If Groklaw seems biassed in the SCO-IBM case, that is because the facts support IBM's view of the case.
This is not entirely true. Groklaw is biased in a way, but not to the extent of misreporting facts, rather they do sympathize with IBM. So if a fact is posted that's not in favor of IBM (and this does happen) they're reported as "a problem for IBM's case, how should this be solved?" whereas if a problematic fact arises that hurts SCOX, it's quickly pointed out that this is the latest in a long string of facts exposing their lies and misrepresentations. While the latter is also factually true, the emphasis is on pointing this out.
Of course, some of the comments go either way in being totally biased for or against.
Of course, groklaw being biased at least in its attitude is not a bad thing in itself. In fact, if it wasn't, it would be a lot less interesting to read. Rather like The Register itself.
Go ahead, disprove Evolution. If Evolution is a crock of shit it CAN and WILL be disproved.
Go ahead, disprove Creationism. Oh wait. You can never prove God doesn't exist, because maybe that's the way He meant it, and He IS all-powerful..
That's why one is a scientific theory, and the other isn't.
TeX also takes care of citations for you in a straightforward manner. Just install the correct style, and copy+paste entire citations from handy dandy precompiled bibliographies; some scientific publishers (like sciencedirect) even offer a generate TeX-citation button on their websites. Citeseer includes BibTeX entries for each publication (though often not as nice as bibliographies maintained by people in the field).
WHat the hell is wrong with mpeg anyway??
Which MPEG? MPEG-1? MPEG-2? MPEG-4? Most of these are pretty high bandwidth, even at crappy webcam resolutions, and aren't tailored to lots of data-errors (crappy cable internet bandwidth) or streaming in any way. Even the MPEG people think so. That's why there's now MPEG-4 part 10 for low-bandwidth streaming.
MPEG-4 part 10/AVC/H.264 is a likely candidate for all these sorts of applications (wrapped in 3gpp protocols for instance), but it's rather cpu-intensive, and you don't want to use 99% cpu for your crappy webcam.
In Microsoft's case of course, the goal is to keep people from using non-Microsoft msn messenger clients; particularly seeing as Microsoft had already standardized on H.263 in NetMeeting (which, like windows messenger, comes with Windows XP's default install). Though admittedly, NetMeeting's use of H.323 makes it unsuitable for most home-users who are behind NAT boxes or funky firewalls; but nothing would keep you from using H.263 over SIP - SIP, which is also supported by windows (not msn) messenger.
Microsoft replacing windows messenger and NetMeeting with msn messenger is basically a big push towards proprietary standards over open standards.
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If Groklaw seems biassed in the SCO-IBM case, that is because the facts support IBM's view of the case. This is not entirely true. Groklaw is biased in a way, but not to the extent of misreporting facts, rather they do sympathize with IBM. So if a fact is posted that's not in favor of IBM (and this does happen) they're reported as "a problem for IBM's case, how should this be solved?" whereas if a problematic fact arises that hurts SCOX, it's quickly pointed out that this is the latest in a long string of facts exposing their lies and misrepresentations. While the latter is also factually true, the emphasis is on pointing this out. Of course, some of the comments go either way in being totally biased for or against. Of course, groklaw being biased at least in its attitude is not a bad thing in itself. In fact, if it wasn't, it would be a lot less interesting to read. Rather like The Register itself.
Go ahead, disprove Evolution. If Evolution is a crock of shit it CAN and WILL be disproved. Go ahead, disprove Creationism. Oh wait. You can never prove God doesn't exist, because maybe that's the way He meant it, and He IS all-powerful.. That's why one is a scientific theory, and the other isn't.
There's a 2.5 ct per page levy on copying-machine us in The Netherlands. No joke.
TeX also takes care of citations for you in a straightforward manner. Just install the correct style, and copy+paste entire citations from handy dandy precompiled bibliographies; some scientific publishers (like sciencedirect) even offer a generate TeX-citation button on their websites. Citeseer includes BibTeX entries for each publication (though often not as nice as bibliographies maintained by people in the field).
"The word on the streets", J. Doe jr. et al., Municipal Schoolbus Co. of Littetown, 2005
WHat the hell is wrong with mpeg anyway?? Which MPEG? MPEG-1? MPEG-2? MPEG-4? Most of these are pretty high bandwidth, even at crappy webcam resolutions, and aren't tailored to lots of data-errors (crappy cable internet bandwidth) or streaming in any way. Even the MPEG people think so. That's why there's now MPEG-4 part 10 for low-bandwidth streaming. MPEG-4 part 10/AVC/H.264 is a likely candidate for all these sorts of applications (wrapped in 3gpp protocols for instance), but it's rather cpu-intensive, and you don't want to use 99% cpu for your crappy webcam. In Microsoft's case of course, the goal is to keep people from using non-Microsoft msn messenger clients; particularly seeing as Microsoft had already standardized on H.263 in NetMeeting (which, like windows messenger, comes with Windows XP's default install). Though admittedly, NetMeeting's use of H.323 makes it unsuitable for most home-users who are behind NAT boxes or funky firewalls; but nothing would keep you from using H.263 over SIP - SIP, which is also supported by windows (not msn) messenger. Microsoft replacing windows messenger and NetMeeting with msn messenger is basically a big push towards proprietary standards over open standards.
Dell also has this on the lattitude D410, D610 and D810.