Let's review that partial list of freetard losers from the fine summary, shall we? "ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba". Hmph. Quite a bunch of freetard hobbyist idiots there. Probably not a solid engineer in the lot. The lot of them probably lack the resources to make it work. Gee, AC, clearly your vision and wisdom is superior to that pack of fools. If only we knew who you were, o genius of mystery, so we could give you the accolades you so richly deserve for helping us dodge this fool's errand!
You people are sick. Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars to give us a free and open universal video codec, to crush the MPEG-LA monopoly that actually sued ordinary people for posting their own cat videos over patent licensing, and improves it enough that it can do 4k video even over LTE, and actually gathers enough industry support to ensure universal hardware adoption. And you have to bitch about it like you have ever in your life achieved something so globally useful and helpful and difficult. So you don't like it. Here's my gift to you: you don't have to use it. There. Now we can both be happy.
AC was just sarcastically providing the mandatory minimum snark. Florian Mueller is on holiday today and can't fulfill his Google bashing duties today so volunteers are filling in.
When MPEG-LA (the patent group behind H.264) was trying to form a patent pool to make Google's VP8 non-free, Google had to send their lawyers down there to explain to them why that was going to not work. Turns out Google now owns a huge chunk of their patents, and enough other patents to shut down their game. Now they have given up that nonsense and we get to have high quality video devices that are compatible with each other, free editors and hosting, streaming and media center devices. As a technology H.264 is fine, but as a mechanism for "we get to say who can do video", well that day is done forever.
And then comes the obvious suggestion: "punish them for trying to make you buy their new crap by buying their older crap instead. That will teach them." It is painful to watch you guys work. You know that, don't you?
I knew I was going to see this here. Disastrous12 year old software. For the record system builders were stilled allowed to install XP on new netbooks up until October 22, 2010, and new machines were still being cleared from inventory Christmas 2011. So it is still pretty new to a few people. Up until three years ago it was still new software. That is not very old for a desktop installation.
But that doesn't play into your "not Microsoft's fault stupid people won't update their software every decade" theme you have to have going on here, does it? Now it's a matter of people getting jacked out of what they paid for sooner than a reasonable expectation, on hardware that won't even run the upgrade. Completely screws up your flow. Now it's not their fault. Sorry for ruining your party.
It should of course be mentioned that nearly all of these can be had for free from Project Gutenberg, and probably Goodreads and Google Books as well. There is no excuse any more to have not read them.
The changes in air temperature measurements have diverged from the changes in atmospheric CO2 measurements. I was promised that was not possible - a violation of basic physics. I was lied to.
I believe the dogma, which you will find posted both above and below, is "the science is settled". As in we need have no further discussion on the substantial issues - any deviation from the talking points is heresy. Some people have a problem with this dogma, but here you are pretending it doesn't even exist. Is this your very first AGW flamefest? Guys! We have a virgin in our midst!
My kids came home from their first day of school asking "are people really this stupid?" They weren't asking about the students. They were asking about the teachers. They knew kids didn't know stuff, but the idea that their teachers might be ignorant also was a shock. My answer: yes dear, but don't let them know you know how stupid they are, or they will hurt you.
I wish I could claim this was the benefit of my genome, but it is environmental. If the kid learns to read at 18 mos, they will develop some way to evaluate the text on their own and establish their own ethical domain. They will experience the mainstream educational method in that context, objectively finding it ridiculous.
Intel bought McAfee because the guys in charge of Intel have no fucking clue about technology or trends. They're MBAs applying formulas that might apply to 19th century rail monopolies. They have under their direction the engineers who could totally kick the world's ass, and they feel it is their purpose to guide them in a fruitless direction. I totally feel for the long suffering Intel engineer held back by his corporate overlord. They know the way, but their bosses won't let them go there.
Interestingly, Intel includes the better GPU in the upmarket CPU where it is going to not be used because those platforms get discrete GPU, and the inferior ones on the down market CPUs where they will be front and center as the display driver. That never made sense to me.
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You aren't ever going to see this at Newegg.
Let's review that partial list of freetard losers from the fine summary, shall we? "ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba". Hmph. Quite a bunch of freetard hobbyist idiots there. Probably not a solid engineer in the lot. The lot of them probably lack the resources to make it work. Gee, AC, clearly your vision and wisdom is superior to that pack of fools. If only we knew who you were, o genius of mystery, so we could give you the accolades you so richly deserve for helping us dodge this fool's errand!
That deal is not what you think it is. You have been reading too much Florian Mueller.
You people are sick. Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars to give us a free and open universal video codec, to crush the MPEG-LA monopoly that actually sued ordinary people for posting their own cat videos over patent licensing, and improves it enough that it can do 4k video even over LTE, and actually gathers enough industry support to ensure universal hardware adoption. And you have to bitch about it like you have ever in your life achieved something so globally useful and helpful and difficult. So you don't like it. Here's my gift to you: you don't have to use it. There. Now we can both be happy.
AC was just sarcastically providing the mandatory minimum snark. Florian Mueller is on holiday today and can't fulfill his Google bashing duties today so volunteers are filling in.
When MPEG-LA (the patent group behind H.264) was trying to form a patent pool to make Google's VP8 non-free, Google had to send their lawyers down there to explain to them why that was going to not work. Turns out Google now owns a huge chunk of their patents, and enough other patents to shut down their game. Now they have given up that nonsense and we get to have high quality video devices that are compatible with each other, free editors and hosting, streaming and media center devices. As a technology H.264 is fine, but as a mechanism for "we get to say who can do video", well that day is done forever.
Supposedly Polaroid is to offer a 4k display under $1000. Still rich for me but for some...
And then comes the obvious suggestion: "punish them for trying to make you buy their new crap by buying their older crap instead. That will teach them." It is painful to watch you guys work. You know that, don't you?
I knew I was going to see this here. Disastrous12 year old software. For the record system builders were stilled allowed to install XP on new netbooks up until October 22, 2010, and new machines were still being cleared from inventory Christmas 2011. So it is still pretty new to a few people. Up until three years ago it was still new software. That is not very old for a desktop installation.
But that doesn't play into your "not Microsoft's fault stupid people won't update their software every decade" theme you have to have going on here, does it? Now it's a matter of people getting jacked out of what they paid for sooner than a reasonable expectation, on hardware that won't even run the upgrade. Completely screws up your flow. Now it's not their fault. Sorry for ruining your party.
In Seattle on a nice day that might almost be enough light to read by.
Oh. Australia. Sorry, friend. I hear paying over the odds for tech is a rather general problem there for some reason. Any idea why? Tariffs maybe?
It should of course be mentioned that nearly all of these can be had for free from Project Gutenberg, and probably Goodreads and Google Books as well. There is no excuse any more to have not read them.
The changes in air temperature measurements have diverged from the changes in atmospheric CO2 measurements. I was promised that was not possible - a violation of basic physics. I was lied to.
Do they not have eBay or Amazon where you live?
I believe the dogma, which you will find posted both above and below, is "the science is settled". As in we need have no further discussion on the substantial issues - any deviation from the talking points is heresy. Some people have a problem with this dogma, but here you are pretending it doesn't even exist. Is this your very first AGW flamefest? Guys! We have a virgin in our midst!
The sun'll come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There'll be sun!
Climate articles and climate models have the same problem: the noise to signal ratio is 1:0.
I was going to put the Bible in there, but then you should include several versions, and several other such works as well. The Gita, Qabalah, Koran.
The Iliad and The Odyssey. Canterbury Tales. Moby Dick. Oedipus trilogy. Beowulf. Rubaiyat.
The nexus 7 is 1920x1200 at 300 DPI for $199 just about everywhere.
My kids came home from their first day of school asking "are people really this stupid?" They weren't asking about the students. They were asking about the teachers. They knew kids didn't know stuff, but the idea that their teachers might be ignorant also was a shock. My answer: yes dear, but don't let them know you know how stupid they are, or they will hurt you.
I wish I could claim this was the benefit of my genome, but it is environmental. If the kid learns to read at 18 mos, they will develop some way to evaluate the text on their own and establish their own ethical domain. They will experience the mainstream educational method in that context, objectively finding it ridiculous.
Intel bought McAfee because the guys in charge of Intel have no fucking clue about technology or trends. They're MBAs applying formulas that might apply to 19th century rail monopolies. They have under their direction the engineers who could totally kick the world's ass, and they feel it is their purpose to guide them in a fruitless direction. I totally feel for the long suffering Intel engineer held back by his corporate overlord. They know the way, but their bosses won't let them go there.
Somebody had to say it. I'm not sorry. Nerds are geeks. We are also sophomoric.
If ever there was an article begging for a "hot oil on Uranus" comment, this is it.
Interestingly, Intel includes the better GPU in the upmarket CPU where it is going to not be used because those platforms get discrete GPU, and the inferior ones on the down market CPUs where they will be front and center as the display driver. That never made sense to me.