It' an average $0.20 per user. Those that were paying would have to subsidise all those that were not. If nobody else wanted to then your plugin would cost you $5M.
You should also test at 500kbps and 250kbps. Trying to get something usable out of the latter seems especially difficult from what I've seen. Especially a football match.
Google happened to inherit a large archive of H.264 in the form of YouTube, and so for them it is a short-term convenience. Apple hold plenty of patents on H.264 and expect to get rich from it. None of this is to do with what is good for the consumer.
The real reason is the second, that they are ideologically opposed to it. And that stance is only going to hurt them, and they should just get over it. It is not a fight they can possibly win.
Deja vu. That's what people used to say about Linux and Open Source. They still appear to be around. Anyway, define 'win'.
I don't know if there was an extended YouTube version I didn't see, but the one I did wasn't anything of the sort.
Basically his rants aren't about the bad Russian cops but about the bad Russian government that doesnt pay its cops and Mr. Dymovsky in particular enough money.
From what I remember, he was pointing out that the latter led to the former. I also don't remember him singling himself out for a pay rise above and beyond anybody else.
Major Dymovsky had a habit of not coming into work for weeks at a time
Something to do with suffering from stress, and the breakdown leading to the confession on video as he couldn't take it any more?
there were numerous complaints about him basically alleging he himself was extorting various businesses for money before he put anything on Youtube
That was his whole point, wasn't it? He couldn't afford not to, and in fact would be ostracized by his colleagues if he didn't.
Yulia Latynina who is easily the best credentialed opposition journalist in Russia has dismissed Dymovsky as a fraud on her radio show and in editorials.
Fair enough.
His complaint isnt with the system but with his own place in it -- he is no opponent of the Kremlin, but a guy who was trying to secure his own position.
By saying he can't take it any more, and will quite happily quit. Obviously has designs on Putins job (not).
His own ex-wife has called him mentally unbalanced. He had a messy divorce involving death threats and other assorted stories fit only for the tabloids
So he is a Russian Tiger Woods. Big deal. This has nothing to do with anything. I don't know how authentic the video appeal is, but I find the Anonymous Coward posting very unconvincing.
I'm sure your trophy wife will stick by you, unless you suffer an financial misfortune. I'm guessing he may have children, in which case he may hope they grow up in a world that is a better place than he has had to endure.
Actually, if you fail to reveal a password to storage that may or may not contain information (except the government may decide to believe there is some) then you can go to jail for a very long time even without any charge.
The down side of working in climate change is that the only time you ultimately get to see if you are right or wrong is when we become extinct or not. If you have predicted the latter, you have a hard time collecting on those bets (or the free pizza).
You missed the worse omission: "These predictions reminds me of an article around 1900 that claimed that if trends continue, the horse manure on the streets of chicago would be 6 ft. deep by 1930. It never happened, the automobile came along and replaced horses. And that, perhaps, is the biggest problem with these predictions."
Where does he think the automobile came from? How can he use an example of humans doing something proactive to solve the problem as an excuse to bury our heads in the sand with this one and do nothing? In that case the "horseless carriage" came to the rescue. When it came out I am sure people laughed at the slow (somebody had to walk in front of it with a flag), unreliable method of conveyance. Today there is massive investment in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and other types of alternative energy. He reminds me of the people that complain that the Y2K bug was just a hoax, conveniently ignoring all those people that spend hundreds of hours fixing it (myself included, though luckily I didn't draw the short straw and was allowed out New Years Eve).
No one (or at least, no one in the general population) had heard of global warming / climate change until we had politicians saying "If you don't elect me so that I can pass X laws to stop GW / climate change, we will all die!"
Deja vu. The politicians generally are 20 years behind. There are still people who think smoking giving cancer is bunk, and that politicians are meddling. Not that it's worth listening to anybody that says "only about 4% of daily CO2 output is from man-made devices". That is a massive amount!
I don't care one way or another if the temperature is changing or not.
That's because the US hasn't had an abnormal amount of freak weather, like hurricanes or floods. Oh wait...
There is no real estimate. The quote was pasted from an Indian scientist who, when asked in a telephone interview by a journalist, guessed that one small segment could be melted by 2035. It was a stupid cut and paste error. And it was caught by climate change observers, not the sceptics. It's no big deal.
If it fails to stop the car at least it may knock out the onboard GPS. Then after they get lost and run out of petrol the police can just pick them up.
The exact same thing has happened to the World Wide Web and all the protocols used to facilitate it: it has evolved to favor corporate desires and interests
Really? I remember Netscape trying to tie the web to themselves via proprietary extensions and failing. I remember Microsoft trying to tie it to ActiveX and failing. I remember Sun was going to control all our interactive applications through Java applets, but that never happened. Microsoft was going to control the vector graphics format by WML, but we are getting SVG instead. Now Google is trying to tie the web to h264 but we will move to Theora instead, much as when Unisys threatened anybody using GIF the PNG standard was invented. I don't see that we are any worse off than 10 years ago. In fact, thanks to Sun and OpenOffice, with the community trying to push organisations and governments towards ODT, we may even be better off.
Sure, it's cool to be able to say that you're paid to work on the Linux kernel.
Certainly is. I'd decided at the age of 8yrs old the first company I was going to work for was Acorn. And it was. My friend loves Linux and so picks jobs where he gets to play with top end Linux clusters. Previously at CERN and now a top Swiss bank. For a real techie the work is more important than the size of the pay cheque.
But how many of that paid 75% would do it for free?
Depends what the code being contributed is. IBM is porting Linux to its high-end mainframes, but your average enthusiast doesn't have a $1M mainframe in his basement and so no incentive to write Linux drivers for one. I bet a large % of the paid developers are contributing code that is pretty useless to the home desktop user.
How many would have to do something else to put food on the table if there were not a corporation to pay them?
Those working on the kernel are a tiny fraction of OS developers. Around 99% of us do something else to put food on the table.
What I take away from this is the fact that the Linux "community" is dominated by corporations. In many cases (but not all), for-profit corporations, all trying to compete against several other for-profit corporations named Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, etc.
What I take away is that common sense is actually working. The Linux "massively scalable cloud community" and the Linux "big iron community" will be dominated by corporations. And maybe some of the contributions will trickle back and be useful to the rest of us. I can't see who is losing in that scenario.
If Linux wants to sit at the adults' table -- and it clearly has the depth and breadth of functionality to do so -- then there needs to be the kind of professional accountability in its developers that only a paycheck can engender.
Billions lost on failed UK IT projects by the 'adults' with developers receiving very fat paycheques shows it guarantees neither success of the project nor accountability within it.
Sadly you are so right. This Labour government is more concerned with being seen to be doing something, rather than actual security. A terrorist claims mixing some liquids together can make a bomb? We are now no longer allowed liquids past security (including toothpaste, hair gel, etc). A terrorist tries putting a bomb in their shoe? We now have to take our shoes off going through security. A terrorist hides something flammable in his underwear? We now have to show our naked bodies to security. What should a terrorist claim next to heap humiliation on the average citizen by knee-jerk New Labour? Claim to have a bomb in his teeth, so we get our mouths examined like horses at a prize show each time we go through security?
Of course when the Slovak police put an actual bomb on somebody, he makes it all the way home without anybody noticing.
Will the new Conservative government scale back airport security, and reinvest the millions saved into the intelligence services who are our only hope of ACTUALLY catching a bomb? Using traditional police methods of targeted investigations, not trying to push through mass surveillance laws for lazy fishing expeditions? Or does this sounds like too much hard work?
I presume it is to indicate a remote directory, as if you do a single slash it is a local absolute path and no slash means a local relative path. I don't think there is really an inconsistency. One is a URL and the other an email address. Both have clear unambiguous RFCs.
The problem is looking for an English girl. They think they are much better looking than they really are, and expect too much. It would be more interesting if he compared the chances of Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
The BSE crisis in the UK is a good case study, where they said everything was fine (with the ridiculous image of the government Minister force-feeding his child a steak on national tv) until they said "whoops" and slaughtered and burned 4.4M cows.
Monsanto are famous for denying responsibility for cock-ups (Bhopal, anybody?), and enough posters have pointed out that to them profits matter not dead people. As zogger says, cross-pollination could turn this into an epic disaster. However a lot of Europe is safe, as they don't trust GM food.
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It' an average $0.20 per user. Those that were paying would have to subsidise all those that were not. If nobody else wanted to then your plugin would cost you $5M.
Phillip.
You should also test at 500kbps and 250kbps. Trying to get something usable out of the latter seems especially difficult from what I've seen. Especially a football match.
Phillip.
Google happened to inherit a large archive of H.264 in the form of YouTube, and so for them it is a short-term convenience. Apple hold plenty of patents on H.264 and expect to get rich from it. None of this is to do with what is good for the consumer.
Phillip.
The real reason is the second, that they are ideologically opposed to it. And that stance is only going to hurt them, and they should just get over it. It is not a fight they can possibly win.
Deja vu. That's what people used to say about Linux and Open Source. They still appear to be around. Anyway, define 'win'.
Phillip.
I don't know if there was an extended YouTube version I didn't see, but the one I did wasn't anything of the sort.
Basically his rants aren't about the bad Russian cops but about the bad Russian government that doesnt pay its cops and Mr. Dymovsky in particular enough money.
From what I remember, he was pointing out that the latter led to the former. I also don't remember him singling himself out for a pay rise above and beyond anybody else.
Major Dymovsky had a habit of not coming into work for weeks at a time
Something to do with suffering from stress, and the breakdown leading to the confession on video as he couldn't take it any more?
there were numerous complaints about him basically alleging he himself was extorting various businesses for money before he put anything on Youtube
That was his whole point, wasn't it? He couldn't afford not to, and in fact would be ostracized by his colleagues if he didn't.
Yulia Latynina who is easily the best credentialed opposition journalist in Russia has dismissed Dymovsky as a fraud on her radio show and in editorials.
Fair enough.
His complaint isnt with the system but with his own place in it -- he is no opponent of the Kremlin, but a guy who was trying to secure his own position.
By saying he can't take it any more, and will quite happily quit. Obviously has designs on Putins job (not).
His own ex-wife has called him mentally unbalanced. He had a messy divorce involving death threats and other assorted stories fit only for the tabloids
So he is a Russian Tiger Woods. Big deal. This has nothing to do with anything. I don't know how authentic the video appeal is, but I find the Anonymous Coward posting very unconvincing.
Phillip.
I'm sure your trophy wife will stick by you, unless you suffer an financial misfortune. I'm guessing he may have children, in which case he may hope they grow up in a world that is a better place than he has had to endure.
Phillip.
Actually, if you fail to reveal a password to storage that may or may not contain information (except the government may decide to believe there is some) then you can go to jail for a very long time even without any charge.
Phillip.
The down side of working in climate change is that the only time you ultimately get to see if you are right or wrong is when we become extinct or not. If you have predicted the latter, you have a hard time collecting on those bets (or the free pizza).
Phillip.
Wow, quoting Daily Mail as a source and getting +5 Informative. A new all-time low for Slashdot, Coolhand2120.
Phillip.
The Times is a rag, amusing for gossip but can hardly be used as a source.
Phillip.
You missed the worse omission:
"These predictions reminds me of an article around 1900 that claimed that if trends continue, the horse manure on the streets of chicago would be 6 ft. deep by 1930. It never happened, the automobile came along and replaced horses. And that, perhaps, is the biggest problem with these predictions."
Where does he think the automobile came from? How can he use an example of humans doing something proactive to solve the problem as an excuse to bury our heads in the sand with this one and do nothing? In that case the "horseless carriage" came to the rescue. When it came out I am sure people laughed at the slow (somebody had to walk in front of it with a flag), unreliable method of conveyance. Today there is massive investment in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and other types of alternative energy. He reminds me of the people that complain that the Y2K bug was just a hoax, conveniently ignoring all those people that spend hundreds of hours fixing it (myself included, though luckily I didn't draw the short straw and was allowed out New Years Eve).
Phillip.
No one (or at least, no one in the general population) had heard of global warming / climate change until we had politicians saying "If you don't elect me so that I can pass X laws to stop GW / climate change, we will all die!"
Deja vu. The politicians generally are 20 years behind. There are still people who think smoking giving cancer is bunk, and that politicians are meddling. Not that it's worth listening to anybody that says "only about 4% of daily CO2 output is from man-made devices". That is a massive amount!
I don't care one way or another if the temperature is changing or not.
That's because the US hasn't had an abnormal amount of freak weather, like hurricanes or floods. Oh wait...
Phillip.
There is no real estimate. The quote was pasted from an Indian scientist who, when asked in a telephone interview by a journalist, guessed that one small segment could be melted by 2035. It was a stupid cut and paste error. And it was caught by climate change observers, not the sceptics. It's no big deal.
Phillip.
What are the mods marking parent interesting instead of funny? I presume he was being sarcastic.
Phillip.
If it fails to stop the car at least it may knock out the onboard GPS. Then after they get lost and run out of petrol the police can just pick them up.
Phillip.
The exact same thing has happened to the World Wide Web and all the protocols used to facilitate it: it has evolved to favor corporate desires and interests
Really? I remember Netscape trying to tie the web to themselves via proprietary extensions and failing. I remember Microsoft trying to tie it to ActiveX and failing. I remember Sun was going to control all our interactive applications through Java applets, but that never happened. Microsoft was going to control the vector graphics format by WML, but we are getting SVG instead. Now Google is trying to tie the web to h264 but we will move to Theora instead, much as when Unisys threatened anybody using GIF the PNG standard was invented. I don't see that we are any worse off than 10 years ago. In fact, thanks to Sun and OpenOffice, with the community trying to push organisations and governments towards ODT, we may even be better off.
Phillip.
Sure, it's cool to be able to say that you're paid to work on the Linux kernel.
Certainly is. I'd decided at the age of 8yrs old the first company I was going to work for was Acorn. And it was. My friend loves Linux and so picks jobs where he gets to play with top end Linux clusters. Previously at CERN and now a top Swiss bank. For a real techie the work is more important than the size of the pay cheque.
But how many of that paid 75% would do it for free?
Depends what the code being contributed is. IBM is porting Linux to its high-end mainframes, but your average enthusiast doesn't have a $1M mainframe in his basement and so no incentive to write Linux drivers for one. I bet a large % of the paid developers are contributing code that is pretty useless to the home desktop user.
How many would have to do something else to put food on the table if there were not a corporation to pay them?
Those working on the kernel are a tiny fraction of OS developers. Around 99% of us do something else to put food on the table.
What I take away from this is the fact that the Linux "community" is dominated by corporations. In many cases (but not all), for-profit corporations, all trying to compete against several other for-profit corporations named Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, etc.
What I take away is that common sense is actually working. The Linux "massively scalable cloud community" and the Linux "big iron community" will be dominated by corporations. And maybe some of the contributions will trickle back and be useful to the rest of us. I can't see who is losing in that scenario.
Phillip.
If Linux wants to sit at the adults' table -- and it clearly has the depth and breadth of functionality to do so -- then there needs to be the kind of professional accountability in its developers that only a paycheck can engender.
Billions lost on failed UK IT projects by the 'adults' with developers receiving very fat paycheques shows it guarantees neither success of the project nor accountability within it.
Phillip.
From most of the Linux advocates I hear commenting on slashdot, there AREN'T bugs or missing features in Linux.
That is patently a lie.
Phillip.
Sadly you are so right. This Labour government is more concerned with being seen to be doing something, rather than actual security. A terrorist claims mixing some liquids together can make a bomb? We are now no longer allowed liquids past security (including toothpaste, hair gel, etc). A terrorist tries putting a bomb in their shoe? We now have to take our shoes off going through security. A terrorist hides something flammable in his underwear? We now have to show our naked bodies to security. What should a terrorist claim next to heap humiliation on the average citizen by knee-jerk New Labour? Claim to have a bomb in his teeth, so we get our mouths examined like horses at a prize show each time we go through security?
Of course when the Slovak police put an actual bomb on somebody, he makes it all the way home without anybody noticing.
Will the new Conservative government scale back airport security, and reinvest the millions saved into the intelligence services who are our only hope of ACTUALLY catching a bomb? Using traditional police methods of targeted investigations, not trying to push through mass surveillance laws for lazy fishing expeditions? Or does this sounds like too much hard work?
Phillip.
But I’m not sure about the point of the “//”
I presume it is to indicate a remote directory, as if you do a single slash it is a local absolute path and no slash means a local relative path. I don't think there is really an inconsistency. One is a URL and the other an email address. Both have clear unambiguous RFCs.
Phillip.
The problem is looking for an English girl. They think they are much better looking than they really are, and expect too much. It would be more interesting if he compared the chances of Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Phillip.
Then he mentions he will only find 5% of "physically attractive" candidates. [snip] In other words, guy's too picky :-)
When was the last time you were in London?
Phillip.
Of course it matters what you put into the animal feed...
Phillip.
The BSE crisis in the UK is a good case study, where they said everything was fine (with the ridiculous image of the government Minister force-feeding his child a steak on national tv) until they said "whoops" and slaughtered and burned 4.4M cows.
Monsanto are famous for denying responsibility for cock-ups (Bhopal, anybody?), and enough posters have pointed out that to them profits matter not dead people. As zogger says, cross-pollination could turn this into an epic disaster. However a lot of Europe is safe, as they don't trust GM food.
Phillip.