[X4U] **RANT** video stuff on the web

[net kat]

Heh..been there myself..

Interesting word, "standard."  We live in an age when words have had  
their meanings so distorted that by rights, everything spoken or  
written needs to have a disclaimer.

I think that Quicktime *is* a standard, but in the professional film/ 
video industry. It's common on the web, but as we all know the  
internets are a political football for m$ to try to dominate, and  
you'll always encounter sites which just don't work unless you're a  
good little boy or girl and use the "right" platform.

For me, the choice is simple: Mac hardware and OS are FAR more  
important to my work than some protectionist petty tyrant on the  
internet, FAR more important than the needs of m$. So, when something  
doesn't work (rare bcs all my online haunts are mac-friendly) I just  
say, "oh, well" and move on.

about all ya can do.

nk





On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> I don't know why Windows Media Player will not play WMV files on a  
> Mac it
> pisses me off too. It should, shouldn't it? VLC sometimes works  
> when WMP
> won't. I have Real Player installed. Why don't you like it?
>
> Quicktime used to be "the standard" if there ever was one but it's a
> question of Microsoft'$ aggressive marketing dominance that shifts  
> the world
> to its "standard" and the sheep just fall in line. M$ is not  
> interested in
> any cross platform solutions. M$ is not interested in helping any  
> website
> admin make any web page more Mac friendly. But complain to the web  
> masters
> anyway maybe enough mosquito bites will make the bastards scratch.  
> We must
> fight!
>
> As an aside.....It's unbelievable where I work how many of the IT  
> people
> just lap up every last drop of bullshit from Microsoft like it's  
> manna from
> heaven. Filthy brown faces everyone of them. And of course Gates  
> and the
> brilliant engineers at M$ invented everything the internet, web  
> browsers,
> online streaming video, mp3s, the personal computer and the world  
> wide web
> all by themselves Apple, Linux, Tim Berners-Lee, Torvalds and  
> everybody else
> are just trying to rip them off. Pity poor M$.
>
> My rant over...
>
> "It's sheep we're up against"
> --The Housemartins
>
> Richard