nanairo

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by nanairo 16y ago
But most browsers will support all of them: Safari and IE will use whatever is in the OS, and Chrome supports both. Only Firefox (and Opera) has decided not to support AVC. To me Firefox sounds like they want things their way and they can't
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by nanairo 16y ago
What does Blackberry use then? Or what will Windows Phone 7 use? And WebOS? (I am asking seriously) I think in the mobile realm you can't blame a company for not supporting a format without hardware acceleration. Now, once the new chips arr
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by nanairo 16y ago
My impression is that everyone will have support for h.264 on the computer anyway (it's such a common codec). And even if they don't WebM could be used as a fallback. There is no reason why we could not have support for both, and Firefox wi
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by nanairo 16y ago
Oh dear... I understand the good intention, but I think the author has got a lot wrong. All these talk about Safari being the only roadblock... First: Internet Explorer is apparently fine because Microsoft supports it via separate coders...
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by nanairo 16y ago
I agree with you, and I was equally frustrated. I think the problem is that most people don't use the Math module that much. Hence they try to keep the Numeric classes smaller rather than filling them with all possible Math functions. Howev
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by nanairo 16y ago
Actually in Ruby you can often use both #size and #length. It's part of the Ruby's philosophies to have synonyms like that.
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by nanairo 16y ago
What makes you think that I don't have freedom? Or that I am stuck in my current system? In how many countries have you lived in? Having some form of health care is not the same as having good health care, and most definitely not the same a
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by nanairo 16y ago
I didn't say you were impolite because you disputed the facts. But because you were giving very vague definitions of what you were exactly looking for, and instead just turned down people who offered numerical evidence. Had you been more cl
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by nanairo 16y ago
Exactly. You want better food at school cafeteria? The government has to pay. You want less death by secondary smoke? You need government intervention (which incidentally the USA have accepted now). Having a government is not such a bad thi
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by nanairo 16y ago
(mini-rant: Well, to be honest I found your attitude a bit annoying. The poster mentioned three things. You asked for data. He provided one and your reply was: "Not sceptic of that", without specifying much. I provide different measures, in
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by nanairo 16y ago
Excuse me but where did that "ignorance is bliss" come from? The poster asked for some information, I tried to provide it. Did I belittled American's achievements? No. Did I provide wrong data? No. So maybe I am not being ignorant as just n
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by nanairo 16y ago
To be honest I found the Apple community one of the most demanding around. After a new OS arrives, you can hear people complain of the smallest minutia. For example I remember a post by a famous developer that complained when Apple introduc
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by nanairo 16y ago
One advantage (for me at least) is that this way the corners have been left empty and I can use them as hot spots for some other functionality (such as Expose'). Not sure if that's the reason (more probably just fashion sense) but I like it
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by nanairo 16y ago
There's a couple of things that surprise me. First, all the countries in the Schengen treaty I think end up with the same score. Indeed France, Germany and Italy do. I would imagine many more do too (e.g. Spain). It seemed like it would hav
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by nanairo 16y ago
(I am not the original poster, but I thought I'd provide some info). As he pointed out it's difficult to find objective data. But you can check: * Human Development Index ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve... ):
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by nanairo 16y ago
I completely agree (that was one---though not the only one---things that made me stop reading OSNews). But I also think that originally it was free (as you said) but only for a certain number of years. In other words the "novelty" is not th
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by nanairo 16y ago
I can't believe that there's someone with such balls that he is ready to challenge the CIA. Not sure if it's genius or stupidity, but much kudos to him. I don't agree with everything he does, but I think if it gets governments to stop makin
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by nanairo 16y ago
Indeed. Adobe had showed the way with the Macromedia's acquisition: swallow your only other competitor and keep everything close. In fact one can see _all_ the open source Adobe projects: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Proje
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by nanairo 16y ago
Ah, this is a whole different matter. It's not about innovation but about "adoption of technology". I think it makes sense. If you and your competitors are sharing all the supplies, then you can compete only by lowering prices and adopting
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by nanairo 16y ago
I imagine that Google is making money from Google Book Search. Why should scholars fix their mistake for free? And if instead you were thinking of having Google paying the scholars for that, then could not a random intern at Google do it ju
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by nanairo 16y ago
The danger is that it could backfire... ever read the fairy tale of the child who cried wolf?
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by nanairo 16y ago
True. But let's not make it sound like it's only a hackery community thing. Another example: Greenpeace (as opposed to other pro-enviornmental groups). And depending on your world view, possibly Fox news. ;)
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by nanairo 16y ago
My gut feeling (and this is completely not scientific) is that Hacker News tends to have a large percentage of people who are contrarian... which kind of makes some sense since if you were just following the crowd then you'd probably not be
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by nanairo 16y ago
Interesting perspective. My only question is: you mentioned positive comments, negative comments and people who are conciliatory or funny. Apart from the trollish/provocative stuff that ends up downmodded, what have you left out? Not sure i
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by nanairo 16y ago
I wouldn't say that the Semantic Web has failed... it's moving slowly, but it's been adopted more and more. These sort of standards seem to have a critical mass kind of life... maybe compounded by the Internet hype machine. Microframeworks
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sure, I agree. I think the explanation is simply the usual "path of minimum resistance". On the other hand I think HTML was meant for text and it still pretty much is. One thing I appreciate of the W3C is that rather than adding things on a
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by nanairo 16y ago
Wonderful! Seeing all the different pieces of the puzzle in one place has really made me excited again about HTML5.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think the EU tried something like that... not sure what's happened to it in the end.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't want to take anything away from Google: they bet big that scanning all books would have been worthwhile so all the best for them. But it seems the usual Google/hackery way of doing things where things are automatised (or semi-automa
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by nanairo 16y ago
They don't need to write it like that in the licence for it to be so in practice. A big help for example would have been to say that nobody can remove any rights that he has himself experience. So if it started open, it has to stay open. Mo

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