False. With RTMP you can only seek to key frames. If you seek to a timestamp that doesn't correspond to a keyframe, the server will pick the nearest keyframe using some undisclosed algorithm. (I.e., it is not specified anywhere whether it will pick the closest keyframe *before* or *after* the designated seek timestamp.)
Obviously you can't start playback from a non-keyframe, there isn't enough video data to construct a full frame.
I dunno, preserving your company's reputation and credibility ought to be big enough motivators already. The fact that Adobe code quality is still so shoddy indicates that regardless of motivation, they lack the *ability* to improve things.
Btw, for video streaming, you can just use things like get-flash-videos and rtmpdump, and never be exposed to any of that crappy Adobe code. Whether or not the base technology has any intrinsic merit, it's obvious that even today, before HTML5 is widely deployed, it's possible to implement this stuff without any of Adobe's implementation flaws.
What makes you think that a mobile version needs to be any different from the current version?
I can watch Hulu videos on my Android phone just fine...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5253967
Why would you volunteer to pay for something "extra" that isn't actually any extra effort on their part?
Windows-anything handling your money is Just Not a Good Idea.
Aside from the fact that this isn't news, it hasn't been a problem either. The patch to add the so-called "DRM" support to XBMC was made available within a few hours of the BBC change.
So what no one seems to have asked yet - when is someone going to take a fertilized human egg, and remove these viral sequences from the nucleus, and see how the embryo is affected?
Take the embryo after the first division, so you can have an identical twin as a control for the experiment...
But it took NASA to develop SAR and refine its use. I worked on the control software for SIR-C back in 1991-1994; all of the software that I wrote for that got re-used by RADARSAT and SRTM and probably other missions as well. (Haven't really kept tabs after I left.)
Aside from the other stupidity already being commented on, this is purely a case of bad design in the LED traffic signals. LEDs are ~4x more efficient than incandescents, but they're still far from perfect, and they still give off a *lot* of heat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy
I've designed and built many lamps using high power/high brightness LEDs. Any time you design a high power LED lamp you have to heat-sink every single LED otherwise it will burn out. The obvious solution here is to run heatpipes from the sinks at the back of the LEDs to the lamp housing and/or front lens. There's no need to add a separate heater, every electronic device *is* a heater.
http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
works great, covers a ton of sites already, and is easily extensible to add support for any new sites.
And yes, I agree with several of the posters above - I don't want to watch videos inside my browser; I don't want the distraction of multiple animated ads on the borders of the page etc...
this weekend large portions of Spain suffered extended blackouts as a number of the electric company's network routers were overwhelmed by an unexpected surge of traffic. This was apparently the result of an article about Spain's wind-based electrical program being published on slashdot.org, and the ensuing traffic overload from attempts to access the power generation graphs on the public site...
$33? You can buy a tube of IC Diamond for only $7. DIY isn't too interesting when it costs so much more than off-the-shelf...
Agreed. This was from last December in Kazakhstan, by the way:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27159137@N08/3186737368/
About the same time frame as those researchers and their discovery. Seems to me that this type of hacking has been going on all over, for a long time already.
And yes, I'd say it's criminally negligent to use any Windows OS on ATMs or anything else where security matters...
It's not so surprising though - it just means that the ants have been able to spread faster than their rate of evolution/mutation. Otherwise, they would have differentiated/speciated first. But because it's so easy for them to hitch rides on passing people, cars, boats, and airplanes, they've spread a lot faster than they would naturally have been able to.
The more interesting thing will be to observe over time and see how long it takes before their super-colony collapses or is torn apart by civil war. Of course that's not likely to occur until their paths of transport and communication are disrupted. If we don't destroy ourselves first, thus giving them a long time to continue to evolve in total connectedness, I guess things will get interesting for them down the road...
The other interesting point this raises is about language and communication in general - biologists frequently talk about animals communicating with each other via whatever their particular mechanisms may be, but they seem to assume that all the members of a species are homogeneous in their communication methods. That's a pretty naive assumption, given all the different vocal and non-vocal mechanisms various human tribes use to communicate. The interesting question here will be whether this super-colony is an example of genocide (the total annihilation of different/competing ant species) or assimilation...
What's to code? OpenLDAP already supports over 5 billion user records...
I sometimes get to a point where I want to sketch out the problem on paper, but most of the time as I'm searching for a pen or pencil, and a decent sheet of paper, I've already figured out what it will look like in my head, and I quit searching.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
