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by GHFigs 16y ago
With H.264 bundled with a piece of software, that is not possible. The decision to only support bundled codecs and refuse to let the user use anything else was made by Mozilla, Google, and Opera. It is not a spec requirement or technical
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It may be that the authors did not want to telegraph their true capabilities to other state actors with cyberwarfare units. Although Iran is one such nation, the outcome suggests they're too far behind to constitute a threat. More sophistic
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I guess what I don't understand is what the significance of pointing to this effect other than to poison any chance of there being a reasonable discussion about the submission.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Or are you saying that every browser should include support for the widest range of codecs that it possibly can? No. Quite the opposite, actually. I am saying that a reasonable approach would have been for the browsers to defer support to
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I fully anticipate Gruber will link to Marco's piece, Asymco will add some sort of twisted perversion of data that supports it, and so on. Does that make any of them wrong? If that didn't happen would that make any of them right? I'm not
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The post references neither Asymco or Daring Fireball. It's almost like you commented on something you didn't read, but I know that can't be the case because that would be childish.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
These licensed technologies you speak of are not embedded within web browser standards. Neither are video codecs.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Google is putting its foot down to ensure that web video isn't hijacked by [h.264] What on earth do you mean by "hijacked"? Web video has been dominated by h.264 since it was added to Flash, and Google itself is among the most prominent p
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The problematic word here is force . I don't enjoy being forced to "consider" using something by being prevented from using anything else, and when the people doing the forcing claim it's for "freedom" and "openness" I just scratch my head
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I didn't say I was horrified by the comment, I said I was horrified to have upvoted it by mistake. I was trying to downvote, and that's all I would have done. The intent of my comment was not to insult you (it really wasn't) but to get you
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm horrified to have upvoted this by mistake. Your comment is the kind that makes me glad I've been avoiding HN for the past few weeks.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
If you were willing to ship just H.264 and flash fallback for Firefox/Opera, why wouldn't you be willing to ship H.264 and flash fallback for Chrome? Because it means I'll have to recommend that people use Internet Explorer.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I don't want to be a part of a community where supposedly respectable members might try to phish me if they don't like my attitude. The particulars in this situation only keep me from being angry. Was it malicious or harmful? No. But is it
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I didn't say they had a problem with the benchmark, I said you've misunderstood the caption. I stand by that statement.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You've misunderstood the caption. They are not claiming that the GPU would alter the result of the benchmark, but rather that the fact that it doesn't limits it's usefulness as a comparison. It's poor writing, but it's not such poor writing
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I don't believe you're right about that. What you're seeing is Anonymous punishing someone for making a stupid mistake, i.e. "being a newfag". The same kind of schadenfreude that lead Paul to post this to Tumblr tends to inspire a markedly
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Michael Crichton gave a name to the absence of such wondering: Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show busi
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm on the side of keep this shit out of Hacker News, please.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
All you have to do is combine your request with an image of a headless suit or Guy Fawkes mask and upload it to /b/ every hour or so. Anonymous will get right on it.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Apple only talks about iOs devices sold (not iPhone, iPad, etc...) "...14.1 million iPhones in the quarter...4.19 million iPads during the quarter..." -- http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements(en.wikipedia.org)
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by GHFigs 16y ago
From reading the cable itself, it doesn't sound like anyone in the US government thinks it's a serious issue, but that The Guardian thought it made a nice headline. The source-access bit is a single line a 7-paragraph section of a 64-paragr
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by GHFigs 16y ago
If I say in an email something unfavorable or slanderous about another company's CEO, and it gets out, then I must face the consequences. The key difference here is that making honest assessments about the character of foreign government
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Wouldn't the person who leaked the news of the Chinese hacking have a reasonable expectation that his leak would come back to the Chinese through their hacking? If the informant believed that the Chinese government had full access to US S
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by GHFigs 16y ago
They were not "proved wrong". Prior to that decision there was no exemption for jailbreaking.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I am vastly more concerned with real-world consequences than stated intentions.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Now you're just being obtuse. The author's intent is abundantly clear even if you didn't understand the allusion.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
it helps the public view its government as fallible, corrupt, and absurd This is in agreement with the author's assertion that "WikiLeaks’ motivation is that of a court jester, to mock and ridicule the contradictions of a state." What the
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by GHFigs 16y ago
This is one of those risks. In other words, Wikileaks is making it riskier for dissidents to work as US informants. Gee, thanks, Julian.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm not disputing that he is gay, I'm asking for a source for the supposed "fact" that he was being discharged for it.

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