with firefox and chrome, half of the web traffic will support webm. the rest will have to follow suit
No, they will not. H.264 is not, as you seem to think, a Microsoft product. Neither is it a product mainly for online content. H.264 is a video industry standard, and they invest billions in their stuff. Movie companies invest in encoding technology costing millions of dollars. Cable companies invest millions in hardware that they push to consumers. DSP produces invest millions in research to enable hardware decoding of H.264.
The people who produce and own the content that you want to watch will make this available to you in H.264. It's their choice, not Google's. If you can't watch H.264 you will just have to forget about ESPN and rather go watch a WebM encoded laughing baby instead. Me, I prefer to watch something else, but enjoy your babies and the kittens.
It's IMPORTANT that the web does not become Cable. Cable is where you pay money for content
It's IMPORTANT that you pay money for content. If not, nobody will produce it. I don't think we want a world with no ESPN, no Comedy Central, no Universal Studios and MGM, no Netflix, no CNN. I seriously don't think all the kitty videos in the world can make up for an hour of ESPN.
So, if Google doesn't support H.264 and IE9 does, you can use Chrome to watch You Tube and IE9 (or Safari) to watch ESPN, NBC, ABC, Fox, Netflix, Comedy Central etc. I hope people really like You Tube. I hope they prefer it over all the commercial video content owners. The latter will use H.264.
Oh, and You Tube will never have hardware video acceleration support. I think we just saw Chrome die. Suicide apparently.
Microsoft will say nothing. You are right, 91% of online video will be in the WebM format. All the kittens. All the laughing babies. Each and every dumb-ass boy trying to jump across something and failing.
In the mean time, all commercial video online will be H.264. All the sports. All the TV shows. Every legit movie sharing service. All of it. Google are wrong on this one. Simple. They are bone-headed morons. They will change.
Easy, they don't ship a codec with their browser but use whatever codecs are installed on the PC on which the browser is installed. Voila, no licensing fees and you get hardware acceleration thrown in for free.
Google is a bunch of hard-headed morons who hate everything htat is NIH.
Google doesn't have to pay 10c or anything at all to support H.264 in their browser. They can do what everybody should do and support whatever codecs I have on my computer. The vast majority of PCs today have H.264 decoders installed. Use that and you can play H.264 video without paying a dime in licensing fees.
H.264 is the industry standard for video. It has hardware acceleration support on most newer PCs. Google is again doing thei customers a huge disservice. They are NIH hardheaded morons.
Sigh. So, someone quotes US and Canadian resources, and you conclude that they are either of US or Canadian origin. Your defense of your retarded comment proves that your comment wasn't a moment of unlucky mishap, your retardedness is a permanent condition.
US sources have been quoted by millions of non-native speakers all over the web. That doesn't mean that they know the difference between "bred" and "bread".
Again, your staggering inability to understand that the vast majority of the worlds population is not native English speakers is proof positive that it would have been better for you had your mothers attempt at abortion not failed.
How's your Urdu? French? German? Mandarin? Cantonese?
Laying into someone because of their English spelling in an international forum is massively retarded. That is, of course, unless you feel that your spelling in all of the worlds languages, dead and alive, is perfect.
Are you dumb or just pretending? Nobody is talking about someone proficient in the difference between American English, British English or Australian English spelling.
The person to whom your retarded comment was directed might have been German, Romainan, Chinese, from Uruguay or any number of countries where English is not spoken at all. This person might not know that bread is not spelled "bred" in any version of the English language.
Commenting on peoples spelling on a site that is heavily used by people who may only have a very rudimentary training in English spelling is a sure sign of massive brain malfunction.
I do assume you are somewhat aware that there are other languages in the world and that a lot of people, the majority of the worlds population in fact, has no formal training in English spelling. How's your Cantonese? Finnish? Would I make fun of you if you could not spell bread in Romanian and Urdu?
Sigh. I really think you should try to grow some sort of brain before lashing out against someone who doesn't spell English correctly, particularly considering the fact that a number of people on/. are not English native.
Once you have been able to grow a brain slightly more functional than an HP calculator, and you can write at least five languages without errors, come back and comment.
Sigh, how did you get this dumb? Did someone hit you over the head with a hammer throughout your childhood? If I inject a teaspoon of salt the amount of salt that gets into my bloodstream is a teaspoon. If you eat a teaspoon of salt, the amount that gets into your bloodstream is significantly less than a teaspoon.
Now, since you are clearly rather slow, I'll try to do this slowly. When you eat tuna the amount of mercury in the tuna is significantly higher than in a vacc. In fact, it is so much higher that eating tuna will put significantly more mercury into your bloodstream than you would get if you take a vaccine.
Was that clear to you? If I was to use your "analogy", it would be more like: I will take an injection of a saline solution and you can eat 100lbs of salt, and let's see who's better off. Amounts here entirely taken out of thin air, just trying to prove a point, not describe the actual difference in mercury levels in fish and a vacc.
Please feel free to answer once the swelling in your brain has subsided.
They do not inject it into the bloodstream, but they do get more of it into their bloodstream through eating tuna than through a vacc. Are you saying that mercury that enters your bloodstream through your mouth is somehow more benign than mercury that enters it through the skin via a syringe? How can that be?
Yes, and we never landed on the moon, it was the Smurfs that brought down the Twin Towers using invisible exploding bubble gum and a holographic projection of planes. Also, the world is flat and everybody is out to get you.
Or, to put it differently, you need to see your doctor now, you should not have stopped taking your anti-paranoia medication.
Goodness gracious! Insane paranoia has been posted online as truth forever. I didn't seriously think that people who posted on/. actually BELIEVED that the earth was flat, that we never landed on the moon and other insanities.
Censorship it is not. It is gutless bowing to the whims of lunatic religious nutcases. There is no real difference in mentality between the new religious nutcases currently ravaging the US society and the Taliban ravaging the Pakistani countryside. Sadly US business is all to eager to take it up the behind from the North American Christian Taliban though.
You are right that there is nothing wrong with a company that has standards. I have no problems with that. Amazon hasn't shown here that they do however. They have only shown that they are gutless cowards who will bow to the pressure of superstitious nutcases at the first sign of trouble.
If you think that selling books about fictional acts are "associating itself with illegal and immoral activities" I do not think that there is anything I can do to explain to you why that proves that your brain is not more useful for thinking than strawberry slush however. You see, a brain made entirely of strawberry slush is not capable of any real neural activities, and understanding that your statement is absurd in the extreme requires actual neural activity somewhere between your ears.
It's a smart business decision to reject pedophilia
Yet more proof. Amazon did not reject pedophilia by refusing to sell those books. Really, they didn't.
selling pedophile-friendly products
You really need to find some sort of entity that has a brain that can explain what Amazon is actually doing here to you. I assume that a Chimpanzee will do. We are not talking about "pedophile-friendly products" here. Really, we are not. Here is a clue for you: If Amazon was supposed to be consistent in their refusing to sell these products they would also have to stop selling the Bible, which also deals with fictional pedophilia. Would you describe the Bible as a "pedophile-friendly product"?
Here is a clue for you: Before you let moronic idiocy flow freely from your non-functional brain through the permanently gaping hole in your head called your mouth, try to find out what the topic you are commenting on is actually about.
Is it? I can prove, yes, really, that significant portions of most religious texts are factually wrong and at the same time, I can make a good case for them being defamatory. In your mind that makes it OK for me to ban all publishing of said religious texts? Do you really think I should be allowed to ban the publishing of the bible and force all the publishers to collect all bibles and burn them?
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with firefox and chrome, half of the web traffic will support webm. the rest will have to follow suit
No, they will not. H.264 is not, as you seem to think, a Microsoft product. Neither is it a product mainly for online content. H.264 is a video industry standard, and they invest billions in their stuff. Movie companies invest in encoding technology costing millions of dollars. Cable companies invest millions in hardware that they push to consumers. DSP produces invest millions in research to enable hardware decoding of H.264.
The people who produce and own the content that you want to watch will make this available to you in H.264. It's their choice, not Google's. If you can't watch H.264 you will just have to forget about ESPN and rather go watch a WebM encoded laughing baby instead. Me, I prefer to watch something else, but enjoy your babies and the kittens.
Again, what does Microsoft have to do with H.264? What meds are you on?
What does this have to do with Internet Explorers. Tell mummy she should not forget to make you take your meds in the morning.
It's IMPORTANT that the web does not become Cable. Cable is where you pay money for content
It's IMPORTANT that you pay money for content. If not, nobody will produce it. I don't think we want a world with no ESPN, no Comedy Central, no Universal Studios and MGM, no Netflix, no CNN. I seriously don't think all the kitty videos in the world can make up for an hour of ESPN.
So, if Google doesn't support H.264 and IE9 does, you can use Chrome to watch You Tube and IE9 (or Safari) to watch ESPN, NBC, ABC, Fox, Netflix, Comedy Central etc. I hope people really like You Tube. I hope they prefer it over all the commercial video content owners. The latter will use H.264.
Oh, and You Tube will never have hardware video acceleration support. I think we just saw Chrome die. Suicide apparently.
Microsoft will say nothing. You are right, 91% of online video will be in the WebM format. All the kittens. All the laughing babies. Each and every dumb-ass boy trying to jump across something and failing.
In the mean time, all commercial video online will be H.264. All the sports. All the TV shows. Every legit movie sharing service. All of it. Google are wrong on this one. Simple. They are bone-headed morons. They will change.
Easy, they don't ship a codec with their browser but use whatever codecs are installed on the PC on which the browser is installed. Voila, no licensing fees and you get hardware acceleration thrown in for free.
Google is a bunch of hard-headed morons who hate everything htat is NIH.
Google doesn't have to pay 10c or anything at all to support H.264 in their browser. They can do what everybody should do and support whatever codecs I have on my computer. The vast majority of PCs today have H.264 decoders installed. Use that and you can play H.264 video without paying a dime in licensing fees.
H.264 is the industry standard for video. It has hardware acceleration support on most newer PCs. Google is again doing thei customers a huge disservice. They are NIH hardheaded morons.
Also - google "netiquette" (and in case you wondered, pointing out to morons that they are morons may be bad etiquette, but it is not bad netiquette).
As a teacher of mine once said: If all the other kids piss in their pants, should you?
Sigh. So, someone quotes US and Canadian resources, and you conclude that they are either of US or Canadian origin. Your defense of your retarded comment proves that your comment wasn't a moment of unlucky mishap, your retardedness is a permanent condition.
US sources have been quoted by millions of non-native speakers all over the web. That doesn't mean that they know the difference between "bred" and "bread".
Again, your staggering inability to understand that the vast majority of the worlds population is not native English speakers is proof positive that it would have been better for you had your mothers attempt at abortion not failed.
How's your Urdu? French? German? Mandarin? Cantonese?
Laying into someone because of their English spelling in an international forum is massively retarded. That is, of course, unless you feel that your spelling in all of the worlds languages, dead and alive, is perfect.
Are you dumb or just pretending? Nobody is talking about someone proficient in the difference between American English, British English or Australian English spelling.
The person to whom your retarded comment was directed might have been German, Romainan, Chinese, from Uruguay or any number of countries where English is not spoken at all. This person might not know that bread is not spelled "bred" in any version of the English language.
Commenting on peoples spelling on a site that is heavily used by people who may only have a very rudimentary training in English spelling is a sure sign of massive brain malfunction.
I do assume you are somewhat aware that there are other languages in the world and that a lot of people, the majority of the worlds population in fact, has no formal training in English spelling. How's your Cantonese? Finnish? Would I make fun of you if you could not spell bread in Romanian and Urdu?
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Sigh. I really think you should try to grow some sort of brain before lashing out against someone who doesn't spell English correctly, particularly considering the fact that a number of people on /. are not English native.
Once you have been able to grow a brain slightly more functional than an HP calculator, and you can write at least five languages without errors, come back and comment.
Sigh, how did you get this dumb? Did someone hit you over the head with a hammer throughout your childhood? If I inject a teaspoon of salt the amount of salt that gets into my bloodstream is a teaspoon. If you eat a teaspoon of salt, the amount that gets into your bloodstream is significantly less than a teaspoon.
Now, since you are clearly rather slow, I'll try to do this slowly. When you eat tuna the amount of mercury in the tuna is significantly higher than in a vacc. In fact, it is so much higher that eating tuna will put significantly more mercury into your bloodstream than you would get if you take a vaccine.
Was that clear to you? If I was to use your "analogy", it would be more like: I will take an injection of a saline solution and you can eat 100lbs of salt, and let's see who's better off. Amounts here entirely taken out of thin air, just trying to prove a point, not describe the actual difference in mercury levels in fish and a vacc.
Please feel free to answer once the swelling in your brain has subsided.
If you don't understand what he is writing you should refrain from commenting.
They do not inject it into the bloodstream, but they do get more of it into their bloodstream through eating tuna than through a vacc. Are you saying that mercury that enters your bloodstream through your mouth is somehow more benign than mercury that enters it through the skin via a syringe? How can that be?
Then you should stop eating. Particularly fish. You should also get a house with a extremely efficient air filtration system and stay inside forever.
Yes, and we never landed on the moon, it was the Smurfs that brought down the Twin Towers using invisible exploding bubble gum and a holographic projection of planes. Also, the world is flat and everybody is out to get you.
Or, to put it differently, you need to see your doctor now, you should not have stopped taking your anti-paranoia medication.
Goodness gracious! Insane paranoia has been posted online as truth forever. I didn't seriously think that people who posted on /. actually BELIEVED that the earth was flat, that we never landed on the moon and other insanities.
Censorship it is not. It is gutless bowing to the whims of lunatic religious nutcases. There is no real difference in mentality between the new religious nutcases currently ravaging the US society and the Taliban ravaging the Pakistani countryside. Sadly US business is all to eager to take it up the behind from the North American Christian Taliban though.
You are right that there is nothing wrong with a company that has standards. I have no problems with that. Amazon hasn't shown here that they do however. They have only shown that they are gutless cowards who will bow to the pressure of superstitious nutcases at the first sign of trouble.
If you think that selling books about fictional acts are "associating itself with illegal and immoral activities" I do not think that there is anything I can do to explain to you why that proves that your brain is not more useful for thinking than strawberry slush however. You see, a brain made entirely of strawberry slush is not capable of any real neural activities, and understanding that your statement is absurd in the extreme requires actual neural activity somewhere between your ears.
It's a smart business decision to reject pedophilia
Yet more proof. Amazon did not reject pedophilia by refusing to sell those books. Really, they didn't.
selling pedophile-friendly products
You really need to find some sort of entity that has a brain that can explain what Amazon is actually doing here to you. I assume that a Chimpanzee will do. We are not talking about "pedophile-friendly products" here. Really, we are not. Here is a clue for you: If Amazon was supposed to be consistent in their refusing to sell these products they would also have to stop selling the Bible, which also deals with fictional pedophilia. Would you describe the Bible as a "pedophile-friendly product"?
Here is a clue for you: Before you let moronic idiocy flow freely from your non-functional brain through the permanently gaping hole in your head called your mouth, try to find out what the topic you are commenting on is actually about.
It must be difficult for you to type after whatever accident you had that turned your brain into slush.
Is it? I can prove, yes, really, that significant portions of most religious texts are factually wrong and at the same time, I can make a good case for them being defamatory. In your mind that makes it OK for me to ban all publishing of said religious texts? Do you really think I should be allowed to ban the publishing of the bible and force all the publishers to collect all bibles and burn them?