the increase in storage and bandwidth have made the argument basically moot.
MP3 was heaven back on dialup when a single song could take perhaps half an hour. But now? The whole of metallica can be on the drive in 256 (or higher, if your really serious) in minutes depending on the number of sources and your own connection. And even that will not take up much space on anything but the cheapest throw away device.
And that is on top of "good enough" and utility. Big media already tried higher bit rate formats on audio and it basically flopped. How many owns a audio dvd? The only thing that format offered vs CD was higher bitrate. The same number of tracks and no extra features (at least none that seemed to matter). This compared to going from LP or cassette where the CD offered the real benefit of getting to the wanted track instantly. insert disc, press number, boom. And DVD offered something similar vs VHS, not having to rewind after a viewing, ever again. This on top of instant skip to scene and such. What do blu-ray bring to that?
You can potentially get the same issue on UMTS/GSM if you walk out of UMTS coverage.
Tho i think EDGE can handle voice and data at the same time if the phone and cell tower is up to the task, by basically jumping between the two. Don't know how many phones support that tho (not really advertised on the spec sheets), nor networks.
well the VM used in android is a custom one (dalvik), 2.2 introduced JIT (with noticeable speed improvements vs 2.1).
And if one really want speed, Google do provide a NDK so that one can compile parts as ARM code (basically having them sit as ARMv5, v6 and/or v7 libs in the APK).
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dunno, i guess at least the basic needs where covered.
a one time development cost, spread out over millions and millions of downloads. That comes perhaps down to $1 pr download, or even smaller once the base code is in place and only refinements are worked on.
Compare that to having to say say $10 each download, for as long as the H264 license terms have any weight.
That is the crazy thing about software (or anything in digital form, really). The development of the original version may have a large up front cost (tho with Chrome and Firefox that is distributed over a couple of people putting in a full time job, and a large collection of people pitching in spare time as available). But once that is done, the cost to make a N+1 copy is X zeros behind the decimal point and dropping. Yet various legal entities wants to apply a price on the N+1 as if it was a real world chair, fork or flower.
The basic "problem" (at least for economists and MBAs) is that classical economics only concerns itself with scarcity. The digital world is one of limitless abundance. End result, the people in charge have basically zero idea about what is going on. That has them worried, and attempting to pass all kinds of laws and such to attempt to force the digital world to behave as a scarce world that they can fit within their existing concepts. "The science of money", bah humbug. That kind of behavior is more in line with religion then science!
Basically. I think Google have made damn sure that the basic building blocks are either GPL2 or older, or even outside of GPL reach at all.
"It's true that IR was slow and cumbersome"
it does not have to be:
http://irda.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=102
Indeed, and it is the backbone of chromeos.
Gratis to whom exactly? Hell, MPEG-LA cut back on playback licensing terms only after Google made webm a credible threat to them.
And most of his writing is found, surprise surprise, the microsoft section.
Iirc, they have separate sections for both microsoft and apple news. And most of their writers focus on one section or another, with the occasional visit over the fence to other sections. Bright is their "MS man".
And will "sync" in the background.
Google demoed this feature in relation to chromeos by showing a newspaper "app" (NYT perhaps) that retained the latest content when the chromeos computer was offline.
and i think gmail already allows you to read and write emails while offline if your using a compatible browser.
"That is bullshit, because right now THE standard for personal broadcasting is h.264.
And it's for the same reason it's so popular for playing videos - hardware support."
Circular logic, as hardware support basically had to come into existence once big media decided to make it its codec of choice.
Most of big media and a whole bunch of tech companies with ties to big media backs H264, sure. But then they can afford to fork over the license fees involved as they get payed pr "unit" sold, and can recoup it from there.
Google, Mozilla and the rest give their browsers away. This means that any license fees will end up being a running expense. And with the download rates they get on their browsers, that is a whole lot of red ink.
H264 is the last in the line that started with Edison's phonograph, a mental world where there are a few big broadcasters and millions of passive "consumers". Not so with the net, as anyone that can hook a computer to the net is a potential broadcaster! And trying to get a "pr use" license out of those, especially if the pricing is in the "big broadcaster expensive" range, is just not going to happen. Until the MPEG-LA steps up and states that the H264 will be licensed for free (price and use) for as long as the patents apply, this will continue to be a issue.
This is the equivalent of the catholic church having a patent on latin, and attempting to leverage a use fee from anyone writing something in that language.
There is a third option, payed shill...
Probably in India or China, the nations that are most likely to get into a new cold war space race...
Well there is always the chance that some sensor data from there will make a physicist go "huh, that goes against existing theories" and suddenly we have all kinds of new understanding of physical events that provides a tangible benefit to everyone (or a new terror weapon, like the nukes that came out of certain atomic energy calculations).
We have all kinds of things around us now because someone had the time and know how to sit down and study something in nature in detail. Hell, medical science basically came about by giving religion the middle finger when it came to carving up dead people.
The laser was first thought of as a neat trick of applied physics (as in, the equations hinted at the possibility so it got built to test the equations validity), but it resulted in a telecom and computing boom once someone fired it down a glass wire.
While true, the increase in storage and bandwidth have made the argument basically moot.
MP3 was heaven back on dialup when a single song could take perhaps half an hour. But now? The whole of metallica can be on the drive in 256 (or higher, if your really serious) in minutes depending on the number of sources and your own connection. And even that will not take up much space on anything but the cheapest throw away device.
And that is on top of "good enough" and utility. Big media already tried higher bit rate formats on audio and it basically flopped. How many owns a audio dvd? The only thing that format offered vs CD was higher bitrate. The same number of tracks and no extra features (at least none that seemed to matter). This compared to going from LP or cassette where the CD offered the real benefit of getting to the wanted track instantly. insert disc, press number, boom. And DVD offered something similar vs VHS, not having to rewind after a viewing, ever again. This on top of instant skip to scene and such. What do blu-ray bring to that?
I wonder, is that simulation running on lips and perl by any change?
You can potentially get the same issue on UMTS/GSM if you walk out of UMTS coverage.
Tho i think EDGE can handle voice and data at the same time if the phone and cell tower is up to the task, by basically jumping between the two. Don't know how many phones support that tho (not really advertised on the spec sheets), nor networks.
or mail them the map "url"?
looks like a Vorlon ship to me...
Only important for those that can not walk around without getting approval from some parent figure, like say a skyfather...
yay for cultural import/export...
how very "cyberpunk", living on a krill and soy diet...
Modern marketing at work. If a label get a bad vibe, find a new label for the same "product"...
Looks like this experimental keyboard from Microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/uist.aspx
well the VM used in android is a custom one (dalvik), 2.2 introduced JIT (with noticeable speed improvements vs 2.1).
And if one really want speed, Google do provide a NDK so that one can compile parts as ARM code (basically having them sit as ARMv5, v6 and/or v7 libs in the APK).