What you're basically asking for is "why can't this free software made by volunteers be as instantly capable with any hardware on the planet as the big corporate monopoly that spends zillions on the same thing"?
Do you now see the idiocy of the question?
So basically, you're saying Linux sucks and he's an idiot for thinking it doesn't?
There is little incentive for Google to use any of the On2 codecs without opening them up first. A codec only they can play is no different from h.264.
-Superior (smaller) patent minefield and licensing costs.
True on the latter, false on the former. There are a great deal of patents that are known to affect h.264, and you get a license for all of them when you pay up. For Theora, we don't really know. Xiph.org just says not to worry, but expect us to take their word for it. They may very well be right, but companies don't like that kind of uncertainty. They'd much rather pay for a known set of patent than take risks with unknown ones.
It's not the uncanny valley. It's just that it plain doesn't look anything like reality in the first place. The biggest culprit is the lighting, which pretty much no game has ever managed to get anywhere near right. I doubt anybody's even trying.
Game developers seem to be attempting to create the most realistic depiction possible... of a video game. Certainly reality doesn't seem to be their model.
Did the BSD networking stack suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth because Microsoft used it? No, it's still there for you to use just as freely as it was before.
Yes, and KHTML was completely irrelevant until Apple took it over and turned it into a usable rendering engine. WebKit is what everybody is using, not KHTML. Even KDE is.
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I used and loved BeOS, and AmigaOS, and I still don't care about Haiku.
BeOS was amazing because it was written by a group of dedicated developers with a razor-sharp vision of how to design a great OS.
Haiku is an attempt to copy what those guys did a decade and a half ago.
One is really a lot less exciting than the other.
I think it's pretty clear the creators are not much into this "common sense" thing when they decided to make "a web browser with the Unix philosophy".
So your problem with it is that they claimed 7 million when it was actually more like 4 or 5 million?
Yes, I'm sure there's a large enough fraction of people who sit around torrenting Linux distros to significantly affect the result.
Sorry, I don't live in your fucked-up country.
I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.
In most of them, you can make a report - even one without enough facts to solve the problem - without being called a troll.
It's more like, "Wow, no one else seems to have this problem. What are you doing wrong?"
Yes, and calling the guy a troll was just friendly banter.
What you're basically asking for is "why can't this free software made by volunteers be as instantly capable with any hardware on the planet as the big corporate monopoly that spends zillions on the same thing"?
Do you now see the idiocy of the question?
So basically, you're saying Linux sucks and he's an idiot for thinking it doesn't?
Good old Linux community, where posting "I have this problem..." gets you the response "YOU DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM! POST PROOF OR RETRACT!"
You can bet that the MPEG-LA has put quite a bit more effort into finding out which patents apply to h.264 than Xiph.org has for Theora.
They totally own half a percent of the patents on h.264!
There is little incentive for Google to use any of the On2 codecs without opening them up first. A codec only they can play is no different from h.264.
-Superior (smaller) patent minefield and licensing costs.
True on the latter, false on the former. There are a great deal of patents that are known to affect h.264, and you get a license for all of them when you pay up. For Theora, we don't really know. Xiph.org just says not to worry, but expect us to take their word for it. They may very well be right, but companies don't like that kind of uncertainty. They'd much rather pay for a known set of patent than take risks with unknown ones.
Not likely. Theora is probably going to hit that wall much sooner, unless it makes radical and incompatible changes to the format.
And in English?
What's a Playboy? Is that like a Playstation?
The Japanese most definitely do not use SMS or MMS. They use plain email.
It's not the uncanny valley. It's just that it plain doesn't look anything like reality in the first place. The biggest culprit is the lighting, which pretty much no game has ever managed to get anywhere near right. I doubt anybody's even trying.
Game developers seem to be attempting to create the most realistic depiction possible... of a video game. Certainly reality doesn't seem to be their model.
Did the BSD networking stack suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth because Microsoft used it? No, it's still there for you to use just as freely as it was before.
So basically you need government regulation to have a free market?
Ah yes, the good old "free markets are great because free markets are great" argument!
What makes you think the code is "mostly KHTML" at this point?
Also, are you still running XFree86, then?
Yes, and KHTML was completely irrelevant until Apple took it over and turned it into a usable rendering engine. WebKit is what everybody is using, not KHTML. Even KDE is.
There's a pretty easy solution to that one.