Sub 10" just 'aint enough
Looks lovely but too small. I am personally waiting for 10"+ tablets.
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What no one seems to be concerned about is that for anyone who wants to pump out some home videos on their website or on youtube they will be safe from the MPEG-LA vampires when they encode with H264, but if they set up their own website to deliver their home movies and charge for them; they will need a license, an expensive license. You may think that this will not affect you in the slightest -- until your snazzy website and it's H264 videos bag you some advertising cash and then you will have provided H264 video and received remuneration for that delivery. MPEG-LA says Money Please.
If the open-source aspect of WebM is unshakeable in terms of attack from patent pools then it will survive and flourish. Stubborn device and software makers will ensure the future of H264.
"Google will have a spec-tastic, low-cost, possibly even free Chrome OS tablet in punters' hands a month before Christmas, it has been claimed."
Yipee ...
"And now the bad news: it's likely to be only available in the US, and if you want to get the tablet for a lot less than the iPad, you'll need to take out a Verizon data airtime deal."
bugger :(
Glad to see that all your "Moderate Wine Drinking" has helped you to identify my facetious comment.
My remark was mainly due the very un-scientific assumptions and conclusions presented by the researches, which several posters have pointed out.
The reference to me being a politician is about as close as anyone came to "getting" my joke ;)
"Dear Mr Spa Stick,
It has come to our attention that you have been pwned (lol) by internet terrorists. Possibly acting on behalf of the cyber paedophile and drug smuggling group Anonymous, which we believe to be paid operatives of the Chinese government. As you may know, Anonymous has over 9000 hackers on steroids and are working round the clock to steal your internets.
As a concerned third party, we at Virgin Media have put together a comprehensive security regime that has been independently verified by Gordon Brown himself (the man who invented the internet). Simply follow these three rules and you will be 100% secure:
1. When you see a black cat, throw salt over your modem.
2. Consider buying Windows 7 (again if you already have it).
3. Reinstall your internets from the latest version of the AOL CD.
If you follow these simple rules and still feel the urge to pay us an extra £6 a month, we offer a fantastic new service with trained call center operators in Bangladesh who can tell you how to use your start menu and many other exciting computer science topics.
Yours Sincerely,
Virgin Media"
absolutely fantastic, although it did seem to be missing the usual "Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" tag-line at the start.
"Those who sent cipher answers: Thx for amazing response. Lots right, lots wrong"
Yep, totally easy. Looked like base64, used online decoder and bam it had a JFIF header. I expect they will have received many small jokes in the form of an image.
Has anyone gone a little further to see if there's any other hidden information, steganography techniques anyone ?
This stinks of a monoply, but that's why I bought an android device. Works just as well, if not better (for me). It definitely has more features including Flash, which works really well despite Job's "Claims".
I can create whatever I want for my device and other's without having to purchase a developer license and without having to be shafted in the arse by the Picard-emulating Jobs. I don't have to worry that my legitimate business may be eradicated by the Apple police overnight over some childish inter-industry spat and not be able to challenge the reasoning at all.
"Despite Google's move, the future of web video is still unclear. Apple and Microsoft have backed the patented H.264 standard and have no intention of moving to an open codec"
the future of web video is looking a lot clearer to me. It's not unusual for companies to back away from prior backings, such as the Toshiba HD DVD format war.
We should be looking to reduce our Nuclear "Arsenal" rather than extending it into the future. What good are the Six party talks if the countries lobbying for non proliferation are gearing up to renew extremely expensive and relatively ineffective nuclear weapons.
I agree with Nick.