Doc Bruce Banner,
Belted by gamma rays,
Turned into the Hulk.

Ain’t he unglamo-rays!

Wreckin’ the town
With the power of a bull,

Ain’t no monster clown
Who is as lovable.

As ever-lovin’ Hulk! HULK!! HULK!!"

Being pedantic here, "Carte Blanche" actually means "white card" which was used to indicate a card with a royal seal but nothing else on it; allowing the bearer to get what he/she wanted from the royalty(sort of like a blank cheque on crack).

I want one further: to enable print from email, you would have to push a little button(may have an envelope or something on it), and the print feature would only work for any new email for the next 10 mins before the feature disables again.

Could it be that they only pulled it down from the US market due to DMCA pressure? Can't you file one of those counter-notice thingies?

Apple picked PNG because Microsoft didn't. And screencap image formats were hardly going to be an industry deal breaker. BMP files are so obvious as to really not give any leverage to Microsoft. Any patent on the silly thing would be overturned("Method for displaying a picture by lining up the colored pixels in order?").

Apple is pro-open-formats only if there's no way to get a lock-in. Apple is a patent holder with MPEG-LA, hence their preference for H.264.

Remember that there's nothing preventing you from installing Theora and Matroska codecs on your Windows box, same as with your Mac. Sure, media player will push you towards wma, but Apple will push you towards Apple Lossless.

"Microsoft has a history of always creating their own formats even when a multitude of alternatives already exist"

- iPad USB dongle
- iPhone/Pod connector
- Their old practice(no longer the case) of locking their RAM so only their RAM would work on their hardware
- The stupid one button mouse(yes, it's no longer the case, but it was).

Not saying MS is good. They're not. But neither of them are. Trying to say "At least Apple..." these days is a tricky game.

Also, MS has stated that IE8+ will handle WebM just fine as it can be installed via Media Player. Opera stated support. Mozilla breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said the same. Apple(or at least Turtleneck Prime) is the only one that seemingly indicated they wouldn't support it by throwing some lawsuit FUD around. They may yet, but the response wasn't exactly positive.

It would be like a whole fraction of a millimeter across! Careful! You'll step on the datacenter!

Well, I picked up Aquaria last year, and so far as I knew it was Windows and(later) Mac only. I'm sort of impressed they have a Linux version period :P

But yeah, welcome to the world of Linux, so many standards to choose from ;)

Producing something for free as a service has never been a "business". Ever.

Apparently, the only thing you hold dear is your stock portfolio, up on your own personal "high horse"(you did start with "Linux dweebies and Microsoft apologists"). So any further discussion involving anything other then dollar signs would be as fruitless as describing Pythagorean theory to a gnat.

So, while I still have karma to burn, I feel absolutely entitled and justified in saying that people like you are everything that is wrong with humanity. Get off my fucking lawn.

There is no difference if the threat is expressed as an opinion.

Those are two different things. An opinion is something like "I think they may get sued." A threat is "I will probably sue you."

An opinion is based on what your personal feelings at the time are. A threat is when you factually confront someone with the aim of informing them you will or may do bad things to them.

For example, me saying "I think you will get killed if you keep running into traffic like that." is my opinion. Me saying, "I will kill you." is a threat and is, in fact, illegal.

Stop me if I'm going to fast for you.

Dealing with your competitors FUD is the price of doing business

Excuse me, Glen Beck, but at what point is Theora trying to make money?

There used to be a course given at business schools called "business ethics". At some point, yes, they appear to have gone to the wayside more and more lately. They did that in the past too. Interesting you used the word "firing line".

I'll feed the troll....sorry.

Get over it guys he can have opinions just like you and me.

You don't quite understand the difference between "opinion" and "veiled threat"? Really? He's producing FUD while possibly trying to launch an abusive lawsuit based on software patents(which are patently evil themselves) on Theora basically because he sits on the license board for H.264.

This isn't an opinion. It's an open declaration of war on an NGO. If your brain weren't so apparently dependent on Apple's marketing trolls, I wouldn't understand how you could possibly be fine with that.

Not all stars create black holes when they collapse. Ours won't.

  I'm not a astrophysicist but as I understand it:

Black holes are formed when the gravity of the collapsing star is large enough to collapse its matter and information into a singularity. The star doesn't gain gravity in the process(unless other matter or other stars collapses in with it). The black hole has as much sucking power as the star did, except now there's a definitive "event horizon" where, if you get stuck, no amount of energy in the universe will pull you out(previously, the area where the event horizon is currently located, there would have been star).

Many stars are not big enough to have that much gravity. And I seriously doubt a tiny spec being shot at by a superlaser has enough pulling power to suck up a grain of rice, let alone collapse into a singularity. And, even if it did, the singularity would die pretty damn quickly.