CyberMonk

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by CyberMonk 12y ago
I don't think many (outside of perhaps Apple PR?) have argued that fingerprint security is great, absolutely speaking. Relatively speaking, however, it is great, as many phone owners would otherwise not have any sort of locking secu
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by CyberMonk 13y ago
Replace "Apple" with "Any company that makes cameras/phones/etc." and the same point would be made. Sucks to be the big dog, I guess.
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by CyberMonk 14y ago
Even if the app is only around and viable for a year, if you use it every day, is it really so hard to justify spending $20 on it? I'm really glad we have companies like Tapbots, Panic, etc., pushing against the "race to the bottom" trend w
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by CyberMonk 14y ago
This is the funniest headline I've seen in weeks.
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by CyberMonk 15y ago
It's the "iPad Killer" syndrome all over again. How many times has the iPad's or iPhone's death (and preceding that, Apple's) been predicted? And how many times has it actually happened? I feel like every journalist who expresses this sen
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by CyberMonk 15y ago
If you think a Linked List Item (on DF) is the same as a reference to a source article contained within an article that itself regurgitates wholesale the content of the linked piece, then you just don't get it.
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by CyberMonk 15y ago
If anyone ever needs an example of biased poll design... ;-)
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by CyberMonk 16y ago
> I'm sure that a lot of people with flash video delivery systems did not particularly enjoy converting to h.264 Flash is a wrapper, not a codec, and has in fact supported H.264 encoded video for some time. A "switch" from Flash to (li
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by CyberMonk 16y ago
The "what" being that, assuming the ideal is a move away from proprietary technologies like Flash, supporting WebM alone in the current environment is likely to have the opposite effect (and thus hurt web open standards, at least in the sho
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by CyberMonk 16y ago
True, but Vorbis is an audio spec, not a video one. Theora, which would arguably be more on MPEG-LA's radar, is used in only a handful of titles: http://wiki.xiph.org/Games_that_use_Theora
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by CyberMonk 16y ago
The difference being that Vorbis has almost no commercial traction. If large, popular services (like YouTube, for instance) decided to go with a codec like WebM, the MPEG-LA might finally decide to make good on those threats.
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by CyberMonk 16y ago
I'm surprised Gruber didn't also pose a question about the murky patent landscape re: WebM. If Google decides to throw their full weight behind WebM, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see some legal action on the part of MPEG-LA. That sa