halex-ab - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Ugh, Pentile displays (Score 1) 297

by halex-ab on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @08:19AM (#41816329) Attached to: Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets

Those patents expired about two years ago, fortunately.

Comment Re:More allergenic? (Score 1) 760

by halex-ab on Monday January 10, 2011 @10:31AM (#34822840) Attached to: Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects

Typical human selfishness trying to hog all the life on the planet.

Morbo agrees.

Comment How about quality? (Score 1, Informative) 168

by halex-ab on Sunday October 31, 2010 @05:32AM (#34078202) Attached to: New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance

They may have managed to increase performance, but the real question is have they increased the actual output quality (without having to tweak the crap out of it):
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377

Also, I thought we've determined that PSNR is NOT a very good measure on the quality of a codec...

Comment Re:I am sure that this term will be in the license (Score 1) 161

by halex-ab on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @04:54AM (#18426251) Attached to: Microsoft Gives In To the EU

It could be SCO vs Linux all over again.

I doubt it, since SCO vs Linux was regarding exact lines of source code, directly copied and pasted IIRC. If, however, a company did purchase the protocol license, and leaked it out to an open source project, they could implement it, without being able to be sued for copyright.

Patents? That's another story.

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