Did anyone else read this and think... doesn't this already exist in the form of plug-ins? Flash, QT, Silverlight, etc. They provide this "seperation from the browser for the scripting layer". Not that I'm a fan; I would much rather work natively in the browser with a well crafted javascript library.
In a business environment, you are constantly building on previous work. If you have architected an entire SOA (or anything else) around a certain Linux distribution, and that distribution drops support three years later, that is three years worth of development you now have to go back and test against the "latest and greatest" kernel, etc. if you want to continue with out-of-house support. Upgrading and re-testing an entire ecosystem of interconnected systems every three years can be an unreasonable request (especially if the systems performed their day to day tasks with very little human assistance).
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"Id Games" publishes its software for native Linux. And a few others are starting to follow suit. I think as Linux gains desktop market share (which it is... http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/04/2140203/ slowly...) a Linux version of games that have OpenGL engines (i.e. that are not tied to DirectX) will become standard. Nvidia and AMD have already started to make this possible by improving their Linux drivers. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/20/1757227 http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/10527
It looks like something I built with tinker-toys once. I hope theirs holds together better than mine did.
I always thought it went "Teach a man to fish, lose your job as a fisherman...", or something like that.
Did anyone else read this and think... doesn't this already exist in the form of plug-ins? Flash, QT, Silverlight, etc. They provide this "seperation from the browser for the scripting layer". Not that I'm a fan; I would much rather work natively in the browser with a well crafted javascript library.
One word: Dependencies.
In a business environment, you are constantly building on previous work. If you have architected an entire SOA (or anything else) around a certain Linux distribution, and that distribution drops support three years later, that is three years worth of development you now have to go back and test against the "latest and greatest" kernel, etc. if you want to continue with out-of-house support. Upgrading and re-testing an entire ecosystem of interconnected systems every three years can be an unreasonable request (especially if the systems performed their day to day tasks with very little human assistance).
Yeah... They put out several conflicting stories on "Bat Boy" as well.
Wait... ... nevermind.
Yin's Guys goin' dahntahn to see 'em Stillers an dat? Yins got frech fries on da salad at Primanti's?