It was not actually done by NASA, and if it was, it would probably not have made a terribly big dent in their budget, seeing as how it was actually done by some guy just for fun.
I'm sure that one day, you will accomplish something of value in your life, and you will no longer need to use trivialities to build your sense of self-worth.
There are plenty of metrics for video quality already, which are in wide use when developing these things.
But the problem is that there are so many things you can do, and so few of those are actually good. Developing these things requires a huge amount of trial-and-error. And you can't just do a change and run a quick test to see if it made things better, because if you just test against one thing, you will over-optimize for that particular case at the expense of every other video.
It's hard work with frustratingly vague goals. And of course, the patent minefield doesn't help.
It's not that it's arcane, it's that it's boring. It's a whole lot of very, very boring work to develop a good video codec. It's the kind of thing open source development is very bad at.
That would be a good counterargument if Steve Jobs was now selling boxes which were totally not for telephone hacking but everybody was using them for telephone hacking anyway.
And that argument is pure bullshit or wishful thinking. The guy used to run a warez BBS and pay uploaders for it! You think he didn't realize he was running a warez website now and paying uploaders for it?
No, those issues are just as well understood as the fact that the Earth is warming.
As far as I'm concerned, until our weather man can accurately predict at least 5 days out
You can't even predict the outcome of a single coin toss, yet you have the gall to claim that out of a thousand coin tosses, about 500 will come up tails? You simply can't know that!
How exactly do customers benefit from not having push emails in iCloud and MobileMe?
How do customers benefit from any patent on anything? The entire point of patents is to limit availability of a product. This is the case with every patent, not just this one.
And the benefit to customers is supposed to be that that product gets developed at all.
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What.
So the fact that Oracle has sued someone over their language while Microsoft hasn't doesn't matter, it's still Microsoft that is more evil.
I mean, what exactly does matter, then?
Well, the thing is, this is actually happening with Oracle right now. It has not happened with C#.
So why is it that C# is the "trap" here, but not Java?
1. The Microsoft patent grant for C# is more permissive than the patent grant for Java.
2. Oracle is suing Google over Java right now..
That rise isn't going to stop at 0.3 meters.
It was not actually done by NASA, and if it was, it would probably not have made a terribly big dent in their budget, seeing as how it was actually done by some guy just for fun.
I'm sure that one day, you will accomplish something of value in your life, and you will no longer need to use trivialities to build your sense of self-worth.
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_quality for one.
There are plenty of metrics for video quality already, which are in wide use when developing these things.
But the problem is that there are so many things you can do, and so few of those are actually good. Developing these things requires a huge amount of trial-and-error. And you can't just do a change and run a quick test to see if it made things better, because if you just test against one thing, you will over-optimize for that particular case at the expense of every other video.
It's hard work with frustratingly vague goals. And of course, the patent minefield doesn't help.
It's not that it's arcane, it's that it's boring. It's a whole lot of very, very boring work to develop a good video codec. It's the kind of thing open source development is very bad at.
So no, there isn't one.
And so was Gif, and we know how that went...
"Still used all over the web"?
Yes?
If you are going to argue, please do so like an adult.
And the BSD-like licenses grant you more freedom, so...
That would be a good counterargument if Steve Jobs was now selling boxes which were totally not for telephone hacking but everybody was using them for telephone hacking anyway.
He didn't pay people to upload copyrighted material either.
No, he did exactly that. Don't lie.
So why are ISP operators not behind bars as well?
Probably has something to do with how ISPs don't pay people to upload copyrighted material to their servers.
Yet who was it that claimed that Megaupload's principle use was copyright infringement?
Anybody with an iota of common sense could tell that, long before they were raided.
And that argument is pure bullshit or wishful thinking. The guy used to run a warez BBS and pay uploaders for it! You think he didn't realize he was running a warez website now and paying uploaders for it?
Uh... Since when can you sell your games second-hand on Steam?
I mean, Steam is the main thing proving the guy right, here.
Nice attempt, but climate is not a binary, 50/50, either/or statistical problem.
No, but it is a statistical problem, which is very different from weather, which is not.
But there are still the matters of
No, those issues are just as well understood as the fact that the Earth is warming.
As far as I'm concerned, until our weather man can accurately predict at least 5 days out
You can't even predict the outcome of a single coin toss, yet you have the gall to claim that out of a thousand coin tosses, about 500 will come up tails? You simply can't know that!
Competition in you main market is an incentive to improve.
Competition in a tiny side market is an incentive to give up and stop wasting resources on it.
How exactly do customers benefit from not having push emails in iCloud and MobileMe?
How do customers benefit from any patent on anything? The entire point of patents is to limit availability of a product. This is the case with every patent, not just this one.
And the benefit to customers is supposed to be that that product gets developed at all.
No, it doesn't keep a record because that is how the original software it is based on worked. This just never changed.