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Um, but you need to install Silverlight to see them? Does this man do anything without at least some kind tiny piece of ulterior motive? Unrelated, this is a g

by andreyf 17y ago

Um, but you need to install Silverlight to see them? Does this man do anything without at least some kind tiny piece of ulterior motive? Unrelated, this is a great biography of Richard Feinman: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119

endtime 17y ago
>Does this man do anything without at least some kind tiny piece of ulterior motive? Nope. The billions of dollars of donations to protection against malaria is simply to keep more people alive to buy Office, I'm sure.
- freetard 17y ago
  He has stocks in the companies he's donating to to find a cure for malaria.
  - mellampudi 17y ago
    Can you name some companies in which he has stocks ? He is doing something good. Appreciate it if you can. And hopefully you know that he has promised to give away most of his wealth to charity. Even if it requires silver light, ain't it better than not having the videos available to you at all ? Also, it is a part of windows research team work. If google can force you to not use ie, why can't windows research team force you to use their technology ? And this is my general observation. People liking linux or similar *nix systems, take it too personally, and start cribbing at anything and everything microsoft does. It Doesn't matter to them if it is actually good stuff. Well, I would anyways want you to substantiate your claim that bill gates has shares in those drug companies and that he is actually making more money from investing in those companies than the charity he is giving away on those drugs.
smhinsey 17y ago
If it hadn't been Silverlight, someone would be saying "see, even Bill Gates doesn't think it's good!" Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I find this a really frustrating critique.
- coffeeaddicted 17y ago
  Not "Silverlight" is the problem, but "Silverlight exclusive". How hard would it have been to put up an alternative webpage with other formats for people which don't want or can't install Silverlight? The answer is certainly - not hard at all. Not doing so makes them just looks bad when they could have looked good so easily. edit: Hm, do you think that would be hard? We offer our videos in several formats and I know lots of other people doing that and I don't see the problem with that. Run it through a converter and add another link...
  - DarkShikari 17y ago
    You don't even need that. Silverlight 3 and Flash both support H.264+AAC in MP4.
    - ZeroGravitas 17y ago
      As does Safari (inc iPhone) via HTML5 video tags.

by andreyf 17y ago

endtime 17y ago

>Does this man do anything without at least some kind tiny piece of ulterior motive? Nope. The billions of dollars of donations to protection against malaria is simply to keep more people alive to buy Office, I'm sure.

freetard 17y ago
He has stocks in the companies he's donating to to find a cure for malaria.
- mellampudi 17y ago
  Can you name some companies in which he has stocks ? He is doing something good. Appreciate it if you can. And hopefully you know that he has promised to give away most of his wealth to charity. Even if it requires silver light, ain't it better than not having the videos available to you at all ? Also, it is a part of windows research team work. If google can force you to not use ie, why can't windows research team force you to use their technology ? And this is my general observation. People liking linux or similar *nix systems, take it too personally, and start cribbing at anything and everything microsoft does. It Doesn't matter to them if it is actually good stuff. Well, I would anyways want you to substantiate your claim that bill gates has shares in those drug companies and that he is actually making more money from investing in those companies than the charity he is giving away on those drugs.

smhinsey 17y ago

If it hadn't been Silverlight, someone would be saying "see, even Bill Gates doesn't think it's good!" Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I find this a really frustrating critique.

coffeeaddicted 17y ago
Not "Silverlight" is the problem, but "Silverlight exclusive". How hard would it have been to put up an alternative webpage with other formats for people which don't want or can't install Silverlight? The answer is certainly - not hard at all. Not doing so makes them just looks bad when they could have looked good so easily. edit: Hm, do you think that would be hard? We offer our videos in several formats and I know lots of other people doing that and I don't see the problem with that. Run it through a converter and add another link...
- DarkShikari 17y ago
  You don't even need that. Silverlight 3 and Flash both support H.264+AAC in MP4.
  - ZeroGravitas 17y ago
    As does Safari (inc iPhone) via HTML5 video tags.