When I decided to try video element with Safari 4, it failed miserably because I forgot to install Xiph plugins this time. It is what the ordinary user will live and trust me, they would have no clue/care what Xiph plugins are. I really don't know about Windows land although I believe there must be some windows media framework codecs like quicktime one.
The reason of rejection of Quicktime, Real, WMV was basic. They were huge compared to Flash and in case of Windows Media, the vendor company had childish policy of not supporting other operating systems rather than theirs. In fact, with todays Intel Macs, there is no official "full feature" windows media player. Quicktime wmedia codecs aren't enough especially if they can't do DRM.
I would say "Go talk with Apple and let them tip Quicktime for your codec pack" but thanks to lamer virus writers abusing the scheme, Quicktime doesn't do it anymore and users are all instructed to "stay away from manual codec installations".
Flash has H264, something years ahead of VP3 (Theora) and supported down to cell phones, even Nokia S40 dumb ones. I think their "revolution" will fail miserably and this time, Apple and Microsoft or the "evil media empire" won't be easily blamed.
If video element can't do H264 because of political reasons, I can really say it is failed even before starting. They reference Youtube demo HTML5 video element, well Google has money to spare, bandwidth to spare, billions of dollars to spare. They can even offer "Cinepak" and it wouldn't make a change. Will they reject IE/Flash users on Youtube telling them to install some open source browser? That is what matters.
Some external models were good for semi professionals or pros without too much money in hand but no, Audigy etc. aren't suited for professional recording as far as I followed.
Whole marked seems to move to M-Audio which does have its own problems but at least, coming from same company making pro-tools (AVID) so they understand professional support requests. Of course, Mac is fully supported unlike Creative.
I mean, people doesn't tend to care for audio as long as it plays their mp3/movies. It is not the same deal as the GPU.
I moved to Mac long time ago and I know the SB Pro, AWE64, early Live were great cards but wasted with their horrible drivers and support policy.
I don't understand what kind of "proof" you want? Signed papers? They are doing an open source project, its roots date back to Navy Onion router and we are on Slashdot, not on a debate or wikipedia. US Army or no government organization will say "Yes, we are letting our field agents use it, for spying purposes too". What about the other option? Yes, they are faking the information, making it up, using US Navy for their claims, spying on users in fact and Navy or no other organization says a word about it right?
I am just saying it seems as the safest, one click way which is documented, open and credited by every kind of open source project out there including the EFF itself. This is not a Wikipedia article, this is users trying to help someone who asks the safest way to help against Internet censorship on a highly dynamic forum. (supposed to be blog of CmdrTaco).
I may sound aggressive but I am really tired of this late fashion junk even happening on generic IRC channels. No, this is not a MIT O"Reilly conference regarding privacy on net and the history/implications. This is fscking Slashdot and if you have anything against my suggestion, you can suggest your own, say "your suggestion sucks, these are evil guys, here is why" or plain flame me. Just don't treat Slashdot as some fake Encyclopedia since it is not.
I am spending my own time since there are very stupid suggestions around like running a Proxy server. Hello? They could be home users who doesn't understand how to secure a proxy and in the current scheme of happenings, it could be real death for the poor guy trusting that proxy.
This "citation needed" crap really started to make me mad. Go find your own citation, thank you.
They don't have to act like independent or anything. They can still be the greedy, Hollywood living type people. I am not saying "release in p2p and live in garage". I have no clue what they get from 95 million payment.
Easy calculation, even if they get 5% as in 5 million dollars/year, the producer/company gets 95 million dollars. With what kind of service? Trying to take 2 million dollars from a housewife fan and making the entire planet hate from you. If it was a PR guy, he would not just be fired, he would be sued for the scandal he caused.
If I see a Green Day fan and he starts talking about how cool, leftist, socially responsible band he listens to, I have a good answer for him. Unless he is a complete moron, I don't think he will see Green Day the way he has seen. That is what RIAA and the member company caused. It is so worth 2 million dollars...
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Oh well, VLC works for anyone, Java mp4 player works too and so as anything. It wasn't my point, it is all about the feedback they would get if they embedded that or that. It is always negative of some kind. Also please forget about telling people to install some huge media player for a video, it won't happen. Even virus writers know it so they trick people with "codec install":)
After reading some comments, I agree it should have been video tag. World's one of the largest, most popular sites happens to be open source and open content, one should use that advantage in a good way without too muuch alienation of poor IE users. Asking browser if it can do the VIDEO thing and falling back to Flash if not would be best.Of course, please, no browser name sniffing, capabilities detection should be enough.
What if Linux/BSD people did something completely opportunistic and implemented very same calls to API which will produce exact same results?
Something like ALSA 2/WINE hybrid but proper documentation, very same calls/usage. For example "Core Audio" of OS X?
I follow AVID guys and others and I don't think they are insane to leave all that work on writing software for 2 different operating systems having nothing to do with each other (except quicktime which helps a lot) and add "Linux" to the supported list. I am not a audio guy but I know their needs are way beyond "if it plays that mp3", to give a clue, one of the first parts of OS X to move to 64bit was sound system, Core Audio. The MIDI etc. are way beyond the Atari 1040 ST "plug the mini and it records, great" ages. Musicians do mad things now, connecting a lot of things together, add realtime effects etc.
Funny is, Audio is always under rated on computers. That is why Creative lives nightmare because of "integrated sound" while NVidia and ATI are enjoying even more profit since gamers really hated the integrated graphics system. Look to Apple and search for "Core Audio" which is said to be "state of the art" by industry. How many results? Now look for "Core Graphics":) I bet it is same deal on Microsoft side regarding direct3d vs directsound.
Issue here is, people can't understand what professional audio guys needs. For them, "playing that mp3" or even (if exists) "6 channel game" is enough. For Pro audio, it is just the beginning.
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If someone at our TV had this genius idea of RE-encoding a maximum compressed format to another maximum compressed one, he would be fired in less than a commercial break time.
Of course, not accepting H264, MPEG, H263 is pure ideological and will satisfy number of elitists who can't even tell difference between SD and HD broadcasts and even brag about it.
The reality you mention was one of the main reasons why Nokia (and couple of sane companies) insisted on using h264 in video element. There is no way you won't lose quality between transcoding an already state-of-art compressed video to another one. It is the main reason why Youtube videos really sucks, people (who are ordinary) doesn't have the raw video at hand. I even encoded 3-4 videos from digital betacam masters for that exact reason and posted to Youtube. I asked the producer "would you prefer mpeg2-->DV-->VP7 chaos or this? There is no other option because guy/gal will post it.". So we posted our own copyrighted video which really interestingly automatically taken down since a "responsible citizen" reported it:)
I try 1 more time for open codec fanatic developers: Would you want your pure C code to be converted blindly to BASIC and converted again back to C? That is what you do to videos when you transcode. Oh also, if VP6 worked, they wouldn't donate it to you for Theora.;)
If Real Networks and Apple wasn't that stupid, Flash is in fact 7-8 years behind in terms of video streaming...
But, of course, both are stupid and I don't even mention Windows Media department of MS. While calling everyone stupid, in this context, Sun is the number 1 stupid for wasting the embedded browser Java market regarding the real potential of Java. It wasn't supposed to make dancing bears or flashing ads you know.
Well, if you embed mp4 file, Windows people will be required to install "evil quicktime" and as we know, mp4 is also somehow evil because the organisation has patents on it.
So, by embedding Flash (which is totally documented I hear), they can play Theora thing and Ogg inside it. As it is GPL now, they could choose Sun Java technology and use Java player, trust me a huge amount of people from newbie to technical has Java installed. Of course, that time they would be blamed for using "bulky java" (as, there is no progress since 1997 you know).
What they don't know/figure/care is, there is no way to satisfy open source fanatics. Both Adobe and Sun have opened their billion dollar languages, product formats to community and they are still labelled as something else. Hell, Nokia even paid more than $500 Million to open Symbian source. The result? "Oh it is too big, complex, its C variant sux"... Oh really?
Oh yes, but thanks to Apple factor (who is also responsible for mpeg4 take off), everyone sticks with h264 now.
They can't even understand the difference between mpeg4 SP and mpeg 4 ASP and why it matters/mattered. Thanks to Apple (!) for not supporting the ASP in default quicktime mpeg4, people barely seen a full feature (like 3ivx) MPEG4 and when they saw H264, they thought it is a new thing and as SJobs introduced it as h264, name sticked.
In fact, it could be the reason why some people think h264 is not a standard, because of not having "mpeg" in the name and being promoted by Apple first.
Squid etc. are OK but if you don't know what you are doing, they can compromise both you and the poor guy trusting it.
Tor is good for that reason, entire system was designed by professionals and all you need is to run it. Nobody will extract any information from such chaos and they won't even figure you are running it yet alone trying to hack it.
Windows is unsecure especially in home environments which we all run as Administrator because freaking coders still can't code right (especially games), that is why I don't suggest running a proxy server without knowing how it actually works and gets configured. I have seen some comments in various places and I didn't like what I read.
Oh also, I don't think neo nazi types etc. really cares about their connection security. I mean the regular ones, the chiefs etc. must be all over VPN.
That is the issue since restricting a specific usage (e.g. I hate pirates abusing it) requires your machine to be able to "snoop" into the data flow which would make the entire system meaningless. E.g. some Iranian spy could run Tor for that purpose and watch Iran people.
I can easily say, the P2P abusing community doesn't really use tor like old times, it is not enough for their speed needs anyway.
BTW, I forgot to mention, EFF supports Tor by all means and even regular outlets like CBS suggest Tor for this very purpose.
If you don't know about it, Tor is a distributed proxy system which helps people in oppressive areas.
If you have questions about legitimacy of helping such a system, US DOD itself designed it and suggests their own personnel to use it when abroad.
If you think like a Iran nerd, Tor would be the only solution to implement really fast to gather and send information now. It could be life saving since those countries are really at limit of spying the internet right now.
They say just spare 20 KB (not MB) a second upspeed is enough. It is even lower than torrent traffic and shouldn't effect regular internet usage in any way even if you have multiple computers on NAT etc. (install to single in that case)
With today's technology and bandwidth (not even needed on Vuze etc.) if you produce a decent album professionally, you can sell it your own or hire a professional consulting like producer with same results.
Their market doesn't need shop signing etc. crap anymore, there is no need for big company.
They are working with the devil and should be treated same way. Especially those pseudo leftist etc. green day. The ones made their music in real way never worked with large music companies, at least this way. Now I have even have questions about Darfur in mind since these idiots were the ones who had most publicity in that issue. Wonder if it is really oil...
They are a ''product'' so the best way to punish producers is massive boycott. It is totally lawful too.
If they see one stadium empty, they will be shocked. Imagine seeing 10 stadiums empty, we would see massive resignation of record company execs, liquidation of RIAA etc.
It is all up to their listeners. Especially Green Day listeners thinking they are socially something. Green Day is a 'rock' band and rock bands are the stadium fillers.
One question while we speak about Green Day... Do you think paying 2 million dollars on behalf of someone hurt them? Lets think in evil corporate way... How many tens of millions of dollars in publicity, image you can get by just paying 2M dollars? Also do you have the 'from left pocket to right pocket' saying there?
Their producers, management doesn't even get this idea?
1) Pay 2 M dollars on behalf of the woman 2) Publicly denounce RIAA and fight with your record company for being member of RIAA 3) Profit 10x in terms of PR and sales boost.
If people started to use 'Webkit version xxxx.xx' already, it would be better.
I hate Apple apologizers too but people miss one fact, Safari is a shell for a Webkit with minor changes at Apple's side. Webkit isn't just 'Safari engine' anymore, it is a huge player both in browsers, multiple operating systems and even core renderer of offline/online apps.
Just on major players scene, Webkit powers Qt 4.x from Trolltech, Google Chrome, Nokia S60/S40 browser (the company sells 10 M phones in weekend) and Adobe Air.
So, Webkit bugs will be found and will be fixed, just like any popular browsing engine. Some of them will just hit Safari, some will hit other stuff.
If you are interested with security fixes, updates, you shouldn't rely on such click happy blogs. Subscribe to this
Guy doesn't want features, he wants security fixes. Same major version. Like the ones OS X 10.4.11 (thankfully) gets.
Those bugs fixed are real, can be demoed on regular links and web pages. They are putting their customers to both security and financial risks by no releasing a 2.x secure version.
They are also killing the small reputation they have in business, enterprise with this attitude but it is a long story.
E51 should be able to do the real internet telephony (standard one) natively and Skype etc. with Fring like applications. It should even have VPN built in.
Also you should be able to update your firmware (OS) natively via 'Nokia Software Updater' from Nokia.com. It needs Windows. Or, if you are lucky your phone can update itself. It is not like old times, Nokia keeps updating things even weekly in some cases. Of course, backup to memory card first.
Consider iPod touch a nice, mobile iTunes shell/media player and nothing else. Even iPhone, if you aren't into 'cute' and want to do real work, stay with E51 as there is no limit you can do with a Symbian business phone.
Number 1 issue with VOIP on iPod touch would be the lack of multi tasking and free competition. There is huge and free competition on Symbian regarding such applications and they are adding features like crazy. I compared Fring S60 to the iPhone one and all I could do is feel sad for its developers as it must be the only edition they could make those app store fascists accept.
They must have some great bandwidth to spare. MPEG2 is of course usable in HD broadcast but it requires massive bandwidth compared to MPEG 4 SP (think like Quicktime plain Mpeg 4) and H264.
It is all about bandwidth actually, it is not "old tech" vs. "new" or anything. Also the way TV industry works matters. They will never change a thing unless some definately needed feature is required and can't be built on existing technology. That is why PAL/NTSC standards still lives today since 1950-60 period.
It is used in HD Broadcasts, you don't see it get used, it is the satellite/set top box/device doing the h264. DVB-T and DVB-S (HD) are all in h264 and the container is always MPEG, in some form. VC6 (Theora) can't do the job H264 does. It is all about the bandwidth you can grab from satellite and H264 excels at giving very good quality in fraction of bandwidth MPEG4 SP would provide. It really matters to the 3G stuff too as you only rely on a single codec with several different bandwidths. It is more like ARM architecture and powerpc and even Motorola 68K, it is everywhere but you don't spot it.
If h264 didn't exist, there was no other standard than Microsoft VC1 to rely on for such uses. It would be a real disaster, way more than "patented" issue. I agree to the concerns about the MPEG LA and patents but just think what would happen if Microsoft, as a single company had reach of H264 with their VC1.
MP4 is the container, based on Quicktime standard and it is doing really well IMHO. Everyone, including pirates (which really matters) picked it except the ones using MKV container which really has full potential to be a standard but, because of its "image" and some political reasons at EBU/FCC, it would never be.
I tested Windows 7 RC on a Mac Mini just 2 days ago, for 24 hours.
Microsoft is really, really interesting company. While entire industry talks about SSD and even Disk Defragmenter producing (and ethical) companies tell their customers "Do not defragment SSD drives", Windows 7 defaults to weekly defrag, without even asking to user.
It is a release candidate, coded and packaged in 2009. It is not "windows 2000" or something. Their users already live problems because of NTFS and they decide to weekly defrag, on behalf of user and they even promote defrag in various places inside UI.
I always said "defragmenting can do good in certain conditions" (and get flamed) but I have never imagined of a OS vendor suggesting all users to take risky step of defragmenting. Forget everything, it puts huge load to the drive mechanics and they don't even watch smart temperature. Laptop drives are already running hot and loaded.
Well, I am assuming these things hates data written over and over to same spot. It is obvious that journal moves from time to time but I don't think it is enough, I don't know the exact reason of "journal pointers have been reset!" message either.
Trust me, for a consumer laptop which is good enough to consider SSD, fsck_hfs doesn't take that long. Of course, with journaling it would be a lot better but they are adopting early, not my fault:) In fact, an updated OS X without root level running hacks or outdated drivers rarely crashes to a point to require disk checking.
Another thing is, based on my experience, the real time taking process of fsck_hfs happens because of mechanical movements, if you have access to OS X machine or can read man pages from web, check the "cache" setting (exclusive to fsck_hfs) which Apple defaults to almost funny low level. If you raise it to 512MB or even 1Gigabyte, almost no head movement occurs and it becomes even faster than commercial tools. SSD obviously has no head to move so the results can be surprising.
In fact, even home users using OS X lives problem with "Drag Drop" installs if they aren't admin (super user) and the poor Finder's architecture of "if not owned by user, prompt" functionality is being relied on.
OS X is generally clever on that area but just moments ago, it stopped at half eventually giving up replacing the.app directory (which we see as Firefox.app) breaking the working executable.
If it was a.pkg, OS X would launch its Installer.app, it would nicely ask for admin credentials, store the app in "user neutral" way (not in uid of the admin dragging it) and store its metadata at/Library/Receipts. It doesn't do "healing" etc. yet but large Mac networks admins end up creating "Firefox.pkg" themselves just like you for similar reasons.
Really interesting is, they also give up the best feature of MSI. If you do it right, it can even "heal" the overwritten or missing files right? It really matters to home users.
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When I decided to try video element with Safari 4, it failed miserably because I forgot to install Xiph plugins this time. It is what the ordinary user will live and trust me, they would have no clue/care what Xiph plugins are. I really don't know about Windows land although I believe there must be some windows media framework codecs like quicktime one.
The reason of rejection of Quicktime, Real, WMV was basic. They were huge compared to Flash and in case of Windows Media, the vendor company had childish policy of not supporting other operating systems rather than theirs. In fact, with todays Intel Macs, there is no official "full feature" windows media player. Quicktime wmedia codecs aren't enough especially if they can't do DRM.
I would say "Go talk with Apple and let them tip Quicktime for your codec pack" but thanks to lamer virus writers abusing the scheme, Quicktime doesn't do it anymore and users are all instructed to "stay away from manual codec installations".
Flash has H264, something years ahead of VP3 (Theora) and supported down to cell phones, even Nokia S40 dumb ones. I think their "revolution" will fail miserably and this time, Apple and Microsoft or the "evil media empire" won't be easily blamed.
If video element can't do H264 because of political reasons, I can really say it is failed even before starting. They reference Youtube demo HTML5 video element, well Google has money to spare, bandwidth to spare, billions of dollars to spare. They can even offer "Cinepak" and it wouldn't make a change. Will they reject IE/Flash users on Youtube telling them to install some open source browser? That is what matters.
I really hope he didn't use his amazing gift to present is own health. You know, reality distortion field.
That is one thing doctors are really afraid of, the patient somehow managing to manipulate a doctor.
Some external models were good for semi professionals or pros without too much money in hand but no, Audigy etc. aren't suited for professional recording as far as I followed.
Whole marked seems to move to M-Audio which does have its own problems but at least, coming from same company making pro-tools (AVID) so they understand professional support requests. Of course, Mac is fully supported unlike Creative.
I mean, people doesn't tend to care for audio as long as it plays their mp3/movies. It is not the same deal as the GPU.
I moved to Mac long time ago and I know the SB Pro, AWE64, early Live were great cards but wasted with their horrible drivers and support policy.
I don't understand what kind of "proof" you want? Signed papers? They are doing an open source project, its roots date back to Navy Onion router and we are on Slashdot, not on a debate or wikipedia. US Army or no government organization will say "Yes, we are letting our field agents use it, for spying purposes too". What about the other option? Yes, they are faking the information, making it up, using US Navy for their claims, spying on users in fact and Navy or no other organization says a word about it right?
I am just saying it seems as the safest, one click way which is documented, open and credited by every kind of open source project out there including the EFF itself. This is not a Wikipedia article, this is users trying to help someone who asks the safest way to help against Internet censorship on a highly dynamic forum. (supposed to be blog of CmdrTaco).
I may sound aggressive but I am really tired of this late fashion junk even happening on generic IRC channels. No, this is not a MIT O"Reilly conference regarding privacy on net and the history/implications. This is fscking Slashdot and if you have anything against my suggestion, you can suggest your own, say "your suggestion sucks, these are evil guys, here is why" or plain flame me. Just don't treat Slashdot as some fake Encyclopedia since it is not.
I am spending my own time since there are very stupid suggestions around like running a Proxy server. Hello? They could be home users who doesn't understand how to secure a proxy and in the current scheme of happenings, it could be real death for the poor guy trusting that proxy.
This "citation needed" crap really started to make me mad. Go find your own citation, thank you.
They don't have to act like independent or anything. They can still be the greedy, Hollywood living type people. I am not saying "release in p2p and live in garage". I have no clue what they get from 95 million payment.
Easy calculation, even if they get 5% as in 5 million dollars/year, the producer/company gets 95 million dollars. With what kind of service? Trying to take 2 million dollars from a housewife fan and making the entire planet hate from you. If it was a PR guy, he would not just be fired, he would be sued for the scandal he caused.
If I see a Green Day fan and he starts talking about how cool, leftist, socially responsible band he listens to, I have a good answer for him. Unless he is a complete moron, I don't think he will see Green Day the way he has seen. That is what RIAA and the member company caused. It is so worth 2 million dollars...
Oh well, VLC works for anyone, Java mp4 player works too and so as anything. It wasn't my point, it is all about the feedback they would get if they embedded that or that. It is always negative of some kind. Also please forget about telling people to install some huge media player for a video, it won't happen. Even virus writers know it so they trick people with "codec install" :)
After reading some comments, I agree it should have been video tag. World's one of the largest, most popular sites happens to be open source and open content, one should use that advantage in a good way without too muuch alienation of poor IE users. Asking browser if it can do the VIDEO thing and falling back to Flash if not would be best.Of course, please, no browser name sniffing, capabilities detection should be enough.
What if Linux/BSD people did something completely opportunistic and implemented very same calls to API which will produce exact same results?
Something like ALSA 2/WINE hybrid but proper documentation, very same calls/usage. For example "Core Audio" of OS X?
I follow AVID guys and others and I don't think they are insane to leave all that work on writing software for 2 different operating systems having nothing to do with each other (except quicktime which helps a lot) and add "Linux" to the supported list. I am not a audio guy but I know their needs are way beyond "if it plays that mp3", to give a clue, one of the first parts of OS X to move to 64bit was sound system, Core Audio. The MIDI etc. are way beyond the Atari 1040 ST "plug the mini and it records, great" ages. Musicians do mad things now, connecting a lot of things together, add realtime effects etc.
Funny is, Audio is always under rated on computers. That is why Creative lives nightmare because of "integrated sound" while NVidia and ATI are enjoying even more profit since gamers really hated the integrated graphics system. Look to Apple and search for "Core Audio" which is said to be "state of the art" by industry. How many results? Now look for "Core Graphics" :) I bet it is same deal on Microsoft side regarding direct3d vs directsound.
Issue here is, people can't understand what professional audio guys needs. For them, "playing that mp3" or even (if exists) "6 channel game" is enough. For Pro audio, it is just the beginning.
If someone at our TV had this genius idea of RE-encoding a maximum compressed format to another maximum compressed one, he would be fired in less than a commercial break time.
Of course, not accepting H264, MPEG, H263 is pure ideological and will satisfy number of elitists who can't even tell difference between SD and HD broadcasts and even brag about it.
The reality you mention was one of the main reasons why Nokia (and couple of sane companies) insisted on using h264 in video element. There is no way you won't lose quality between transcoding an already state-of-art compressed video to another one. It is the main reason why Youtube videos really sucks, people (who are ordinary) doesn't have the raw video at hand. I even encoded 3-4 videos from digital betacam masters for that exact reason and posted to Youtube. I asked the producer "would you prefer mpeg2-->DV-->VP7 chaos or this? There is no other option because guy/gal will post it.". So we posted our own copyrighted video which really interestingly automatically taken down since a "responsible citizen" reported it :)
I try 1 more time for open codec fanatic developers: Would you want your pure C code to be converted blindly to BASIC and converted again back to C? That is what you do to videos when you transcode. Oh also, if VP6 worked, they wouldn't donate it to you for Theora. ;)
If Real Networks and Apple wasn't that stupid, Flash is in fact 7-8 years behind in terms of video streaming...
But, of course, both are stupid and I don't even mention Windows Media department of MS. While calling everyone stupid, in this context, Sun is the number 1 stupid for wasting the embedded browser Java market regarding the real potential of Java. It wasn't supposed to make dancing bears or flashing ads you know.
Well, if you embed mp4 file, Windows people will be required to install "evil quicktime" and as we know, mp4 is also somehow evil because the organisation has patents on it.
So, by embedding Flash (which is totally documented I hear), they can play Theora thing and Ogg inside it. As it is GPL now, they could choose Sun Java technology and use Java player, trust me a huge amount of people from newbie to technical has Java installed. Of course, that time they would be blamed for using "bulky java" (as, there is no progress since 1997 you know).
What they don't know/figure/care is, there is no way to satisfy open source fanatics. Both Adobe and Sun have opened their billion dollar languages, product formats to community and they are still labelled as something else. Hell, Nokia even paid more than $500 Million to open Symbian source. The result? "Oh it is too big, complex, its C variant sux"... Oh really?
The result shows who is really being hypocretic. While on it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash
Oh yes, but thanks to Apple factor (who is also responsible for mpeg4 take off), everyone sticks with h264 now.
They can't even understand the difference between mpeg4 SP and mpeg 4 ASP and why it matters/mattered. Thanks to Apple (!) for not supporting the ASP in default quicktime mpeg4, people barely seen a full feature (like 3ivx) MPEG4 and when they saw H264, they thought it is a new thing and as SJobs introduced it as h264, name sticked.
In fact, it could be the reason why some people think h264 is not a standard, because of not having "mpeg" in the name and being promoted by Apple first.
Squid etc. are OK but if you don't know what you are doing, they can compromise both you and the poor guy trusting it.
Tor is good for that reason, entire system was designed by professionals and all you need is to run it. Nobody will extract any information from such chaos and they won't even figure you are running it yet alone trying to hack it.
Windows is unsecure especially in home environments which we all run as Administrator because freaking coders still can't code right (especially games), that is why I don't suggest running a proxy server without knowing how it actually works and gets configured. I have seen some comments in various places and I didn't like what I read.
Oh also, I don't think neo nazi types etc. really cares about their connection security. I mean the regular ones, the chiefs etc. must be all over VPN.
That is the issue since restricting a specific usage (e.g. I hate pirates abusing it) requires your machine to be able to "snoop" into the data flow which would make the entire system meaningless. E.g. some Iranian spy could run Tor for that purpose and watch Iran people.
I can easily say, the P2P abusing community doesn't really use tor like old times, it is not enough for their speed needs anyway.
BTW, I forgot to mention, EFF supports Tor by all means and even regular outlets like CBS suggest Tor for this very purpose.
Here, they say it themselves. It is originally a US Marine project (just like many things)
http://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en
The single click and least trouble free solution to help right now seems as this one:
http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
If you don't know about it, Tor is a distributed proxy system which helps people in oppressive areas.
If you have questions about legitimacy of helping such a system, US DOD itself designed it and suggests their own personnel to use it when abroad.
If you think like a Iran nerd, Tor would be the only solution to implement really fast to gather and send information now. It could be life saving since those countries are really at limit of spying the internet right now.
They say just spare 20 KB (not MB) a second upspeed is enough. It is even lower than torrent traffic and shouldn't effect regular internet usage in any way even if you have multiple computers on NAT etc. (install to single in that case)
With today's technology and bandwidth (not even needed on Vuze etc.) if you produce a decent album professionally, you can sell it your own or hire a professional consulting like producer with same results.
Their market doesn't need shop signing etc. crap anymore, there is no need for big company.
They are working with the devil and should be treated same way. Especially those pseudo leftist etc. green day. The ones made their music in real way never worked with large music companies, at least this way. Now I have even have questions about Darfur in mind since these idiots were the ones who had most publicity in that issue. Wonder if it is really oil...
They are a ''product'' so the best way to punish producers is massive boycott. It is totally lawful too.
If they see one stadium empty, they will be shocked. Imagine seeing 10 stadiums empty, we would see massive resignation of record company execs, liquidation of RIAA etc.
It is all up to their listeners. Especially Green Day listeners thinking they are socially something. Green Day is a 'rock' band and rock bands are the stadium fillers.
One question while we speak about Green Day... Do you think paying 2 million dollars on behalf of someone hurt them? Lets think in evil corporate way... How many tens of millions of dollars in publicity, image you can get by just paying 2M dollars? Also do you have the 'from left pocket to right pocket' saying there?
Their producers, management doesn't even get this idea?
1) Pay 2 M dollars on behalf of the woman
2) Publicly denounce RIAA and fight with your record company for being member of RIAA
3) Profit 10x in terms of PR and sales boost.
or...
Metallica. Why were we mad to Lars again?
If people started to use 'Webkit version xxxx.xx' already, it would be better.
I hate Apple apologizers too but people miss one fact, Safari is a shell for a Webkit with minor changes at Apple's side. Webkit isn't just 'Safari engine' anymore, it is a huge player both in browsers, multiple operating systems and even core renderer of offline/online apps.
Just on major players scene, Webkit powers Qt 4.x from Trolltech, Google Chrome, Nokia S60/S40 browser (the company sells 10 M phones in weekend) and Adobe Air.
So, Webkit bugs will be found and will be fixed, just like any popular browsing engine. Some of them will just hit Safari, some will hit other stuff.
If you are interested with security fixes, updates, you shouldn't rely on such click happy blogs. Subscribe to this
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce
get security updates and changelogs minus the drama.
Guy doesn't want features, he wants security fixes. Same major version. Like the ones OS X 10.4.11 (thankfully) gets.
Those bugs fixed are real, can be demoed on regular links and web pages. They are putting their customers to both security and financial risks by no releasing a 2.x secure version.
They are also killing the small reputation they have in business, enterprise with this attitude but it is a long story.
E51 should be able to do the real internet telephony (standard one) natively and Skype etc. with Fring like applications. It should even have VPN built in.
Also you should be able to update your firmware (OS) natively via 'Nokia Software Updater' from Nokia.com. It needs Windows. Or, if you are lucky your phone can update itself. It is not like old times, Nokia keeps updating things even weekly in some cases. Of course, backup to memory card first.
Consider iPod touch a nice, mobile iTunes shell/media player and nothing else. Even iPhone, if you aren't into 'cute' and want to do real work, stay with E51 as there is no limit you can do with a Symbian business phone.
Number 1 issue with VOIP on iPod touch would be the lack of multi tasking and free competition. There is huge and free competition on Symbian regarding such applications and they are adding features like crazy. I compared Fring S60 to the iPhone one and all I could do is feel sad for its developers as it must be the only edition they could make those app store fascists accept.
They must have some great bandwidth to spare. MPEG2 is of course usable in HD broadcast but it requires massive bandwidth compared to MPEG 4 SP (think like Quicktime plain Mpeg 4) and H264.
It is all about bandwidth actually, it is not "old tech" vs. "new" or anything. Also the way TV industry works matters. They will never change a thing unless some definately needed feature is required and can't be built on existing technology. That is why PAL/NTSC standards still lives today since 1950-60 period.
It is used in HD Broadcasts, you don't see it get used, it is the satellite/set top box/device doing the h264. DVB-T and DVB-S (HD) are all in h264 and the container is always MPEG, in some form. VC6 (Theora) can't do the job H264 does. It is all about the bandwidth you can grab from satellite and H264 excels at giving very good quality in fraction of bandwidth MPEG4 SP would provide. It really matters to the 3G stuff too as you only rely on a single codec with several different bandwidths. It is more like ARM architecture and powerpc and even Motorola 68K, it is everywhere but you don't spot it.
If h264 didn't exist, there was no other standard than Microsoft VC1 to rely on for such uses. It would be a real disaster, way more than "patented" issue. I agree to the concerns about the MPEG LA and patents but just think what would happen if Microsoft, as a single company had reach of H264 with their VC1.
MP4 is the container, based on Quicktime standard and it is doing really well IMHO. Everyone, including pirates (which really matters) picked it except the ones using MKV container which really has full potential to be a standard but, because of its "image" and some political reasons at EBU/FCC, it would never be.
I tested Windows 7 RC on a Mac Mini just 2 days ago, for 24 hours.
Microsoft is really, really interesting company. While entire industry talks about SSD and even Disk Defragmenter producing (and ethical) companies tell their customers "Do not defragment SSD drives", Windows 7 defaults to weekly defrag, without even asking to user.
It is a release candidate, coded and packaged in 2009. It is not "windows 2000" or something. Their users already live problems because of NTFS and they decide to weekly defrag, on behalf of user and they even promote defrag in various places inside UI.
I always said "defragmenting can do good in certain conditions" (and get flamed) but I have never imagined of a OS vendor suggesting all users to take risky step of defragmenting. Forget everything, it puts huge load to the drive mechanics and they don't even watch smart temperature. Laptop drives are already running hot and loaded.
Well, I am assuming these things hates data written over and over to same spot. It is obvious that journal moves from time to time but I don't think it is enough, I don't know the exact reason of "journal pointers have been reset!" message either.
Trust me, for a consumer laptop which is good enough to consider SSD, fsck_hfs doesn't take that long. Of course, with journaling it would be a lot better but they are adopting early, not my fault :) In fact, an updated OS X without root level running hacks or outdated drivers rarely crashes to a point to require disk checking.
Another thing is, based on my experience, the real time taking process of fsck_hfs happens because of mechanical movements, if you have access to OS X machine or can read man pages from web, check the "cache" setting (exclusive to fsck_hfs) which Apple defaults to almost funny low level. If you raise it to 512MB or even 1Gigabyte, almost no head movement occurs and it becomes even faster than commercial tools. SSD obviously has no head to move so the results can be surprising.
In fact, even home users using OS X lives problem with "Drag Drop" installs if they aren't admin (super user) and the poor Finder's architecture of "if not owned by user, prompt" functionality is being relied on.
OS X is generally clever on that area but just moments ago, it stopped at half eventually giving up replacing the .app directory (which we see as Firefox.app) breaking the working executable.
If it was a .pkg, OS X would launch its Installer.app, it would nicely ask for admin credentials, store the app in "user neutral" way (not in uid of the admin dragging it) and store its metadata at /Library/Receipts. It doesn't do "healing" etc. yet but large Mac networks admins end up creating "Firefox.pkg" themselves just like you for similar reasons.
Really interesting is, they also give up the best feature of MSI. If you do it right, it can even "heal" the overwritten or missing files right? It really matters to home users.