It means there will be competition between the browsers, so you can choose the fastest one. Mplayer and VLC use far less CPU for the same video file, so if Firefox uses libraries form other open source products we can expect much faster playback.
Most of all, I am looking forward to having video played by the browser itself, rather than a plugin. That way keyboard shortcuts and other UI features will not not stop working when watching a video.
China loses because Google is the best search engine, especially for scholarly papers, books and such. Sure they have Baidu, but it is basically the AOL of China; very popular with those who don't know better. University students, engineers, and smart people in general prefer Google, especially when searching in English. I suspect Google leaving China will lead to more people bypassing the filters to get to Google.
Also, Google has been a symbolically important, and may influence other western companies.
Possibly blacklisting china's address space themselves if the chinese government doesn't get around to it fast enough to prove the point.
I see absolutely no reason to believe Google would do that.
Swedish mapping website Hitta.se has a feature similar to Street View, but with higher resolution and they do not even blur faces.
Why is the Slashdot house view that kids should always be doing exactly what kids 50 years ago were doing? Since when is stuffing a large number of kids in a cramped space for hours with little to do considered important for their development? Anyway, this is high school students. What's so wrong about them using laptops and the internet?
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I never heard of that. Could you elaborate or provide a link for further reference?
It would seem strange to drop support for OS X 10.4, released in 2005, while keeping support for Windows 2000, released in 2000. Even if Win2000 support is dropped, XP was released in 2001 is certainly staying.
I know Apple isn't exactly famous for backwards compatibility, but is it this extreme? Is the stereotype true that Mac owners are people with too much money to spare that will buy anything as soon as Apple tells them too? Are there no businesses using 10.4 that are holding off on upgrading?
My job is located at Galaxy Center. But I live at The Hamptons. The problem is, I have to take Brown line and yellow line to reach the center,
Dude, you can warpspeed over to Outer Junction, and take just about any line from there. It's not far at all. That's the problem with these schematic maps: people don't learn the real geography.
If you are going to use Access-Control-Allow-Origin you should probably be aware that it is very new, and many browsers out there do not support it. Firefox added it in version 3.5.
...you should be looking at ARM based systems. Part of being an informed consumer is recognizing monopolies...
Isn't ARM controlled by one company, though they license it it anyone who pays? I don't see what's monopolistic about the x86 architecture. You don't have to run Windows on it. Linux, BSD, OSX and a host of others work find on x86.
If we are going to have China-bashing comments, could we at least have intelligent ones? That is, based on any kind of knowledge and not just xenophobia.
Not exactly a loan. Microsoft bought a bunch of Apple stock. Common wisdom at the time was that Microsoft needed to prop up some kind of paper tiger competitor to avoid further anti-trust restrictions.
In the corporate word, lending money and buying stock are just two different ways to invest in a company. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages for the investor and the company, but they fundamentally fill the same purpose.
I always thought the main point of VLC is that it does not rely on the often broken collection of installed codecs. It "just works" even if the rest of the system is messed up in all kinds of ways.
THX probably knew they were losing credibility and decided to cash in quickly.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
