Command line encoder/decoder here. I've had no problems running it on Wine.
Just have to wait and see what more people think about the licensing. If there's any legal risk, HD Photo will be dead to me. Though it looked pretty good in my small completely unscientific test. I am running OS X, an OS which is de facto standard in publishing/media and I can't run "Wine" as I am running PowerPC G5 so there is no way I can test it on a system which even Microsoft ads are prepared on.
It explains why this HD (!) format is a joke from beginning.
Lets say you use Linux or OS X,if you can't view a photo your HD Photo using windows friend sent you without dozen of unsupported hacks, it is naturally extended to you as user.
My cell phone (SE K700i) can view PNG files very easily and its running 109 Mhz Arm 9. I am sure PNG people are considering such devices/platforms while designing the format.
PNG is not suitable for photo compression. For funny sizes without losing quality, it is Jpeg 2000 but the idiots owning the rights to format are trying to leech ordinary people and ask for $$$ for very simple photos which has nothing to do with 39 mpixel etc. stuff used in advertising agencies. I can't imagine the price they ask for camera bundle since a basic Irfanview plugin to save ordinary (consumer level) jpeg 2000 is $30!
Also where is OS X support of a format which will "overtake" JPEG? It could be done via Quicktime codec. Where is it?
It is simple, MS should look to their advertising agencies. They should ask what happens if an image is not supported at OS X or even OS 9.
Everyone will remind JPEG 2000 but JPEG 2000 is supported out of the box on OS X. Ask Apple why they pay such a price to Kakadu to include that format in every OS X installation. It is simple: DTP.
I would compare it to WMA. Thanks to MS bribes, it is supported on every device except iPod and nobody (general public) touches it.
As a turkish person, I am sick and tired of this "EU stick" showing up everywhere. EU doesn't live 100 years ahead with some utopic super human rights. Recent studies show I am not minority.
For the issue? Well, I think court/legal system got no guideline about browsing Youtube to see if the video is banned/removed or not. The fix? Switch to OpenDNS.com DNS settings as every sane people do since "DNS blocking" invented as a quick fix for banning the hell out of internet WORLDWIDE.
It is stupid but using the issue to hit Turkey is more stupid. Some may bring up the issues in Denmark for instance. It is cheap though...
No, Canadian, but thanks for the insult though. Despite you guys thinking that Americans are stupid here is a little something: Americans are going to space, Turks still don't believe that space exists. Anyway, Istanbul (Constantinople) is big, but this was not a comment about the size of Istabul but rather about number of people using computers and the internet. Since this article was not about demographics, but rather the opression of Turkish government let's leave it at that. OMG, Turks still don't believe that space exists? If you aren't trolling, I feel sorry for you.
It doesn't work that way in Java. I am sure there are still people running 1.3.x out there. OS X still doesn't have official (final/ public release) Java 1.6 for instance.
I am sure massively popular apps like Azureus, Limewire are already using such stuff mentioned in article.
Do you think phishers buy domains, hosting with their credit cards? No, they hack them and plant phishing pages and they are generally Linux/FreeBSD hosts. So, Linux and FreeBSD are hopeless insecure systems or there are idiots who doesn't download/install security updates with all that symetric bandwidth they got?
Bittorrent can never shine while their official site (bittorrent.com) pushes piracy from main page. It is a great idea but wasted to pirates and thieves in majority.
I wonder why Adobe/Macromedia flash is immune to critism. As it runs in poor browsers memory/cpu space, whatever stupid useless cycle/bug in flash player will be blamed on browser by general users.
E.g. if Flash has a memory release bug to consume 300 mb of RAM, your browser will list as 350 mb using monster on Activity Monitor but it has nothing to do with it, it is basically victim of plugin it runs.
Photoshop was one of the first commercial apps which was 64bit enabled via patch, wonder why?:)
It must have lots of raw image storage caches, layers, colour (correction) data as it is a professional image editing application.
If there is memory and application uses it for good purposes (e.g. not flood) and it is wise enough to release it when system needs it, they can even use 80% memory, I don't care.
E.g. while typing this message, Opera for OS X keeps the previous page rendered in memory for my comfort but if I launch AVID type of program and do a serious thing, it will release it back to OS,
Memory flood is unacceptable, even if 16GB of RAM could be purchased for $10 some day. It shows how amateurly and horribly code was written. I am adding this note as it is common to get stupid "memory is cheap" arguments on sites from fanboys.
So it should be trivial to decode DVB-H (Handheld profile) since it is already a radio enabled device, H264 decoding chip (or accelerator). 3G is widely used for TV Streaming in Europe and in USA.
Well, I won't buy iPhone for the same reason I didn't buy iPod, crippled specs on purpose.
Don't forget the main pusher of H264 doesn't enable DVB-H (wireless digital TV) which is H264 based itself. It would also stop 3G needs for many people since they would watch Live TV straightly from device without massive bandwidth needs.
Something also tells me that the device itself got H264 inside since it will be expected to show Quicktime 7 movies which are generally h264.
Am I the only one who recalls the AIDS "trojan horse"? It is called a trojan by Wikipedia, but it seems very possible that the author thought himself in the right to use this form of extreme copy protection. The first ever PC (x86) virus was coded against piracy as far as I remember.
"The brothers told TIME magazine they had written it to protect their medical software from piracy and was supposed to target copyright infringers only."
'Developer' "Reza Hussain" should be boycotted, and perhaps charged with vandalism, or even with writing a destructive virus. It looks like both Versiontracker.com and Macupdate.com removed his software listing, it is death sentence in Mac shareware development.
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Nothing worse can happen to a shareware developer.
I have zero piracy policy and yet I can't count how many times I typed my legit serial wrong. Imagine that I bought it (whatever it is) and made the common mistake of typo.
Imagine you accept the opt-in ads (I would too) and read an article which criticises AMD processors way of managing the CPU cache, at right side of article, you see a huge Intel ad. Would you visit that site again or trust to it?
For example you check some environment articles on Wiki which has a huge Exxon "tower" ad side of them. There are some real concerns about the "global warming debate" and they must be included in Wiki right now but if it has Exxon ad, entire trust will be gone and it will be real dead since nobody would trust it.
Thing to save Wiki is a secure p2p based system which people (general public) will still access via ordinary web browser but the bandwidth, php etc. CPU processes will be shared among "donators".
I am sure there are some developers who would manage to code such a massive application.
"Certainly, the game will run on some Vista machines, but perhaps not all. This means that we will not be able to promise you that the game will run on your hardware with the Vista OS. If you encounter problems running the game with Vista, unfortunately, we will be unable to help you.
We plan to officially support the Vista OS by the time the first Service Pack is released, which is expected sometime in the second half of this year."
Choose your ISP wisely and you won't run into these problems. The issue is that your ISP rats you out. Go find one that respects your privacy a little better.
What will ISP do when there are tens of legal complaints from million dollar lawyers at their abuse@ addresses?
I know people will hate me but check http://www.bittorrent.com/ the 'Official" site. That is what Media Execs/Law Agencies see when they wonder what the heck is Bittorrent.
For example, Civilization III "Gold Edition" (remember there is freeciv, opensource!) is Number 1. I didn't hear Sid Meier posting it to bittorrent for free distribution.
I am evangelising Bittorrent in every legit way possible, some morons even accused me of being "Bittorrent author" on Versiontracker OS X but currently, Bittorrent.com does everything to prove it is piracy software.
Let me say why I don't use Gizmo. I hated their country based paranoia and punishing users of many countries because of couple crooks abused their call plans.
I must say, I am not a citizen of mentioned countries, I just hate the idea of country-ban so I protested it (in ilgazocal name)
I also hated the über-paranoid card process system which didn't work at all. At one point I wondered what the heck I am doing by struggling to buy a paid service and went back to Skype "buy credit" page whining.
They seem to fix the excessive ban of countries (should be ZERO) and added a Paypal system it seems. Lets download again:)
1) Symbian devices got very nice J2ME support, only problem is with games since Game developers won't code for minority smart phones with high screen resolutions and there is already C programs/rivals on that platform right?
2) P990 is running Symbian UIQ I believe
3) Your coders are smart, there are 2 billion devices running sort of J2ME and J2ME 2.0 gives them everything, even 3d support with some JSR extensions. There are only 100 million devices running Symbian.
I agree to UI point of view but there is a possibility that third party enhancers/shells exist and can be installed. The problem for iPhone is, it is not a smart phone. I am telling it as a Quad G5 Apple owner, a fairly expensive machine. I want third party apps and some serious "hacks" if I buy a phone for $600.
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It is a funny thing to bring up for this specific browser title, Opera.
Opera has been packing executable for years and I can't remember a single buffer overrun bug in the wild.
You can say ANYTHING about Opera but you can't say it is insecure, period.
(posted via licensed Omniweb on OS X)
Just have to wait and see what more people think about the licensing. If there's any legal risk, HD Photo will be dead to me. Though it looked pretty good in my small completely unscientific test. I am running OS X, an OS which is de facto standard in publishing/media and I can't run "Wine" as I am running PowerPC G5 so there is no way I can test it on a system which even Microsoft ads are prepared on.
It explains why this HD (!) format is a joke from beginning.
Lets say you use Linux or OS X,if you can't view a photo your HD Photo using windows friend sent you without dozen of unsupported hacks, it is naturally extended to you as user.
My cell phone (SE K700i) can view PNG files very easily and its running 109 Mhz Arm 9. I am sure PNG people are considering such devices/platforms while designing the format.
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PNG is not suitable for photo compression. For funny sizes without losing quality, it is Jpeg 2000 but the idiots owning the rights to format are trying to leech ordinary people and ask for $$$ for very simple photos which has nothing to do with 39 mpixel etc. stuff used in advertising agencies. I can't imagine the price they ask for camera bundle since a basic Irfanview plugin to save ordinary (consumer level) jpeg 2000 is $30!
http://www.luratech.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryKe
Also where is OS X support of a format which will "overtake" JPEG? It could be done via Quicktime codec. Where is it?
It is simple, MS should look to their advertising agencies. They should ask what happens if an image is not supported at OS X or even OS 9.
Everyone will remind JPEG 2000 but JPEG 2000 is supported out of the box on OS X. Ask Apple why they pay such a price to Kakadu to include that format in every OS X installation. It is simple: DTP.
I would compare it to WMA. Thanks to MS bribes, it is supported on every device except iPod and nobody (general public) touches it.
As a turkish person, I am sick and tired of this "EU stick" showing up everywhere. EU doesn't live 100 years ahead with some utopic super human rights. Recent studies show I am not minority.
For the issue? Well, I think court/legal system got no guideline about browsing Youtube to see if the video is banned/removed or not. The fix? Switch to OpenDNS.com DNS settings as every sane people do since "DNS blocking" invented as a quick fix for banning the hell out of internet WORLDWIDE.
It is stupid but using the issue to hit Turkey is more stupid. Some may bring up the issues in Denmark for instance. It is cheap though...
Anyway, Istanbul (Constantinople) is big, but this was not a comment about the size of Istabul but rather about number of people using computers and the internet. Since this article was not about demographics, but rather the opression of Turkish government let's leave it at that. OMG, Turks still don't believe that space exists? If you aren't trolling, I feel sorry for you.
Seriously, I felt sorry.
It doesn't work that way in Java. I am sure there are still people running 1.3.x out there. OS X still doesn't have official (final/ public release) Java 1.6 for instance.
I am sure massively popular apps like Azureus, Limewire are already using such stuff mentioned in article.
Do you think phishers buy domains, hosting with their credit cards? No, they hack them and plant phishing pages and they are generally Linux/FreeBSD hosts. So, Linux and FreeBSD are hopeless insecure systems or there are idiots who doesn't download/install security updates with all that symetric bandwidth they got?
Bittorrent can never shine while their official site (bittorrent.com) pushes piracy from main page. It is a great idea but wasted to pirates and thieves in majority.
I wonder why Adobe/Macromedia flash is immune to critism. As it runs in poor browsers memory/cpu space, whatever stupid useless cycle/bug in flash player will be blamed on browser by general users.
E.g. if Flash has a memory release bug to consume 300 mb of RAM, your browser will list as 350 mb using monster on Activity Monitor but it has nothing to do with it, it is basically victim of plugin it runs.
Photoshop was one of the first commercial apps which was 64bit enabled via patch, wonder why? :)
It must have lots of raw image storage caches, layers, colour (correction) data as it is a professional image editing application.
If there is memory and application uses it for good purposes (e.g. not flood) and it is wise enough to release it when system needs it, they can even use 80% memory, I don't care.
E.g. while typing this message, Opera for OS X keeps the previous page rendered in memory for my comfort but if I launch AVID type of program and do a serious thing, it will release it back to OS,
Memory flood is unacceptable, even if 16GB of RAM could be purchased for $10 some day. It shows how amateurly and horribly code was written. I am adding this note as it is common to get stupid "memory is cheap" arguments on sites from fanboys.
http://www.phishtank.com/phish_archive.php , how many of them running windows servers? Almost NONE.
This kind of stupid windows bashing even makes pure OS X owner like me to type this message. Think about it.
So it should be trivial to decode DVB-H (Handheld profile) since it is already a radio enabled device, H264 decoding chip (or accelerator). 3G is widely used for TV Streaming in Europe and in USA.
Well, I won't buy iPhone for the same reason I didn't buy iPod, crippled specs on purpose.
Don't forget the main pusher of H264 doesn't enable DVB-H (wireless digital TV) which is H264 based itself. It would also stop 3G needs for many people since they would watch Live TV straightly from device without massive bandwidth needs.
Something also tells me that the device itself got H264 inside since it will be expected to show Quicktime 7 movies which are generally h264.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(c)Brain_(computer_v
"The brothers told TIME magazine they had written it to protect their medical software from piracy and was supposed to target copyright infringers only."
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Nothing worse can happen to a shareware developer.
I have zero piracy policy and yet I can't count how many times I typed my legit serial wrong. Imagine that I bought it (whatever it is) and made the common mistake of typo.
Imagine you accept the opt-in ads (I would too) and read an article which criticises AMD processors way of managing the CPU cache, at right side of article, you see a huge Intel ad. Would you visit that site again or trust to it?
For example you check some environment articles on Wiki which has a huge Exxon "tower" ad side of them. There are some real concerns about the "global warming debate" and they must be included in Wiki right now but if it has Exxon ad, entire trust will be gone and it will be real dead since nobody would trust it.
Thing to save Wiki is a secure p2p based system which people (general public) will still access via ordinary web browser but the bandwidth, php etc. CPU processes will be shared among "donators".
I am sure there are some developers who would manage to code such a massive application.
"Certainly, the game will run on some Vista machines, but perhaps not all. This means that we will not be able to promise you that the game will run on your hardware with the Vista OS. If you encounter problems running the game with Vista, unfortunately, we will be unable to help you.
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We plan to officially support the Vista OS by the time the first Service Pack is released, which is expected sometime in the second half of this year."
Can you blame them after hearing even Nvidia couldn't ship some drivers yet?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070206-878
What will ISP do when there are tens of legal complaints from million dollar lawyers at their abuse@ addresses?
I know people will hate me but check http://www.bittorrent.com/ the 'Official" site. That is what Media Execs/Law Agencies see when they wonder what the heck is Bittorrent.
For example, Civilization III "Gold Edition" (remember there is freeciv, opensource!) is Number 1. I didn't hear Sid Meier posting it to bittorrent for free distribution.
I am evangelising Bittorrent in every legit way possible, some morons even accused me of being "Bittorrent author" on Versiontracker OS X but currently, Bittorrent.com does everything to prove it is piracy software.
Let me say why I don't use Gizmo. I hated their country based paranoia and punishing users of many countries because of couple crooks abused their call plans.
:)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/33roa5 (Their announcement, look at the edit history about how nuts it was once)
I must say, I am not a citizen of mentioned countries, I just hate the idea of country-ban so I protested it (in ilgazocal name)
I also hated the über-paranoid card process system which didn't work at all. At one point I wondered what the heck I am doing by struggling to buy a paid service and went back to Skype "buy credit" page whining.
They seem to fix the excessive ban of countries (should be ZERO) and added a Paypal system it seems. Lets download again
1) Symbian devices got very nice J2ME support, only problem is with games since Game developers won't code for minority smart phones with high screen resolutions and there is already C programs/rivals on that platform right?
2) P990 is running Symbian UIQ I believe
3) Your coders are smart, there are 2 billion devices running sort of J2ME and J2ME 2.0 gives them everything, even 3d support with some JSR extensions. There are only 100 million devices running Symbian.
I agree to UI point of view but there is a possibility that third party enhancers/shells exist and can be installed. The problem for iPhone is, it is not a smart phone. I am telling it as a Quad G5 Apple owner, a fairly expensive machine. I want third party apps and some serious "hacks" if I buy a phone for $600.