The danger is not really someone sitting down at his desk to use the web. The danger is giving a presentation to 100+ people on a screen the size of a barn door and then have something embarrassing (like..uuuu..aaahhhh.. slashdot! Yes! slashdot for example!) hows up in the URL history.
Of course *cough* that never happened to me *cough*;-P
It would be pretty trivial to built it into your web application. One IF clause at the part that saves the tracking data to check for the header. No duplication of data in washed / unwashed form with loads of replication and permission structure necessary. No "Check against central registry" in real-time every time a page with ads loads, which would be a *mayor* logical and logistical headache.
From the users point of view: No need to sign up at some central place. No need to send your user id of that central registry to every web site, so that they can track you even more easily when they decide to ignore it anyway.
>H.264 will be used only as long as "special" people are paying for it. It really is nothing more than another transition technology that will be replaced by an open codec.
Yeah! Just like MP3 was just a short-lived transition technology that is scarcely remembered these days.
H.264 is embedded in too much hardware to go away any time soon.
H.264 is a digital cable / satellite / terrestrial broadcast standard. All that broadcast encoders and set top boxes and TV integrated decoder chips are not likely to be replaced with anything else for at least a decade, if ever. H.264 is in the Blu-Ray and AVCHD specifications. All those hardware players are not going to be replaced any time soon, heck they still struggle to replace DVD players themselves.
The only hardware support for WebM so far is Google announcements that it "might come soon somewhere" and that Intel "is pondering it" for future chip sets.
My estimation would be that WebM would need at least 10, perhaps more years to replace most of the existing H.264 hardware decoders out there with something else.
Ah, forgot: With the new card issued in the last few months it is also possible to have a card reader with a PIN pad to identify yourself at your PC. But that Is still somewhat in beta and as far as I know not really widely used. Then of course the Criminal could steal your Identity if he has your card and your PIN.
In Germany, he would have to have the number, the card itself, AND he would need to live at your place and look like you.
Any company that wants to make sure you are really you and it's impractical for them to request that you come in in person with your ID card can send a "PostID" form to your residential address. The mail men then checks if the address on your ID card matches, writes the check number of the ID into the form, and returns it. (If your not home he puts a card in the letterbox, and you can go to the post office to have it done)
What AltaVista had, and what no other search engine I know of has to this day, was a way to search for words *near* other words. That way you could search for two word that are most likely mentioned in context to each other. I really miss that one.
>but the long wait at the start, the forced commecials and the draconian DRM are complete show-stoppers.
The wait at the start and the forced commercials can be just as bad on a DVD on players that adhere to the "specifications"
(But I grant you, I only started buying Blu-Rays after the draconian DRM was at least broken enough so that I could rip them to extract "Movie Only, thanks" versions. Same as it was with DVD when the originals are too annoying that way. And you can always just extract the tracks you want and re-encode them to X.264 if the are MPEG2 then they fit on a DVD9 most of the time, and definitely on a Single Layer BD-R )
>uprez'd dvd on a widescreen is very nearly the same
Depends on the screen. I definitely see a big difference in details. When for example on DVD you just see some whishy-washy-greenery in the background, on BD you see individual leaves and branches, almost as looking out of a window. (with a good Full-HD monitor or beamer of course)
And Jar-Jar ducks out from under the table with Han's Blaster "Yousa dropped something", and then both Han and Greedo Shoot Jar-Jar and then drink a beer together.
Hurray for College sports. I believe the US can't have enough of it. The sooner it disappears into international obscurity because no "fat impotent nerds" come up with new ideas the better for the rest of the world.;-P
I could imagine (but I usually over-estimate peoples intelligence) that the virus might also look for the presence of the right content.
Someone might be reluctant to go to the police with "Officer, Officer, someone encrypted my 100MB of important business data and my 600GB collection of pirated movies and illegal stuff!!!!!"
Perhaps we have reached a state where the Desktop OS does pretty much everything the user wants it to do, and there is not much need to re-invent the wheel every few years.
There might be a few details where minor improvements or different styles to search or interact with the desktop are made, but most of those are (at least in the case of Linux) Bolted on top of the OS anyway.
In case of Linux, that might definitely happen sooner than with Windows, since the motivation for writing something in most cases is that there is a missing feature. If there are no missing features then nothing will get written. In contrast, proprietary software vendors will always have the priority of making money in mind, so they are more likely to retire software quicker.
In my case a "Install this OS and have a decade without having to worry about a major upgrade" would be a major plus in the decision what to install. So it would be for most people who just want to get stuff done.
.... In his laboratory on 2 October 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist's dummy nicknamed "Stooky Bill" in a 30-line vertically scanned image, at five pictures per second.... On 26 January 1926, Baird repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.[11] By this time, he had improved the scan rate to 12.5 pictures per second. It was the first demonstration of a television system that could broadcast live moving images with tone graduation.
He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on 3 July 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination. That same year he also demonstrated stereoscopic television.
"3D TV" "New Tech"? *ROFL* They even did stereoscopic television in the day and age of the 30-scanline mechanical Nipcow disk.;-P
Yep, glasses need to be compatible. That way people with a 3D TV won't have to buy dozens of glasses when they have people over, everybody just has to bring their own glasses. Then it would also be possible to have "prescription" ones fitted, or have some sort of clip-ons, so that people don't have to wear two glasses at once.
OK, when you eliminate "computer-based" and "electronic" from all that nonsense, it basically comes down to using your finger to simultaneously accessing the index and certain specific pages in a book or a scroll of parchment, which has been going on for at least a few millennia.
I wonder how long until those idiots bring the rest of human history and development to a grinding halt.
Ah, but that would mean managers would have to pay money to actual workers to do actual work. Which is boring, and they don't get to sit in any meetings.
They much rather just pay money to some consultants that just tell them all that is well with the new gimmick they are about to buy, while they look at a nice Powerpoint presentation and drink coffee.
Oh, and of course all our XP workstations still have the "Classic Windows 2000" look and feel. Which is pretty much the first thing that we will try to achieve when we can't avoid Windows 7 some time in the future.
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The danger is not really someone sitting down at his desk to use the web. The danger is giving a presentation to 100+ people on a screen the size of a barn door and then have something embarrassing (like ..uuuu..aaahhhh.. slashdot! Yes! slashdot for example!) hows up in the URL history.
Of course *cough* that never happened to me *cough* ;-P
Probably a built-in artificial limitation imposed by the stupid vendor. Have you tried to jail-break your brick of silver and install Linux?
Of course I have come up with a solution in seconds to get hot water without fuel consumption:
1) Give away free beer
2) Lock all the restrooms
And... what warmed the oceans?
It would be pretty trivial to built it into your web application. One IF clause at the part that saves the tracking data to check for the header. No duplication of data in washed / unwashed form with loads of replication and permission structure necessary. No "Check against central registry" in real-time every time a page with ads loads, which would be a *mayor* logical and logistical headache.
From the users point of view:
No need to sign up at some central place. No need to send your user id of that central registry to every web site, so that they can track you even more easily when they decide to ignore it anyway.
>H.264 will be used only as long as "special" people are paying for it. It really is nothing more than another transition technology that will be replaced by an open codec.
Yeah! Just like MP3 was just a short-lived transition technology that is scarcely remembered these days.
H.264 is embedded in too much hardware to go away any time soon.
H.264 is a digital cable / satellite / terrestrial broadcast standard. All that broadcast encoders and set top boxes and TV integrated decoder chips are not likely to be replaced with anything else for at least a decade, if ever.
H.264 is in the Blu-Ray and AVCHD specifications. All those hardware players are not going to be replaced any time soon, heck they still struggle to replace DVD players themselves.
The only hardware support for WebM so far is Google announcements that it "might come soon somewhere" and that Intel "is pondering it" for future chip sets.
My estimation would be that WebM would need at least 10, perhaps more years to replace most of the existing H.264 hardware decoders out there with something else.
Ah, forgot: With the new card issued in the last few months it is also possible to have a card reader with a PIN pad to identify yourself at your PC. But that Is still somewhat in beta and as far as I know not really widely used. Then of course the Criminal could steal your Identity if he has your card and your PIN.
In Germany, he would have to have the number, the card itself, AND he would need to live at your place and look like you.
Any company that wants to make sure you are really you and it's impractical for them to request that you come in in person with your ID card can send a "PostID" form to your residential address. The mail men then checks if the address on your ID card matches, writes the check number of the ID into the form, and returns it. (If your not home he puts a card in the letterbox, and you can go to the post office to have it done)
What AltaVista had, and what no other search engine I know of has to this day, was a way to search for words *near* other words. That way you could search for two word that are most likely mentioned in context to each other. I really miss that one.
Perhaps Jobs is just a closet Jedi?
On the next version you will probably have to to do a mysterious hand-wave, accompanied by a murmured "You will take me back home now."
>but the long wait at the start, the forced commecials and the draconian DRM are complete show-stoppers.
The wait at the start and the forced commercials can be just as bad on a DVD on players that adhere to the "specifications"
(But I grant you, I only started buying Blu-Rays after the draconian DRM was at least broken enough so that I could rip them to extract "Movie Only, thanks" versions. Same as it was with DVD when the originals are too annoying that way. And you can always just extract the tracks you want and re-encode them to X.264 if the are MPEG2 then they fit on a DVD9 most of the time, and definitely on a Single Layer BD-R )
>uprez'd dvd on a widescreen is very nearly the same
Depends on the screen. I definitely see a big difference in details. When for example on DVD you just see some whishy-washy-greenery in the background, on BD you see individual leaves and branches, almost as looking out of a window. (with a good Full-HD monitor or beamer of course)
And Jar-Jar ducks out from under the table with Han's Blaster "Yousa dropped something", and then both Han and Greedo Shoot Jar-Jar and then drink a beer together.
Which makes me wonder who will be the "Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself." character will be in this story.
Hurray for College sports. I believe the US can't have enough of it. The sooner it disappears into international obscurity because no "fat impotent nerds" come up with new ideas the better for the rest of the world. ;-P
I could imagine (but I usually over-estimate peoples intelligence) that the virus might also look for the presence of the right content.
Someone might be reluctant to go to the police with "Officer, Officer, someone encrypted my 100MB of important business data and my 600GB collection of pirated movies and illegal stuff!!!!!"
Perhaps we have reached a state where the Desktop OS does pretty much everything the user wants it to do, and there is not much need to re-invent the wheel every few years.
There might be a few details where minor improvements or different styles to search or interact with the desktop are made, but most of those are (at least in the case of Linux) Bolted on top of the OS anyway.
In case of Linux, that might definitely happen sooner than with Windows, since the motivation for writing something in most cases is that there is a missing feature. If there are no missing features then nothing will get written. In contrast, proprietary software vendors will always have the priority of making money in mind, so they are more likely to retire software quicker.
In my case a "Install this OS and have a decade without having to worry about a major upgrade" would be a major plus in the decision what to install. So it would be for most people who just want to get stuff done.
ADA would be an interesting development, since Oracle 'borrowed" much of it's procedural PL/SQL language syntax from ADA.
>Ever seen a frog and a pig getting it on? No, because that would be disturbing
Welllllllllll...............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVE60zwXx1k
HA!!! Another interesting fact:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird
"3D TV" "New Tech"? *ROFL* They even did stereoscopic television in the day and age of the 30-scanline mechanical Nipcow disk. ;-P
Yep, glasses need to be compatible. That way people with a 3D TV won't have to buy dozens of glasses when they have people over, everybody just has to bring their own glasses. Then it would also be possible to have "prescription" ones fitted, or have some sort of clip-ons, so that people don't have to wear two glasses at once.
OK, when you eliminate "computer-based" and "electronic" from all that nonsense, it basically comes down to using your finger to simultaneously accessing the index and certain specific pages in a book or a scroll of parchment, which has been going on for at least a few millennia.
I wonder how long until those idiots bring the rest of human history and development to a grinding halt.
Sorry, Webvention has a patent on that three steps buried somewhere.
I would also say at least IMPLEMENT them or lose them, not wait for someone else to come up with a similar idea decades later.
Ah, but that would mean managers would have to pay money to actual workers to do actual work. Which is boring, and they don't get to sit in any meetings.
They much rather just pay money to some consultants that just tell them all that is well with the new gimmick they are about to buy, while they look at a nice Powerpoint presentation and drink coffee.
Oh, and of course all our XP workstations still have the "Classic Windows 2000" look and feel. Which is pretty much the first thing that we will try to achieve when we can't avoid Windows 7 some time in the future.