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Video skyping is a victory of hardware development, not software. The software methodologies are not fundamentally different from the 1970s -- they are faster,
by thaumaturgy 15y ago
Video skyping is a victory of hardware development, not software. The software methodologies are not fundamentally different from the 1970s -- they are faster, and (arguably) easier in certain ways, but code is still written one line at a time, building logical constructs that have been around for decades.
What has changed is the amount of code that a device is capable of executing per second, and that is what has enabled things like video decoding.
- vilya 15y agoI think you're overlooking the many algorithmic advances in video & audio codecs in that time period too. It certainly has NOT been case of the software guys sitting around since the 70s waiting for the hardware guys to catch up.
- Retric 15y agoThe 'advances' in video & audio codecs require more hardware to encode and decode them. It's not like I can decode a blue ray disk on a Pentium 4.
- defen 15y ago> code is still written one line at a time I take it you have never used IDEA to write Java code? :-P