Free, Open Streaming Media

[Alex Snow]

Yeah, and doesn't it compress better than mp3?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc at MIT.EDU>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:15 AM
Subject: Free, Open Streaming Media


> The OGG Vorbis format is not proprietary, and was explicitly created to
stay
> that way.
> http://www.vorbis.com
>
>                     Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: 17 May, 2002 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: java/java script/ya ain't missing much
>
>
> The theory of the Javascript submit button (at least as I understand it,)
> is that it makes the client do  data verification rather than the server.
> For example, if you are making an online purchase, and you enter 1 too
> many digits in your credit card number, the client would catch this before
> the data got uploaded to the server and sent to a bank and then returned
> as invalid.  I still think that it's just laziness.  I remember in college
> that I had a professor who used Java script on his web page that was
> needed for class.  This was back in the days of IE3 and Netscape 3.01.  As
> you can imagine, it was real hard to use.  Almost impossible, in fact.
> Even when I explained it to him, he flat refused to replace the
> Javascript.
>
> Now, as for those Javascript links, I think the only thing they do is
> serve you those annoying popup adds.  I can't stand how so many sites with
> Real Audio content happily use those things.  Oh, speaking of Real media,
> did anybody notice how they switched to that "Real One" player, abandoned
> Linux and Windows 95, and from what I hear, the new player is
> inaccessible.  Shows how much they care about their users!  I think
> somebody needs to come up with a GPL streaming format.  Every audio/video
> streaming format I know of is proprietary.
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