According to Cringley - Apple has to keep video quality POOPY to please Walmart. According to Streaming.com 2006 video transcoding study, Apple's video is POOPY to begin with - in comparison to Real.
So we get POOPY on top of POOPY. Quite a dog pile!
Okay Apple/Jobs/Quicktime lemming apologists - let's hear it!? And Gates's Apple smashers - don't start yet. The Streaming.com study mentioned above - stated that Micro$oft's WindowsMedia video sucked even more than Apple's H.264 and that folks interested in video needed to forget about Micro$oft.
According to Mark Cuban - video on/over the web will be a 7 trillion dollar a year industry once it gets rolling. So no wonder everyone and his uncle is jockeying for position and/or trying to create a monopoly (Gate$+Job$). Right now looks like Job$ is a couple of light years ahead of Gate$ and everyone else (according to Cringley).
But of course some "fat little girl" could come out of a garage somehwere and dominate the whole scene. Be intertesting to see what happens over next 5 years.
Is the world full of spin doctors - both paid and volunteers?
P
Do the actual documents that California filed actually say the the suit is about "Global Warming" or does the suit referr to other issues caused by car exhausts - like micro particulates?
The lawyers for California would all have to be idiots to try going into court and trying proving "Global Warming". On the other hand the Californian lawyers could easily prove that micro particulates trigger heart attacks and hundreds of other diseases.
"Global Warming" ??!! Don't they teach science in the USA's classrooms any longer? It appears so. It appears that folks seem to believe that the earth is the centre of the universe. Geeez!
I am sure that all of the fat cats at NASA and other CEOs involved in lucrative contracts (beats working for a living) - are pucking their guts today. On the other hand they all could be trying to figure out how to strap a Cruise missile onto the Brits Space Rocket.
The Apple/Jobs Monopolist Machine thought that they could Brand anyone who bought an Ipod - just like they branded people who bought Mac computer hardware. Well it turns out that ipod buyers are not lemmings. (Three Cheers 8^0, 8^0, 8^0)
And it looks like Apple's Quicktime lemmings are revolting and refuse to be lemmings anymore. Apparently Quicktime 7.1.3 retooling stops the average user from seeing Flash/Quicktime stuff
Seems like Apple/Jobs focus is on selling video online using iTune/low level H.264.
According to Cringley Apple/Jobs is all about "hustling razor blades to sell razors". In other words Apple/Jobs is reaaly just all about selling Ipods (not music video). Apparantly WalMart dictates as to what Apple/Jobs does or doesn't do.
Just a couple of comments about the USA intentions in space:
a)" In 1969, Americans cheered as our astronauts took their first steps onto the moon. The giant rocket that blasted them into space was Arthur Rudolph's crowning achievement as NASA's project director for Saturn V.
Fifteen years later, Rudolph relinquished his U.S. citizenship and left the country rather than face Justice Department charges that he had committed war crimes while working in an underground factory that had used Dora concentration camp prisoners as slave labor. The charges stemmed from Rudolph's "complicity in the abuse and persecution of concentration camp inmates who were employed by the thousands as slave laborers under his direct supervision," according to former Justice prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, who directed the Rudolph case. Dora played a significant role not only in Hitler's efforts to win the war, but in the lives of Rudolph, Wernher von Braun, and other German rocket scientists who are now touted as American heroes in our history books. "
b) Having Nazis running the USA's space program clearly identifies the purpose of the program. World domination from space. Don't like someone? Just pop in the GPS co-ordinates at the space station - launch missile and goodbye! How long will it take USA voters to figure it out? USA voters seem to be awakening from their slumber now. Gee... Bush is a liar. (WOW) Bush hates Blacks... Katrina (WOW). Hopefully voters will now figure out what the space program is all about and then demand that the money being spent on the space program be switched to - spending on scientific education in elementary and secondary classrooms. ( I.D. geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
c) If anyone actually wanted to study other planets - little robots designed by bright people not by the dummies at NASA (where are those Nazis when we need them?!) - fired off into space in little rockets is all that is necessary - at a fraction of the cost.
Of course the idiots running the movies studios are half the problem - but the other half of the problem are the idiots running Apple, Microsoft and other monpolistic enterprises. The VC-1 video from Microsoft sucks badly while Apple's + DIVX+ Xvid MPEG-4/H.264 suck almost as badly as VC-1. Here's a quote from a comparative research piece - notice that Apple and other companies compressed their own videos for the study:
RealVideo Best Video Codec, Followed by Apple's H.264, Flash and Windows Media, Says New Report from StreamingMedia.com
The reports provide an objective counterbalance to the hyperbole coming from both the Flash and H.264 camps. One of the key findings from the Proprietary report, for example, was that the quality of the best Flash and H.264 codecs still trailed RealVideo, often by a significant margin.
"While the progress of H.264 and Flash codecs has been impressive," quipped report author Jan Ozer, "rumors of the demise of all other codecs have been greatly exaggerated."
??
To research the reports, Ozer produced a 6-minute test file composed of 38 scenes representing typical business, sports, and entertainment videos, along with several animations and still image pans and zooms. The reports analyzed video quality in up to five configurations--modem, 3GPP, 100 Kbps, 300 Kbps and 500 Kbps--and compared frame quality, temporal and color quality, and playback smoothness. Buyers can download all videos and still image files used in the analysis, along with a convenient interface for viewing the video files and still images.
Proprietary Codecs, 2006
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Beyond the depth and scope of the analysis, the Proprietary report has several unique aspects. For example, the files used to compare the technologies were encoded by Apple, Microsoft, and RealNetworks to ensure optimal quality. The report also compared the quality of prominent encoding tools such as Autodesk Cleaner XL, Canopus ProCoder, and Sorenson Squeeze, finding a significant disparity between the tools.
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In addition to Real's superior quality, the report found that Windows Media had started to fall behind.
"With Microsoft's recent success in standards bodies, we expected quality to be at or near the top," commented Ozer, "but usually it was at or near the bottom. Companies using or considering Windows Media really need to evaluate other technologies."
(Is that why Waggoner and other Microsoft employees are hanging out with the "pirates" at Doom9, trying to convince the "pirates" that VC1 isn't as bad as it seems?)
The second report, "Flash Codecs, 2006" compared different companies' Flash Video offerings. StreamingMedia.com concluded that On2's VP6 codec came out on top when compared to Wildform and Sorenson Spark, but that "there are no one-size-fits-all solutions for Flash producers," according to Ozer.
Back in the "old" days B.I. (Before Internet) the Consumers Union - through it's publication Consumer Reports magazine - was the sole activist organization in North America that acted on behalf of consumers. That's where folks found out if a specific car would roll over in a normal emergency turn of the steering wheel - and kill those in the car. Of course there was a time lag of up to three months before the info. came out in the magazine.
The internet naturally speeds up the process (three cheeers); but at the same time, the amount of disinformation on the internet is gigantic - my guess is that 98% of all info. on the internet is either totally wrong or is so bias on one level or another - that it is useless.
Been looking at one site that is supposedly set up to help people invest "wisely". The number of investing urban myths posted about investing by "experts" in the forums is constant. And of course if one posts contrary opinions (just like in Slashdot, or Wikipedia) - the attacks are instant, and never ending
Which is why 4,000,000 a month people still go and buy Consumer Reports magazine. Yes I know CR has a web site - but it's primarily a marketing tool
But the medical-chemical -industrial complex tells us that - if someone shows antibodies then the immune system isn't working and they have AIDS. Like you said - normally one should jump up and down if antibodies are present - which of course means that the immune system is working - is controlling the disease.
Anyone believing the "spin" coming from the people dressed up in white lab coats and working for the Chemical/Medical Industrial Complex - well..... dream on. The British Medical Assoc. said last year that 70% of all APPROVED prescription drugs don't work.
There is not ONE scientific study done and published in a scientific scholarly journal with peer review that states : "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS".Its now 25 yrs. since "HIV>AIDS" notion was postulated and 60 billion dollars has gone into "HIV>AIDS" research. Not one electron micro scopic photo picture of the "HIV" (please no drawings - a real photo). Jonas Salk started to research/develop a polio vaccine in 1947- by 1954 the vaccine was done and tested - that's a 7 year time frame. 25 yrs.? - common - dream on.
The list of APPROVED vaccines that have proved fatal and/or caused life threatening outcomes or have permanently damaged children and adults is long - includes Autism. If anyone here thinks the motivation to develop an "HIV>AIDS" vaccine isn't all about money - dream on.
Can't be the teachers - they are just too dumb. You know... they are all products of the schooling system.
But in a way your right. Teachers don't understand how people learn. Unfortunately they do everything the Neocons have trained them to do. Which is Fctory Education! You know (you've been there) keep the kids sitting in straight lines of desks. Keep quiet! Memorize.... memorize... memorize..... Follow directions.
Which of course prepares everyone for the military - and follow orders to kill babies
While the rich send their kids to elite private schools - to be trained to be a NeoCon.
Who is running the schooling system in the USA? Naturally it's the NeoCons - "keep them dumb and pregnant". No wonder the USA hasn't won a war in 60 years. No wonder the USA can't win the World's Men's Basketball Championship (FIBA). No wonder...........
Hopefully the gang at Cambridge U. will have Xen running on any Intel (like GreyTech's $500 complete computer Intel Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz (Dual-Core) - eoverclocked at 4.1 Ghz ) - and enable running Mac Os Tiger and beyond.
Or two Pentium Ds for $1000 and save $1400.00 on Apple's newest box......Or buy 3 D 805's and have six cores...... or.....
Lets all get our collective heads together and figure out a way for Colbert to really "get" the WikiPoo. If anything on this planet needs spoofing - is the pinnacle of truthiness - WikiPoo 8^)
First of all, I agree about the suggestion of using paper ballots. Canada uses paper ballots for all voting - federal, provincial (state) and municipal. The results are available within hours of the polls closing. We simply mark a ballot with a pencil. The counting is highly controlled and all political parties are directly involved surpervising the count. And yes I am sure that every trick in the book has been tried here in Canada to steal elections.
When it comes to machines - you mention trust. From listening to various USA hearings broadcast on NPR - there seems to have been a concentrated effort by the Republicans to stop people who are likely to vote for a Democratic candidate - from voting - including linching of black skin USA citizens. Without a doubt, Republican Party (and likely the Democratic Party) are working in the backrooms trying to figure how to steal the next election. Anyone who trusts them not to try and steal the next election needs a brain transplant.
"When votes were taken in Greece, white beans indicated positive votes and black beans negative. Votes had to be unanimous, so if the collector 'spilled the beans' before the vote was complete and a black bean was seen, the vote was halted".
It's very likely Apple knew/knows who spilled the beans - Jobs isn't stupid. So did Jobs/Apple then set out to find out the truth or was it all about to intimidating jounalists (you know - people who write stuff for public consumption).
Well.... you would have to believe that Jobs/Apple didn't know what a journalist is - doesn't understand where and how journalists work. Humbug! Apple not only sends out media releases to hundreds (thousands?) of journalists on a monthly (weekly?) basis - it likely leaks info to the chosen few "biggy" journalists. Is Payolla involved... well... only to be a fly on the wall.
If it looks like a SLAP, if it smells like a SLAP, if it sounds like a SLAP, if it walks like a SLAP, well then.....
Whether or not the above story - has anything do with reality is the question one needs to ask. Every day of the week - in every town in the USA and Canada - cops are taking money under the table to hand out private information. At the same time cops trade/barter private information with various organizations - universities, businesses, insurance companies etc. This has been going on for 60 years or more.
Now the fascists have all kinds of actual laws to fight the "OIL WAR = KEEP TEXAN RESOURCE STOCKS HIGH" - is on. Even better the fascists can pretend/fake laws that don't exist. Who can afford to go to the Supreme Court and challenge the elite who rule the USA and Canada?
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According to Cringley - Apple has to keep video quality POOPY to please Walmart. According to Streaming.com 2006 video transcoding study, Apple's video is POOPY to begin with - in comparison to Real.
So we get POOPY on top of POOPY. Quite a dog pile!
Okay Apple/Jobs/Quicktime lemming apologists - let's hear it!? And Gates's Apple smashers - don't start yet. The Streaming.com study mentioned above - stated that Micro$oft's WindowsMedia video sucked even more than Apple's H.264 and that folks interested in video needed to forget about Micro$oft.
According to Mark Cuban - video on/over the web will be a 7 trillion dollar a year industry once it gets rolling. So no wonder everyone and his uncle is jockeying for position and/or trying to create a monopoly (Gate$+Job$). Right now looks like Job$ is a couple of light years ahead of Gate$ and everyone else (according to Cringley).
But of course some "fat little girl" could come out of a garage somehwere and dominate the whole scene. Be intertesting to see what happens over next 5 years.
Is the world full of idiots?
Is the world full of spin doctors - both paid and volunteers?
P
Do the actual documents that California filed actually say the the suit is about "Global Warming" or does the suit referr to other issues caused by car exhausts - like micro particulates?
The lawyers for California would all have to be idiots to try going into court and trying proving "Global Warming". On the other hand the Californian lawyers could easily prove that micro particulates trigger heart attacks and hundreds of other diseases.
"Global Warming" ??!! Don't they teach science in the USA's classrooms any longer? It appears so. It appears that folks seem to believe that the earth is the centre of the universe. Geeez!
Come ....onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
I am sure that all of the fat cats at NASA and other CEOs involved in lucrative contracts (beats working for a living) - are pucking their guts today. On the other hand they all could be trying to figure out how to strap a Cruise missile onto the Brits Space Rocket.
Shazam
The Apple/Jobs Monopolist Machine thought that they could Brand anyone who bought an Ipod - just like they branded people who bought Mac computer hardware. Well it turns out that ipod buyers are not lemmings. (Three Cheers 8^0, 8^0, 8^0)
And it looks like Apple's Quicktime lemmings are revolting and refuse to be lemmings anymore. Apparently Quicktime 7.1.3 retooling stops the average user from seeing Flash/Quicktime stuff
Seems like Apple/Jobs focus is on selling video online using iTune/low level H.264 .
According to Cringley Apple/Jobs is all about "hustling razor blades to sell razors". In other words Apple/Jobs is reaaly just all about selling Ipods (not music video). Apparantly WalMart dictates as to what Apple/Jobs does or doesn't do.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060914. html
Small minded moderators? Meaning mindless moderators?
Just a couple of comments about the USA intentions in space:
a)" In 1969, Americans cheered as our astronauts took their first steps onto the moon. The giant rocket that blasted them into space was Arthur Rudolph's crowning achievement as NASA's project director for Saturn V.
Fifteen years later, Rudolph relinquished his U.S. citizenship and left the country rather than face Justice Department charges that he had committed war crimes while working in an underground factory that had used Dora concentration camp prisoners as slave labor. The charges stemmed from Rudolph's "complicity in the abuse and persecution of concentration camp inmates who were employed by the thousands as slave laborers under his direct supervision," according to former Justice prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, who directed the Rudolph case. Dora played a significant role not only in Hitler's efforts to win the war, but in the lives of Rudolph, Wernher von Braun, and other German rocket scientists who are now touted as American heroes in our history books. "
b) Having Nazis running the USA's space program clearly identifies the purpose of the program. World domination from space. Don't like someone? Just pop in the GPS co-ordinates at the space station - launch missile and goodbye! How long will it take USA voters to figure it out? USA voters seem to be awakening from their slumber now. Gee... Bush is a liar. (WOW) Bush hates Blacks ... Katrina (WOW). Hopefully voters will now figure out what the space program is all about and then demand that the money being spent on the space program be switched to - spending on scientific education in elementary and secondary classrooms. ( I.D. geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
c) If anyone actually wanted to study other planets - little robots designed by bright people not by the dummies at NASA (where are those Nazis when we need them?!) - fired off into space in little rockets is all that is necessary - at a fraction of the cost.
Of course the idiots running the movies studios are half the problem - but the other half of the problem are the idiots running Apple, Microsoft and other monpolistic enterprises. The VC-1 video from Microsoft sucks badly while Apple's + DIVX+ Xvid MPEG-4/H.264 suck almost as badly as VC-1. Here's a quote from a comparative research piece - notice that Apple and other companies compressed their own videos for the study:
RealVideo Best Video Codec, Followed by Apple's H.264, Flash and Windows Media, Says New Report from StreamingMedia.com
The reports provide an objective counterbalance to the hyperbole coming from both the Flash and H.264 camps. One of the key findings from the Proprietary report, for example, was that the quality of the best Flash and H.264 codecs still trailed RealVideo, often by a significant margin.
"While the progress of H.264 and Flash codecs has been impressive," quipped report author Jan Ozer, "rumors of the demise of all other codecs have been greatly exaggerated."
??
To research the reports, Ozer produced a 6-minute test file composed of 38 scenes representing typical business, sports, and entertainment videos, along with several animations and still image pans and zooms. The reports analyzed video quality in up to five configurations--modem, 3GPP, 100 Kbps, 300 Kbps and 500 Kbps--and compared frame quality, temporal and color quality, and playback smoothness. Buyers can download all videos and still image files used in the analysis, along with a convenient interface for viewing the video files and still images.
Proprietary Codecs, 2006
??
Beyond the depth and scope of the analysis, the Proprietary report has several unique aspects. For example, the files used to compare the technologies were encoded by Apple, Microsoft, and RealNetworks to ensure optimal quality. The report also compared the quality of prominent encoding tools such as Autodesk Cleaner XL, Canopus ProCoder, and Sorenson Squeeze, finding a significant disparity between the tools.
??
In addition to Real's superior quality, the report found that Windows Media had started to fall behind.
"With Microsoft's recent success in standards bodies, we expected quality to be at or near the top," commented Ozer, "but usually it was at or near the bottom. Companies using or considering Windows Media really need to evaluate other technologies."
(Is that why Waggoner and other Microsoft employees are hanging out with the "pirates" at Doom9, trying to convince the "pirates" that VC1 isn't as bad as it seems?)
The second report, "Flash Codecs, 2006" compared different companies' Flash Video offerings. StreamingMedia.com concluded that On2's VP6 codec came out on top when compared to Wildform and Sorenson Spark, but that "there are no one-size-fits-all solutions for Flash producers," according to Ozer.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/press/view.asp?id= 4336
Back in the "old" days B.I. (Before Internet) the Consumers Union - through it's publication Consumer Reports magazine - was the sole activist organization in North America that acted on behalf of consumers. That's where folks found out if a specific car would roll over in a normal emergency turn of the steering wheel - and kill those in the car. Of course there was a time lag of up to three months before the info. came out in the magazine.
The internet naturally speeds up the process (three cheeers); but at the same time, the amount of disinformation on the internet is gigantic - my guess is that 98% of all info. on the internet is either totally wrong or is so bias on one level or another - that it is useless.
Been looking at one site that is supposedly set up to help people invest "wisely". The number of investing urban myths posted about investing by "experts" in the forums is constant. And of course if one posts contrary opinions (just like in Slashdot, or Wikipedia) - the attacks are instant, and never ending
Which is why 4,000,000 a month people still go and buy Consumer Reports magazine. Yes I know CR has a web site - but it's primarily a marketing tool
Borrowing from Creative reminds me (yet again) about Apple "borrowing" from Xerox - the idea of an Icon driven GUI.
Anyone believing the "spin" coming from the people dressed up in white lab coats and working for the Chemical/Medical Industrial Complex - well..... dream on. The British Medical Assoc. said last year that 70% of all APPROVED prescription drugs don't work.
There is not ONE scientific study done and published in a scientific scholarly journal with peer review that states : "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS".Its now 25 yrs. since "HIV>AIDS" notion was postulated and 60 billion dollars has gone into "HIV>AIDS" research. Not one electron micro scopic photo picture of the "HIV" (please no drawings - a real photo). Jonas Salk started to research/develop a polio vaccine in 1947- by 1954 the vaccine was done and tested - that's a 7 year time frame. 25 yrs.? - common - dream on.
The list of APPROVED vaccines that have proved fatal and/or caused life threatening outcomes or have permanently damaged children and adults is long - includes Autism. If anyone here thinks the motivation to develop an "HIV>AIDS" vaccine isn't all about money - dream on.
60 hour work week - ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .
OK Apple apologist - start spinning (or is it spitting?) 8^)
Who is running the schooling system in the USA? Naturally it's the NeoCons - "keep them dumb and pregnant". No wonder the USA hasn't won a war in 60 years. No wonder the USA can't win the World's Men's Basketball Championship (FIBA). No wonder ...........
Hopefully the gang at Cambridge U. will have Xen running on any Intel (like GreyTech's $500 complete computer Intel Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz (Dual-Core) - eoverclocked at 4.1 Ghz ) - and enable running Mac Os Tiger and beyond.
Or two Pentium Ds for $1000 and save $1400.00 on Apple's newest box. .....Or buy 3 D 805's and have six cores ...... or .....
Lets all get our collective heads together and figure out a way for Colbert to really "get" the WikiPoo. If anything on this planet needs spoofing - is the pinnacle of truthiness - WikiPoo 8^)
First of all, I agree about the suggestion of using paper ballots. Canada uses paper ballots for all voting - federal, provincial (state) and municipal. The results are available within hours of the polls closing. We simply mark a ballot with a pencil. The counting is highly controlled and all political parties are directly involved surpervising the count. And yes I am sure that every trick in the book has been tried here in Canada to steal elections.
When it comes to machines - you mention trust. From listening to various USA hearings broadcast on NPR - there seems to have been a concentrated effort by the Republicans to stop people who are likely to vote for a Democratic candidate - from voting - including linching of black skin USA citizens. Without a doubt, Republican Party (and likely the Democratic Party) are working in the backrooms trying to figure how to steal the next election. Anyone who trusts them not to try and steal the next election needs a brain transplant.
Here we go again. If you buy my bread:
- you can only toast it in George's brand toaster .....
- but you can't toast bagels in George's brand toaster - just my bread
- and by the way you can't cut any of my bread slices in half....
- nor can you sell my bread or a slice of my bread to someone else
What a f---ing load of bullshit. Do I hear a heel click?
Just at the local pub? How about here ;) ? Especially those humanoids who score posting!!!!
"since the phrase is American"
Who was this "American" who created this phrase: Was he/she Peruvian? Was he/she Canadian? Was he/she Bolivian?
"Spilled The Beans"
Origin:
"When votes were taken in Greece, white beans indicated positive votes and black beans negative. Votes had to be unanimous, so if the collector 'spilled the beans' before the vote was complete and a black bean was seen, the vote was halted".
It's very likely Apple knew/knows who spilled the beans - Jobs isn't stupid. So did Jobs/Apple then set out to find out the truth or was it all about to intimidating jounalists (you know - people who write stuff for public consumption).
Well .... you would have to believe that Jobs/Apple didn't know what a journalist is - doesn't understand where and how journalists work. Humbug! Apple not only sends out media releases to hundreds (thousands?) of journalists on a monthly (weekly?) basis - it likely leaks info to the chosen few "biggy" journalists. Is Payolla involved... well ... only to be a fly on the wall.
If it looks like a SLAP, if it smells like a SLAP, if it sounds like a SLAP, if it walks like a SLAP, well then.....
If your building web sites etc. - try SunriseBrowser
Whether or not the above story - has anything do with reality is the question one needs to ask. Every day of the week - in every town in the USA and Canada - cops are taking money under the table to hand out private information. At the same time cops trade/barter private information with various organizations - universities, businesses, insurance companies etc. This has been going on for 60 years or more.
Now the fascists have all kinds of actual laws to fight the "OIL WAR = KEEP TEXAN RESOURCE STOCKS HIGH" - is on. Even better the fascists can pretend/fake laws that don't exist. Who can afford to go to the Supreme Court and challenge the elite who rule the USA and Canada?
what a score of 1 - WOW - how come the fascists here gave the above a score of one!!! ;)