I can't believe that the board of directors of Disney is going to include Jobs. Ten years ago I would have said, "When they pry it from Michael Eisner's cold, dead hands." So maybe it's a good thing that people are sitting up and noticing CEOs who aren't just businessmen with suits and a book by Jack Welch.
Looking deeper into the linked article, there is some really very good evidence elsewhere on the site. http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/00 0534.html is a total dissection of the first few generations of this "Vx30" codec and suite -- which appears to be a direct lift of Xvid, mpg123, lame, and mplayer classic code, as well as code from the JPEG group and others.
What an interesting quandary: many of us oppose excessive copyright because we want the power to create our own content from what we see around us, appropriate to our community and our standards -- not tied to another culture's expectations.
Yet at the same time this leads to a dilution and fragmentation of knowledge, a step away from cohesion and consensus, and even the empowerment of communities that are quite distasteful to us -- public-domain works can be seamlessly rewritten and republished by those we see as our enemies.
So where does "right" lie?
I remember, a day or two after Katrina, trying to track down a few friends who had fled New Orleans, and when reading my email thread in gmail I was offered a great deal on a travel package to the historic French quarter.:)
[...] potential buyers were not willing to accept certain obligations, such as equipping it with a new structural fire protection. It is now sealed and flooded.
At least they took care of that flammability issue:)
Welllll... while a high speed would be good for portable media streaming and so on, you have to wonder if perhaps the hardware was never built to that spec because it's so far beyond the DS's intended function. It is a handheld, self-contained gaming platform, not a customizable computer -- 2Mbit/s should be more than enough to play Mario Kart DS with a friend.
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I can't believe that the board of directors of Disney is going to include Jobs. Ten years ago I would have said, "When they pry it from Michael Eisner's cold, dead hands." So maybe it's a good thing that people are sitting up and noticing CEOs who aren't just businessmen with suits and a book by Jack Welch.
Looking deeper into the linked article, there is some really very good evidence elsewhere on the site. http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/00 0534.html is a total dissection of the first few generations of this "Vx30" codec and suite -- which appears to be a direct lift of Xvid, mpg123, lame, and mplayer classic code, as well as code from the JPEG group and others.
This is correct information that corrects the parent's quite off-the-mark comment. I'm not a moderator, but this deserves the limelight, I think.
What an interesting quandary: many of us oppose excessive copyright because we want the power to create our own content from what we see around us, appropriate to our community and our standards -- not tied to another culture's expectations. Yet at the same time this leads to a dilution and fragmentation of knowledge, a step away from cohesion and consensus, and even the empowerment of communities that are quite distasteful to us -- public-domain works can be seamlessly rewritten and republished by those we see as our enemies. So where does "right" lie?
I remember, a day or two after Katrina, trying to track down a few friends who had fled New Orleans, and when reading my email thread in gmail I was offered a great deal on a travel package to the historic French quarter. :)
Welllll... while a high speed would be good for portable media streaming and so on, you have to wonder if perhaps the hardware was never built to that spec because it's so far beyond the DS's intended function. It is a handheld, self-contained gaming platform, not a customizable computer -- 2Mbit/s should be more than enough to play Mario Kart DS with a friend.