Local cop car camera captures Fed Ex crash

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[quote Mr645]There are much better video formats out there. Real typically comes loaded with spam and ads anyway.

Jon
Actually, RV is one of the best formats. And the content you see when viewing a Real stream is up to the content creator. It's sort of like bashing the internet because there's ads on it.

[blusubaru]

I saw this on the news tonight, amazing.

[ho'ard]

Great system you guys got there-- cover the earth with huge amounts of concrete and asphalt, and then send humans careening around at high speed in multi-ton hunks of steel pretending their dismemberment or death is not imminent.
Glad it continues to provide you with entertainment.

[Lux Interior]

Must be nice to live a life where you depend on nothing delivered by plane, truck, car, ship van, etc. eh, Howard?

I suppose your bike was peddaled to Chicago from the factory?

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote Lux Interior]I suppose your bike was peddaled to Chicago from the factory?
Do you mean "Pedaled", as in "I pedaled my bike to the store"?
-OR-
Do you mean "Peddled", as in "I peddled my bike at the store and made 50 bucks"?

BGnR
Also, you should read his post again, it had nothing to do with shipping, it was about some folks deriving pleasure in other folks pain. Germans have a great word for it,:
"Schadenfreude", literal translation, "Malicious Joy".

[MacMagus]

> I never understand why people bash Real.

For starters, it's simply not installed on a lot of computers anymore... and fewer sites use it with every passing year... for good reason. So it's annoying to encounter it if you are in the majority and don't have the player.

On the PC side, it's practically a virus. The player is spyware and it opens the door for all sorts of exploits.

On the Mac side, everything that you view with the Real Player and details of your system are reported to Real unless you go into the preferences and disable all that... and there's a hidden set of pref's that have to be changed in addition to the obvious ones.

The player has been crash-prone in every release but the last two... it took them a decade to get around to fixing it.

Real uses a tightly controlled bunch of codecs that can make it a PITA to use and to save or transcode the video. Yeah, Apple's Fairplay is not much different, but it's different enough and the morality behind Apple's DRM doesn't seem quite so sleazy.

Real's executives are very obnoxious about their DRM and they go around insulting Apple all the time for not opening up Fairplay even while they go about locking down their own encoder. They've turned online multimedia into an "us or them" fight. They treat their users like chattel and they're losing the fight. somehow that's Apple's "fault."

So there are several reasons not to prefer Real on the Mac. Briefly: There's a shrinking population of sites using it for streaming multimedia; The player application reports home; The people running the company are jerks.

[(vikm)]

My past experiences with Real and it's quality/crashing are why i won't give it the time of day anymore. No thanks.

[Racer X]

like an ex GF who cheated on you 57 times, but claims she is faithfull now.......

[Lux Interior]

[quote BigGuynRusty]
Also, you should read his post again, it had nothing to do with shipping, it was about some folks deriving pleasure in other folks pain. Germans have a great word for it,:
"Schadenfreude", literal translation, "Malicious Joy".

His post starts out with the statement, "Great system you guys got there-- cover the earth with huge amounts of concrete and asphalt..."

This implies that "We" (i.e. you guys) paved the Earth, and that "He" has nothing to do with it (i.e derives no benefits from the infrastructure).

Es ist mir egal was "Schadenfreude" bedeutet. Aber, auf Englisch, Ich würde "taking pleasure in other people's misery" gesagt. Ein "literal" Übersetzung ist Quatsch, nicht war?

Vielen Dank
Tschüss

[Lux Interior]

Oh, and sorry about the extra "d" hope it didn't make your blood pressure rise too high.