Somehow I doubt you've looked all that much at either, especially seeing as how WebGL is pretty much a straight copy of OpenGL ES 2.0, with some convenience added on top.
All right then, since you find it so funny, could you explain the joke to me?
Because I have absolutely no idea what the joke is in the line "Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it really likes?", or even what it is trying to say. No, I haven't noticed Wikipedia having any words it particularly likes, whatever that means, and I have no idea what that has to do with a made-up funny word?
I have no idea why Scroogle is bitching about this.
Mostly because the creator of Scroogle is kind of a complete nutcase, and he just spotted a great chance to throw a hissy fit about how evil Google is.
Well, there's your problem: The latest version 5 update is only on the dev channel. That's for cutting-edge testing, and is pretty much guaranteed to have bugs. You want to use a more conservative version if you want it to be stable and reliable.
(Also, as was pointed out, the blank tabs are probably a side effect of the split-process model. They just mean that content is being swapped in and they will appear in a little while. This is what happens instead of the entire browser freezing while they swap in.)
Because there is no other choice at the moment which stands a snowball's chance in hell of actually being used. You can support Theora as much as you want, but that just means content producers will keep using Flash, because that is what gives them the video quality they want.
Your choices are: Flash and h.264, or just h.264. The latter gives you the choice to sneak in Theora on the side for those who still want it. What sane person would pick the former choice?
The problem is exactly that it can't possibly scale. There is only so much bandwidth physically available in each cell, and bandwidth demand isn't going to decrease any time soon. The only thing you can do is shrink the cells, and soon enough you're at the point where your cells are so small that you have to have wires everywhere anyway.
It's still useful, but it'll only be a slow backup for the real network that is using wires of some kind or other (copper, glass, whatever we come up with later).
Line of sight will never be useful for anything but static connections, if even those. It has no chance of working indoors, and even outdoors, you'll be constantly losing line of sight.
At 60 GHz? No. It's hard enough getting that to propagate through air, let alone walls. This is for short-range communication exclusively.
"Municipal WiFi" will never happen on a large scale and in the long run, for this reason: If you want signals to propagate, you need to stick to low enough frequencies, and that means there just isn't enough bandwidth to cover a large number of people at the same time. It just barely works now, and bandwidth demand will only grow. Wires are here to stay: You'll still need to wire every house, every apartment, and have local transceivers if you want a wireless connection. There just isn't enough bandwidth in the open air.
If the overwhelming majority of gamers don't finish the game in the first place, how would replayability help?
Make a shorter and simpler game, that can be played many times and still be entertaining. Then more people can finish it, and those who want to spend more time playing can also do so.
MKV has nothing in particular to do with h.264, except that pirates like putting h.264 video in MKV containers. It's pretty obvious why Microsoft or anyone else has little interest in supporting it.
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Somehow I doubt you've looked all that much at either, especially seeing as how WebGL is pretty much a straight copy of OpenGL ES 2.0, with some convenience added on top.
That is not even remotely true.
I don't see any hyperbole in this comic, though. I just see a non-sequitur.
Those are words I would expect to see a lot in an encyclopedia. I'm still not sure why this is a joke.
So the joke is that encyclopedia writers use words that categorize words a lot?
That's not really "Best. Joke. Ever:" material, I'm thinking.
Well, it is a shame, but we will just have to sacrifice this frog, then.
All right then, since you find it so funny, could you explain the joke to me?
Because I have absolutely no idea what the joke is in the line "Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it really likes?", or even what it is trying to say. No, I haven't noticed Wikipedia having any words it particularly likes, whatever that means, and I have no idea what that has to do with a made-up funny word?
I remember this coversation.
But last time Firefox was Seamonkey and Chrome was Phoenix.
But that is not scaling. It only works for a short while. Then your cells become too small to be useful, and scaling stops.
I have no idea why Scroogle is bitching about this.
Mostly because the creator of Scroogle is kind of a complete nutcase, and he just spotted a great chance to throw a hissy fit about how evil Google is.
Well, there's your problem: The latest version 5 update is only on the dev channel. That's for cutting-edge testing, and is pretty much guaranteed to have bugs. You want to use a more conservative version if you want it to be stable and reliable.
(Also, as was pointed out, the blank tabs are probably a side effect of the split-process model. They just mean that content is being swapped in and they will appear in a little while. This is what happens instead of the entire browser freezing while they swap in.)
No, I can't say I have. Maybe because I've been using Chrome all the time.
If moving your mouse pointer a few tens of pixels further is that noticeable a chore, you probably have your mouse speed set way too low.
Try Chrome again. It is getting lots and lots of work, and is much more stable now than just a few months ago.
Because there is no other choice at the moment which stands a snowball's chance in hell of actually being used. You can support Theora as much as you want, but that just means content producers will keep using Flash, because that is what gives them the video quality they want.
Your choices are: Flash and h.264, or just h.264. The latter gives you the choice to sneak in Theora on the side for those who still want it. What sane person would pick the former choice?
The problem is exactly that it can't possibly scale. There is only so much bandwidth physically available in each cell, and bandwidth demand isn't going to decrease any time soon. The only thing you can do is shrink the cells, and soon enough you're at the point where your cells are so small that you have to have wires everywhere anyway.
It's still useful, but it'll only be a slow backup for the real network that is using wires of some kind or other (copper, glass, whatever we come up with later).
Line of sight will never be useful for anything but static connections, if even those. It has no chance of working indoors, and even outdoors, you'll be constantly losing line of sight.
At 60 GHz? No. It's hard enough getting that to propagate through air, let alone walls. This is for short-range communication exclusively.
"Municipal WiFi" will never happen on a large scale and in the long run, for this reason: If you want signals to propagate, you need to stick to low enough frequencies, and that means there just isn't enough bandwidth to cover a large number of people at the same time. It just barely works now, and bandwidth demand will only grow. Wires are here to stay: You'll still need to wire every house, every apartment, and have local transceivers if you want a wireless connection. There just isn't enough bandwidth in the open air.
a lot of these formats would never have become standard if they had been forced to pay royalties on it from the get go.
Pretty much all the places where h.264 is used, it had to be paid for from the start, and it was still chose, because it is very good.
You're comparing 1 million sold in 28 days with 20 million sold in a year, and you're accusing others of misrepresenting numbers?
If the overwhelming majority of gamers don't finish the game in the first place, how would replayability help?
Make a shorter and simpler game, that can be played many times and still be entertaining. Then more people can finish it, and those who want to spend more time playing can also do so.
Yes, well, that makes absolutely no sense.
What the hell are you even talking about?
MKV has nothing in particular to do with h.264, except that pirates like putting h.264 video in MKV containers. It's pretty obvious why Microsoft or anyone else has little interest in supporting it.
h.264 is open, in the sense that the word has been used for decades. What it is not is free.