Rock Band and possibly Guitar Hero use multitrack Vorbis audio files for the various audio stems that make up a song.

Harmonix and Activision surely are juicy targets, no?

Granted, they may have already paid trolls off...

VLC can play just about everything, but over here in Windows land, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is the player of choice unless you've got some really broken file.

Common Platform Alliance - IBM, Global Foundries (you know, the former fabs of AMD), Samsung. Chartered, now part of Global Foundries, was a member too.

So, Samsung must be giving some kind of assurances to Intel they're not going to let ideas and techniques spill over into the Common Platform Alliance...

If it's red, it's dead.

That would be TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space), turn in your geek card.

I suppose I should be embracing this as "competition is always good" (cost, etc) but it does seem kind of odd.

As there were no next of kin, reparations defaulted back to the matter governing body.

I think I know one of them

That was ages ago. Now you have nvidia melting your card down with buggy drivers. It can go both ways.

AMD/ATI releases regularly scheduled driver updates and for anything inbetween issues a hotfix as necessary.

Ooh! ooh! I know ! I can play this game too!

FILESYSTEMS!!

Not only that, but what they need to do is drive consumer interest. Consumers don't care about openness, they want shiny stuff cheap. Might appeal to some of the more tech savvy of us, but its not like you can go and implement your own HDMI gear to tinker with it.

This along with some other design features originated with the fact it was designed by people who were in cold places.

It's far easier (in theory, I don't own a SAAB) to get the key into that location and start the car wearing large gloves, than behind the steering wheel..

Why are you repeating yourself?

So, we're all in agreement then?

But if you want it to be cross (CPU architecture) platform easily, you'll want to stick to it.

You can actually build native code with the Native Development Kit using C/C++/whatever, and so far all the current phones are pretty well compatible as far as native code goes, but if someone rolls out an Android device with a different CPU architecture than the current ARM incarnation, you'd have to rewrite or at least recompile your native code for it, and either distribute multiple versions of the app or include the native code for all versions and dynamically pick the correct one at run time.