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by kierank 15y ago
Rackspace Cloud CDN uses Akamai and has low unit pricing
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by kierank 15y ago
The reason Israel competes in European football instead of the regional equivalent is to avoid matches such as Israel vs. Syria and Israel vs. Iran.
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by kierank 15y ago
Chris Dibona has already co-ordinated the release of Google's patches to the FFmpeg community.
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by kierank 15y ago
rather than the single biggest threat to their protection racket? That's not true at all. VP8 is a web codec for free web streaming and that's free with H.264. MPEG-LA makes their money from volume sales like Blu-Ray Discs or Set-top-Boxe
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by kierank 15y ago
(written in a previous thread about this) MPEG-LA licensing is a joy compared to the licensing of a certain pair of audio codecs...
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by kierank 15y ago
MPEG-LA licensing is a joy compared to the licensing of a certain pair of audio codecs...
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by kierank 15y ago
Admittedly not Network Rail but ATOC, but at least with Tfl there aren't a hundred different tickets for the same seat on the same train.
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X264 Summer of Code in Space(x264dev.multimedia.cx)
1 points by kierank 15y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 15y ago
This tweet is apt: http://twitter.com/#!/spectralhole/status/69513328166313984
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by kierank 15y ago
Apple licensed an encoder. I forget the company that made it - it's mentioned in the dll somewhere.
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by kierank 15y ago
Any chance of fixing this bug? http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=840#c6 It's totally bizzare to get other people's Google Code traffic data in your Google Analytics.
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by kierank 15y ago
For one thing, who wants to wait hours to download something before they can watch it? There are clients that allow instant streaming. It makes little difference to a busy swarm. the quality and availability issues are problematic. Prob
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Ask HN: What language for a web frontend?
4 points by kierank 15y ago|4 comments
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by kierank 15y ago
It's a compiled language for speed and so that people can use inline C to write simple extensions.
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by kierank 15y ago
I saw a news bit about how breakout ISPs in the UK are selling 100mbps(I believe I might be wrong on the speed) for as low as 6.99 quid. If only.
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VLC 1.2.0 features - Part 1 video output(jbkempf.com)
2 points by kierank 15y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 15y ago
There are some aspects that SF still do a lot better than the competition on. Nobody is even close to competing with the speed and breadth of their mirrors.
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by kierank 15y ago
In other news shares in the record company of Justin Bieber skyrocket after a mystery trading system bought hundreds of millions of shares.
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by kierank 15y ago
Don't post reports from centre right think tanks if you want to be balanced. You could find an opposing report from a think tank on the other side of the spectrum.
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by kierank 15y ago
Along the M4 corridor there are quite a lot of hardware companies.
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by kierank 15y ago
If what you claimed was true then why does India still continue to be the top outsource destination? For companies who outsource clearly price is better than quality.
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by kierank 15y ago
This event shouldn't just be about joining a startup in my opinion. It should also be about how graduates should start a startup. Also the location in Shoreditch may put off some of the hardcore tech people. It would have also been nice
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Open Broadcast Encoder Realtime 0.1-alpha released(code.google.com)
2 points by kierank 15y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 15y ago
I didn't say anything about how the quality of a standard was affected by whether it was developed by committee or not. Google claims that VP8 is "open", yet they are in full control of it. This is unlike H.264 which is not controlled by an
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by kierank 15y ago
They've dealt with one of the criticisms which was only libvpx was given a patent licence. The other major criticism was that they are still in control of VP8, unlike H.264 which was developed and is in control by a multitude of different o
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by kierank 15y ago
I have a feeling (and I really really hope) this is a joke because of that sentence.
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by kierank 15y ago
It was funny to see the lack of a "Programming: C" category.
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by kierank 16y ago
1. It's taking a transport stream format based around a buffering model... but as far as I can tell, completely ignoring the actual buffering model itself. Instead of working within the MPEG buffering model, it simply makes some arbitrary
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by kierank 16y ago
So given today's market value of about $310 billion, if Apple continues to increase in value by 59% each year, in 2014, we'll have the first trillion dollar company. Looks like the logic used in the financial crisis is alive and kicking.
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by kierank 16y ago
Yes, I'll probably drop by after the IET Gagarin lecture.

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