My hope is by using Silverlight (or Flash), I can send a message to the W3C and friends to get their damn act together and make my life easier. It seems the W3C guys think we developers want yet another pile of semantic tags (like anybody uses the existing ones...). They'd be better severed by generously ripping off XAML and adding useful things like stylesheets. HTML should be more layout oriented, not "semantic" oriented.
Semantic languages work fine for a describing the contents of a book (or creating a PDF file), but are horrible for the web. With books or PDF files you can semanticly describe your content and since you know exactly what device you are targeting, you can make a stylesheet that looks good for that device. With the web, you have no clue what your output device is, so you need a very robust language for layout to make sure things arrange themselves properly.
Bottom line is Silverlight and Flash both make it easy to control the layout and functionality of your application. HTML + Javascript + CSS can do the same thing, yeah, but only in a very brittle non-robust way (though jQuery helps a lot).
bottom line is you can't index and search closed-source "blobs" which can also be used to mask the origin of media being loaded on (and possibly exploiting) your system.
You also can't publish on a web built around silverlight or flash without paying the gatekeepers a hefty brib.. i mean license fee.
It sounds to me like you're just too lazy, or like you still service IE and it's becoming clear they're the only ones who dont conform to standards.
They're not the one hearing the class action cases. They're also not the supreme court.
They can say anything they want, but, while they have authority to issue warrants, they are by no means the final authority on the interpretation of law in regards to the constitution.
1.- It's always easier to filter the entire pipe. 2.- Questioning the filter clearly indicates you must be a pedophile. Or a terrorist.
Or both.... Somehow..... Maybe you strap kiddy porn to your bombs, or something.
Everyone knows those who question the filter are conspiring to plant porn bombs in public places.
While descriptions of porn bombs are vague, palistinian terror groups are known to construct similar devices consisting of a cylinder of C4 wrapped in several inches of hustler magazines.
If there was no timely correction over the air or favorable story on ubuntu to balance it out, an apology in some dark corner of their website means absolutely nothing.
Microsoft's obvious plant (2 semseters without complaining? yeah right) got to spread all the misinformation she wanted.
My experience with them was good. They never bothered me, only found jobs. It might depend on how your local office is run, but I did all my time clock stuff over the internet and rarely had to go to their office.
I will retry their local branches when I move to california, but here in atlanta they demanded, you guessed it. 2 years of work experience.
Are you not supposed to get experience from temping? If even the traditional places to get experience demand experience, WTF am I supposed to go?
Their DRM schemes make blu-ray's byzantine system look simple and streamlined.
There are faqs in the few websites which use e-books with questions like "i followed the install instructions on my windows machine and it's not working", and answers like "we're getting around to supporting your platform [windows], and btw if you have mac or linux just come in and read the physical copy, you're boned"
I had the same problem playing back 720p MKV on my Mac Mini as you. I have a Core Solo 1.5 GHz and nothing that I tried, VLC or MPlayer, would play them back smoothly. Recently, I stuck Ubuntu 8.10 on my mac mini and was very surprised to see that it played back 720p MKV flawlessly with VLC. I really don't understand why VLC played the files so terribly under OS X and was able to play them fine under Ubuntu 8.10, but I am happy with the results. Now if only I could figure out how to get my apple remote to work with VLC in Linux.
VLC will come bundled and configured differently on each machine iirc.
Did you turn frame dropping on?
1.5 ghz is a bit low even for standard definition.
MKV is here to stay simply because it's perfect for 2009.
"this formats on it's way to the 'it list'! Blast-back kudos all around!"
in all seriousness though.
I agree with you on the superiority of the format, but I do think more easily accessible tools should be available for monkeying around inside the files. (for instance, altering subtitles, adding subtitles, adding audio tracks).
I see nothing accessible for *nix right now beyond cli's so arcane they make sandscrit look common and easy.
It is very hard for me to find ways to do simple split, concat, mux, and demux operations under *nix
It doesnt work on major brand portables, doesnt work in most standalone DVD players, nobody supports it Only a minority would download an obscure format and put up with re-coding hassle etc to get it displayed on their player of choice, why put up with the trouble when.AVI/.mpg/.mp4 is available and far more accessible
And Divx supporting the matroska container will suddenly solve all those problems by providing a recognized "main-stream corporate" outlet which can screen and thereby add more permanence to the container format.
Matroska has had spotty to non-existent support on many american portables because it is constantly evolving*. Divx will act as a periodic filter through which more stable releases can be made. Once the format can be made fixed for a year or two at a time, you will see more support.
Note, however, that this does come at a price. This "main-stream" endorsement will put more pressure on the format to slow down its development. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, as the recent developments smack of "feature creep"
*current progress is in using dvd style chapters to connect multiple clips in "object oriented videos", which allows tv series which engage in a lot of footage re-use to save a little space and production cost
Isn't this like incorporating a hard drive and 5.1 surround sound into an 8-track player?
e-books are, by far, the dumbest invention ever made.
I know of very few institutions which use them, and those tend to have captive audiences who only use their "e-libraries" as a very small part of overall services.
The e-book is deader than 8-track. Enough already sony.
Why not go into military development, actually make the "kill stick" fred dreamed up at megatokyo.
If you're applying blue collar and answer "yes", it could be communism, or it could be you think your co-workers are lazy and therefore deserve management.
It could be that way again if we institute universal healthcare and beefed up state unemployment to something reasonable rather than a "punishment" for having undeclared income.
I will ask you. Please name one product which used differential prices which provided savings to anyone compared to the original price structure?
1) airlines 2) software.
1) airlines - one coach seat costs as much as another 2) software - everyone but microsoft charges the same fees to everyone (note microsoft's "variable pricing" could also be called "dumping")
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My hope is by using Silverlight (or Flash), I can send a message to the W3C and friends to get their damn act together and make my life easier. It seems the W3C guys think we developers want yet another pile of semantic tags (like anybody uses the existing ones...). They'd be better severed by generously ripping off XAML and adding useful things like stylesheets. HTML should be more layout oriented, not "semantic" oriented.
Semantic languages work fine for a describing the contents of a book (or creating a PDF file), but are horrible for the web. With books or PDF files you can semanticly describe your content and since you know exactly what device you are targeting, you can make a stylesheet that looks good for that device. With the web, you have no clue what your output device is, so you need a very robust language for layout to make sure things arrange themselves properly.
Bottom line is Silverlight and Flash both make it easy to control the layout and functionality of your application. HTML + Javascript + CSS can do the same thing, yeah, but only in a very brittle non-robust way (though jQuery helps a lot).
bottom line is you can't index and search closed-source "blobs" which can also be used to mask the origin of media being loaded on (and possibly exploiting) your system.
You also can't publish on a web built around silverlight or flash without paying the gatekeepers a hefty brib.. i mean license fee.
It sounds to me like you're just too lazy, or like you still service IE and it's becoming clear they're the only ones who dont conform to standards.
you are aware that U.S. citizens are being held at Guantanamo?
Citation?
Obama's continued reiterations that he intends to repatriate the detainees at guantanimo starting immediately after his inauguration?
They're not the one hearing the class action cases. They're also not the supreme court.
They can say anything they want, but, while they have authority to issue warrants, they are by no means the final authority on the interpretation of law in regards to the constitution.
That would be the USSC.
The whitehouse gets numerous open-to-the-public tours through its halls every day.
I suspect it is swept every night by the secret service and NSA for counter-intelligence purposes.
I am not concerned about this.
P.S. Nixon bugged his own office, not the FBI. His obsession with gathering and archiving information led to his own demise.
1.- It's always easier to filter the entire pipe.
2.- Questioning the filter clearly indicates you must be a pedophile. Or a terrorist.
Or both. ... Somehow. .... Maybe you strap kiddy porn to your bombs, or something.
Everyone knows those who question the filter are conspiring to plant porn bombs in public places.
While descriptions of porn bombs are vague, palistinian terror groups are known to construct similar devices consisting of a cylinder of C4 wrapped in several inches of hustler magazines.
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This is the first funny pun i've ever heard.
Ok.. CP rings and traders know how to host websites in nations either without laws or with rampant corruption, but they don't know how to run a proxy?
What manner of idiots are these bureaucrats? I think they make this woman look intelligent.
Heck, ted stevens understands the internet more than these schmoes.
Anyway, ZEIG HEIL germany! Lets whip out those arm bands next!
If there was no timely correction over the air or favorable story on ubuntu to balance it out, an apology in some dark corner of their website means absolutely nothing.
Microsoft's obvious plant (2 semseters without complaining? yeah right) got to spread all the misinformation she wanted.
uuh.. the "followup story" doesn't load properly.
can we get a summary?
A long time ago I gave my email to register on this site and poke around.
I have since been receiving more traffic from motley fool than the mplayer mailing list in digest form.
I have requested removal from their lists to no avail.
I'm glad to see there is now a high profile target I can torpedo with lawsuits.
it was some encrypted-to-hell ebook format based off adobe pdf's with an "etd" file extension (every file called ebx.etd)
I don't see how your PC platform even comes into play there.
adobe can't even get their own ebook reader to read their own format on their primary platform.
And the point is they actually CAN, but don't consider it worth the resources.
Its a dead format, the subject of punch lines around the mountain dew cooler.
Have you tried Kelly Services?
http://www.kellyservices.com/
My experience with them was good. They never bothered me, only found jobs. It might depend on how your local office is run, but I did all my time clock stuff over the internet and rarely had to go to their office.
I will retry their local branches when I move to california, but here in atlanta they demanded, you guessed it. 2 years of work experience.
Are you not supposed to get experience from temping? If even the traditional places to get experience demand experience, WTF am I supposed to go?
e-books were introduced more than a decade ago.
Their DRM schemes make blu-ray's byzantine system look simple and streamlined.
There are faqs in the few websites which use e-books with questions like "i followed the install instructions on my windows machine and it's not working", and answers like "we're getting around to supporting your platform [windows], and btw if you have mac or linux just come in and read the physical copy, you're boned"
VLC used to give playback issues until I disabled the loop filter for H264 decoding. Might want to give that a try.
because nothing says H.264 is worth it like killing the automatic deblocking and turning it into divx5 with 10X the cpu cycles.
The issue is multithreading.
ffmpeg team are working on it.
I had the same problem playing back 720p MKV on my Mac Mini as you. I have a Core Solo 1.5 GHz and nothing that I tried, VLC or MPlayer, would play them back smoothly. Recently, I stuck Ubuntu 8.10 on my mac mini and was very surprised to see that it played back 720p MKV flawlessly with VLC. I really don't understand why VLC played the files so terribly under OS X and was able to play them fine under Ubuntu 8.10, but I am happy with the results. Now if only I could figure out how to get my apple remote to work with VLC in Linux.
VLC will come bundled and configured differently on each machine iirc.
Did you turn frame dropping on?
1.5 ghz is a bit low even for standard definition.
I wonder how well the technology-impaired will handle all these different file formats when they eventually find their way into mainstream devices.
Then again, how many .MKV and H.264 users (COUGHpiratesCOUGH) are morons when it comes to technology?
Well, they could just actually commercially build an mplayer STB.
I've been considering it a long time, but the overlords who wield telephone pole sized clubs labeled DMCA will never let me.
MKV is here to stay simply because it's perfect for 2009.
"this formats on it's way to the 'it list'! Blast-back kudos all around!"
in all seriousness though.
I agree with you on the superiority of the format, but I do think more easily accessible tools should be available for monkeying around inside the files. (for instance, altering subtitles, adding subtitles, adding audio tracks).
I see nothing accessible for *nix right now beyond cli's so arcane they make sandscrit look common and easy.
It is very hard for me to find ways to do simple split, concat, mux, and demux operations under *nix
as the container format nobody wants.
It doesnt work on major brand portables, doesnt work in most standalone DVD players, nobody supports it .AVI/.mpg/.mp4 is available and far more accessible
Only a minority would download an obscure format and put up with re-coding hassle etc to get it displayed on their player of choice, why put up with the trouble when
And Divx supporting the matroska container will suddenly solve all those problems by providing a recognized "main-stream corporate" outlet which can screen and thereby add more permanence to the container format.
Matroska has had spotty to non-existent support on many american portables because it is constantly evolving*. Divx will act as a periodic filter through which more stable releases can be made. Once the format can be made fixed for a year or two at a time, you will see more support.
Note, however, that this does come at a price. This "main-stream" endorsement will put more pressure on the format to slow down its development. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, as the recent developments smack of "feature creep"
*current progress is in using dvd style chapters to connect multiple clips in "object oriented videos", which allows tv series which engage in a lot of footage re-use to save a little space and production cost
Isn't this like incorporating a hard drive and 5.1 surround sound into an 8-track player?
e-books are, by far, the dumbest invention ever made.
I know of very few institutions which use them, and those tend to have captive audiences who only use their "e-libraries" as a very small part of overall services.
The e-book is deader than 8-track. Enough already sony.
Why not go into military development, actually make the "kill stick" fred dreamed up at megatokyo.
Aha.. INTJ then.
interesting, but this can cut both ways.
If you're applying blue collar and answer "yes", it could be communism, or it could be you think your co-workers are lazy and therefore deserve management.
Perhaps you misunderstood the humor in my posts?
I'm not entirely sure what your point is here... or why you've been modded insightful?
I don't know. I thought it was funny at the time but apparently there are some HR guys who are just sick and tired of wading through resumes.
It could be that way again if we institute universal healthcare and beefed up state unemployment to something reasonable rather than a "punishment" for having undeclared income.
I will ask you. Please name one product which used differential prices which provided savings to anyone compared to the original price structure?
1) airlines
2) software.
1) airlines - one coach seat costs as much as another
2) software - everyone but microsoft charges the same fees to everyone (note microsoft's "variable pricing" could also be called "dumping")
Sorry, try again.