On Aug 12, 4:49 am, fcassia wrote:
> I can watch a ripped DVD movie @ 320x320 full-screen on my Palm Centro
> running PalmOS and the open source TCPMP media player..., encoded as a
> MPEG4 (xvid) AVI
>
> http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/tcpmp.palmos.0.72RC1.zip
>
> But then maybe the trusty
On Aug 9, 9:14 am, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> The problem is: One of apple's complaints is actually a fair point: On
> mobile devices, theora sucks, bad.
I think that mobile devices can only efficiently decode video with
hardware support. That's where MPEG4/H.264 has a huge advantage (see
iPo
On Aug 10, 6:50 pm, Mark Derricutt wrote:
> Two dying companies joining forces to make one uber corpse? :-)
> In part it feels like VMWare trying to find a new market now that
> virtualisation is commodotized, and also Springsource the same now that
> DI/IoC is.
If you mean "commodity" in an eco
On Aug 6, 10:51 pm, Casper Bang wrote:
> Yeah the latest crome builds now supports "video" and "audio" tags
> (like Firefox 3.5).
But like the image tag, there's no defined formats for that. The
Register also thinks Google will open source on2's video codecs to
push HTML 5 forward:
http://www.t
If I had to guess why Google did it - mainly to get a standard audio/
video codec for HTML 5. A couple of weeks ago we heard that there
won't be such a thing in the HMTL standard, but now Google could
create a de-facto-standard by giving one away to everybody that wants
one (which would probably
On2 also provides the codecs for Flash: :-)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/google_to_buy_on2/
Don't know where Silverlight gets their codecs from.
What I don't know is if the Flash / JavaFX H.264 codecs come from On2,
too.
On 5 Aug., 17:17, gullcatcher wrote:
> Hallo
>
> I've just fo
ominic Mitchell) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Joe Data wrote:
> > - I don't have a Mac, but I doubt that Flash in general sucks on the
> > Mac - after all, most Flash designers probably use the Mac, so Adobe
> > has an incentive.
>
> It doesn'
bviously not a flash player). This means there's a 640x480 non-
> streaming h.264 copy (or that's the actual source of all youtube
> videos, I haven't checked, and it doesn't matter) for ALL youtube
> videos. Why NOT stick that in a tag that falls back to a flash
> p
Sure, you could "bundle Ogg Theora and H.264", but what's the
benefit? It seems that there are three reasons against using Ogg
Theora (see the email announcement at
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html):
- no hardware video decoding support (cited by Apple)
-
On May 27, 5:21 pm, Frederic Simon wrote:
> Well it looks like the NetBeans team is not willing to mix Maven and JavaFX
> :)
> The issue was declared "invalid" with the comment:
>
> "JavaFX-specific features are supported in JavaFX project type only."
>
> But like Bill Robertson said: "Netbeans j
On May 20, 5:51 pm, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
> If you follow me on Twitter you now know that this is the secret
> project I've been working on. I can't give out any more information
> that what's on Jonathan's blog, but I can say that your questions will
> be answered at JavaOne, which is a
On May 14, 4:12 pm, Nico wrote:
> I'd like to hear the posse discuss why technologies such
> ashttp://www.db4o.com/
> has not yet taken over from the traditional Relational Databases like
> Oralce, SQL Server, MySQL..
>
> Is it because the technology is not mature enough or is it because of
> ve
On May 14, 10:36 pm, Sean wrote:
> I was just using Glassfish as an example... but you kind of made my
> point: IBM is so big that there isn't much Sun has that IBM doesn't
> already have a competitor for.
Agreed - there's much more overlap with IBM than with Oracle, so more
Sun products will pr
On May 13, 10:56 am, Sean Comerford
wrote:
> Whatever happens, I think we're all better off with Oracle buying Sun than
> IBM... an IBM acquisition would have been a complete blood bath for the Sun
> tech + employees I'd say. Something like Glassfish has at least some small
> chance of surviving
On May 12, 4:35 am, Frederic Simon wrote:
> I really like what we got now, a 20sec "mvn deploy" gives us the applet
> on-line, standard Hudson Maven plugin building the App, ability to include
> any jars from Maven repositories (3 lines in your POM :) and a small
> WebStart update time.
I would
On Apr 22, 3:36 pm, Joe Data wrote:
> For me, putting Schwartz (a software guy from the inside) in charge
> when Sun was in trouble.
Sorry, that sentence is missing "was a mistake" at the end.
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On Apr 20, 2:08 pm, Jan Goyvaerts wrote:
> What's the reason to sell anyway ? Is Sun's financial state that bad the had
> to find an acquirer or close the books ?
The reason is explained nicely by The Register (http://
www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/22/sun_legacy/):
"The thing is that the top Sun
On Apr 15, 3:00 pm, Lars Bollen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> does anybody have experience with using NetBeans to work on a
> mavenized JavaFX project? It seems to me that I can have either a
> Maven project or a JavaFX project, but not both at a time.
You're right. Here's what Petr Hejl, the maintainer
On Apr 6, 4:17 pm, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
> So after three weeks not a single person has reported any verifiable
> facts. So much for modern journalism. I thought there was a time when
> the New York Times and Wall Street Journal didn't print rumors.
As I mentioned earlier on this thread, a
On Mar 28, 8:56 pm, mbien wrote:
> OSGI is a high level classloader based module system, JSR 294 is a
> classpath replacement with changes in the Java Language Specification
> (module keyword) and JVM, JigSaw is a on JSR 294 based low level
> module system for efficient jdk modularisation and JSR
On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
>
> Personally, it's probably good for 'Java', bad for everything else you
> might like about the Sun software and hardware ecosystem.
I still like IBM better than Oracle snatching up the software s
On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
A security filing from Intel reveals remarks from Intel chief Otellini
during a recent staff meeting (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
2009/03/25/intel-boss-says-sun-was-shopped-all-over/):
"I can te
On Mar 25, 1:54 pm, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
> That's why caching is
> important and why JavaFX hitting 100m downloads of the runtime is
> important. It means that there are 100m desktops that can run your
> JavaFX app without having to download the runtime. (100m was in feb,
> i'm sure it
On Mar 19, 12:29 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> Do you see the possibility that Solaris could supplant Linux in the
> IBM suite?
I don't know. For all the talk by Sun about the fabulous Solaris
uptake in the market, it sure doesn't make a lot of money: $42 million
in the last quarter, -29% year-to-y
On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
>
> Personally, it's probably good for 'Java', bad for everything else you
> might like about the Sun software and hardware ecosystem.
One more thing: I feel sorry for all Sun employees. I can reme
On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
>
> Personally, it's probably good for 'Java', bad for everything else you
> might like about the Sun software and hardware ecosystem.
I think it's probably good for Java, too. Whether Sun does the
On Feb 10, 12:02 am, Ido wrote:
> Does anyone is working in production with something like that?
The "data collection engine" underneath Hyperic is SIGAR (http://
www.hyperic.com/products/sigar.html) which is dual-licensed under GPL
and a commercial license. It has a Java API, so it may be wort
On Feb 24, 12:58 am, Alan Kent wrote:
> For my personal needs its things like tables with sortable columns with
> lots of values, so you need to lazily load subsets of the data (not
> download the whole lot and search). Fairly typical database access stuff.
I think that's what the Flex data gri
On Feb 23, 6:06 pm, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
> Hi Karsten. This is Josh from Sun.
Thank you for dropping in here!
> You are correct that JavaFX is not as mature as Flex and Sliverlight.
> This is simply because it is newer. When comparing JavaFX to these
> other toolsets please keep that in
On Feb 21, 6:49 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> I'm very much in favor of JavaFX - I've been working with it
> constantly since the 1.0 release, I think it has alot of potential,
> and it's allowed me to do things in Java on the client site I've
> never, ever been able to do previously.
>
> But it's no
On Feb 19, 10:33 am, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Thoughts? Comments? Expletives? ;-)
The main question: Why should somebody with a Visual Basic app
switch? Does (s)he get with Java everything that's in Visual Basic?
If not, there's no reason to switch. If everything you have in Visual
Basic is in
On Feb 20, 2:01 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> Fixed now.
On my machine (German XP Pro, SP 3, JDK6u12, Firefox 3), the Java logo
just stays there, animated, and I never see anything. The JNLP
version didn't work for me, either. In IE 7, I at least get the
"famous grey applet rectangle". ;-)
http:
On Dec 17, 5:50 pm, Michael Neale wrote:
> > The first two aren't really safe - look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
> > where you have a free, code-identical offering (CentOS) and somebody
> > else offering support at half of Red Hat's price (Oracle).
>
> Ask Oracle how the sales are doing on that
On Nov 22, 7:43 pm, "Peter Becker" wrote:
> In other areas software becomes a commodity and as long as it works
> well enough the cheapest option is the best. Linux is getting there in
> some areas (think netbooks), OOo is catching up. They both still
> suffer from not being mainstream enough, bu
On Nov 24, 4:49 am, "andrew.bruce.law"
wrote:
> I think you're right, the major reason (or at least one of them) that
> Sun gives away software (and this isn't related to it being OSS) is
> that they realise there are free alternatives out there which are
> "good enough". Their clients are gener
On Dec 4, 4:01 am, sherod wrote:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE4B28D920081203
>
> (A bit of balance after all that 'Sun cuts 18%, death of Java
> imminent' news :)
Granted, this is bad for Adobe. But they're still making a good
profit (though boosted by some tax transact
Hi!
On Dec 12, 5:22 am, sherod wrote:
> I think that showing some deep integration with the rest of Java
> ecosystem would probably show the kind of advantages JavaFX may have
> over AIR (for example).
>
> I mean, examples of sending JMS messages, multi-database connectivity,
> threading etc, Sw
On Nov 20, 12:16 pm, "andrew.bruce.law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> However, check out Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly 39 [1] to see what Sun
> *do* think it is.
I haven't had time to listen to it yet, but the points I've heard in
the past are why giving away open source software is good for Sun:
On Nov 20, 4:27 pm, "Peter Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I personally think that:
> - Karsten is right in that shrink-wrapped has the best margins and
> still is a big market to make money in
> - this market is dying fast, thus not the future as you claim (Karsten
> didn't say that)
> - you
On Nov 10, 4:43 pm, ToddH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've heard gripes about the Java and Flush plugins for
> Firefox under 64 bit Linux.
Adobe release an Alpha version of the Flash Player for 64 bit Linux
today:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/adobe_64_bit_linux_flash_10_alpha/
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Hi!
In Episode 215 you discussed the Sun deal with Microsoft for including
the Microsoft Live Search toolbar with the JRE download and said it
was an opt-in deal. It's opt-out which is more annoying to the user
(just click through and you got another toolbar in your browser) but
brings more mone
On Nov 15, 2:01 pm, Patrick Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Java, broken out in terms of revenue, has brought in around $220 million per
> year for the last couple of years (no details before that). Not
> knowing the costs involved, and just guessing, it seems like a pretty
> tidy sum of money
On Nov 14, 2:40 pm, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1 in 5. That sucks. I wish them all the best.
It's actually 15-18% (5,000 - 6,000). And the Sun release has more
details on the software group restructuring:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-11/sunflash.20081114.1.xml
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Here we go - Sun lays off 18% of their staff and restructures their
software group:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/companies/sun_microsystems/index.htm?postversion=2008111408
I guess we have to wait and see what that means for Java.
Karsten
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On Nov 14, 4:44 am, BoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe they should sell all of their assets, EXCEPT Java :)
> And rename the company to Java, inc.
>
> BoD
If you look at the recent Q1/09 results (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/
investor/earnings_releases/Q109_SLD.pdf), total revenues were
$2.99b
Hi!
The Sun market cap just hit $3bln (in July it was still $8bln and
people thought that was low), and Forbes reports that Sun is under
pressure to sell itself or some of its assets to get out of this
hole. :-(
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/12/suns_market_cap_below_3bn_dollars/
I hope
On Nov 11, 2:23 am, Joshua Marinacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The addons to not increase the download size unless you choose the
> extra install. With the kernel the minimum install is greatly reduced
> from the previous JRE installs.
>
> - Josh, on the go
The problem is that it is opt-ou
I've used both JProfiler and YourKit Profiler. They both are
comparable in price and features. For my specific application
(OpenSuse 10.2 Linux, JDK 6, Tomcat 6), Yourkit worked better since
JProfiler reported a lot of CPU time spent in the Tomcat HTTP request
threads which threw off my CPU prof
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