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961.
by gcp 12y ago
WebRTC requires low-delay realtime encoding.
962.
by gcp 12y ago
Someone is confusing (crappy) implementations with standards.
963.
by gcp 12y ago
It would be perfectly possible for a browser to support H264 high profile in WebRTC and refuse to decode it in a <video> tag, for example due to licensing restrictions, so what you're saying is irrelevant. Remember WebRTC also co
964.
by gcp 12y ago
That analogy seems to ignore that FLAC is literally the lossless format that is used everywhere - except on Apple devices, and has not and never had patent concerns. On top of that, ALAC is clearly based on FLAC but has effectively been wor
965.
by gcp 12y ago
He meant patent-free codecs, not open codecs. i.e. Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Theora, VP8.
966.
by gcp 12y ago
Interesting, though the readability problem from the original text has much to do with trying to justify text in a very small column, which means excessive spacing has to be used.
967.
by gcp 12y ago
The links you pasted show Firefox currently being 3x faster than Chrome when running asm.js code, so I'm not sure what your point is. V8 is good at generating fast code without the hints, but obviously the extra restrictions help the o
968.
by gcp 12y ago
Whenever one of the most well known open source technologists joins a (pretty secretive) firm, it's going to generate interest and speculation. Also remember John Carmack joining Intel to work on Larrabee.
969.
by gcp 12y ago
This is another good post, despite the appeal to authority: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5519563&cid=476... Saying "When an in-order CPU stalls on memory, it's still burning power while waiting
970.
by gcp 12y ago
It's ok for reading websites on the couch. Less cumbersome than a laptop. Also for reading books. They're devices for consuming content, not creating it.
971.
by gcp 12y ago
Without going into too much detail, his business was severely hampered in development for several years because they couldn't find good (extra) personnel. i.e. kids that graduated only wanted to work for bigger firms, had wage demands
972.
by gcp 12y ago
I would be very surprised if your overall net income or free-time was higher being a plumber. Plumbers run a business. If they run the business well, they can be quite financially successful. Do not expect any free-time running the busine
973.
by gcp 12y ago
You basically want to do clean handyman stuff. I would expect the issue to be finding enough customers, although if supply/demand is sufficiently twisted in your area, it might work. Calling it "plumber" is quite a misnomer a
974.
by gcp 12y ago
...not to mention things like the patent system, which also help the established.
975.
by gcp 12y ago
Yes?
976.
by gcp 12y ago
how is VAT then distributed to tax collecting entity? The same way it is with any other payment system, by having the vendor pay the tax collecting authority. Again, the payment system is totally irrelevant here. Seeing your clarification
977.
by gcp 12y ago
Debian will switch to a version supported by Mozilla, just as they've done the previous times. See for example: http://lwn.net/Articles/552920/
978.
by gcp 12y ago
What does bitcoin have to do with this question? Hint: nothing.
979.
by gcp 12y ago
Zero uptake? It's a target for several important gaming engines now, which were an important target audience of NaCl. There's really no point in replying to the rest of your (totally false) assertions.
980.
by gcp 12y ago
I doubt that will turn out to be technically feasible in the long run. There's no bug team working on Chromium that isn't Google Chrome developers, AFAIK.
981.
by gcp 12y ago
What is going to happen to Java applets? You must use a different browser? Firefox is now blocking Java by default. Java on the web is dead, killed by Oracle and JavaScript.
982.
by gcp 12y ago
They are.
983.
by gcp 12y ago
Mozilla has been playing a comparatively weak technical game for years. Except for the part where emscripten completely ate (P)NaCls lunch in a way that works cross-browser.
984.
by gcp 12y ago
And accepting that, NaCl is free and open source that is publicly developed, so I don't see any of the implications of your argument working. Wake me up when anyone (can) realistically do an independent reimplementation. Claiming tha
985.
by gcp 12y ago
It won't do anything for non-Firefox users: things will just work, which is pretty much the entire point and a pretty huge difference from (P)NaCl and Flash. asm.js is nothing but a "hint" to the JS engine that some optimizat
986.
by gcp 12y ago
The ones exposed to the web (the API) is standardized, well documented, and implemented by several parties. (P)NaCL is none of those things.
987.
by gcp 12y ago
Is this going to be like H264 deprecation? i.e. if there's a "few" remaining use cases that they can't get people moved away from, they'll delay and eventually not do it, leaving everyone that went ahead and jumped
988.
by gcp 12y ago
It was a passable-but-not-good-enough solution for something everyone wants to get rid of, quickly superseded by superior alternatives. I wouldn't hold my breath.
989.
by gcp 12y ago
Something being open source doesn't really have much relation to a technology being open. In this case in particular, it's replacing one open-source API that is easily re-implementable, and has been reimplemented by many parties,
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by gcp 12y ago
I was very pleasantly surprised today to read that frameworks like Unity3D have already deprecated their NaCl and Flash support.

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