taligent

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by taligent 14y ago
No we shouldn't be personal. Period. What I've always thought set HN above other sites like Reddit is the quality of the arguments. At the end of the day we all learn and grow by putting forward our positions on various topics and issues an
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by taligent 14y ago
Firefox supports H.264 on Mac via the QuickTime plugin.
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by taligent 14y ago
Give us all a break. I am just as 'invested' in this as anyone else is. I am critical of VP8 because I believe in companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc working together to define standards in the common interest of the consumer. Googl
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by taligent 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taligent I have a higher karma than you in a much shorter time. So logically that means I comment on a range of topics. I continually comment on Linode because I don't believe that companies that delibe
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by taligent 14y ago
I don't have an anti-Google agenda. I just don't see why Google is actively trying to make life more difficult for consumers by promoting an inferior codec (in every way possible). I include Mozilla into that list as well.
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by taligent 14y ago
I unfortunately am cynical and don't believe that in the presence of so many commercial interests that free and open is going to reign supreme. The odds are simply too stacked against it. Instead I would much prefer to see standards made av
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by taligent 14y ago
No with Linode its: "Your instance may have been rooted. But we won't tell you what happened, whether it is fixed or whether it will happen again."
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by taligent 14y ago
Patents were never the reason for a lack of VP8 adoption. When you have the likes of Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft and Sony firmly against it was always going to be a dead on arrival. I honestly don't know why Google bothered to buy the co
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by taligent 14y ago
Pretty sure the handful of people who use VP8 aren't going to cause a PR problem for MPEG LA or its members.
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by taligent 14y ago
Well this is an interesting way to look at it. Litigation is rarely a smart move for a licensing organisation. During the years wasted going back/forth during appeals etc the competitor has a price margin advantage which they can use to inc
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by taligent 14y ago
Err. Linode has pretty average performance compared to the SSD providers. And during my time as a customer Linode was the worst out of all the VPS I had ever tried up until that point. Constant outages at Fremont and heard about the same at
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by taligent 14y ago
Linode is great during stable periods but when there is an outage or DDOS they are completely absent. I was sick to death of waiting whilst my Fremont instances were down due to power issues and receiving no response from support tickets. A
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by taligent 14y ago
Please. Major upgrades happen every single day among the various VPS providers. And whilst it is notable it isn't particularly useful to most Linode customers. In fact 99% won't see any difference at all. Had they actually decided to offer
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by taligent 14y ago
I've not once ever seen a person wearing a GoPro and I consider myself pretty active. And I can't fathom why anybody would be wearing one in an office, cafe, social or non-outdoor environment. And sorry but you wouldn't have a deeply person
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by taligent 14y ago
The Pixel is nothing more than a featureless MacBook with a fixed web browser. If you think that is the future then you're in for a rude shock. And you seem to be obsessed with the future and less concerned with reality. People don't need t
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by taligent 14y ago
No. You just have to point a video camera at someone and potentially record their conversation. Do people have such poor social skills and lack of empathy to understand why Google Glass will make many people really uncomfortable ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Yes. You can report bugs to Apple: http://bugreporter.apple.com It is a web interface for Radar and all bugs are triaged by the dev teams pretty quickly. Unfortunately you can't see outstanding bugs or track their progress.
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by taligent 14y ago
I have to say this really is gold-plated, A-grade blog spam.
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by taligent 14y ago
Well since we are living in a fantasy land why not McDondalds, Ferrari, Apple and Starbucks as well.
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by taligent 14y ago
> if it increases the cost of their goods/services in a meaningful way. You do realise that credit cards aren't some new invention ? The merchant costs have been factored into people's purchases for decades and there is no evidence it h
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by taligent 14y ago
Your logic is completely faulty. Paying bills over the internet was easier and simpler than paying by check. Paying by credit and debit cards are easier, safer and simpler than using say Bitcoin. There is zero chance that those cards are go
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by taligent 14y ago
I have to agree pair programming is generally a pretty awful way to do software programming. Inevitably the most extroverted, loudest person will dominate and it is these people that are often design the worst code. Far better off having a
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by taligent 14y ago
I have one of these and they are quite popular amongst amateur videographers. They definitely give a cinematic quality to captured video.
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by taligent 14y ago
Why wouldn't they use H.264 and their existing hardware ? Do you really think it makes more sense to decode H.264 on the device then re-encode it in another format and then decode that on the adapter ? Sounds slow, illogical and bound to in
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by taligent 14y ago
a) This is a connector from a mobile device to a TV. That is the primary use case here. I doubt anybody is hooking up an iPhone to any other type of display. b) Why is there a second pass compression/decompression stage ? Isn't iOS outputti
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by taligent 14y ago
You know you can buy Lightning cables off eBay for $5. And that the original dock connector first appeared in the iPod 3G nearly a decade ago. So yes today's devices will be in a museum. But the connector could still be in use in 2023 and b
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by taligent 14y ago
Sorry but are you talking about the right connector here ? Lightning is for the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Of course dual link DVI et al can do more than 1080p. They are all huge. Apple's needs to support not just today's thin devices but those
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by taligent 14y ago
I might be really confused but why is Apple going to be in deeper trouble ? Surely the future will be H.265 content which will have better quality for the same bandwidth. And it's unlikely that people are going to be demanding a higher outp
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by taligent 14y ago
Which country do you live in that doesn't have Apple retailers ? Because it sounds like an amazing business opportunity.
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by taligent 14y ago
What is a "server" operating system exactly ? Because there is nothing inherently different between CentOS on the desktop and on the server for example.

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