Conversely, what right do you have to copy his words or print words he wrote and sell them for your profit? I'd give his kids the rights before I'd give some random bastard those rights.
Most hardware H.264 encoders a bad compared with software implementations.
This is not true. Most hardware encoders have different goals compared to a non-realtime software encoder. Hardware encoders do something software encoders simply can't - that's why they exist. Otherwise it'd just be easier to use a hardware encoder.
That said - they didn't use a hardware encoder for Avatar's BluRay - why would they?
Since x264 is both the best h.264 encoder, and FOSS
Let's not go overboard. x264 is very good and is better than most commercial, consumer level implementations but it is not the best h.264 encoder. You can make a sizable bet that Panasonic did not use x264 to encode Avatar, for example.
Best you can afford unless you're a Hollywood professional? Probably.
Mostly theoretical optimizations. You'll be hard pressed to find many real world cases where a JIT'd Java app will run faster than a native C/C++ app for a variety of reasons. Conversely, you will not be hard pressed to find C/C++ programs which perform better than a Java JIT'd app.
Furthermore - if you care about performance (a lot of the time you frankly don't, at the level these optimizations would matter) you can just...not use a lot of virtualized methods and take other precautions to make sure you reach peak performance.
PS: Thanks for the link in your SIG, I had a good long laugh at it. It is meant as a joke, right?
I didn't lose any personal data. It's all stored in my google account, when I synced back up it all magically reappeared. Didn't lose any of my SD card data either.
Your sarcasm foo has vastly overwhelmed me. It was so subtle I read the first sentence and was sure you were totally going to agree with me, but then I read further on and I was all "Uh Oh, I think this guy disagrees with me!". So I went back and reread the first sentence and realized you had deftly handled me with your pithy sarcasm.
Let's see how well this device holds up over time. I'd say the sales figures from maybe Q3 will be the most useful to see how well it's really selling long term.
Who knows, maybe then I'll post some more posts mocking Apple and you can pull out your finely honed sarcasm skills again!
Oh wow, you mean people are trying to sell shit for twice what it's worth and nobody is buying it on Ebay? Quick, call the channel 12 news!
Nobody's buying an iPad for $1100. It's a joke, just idiots fishing. There are iPads on there for only slightly more than you could buy them for at the Apple store.
No, it's a part of the never-ending story of Apple's cynical marketing.
Gosh, we sure made a bad choice in not taking cash. We do regret that, here's a free iPad - see how well we're dealing with our beloved customers? By the way, don't forget that the iPad is such a hot commodity that we chose not to take cash to prevent the rampant black marketing of our awesome product. I mean, look how crazy that is - we are selling so many we can turn away customers! Again, sorry about that whole no-cash thing but don't forget our artificial scarci..I mean how well the iPad is obviously selling. Joe, your neighbor has one, don't you want to be like him?
False. Nobody's doing that, and if they are it doesn't hurt Apple. This was a marketing move to try to propagate the artificial scarcity ploy Apple is using with the iPad. Nothing more. I'm surprised so many rubes don't see that, it's very obvious.
You think this is bad publicity? This is exactly what Apple planned. Now they've got the message out that their iPad is so hawt they have to restrict how many a person can buy. Oh, they mad a bad decision in the no-cash idea, but wow look how well that iPad is selling and how badly people want it!
This was a cheap way for Apple to get unorthodox marketing. Since Apple was so nice in fixing the no-cash policy, all that's left in the rabble's mind is how many iPads Apple is selling since they need to restrict purchase! Wow, I gotta get me one of those, look how many they're selling! Ahahaha. Ridiculous. We live in an age of idiocy.
This wasn't a dumb move, and this isn't bad press. They tried to make it look like the iPad was in such MONSTER demand that they wouldn't take cash. Then there was press, some moderately bad (Apple won't take cash), but mostly in their minds good (their iPad is selling like such hot cakes that they want to slow it down by not taking cash). Seriously, this late in the game who could possible be convinced people are still buying 50 iPads at a time and selling them at a markup?
It's stupid marketing done by stupid people targeting stupid people.
They implemented the cash-only policy once their fake scarcity ploy wore out. First they pretended they couldn't make enough to meet the monster demand. Then they resorted to "our gadget is so cool we won't take cash!".
Artificial scarcity is a pretty boring ploy these days - does anyone actually believe that nonsense?
They only think they're charging for the wifi hotspot functionality. You can already do this with current Android phones with a little work, and someone will hack the Evo to do it natively for free within a reasonably short period.
It's much more enlightened to be a wonderful caring human and let them spit out kid after kid into a short, brutal life of horror. Third world overpopulation is, literally, the creation of life for the purpose of suffering.
Your "classist" has a more moral position than you do. Maybe you should think about that a bit.
But aren't people who run around labeling everyone racists just trying to make themselves feel better about themselves?
But hey - if it makes you feel really good about yourself and you can think about what a wonderful person you are at night when you're trying to sleep, go for it. Just don't be surprised at what the world looks like with 15 billion people.
Mary: I don't think we can afford a $500k house, Dick.
Dick: Oh Mary, stop worrying. House values always go up, and we don't even pay any interest for 2 years! We're set for life on the money we'll make from this baby!
Eventually the naysayers are right, and all things come to an end. Same with Nintendo - and I mean more like 5 years than when the sun goes supernova.
Yeah, because past performance is indicative of future, right? Everybody mocked the doom and gloomers before the dot-com bust and the housing bubble.
"Oh Frank, you're so silly with your prognostications, everything's fine! I just bought a $500k house and don't pay interest for 2 years, isn't that awesome! House values always go up!"
Like I said, we'll see in 5 years. Things have changed, the future is not bright for Nintendo.
Actually your edit is amazingly insightful, if I could mod it +1 I would. You took the words right out of my mouth.
The iPhone is screwed. Apple can not keep up with 10 hardware vendors pushing new hardware innovations on pretty much a monthly basis. And Android will catch up with the only advantage the iPhone has - the polish of the OS and apps.
I don't know if you've thought about it (clearly you haven't) but Nintendo is screwed now. What trick will they pull out of their hat now? Sony and Microsoft have the (gimmicky, as it was in the Wii) motion control. They have the developers. They have the hardware. Where do you think that leaves Nintendo in 5 years?
But I'm sure you disagree, Nintendo has its fans apparently. I guess the only way we'll know is in 5 years time. I'll come back here to gloat when Nintendo is the Palm of 2015 looking for someone to buy them.
Oh, you think console money comes from selling the consoles. It doesn't, as Nintendo now sees. It comes from having games people are willing to keep buying. You can crank out an almost infinite number of new games that people spend money on, but what do you do if your games don't sell and everyone's bought a console already?
Nonsense. The number of people in the software world who have to deal with x86's idiosyncrasies is tiny. OS and compiler developers, some driver developers, a handful of other functions. For the rest of us it doesn't matter and x86 has proven it's able to keep its performance up with any other architecture (watch what happens to IBM's POWER over the next 5 years if you don't believe me) at a lower price.
You saw the same ridiculous bullshit around the Reiser case. It was obvious he did it even prior to the trial. Afterwards, once the evidence was presented, it was even more obvious. But nerds around here conveniently invented a new standard of evidence for Reiser. I call it the "beyond any possible conceivable (even imagined) doubt and requiring of videotape, DNA evidence, 3 witnesses, and fingerprints left on greasy windows" standard.
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Conversely, what right do you have to copy his words or print words he wrote and sell them for your profit? I'd give his kids the rights before I'd give some random bastard those rights.
Jesus dude. Pay attention. Everyone wasn't dead. They were dead in the alternate timeline, but not on the island.
Most hardware H.264 encoders a bad compared with software implementations.
This is not true. Most hardware encoders have different goals compared to a non-realtime software encoder. Hardware encoders do something software encoders simply can't - that's why they exist. Otherwise it'd just be easier to use a hardware encoder.
That said - they didn't use a hardware encoder for Avatar's BluRay - why would they?
Since x264 is both the best h.264 encoder, and FOSS
Let's not go overboard. x264 is very good and is better than most commercial, consumer level implementations but it is not the best h.264 encoder. You can make a sizable bet that Panasonic did not use x264 to encode Avatar, for example.
Best you can afford unless you're a Hollywood professional? Probably.
Mostly theoretical optimizations. You'll be hard pressed to find many real world cases where a JIT'd Java app will run faster than a native C/C++ app for a variety of reasons. Conversely, you will not be hard pressed to find C/C++ programs which perform better than a Java JIT'd app.
Furthermore - if you care about performance (a lot of the time you frankly don't, at the level these optimizations would matter) you can just...not use a lot of virtualized methods and take other precautions to make sure you reach peak performance.
PS: Thanks for the link in your SIG, I had a good long laugh at it. It is meant as a joke, right?
I didn't lose any personal data. It's all stored in my google account, when I synced back up it all magically reappeared. Didn't lose any of my SD card data either.
Your sarcasm foo has vastly overwhelmed me. It was so subtle I read the first sentence and was sure you were totally going to agree with me, but then I read further on and I was all "Uh Oh, I think this guy disagrees with me!". So I went back and reread the first sentence and realized you had deftly handled me with your pithy sarcasm.
Let's see how well this device holds up over time. I'd say the sales figures from maybe Q3 will be the most useful to see how well it's really selling long term.
Who knows, maybe then I'll post some more posts mocking Apple and you can pull out your finely honed sarcasm skills again!
Oh wow, you mean people are trying to sell shit for twice what it's worth and nobody is buying it on Ebay? Quick, call the channel 12 news!
Nobody's buying an iPad for $1100. It's a joke, just idiots fishing. There are iPads on there for only slightly more than you could buy them for at the Apple store.
Whilst stupider people whine on slashdot.
ZaZing!
No, it's a part of the never-ending story of Apple's cynical marketing.
Gosh, we sure made a bad choice in not taking cash. We do regret that, here's a free iPad - see how well we're dealing with our beloved customers? By the way, don't forget that the iPad is such a hot commodity that we chose not to take cash to prevent the rampant black marketing of our awesome product. I mean, look how crazy that is - we are selling so many we can turn away customers! Again, sorry about that whole no-cash thing but don't forget our artificial scarci..I mean how well the iPad is obviously selling. Joe, your neighbor has one, don't you want to be like him?
False. Nobody's doing that, and if they are it doesn't hurt Apple. This was a marketing move to try to propagate the artificial scarcity ploy Apple is using with the iPad. Nothing more. I'm surprised so many rubes don't see that, it's very obvious.
You think this is bad publicity? This is exactly what Apple planned. Now they've got the message out that their iPad is so hawt they have to restrict how many a person can buy. Oh, they mad a bad decision in the no-cash idea, but wow look how well that iPad is selling and how badly people want it!
This was a cheap way for Apple to get unorthodox marketing. Since Apple was so nice in fixing the no-cash policy, all that's left in the rabble's mind is how many iPads Apple is selling since they need to restrict purchase! Wow, I gotta get me one of those, look how many they're selling! Ahahaha. Ridiculous. We live in an age of idiocy.
This wasn't a dumb move, and this isn't bad press. They tried to make it look like the iPad was in such MONSTER demand that they wouldn't take cash. Then there was press, some moderately bad (Apple won't take cash), but mostly in their minds good (their iPad is selling like such hot cakes that they want to slow it down by not taking cash). Seriously, this late in the game who could possible be convinced people are still buying 50 iPads at a time and selling them at a markup?
It's stupid marketing done by stupid people targeting stupid people.
They implemented the cash-only policy once their fake scarcity ploy wore out. First they pretended they couldn't make enough to meet the monster demand. Then they resorted to "our gadget is so cool we won't take cash!".
Artificial scarcity is a pretty boring ploy these days - does anyone actually believe that nonsense?
Huge market for 3TB drives for corporations to plug into their desktops or 2K servers, is there?
They only think they're charging for the wifi hotspot functionality. You can already do this with current Android phones with a little work, and someone will hack the Evo to do it natively for free within a reasonably short period.
It's much more enlightened to be a wonderful caring human and let them spit out kid after kid into a short, brutal life of horror. Third world overpopulation is, literally, the creation of life for the purpose of suffering.
Your "classist" has a more moral position than you do. Maybe you should think about that a bit.
But aren't people who run around labeling everyone racists just trying to make themselves feel better about themselves?
But hey - if it makes you feel really good about yourself and you can think about what a wonderful person you are at night when you're trying to sleep, go for it. Just don't be surprised at what the world looks like with 15 billion people.
September 1st, 2007:
Mary: I don't think we can afford a $500k house, Dick.
Dick: Oh Mary, stop worrying. House values always go up, and we don't even pay any interest for 2 years! We're set for life on the money we'll make from this baby!
Eventually the naysayers are right, and all things come to an end. Same with Nintendo - and I mean more like 5 years than when the sun goes supernova.
Yeah, because past performance is indicative of future, right? Everybody mocked the doom and gloomers before the dot-com bust and the housing bubble.
"Oh Frank, you're so silly with your prognostications, everything's fine! I just bought a $500k house and don't pay interest for 2 years, isn't that awesome! House values always go up!"
Like I said, we'll see in 5 years. Things have changed, the future is not bright for Nintendo.
Actually your edit is amazingly insightful, if I could mod it +1 I would. You took the words right out of my mouth.
The iPhone is screwed. Apple can not keep up with 10 hardware vendors pushing new hardware innovations on pretty much a monthly basis. And Android will catch up with the only advantage the iPhone has - the polish of the OS and apps.
I don't know if you've thought about it (clearly you haven't) but Nintendo is screwed now. What trick will they pull out of their hat now? Sony and Microsoft have the (gimmicky, as it was in the Wii) motion control. They have the developers. They have the hardware. Where do you think that leaves Nintendo in 5 years?
But I'm sure you disagree, Nintendo has its fans apparently. I guess the only way we'll know is in 5 years time. I'll come back here to gloat when Nintendo is the Palm of 2015 looking for someone to buy them.
Oh, you think console money comes from selling the consoles. It doesn't, as Nintendo now sees. It comes from having games people are willing to keep buying. You can crank out an almost infinite number of new games that people spend money on, but what do you do if your games don't sell and everyone's bought a console already?
Whoosh. You did not cite anything indicating her use of personal mail for state business was illegal.
Nonsense. The number of people in the software world who have to deal with x86's idiosyncrasies is tiny. OS and compiler developers, some driver developers, a handful of other functions. For the rest of us it doesn't matter and x86 has proven it's able to keep its performance up with any other architecture (watch what happens to IBM's POWER over the next 5 years if you don't believe me) at a lower price.
You saw the same ridiculous bullshit around the Reiser case. It was obvious he did it even prior to the trial. Afterwards, once the evidence was presented, it was even more obvious. But nerds around here conveniently invented a new standard of evidence for Reiser. I call it the "beyond any possible conceivable (even imagined) doubt and requiring of videotape, DNA evidence, 3 witnesses, and fingerprints left on greasy windows" standard.