And AAC gives you better quality per bit than Vorbis.
As it stands, Vorbis really has very little to recommend it as a general music format. It's useful for things like games, but it's just not a viable general-purpose format.
You shouldn't be so quick to take everything you read on Wikipedia at face value, you know.
What happened was, the possibility was considered, and quickly calculated to be impossible, but somebody still entered it into the betting pool as a very dark joke, same as the "destruction of New Mexico" entry. Both were known to be impossible.
So you're basically saying that Microsoft had strong business reasons to write a good OS, so they wrote a good OS, and this is somehow a marketing ploy?
Why would an amateur filmmaker ever want to use MKV rather than just plain MP4? The former has far less support. I'd assume he wants people to actually see his movies, and would thus choose the format with the widest availability.
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Thus the tragedy of the commons occurs
It does not. Source code is not a finite resource. Microsoft can take as much as they want, and the code will still be there.
Thanks for walking in and taking a big shit on my comment. ":)" indeed.
So two out of three games mentioned are good because they're just like some other game?
Why so defensive all of a sudden?
Let's see some sources to back that up.
And? Why are we excited about internal game industry formats?
Except h.264 actually offers decent improvements over the alternatives, unlike Vorbis.
Vorbis gives you better quality per bit than MP3.
And AAC gives you better quality per bit than Vorbis.
As it stands, Vorbis really has very little to recommend it as a general music format. It's useful for things like games, but it's just not a viable general-purpose format.
Do you really want them to keep beeping all the time?
No - disagreement within certain bounds is fine
Right, within the bounds you are comfortable with.
Oh, so democracy is fine as long as everyone agrees with you?
I'd mod you up, but thanks to Slashdot's groupthink enforcement mechanism, metamoderation, I am no longer allowed to moderate.
Yes, they are. They are not stopping all spammers, but that is very different from not stopping them at all.
Humans can be hired to solve CAPTCHA at economically viable rates to meet the demand with a supply.
Not in general. For high-value targets, yes. For spamming blog comments, no.
Well, you go get rid of the spammers, and we will.
I meant software anybody cares about.
You shouldn't be so quick to take everything you read on Wikipedia at face value, you know.
What happened was, the possibility was considered, and quickly calculated to be impossible, but somebody still entered it into the betting pool as a very dark joke, same as the "destruction of New Mexico" entry. Both were known to be impossible.
We didn't think any such thing.
I've tried nearly every ISO download under "Applications -> Unix" on The Pirate Bay, but everything seems to be *legal*.
I'm not sure I would be bragging about the fact that nobody even tries to make commercial software for Linux.
So you're basically saying that Microsoft had strong business reasons to write a good OS, so they wrote a good OS, and this is somehow a marketing ploy?
The beta has been out for a while, you know.
You could try starting by reading the article, which is mostly about experimental verification of previously untested theories.
Has anyone else noticed that pretty much every piece of nasty coming down the pipe uses JavaScript?
No, we haven't, because we don't have your confirmation bias.
Well, I guess if you do that enough times, you've solved the botnet problem.
Do you have enough missiles, though?
Why would an amateur filmmaker ever want to use MKV rather than just plain MP4? The former has far less support. I'd assume he wants people to actually see his movies, and would thus choose the format with the widest availability.