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Ideas To Give Away
Springwise recently ran an article about a fantastic site called 'Ideas To Steal. Today'. The guys from who developed this site were stimulated by the thought that a lot great ideas never get up.
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An invisible world captured on film
This Sunday marks the end of the Ballarat international Foto Biennale; so if you haven't already paid it a visit, I recommend an excursion to our gold rush town to roam the streets, cafes and galleries for a tone of world-class photography. There is an extraordinary amount of work to cover, but the photography of Claudia Fährenkemper is definitely not to be missed. Read the rest of this entry »
BP&O is a Branding, Packaging and Opinion blog led by British designer Richard Baird. What can we say – when it comes to brand and packaging design – these guys have exquisite taste.
You can check the review of our brand and packaging design on BP&O here.
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We are proud to launch the new brand identity and packaging for TOM Organic.
The first and only range of feminine hygiene products accredited by the Australian Certified Organic organisation, all TOM products are 100% biodegradable, made entirely from organic cotton and free from chemicals, bleaches and synthetics. Previously only available in selected independent stores, our brand development work has helped TOM secure distribution in national retailers including Woolworths and Chemist Warehouse. The new packaging is on shelves this week. Read the rest of this entry »
African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes.
Reversing stereotypes through personal brand story telling is how four Kenyan men, Gabriel, Benard, Brian and Derrik turned a simple idea into a viral campaign for charity. After watching Alex Presents Commando they wanted to tell their own story about African stereotypes in Hollywood movies. The video gives us a sneak peak into the lives of the Kenyan men, humanising their world and showing a different Africa, one that is filled with hope, laughter and kindness. It has been produced for Mama Hope who have released a series of personal stories from African nations to raise money for education and much needed community development.
Lucie and Simon's Silent World
Photographers Lucie & Simon have produced these beautiful images of how some of the worlds busiest places would look without people and cars. It creates a surreal world that is both calming and unsettling, but most interestingly this photography series shifts the focus. The landscapes depict places that thousands of eyes has graced over and stopped 'seeing'. As designers we remind ourselves to really 'see' our environment, the mundane of the morning bus trip is filled with designers inspiration gold. These photos are a great reminder of the haphazard beauty of out surroundings. Read the rest of this entry »
Air New Zealand – The Kiwi Sceptics
The Kiwi Sceptics is part tourism campaign, part airline campaign and part dig at stubborn Aussies. The premise is to take Australians with unfavorable opinions of New Zealand and trick them into traveling across the ditch to change their minds. It is a lovely case of well executed brand story telling, twisting cliches and misconceptions, all told through the eyes of characters that are easily related to and reflecting stereotypes that are at times scarily honest (for an Aussie). The campaign is by Air New Zealand, but you would be forgiven for mistaking it for a New Zealand tourism piece, which is an interesting platform, leveraging creative brand positioning, Air New Zealand is promoting and supporting their own national identity, their own people and their own culture, which is a lot more than some national carriers some can boast.
Strandbeest By Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen builds giant, kinetic, wind powered moving animal's that fall somewhere between the disciplines of Art and Engineering.
The project is 22 years along the animals evolutionary path, each variation is a step closer towards Theo's final goal, where his animals can survive by themselves on their beach environment. Each reiteration has new survival techniques. Allowing some to turn the other direction when reaching water or the sand dunes. Some have the ability to store energy in plastic bottles and some, to survive a storm by driving a peg into the sand.
2012 will continue to be a tough environment for retailers. Consumers have no reason to throw off their new found sense of caution and propensity to put saving ahead of spending. If anything 2012 may produce even more reasons for them to retreat with some recent news of the financial services sector spruiking the need to lay off workers, and a sense that flat retail sales is placing huge pressure on retailers to reduce costs.
In the Press – Brand Gems on Corporate Christmas Gift Giving from the Guru, Truly Deeply's own David Ansett
Deck the Halls with Branded Beach Towels
Australian newspaper 'The Age' recently published an article on Corporate Gift Giving in their Executive Style lift-out in time for Christmas. For most companies, this gesture of Christmas giving for staff and for clients tends to follow an age-old path of logos on golf towels. As an expensive exercise, the opportunity to create indelible brand gestures at this time of year is often missed. The Age asked Truly Deeply Founder David Ansett for his perspective on this seasonal sticky question.
You can check the article written by Sylvia Pennington on-line here: Merry Christmas here's an iPad.


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For today's matchup between the New York Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals, I spoke with Alan Schechter, editor of the Jet Press, and he offered some great insight on what we should expect to see today.
1. Talk about the Jets defense. How do they like to switch up their formations (4-3 to 3-4) and use there players (like Quinton Coples) in different roles in a single game?
AS: The name of the game with a Rex Ryan defense, when it is at its best, is confusion. This year, he finally has the front seven to do it. You mentioned Coples, he has been out played by many of his line mates. Damon Harrison, Sheldon Richardson, Muhammad Wilkerson, and Kenrick Ellis have been unbelievable. I haven't deciphered a pattern of how he switches it up.
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Fresh US push to solve Afghan crisis
US Secretary of State John Kerry holds fresh talks with the two candidates of the Afghan presidential vote who accuse each other of electoral fraud.
Presiding officer to retire as AM
Assembly presiding officer and Newport West AM Dame Rosemary Butler will not stand for election in 2016, she confirms.
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Tour de France 'bunting legacy'
Demand for knitted bunting as souvenirs of the Cambridge leg of the Tour de France has been so great, organisers are "selling" it to aid charities.
LeBron James announces Cavaliers return
LeBron James will play again for the Cleveland Cavaliers after opting out of the final two years of his Miami Heat contract.
Inquiry call over police misconduct
A report obtained by the BBC reveals 23 Suffolk police officers and staff were sacked or resigned for misconduct over two years.
VIDEO: World Cup takes over Beirut streets
As the World Cup draws to a close, football fans in Lebanon have been enjoying the action - despite the fact that their country has not been involved in the tournament.
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Police arrest a 21-year-old man in connection with the death of Jean Campbell, whose body was found in a Glasgow park.
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The government is urged to clamp down on untaxed foreign vehicles, as the RAC warns they are costing the UK millions of pounds a year.
Biffy Clyro: T in the Park an honour
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Scientists argue over the merits of a review which concludes that organic foods have higher levels of antioxidants and lower levels of pesticide residues.
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Introducing myself and my journal: Creative,passionate ,real
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I am a very passionate person in all what I do.Energetic and realistic.I have the drive to pick any challenge that comes my way . I love what I do .I believe in myself.I believe all of us can be successful.
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To make the world better for the less fortunate
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I to make a diffrence in somebody's live especially less fortunate in the community
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Hi Lucy,
Welcome to PulseWire! We are thrilled to have you in our community of women who are lifting their voices in the name of empowerment and connecting across borders to make positive change for women everywhere!
I am so encouraged by the work that your organization does in Kenya. Supporting teenage mothers and their children is an incredible project and I applaud your work. I encourage you to utilize your journal here on PulseWire to share with our community the work that you're doing. We would also be interested to hear about what life is like for teenage mothers in Kenya, what barriers they run into, what their future is like and most of all - what Hope for Teenage Mothers is doing to give them back the future that they deserve. We are listening!
I hope that you can also use PulseWire as a network to connect with other women and organizations who are doing similar work, so that you can share successes and ideas and collaborate to support young women in Kenya. Here are some members who are doing great work and you might consider connecting with:
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Your passion for helping teenage mothers is incredible. Providing these mothers with the support they need to return to school and empower themselves is amazing. We are listening to you and the stories of the mothers that you help. Please continue to share your work and their stories with our community. Use your journal as a platform to spread the word of your good work! We are so happy you've joined PulseWire, to give a voice to the teenage mothers of Kenya.
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Hi Lucy, good to learn that you are in this vibrant forum. Karibu. I remember my visit to HTM (through KMD)last August. Those teen moms are great. Spending time with them, their kids and the HTM changed me. Really memorable day and i look foward to visit again soon. Thank you for the initiative and the impact you are making on TMs.HTM is an inspiration to many.
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Summary: The Taiwanese manufacturer sets a release date for the HTC Tattoo, a lower-cost follow-up to the Hero, the company's first self-branded Android handset
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HTC on Tuesday launched the Tattoo, an Android-based handset aimed at a wider market than its first self-branded Android device, the Hero.
The Tattoo will be released in Europe in October, and will be rolled out to the rest of the world after that, HTC said. It will be available through operators, an HTC spokesperson confirmed, without specifying which mobile carrier is offering the phone. The Tattoo will be free with a £25-per-month contract running for 18 months, the spokesperson said.
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This is an independent RP account, anyone is welcome to ask, poke or start a thread with him! Gerome may be a bit shy, but we'll do our best to reply to everything thrown at us!
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|If the future you came from is avoided, would you cut yourself off from the parents you saved? I imagine it'd be very difficult, but it seems to be your approach things. I'm sure you're parents would love to keep you in their lives.
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Cherche and her partner would have him in their life. A younger, new version of him. This time's version of him. He-… the current him, had no place here and never would. The place with this time's version of his family belonged to someone else.
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Analog polysynthesizers naturally lend themselves towards the alien because they strive and fail at mimetic representation. Possibly in an attempt to thwart this awesome failure, synthesizer music claimed representational spaces after the fact; that of the ~imagined~ (literally visualized) allegorical landscape constituting far out alien territories and psychedelic vistas. The potential of the synthesizer is not limitless; in fact at times the ubiquitous qualities of the instrument's grain becomes an unmistakable closed-circuit universe in and of itself, comprised of various psycho-geographical states of consciousness and being; take for example the alleyway nightmare vibe, or the cosmic utopic assent vibe. Those of us by now well-acquainted with the feeling of being sucked up into a chain signal vortex might think its time to end the whole project of the APS, but for many others like myself there is an liminality in synth music that will never die — the mystical threshold between noise and music. Institutions that once cherished the synthesizer as a ~progressive device~ now prefer it buried under retro sands, perhaps ashamed of the way it slithered in to the collective consciousness and unloaded itself on us so completely.Those who chose to evaluate its various aesthetic use-values within a high brow/low brow dichotomy are bound to miss out on the ritualized ecstasy of the holy grower, equal parts Frankie Knuckles, Eliane Radigue and Johan Sebastian Bach. It all has happened before, will happen again, and is happening now, at once.
Originality is ancillary to experience. The physical process of making music and interacting with various musical systems is what interests me. Making an ~original~ work is hardly a goal at all, although it is pleasing that all projects eventually end up in a primordia of origin; it is simply the biocultural tendency that humans have towards generating their own personal systems of variety and meaning. Originality often permits neomodernist totem cries for help — as if the only type of worthwhile experience is the glory of a fresh kill. That sort of viewpoint inhabits the institutional rhetoric of modern music, stabilizing and directing the creation of cannons and genres, and works towards the interests of a very particular class of connoisseurs. Meanwhile the organic/mimetic interests of sound-generators from every corner of the world continue to search for Atlantis. Origins form so that mimes can live out their program freely. If our generation can be defined artistically in a single way it is that of the collector-archivist. We are naturally disposed towards nostalgia, and deep freeze cultural informatics is our greatest cybernetic feat. To understand the euphoria and confusion of my generation is to loop the part of Bill & Ted's in which Beethoven rips a decisively Steve Vaiesque guitar solo on a synthesizer, and thus we intrinsically understand the nature of the eternal rip.
It a joy to acquiesce to machinery and get totally ~into~ in the limitations and scope of gear (as opposed to "defeating it"). It's a joy to time travel, reliving zones of electronic music's past by reverse-engineering the WGBH station identification vibe. Or try composing paeans to soft porn in slow motion, you will be easily seduced and entranced by the seaboard sound of your background mind. The more you enjoy process, limitation and defeat, the more potential there is for chance and adventure. It is no longer a matter of the synthesizer's personality vs. the composer's — the intrinsic music of their shared need to simply ~exist~ will generate variety. This is the promise of sentiment and nostalgia in the field of modern electronic music. If e-music's history has been written as one unyielding progressive laser shot towards an impossible future, then we should also define spaces for ecstatic regression. The lessons of the past are moments in time that are eternally engaged, and the ability to transmit and interact with ~previous systems~ is evidence of the deep melancholy which arises from our inability to stop time just long enough to experience it. To deprive oneself of ecstatic regression is to didactically march into the future like an automaton. Disabling the past doesn't make striving for the future any easier. Signature styles emerge from mimesis and vice versa — it is the universe's disposition towards generating variety that drives everything.
So we homage the past to mourn, to celebrate, and to time travel. The machines of the past contain prenatal patterns and unborn mythologies that eagerly await for their next chance. And when they storm back from the abyss of history, they are never the same. Action/adventure jams come back as devotional dirges. Mantras re-animated as new ageinal horizons. The drone and the loop are functionally melancholic if you so chose, or they can bring you to the all-time highest peaks. Everything is allowed, nothing is permitted. Through ordinary investigations into letting-go and working from the gut, I have reveled in the fascination and mystery of the APS as my greatest and only mecha-ex-eternum.


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I recently came across a journal post on Deviantart that Stated that one of the best things a Completely unknown artists could do is to offer their services for free… now normally I would be almost completely against this suggestion, but the way that this explained it completely made since….
*Take note that this advice is meant for people that are completely unknown beginners that have no options and are looking to learn***
Comic legend Lynn Johnston (creator of "For Better or For Worse" gave me today's tip of the day. She wrote to me with some advice after listening to my audiobook "The Perfect Bait"
"I wondered if there should be a portion dedicated to people- students etc who are completely unknown, who just want to get a foot in the door.
Working for free is the answer. You might balk at this because some critics say this gives the appearance that there is NO value to skill and talent. However- consider this: Working for free gives you amazing experience. It allows you to practice on someone else's project, see your work in print, establish a reputation and learn- big time. People who won't work for free WILL pay for a course! What better learning experience is there than to work with a client- such as a library or an independent book store or a school- producing posters, in house ads and other media, voluntarily? You get to see your work in print- which gives you experience with printing methods and costs. You get to see your work on the wall or in a publication- something a course usually can't provide. You gain a reputation for being on time and reasonable to work with and you learn how to deal with a deadline. This is in the real world- not a classroom. Some of my best clients came to me through the referrals I got from people for whom I worked for free. Free artwork will be appreciated by service clubs, libraries, local live theatre, transition houses, food banks and so on- this is a "donation" on your part; they pay for the printing and distribution and BINGO- you have a credible piece of work for your growing folio.
Just because someone works in a Transition house, for example, doesn't mean they can't help you gain a foothold in your career. Their network of family and friends always includes someone in the industry who can help you- and you will have doors open to you through the most unlikely channels! Doors open, however- only if your volunteer work is excellent. This means giving it your best shot at all times. Nobody recommends someone who is a slacker or a whiner or produces a half-assed job. As a young, inexperienced artist, working for free is your most valuable introduction to the business and if you are GOOD, will result in full time work- either freelance or with an established company. That's my experience! LJ"
- Thank you Lynn.
Sending positive vibes to you all!
when I think about any success stories we've all done something for free that got us noticed weather it was intentional or not. The end Justifies the means is how I look at it. you might be working for free for now, but if in the end it leads to you getting paid why not. don't be afraid to sacrifice for what you want.
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New York » With less than a week until Christmas, a real-life Grinch has stolen the credit and debit card information of about 40 million Target shoppers.
Target says anyone who made purchases by swiping cards at terminals in its U.S. stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have had their accounts exposed. The stolen data includes customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the three-digit security codes located on the backs of cards.
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The data breach did not affect online purchases, the company said.
Here are some answers to the most common questions about the theft:
Q » I shopped at Target during that time. What should I do?
A » Check your credit card statements carefully. If you see suspicious charges, report the activity to your credit card companies and call Target at 866-852-8680. You can report cases of identity theft to law enforcement or the Federal Trade Commission.
You can get more information about identity theft on the FTC's website at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, or by calling the FTC, at (877) IDTHEFT (438-4338).
Q » How did the breach occur?
A » Target isn't saying how it happened. Industry experts note that companies such as Target spend millions of dollars each year on credit card security, making a theft of this magnitude particularly alarming.
Experts disagree about how the breach might have happened.
Avivah Litan, a security analyst with Gartner Research, says given all the security, she believes the breach may have been an inside job.
But thefts of this size are too big to be the work of company employees, says Ken Stasiak, founder and CEO of Secure State, a Cleveland-based information security firm that investigates data breaches like this one. Stasiak says that such breaches are generally perpetrated by organized crime or an overseas, state-sponsored hacker group.
Stasiak's theory is that the hackers were able to breach Target's main information hub and then wrote a code that gave them access to the company's point of sale system and all of its cash registers. That access allowed the hackers to capture the data from shoppers' cards as they were swiped.
James Lyne, global head of security research for the computer security firm Sophos, says something clearly went wrong with Target's security measures.
"Forty million cards stolen really shows a substantial security failure," he says. "This shouldn't have happened."
Q » Who pays if there are fraudulent charges on my account?
A » The good news is in most cases consumers aren't on the hook for fraudulent charges.
Credit card companies are often able to flag the charges before they go through and shutdown your card. If that doesn't happen, the card issuer will generally strip charges you claim are fraudulent off your card immediately.
And since the fraud has been tied to Target, it'll be the retailer that ultimately compensates the banks and credit card companies.
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This App will change how you see time
I have been a big fan of Nooka's watch designs so when I saw they released a new app for the iPhone, I promptly downloaded. It is a pretty amazing little app that visualizes the concept of time in a fresh and fun manner. Just check out this video and you will know. It is worth the 99 cents (though there a free version as well.)
Brian Hart (@bbhart) says:
February 3rd, 2012 at 8:31 am ★ ↓
I have no idea what's going on in that video.


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Here's one more reason why it's great to go to IKEA – the store has installed three Blink Pedestal electric vehicle charging stations at its San Diego, California store.
IKEA is on a mission to be green, and the Swedish retail empire has partnered up with ECOtality, a company that specializes in electric transportation and storage technologies. The San Diego store is the third IKEA location to offer charging stations for EV drivers, so you can charge while you shop for home décor items with funny names. This location also boasts a solar energy system on its roof, so the charging stations are the perfect complement.
To use the EV charging stations, you'll need a Blink InCard – just swipe and charge. The ECOtality system will be installed in another six IKEA locations in the near future.
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June update: Due to this being our biggest Comic Con yet, the Embassy Suites special group room rate has unfortunately sold out.
While there are sleeping rooms available, due to the high occupancy, they will be higher for the last remaining ones in the entire hotel.
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Mozilla shrugs off 'forever free' H.264 codec license
Update: This story has been updated to show that the MPEG-LA's license change applies to free video broadcasts, not applications that encode and decode video. Mozilla vice president of engineering Mike Shaver has questioned the importance of the forever free H.264 license introduced this morning by the MPEG-LA, the organization …
A clearly partisan decision
Arguably the right stance to take (I mean, I don't think so, but I can see the point of view), but a definitely announcement by Mozilla that they're not impartial despite having no direct strategic interest in either codec. The lunacy of "someone's planning a better codec in the future so of the ones that exist now we're supporting only the one that nobody currently uses" is hard to avoid however. I remember they used to get something like 90% of their income from Google by receiving a tiny fee each time a user uses the browser's search box — is it possible they're trying to bind themselves closer to Google now that Chrome is on the scene?
"""The lunacy of "someone's planning a better codec in the future so of the ones that exist now we're supporting only the one that nobody currently uses" is hard to avoid however"""
That's mostly not what the Mozilla guy was saying. He was suggesting that since the MPEG folks had already promised free royalties on h264 through 2014, that extending their promise for a small portion of the h.264-using market past that was pretty much pointless, since they'll be pushing h.265 before 2014, which will require paying licenses.
Since this new promise is likely irrelevant, I suspect that Mozilla isn't going with h.264 for the same reasons they were avoiding it in the past - It's an ugly monopoly tool, which doesn't belong anywhere near open source software.
Quote: "Since this new promise is likely irrelevant, I suspect that Mozilla isn't going with h.264 for the same reasons they were avoiding it in the past - It's an ugly monopoly tool, which doesn't belong anywhere near open source software."
... Unlike Google search or Adobe Flash or any of the other ugly monopoly tools. Oh, oops.
The Mozilla folks are full of double standard shit.
Get a clue
The difference between Flash and Google search is they aren't a web standard, they aren't being put forward as being part of HTML 5, they aren't going to be used by every webmaster in a few years time because they're part of a standard only for MPEG-LA to come along and say "You know that standard your using for free? Yeah you know, the one we gave away for long enough so that everyone forgot about us? Yeah! that's the one. Well now you pay us for using it or we sue your arse"
Thankfully the stance Opera, Mozilla and Chrome are taking, might actually(hopefully?) kill off this madness of getting a patented non-royalty free technology adopted as part of an open standard.
Which is beside the point
What Mozilla are saying on the one hand is that they won't support closed, patented tech in their OSS browser yet on the other hand they are delighted to support closed, patented tech like Flash and Google's search. They are effing hypocrites. Either don't support it at all and drop Google from being built into the browser or STFU and spare us all the high horse.
No what Mozilla are sayin is that they won't BUILD code
that clearly violates both the FOSS and monopoly licenses.
Flash is a plug-in that abides by their plug in protocols, Google search likewise. The plugin is separable from the FOSS license. Building support for H.264 directly into the browser is not. If the H.264 group want to build a plug-in so Firefox supports their codec, they are welcome to do so.
Sadly, it will be
As much as I'd like WebM to become the be-all and end-all, there are some significant hurdles. The biggest of which is the number of devices (*not* just iPhones, but they make up a significant amount) with hardware chips for decoding h264 content. There's no patch that'll magically make them accept WebM, everyone will have to go out and buy new devices.
Obviously, that'll happen eventually. But within four years it might still be a problem.
Sorry Alastair,
down voted the wrong post so I upvoted to try to balance it.
Not a partisan decision...
HTML5 isn't even real yet. Standard are still being finalized. Just because of the influx of "HTML5 Apps", that use tiny bit of the just one part of one of the many HTML5 standards, doesn't mean that this thing is done. Let alone HTML5 video.
For all we know, HTML5 video might turn into next years Silverlight.... another stillborn technology. Definitely too early to worry about video CODECs. Plus, CODECs are the most pluggable of any browser software.
I don't know if either WebM or H.264 is going to become the dominant in-browser video tech. Maybe we will still be using player browser plugins in four years. Maybe another CODEC entirely.
Plus, Apple is clearly trying to take video out of the browser entirely, and move it to special player apps, connected to the iTunes universe. They want to sell video content via iTunes. Does Mobile Safari support any sort of video at all? Given that Apple wants to replace most home PCs with iPads, that tells you a lot about the relevance of HTML5 video.
H.264 already is the dominant in-browser video codec. WebM is nothing at the moment. It really is difficult to see it becoming anything at all while Google sits on it's hands and refuses to indemnify anyone against patent liability if they choose to use it. If Google is so damned sure that WebM has no patent risks, why don't they say they'll carry the liability for others using it? (Obvious) answer on a postcard please.
Does Mobile Safari support any sort of video at all?
Yes - H264
Re: Sadly, it will be
The vast majority of such devices are phones and iPads. And even most of those have the processing power necessary to run WebM in software entirely at the resolutions they can produce.
Meanwhile, laptops and desktop computers do not need hardware acceleration for video at all any more, what with multiple core CPUs as they are currently being quite capable of handling that all by themselves even if it's not the most efficient way to go.
Within 2 years, a lot of those mobile phones will have been replaced. If we push WebM hard now, a lot of those phones will probably ship with hardware WebM acceleration, either instead of or in addition to h264 support. In 4 years, the majority of the phones will have WebM acceleration aboard and we can start dropping h264 support entirely. Only those with ancient phones and phones from manufacturers that refused to adapt will be inconvenienced by such.
does it help?
Is there any guarantee that the patents held by the MPEG-LA won't also apply to any future video standard?
Remember these aren't patents on H264 - they are patents on various techniques for compressing video,.
>Though WebM uses a royalty-free license, the MPEG-LA has said it's "looking into" a patent pool that would challenge its royalty-free-ness. And apparently, this jibes with the thinking of Apple CEO Steve Jobs<
Which is why I hope WebM wins.
It looks like it already has
Otherwise they wouldn't have taken this decision, they'd have gone after WebM over patents.
"though Microsoft has said it will allow IE9 netizens to use WebM if they install it on their own machines."
Oh, thank you, that is so gracious of you. You will allow me to use legal software that is installed on MY machine...
So why the sarcasm?
Microsoft is doing the right thing.
If I'm running Windows 7 (as I do from home) I've already paid for h264 anyway, so why won't a browser let me use it? It's right there in the DirectShow framework to be invoked. Not just one implementation either but several since I have Microsoft, DIVX and ffmpeg codecs all sitting there ready and happy to decode h264.
I am glad that Microsoft have wisely chosen to open up their video tag to other codecs. It wouldn't by itself persuade me to use their browser, but it's a step in the right direction.
Well, by itself, it convinces me to use it over Safari. Mind you, I can play H.264 in FIreox just fine with the right plugin, so I'm off the the codec races...
You make a video and put it on the web and make a fortune and MPEG-LA can sue you for the money - unless you can prove you've got a valid production license.
Have you? Can you remember paying out $2500 for one - no then you haven't so your 'Two Grandmas One Denture Sterilising Device' is going to cost you big time.
H264 is not about providing an easy to use Codec - its about making money for its owners.
Licence is paid by manufactureers etc
AIUI, the licence is paid by manufacturers of cameras, software etc so you're fine using the kit you've bought.
If you use WebM or Ogg Theora you just pray they don't violate patents because if they did, Google is not going to indemnify your ass if MPEG-LA come around suing people. In other words, same boat.
Besides which, most people have h264 licenses through one means or another, or don't need one to begin with. Even if it were an issue for some, blocking everyone from using a legally owned, industry standard codec is rather silly. If Mozilla felt so strongly about proprietary extensions, they should disable plugins altogether from the browser rather than let it actively assist people to install Flash, Silverlight etc.
Licensing is more complicated than you think
The licenses paid for by the camera manufacturers are licenses for non-commercial use only; pretty much any camera sold says so if you read the actual licensing agreement it comes with. If you make any money using images you took using that camera, you're violating the license you were given.
The license is paid for by the Manufacturers?
Not for commercial use - that's extra $2500 dollars extra. For each camera, and any softtware that might convert something else so $5k to make your own video, change something in it and stick it in a commercial website.
No the license is paid for by every poor bastard that uses it one way or another. Free? - only if your really stupid.
Post anonymously?
Um... Everyone seems to conveniently forget a little thing called Blu-ray. It's this funny technology that allows people to watch movies in lots of different places. h.264 isn't going anywhere until Blu-ray is replaced with another technology. And at the rate it took to replace DVDs, it'll be at least another 10 years before h.264 will even begin to die. More likely, we'll have to wait until a new type of TV is developed before it will even be useful to discuss. And no, (non)streaming downloads are not going to replace Blu-ray, though they should eventually marginalize physical technologies.
For all the noise from Google and Mozilla, I have yet to hear of any hardware manufacturer that's actually interested in making chips that can decode WebM. OTOH, chips to decode h.264 already exist and are going to continue to exist for many years.
Even if WebM manages to "win" for some market, such as Internet or mobile, the devices are still going to be supporting h.264 for all the other cases, such as movies made in iTunes.
Existing and future hardware H264 and WebM
Some HW chips out there (most?) are firmware reprogrammable, which means that WebM can be added using a simple firmware upgrade. (If the handset or other device supplier wants to do it)
I know of at least one major manufacturer of chips for mobiles and other devices that already has WebM running on a chip that previously didn't support it. It just needs code. The chip also supports H264 and various other codecs. Other manufacturers will follow suit VERY quickly because it a relatively low cost way of getting an extra tick box on the marketing blurb. (6 man months should do it, if that)
As to Bluray using H264 - so what. People don't care what format is on the disk as long as it plays. Although H264 wont go away in this case, it might end up being the only place its used. To be honest, I transcode all my DVD and stream then anyway....and I dont really care what the format is on the DVD. It's going to go that way.
Not to mention...
... the use of h.264 in DVB-T2 (and possibly other broadcast standards - I'm no expert). So it's going to be in most new TVs for the foreseeable.
"Everyone seems to conveniently forget a little thing called Blu-ray"
Um, nope, Blu-Ray is a Disc Technology. Likewise DVD is a disc Technology and not an encoding format nor a video container format in itself.
WebM can handle H264 easily
WebM uses the VP8 video codec in a Matroska container. Oh and using Vorbis audio codec
The reason Matroska was chosen was so new codecs can be included easily. The Ogg container is interesting, but will die soon because it is very hard to add new codecs
There is no problem at all with WebM containers (Matroska) delivering H264 along with MP3 audio streams. Or H264 with Vorbis streams, or VP8 with MP3 streams, or whatever format you so desire.
Irrespective of the licensing situation WebM is unlikely to die in any realistic timeframe because it has chosen (wisely) a very good and fleixible container format - Matroska.
you seem to be confused...
Matroska is a container format, it allows the use of various codecs. WebM specifies exactly one audio codec and exactly one video codec, No choice = no complexity or confusion. By design.
Just open up the video tag Mozilla
If Mozilla only want to ship with a few rather useless codecs, then fine but the video tag should be opened up to support other video codecs such as h264.
How to do this? Rather easily. A video player is just a specialised class of plugin that plays media. Mozilla can define a framework for NPAPI plugins to declare they handle video and an interface the plugin should implements for content type supports, trickplay etc.
It's not hard and it would allow Mozilla to keep their codebase clean without hobbling their browser. As it stands their solution is useless and doesn't address reality.
You've basically described the <embed> tag
"a very good and fleixible container format - Matroska."
A container shouldn't be needed in the first place. All it does is tell the program whats inside it with a few other odds and sods. Its just the usual software over engineering because someone thought making a program recognise the file type using magic numbers embedded at the start was just too easy so something more complicated was required.
Er, what?
Containers contains streams of data + other stuff. They provide a level of indirection that does give benefits over a simple stream. You can add chapter stuff for example. They also save on code because you only need to write code once for a container type, and once for the stream type. If each stream type had its own implementation of the data currently stored in containers, you would need to write container like parsing code for EACH stream type. Which would be a PITA.
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>All it does is tell the program whats inside it with a few other odds and sods
Yes, you clearly know nothing about audio/video. Ever heard of muxing before? Have any handy solutions to place audio and video inside one file while keeping it synced? How about for live broadcast where the start of the video isn't available, where does one get their 'magic numbers' (lots of container formats cannot handle this properly)?
Matroska is a great container format compared to most and I'm glad that webm has decided to use it for their implementation.
How else would you fit in subtitles (if you need them, you might not), 2.0 or 5.1 soundtracks (if you need them, you might not), different language tracks (if you need them, you might not), etc...?
Magic numbers me arse
Propose a format for these magic numbers of yours. A format that can store multiple streams, streams of various bandwidths, streams which must be time synchronized, streams holding arbitrary data, all stored in a file which may not have the luxury of file seeks, or even a start or an end due it being delivered sequentially.
Assuming you bother to address these issues, you will have described a container. It's not just a matter of a few magic numbers on the file. Each stream has to be uniquely identified, each stream contains arbitrary data, each stream delivers data at different rates. It is the container's job to manage all that.
Containers are a necessity and some (especially AVI) have even been hacked because of their limitations. The reason MKV is gaining traction is because it doesn't suffer many of the artificial limitations of other containers. It has been built from the ground up as an open standard. It doesn't mean some random app that reads MKV can actually do anything with the data, but it's a damned better format than most of the others floating around.
Seems a simple choice to me
WebM is the only choice, HTML is an open standard, WebM is an open codec.
H264 comes with no future promises.
We need a codec that will evolve and stay open and free.
All the crap about device support is pointless, this isn't a decision based on downloaded video, this is about streaming, and when WebM is chosen as the HTML5 codec chips will be made.
As for Apple products, no problem, the upgrade cycle is short enough that the new chips can be in the next gen devices before wide adoption. :p
For all of you who think containers are so essential...
..ask youself how .wav or .au or .mpg files were played 20 years ago. They didn't have containers and they worked just fine. As for magic numbers - they're already a standard so get yourselves a clue and go read this:
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.wav and .mpg are container formats.
20 years ago,
.wav and .au files were single-stream audio-only files -- no video. (They were also huge and low-quality, but that's another argument.)
The MPEG-1 standard wasn't finished until 18 years ago, but I'll call that close enough. It actually includes one of those container formats you seem to hate so much. While it has a single program stream, that stream is a container built from one or more separate elementary streams interleaved using a form of time-division multiplexing. Each of those elementary streams is its own standard format, and can exist outside of an MPEG-1 container (MPEG layer 3 Audio (.mp3) is the best example of this.) So while you can have audio- or video-only MPEG-1 files, once you combine two or more streams (and what is video without audio? ; ), you also have to include the program stream, the container format.
In general, whenever you have two or more data streams that have to be synchronized, you need some container format to manage that synchronization. So, yes, containers are essential when you're doing video with audio. Now, if you think the talkies ruined the film industry, I won't argue with you, that's another discussion for another forum.
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.
At least you won't need Flash
I think just about everyone commenting here will agree that the flash player for H-264 video sucks!
Unreliable, insecure, crashes early and often.
Integrated non-flash players such as demonstrated at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora are the way to go.
standards & embedded chips
So, regarding some battle between H.264 and WebM -- as far as I'm concerned, as long as the browsers have some sort of video tag plugin, I just don't care about their politics. I mean, I'd prefer WebM to win, but the reality is that I also want to be able to watch videos whether they use a proper format or not. In reality, though, I don't know if either will displace Flash -- for stuff like TV show and movie streaming, they are so paranoid, and are using increasingly complex rights restrictions (to try to prevent stream ripping), I don't see them giving it up to go to a straight Video tag.
Regarding embedded chips, those who way they won't support WebM are probably mistaken. These chips don't decode MPEG2 or H.264 -- that is, you don't thrown in a raw MPEG2 or H.264 stream in and get video frames out -- they accelerate particular steps like iDCT and motion compenstation. So if WebM uses motion compensation (for instance) at all, the chip can still accelerate it. Also, a lot of these are general-purpose chips and are reprogrammable.
magic numbers!
just a "sync file" could do the job of syncing two, trhee, ten or more streams really you have the video, the audio , the subtitle and a file telling you the syncing info, you could even index the subtitles or other text streams, think finding the rigth spot in the news...
2 cents a dance
>>if they set up their own website to deliver their home movies and charge for them; they will need a license, an expensive license. <<
The H.264 royalty on retail sales is 2% of the retail price or 2 cents a disk or download, whichever is lower.
MPEG LA thinks commercial scale.
Call them after you manage to sell 100,000 copies of your feature length Trek Wars fan flick and have a check for $2,000 ready to deliver.
There are no royalties on video subscription services when your subscriber list is less than 100,000.
Bad math?
2% of the retail proce per unit does not equate to $0.02, unless of course each unit retails for $1.00, unlikely.
Thats 2 cents more than it should be
why does everyone in the web thing its ok to take money of people merely for providing a 'service' that anyone else could and getting in everyone's way?
Free open standards for the WEB - nothing else thanks.
If you cant provide a real service get out of everyone else's way.
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The 35 year old Lee made ten starts for the Phillies before landing on the disabled list on May 19th. He was 4-4 with a 3.18 ERA and 1.279 WHIP. While those numbers are more than respectable, Lee hasn't posted numbers that high since the 2009 season. His 10.3 H/9 is the highest he's seen since 2007. Still one of the top pitchers in baseball, it is clear that something hasn't quite been right for the former Cy Young Award winner.
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Shinsei Mountain Man R/C TrucksThese are vintage r/c trucks from the early 1980's. They have been stored on my closet shelf since 1988. Both have been tested and are in running condition. I actually had a ball testing the red one and my batteries were almost dead by the time I checked the black one. I forgot how much fun they were on a smooth floor in 2 wheel drive! The black truck shows more wear then the red truck since Gramdpa allowed all of the grand- children to play with it when they visited, but they both have nicks and scratches. All in all they are in very good condition One transmitter is missing the battery compartment door and the black truck is missing the spare tire. Each truck takes 8 C-Cell and 4-AA batteries for transmitter. Batteries are not included . I am selling as a set only, will not seperate.
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