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> will Flash Player support be dropped as well? If not, why?

Flash has no easy replacement available yet. We will see with HTML5 and beyond. Realistically it will take a few more years.

> Android currently supports H.264. Will this support be removed from Android? If not, why not?

My guess is that future Nexus phones will have hardware WebM decoding included. I don't know if Google will remove H.264 anytime soon though.

> YouTube uses H.264 to encode video. Presumably, YouTube will be re-encoding its entire library using WebM. When this happens, will YouTube’s support for H.264 be dropped, to “enable open innovation”? If not, why not?

It will be dropped. Why not?

> Do you expect companies like Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Major League Baseball, and anyone else who currently streams H.264 to dual-encode all of their video using WebM?

Sure. They all have enough money for a few gigs per movie, the distribution system would stay the same. Btw. Netflix uses Silverlight and adding WebM decoding to Silverlight should be rather easy.

> Who is happy about this?

Given the counter-scenario and a few years: everyone!
Even if it's subconscious, if one could come up with a way to measure this "accuracy in prediction", I think it could be trainable.
Hey, thanks for posting this somewhere. When I found that it was gone, I grabbed a cache and posted it with as much attribution as I could. Now I can actually give you a real link. :)
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Agreed. You can buy an unlocked iPhone in Canada, which may be more convenient for you.
I'd like to point out that CTAN was the original. The idea and the CPAN name was derived from it. This was before the web went public, for you young folk.

Interestingly, CTAN originally (still do?) used a Perl script to mirror the FTP archive. It may be this that sparked the development of CPAN. In retrospect it was inevitable that CPAN would evolve far beyond the original - Perl is just made to build something like CPAN and the TeX community is focussed on document building tools.
My employer paid for a branding agency and wound up throwing away most of their names and settling on a name we came up with ourselves. They did give us one good name that I wound up using for a logging tool two years later, so it wasn't a total waste.

I'm of the opinion that if you don't have creative enough people on your team to come up with a good name you probably have bigger problems than the lack of a creative name.
Also potentially relevant, from the article's comments.

Eric D. : "Steve Jobs looked thinner during that presentation than we'd seen him before. And over the next few months, he lost more weight. The market, rightly or wrongly, believes Apple's fortunes are tied to Jobs.

You mean Android hegemony, right?"
Chrome ships with Flash, which is a good thing. Not because Flash is a good thing. But because if you're going to run Flash it might as well be up to date and running as a separate process in a sandbox.
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It only mentions the silver as examples. The stuff they use is using palladium. Unlike silver, it produces tons of the bands that blocks it from fracturing like silver.

But the interesting part isn't the material used, but the demonstration of how to make glass thats stronger then steel. So now they just get mixing/playing and see which cheap material is best to do this with.
Finally, SCEA will likely prevail on its claim under §1030(a)(7)(B), which prohibits “intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value” by threatening “to obtain information from a protected computer without authorization or in excess of authorization or to impair the confidentiality of information obtained from a protected computer without authorization or by exceeding authorized access.” Hotz violated this provision when, in the same post in which the published SCEA’s Keys, he attempted to obtain from SCEA “a thing of value” in the form of employment: “if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me.”

geohot offers to work for them and help them build something that's actually secure, they sue him for "extortion". beautiful.
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I did some research into this, and seems like Hong Kong and Singapore are the least expensive. Canada is not too bad if you're in the USA (I'm in Australia.)
Most hardware video decoders are special-purpose DSPs that the manufacturers write firmware/microcode for to decode particular formats. The instruction sets of the DSPs are well suited to operations normally performed when decoding (or encoding) video.
I'm more curious about the cause of the steep walled canyon of P/E lousiness from mid-October of '08 that lasted almost exactly a year.
I believe the simulator can also do location by wifi if possible.
And sled dogs can poop while running. Very task-specific abilities.
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The argument presented in the article is plausible, but I call it "the guy with the S65 AMG Benz admiring the guy with the Maybach" argument, i.e., the Maybach is a few hundred thousand dollars dearer than the Benz, itself a $200K car. While valid, I think it illustrates the effect of the unhappiness problem rather than the underlying cause.

I call the root of the problem The SimCity Effect.

The SimCity Effect -- as I describe it -- is essentially a real life application of the economic principle of diminishing marginal value, i.e., the more of a given good you gain, the less value you gain from each subsequent good.

I think wealthy peoples' unhappiness with life is due to the far greater decrease in value -- or utility -- they gain each time they move up the ladder than those with lesser means.

This is in turn is caused by a fundamental failure by most people to have a predetermined sense of "satisfaction" or "accomplishment" in life. This is where the SimCity analogy comes to play.

Those of you who grew up playing SimCity probably experienced this phenomenon: you start building a city, eagerly growing larger and larger, with more and better public utilities, education, etc., and your satisfaction curve probably faced an initial upward curve: all things being equal, the goal of SimCity was arguably to build the largest, cleanest, most educated, and high tech city you could manage.

Trouble is, that's a pretty vague goal: what does "large" mean? 1M people? 2M? 10M? In the absence of a clear and defined goal, and no way to "win" the game in the traditional sense, most SimCity builders suffered a very real sense of diminishing marginal value, and thus their satisfaction -- joy with the game, etc. -- decreased as well.

This is not to say that one should set finite goals beyond which we should strive no further, but rather that we should at least set a mental note alerting us to when, in our life, we have obtained our goals, so we can at least breathe a sigh of relief and say "I've done it." Anything beyond that would be a bonus and it would essentially reset our internal "utility" curve accordingly to, perhaps, begin anew. This would certainly explain serial entrepreneurs and the like.

This to me is the real problem with happiness -- or lack thereof -- at the highest echelon of society: it is not unhappiness per se, but rather a lack of satisfaction due to what can be best described as satisfaction desensitization.

Just my 2c.
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I purchased a Nexus One shortly after launch, and it did not come with Twitter installed. In fact, the Twitter app didn't exist then.

I _did_ however do a hard reset the other day (ugh...) and all of my stuff was gone. Twitter, Amazon, and Angry Birds Holiday seemed to still be there...

But looking at my phone now, a bunch of other apps that I had downloaded are back, mysteriously. I dunno.
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"There ain't no such thing as a free codec."

This is what groups like the MPEG-LA want us to think, but I'm not so sure. The Ogg Vorbis codec used for WebM audio has been in use for a decade, and has shipped in dozens of software and hardware products, some from large companies with big pockets. MPEG-LA made the same vague threats about patent pools against Vorbis, but they never followed through.

Xiph.org conducted a patent search early in the Vorbis process, and believes Vorbis does not infringe on any patents. Google has done their homework on VP8 as well. If they did it right, then VP8 is no more vulnerable to unknown patent threats than any random piece of software. (Sadly, any random piece of software is somewhat vulnerable.)

For that matter, there's no guarantee that H.264 is invulnerable from patent trolls who aren't members of the licensing pool. MPEG-LA doesn't indemnify licensees against third-party patents.
Had read about this in HBR long back, Thanks for the refresher. The entire Pixar story is very very inspiring.
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They can both be winners and losers depending on what game they choose to play. Being disruptive is about pissing on the rules for the original game.

Actually the more I think about it the more non-sensical your original statement and this conversation becomes. ;)
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I'm looking into Guice + Roboguice (which seems to be the way to go), but I really need to understand Guice semantics first - Guice != Spring and I have a fair bit of 'unlearning' to do
How do you know whether anything at all has advanced? One of the most knowledgeable authorities on video compression has called into question VP8's patent situation. Why is there any need at all to imagine a false opposite? Other than optimism?

The whole VP8/webm situation reminds me of when Microsoft tried to do the right thing and open-license VC1, but got clobbered by patent holders and had to reverse themselves.
I'm really happy Apple is doing that. I honestly believe that Verizon is the sole reason that America is like 50 years behind in mobile technology. The carrier dominates the market in cell phone service because it gives most of the technology illiterate generation X a a better deal with the monthly plans, but at the same time it gives all of its users crappy cellphones with crappy software. Honestly anything Verizon touches becomes intellectually dull. When's the last time you heard Vcast or Verizon store on TechCrunch? So I am really happy that Apple knows that although Verizon is a good mobile carrier, the company has not innovation at all, and Apple refuse to allow Verizon to touch their gadget.
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DSP's are like processor units in GPU. Optimized for fast and parallel multiply and add computations (and some other basic signal processing stuff). One codec is not that much different from other from computation point of view.

The accelerator units are usually filters that operate over a region of memory while processor is busy computing something else. These can be made fixed function, however most of them are programmable to support multiple steps in codec processing.
Just curious, why such a distinction between an American and a Japanese company?
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Primarily about early adopters in a B2B market. Some key points:

Early adopters focus on useful intermediate results they can use as building blocks or viable interim solutions. They exist in state of ongoing active evolution.

Pragmatists focus on end states and end results: they don't like change and want to get to an outcome without spending a lot of time on the transition. If an early prospect for your new product is focused more on the outcome than on managing the transition your team had better be good at managing the introduction and bringup of your offering or the prospect may lose heart.

Early adopters often find a startup before the startup can find them. This can lull a startup into a false sense of optimism that the majority of the market has recognized the value of their solution.

Having a bona fide early adopter on your customer advisory board acts like a force multiplier on your startup.
> I'm suspicious of anyone who spends their time critiquing others' work so harshly instead of innovating on their own.

How in any way is that 'positive'? Also, read the OP's original post. Is it really that offensive to you? I can almost see it as some poke of a joke--humor. Something that seems to escape the boring minds of those who long to be someone special, DEFENDING THE INTERNET! Stop being a superhero, read the comment and move on. There is no reason for you to regulate anyone's internet experience.

I'm not trying to take sides, but from an unbiased point of view, you argument is invalid.
Re #3: Performance is reason enough. The fact that a dual-core MacBook Pro can't even play back a 360p Flash video without dropping frames is completely unacceptable.
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it's genius enough to use such a name to get free publicity on techcrunch, but at the same time the company name has no innovation at all, maybe it's the whole reverse psychology thing. I just hope their something that is coming to SF is cooler than their name.
You also just added nothing to the discussion.

Congratulations.
Ah, ok. So it looks like my information is out of date, and Apple isn't shipping a TPM anymore. But they did, at some point, use a combination of hardware and software to try to prevent users from running OS X on non-Apple hardware (or a VM)?

Even if they didn't, the EULA still forbids it. And I'll take "Please don't use this software on this platform (but we won't stop you)" over "Don't use this software on this platform (or we can sue you)" any day...
I've proven theorems in my sleep before. It seems to be a generally accepted thing.

John Cleese gave a related talk which I found very interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug
I would argue that Java learned a lot from other languages, just not ML or Haskell. Parts of it are heavily based on Smalltalk, Objective-C, C++, Simula, Modula-3, and even Lisp.
What I don't understand is how Chrome can remove h.264 (which is widely used) because they want 'openness', while at the same time shipping a browser (Chrome) where you cannot remove Flash (which continues to support H.264). It seems here that keeping H.264 support and dropping Flash would be more in the name of openness.

(Edit: bane points out that you can disable Flash in Chrome. My original point still stands, but my wording was misleading.)

As with most things Google does, I don't see this as being in the interest of 'openness' at all. I feel more like what they really want is a format that they can control and add features to (such as, for example, embedded advertising).

In the end, Google is a business, and its business is ads. Everything Google does is about either delivering ads to people (Google Mail), making sure it's their ads that are delivered (YouTube), or about making sure they don't get locked out of a market (Android).

So here's my question: where's the money here? It's obviously far more expensive at this point to use WebM than H.264, so what financial motivation is there for them to push the WebM codec this hard this fast?
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Your videocamera's license for H.264, if you actually read it, is likely quite restrictive. If you use it to film a video, post the video on youtube, and get any revenue from the ads on the resulting youtube page, you're in violation of the license terms, for example, for every single video camera I've seen.
"Registered Apple developer" means you need an Apple ID, which is free. You might need to login to the developer site with it first.
Another vote for Linode here. Have used Amazon EC2 as well, but for the price you can't beat Linode. Their documentation is awesome and their support is extremely helpful in answering questions.
There was similar case where someone would verify the academic credentials of CEOs of publicly traded companies in order to discover fraud and misrepresentation.

After discovering a flaw, he would short the company's stock, then go public with the news.

I maybe mistaken, but I believe that was not considered insider trading and his methods were a valid way to invest and make money. I think that is quite a brilliant strategy.
maybe one day all coaches will have a headset with analysts giving them data breakdowns of each play, player fatigue level, mathematical ways to score to increase probability of winning; all with data

I think this kind of sports would arouse Google
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Good point, and true enough. I should have signed up using my Google account (I should still sign up using my Google account).

I recently unearthed my AOL user database from the late 90s. Dropping it into a simple text editor, I get a ton of garbage characters but also every e-mail I ever sent or received on my AOL account for about five years (including almost all the Spam). While it was sometimes painful reading through that mess (for various reasons), I gained some interesting insight into my past that I found useful. What's interesting is that I have a great deal more mail saved up in my various e-mail boxes, but I wouldn't think to go through and read those chronologically as I did with the AOL mail.
Shouldn't video codecs be done as plugins in browsers anyway?

Give us the tags to support it but leave it up to a plugin.

I know that multiple developers can focus on different parts of a browser's codebase at once, but it still doesn't make sense to me that a browser codebase should maintain a video codec as advanced as H.264 which constantly has room for performance/quality improvement.
Has mp3 not being "open" prevented people from making, listening to, and sharing music? Have Linux MP3 players been erased from the face of the earth by evil patent trolls?

I'm aware that the software world, and FOSS in particular, frequently bumps heads with this patent nonsense. But throwing existing technical solutions out the window to deal with a broken legal/economic complex seems backwards.

(There are parallels that could be drawn to Apple's blocking of Flash, but that arguably has as much to do with quality as openness/control. Flash's performance and stability is contentious at best. H264, on the other hand, is typically regarded as a best-of-breed codec.)
I noticed that when I follow: http://boulder.usehipster.com/explore

I'm presented with the text 'Here's what popular in Boulder today:'. Seems you're missing an apostrophe s on the word 'what' or just 'what is'.
This comment seems to be off the mark at a number of levels -- I love hacker news, and am doing this to return some of the value I have gotten from the community here.

Take "e.g., buy blue chip stocks that have low PE) so that they don't ban you. .. Now you feed the information about displayed liquidity on high volatility stocks that you are interested in trading (e.g., small biotechs) from those exchanges.."

If you are trading blue chips at an illiquid (CSFB run) market center what information will that give you about "small biotechs"?

".. dark pools aren't obligated to conform to NBBO" : this is an incorrect understanding of how US stock markets work -- dark pools, with exceptions that don't count for too much volume, will have to print at the NBBO (Reg NMS, Rule 611, if you want chapter and verse http://taft.law.uc.edu/CCL/regNMS/rule611.html).

Also you don't need to trade at this venue to see what is being traded there: another provision of Reg NMS requires all ATSs to print within a short period of time into the tape, which is also by law disseminated nationwide as the last sale info in the name. By simply looking to see prints from this center, and which side of the midquote the prints are on (called the Lee-Ready test in the field, after a 1991 paper by those guys) will tell you if there are long duration buy orders or long duration sell orders active.

Turning to the merits of the proposal above, seems like a good idea, although the fact that csfb (or any big bank) is running it will cause most experienced traders to be skeptical of the exalted rationales being presented. If a broker that is handling flow runs a market center as well, without exception they wind up abusing the flow or the market center to make more $$.
Have read a lot of good stuff here; keep up the good work, all.
I want to echo that the AT&T iPhone is hugely disappointing when traveling internationally due to the outrageous cost of AT&T's roaming plans. Data is prohibitively expensive. Think $1 per megabyte (not a typo, mega-byte). That's $200 for 200 MB or $2,000 for 2 GB. Voice calls are usually $1 per minute. You're pretty much stuck with a very pretty machine that sends $0.50 text messages.

Even if you get an unlocked phone, you will most likely only be able to get a voice+text SIM card when traveling. Especially in Europe, only full blown plans included any amount of data. And every damn country requires a new SIM. Absolutely painful and honestly not that valuable. You might just gain ever so slightly cheaper calls and texts to local phones, and absolutely nothing if you want to call back home.

Verizon Global phones, on the other hand, are amazing. AMAZING! You pay $80 per month for unlimited data. Yes, UNLIMITED international data. And Verizon will prorate your fees for only the days that you travel and also discount you the cost of your existing data plan during these days. Otherwise it is the same as AT&T, but this is a HUGE difference.

If you travel and want to use data then Verizon is the way to go. You just need a Global phone, and unfortunately the iPhone isn't one of them.
YouTube announced months ago that they're transcoding pretty much everything they have to WebM. They've been working on it ever since; a significant fraction of YouTube videos are available in WebM right this second.
Exactly. And who didn't see the demise of Myspace for the last couple of years? Surely from the inside you'd be acutely aware of the situation.
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Really sounds strikingly similar to some of the management practices and employee abuse that went down during the decline of TechCrunch's parent company, AOL.
Something I learned early in my career, "never be any more loyal to your company than your company can be loyal to you".
I'm also very happy with Linode. Similar enough to regular hosting that it's quick to set up (no worries about AMIs, etc), cheap, fast, and there are always plenty of extra instances available should you need to scale quickly.
I like the idea. I have been debating whether the name is too derogatory. Can you see a parent saying to another parent, Jane, have you heard about this new website called one fat pig? Maybe onebigpig.com would be better. Not sure about that.
Too bad the press didn't get the memo that the iphone SDK would, in time, provide plenty of news.
You still do not get the point here. His arguments may be valid, I don't know I never read the HIG nor am I a designer. But there is a way to do constructive criticism without belittling the efforts of other developers. He is acting like a "Chinese mom".

This line from HN guidelines illustrate my point:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I know that showing "attitude" and being cool is all the rage these days, but I still thinking politeness works like a charm.