The two linked news sites contain identical regurgitations of the Reuters article.
I have noticed the space between duplicates has been shrinking over the years. Now they have found a way to occupy the same post! How do we stop this collapse before it destroys the universe?
I don't constantly second-guess my plumber; I treat him and his solutions with respect because he knows more than I ever will about plumbing. I pay my plumber a lot of money for his expertise.
> I belive that is why they try to have stabilised API version - gstreamer is close to 1.0 and > probably when it is finished the API for plugins will froze so that any new API will not conflict > with old (like propertiary codecs) plugins.
Sorry, I don't buy it. "stable" is the last adjective I would use to describe most APIs. gstreamer may be massively different, I don't know how fast the winds shift in that project. Even if the API for gstreamer 1.0 is stable, how long is it before distros start shipping the next beta instead of the stable version? That will require Fluendo to be a bit more agile.
This isn't an indictment of the projects in question, or Fluendo, but rather me being *extremely* cheap and worrying about things that probably aren't really a problem. It's what I do.
> WTF has kernel to do with codecs anyway? Linux kernel has stable API for applications since ages.
Beats me. I don't know what the hell the kernel is up to these days. I keep seeing things osmotically moving back and forth between kernel-land and user-land I don't know what to think. I can certainly imagine a codec that needs tight integration with a particular hardware driver, once we all bend over and get our DRM innoculations.
Again, I worry about these things so that other people don't have to. It's like a service. Allow me to repeat my first phrase: Rah rah. I am happy for Fluendo.
Dune? Earthsea? Those are the highest art when compared the mercifully short-lived literary slaughter that was "Riverworld". Ugh. I threw up a little in my mouth just thinking about it.
Rah rah. I like people trying to sell commercial things on Linux. This will only work if they are johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to updates. I would hate my purchased codecs to keep me from updating gstreamer, the kernel, or whatever. In fact, I should not even have to *think* about my purchased codecs when I run a yum, apt-get, or up2date.
I'll just wait here for the Free Software fire-breathing demons of zealotry. It's quite cold right now and my furnace needs a break.
That is the first article I've read that uses the phrase "In the future... should be able to... " with regards to the wifi and declare that to be a positive feature. Having the gall to follow it up with a statement about how a useable wifi implementation would simply be confusing and a mental burden on the average user, that just took the cake for me.
The crippled wifi is *dumb*. Everyone agrees on that. Acknowledge the bad and move on. Don't try and polish the turd too much or you might break through to the creamy center.
Now that you mention ritual exchanges involving marriage, where the hell is my dowry?
I got my wife a real diamond because at the time, the diamond alternatives were few and far between. Now that she's interested in an "upgrade" for our 10th I have a few more options. I always have fun going into diamond stores with her when she's shopping for possible styles. Whenever she gets too dreamy a look in her eyes I just lean over and whisper, "legless, starving, African war orphans". It's one of those situations where she *knows* that real diamonds are concentrated evil but still has years of subtle marketing and manufactured tradition to shake off.
C'mon people, increase those transfer rates. This is one of the few things you can share via bittorrent that won't get you named in a lawsuit (unless it's against your AUP, of course).
You just thought about the advertisement long enough to write a half a page of text about it. The advertising and marketing vermin are all high-fiving each other. Face it, they've perfected their "art". All we can do is try to ignore it.
Exactly. I live in a thriving metropolis with museums, restaurants, and live music out the wazoo. All that means to me is that there are always a crapload of people running around town, turning it into an overturned anthill.
All I want out of a place to live is clean water, nice people, and well-stocked grocery, hardware, and book stores. An occasional internet connection and UPS delivery somewhere in the vicinity would be nice in case of a sudden attack of researchitis or acute gadgeteeria.
No, I do not do anything with the satellite signals. The satellite companies do not want me accessing their signal and have taken reasonable measures to enforce that. There is nothing offensive (for me, that's the brainwashing of advertising) that I need to protect my family from because it is not accessible. In general, I like TV. Being forced to watch commercials to "pay" for the programming is ridiculous. That just means the business model is broken, and they need to move their network off the broadcast spectrum and into a premium station model, like HBO.
What if instead of a 30-second skip button I had a button that simply put up a pleasing video of an aquarium for 30 seconds? Would that be stealing? Why can't I decide to watch fish instead of a truck commercial using my own equipment? My time investment with the fish is greater, but I get even less exposure to the advertisements than with FF. Is that better or worse than FF? I did not enter into a contract with the network, and nowhere have I found any information on what my obligations are when I watch their programming. The networks really need to write those down and make sure I get a copy when I purchase any piece of bendy wire or tuner that might catch their signal.
If FFing is equivalent to stealing then it should be made illegal, not inconvenient or impossible. Get a law passed about the act of FFing itself, then work on enforcement via hardware mechanisms.
Incorrect. I am not expecting something for nothing. I have allowed them to fill my house with signals. I feel that I should be allowed to do what I want with those signals, except infringe the copyright of the programming. I am merely censoring the content provided to render it less offensive for my family. If ABC is going to force me to view offensive materials, then they should stop broadcasting via the radio spectrum. That's what premium channels and cable TV are for.
Oh wait, I forgot. I'm the last person on the planet to receive programming via a bendy piece of metal on top of my TV.
I saw one of these monstrosities in a freakin' supermarket. You know - eggs, butter, video iPod. While I admit it was a nice display of every accessory available for the iPod, swiping a card for a $300 toy from a machine just seems totally whacked.
It's another one of those occasions where I see what the human race has "accomplished" and fervently hope for an asteroid come by and clean the slate.
Now if they had a way to preload it with tunes, *that* would be something.
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Has anyone else made a reader with this tech besides Sony? Does Sony have exclusive rights to the E-Ink technology?
TFA has vague allusions to other companies making readers but not much more than rumors, and no mention if it is the same technology.
Sony is akin to a George Romero zombie. It's a shambling monster that is relatively slow and harmless if you keep an eye on it. Just don't turn your back or get distracted. One minute you're fine then *bam* you're having your entrails eaten and your brain sucked out.
Look, I rip all the DVDs I rent from NF to my hard drive. I eventually watch them. Once. Then delete them.
Violating the DMCA circumvention provision does not automatically mean that I am a thieving pirate.
If there was an on-demand service worth a damn I would happily pay. Anything that would allow me to watch things when I'm actually in the mood to do so instead of relying on the vagaries of the Queue and USPS would be superb.
Do not insert iPod in any bodily orifices, no matter how convenient. Do not use headphone cord to tow your boat. Do not superglue iPod to upper arm because you are too cheap to buy an exercise armband. Do not pull out battery and attempt to eat lithium goo. Do not rip off plastic cover, whittle it into a knife, and plunge it into your heart.
How does one violate _approximately_ 11 international laws?
Jeez, if you're going to bully people with legal threats at least make them long, with intimidating legal letterhead and scary pronouncements like, "you are in violation of statute 3 subsection q9 of the corndogian legal code, punishable by forced ingestion of flaming crickets."
The quality of legal threats really has gone downhill in the last few years.
What about shipping software into the US that deliberately opens security holes? Doesn't that constitute some sort of cyberterrorism?
It's at least as secure as the unprotected telco box on the side of my house with no windows. Or real cell phones. Or any private citizen's speechifying device under the Bush administration.
Wasn't there a whitepaper that listed "user education" as one of the top myths of IT?
Even if you write the perfect book the target audience won't bother to read it. They don't really want to be educated even when they say they do. The phrase "Why doesn't this work properly?" is almost never a request for an explanation, only a complaint phrased as a question. I don't really mind at this point, I've just learned to deal with it.
This pessimistic view is only what I've managed to glean from supporting people at work and at home for years. Maybe the OP has a more motivated user base that truly wants to be taught and keep up with changes in technology.
In the US, after taxes, I was paying $45/month for 1000 minutes, and I got to keep unused minutes.
This is false value. Unless you are using every one of those 1000 minutes every month, the fact that you get to keep them into the next month is only helpful to smooth out monthly variants in your minute usage. You cannot cash them out, nor do they do you any good when you stop paying $45 per month to your provider. Even if you assume that you will stay with said provider forever and the plan will never change you will merely be accruing minutes for the off chance that you dramatically increase your usage.
US cell phone companies have optimized so heavily for the median customer (~1000 minute/month usage and needs a subsidized phone to defray startup costs) that they totally screw the outliers. My wife and I use ~400 minutes per year. I would kill a kitten for a workable system like Finland's. As it is we use prepaid service here, which I am mostly happy with except that I would like to have the option of prepaying for data service.
Oh well, I can't see anything changing here anytime soon. Long live the corporations and service so terrible they have to lock you in to keep you as a "customer".
There are plenty of people enjoying subscription music. I use Yahoo! currently because they are the cheapest. Why don't I switch over and buy all my music through iTunes, or on CD? I like the ephemeral nature of the service. Today I listened to music labelled as "Dance", "Dirty South", "Classical", and "Fusion". I even listened to some Danish folk music for a little while, for goodness sake.
I can't imagine purchasing all that music. Researching artists. Storing it. Backing it up. Buying expensive gadgets to carry it around with me.
Now, I don't know if there is some other WMA format that is pay-per-use. Most of these services are subscription WMA, which is a different animal. I love it. I allows me to explore so much music on my schedule.
If Yahoo disappears tomorrow, I'll be sad for about 2 minutes while I sign up at the next subscription site.
Since I live in the southern US, I can pay extra to have my car be one solid color 99% of the time? Awesome.
Although in cold (normal) places, I think temporary "graffiti" with a hair dryer would be neat. Or paste a heating cord behind the door/trunk panels. Flick a switch and the jerk behind you gets to watch a swear word blossom on the back of your car.
TNG was the true triumph of the entire saga...the only one that defied Captain Syndrome (the asinine tendency of scifi captains to put themselves in ridiculously hostile environments and/or situations out of boredom...and somehow survive).
Indeed. One wonders what the rest of the Enterprise crew did when the captain and every senior officer decided to go visit an anomaly on an unknown planet. I think they should have just left the dumbasses to their fate. Set a course for Risa.
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The two linked news sites contain identical regurgitations of the Reuters article.
I have noticed the space between duplicates has been shrinking over the years. Now they have found a way to occupy the same post! How do we stop this collapse before it destroys the universe?
I don't constantly second-guess my plumber; I treat him and his solutions with respect because he knows more than I ever will about plumbing. I pay my plumber a lot of money for his expertise.
> I belive that is why they try to have stabilised API version - gstreamer is close to 1.0 and
> probably when it is finished the API for plugins will froze so that any new API will not conflict
> with old (like propertiary codecs) plugins.
Sorry, I don't buy it. "stable" is the last adjective I would use to describe most APIs. gstreamer may be massively different, I don't know how fast the winds shift in that project. Even if the API for gstreamer 1.0 is stable, how long is it before distros start shipping the next beta instead of the stable version? That will require Fluendo to be a bit more agile.
This isn't an indictment of the projects in question, or Fluendo, but rather me being *extremely* cheap and worrying about things that probably aren't really a problem. It's what I do.
> WTF has kernel to do with codecs anyway? Linux kernel has stable API for applications since ages.
Beats me. I don't know what the hell the kernel is up to these days. I keep seeing things osmotically moving back and forth between kernel-land and user-land I don't know what to think. I can certainly imagine a codec that needs tight integration with a particular hardware driver, once we all bend over and get our DRM innoculations.
Again, I worry about these things so that other people don't have to. It's like a service. Allow me to repeat my first phrase: Rah rah. I am happy for Fluendo.
Dune? Earthsea? Those are the highest art when compared the mercifully short-lived literary slaughter that was "Riverworld". Ugh. I threw up a little in my mouth just thinking about it.
Rah rah. I like people trying to sell commercial things on Linux. This will only work if they are johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to updates. I would hate my purchased codecs to keep me from updating gstreamer, the kernel, or whatever. In fact, I should not even have to *think* about my purchased codecs when I run a yum, apt-get, or up2date.
I'll just wait here for the Free Software fire-breathing demons of zealotry. It's quite cold right now and my furnace needs a break.
That is the first article I've read that uses the phrase "In the future ... should be able to ... " with regards to the wifi and declare that to be a positive feature. Having the gall to follow it up with a statement about how a useable wifi implementation would simply be confusing and a mental burden on the average user, that just took the cake for me.
The crippled wifi is *dumb*. Everyone agrees on that. Acknowledge the bad and move on. Don't try and polish the turd too much or you might break through to the creamy center.
Now that you mention ritual exchanges involving marriage, where the hell is my dowry?
I got my wife a real diamond because at the time, the diamond alternatives were few and far between. Now that she's interested in an "upgrade" for our 10th I have a few more options. I always have fun going into diamond stores with her when she's shopping for possible styles. Whenever she gets too dreamy a look in her eyes I just lean over and whisper, "legless, starving, African war orphans". It's one of those situations where she *knows* that real diamonds are concentrated evil but still has years of subtle marketing and manufactured tradition to shake off.
1200 peers and I'm only getting ~100k/s?
C'mon people, increase those transfer rates. This is one of the few things you can share via bittorrent that won't get you named in a lawsuit (unless it's against your AUP, of course).
Seriously, why can't the editors do us the courtesy of putting [hexus.net] after the stupid links? Hexus.net hurts my head.
You just thought about the advertisement long enough to write a half a page of text about it. The advertising and marketing vermin are all high-fiving each other. Face it, they've perfected their "art". All we can do is try to ignore it.
Exactly. I live in a thriving metropolis with museums, restaurants, and live music out the wazoo. All that means to me is that there are always a crapload of people running around town, turning it into an overturned anthill.
All I want out of a place to live is clean water, nice people, and well-stocked grocery, hardware, and book stores. An occasional internet connection and UPS delivery somewhere in the vicinity would be nice in case of a sudden attack of researchitis or acute gadgeteeria.
No, I do not do anything with the satellite signals. The satellite companies do not want me accessing their signal and have taken reasonable measures to enforce that. There is nothing offensive (for me, that's the brainwashing of advertising) that I need to protect my family from because it is not accessible. In general, I like TV. Being forced to watch commercials to "pay" for the programming is ridiculous. That just means the business model is broken, and they need to move their network off the broadcast spectrum and into a premium station model, like HBO.
What if instead of a 30-second skip button I had a button that simply put up a pleasing video of an aquarium for 30 seconds? Would that be stealing? Why can't I decide to watch fish instead of a truck commercial using my own equipment? My time investment with the fish is greater, but I get even less exposure to the advertisements than with FF. Is that better or worse than FF? I did not enter into a contract with the network, and nowhere have I found any information on what my obligations are when I watch their programming. The networks really need to write those down and make sure I get a copy when I purchase any piece of bendy wire or tuner that might catch their signal.
If FFing is equivalent to stealing then it should be made illegal, not inconvenient or impossible. Get a law passed about the act of FFing itself, then work on enforcement via hardware mechanisms.
Incorrect. I am not expecting something for nothing. I have allowed them to fill my house with signals. I feel that I should be allowed to do what I want with those signals, except infringe the copyright of the programming. I am merely censoring the content provided to render it less offensive for my family. If ABC is going to force me to view offensive materials, then they should stop broadcasting via the radio spectrum. That's what premium channels and cable TV are for.
Oh wait, I forgot. I'm the last person on the planet to receive programming via a bendy piece of metal on top of my TV.
I saw one of these monstrosities in a freakin' supermarket. You know - eggs, butter, video iPod. While I admit it was a nice display of every accessory available for the iPod, swiping a card for a $300 toy from a machine just seems totally whacked.
It's another one of those occasions where I see what the human race has "accomplished" and fervently hope for an asteroid come by and clean the slate.
Now if they had a way to preload it with tunes, *that* would be something.
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Has anyone else made a reader with this tech besides Sony?
Does Sony have exclusive rights to the E-Ink technology?
TFA has vague allusions to other companies making readers but not much more than rumors, and no mention if it is the same technology.
Sony is akin to a George Romero zombie. It's a shambling monster that is relatively slow and harmless if you keep an eye on it. Just don't turn your back or get distracted. One minute you're fine then *bam* you're having your entrails eaten and your brain sucked out.
Look, I rip all the DVDs I rent from NF to my hard drive. I eventually watch them. Once. Then delete them.
Violating the DMCA circumvention provision does not automatically mean that I am a thieving pirate.
If there was an on-demand service worth a damn I would happily pay. Anything that would allow me to watch things when I'm actually in the mood to do so instead of relying on the vagaries of the Queue and USPS would be superb.
Do not insert iPod in any bodily orifices, no matter how convenient.
Do not use headphone cord to tow your boat.
Do not superglue iPod to upper arm because you are too cheap to buy an exercise armband.
Do not pull out battery and attempt to eat lithium goo.
Do not rip off plastic cover, whittle it into a knife, and plunge it into your heart.
How does one violate _approximately_ 11 international laws?
Jeez, if you're going to bully people with legal threats at least make them long, with intimidating legal letterhead and scary pronouncements like, "you are in violation of statute 3 subsection q9 of the corndogian legal code, punishable by forced ingestion of flaming crickets."
The quality of legal threats really has gone downhill in the last few years.
What about shipping software into the US that deliberately opens security holes? Doesn't that constitute some sort of cyberterrorism?
It's at least as secure as the unprotected telco box on the side of my house with no windows. Or real cell phones. Or any private citizen's speechifying device under the Bush administration.
Wasn't there a whitepaper that listed "user education" as one of the top myths of IT?
Even if you write the perfect book the target audience won't bother to read it. They don't really want to be educated even when they say they do. The phrase "Why doesn't this work properly?" is almost never a request for an explanation, only a complaint phrased as a question. I don't really mind at this point, I've just learned to deal with it.
This pessimistic view is only what I've managed to glean from supporting people at work and at home for years. Maybe the OP has a more motivated user base that truly wants to be taught and keep up with changes in technology.
This is false value. Unless you are using every one of those 1000 minutes every month, the fact that you get to keep them into the next month is only helpful to smooth out monthly variants in your minute usage. You cannot cash them out, nor do they do you any good when you stop paying $45 per month to your provider. Even if you assume that you will stay with said provider forever and the plan will never change you will merely be accruing minutes for the off chance that you dramatically increase your usage.
US cell phone companies have optimized so heavily for the median customer (~1000 minute/month usage and needs a subsidized phone to defray startup costs) that they totally screw the outliers. My wife and I use ~400 minutes per year. I would kill a kitten for a workable system like Finland's. As it is we use prepaid service here, which I am mostly happy with except that I would like to have the option of prepaying for data service.
Oh well, I can't see anything changing here anytime soon. Long live the corporations and service so terrible they have to lock you in to keep you as a "customer".
There are plenty of people enjoying subscription music. I use Yahoo! currently because they are the cheapest. Why don't I switch over and buy all my music through iTunes, or on CD? I like the ephemeral nature of the service. Today I listened to music labelled as "Dance", "Dirty South", "Classical", and "Fusion". I even listened to some Danish folk music for a little while, for goodness sake.
I can't imagine purchasing all that music. Researching artists. Storing it. Backing it up. Buying expensive gadgets to carry it around with me.
Now, I don't know if there is some other WMA format that is pay-per-use. Most of these services are subscription WMA, which is a different animal. I love it. I allows me to explore so much music on my schedule.
If Yahoo disappears tomorrow, I'll be sad for about 2 minutes while I sign up at the next subscription site.
Since I live in the southern US, I can pay extra to have my car be one solid color 99% of the time? Awesome.
Although in cold (normal) places, I think temporary "graffiti" with a hair dryer would be neat. Or paste a heating cord behind the door/trunk panels. Flick a switch and the jerk behind you gets to watch a swear word blossom on the back of your car.
TNG was the true triumph of the entire saga...the only one that defied Captain Syndrome (the asinine tendency of scifi captains to put themselves in ridiculously hostile environments and/or situations out of boredom...and somehow survive).
Indeed. One wonders what the rest of the Enterprise crew did when the captain and every senior officer decided to go visit an anomaly on an unknown planet. I think they should have just left the dumbasses to their fate. Set a course for Risa.