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by kierank 17y ago
Flash was included by default in Windows XP. It also has a simple update process.
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by kierank 17y ago
Flash is still the system of choice for any video requiring a low level of protection, e.g. iPlayer, hulu and needing near-universal coverage.
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by kierank 17y ago
You can hardly take GPL source, modify it and refuse to distribute it to certain groups - wether this is your choice or a rule imposed by your country A particular country's law takes precedence over the GPL.
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by kierank 17y ago
You're lucky. When I did it the site kept crashing. It was more awkward in my opinion than you seem to make out. However, from what I gather it's nothing compared to the US system.
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by kierank 17y ago
The incentive to hack it was much less since Linux was mostly available anyway.
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by kierank 17y ago
There's someone recording raw footage straight from the satellite feeds to the news station and putting it on Youtube. Really interesting to see it raw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMjCzyZ_jw
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by kierank 17y ago
Netflix might be able to get films that are unlikely to make it to Blu-Ray in HD though just like HDTV channels get them.
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by kierank 17y ago
Most of Netflix's films were filmed on 35mm film, which in most cases has a similar resolution to HD.
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by kierank 17y ago
Mainly because all the software developed for P2P CDNs so far were so cumbersome unlike file-sharing counterparts. Redswoosh in my opinion was the least cumbersome but having used it I never actually saw it use P2P, instead relying on its m
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by kierank 17y ago
Since framerate choice is not usually a technical but an editorial decision in order to create a particular effect, then saying interpolated frames create a "better picture" is hugely debatable.
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by kierank 17y ago
Only by repeating or interpolating input frames.
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by kierank 17y ago
As far as I know ESPN is one of the few channels left in the US with a decent bitrate (~18mbps) and using 720p (end-to-end) which is why it looks so good.
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Intel's "cripple AMD" function(agner.org)
212 points by kierank 17y ago|80 comments
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by kierank 17y ago
They should get their own ASN and IP ranges. Then they could start peering and heavily multihoming which would make the site more stable and save them money. Also varnish cache would help.
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by kierank 17y ago
The Anycast routing can be quite difficult to setup and maintain. Anycast's not particularly difficult to setup and maintain.
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by kierank 17y ago
RIM still have the killer-app for business mobile phones, which is simple corporate email integration, sorted with relative ease.
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by kierank 17y ago
You've ignored Rapidshare (and other clones)
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by kierank 17y ago
It's capped at a few million dollars. A pittance for Mozilla.
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by kierank 17y ago
What do you mean by "as much as possible"?
410.
by kierank 17y ago
Just take a look at Ireland's current fiscal and overall economic position.
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by kierank 17y ago
It's the facebook overlay I think.
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by kierank 17y ago
Conditional Access caused this, not DRM
413.
by kierank 17y ago
The posts in queston to have been removed (for obvious reasons I presume)
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by kierank 17y ago
This isn't really news to the satellite feed community. The military and private military contractors have been broadcasting unencrypted feeds of operations for a long time.
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by kierank 17y ago
Rackspace cloudfiles will give you Limelight for a pretty reasonable price too.
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by kierank 17y ago
Probably only for a few years until after switchover.
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by kierank 17y ago
"Acquiring Rights" for DVD rentals is vastly easier than getting the streaming rights to HD content.
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by kierank 17y ago
For obvious reasons the PS3 can't directly play pirated mkv files, which is the target use (albeit tacitly) for many of these streaming boxes.
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by kierank 17y ago
You have purchased an overpriced HDMI cable too.
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by kierank 17y ago
I'm assuming this is the Postcode to OS Grid number dataset like the leak a few months back.

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