Hoodlum, I find it interesting how your examples only show the positives of "the leveling effect" but none of the negative effects it has as well with those same societies.
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That's because people are immature to use the knowledge they are able to get, in the right way. I's just that they don't get the true deep knowledge, just the skin-deep, easily accessible one.
How can help them? By giving them even more knowledge.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostToo many stuff to reply to individually, so I'll just sum it up:
HTML5 draft spec states Theora as a standard codec: wrong. It did in the past, then got removed.
Theora will be put back in the draft spec: It's unlikely to come back. Of course "unlikely" doesn't mean "impossible," but still.
The Internet should only use non-patented formats: My personal opinion is "no, the Internet should use whatever it wants to." And if the HTML 5 draft will stay as-is, it's going to.
It's in the best interests of Mozilla to not support H.264 when the spec finalizes: Nope. It's in the best interests of Google, not Mozilla.
It's in the best interests of Mozilla to fight for re-introduction of Theora in HTML 5: Yes. But it's unlikely to happen. Apple and M$ have veto powers. See mailing list posting above.
Using Theora will not result in royalties: Apple disagrees. Are they telling the truth? No idea, but that's what they're saying.
Firefox should enforce a "Philosophy of Freedom": Enforce? No. Support? Yes.
[I]W3C themselves say: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential." Translation: "M$, Apple, Mozilla, Google and a crapload of other companies/organizations come to us and get their stuff in the spec so web developers have something they can rely on."
What exactly does "universally accessible information" mean here? No idea, the poster didn't elaborate.
This is why I said you did not understand the web. Your "translation" just proves you do not even know the history of its existence. When I said "universally accessible information" as the principle on which the web is based I expected you to know at least the basic history. Really, it is not my job to educate you.
My last post gives you a brief history of the web that explains why it exists. (A system to access information anywhere). Tbh I just cannot be bothered trying to teach you its entire history, Wikipedia exists - at least until less informed people push so much patent-laden crap into html we can't use it anymore
All hail our patent-troll gods eh?
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostHoodlum, I find it interesting how your examples only show the positives of "the leveling effect" but none of the negative effects it has as well with those same societies.
Knowledge sets you free. Both for good and bad purposes.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostAnd usually large corporations are full of educated people. Food for thought.
Education except knoweledge, builds and a certain character. On the contrary, large corporations care just for the first part and neglect/delete the second one. So, finally, large corporations act like single entities with knowledge but without education most of the times.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostAnd usually large corporations are full of educated people. Food for thought.
I guess you could see it this way:
Knowledge is power.
Too much power corrupts.
The internet equalises the access to knowledge (and thus, power).
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostAnd usually large corporations are full of educated people. Food for thought.
Food for thought.
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Originally posted by Hoodlum View PostA large majority of the most tyrannical dictators through history have been of great intelligence too but this is just getting side-tracked now.
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