I second your simple solution and salute you sir! There are only 2 problems (of human nature and society, which are the root cause of all this in the first place) -
1) Most people are too lazy to plant a tree.
2) Major corporations and Wall Street do not make a ton of money from this *solution*.
If you have proposed that it be mandatory for each family to buy a genetically altered tree that will absorb extra carbon and grow extra fast from the new super fertilizer from Mosanto, then, yeah, maybe the bureaucrats' ears will perk up. Then the subsequent soil and water pollution will kill us all anyway. Sorry to say.
I love the fact that despite the mighty MSFT with its VBScript/JScript/.NET, Sun's Java and JavaFX, and Adobe's Flash and ActionScript in combined assult on common, non-plug-in, web standards, JavaScript simply refuses to die and is more popular than ever. Despite the lack of dedicated tools support from major vendors. It shows the majority of web users simply just want a free web browser that works without fuss.
How often do you actually hear the majority commenters rave about a total Flash website? How about the other way around? The popularity of Flash has only 2 main reasons - 1) Stream videos (mainly porn) in a way the users cannot download; 2) flashy banner ads only the designers and advertisers themselves love. The vendor tools that supposedly make it *EASY* to develop only make it easy to develop crap.
The danger of vendor plug-in is this - if you can view the web and vendor specific content with just the vendor plug-in, why do you need the web browser? Don't let them cripple the web browser or hinder its evolution.
Not logical at all. Apple does not fabricate it's own chips but it's in the hardware business just fine.
If I have an issue setting up my grid and have to call Dell and Oracle and Redhat to find what's wrong with the configuration, alternatives will become attractive. Oracle is in this for the whole stack. Attract and retain customers by simplifying the number of contracts they have on maintenance. Oracle just need to assemble and support the vertical stack. Where the separate parts come from don't matter.
Typical MSFT logic again. The official blog describes 'Bing' as "the sound of found". Problem is - I haven't started looking for anything yet, WHY IS THERE A SOUND? Furthermore, even MSFT admit that to compete with Google you need a name that can become a verb - so WHY DID THEY DESCRIBE 'BING' AS OFFICIALLY A SOUND (which is a noun)?? And then the name keeping chiming in your head - Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! - like a bad commercial jingle that is stuck there and makes you hate it, despise it, and swear never to touch it - no matter how good it actually is. I'm guessing that would be roughly 50% of the population that MSFT still will not convince.
I think I finally understand what is wrong with Linux - the lack of a truly ruthless, calculating, and multi-talented leader, someone like Jobs for Apple and Gates for MSFT. Linux has geeks, super geeks, ultra geeks, genius geeks, but no geek with brains for business savvy that can create a complete compelling product. None of the FOSS community leaders wants or knows how to lead a company, and the business minded people who started out selling Linux hoping to cashing in a cheap price quickly abandon their principles for a bigger market share with Windows. Windows more user-friendly than Linux? I think it's more like people are trained and conditioned for it. Human nature rather suffers through known abuse than risk the unknown. Most smokers know cigarettes will kill them, but still they cannot quit.
I remember Schwartz on the cover of a major tech magazine a couple of years ago, JDJ, I think, with the tag line underneath that said "The End of Middleware" just as Oracle was starting to heavily push their presence as the middleware platform. Now Oracle is about to own Sun.
Every new version of Windows takes up ever more hard disk space and RAM than before. It's not enough that we get one big ass OS now but you get 2! What happens when you switch into XP mode and install a XP-compatible VM to host another installation of Windows 7? Like standing in between 2 mirrors facing each other...
Yeah but 'X' is so 90s - ActiveX, Macromedia MX, CFX, X-Files, Gen-X... Even OSX will have to evolve pretty soon when 10.7/8/9 eventually gets here (assuming Apple won't skip them). May be MSFT is really hoping that by getting to Windows X quickly people will confuse it for XP and actually pick it up.
That's one tactic I hope field sales reps don't use. MySQL and Oracle have different strengths. Oracle should just kill Lite/Express/whatever. Then first sell Oracle. If customer balk at the price convince them to use MySQL. Oracle should use MySQL to keep customers who may want to move away from Oracle Enterprise because of cost.
Oracle + Sun would be the natural alternative to SQL Server + Windows. Many shops that I worked for used to be Oracle + Unix gradually shifted to MSFT over the last 10 years due to cost and staffing. Streamline the server support contracts and cost would make sense to compete with Microsoft. MySQL can be to Oracle like Sybase to DB2 at IBM, and there's still Postgres and other open source DBs. A play by Oracle might actually bring IBM back to the bidding war and be good for Sun. Right now Sun does not have enough revenue stream that will make enough money to bail itself out. Sun wasted all its energy fighting MS, and failed to see that their real enemy was Intel + Dell.
ummm... what happened to just watching baseball on TV or at the ballpark normally? Or do people started watching all sports games at work? I barely have enough time catching up on/., twittering, connecting on FB, chatting, checking out Reader and dozens RSS feeds, blogging, and downloading songs... Who has time for proprietary plug-ins that make people who should not be designing web sites think they can design?
After the Watchmen blockbuster results at the box office, WB realized they must generate some kind of buzz to ensure another big budget investment not fall into the black hole.
As an old-time comic book fan already tired of the umpteen "origins" of Wolverine that Marvel put out regularly for quick profit, I would not watch the movie even if somebody dropped a free DVD on my lap. Doesn't the FBI have better things to do - like finding real terrorists - or at least those who continue to destroy the economy by rehashing old trash instead of inventing the future?
What about the additional $80/year anti-virus tax for running Windows? I'm sure in a month when Lauren's PC start running like molasses she'll install Linux. Then she'll freak out in a panic 'cause she didn't think she was cool enough to speak that other PC OS.
Real FOSS nerds would just build a catapult, a flying car, or teleporter to get across. Green engineers would have demanded that 2 UNDER-passes be built, one for humans to bicycle across, and another for critters that live in the woods to have corridors connecting their shrinking landscape. Apple or Google would plan on building light rails or trams that will eventually connect all their campuses and stores. IBM would just hire only illegal Mexican workers skilled at running across highways. Obviously Seattle isn't the most innovative regional planners they purport to be. Wimps.
I paid $200 for my XO in the G1G1 deal. 6 months later I paid $200 for my iPhone 3G. The iPhone has 8 times the capacity, Wifi so easy a kid can configure it, and is hands down a better 'computer' than the XO in my opinion. Sure, it doesn't have Python, but coding on the tiny keyboard was a pain anyhow.
Apple has been making computers for education long before Negroponte. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes ahead again. Think of all the educational apps that can be built with the iPhone SDK and distribute for free. Never, EVER, spurn Apple while Jobs is still alive. He'll make you eat your words.
When did OS started to think? A browser that thinks like an OS? Sounds like day after day the fallout recognized by Andressen and Gates were right. But we all know MSFT puts its IE engine in every piece of its software, so whether a separate browser client exists doesn't matter. Even if the new engine is called Gazelle it doesn't mean the browser cannot be called IE still (Gecko/Firefox, WebKit/Safari).
One problem has persisted from desktop programming to web programming is that just because you can code doesn't mean you can make good design. Just as most Windows software are ugly as heck, I find most CMS all so cookie-cutter dreadful and difficult to enhance. What these new web programming frameworks all lack is some good designers on their team.
Dreamweaver was great if you want to code ColdFusion, Flash, and Flex. For a full IDE it beats Visual Studio in many features. Eclipse and other free "IDE" don't come close in terms of responsiveness and user friendliness. The problem is CF/Flex is a small percentage of the web compared to PHP, ASP.NET, Java, and a host of new platforms and frameworks (Django, ROR, etc.). Now with the advent of open source CMS and wiki systems, even for.NET, plus free plug-ins for Eclipse to code just about anything, along with shrinking IT budget, WHY would anyone pay the equivalent for full VS for it? The Server + IDE has been Adobe's bread and butter for years, that's why it's critical for Adobe to keep pushing for AIR/Flash. The only way to make DW popular again I can see is embrace open source languages and new frameworks, and lower the price.
Al Qaeda also invests in the stock market to make money for fund their activities. Should we shut down the stock market or encourage Ponzi schemes to foil them? I'm waiting for them to say they use Windows to find the target in a browser, therefore we should ban all PCs, right?
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Limbaugh - that is the truly sad part.
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Maybe MSFT can copy Linux and make it a live distro so people can try it out before full install... wait, that'll never make them bite. Nevermind.
Maybe exclusive deals should be like drug patents - must expire after some time. Make it 3 years or so.
1) Most people are too lazy to plant a tree.
2) Major corporations and Wall Street do not make a ton of money from this *solution*.
If you have proposed that it be mandatory for each family to buy a genetically altered tree that will absorb extra carbon and grow extra fast from the new super fertilizer from Mosanto, then, yeah, maybe the bureaucrats' ears will perk up. Then the subsequent soil and water pollution will kill us all anyway. Sorry to say.
I love the fact that despite the mighty MSFT with its VBScript/JScript/.NET, Sun's Java and JavaFX, and Adobe's Flash and ActionScript in combined assult on common, non-plug-in, web standards, JavaScript simply refuses to die and is more popular than ever. Despite the lack of dedicated tools support from major vendors. It shows the majority of web users simply just want a free web browser that works without fuss. How often do you actually hear the majority commenters rave about a total Flash website? How about the other way around? The popularity of Flash has only 2 main reasons - 1) Stream videos (mainly porn) in a way the users cannot download; 2) flashy banner ads only the designers and advertisers themselves love. The vendor tools that supposedly make it *EASY* to develop only make it easy to develop crap. The danger of vendor plug-in is this - if you can view the web and vendor specific content with just the vendor plug-in, why do you need the web browser? Don't let them cripple the web browser or hinder its evolution.
Not logical at all. Apple does not fabricate it's own chips but it's in the hardware business just fine.
If I have an issue setting up my grid and have to call Dell and Oracle and Redhat to find what's wrong with the configuration, alternatives will become attractive. Oracle is in this for the whole stack. Attract and retain customers by simplifying the number of contracts they have on maintenance. Oracle just need to assemble and support the vertical stack. Where the separate parts come from don't matter.
Typical MSFT logic again. The official blog describes 'Bing' as "the sound of found". Problem is - I haven't started looking for anything yet, WHY IS THERE A SOUND? Furthermore, even MSFT admit that to compete with Google you need a name that can become a verb - so WHY DID THEY DESCRIBE 'BING' AS OFFICIALLY A SOUND (which is a noun)?? And then the name keeping chiming in your head - Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! - like a bad commercial jingle that is stuck there and makes you hate it, despise it, and swear never to touch it - no matter how good it actually is. I'm guessing that would be roughly 50% of the population that MSFT still will not convince.
I think I finally understand what is wrong with Linux - the lack of a truly ruthless, calculating, and multi-talented leader, someone like Jobs for Apple and Gates for MSFT. Linux has geeks, super geeks, ultra geeks, genius geeks, but no geek with brains for business savvy that can create a complete compelling product. None of the FOSS community leaders wants or knows how to lead a company, and the business minded people who started out selling Linux hoping to cashing in a cheap price quickly abandon their principles for a bigger market share with Windows. Windows more user-friendly than Linux? I think it's more like people are trained and conditioned for it. Human nature rather suffers through known abuse than risk the unknown. Most smokers know cigarettes will kill them, but still they cannot quit.
I remember Schwartz on the cover of a major tech magazine a couple of years ago, JDJ, I think, with the tag line underneath that said "The End of Middleware" just as Oracle was starting to heavily push their presence as the middleware platform. Now Oracle is about to own Sun.
Every new version of Windows takes up ever more hard disk space and RAM than before. It's not enough that we get one big ass OS now but you get 2! What happens when you switch into XP mode and install a XP-compatible VM to host another installation of Windows 7? Like standing in between 2 mirrors facing each other...
Yeah but 'X' is so 90s - ActiveX, Macromedia MX, CFX, X-Files, Gen-X... Even OSX will have to evolve pretty soon when 10.7/8/9 eventually gets here (assuming Apple won't skip them). May be MSFT is really hoping that by getting to Windows X quickly people will confuse it for XP and actually pick it up.
That's one tactic I hope field sales reps don't use. MySQL and Oracle have different strengths. Oracle should just kill Lite/Express/whatever. Then first sell Oracle. If customer balk at the price convince them to use MySQL. Oracle should use MySQL to keep customers who may want to move away from Oracle Enterprise because of cost.
Oracle + Sun would be the natural alternative to SQL Server + Windows. Many shops that I worked for used to be Oracle + Unix gradually shifted to MSFT over the last 10 years due to cost and staffing. Streamline the server support contracts and cost would make sense to compete with Microsoft. MySQL can be to Oracle like Sybase to DB2 at IBM, and there's still Postgres and other open source DBs. A play by Oracle might actually bring IBM back to the bidding war and be good for Sun. Right now Sun does not have enough revenue stream that will make enough money to bail itself out. Sun wasted all its energy fighting MS, and failed to see that their real enemy was Intel + Dell.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure. Infrastructure.
ummm... what happened to just watching baseball on TV or at the ballpark normally? Or do people started watching all sports games at work? I barely have enough time catching up on /., twittering, connecting on FB, chatting, checking out Reader and dozens RSS feeds, blogging, and downloading songs... Who has time for proprietary plug-ins that make people who should not be designing web sites think they can design?
After the Watchmen blockbuster results at the box office, WB realized they must generate some kind of buzz to ensure another big budget investment not fall into the black hole.
As an old-time comic book fan already tired of the umpteen "origins" of Wolverine that Marvel put out regularly for quick profit, I would not watch the movie even if somebody dropped a free DVD on my lap. Doesn't the FBI have better things to do - like finding real terrorists - or at least those who continue to destroy the economy by rehashing old trash instead of inventing the future?
Is this like open sourcing Rails but not Ruby, Django but not Python? Kind of like Struts before Sun open sourced Java?
What about the additional $80/year anti-virus tax for running Windows? I'm sure in a month when Lauren's PC start running like molasses she'll install Linux. Then she'll freak out in a panic 'cause she didn't think she was cool enough to speak that other PC OS.
No software program has ever been proven to be able to understand a drunken Scot.
Real FOSS nerds would just build a catapult, a flying car, or teleporter to get across. Green engineers would have demanded that 2 UNDER-passes be built, one for humans to bicycle across, and another for critters that live in the woods to have corridors connecting their shrinking landscape. Apple or Google would plan on building light rails or trams that will eventually connect all their campuses and stores. IBM would just hire only illegal Mexican workers skilled at running across highways. Obviously Seattle isn't the most innovative regional planners they purport to be. Wimps.
Guess that keyboard-less touchscreen trend isn't so stupid after all.
I can see what you're typing by video taping the movement of your fingers from a distance anyhow.
I paid $200 for my XO in the G1G1 deal. 6 months later I paid $200 for my iPhone 3G. The iPhone has 8 times the capacity, Wifi so easy a kid can configure it, and is hands down a better 'computer' than the XO in my opinion. Sure, it doesn't have Python, but coding on the tiny keyboard was a pain anyhow.
Apple has been making computers for education long before Negroponte. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes ahead again. Think of all the educational apps that can be built with the iPhone SDK and distribute for free. Never, EVER, spurn Apple while Jobs is still alive. He'll make you eat your words.
When did OS started to think? A browser that thinks like an OS? Sounds like day after day the fallout recognized by Andressen and Gates were right. But we all know MSFT puts its IE engine in every piece of its software, so whether a separate browser client exists doesn't matter. Even if the new engine is called Gazelle it doesn't mean the browser cannot be called IE still (Gecko/Firefox, WebKit/Safari).
One problem has persisted from desktop programming to web programming is that just because you can code doesn't mean you can make good design. Just as most Windows software are ugly as heck, I find most CMS all so cookie-cutter dreadful and difficult to enhance. What these new web programming frameworks all lack is some good designers on their team.
Dreamweaver was great if you want to code ColdFusion, Flash, and Flex. For a full IDE it beats Visual Studio in many features. Eclipse and other free "IDE" don't come close in terms of responsiveness and user friendliness. The problem is CF/Flex is a small percentage of the web compared to PHP, ASP.NET, Java, and a host of new platforms and frameworks (Django, ROR, etc.). Now with the advent of open source CMS and wiki systems, even for .NET, plus free plug-ins for Eclipse to code just about anything, along with shrinking IT budget, WHY would anyone pay the equivalent for full VS for it? The Server + IDE has been Adobe's bread and butter for years, that's why it's critical for Adobe to keep pushing for AIR/Flash. The only way to make DW popular again I can see is embrace open source languages and new frameworks, and lower the price.
Al Qaeda also invests in the stock market to make money for fund their activities. Should we shut down the stock market or encourage Ponzi schemes to foil them? I'm waiting for them to say they use Windows to find the target in a browser, therefore we should ban all PCs, right?
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Limbaugh - that is the truly sad part.