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by tomlin 16y ago
> I find it a little bit troublesome that the group that follows 'hacker' news is so willingly supportive of blatant technical misinformation. I don't think anyone here is saying that W3Schools is tits, or that it disseminates valid tut
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by tomlin 16y ago
I'd have to agree. W3Fools seems more like sacrimonious, armchair opinions than anything relevant, hopeful or helpful.
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by tomlin 16y ago
cookiecaper, you are my new fav HNer. I have an iPhone and other H.264 rendering devices, too. It sucks to know that WebM might be a problem. But I'm not so sure worrying about my phone purchase warrants this baffling cry of nonsense about
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by tomlin 16y ago
I do 3 spaces now. Working myself up to 4.
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by tomlin 16y ago
I guess we've solved all the other world problems?
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by tomlin 16y ago
To those who pointed out that a codec is not a part of the browser standards , you are correct. I misspoke. I don't know why since I remember that Mozilla also took this stand a while back. Apologies. :)
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by tomlin 16y ago
You could say the same for any tribe, I think. I like Google but I doubt that they are making decisions for the greater good intentionally, or all the time. I do think that Google, like Apple, try to swing their business model towards a
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by tomlin 16y ago
Not so fast. These licensed technologies you speak of are not embedded within web browser standards. It's a big difference. Flash, for one, is a plugin. It hitches a ride with the browser, it's not part of its standardized, internal worki
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by tomlin 16y ago
Those who seem to be opposed to Google's decision are often in the Apple camp (disclosure: I am in the Apple camp) but are also the same people who wish Flash to die because of it's closed/proprietary nature. So why can't we just envision o
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by tomlin 16y ago
The author has and had the freedom to publish. No one stopped him from publishing the article. The HN crowd don't really respect a conjecture without evidence. That's kinda why I come here.
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by tomlin 16y ago
Well said.
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by tomlin 16y ago
It's doubtful Gruber will address this, as it would be a bit like hammering a square (logic) into a circle (Apple). My personal fav: If Apple were to switch to WebM and drop H.264 tomorrow, would you then herald it as a great move?
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by tomlin 16y ago
You'll be able to dig up thousands of ridiculous name-claims, I never really doubted that. They'd definitely argue that their trademark isn't ridiculous. Yes, so would Apple and Microsoft. The same logic/idea apply here as well.
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by tomlin 16y ago
It's less ridiculous since, in Ontario, the government runs the only beer store in the province. Additionally, the franchise is not found outside of Ontario. On another note, you didn't mention whether "The Beer Store" was a trademark, just
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by tomlin 16y ago
So, Apple AND Microsoft are both wrong. Trademarking a name like "Food Store" for a grocery store would be ridiculous. Just as "App Store" is equally ridiculous.
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by tomlin 16y ago
Something funny about them being literally a block away from each other. RIM could have walked over to their office and had been like, "hey, can yous guys stop the messenger app. k thx. bai". Google Map: http://bit.ly/ftLWro
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by tomlin 16y ago
Apple took what they learned from iPod, created a business logic tied to their counter-culture. Generated and harvested it into loyalty. RIM all but abandoned their core audience (business folk) to find the mass market and got lost in the m
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by tomlin 16y ago
Being a bunch of PC users for the existence of our company, it was somewhat uplifting to finally get a few Macs and experience what everyone is so joyous about. On the sidelines is seems foolish. But once immersed in the Mac world, it seem
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by tomlin 16y ago
You must be mistaken. The fan was installed for Flash. This is why Flash needs to die; so Apple can exclude the fan and make a smaller, lighter notebook.
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Mike Chambers: Apple only recently provided APIs necessary for hw acceleration(bit-101.com)
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by tomlin 16y ago
> Angus: Youtube's Flash implementation uses more battery than their HTML5 equivalent on my machine. Apologies for this, it seems to have evidence in it: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html It's hard for me t
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by tomlin 16y ago
This didn't fix that? http://www.osnews.com/story/23672/Adobe_Releases_Flash_for_M...
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by tomlin 16y ago
You're right, they don't. I'm still looking for where it is proven that a well-coded Flash site is inferior to a well-coded HTML5+JS site in terms of battery life . No one can seem to give a tangible, legible reason why Flash has the unre
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by tomlin 16y ago
Possibly. But I know that you don't need a time machine to confirm whether or not advertisers will abuse HTML5+JS. You know they will. With tongue in cheek, there is no advertisement="true" attribute on the canvas tag. If you were to bloc
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by tomlin 16y ago
We don't need to wait to see. We all know that advertisers will demand horrible HTML5 ads. Pretending they won't is embarrassingly hopeful.
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by tomlin 16y ago
I've only missed the point if Gruber's points are agnostic. I know they aren't. > video - kinda. The RTMP equivalent implementation isn't quiet as easy as RTMP. > animation - this is the kind of bs I'm talking about. Having done com
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by tomlin 16y ago
"We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. As of today, there are significant performance and battery life gains to be had by disabling Flash Player on Mac OS X." No, we won't "cross that bridge". Colour me skeptic, but I've yet to see DF
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by tomlin 16y ago
Really? Seems like I get one for Flash that looks a lot like this: http://bp0.blogger.com/_3xgfV_ITspY/Rsm9saAQ-rI/AAAAAAAAAD4/... Edit: It was incredibly easy to locate this on Google, so I am sure a little research could have worked wel
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by tomlin 16y ago
It seems that if you own a Mac and like Flash you "need to be converted" in the same way a dogmatic religious person sells you a life of enlightenment. If you don't like Flash, fine. Just stop selling this fallacy that Flash has some univer
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by tomlin 16y ago
Not to be a dick about it, but: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/11/1/new-macbook-airs-ridden-bug... Infallibility is a dangerous, if not deadly, attribute one could give any system. I hope people should understand my point: I'm going to use t

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