Posted 11/20/2009 at 04:13:36am

And a pretty obvious joke at that. Now who's the fanboy, altair?

Posted 11/17/2009 at 01:00:36pm

Windows 7 does not use DirectX 11, but rather supports it for use by games and applications. Windows Vista also supports DirectX 11.

EDIT: Whoops, meant to reply to Sentinel137.

Posted 11/14/2009 at 04:38:56am

Their 720p and 1080p videos do have those resolutions, but their bitrate it utter crap. HD doesn't stand for High Resolution, but rather High Definition - which it obviously isn't. YouTube's "HD" is indeed marketing BS, especially their 1080p.

Posted 11/13/2009 at 01:11:48pm

1080p has the potential to look much better than 720p. The problem is, 720p has a 0.9 megapixel image whereas 1080p has a 2.0 megapixel image - 2.25 times the pixels, but YouTube is only allocating 1.7 times the bitrate. The low bitrate (for so many pixel) results in increased compression, which manifests as a blurry, artifact-ridden video, and even though it contains more pixels, due to the high compression the video doesn't appear to much better than the 720p video. Too bad.

Posted 11/10/2009 at 01:40:29pm

That is exactly right. Sun does control MySQL since it's the one putting the money and man-hours into developing it. If Oracle ceases all development of MySQL when it purchases Sun, then it effectively killed the project. Even if someone else picked it up because it was open source, they probably wouldn't have enough resources to keep it a viable project.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 02:24:28pm

The title has been corrected.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 02:20:32pm

They say that they want to "Grow" and "Innovate" and they're happy with their current staff ("he cites the success of Google Earth, Android, and Google Chrome"). So happy, in fact, that they even gave them a "Founders Award, a multimillion-dollar stock bonus". And if that's not enough, the linked article states that "innovation that's only possible when you can attract and retain the world's finest minds". If they're so proud of their Earth, Android and Chrome innovations then they obviously plan to retain those people, and have clearly stated that. Where could you possibly get the idea that they want to fire anyone? This is not even speculation, it's pure fabrication.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 02:01:46pm

If by hiring new people they meant firing old ones, then that contradicts: "This is a much different attitude from earlier this year when Google made job cuts".

Also, Schmidt said, "Innovation is the technological pre-condition for growth", the important word being "growth", which means hiring new people in order to expand, not replacing existing positions.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 01:54:40pm

Even after you change "Threat" to "Treat", it still doesn't make sense. Why would Google dangle a treat in front of its own engineers when it's trying to recruit new engineers?

Posted 11/03/2009 at 01:51:22pm

-Erroneous post-