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by spiffworks 16y ago
To me it is about permission and free legal redistribution. If H.264 were to become an entrenched part of HTML5 video, then freely distributed browsers would greatly suffer. Open source browsers like Konqueror would be left by the roadsid
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Reading Asymco makes my head spin. I can never understand what the hell he's talking about, and I do computational modeling by day.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Yeah, Google really screwed themselves with that blogpost. To quote from a ZDNet article "Out of 250 words, open was mentioned 8 times." I don't know why they feel the necessity to paint everything that they do as open. This move itself cou
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by spiffworks 16y ago
>What on earth do you mean by "hijacked"? You're right, that was a poor choice of words. I meant dominated. >Mozilla and Google who are the ones trying to make browsers, not me. The point is that you shouldn't have to pay royalties
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by spiffworks 16y ago
What does owning a video codec even mean if you make it royalty-free? Is there a concern that if webm becomes widely used Google will use its control of the code to harm competitors? In that case, you should know that the webm project is in
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu, and the 'Try it Out' and 'Register' buttons are overlapped and the whole page is awkwardly clustered into the left half of my screen. Sorry to start you off with a bug report, your product solves a very real
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Well, H.264 licenses top out at 6 million, I think. On2 was acquired for 133 million(check Wikipedia). And they've only removed H.264 from Chrome, it would be disastrous for them to do the same with Android. So even if they were to license
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Google is putting its foot down to ensure that web video isn't hijacked by a codec that is owned by a notorious organisation, and they're doing it at great cost to themselves- in terms of the blowback from this, and the amount of money they
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Can we all please collectively stop abusing 'Openness'? Google is the guiltiest of them all- shoe-horning open source, open standards, royalty-free, patent-unencumbered and god knows what else into the same overly-generic term complicates t
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by spiffworks 16y ago
A bit of a nit, but once you distort a result, I think you lose the right to call yourself a scientist.
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Ars on Google and H.264(arstechnica.com)
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Sure. I own a G1, and I use it on the Airtel network. Call costs are 1paisa/sec(1 paisa is 100th of a rupee) to anywhere in the country, I don't even know how much an SMS costs, low enough that I don't notice. I pay Rs.98 a month for 2GB of
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Just tried it, works only for the English-Spanish pair right now, but the reliability is pretty good considering that they're calling it an Alpha.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I live in India, and I pay a grand total of $5 a month for 2Gb(that's right) of data and I don't even know how many minutes and SMSs(no charges for incoming, btw). I am always shocked when I hear of people paying over $60 a month for a pho
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by spiffworks 16y ago
First, let me just say sorry for the previous comment. Clearly, my attempt at humour fell flat. I never intended to imply that you were an apple fan or anything of the sort. What I meant to say was that I've seen many reports which show a l
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by spiffworks 16y ago
>What you don't realize is that since Google went IPO, it's not all about building an amazing search engine. It's a lot about revenues and net profits. There are lots of businessmen in charge who want to make lots of money quickly, and
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Okay, then do you think that Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are stupid enough? > Has anyone from inside Google said anything about this yet? Matt Cutts and moultano are here all the time, saying that they're working on a solut
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Does anybody really believe that Google engineers are stupid enough to think that it is good for them to serve spam to their users? This cockamamie conspiracy theory is getting really old.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
This is as it should be. You cannot create an ecosystem that is diametrically opposed to every principle the FSF has ever stood for, and then expect to be able to distribute GPL licensed code from it. I'm actually glad to see the GPL workin
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I have a nice experimental result to contribute to this. I installed Ubuntu alongside my mother's Windows installation on the desktop, and a month later, found that she hadn't booted into Windows once. All she really needs is a browser, a p
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I got a new laptop recently, and realized that I didn't have a Maverick cd lying around. So while I was waiting for the iso to download, I popped in a Jaunty live cd, then a Lucid live cd. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the incredib
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Tapping a panel to gain focus seems like the most asinine UI decision of all time. Even in the video you could see the user trying to use a panel before tapping it. Just a terrible flow-breaker. Otherwise, everything looks ok. Once actual r
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Between rulings like this and the pressure that these companies are exerting on small websites, it would be impossible for a Youtube to emerge today. What's more, this has a sort of chilling effect, with more and more companies shying away
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Its a chicken and egg problem, really. Besides, I would appreciate the ability to wrangle my own dropbox client. From their api, it seems that each app which hooks into their API must have a secret key, so I wonder if an open-source client
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Not long at all, hopefully. http://fineoils.blogspot.com/2010/11/nook-colour-root-is-nea... They got it to boot from an sd card, which is a step in the right direction. When it gets rooted, it will be one hell of a tablet for its price. I
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by spiffworks 16y ago
It is also at the low end that things get interesting. Most people get caught up in this fight over Android and iOS, so they never see that they are completely divergent platforms. Android will achieve ubiquity over the next few years. Toas
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I was just thinking about this. This is the only reason that would keep me from switching to an ARM smartbook if a good one ever came out.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
It doesn't seem to be working with xml files. Any particular reason why? Otherwise awesome. Will be using it heavily.
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Thanks for the offer. I've been trying to get started with Android development, but I keep getting stuck in the first stages of learning java. I have worked extensively with C and Matlab before, but I have no idea of OOP concepts. Frustrate
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by spiffworks 16y ago
The problem is that nobody wants to present their users with a gigantic list of contacts on first login and ask them to sort and organise them into groups. Instead, everybody just lumps all the contacts together so that the user is least in

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