Background Briefing - 29 July 2007 - Trouble with bees. Woman: Did you hear about the bees dying?
Woman: Oh, the bees. Woman: Yes, the bees are dying. Woman: And this is bad for us because if the bees die there is no cross pollination, all of our crops will not continue to produce things that we need. It's very serious. YouTube video 'not so flash' - web - Technology - smh. Cynthia Karena talks to a French developer weaning us off a grainy, low-definition web.
YouTube is a great idea but it has lowered people's expectations about image quality on the internet, says Pascal Vuylsteker, a French consultant and web software developer. "YouTube has trained people to get used to bad-quality video," said Mr Vuylsteker, 40, who works for Opsomai, an IT consultancy for audiovisual and multimedia content management and distribution. The reason for that bad quality was the wide adoption of Flash, "thanks to YouTube", as a tool to access video, he said.
"Flash was not designed for that in the beginning; it was a tool to display vector animation. " Two years ago, Mr Vuylsteker was lecturing at the Australian National University and, after several years away from Paris, he is back with a mission to improve image quality on the internet. Swift and Shift : There is a life after Fat Pizza. YouTube - Ultra-wide screen Virtual Earth 3D (Carleton U. in Ott.