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by kierank 16y ago
I doubt anybody is going to miss media support in Java.
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by kierank 16y ago
This crisis will considered a mere precursor to the pensions timebomb coming our way.
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by kierank 16y ago
Any media box worth its while will support Matroska for semi-obvious reasons so it shouldn't be grouped with VP6 and Vorbis, which are much less likely to be supported.
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by kierank 16y ago
Of course all those hardware devices only support H.264 baseline profile No, a very large proportion of them support High Profile. It was only the very early mobile phones and iPods that used Baseline chipsets. Nowadays H.264 support is a
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by kierank 16y ago
Both as a virtualisation host and I've dabbled in a bit of kernel debugging using it.
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by kierank 16y ago
Afaik R3D is a separate codec.
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by kierank 16y ago
Virtualbox is absolutely brilliant for reverse-engineering windows executables so I'm glad to hear this.
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by kierank 16y ago
That Red "magic 4k codec" is complete vapourware. Also is it impossible to get an unbiased opinion from that demonstration in a room of Red fans.
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by kierank 16y ago
It's all x264 encoded now afaik. (can't really check from the UK)
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by kierank 16y ago
I'd suggest not lowering exam standards year on year as well as allowing respected qualifications like GCSEs to be replaced with vocational GNVQs or similar. Also what's very important is a work environment conducive towards learning at sch
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by kierank 16y ago
Dump all your static assets on a CDN if you can. Rackspace Cloud offers Limelight who are respectable.
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by kierank 16y ago
I'll be honest and say I had no idea people still play real tennis.
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by kierank 16y ago
In this day and age, yes, you are largely correct, but I don't think it was always so. I get the impression that at one time, "loyalty" between employer and employee actually meant something in both directions; the company might take some
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by kierank 16y ago
The fact is that a lot of people don't respect Parliament as an institution any more because of the abuses of expenses. Parliament clearly think that this will bring some positive publicity to them. The BBC have also done quite a bit to try
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by kierank 16y ago
With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks Doubtful to say the least.
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by kierank 16y ago
This isn't the first time the licence has been published. There's a copy in a Divx regulatory filing: http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid... About 4/5 of the way down.
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by kierank 16y ago
The only thing that keeps Adobe from completely open-sourcing their own player is codec licenses, Also an embarassingly awful codebase.
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by kierank 16y ago
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation You can see it clearly on the left of the banknote in the article. My favourite however is the use of it on the musical notes on the old Elgar £20 note.
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by kierank 16y ago
The things which are patented generally apply to parts of the spec that have never been deployed.
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by kierank 16y ago
MPEG-4 Systems is not offered any more (since it's effectively dead).
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by kierank 16y ago
FFmpeg has reverse engineered it and there is an open source decoder and some documentation.
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by kierank 16y ago
H.264 specification is available gratis: http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264-200903-S/en
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by kierank 16y ago
From Varnish Cache.
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by kierank 16y ago
it's a good place to check sound/video quality before buying a Blu-ray title. From a cursory glance it seems that site is rating known bad releases (e.g. U-571 and it's strong grain removal; Transformers 2's major blocking during action s
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by kierank 16y ago
I suppose the big studios do a decent job at encoding (though I might be wrong) They do a poor job in a significant proportion of cases. (Warner are known to be the worst)
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by kierank 17y ago
The problem is that Windows will have gone through another design interation by the time Ubuntu has reached the XP/Vista generation look-and-feel.
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by kierank 17y ago
Same goes with O2. Their DNS gets flaky from time to time. 4.2.2.2 works great.
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by kierank 17y ago
Google's updater is worse. There were seven memory hogging instances running when I looked once.
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by kierank 17y ago
Large map: http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/transparency.html
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by kierank 17y ago
They say it's 24 Mbit Are you talking about headline speed or actual sync speed? The latter is beyond the control of the ISP (apart from laying FTTC or FTTH of course)

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