- From: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:36:57 +0200
People are reluctant to learn new tools and new ways. Most of the time it is a sane protection from overwhelming abundance. It is not limited to programming languages, it can affect also video encoders. It even affects telephones (some people dislike telephones with keys). Bjarne Stroustrup on this (quoting from memory): I used to expect the programming languages of the future would be as easy to use as a telephone. Now I do not know how to use my telephone any more. Moreover, I suppose every video encoder has parameters that you adjust to get the best results, depending on the source video, so the problem is not limited to choosing another encoder. IMHO, Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090608/ebba6811/attachment.htm>
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