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   by cpearce 16y ago

   The problem with podcasting is not that you can't put ads in podcasts, it's that podcasts as a medium are inconvenient. You can't skim read a podcast. You can't easily fill 2 spare minutes by skimming a podcast like you can with a written a
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   by cpearce 16y ago

   Better get cold fusion working, or find a way to mine asteroids profitably...
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   by cpearce 16y ago

   Most fish eat smaller fish. So farmed fish are fed fishfood which is made from caught wild fish. It takes something like 5kg of anchovies to make 1kg of farmed salmon. Sustainable fishing means taking less from the sea, adhering to quotas,
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   by cpearce 16y ago

   > I prefer fish to meat As much as I like fish, and though it is in general good for you, commercial fishing is emptying our oceans at an alarming and unsustainable rate. If humans keep fishing at the current rate, we'll have emptied th
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   by cpearce 16y ago

   Seeking in Ogg/Theora/Vorbis files works fine in Firefox. If seeking is broken in other players, it's an issue with their implementation.
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   Google Chrome's H.264 support not true "free" software(ianweller.org)

   54 points by cpearce 17y ago|82 comments
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   by cpearce 17y ago

   Unfortunately John is entirely wrong, about Firefox at least. Firefox does not buffer the entire media when autobuffer is not present. I don't know how he came to that conclusion, but just check out this page as an example: http://pearce.o