But you are missing the point of the web entirely. Flash is managed by one company, its control is not in the hands of a consortium but a for-profit company. HTML does have problems being used cross-platform, but thats just beacuse of the nature of its creation, by a relatively disjointed consortium and there is no way around it. Sure the proprietary nature of it gives it advantages but it gives it disadvantages too.
Regardless, personally, i think the biggest porblem with Flash is how hard it is for machines to get data from it. As soon as google starts giving me results for Flash based content, maybe i will change my mind.
these damn posts about some dumb, incremental and not inovative improvement in technology? Was anyone actually surprised that DVD burners have, in fact, increased in speed? Big friggin deal. Unless this DVD burner can make coffee or some crap, i dont see why its on slashdot.
How the hell was that marked offtopic? digimarc makes precisely the same technology that was reported in this article, but they released over two years ago.
dl kazaalite and try it. Im afraid your wrong, in general, not only is the file with the most sources the spoofed one (if the record companies are spoofing that file at all) but the top _few_ files are the spoofed ones.
well apparently what i posted is meaningless because it says the professor patented this in 2000 which im almost defenitley sure is at least a year or two before the record companies started doing this.
...that if you can prove the technique was in use prior to someone else claiming to invent it, that they cannot patent it? Meaning there is no way for this guy to patent it, or at least the p2p networks can argue that they cannot be charged royalties or be in anyway affected by this professor having a patent?
Outsourcing probably starts to make sense around ten thousand copies and at that point, you are probably doing quite well and not so worried about costs... i might say something like "Microsoft makes millions of CDs and they aren't doing so well"
o shit, i said it....
This has to be one of the crappiest articles in the developers section, ever. The author has absolutley no explanation of what is "fast enough". He just says, wow 66/second, sounds fast. Guess performance doesnt matter. That is retarded. He never compares it to a non-interpreted, more performance oriented language, so how can he say its fast? There are many applications where i wish image decoding happened faster, so you can't just assume its fast enough.
Truth is the only people who really get their panties in a twist over DRM are Slashdotters, pirates, and tin-foil hat fuckos.
If a Slashdotter is getting his panties in a twist over DRM, what is he if not a pirate or tin-foil hat fucko?
ok stop the damn bull shit, what is Google, along with Linux, and all of the OSS world some sort of god sent thing to make people happy. Its a damn for-profit company like any other, it does what it takes to make money, it just does it better than any others.
how does Google do everything so well, or at least better than any other company by far. Is it just led by some smart people who can higher some more smarter people?
I know, its probably cause they use lots of linux everywhere. Yeah, that must be it.:P
Bandwidth, in this context, is the amount of data crossing any given plane per unit time.
well for that bandwidth to be maintained on a link for longer than.28s, you would need a constant stream of 747's flying nose to tail, or more realisticly, massive squadrons of them. Then to process one 747 full of DVDs every.28 seconds, you would need an airport of unimaginable size, so i would go with the parent on what the real bandwidth is. Not to mention you'd need about 22,292 /.28 * 2 ~ 160k 747's to make the link truly continuous (actually much larger when you add the time they spend grounded.
6. A software package that isn't so ridiculously complicated to install and use that companies make more money selling training and support than they do implementing applications.
Just wait a second, i have the distinct feeling this post is a sarcastic jab at MS software, and how much worse it is than open source/free software whatever you like. Yet, is it me, or is this not by far the largest, if not sole source of income for every single company that embraces open source?
telephone calls placed in disregard of the foregoing will be charged at two hundred fifty dollars per telephone call. ... So if you know of a better, simpler 'legally correct' way, do tell us how!"
So I'm going to have to pay $250 to try to help them?
I think this new Xbox will lead to more games on Macs because it uses the same proccesor as the G5. Instead of adopting PC games to console, the reverse will happen, and voila, lots of good games for the Mac. The article even said that MS is using G5's to start developing games.
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But you are missing the point of the web entirely. Flash is managed by one company, its control is not in the hands of a consortium but a for-profit company. HTML does have problems being used cross-platform, but thats just beacuse of the nature of its creation, by a relatively disjointed consortium and there is no way around it. Sure the proprietary nature of it gives it advantages but it gives it disadvantages too.
Regardless, personally, i think the biggest porblem with Flash is how hard it is for machines to get data from it. As soon as google starts giving me results for Flash based content, maybe i will change my mind.
these damn posts about some dumb, incremental and not inovative improvement in technology? Was anyone actually surprised that DVD burners have, in fact, increased in speed? Big friggin deal. Unless this DVD burner can make coffee or some crap, i dont see why its on slashdot.
How the hell was that marked offtopic? digimarc makes precisely the same technology that was reported in this article, but they released over two years ago.
dl kazaalite and try it. Im afraid your wrong, in general, not only is the file with the most sources the spoofed one (if the record companies are spoofing that file at all) but the top _few_ files are the spoofed ones.
well apparently what i posted is meaningless because it says the professor patented this in 2000 which im almost defenitley sure is at least a year or two before the record companies started doing this.
...that if you can prove the technique was in use prior to someone else claiming to invent it, that they cannot patent it? Meaning there is no way for this guy to patent it, or at least the p2p networks can argue that they cannot be charged royalties or be in anyway affected by this professor having a patent?
Outsourcing probably starts to make sense around ten thousand copies and at that point, you are probably doing quite well and not so worried about costs ... i might say something like "Microsoft makes millions of CDs and they aren't doing so well"
o shit, i said it....
wasn't this already done with images that you could put up to your webcam? Ah yes, here it is: http://www.digimarc.com/
This has to be one of the crappiest articles in the developers section, ever. The author has absolutley no explanation of what is "fast enough". He just says, wow 66/second, sounds fast. Guess performance doesnt matter. That is retarded. He never compares it to a non-interpreted, more performance oriented language, so how can he say its fast? There are many applications where i wish image decoding happened faster, so you can't just assume its fast enough.
Sony? Upstart?
Truth is the only people who really get their panties in a twist over DRM are Slashdotters, pirates, and tin-foil hat fuckos. If a Slashdotter is getting his panties in a twist over DRM, what is he if not a pirate or tin-foil hat fucko?
ok stop the damn bull shit, what is Google, along with Linux, and all of the OSS world some sort of god sent thing to make people happy. Its a damn for-profit company like any other, it does what it takes to make money, it just does it better than any others.
how does Google do everything so well, or at least better than any other company by far. Is it just led by some smart people who can higher some more smarter people? I know, its probably cause they use lots of linux everywhere. Yeah, that must be it. :P
you can't even buy stuff these days without being squawked at
Bandwidth, in this context, is the amount of data crossing any given plane per unit time. well for that bandwidth to be maintained on a link for longer than .28s, you would need a constant stream of 747's flying nose to tail, or more realisticly, massive squadrons of them. Then to process one 747 full of DVDs every .28 seconds, you would need an airport of unimaginable size, so i would go with the parent on what the real bandwidth is. Not to mention you'd need about 22,292 / .28 * 2 ~ 160k 747's to make the link truly continuous (actually much larger when you add the time they spend grounded.
6. A software package that isn't so ridiculously complicated to install and use that companies make more money selling training and support than they do implementing applications.
Just wait a second, i have the distinct feeling this post is a sarcastic jab at MS software, and how much worse it is than open source/free software whatever you like. Yet, is it me, or is this not by far the largest, if not sole source of income for every single company that embraces open source?
Didn't i just see something about lots and lots of cheap diamonds posted on /. ?
I think you people are going a little overboard. Windows source code isn't like a virus or something.
Wait a minute....
...how a badly organized, hard to navigate website, can make its content seem so much worse.
telephone calls placed in disregard of the foregoing will be charged at two hundred fifty dollars per telephone call.
...
So if you know of a better, simpler 'legally correct' way, do tell us how!"
So I'm going to have to pay $250 to try to help them?
This is clearly a plot by Microsoft and SCO to destroy OSS! They couldn't beat any one of us, but if they get us to fight each other...
(after reading the article) I think i need to take a look in my computer again...
I think this new Xbox will lead to more games on Macs because it uses the same proccesor as the G5. Instead of adopting PC games to console, the reverse will happen, and voila, lots of good games for the Mac. The article even said that MS is using G5's to start developing games.
CONS
- slightly wider
- slightly thicker
- slightly heavier
Wait, those are cons?
If its been on for 92 days then you are surely vulnerable to a number of bugs whose patches require restarts.