Most of the new videos on YouTube are not [URL="http://www.youtube.com/html5"]HTML5[/URL] (or whatever) so we never get to see them.

:sad:

Edit: Chalsall, how do we get h.264 support in Ubuntu for "free"?

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;314353]Most of the new videos on YouTube are not [URL="http://www.youtube.com/html5"]HTML5[/URL] (or whatever) so we never get to see them.

:sad:[/QUOTE]

No tienes el Flasho?

Also, it was a hilarious video :missingteeth:

No Flash. No Twitter. No Facebook.

We check our phone and text messages once a day. They never are important.

We wear a manual-wind mechanical watch.

Life is simple.

:camping:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;314356]No Flash. No Twitter. No Facebook.

We check our phone and text messages once a day. They never are important.

We wear a manual-wind mechanical watch.

Life is simple.[/QUOTE]
Very similar to me - except no text messages (just phone/e-mail). I did relent last year and installed a flash-on-demand Firefox add-on. That way I don't get any of the flash-ad spam which evades the pop-up blocker and js-disable-except-for-user-permitted-sites add-on, but the occasional genuinely interesting/funny video I can simply click on.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;314353]Edit: Chalsall, how do we get h.264 support in Ubuntu for "free"?[/QUOTE]

Free as in Beer or Free as in Speech?

H264 is "patent encumbered". Thus a publisher must pay for any use of H264 encoded streams, or risk being sued. Unlike, for example, Theora or WebM.

On the other hand, any consumer of a H264 stream will probably not be sued. Issue the command (as "root"):

[CODE]apt-get install x264[/CODE]

[QUOTE=Zeta-Flux;314350]This is the best video I've ever watched!

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlwilbVYvUg&feature=g-u-u"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlwilbVYvUg&feature=g-u-u[/URL][/QUOTE]

Funny. Not very valuable, but funny.

I personally found this video a lot more important and informative: [URL="http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html"]Clay Shirky talking about Open Source technologies being used for Democracy[/URL].

Xyzzy -- please try the link. It might work for you.

[QUOTE]H264 is "patent encumbered".[/QUOTE]:ick:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;314428]:ick:[/QUOTE]

Hey, ever heard of the [URL="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17327"]Mickey Mouse Act[/URL]?

[URL="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/mitt-romney-google-bombed-himself/57829/"]Mitt Romney Google Bombed Himself[/URL].
This has been cooking along for a couple of days but missed my attention until Timothy Gowers mentioned it in this Google+ [URL="https://plus.google.com/u/0/103703080789076472131/posts/aL6xaFszNTx"]post[/URL]. [QUOTE]Apologies if you've ben told this 100 times already, but if you type the phrase "completely wrong" into Google images, you get an interesting result. For an explanation of why you get that result, stick with Google itself.[/QUOTE]

Æsir you can believe in!

Okay, I need a reality check.

A lot of news articles today are about Romney's "binders full of women" remark.

Are Democrats really making this an issue? Are they really trying to find fault with Romney for this? Is this what our politics has come to?

I would think this is good news for Romney, if this is the best they can do/most important issue they can come up with. And yet, if people don't know what Romney said I suppose they might be scared into thinking it was negative. *shrug*