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Google dropping h.264 support from Chrome
Catfish_Man:
No. This applies to video only.
est:
Nah, I think that that is because it was written years ago by someone who was not a professional web dev and thought she was writing temporary code on a small website. Heather's stuff has held up pretty well all things considered!
est:
Also tangentially related: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-from-chairman.html
Eric Schmidt is stepping down from CEO & Larry Page is taking over. This is actually quite good, because I was wrong a while back saying Page was the creepy one - it was Schmidt, not Page who said the creepy "just move" comment/"joke" about people moving if they don't like their house being on Street View, and making wonderful comments like:
--- Quote from: Eric Schmidt interview @ WSJ, Aug 2010 ---"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions," he elaborates. "They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."
Let's say you're walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are.
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No, really, I really fucking don't.
Hopefully Page will step back a bit from this level of "helpfulness".
est:
--- Quote from: est on 16 Jan 2011, 02:11 ---As an aside, Google has become a really really strange beast ... It has gone from this really cool, funky tech company into a hulking hydra where not all of its faces are entirely benevolent. I used to laugh at people who'd say that they don't trust Google ... But now I don't know.
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John August has just posted something that gels really well with my feelings about Google:
http://johnaugust.com/archives/2011/on-google-and-evil
A choice quote that echoes what I wrote earlier:
--- Quote ---But it’s remarkable how much my appreciation for Google has shifted over the last year or two. I use their products, but I don’t love the company anymore. In fact, I’m kind of nervous about them. It’s a small thing, but I stopped syncing my address book through Google. I don’t want all of my stuff in their cloud.
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and a good summation there at the end:
--- Quote ---Espousing freedom is easy except when it threatens your own dominance. That’s the conundrum Google is in at the moment, though I wonder if they even recognize it.
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JD:
You know I haven't noticed any problems with chrome so far.
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