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i80and
A socially-inept Linux-wielding geek.
@ElijahKihlstad I'm afraid you have to go through decontamination when you leave. Can't have you infect the general population with Apple.
Thusnelda is looking pretty nifty. Hopefully itll convince Google to change their tune about OGG Theora.
The current performance of h.264 vs Ogg Theora is only part of it. Nowadays most advancements related to video compression are patented, simply because the time and effort to make a meaningful advance demands compensation. Ogg Theora, by charter, can not take advantage of such advances. Thats part of the concern: that in mandating its inclusion, it would effectively freeze web video compression to today's state of the art.
- DGentry
Mandating inclusion does not necessary exclude the addition of future codecs, does it? Either way, freezing is better than having a mess of incompatibility that renders <video> completely worthless. Thusnelda does appear to have much better compression quality than FLV anyway.
- i80and
You're right that it doesn't exclude additional codecs... but if the mass of web sites exclusively use Ogg Theora because it is the safe choice, the presence of other codecs wouldn't be relevant. I do agree that Ogg Theora should have been made mandatory, I suspect that most large sites would implement format detection anyway and serve up h.264 (or the mythical future codec) when available. Nonetheless the arguments made against the inclusion of Theora do have some merit, and they carried the day.
- DGentry
Ive noticed that all of my good ideas come to me while away from my computer. Interesting...
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Just noticed that the fonts are nicer in my Linux installation than in Windows. Get on the ball, Microsoft.
I've known this for a while, but the stark contrast between the fonts surprised me when I tested one of my designs in Internet Explorer yesterday.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Same here, actually. My fonts look great in my VM, but as soon as I look at the page in Windows I suddenly want to gouge out my eyeballs. Windows font rendering is just *wrong* somehow.
- i80and
This seems to be a strongly personal preference. Personally I cannot stand Microsoft ClearType, but you can find lots of people who absolutely love it.
- DGentry
I've found they're noticeably better in Win7, but I still prefer the font rendering on my Ubuntu machine.
- Keith Bourgoin
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my kitteh. Prepare to die.
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Inconceivable.
- DGentry
This is clearly a fraud. First of all, the avatar is of a wolf. Wolves have been recorded as being particularly mean to kittehs. In addition, the lolspeak used is particularly bad. This person does not seem to have any fluency in lolspeak, thus probably does not have a kitteh that was murdered. I rest my case.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
@mjc Eh? I was referencing The Princess Bride, actually.
- i80and
r30 (Fix the solution to problem 14. Yay! ) committed by i80and - http://code.google.com/p...
r29 (Add a (broken) solution to 14. ) committed by i80and - http://code.google.com/p...
r28 (Add solution to problem 13. ) committed by i80and - http://code.google.com/p...
r26 (Optimize *dramatically* (that is, it can actually be reasona...) committed by i80and - http://code.google.com/p...
r27 (Add a conditional in the header to avoid potentially illegal...) committed by i80and - http://code.google.com/p...
r25 (Add what should be a solution to 12. Too slow right now, th...) committed by i80and - http://code.google.com/p...
Just read http://www.hardocp.com/article... and can't help but wonder--yet again--why the Atom is impossible to find.
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Grr, I hate it when I forget what something is called and also cant figure out how to describe it to Google!
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That is why I use Delicious.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
It's not a site; it's an object. Those wooden mannequin things used for drawing. I did eventually find the right keywords, and in the process found a really nifty drawing tutorial. Also: I did have an apostrophe in the "can't" but identi.ca stripped it out for some reason.
- i80and
Well, bookmark a description of those things with Delicious!
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I could, I guess, but see, I've already found what I need... :P
- i80and
"wooden mannequin things used for drawing" didn't find it for you? I have one sitting on top of my desk, and even though I'm an art grad, I don't know the technical name for them.
- Kamilah Gill
Well, the word 'mannequin' wasn't getting a mental link for some reason; it was one of those verge-of-my-mind things. I never found the technical term for them; but I did find a reference photo of one (what I was looking for).
- i80and
it looks like "Manikin" found an example on amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/4-1-Inc...
- Harold
manikin or mannequin sounds right. That's basically all it is.
- Kamilah Gill
Oh, those things? I just call them, "dolls," lol.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Why we need computers that think as poorly as we do.
- Jack Carlson
Thinking poorly would have to be an option; otherwise I'm sure it would be something of a one-way system: "Here, store my plan to end world hunger for me." *The next day* "What plan to end world hunger?"
- i80and
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