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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by zaroth »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #170
rsanek wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Google and Yahoo Finance already adjust for splits. Yahoo has an 'adjusted close' value that reports the price adjusted for dividends, but these adjustments don't change the stock price so much that it would make comparing unadjusted values 'not meaningful'.

It's not meaningful to compare because they are different companies with different market caps. I actually hear people talk about stock prices as normalized values in every day conversation, but don't know any way polite enough or fast enough to correct them.

Are there any good charting sites which graph market cap and float instead of price and volume?

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by tim333 »

notdan wrote: post #211
DigitalSea wrote: post #125

The HTML5 player is fantastic and I have been using it for as long as I can remember (since it became an option). My favourite feature is the playback speed controls, when trying to learn a song on guitar, I can follow along with the live performance or tutorial to learn how to play, absolutely invaluable. Every day the number of reasons to keep Flash installed gets lower and lower. I still keep it installed on my ma…

Since you are using youtube to learn songs on guitar, you might try this out (I made it): http://tunetranscriber.com Let's you do marks and loops as well as using the playback controls.

That's cool. What did you use to slow the music/vid?

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by javert »

derekp7 wrote: post #234
click170 wrote: post #219

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Those just aren't sufficient IMO. I like being able to listen to music when I have no internet connection. I like being able to listen to something when the original was taken down. I like being able to listen to something that the vendor no longer offers. I like having smart playlists in my library and on my devices that automatically update themselves based on meta data such as what I've played recently. Unfortunat…

Isn't most of the music purchases on Amazon DRM-free? And downloadable in regular MP3's with a standard web browser? It's been a while since the last time I acquired any music.

Yes. I purchase Amazon MP3s and play them on Linux. I like actually owning my music as good old-fashioned files. Highly recommended.

Amazon doesn't just provide a link to the files once you purchase them, there is a downloader client. I have never tried the official one, there is an open-source command line alternative called "clamz" that works perfectly.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by jsprogrammer »

derekp7 wrote: post #230
click170 wrote: post #218

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Still seems like a false dichotomy to me. Subscribe to Netflix and pirate your content if you have a firm believe in being DRM free while rewarding the creators of content you consume.

Last I checked, the most effective way to pirate content is via a protocol such as Bit Torrent which requires you to also distribute pirated content. And that has legal ramifications, which then requires non-trivial methods to obscure your activities (paid proxy servers, etc). Most of us use Netflix not for ideological reasons, but for the pure convenience of it. Compared to Bit-Torrent,with Netflix you can easily br…

BitTorrent traffic can be encrypted. There is no legal attack vector when used.

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Post by surrealize »

bzbarsky wrote: post #258
matthewmacleod wrote: post #83

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Out of interest, why is Firefox a 'proper' open-source browser while Chrome is not? Isn't Chrome pretty much just Chromium with a little bit of extra Google integration on top?

Last I checked, the bits of Chrome that aren't in Chromium are: 1) PDF viewer. 2) Flash. 3) Some audio/video codec support (e.g. Chromium has no support for MP3, AAC, H.264, or the MP4 container format; see " rel="nofollow">http://www.chromium.org/audio-video> ). 4) Crash reporting, metrics, that sort of thing. #1 and #2 are certainly closed-source. I can't speak to #3. [EDIT: as surrealize points out, #1 is no longe…

It looks like they open-sourced the PDF viewer:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/06/google-chrome-pdf-engine-f...

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by deathanatos »

ucaetano wrote: post #247
abdias wrote: post #235

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True, it was approved by W3C and Tim Berners-Lee a while back ( http://www.infoworld.com/article/2612478/html5/berners-lee-a... ), and was criticized - understandably so. For instance: If someone do research for educational or critical purposes, they have the right to use copyrighted material under "Fair Use" (US, UK and other countries have similar rules). With DRM this would essentially block this right (if used on…

"Right to use" != "right to have it provided to you in an easy-to-copy way".

> "Right to use" != "right to have it provided to you in an easy-to-copy way".

One of the big problems with DRM is that this ends up being not "right to use" but "right to use in several very narrow ways that someone else deems fit". If your use is innovative or just different — such as using a more capable media player with more features than the one provided to play the media with —, you end up being not able to do it.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by kissickas »

click170 wrote: post #219
munificent wrote: post #166

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YouTube, Spotify, Google Play Music, SoundCloud, Pandora, et. al.

Those just aren't sufficient IMO. I like being able to listen to music when I have no internet connection. I like being able to listen to something when the original was taken down. I like being able to listen to something that the vendor no longer offers. I like having smart playlists in my library and on my devices that automatically update themselves based on meta data such as what I've played recently. Unfortunat…

Have you tried Google Play Music? You can start by uploading 20,000 songs that you already own and just sync them to your phones/computers for offline listening.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by bzbarsky »

surrealize wrote: post #266
bzbarsky wrote: post #258

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Last I checked, the bits of Chrome that aren't in Chromium are: 1) PDF viewer. 2) Flash. 3) Some audio/video codec support (e.g. Chromium has no support for MP3, AAC, H.264, or the MP4 container format; see " rel="nofollow">http://www.chromium.org/audio-video> ). 4) Crash reporting, metrics, that sort of thing. #1 and #2 are certainly closed-source. I can't speak to #3. [EDIT: as surrealize points out, #1 is no longe…

It looks like they open-sourced the PDF viewer: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/06/google-chrome-pdf-engine-f...

Oh, I'd missed that happening. Thank you for pointing that out!

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by deathanatos »

maaku wrote: post #131
mhb wrote: post #124

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What's the community using instead of iTunes?

What's crappy about iTunes?

> What's crappy about iTunes?

In addition to what other have said:

  * no support for FLAC, OGG, WMA(?)
  * I don't _think_ there's support for ReplayGain.
  * Frankly, I just find the UI hard to manage.
  * _any_ marginally advanced feature.[1]
[1]: (I "DJ" for dancers) fade outs, volume changes in actual decibels (the volume bar is completely unlabeled), simple one time gain even if it results in clipping (quality matters none if you can't hear it), stop after current song, don't trust duration metadata or guesswork (I have MP3s that completely break the seek bar), start song from an index that isn't 0:00…
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