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by kierank 17y ago
I hope they have learnt the lessons from Vyatta. A solid product which couldn't make it against the networking giants.
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by kierank 17y ago
Did the hotel keycard have anything interesting encoded in the magnetic data? I've heard stories about credit card numbers and the likes being stored in the clear on them.
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by kierank 17y ago
needing less CPU to play back than any other commercially viable codec. What do you expect from a codec that's closer to the previous MPEG-4 ASP generation (e.g. Divx, Xvid) than H.264? VC1 is remarkably good, only just recently challen
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by kierank 17y ago
It doesn't do anything for me in Srware Iron.
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by kierank 17y ago
Nobody has said anything about it breaking the back button yet.
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by kierank 17y ago
And open-source software that's easy to use as the "pro" tools that are used.
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by kierank 17y ago
And why are they making this particular argument they are making now and don’t demand something which might sound more reasonable like regulating the market of peering agreements or something? They are making this argument because Google
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by kierank 17y ago
Google, or anyone else they're engaging in data transfer with has also paid some network operator for bandwidth. Google has no-charge peering agreements with the companies which are complaining. Google's traffic is so vast that a major c
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by kierank 17y ago
3 people were killed in the Mojave desert after an explosion at a Virgin Galactic facility.
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Digital Economy Act - Analysis and loopholes from an ISP(aaisp.net.uk)
1 points by kierank 17y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 17y ago
No charges for free web streams until 2015.
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by kierank 17y ago
Because Akamai doesn't do application acceleration, live streams, PCI compliant card payments etc.
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by kierank 17y ago
Mr Alierta said that if no revenue sharing agreement was possible between the internet search engines led by Google and the network operators, regulators should supervise a settlement. This is what strikes me as disturbing. Peering has be
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by kierank 17y ago
Then they should cancel the peering agreement and pay transit charges to reach Google...and also reduce the quality of service that the customer receives when watching Youtube. Most peering agreements are relatively informal anyway. For the
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by kierank 17y ago
Nothing loads at all. (UK)
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by kierank 17y ago
That wasn't the government. That was a non-profit organisation consisting of all the ISPs in the country and a few other bodies.
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by kierank 17y ago
HBO does this on some of their channels. The lack of any branding makes it look more premium in my opinion.
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IPad simulator(mutualmobile.com)
7 points by kierank 17y ago|3 comments
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by kierank 17y ago
This blog post (thankfully the economist hasn't published it as an article) is just another excuse to mention the word "iPad".
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by kierank 17y ago
They're using Amazon EC2 to host it which is pretty notable for a government agency.
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by kierank 17y ago
The site makes it look smaller than it actually is.
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by kierank 17y ago
It would be if "big games" was as clear a category as "Scotsman".
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by kierank 17y ago
10pm on Channel 5 is not primetime at all: http://uk-tv-guide.com/programme-details/Five/18+March+2010/...
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by kierank 17y ago
They don't just have one server in one location. They're not stupid.
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by kierank 17y ago
My point still stands. Though it is gradually getting there.
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by kierank 17y ago
Not until they lose the Fisher-Price look.
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by kierank 17y ago
How do you know it's centralised?
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by kierank 17y ago
None of those I would consider "big games"
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by kierank 17y ago
Whilst there are many big games which use Vorbis (Halo comes to mind) as far as I know there are none that use Theora. Most use Bink because of its simplicity.
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by kierank 17y ago
Google/On2 are not members of the MPEG-LA patent pool. Google has an H.264 licence which is separate. The MPEG LA has a financial interest in keeping the patent situation around Theora murky Web streaming is free until 2015. Theora will n

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