Get a grip - your xenophobia is showing. Facebook are merely being capitalist. They want to serve ads. Entire countries blocking their service will affect their bottom line. And, also, when you make massive generalisations like you did, you look like an uneducated redneck twat.
I tried to get in to a bar in Florida by showing my UK passport. The doorman didn't understand what was happening and flagged down a passing police officer to take a look. It took them a good few minutes, literally, to figure out what was happening, that it is actually a form of ID (and a pretty good one at that).
The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are privately-owned, and are used to protect buildings. They are not run by the police or local authorities.
Surveillance state? The cards are just like drivers licenses in the US. Most people simply used them to prove how old they were, or to travel within the EU without having to take their passport with them. People who bought them had a use for them, which will still be possible, as they are still government-issued ID cards, regardless of which actual government issued them.
Most people who whine about DRM don't seem to understand what it is. It is simply a way for content providers, who want to, to add protection to their selected content. It doesn't make the OS automatically assume all content is locked-down. With DRM people get access to more content than without it, as many providers of content simply won't release their content without DRM. Personally I don't see the point of DRM from the content provider's perspective, but so far I've yet to see a single instance of Vista telling me I can't do anything.
Are you kidding? Google still has a shit-load of work to do getting VP8's spec (which, apparently, is just based on chunks of C++ code, complete with comments and TODOs) up to the level of H.264's (which is an actual formal specification). H.264's support is ubiquitous. VP8's is not, and even Intel adding hardware decoding to their Atoms isn't going to change that. Not even close. H.264 is the video codec of the moment, and it very likely to stay that way for considerable time. Theora is the codec that should be worried about this, as VP8 is far better than it, and is also open-source. HTML5 has nothing to do with codecs. That is, and always has been, up to the implementation of the browser to choose. Just as the img tag doesn't specify what image formats a browser should support. What the fuck are you smoking?
What are you smoking? Reliably being able to produce something so intricate and tiny, on any useful scale, is fantastically more complicated than producing current silicon chips. The process isn't proven - not even close.
The video tag doesn't care about the codec - just putting an h.264 video in a video tag doesn't magically mean it will play. However, if you have a mildly-recent flash plugin, it will play. Also, the Flash player does a lot more cool stuff than simply pseudo-streaming a video across HTTP - it supports RTMP, allowing for things like dynamic stream switching, instant seeking, and so on.
Hopefully Google will clear up the clusterfuck of a mess that the VP8 spec was in after it left On2 - On2 are terrible developers.
You can deep-bookmark flash pages no problem. Just because people misuse it doesn't mean it in itself is bad. Pressing backspace, too, can be perfectly fine in a flash-based website, as Flash will capture that itself, and not the browser window (just as you can press backspace when typing a comment on Slashdot without going back in your history).
Jesus. Get a grip! There are these things called "education" and "democracy" that allow for a government to provide both liberty and social security to a nation. The two are not mutually exclusive. The essence of the US is not Liberty as much as, at least according to you, the desire to live in the 60s for the rest of eternity, while the rest of the western world has comparable rights, and a much better standard of living, with better life expectancies, and more, nicer cars.
You really don't understand the word "social" do you? I think you'll find most people around the world are generous, and most western countries have volunteer armies that get dropped into hell-hole nations around the world. The amount of ignorance dripping from your post is staggering.
What the fuck have you been smoking? If you are in France you get 30 days of holiday per year, free healthcare, a longer life-expectancy, and a better quality of living. You are also less likely to be shot, less likely to have to shoot someone, and more likely to drive a much better car to a much better job.
But please - keep jerking yourself off over your flag. It'll definitely work.
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Get a grip - your xenophobia is showing. Facebook are merely being capitalist. They want to serve ads. Entire countries blocking their service will affect their bottom line. And, also, when you make massive generalisations like you did, you look like an uneducated redneck twat.
Useless trivia: The London Underground uses 4 rails.
Real 4G pisses on those speeds. 1Gbit/s download, not 40Mbit shite.
Sprint's 4G isn't 4G. It's WiMAX. 4G includes download speeds of 1Gbit/s.
Sprint's 4G is just MiMAX (40Mbit/s), as opposed to actual, real, rest-of-the-world 4G (1Gbit/s). It's bullshit.
I tried to get in to a bar in Florida by showing my UK passport. The doorman didn't understand what was happening and flagged down a passing police officer to take a look. It took them a good few minutes, literally, to figure out what was happening, that it is actually a form of ID (and a pretty good one at that).
And the Nazis would have loved nuclear weapons, so I guess we should scrap those, too? I love this game!
The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are privately-owned, and are used to protect buildings. They are not run by the police or local authorities.
Surveillance state? The cards are just like drivers licenses in the US. Most people simply used them to prove how old they were, or to travel within the EU without having to take their passport with them. People who bought them had a use for them, which will still be possible, as they are still government-issued ID cards, regardless of which actual government issued them.
Most people who whine about DRM don't seem to understand what it is. It is simply a way for content providers, who want to, to add protection to their selected content. It doesn't make the OS automatically assume all content is locked-down. With DRM people get access to more content than without it, as many providers of content simply won't release their content without DRM. Personally I don't see the point of DRM from the content provider's perspective, but so far I've yet to see a single instance of Vista telling me I can't do anything.
Are you kidding? Google still has a shit-load of work to do getting VP8's spec (which, apparently, is just based on chunks of C++ code, complete with comments and TODOs) up to the level of H.264's (which is an actual formal specification). H.264's support is ubiquitous. VP8's is not, and even Intel adding hardware decoding to their Atoms isn't going to change that. Not even close. H.264 is the video codec of the moment, and it very likely to stay that way for considerable time. Theora is the codec that should be worried about this, as VP8 is far better than it, and is also open-source. HTML5 has nothing to do with codecs. That is, and always has been, up to the implementation of the browser to choose. Just as the img tag doesn't specify what image formats a browser should support. What the fuck are you smoking?
The chip in question is completely different in tolerances, performance, and life-span of the chips used in SSDs. That's the problem.
I read that the facebook users in question seemed to be automatically-generated bogus accounts, if they ever existed at all.
They even play fine in Flash, funnily enough.
AMD is nowhere near Intel when it comes to CPUs. Not even close.
Hitler, of course.
What are you smoking? Reliably being able to produce something so intricate and tiny, on any useful scale, is fantastically more complicated than producing current silicon chips. The process isn't proven - not even close.
Welcome to 1998, folks! I'd have expected quite a bit more than this. What a let-down.
The video tag doesn't care about the codec - just putting an h.264 video in a video tag doesn't magically mean it will play. However, if you have a mildly-recent flash plugin, it will play. Also, the Flash player does a lot more cool stuff than simply pseudo-streaming a video across HTTP - it supports RTMP, allowing for things like dynamic stream switching, instant seeking, and so on.
Hopefully Google will clear up the clusterfuck of a mess that the VP8 spec was in after it left On2 - On2 are terrible developers.
You can deep-bookmark flash pages no problem. Just because people misuse it doesn't mean it in itself is bad. Pressing backspace, too, can be perfectly fine in a flash-based website, as Flash will capture that itself, and not the browser window (just as you can press backspace when typing a comment on Slashdot without going back in your history).
No, but if you have a blu-ray player that dumps a protected blu-ray to a hard disk, without protection, then the manufacturer can get in trouble.
It wasn't an argument. It was merely a response to someone making a bunch of stuff up.
Jesus. Get a grip! There are these things called "education" and "democracy" that allow for a government to provide both liberty and social security to a nation. The two are not mutually exclusive. The essence of the US is not Liberty as much as, at least according to you, the desire to live in the 60s for the rest of eternity, while the rest of the western world has comparable rights, and a much better standard of living, with better life expectancies, and more, nicer cars.
You really don't understand the word "social" do you? I think you'll find most people around the world are generous, and most western countries have volunteer armies that get dropped into hell-hole nations around the world. The amount of ignorance dripping from your post is staggering.
What the fuck have you been smoking? If you are in France you get 30 days of holiday per year, free healthcare, a longer life-expectancy, and a better quality of living. You are also less likely to be shot, less likely to have to shoot someone, and more likely to drive a much better car to a much better job.
But please - keep jerking yourself off over your flag. It'll definitely work.