Comment: Re:That's very nice, but (Score 2, Interesting) 216
Rock Paper Shotgun provides a good analysis on the name your price -sale: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/20/world-of-goo-sale-provides-fascinating-results/
Even though people mostly paid the $0.01, they still made a nice amount of money with a year old game
Even though people mostly paid the $0.01, they still made a nice amount of money with a year old game
YouTube, HTML5, and Comparing H.264 With Theora 361
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from the quality-vs-bandwidth dept.
from the quality-vs-bandwidth dept.
David Gerard writes "Google Chrome includes Ogg support for the <video> element. It also includes support for the hideously encumbered H.264 format. Nice as an extra, but ... they're also testing HTML5 YouTube only for H.264 — meaning the largest video provider on the Net will make H.264 the primary codec and relegate the equally good open format Ogg/Theora firmly to the sidelines. Mike Shaver from Mozilla has fairly unambiguously asked Chris DiBona from Google what the heck Google thinks it's doing."
DiBona responded with concerns that switching to Theora while maintaining quality would take up an incredible amount of bandwidth for a site like YouTube, though he made clear his support for the continued improvement of the project. Greg Maxwell jumped into the debate by comparing the quality of Ogg/Theora+Vorbis with the current YouTube implementations using H.263+MP3 and H.264+AAC. At the lower bitrate, Theora seems to have the clear edge, while the higher bitrate may slightly favor H.264. He concludes that YouTube's adoption of "an open unencumbered format in addition to or instead of their current offerings would not cause problems on the basis of quality or bitrate."
Comment: Now that we have water... (Score 1) 63
Give this people eyre!
Comment: Re:Latency (Score 1) 309
Duh. Just use Fatline transmitter or step through a farcaster, in case the endpoint is inside the Web.
Comment: Re:Why America sucks (Score 5, Insightful) 198
I don't hate America, I love it. I wish only the best things for this country.
But I hate articles like this, and I hate the truly American values it reveals.
Why is it that when Americans think of powered exoskeletons, the first thing they think of is soldiers?
War and military industry just tend to do that: invent things to help you win the battles easier. It's always been like that.
War (even the one now in Iraq) is a quite good accelerator for military industry research and the industry creates a variety of products during a war. The bigger the war the bigger the influence on technology.
Even though it's bad that the things are developed for the military, the research eventually helps normal people: when the war ends, the military companies start selling licenses for the products or continue researching to create a product for consumer markets.
War so far has been a huge boost in techonology, if you think inventions like nuclear power, radar, V2 missiles, which later on lead to the Saturn V, medical breakthroughs (especially in first aid) etc.
Impact of the war on technology is just something you just can't deny.
Qt 4.5 released->
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Nailor
Nailor writes "Nokia owned Qt Software, formerly known as Trolltech, has released Qt 4.5. According to article, this upgrade brings performance improvements among many other benefits. However, biggest change is in licensing model. Qt4.5 is now LGPL licensed so you can use it in proprietary applications without the paid license. Downloads for various platforms are available on Qt Software's downloads page."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:Shit man, I bet... (Score 1) 190
I have far more sympathy for the continental European tendency to view sex as good and violence as bad
Either way, the double standard is not a good one. What comes to the banning sex from minors, there really is point in that.
The sex in games would probably not be anything like sweet sugar coated romances but mostly hard porn, which in no way is suitable for minors.
However, this should not affect banning the violence, it should be treated equally bad everywhere.
Comment: Re:Nailor (Score 1) 347
Turre Legal has another post about the subject, this time in English.
This post focuses on differences between Finnish and Swedish trials.
Comment: Re:Nailor (Score 1) 347
I don't see how you can make that conclusion based on your premise. After all, didn't the prosecutor just spend an entire year getting ready for this case? How could he have such a fundamental misunderstanding if he was "really careful?"
Really careful as in leaving everything not certain outside the case and focusing on the parts where they have the best coverage. They don't want, as the linked (bad) translation of the blog post states, to risk losing even partially.
Yes, I agree that the year worth of investigation should bring up what the BitTorrent is and what it is not, but that's an issue with the personnel, ie. the prosecutor and the investigation concluded by Swedish police, not really an issue in this case.
It might even be that some of the alleged copying charges were originally pressed by the stakeholders, not the prosecutor