The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is not going to be able to keep.NET a Microsoft only incantation, and I would bet that they won't even be substantial front-runners.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Microsoft is acting on two premises here. First, in order to gain a greater role in the enterprise, it has to interoperate with most common enterprise platforms, including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Its implementations of SOAP promise machine to machine transactions through XML..NET will basically be a set of prefab schema.
Second, Redmond knows that since it is basing its initiative on open standards, it will not be difficult for open-source projects to interoperate with.NET, so it wants to be first out the gate with packages.
Regarding.NET support on the desktop, I don't think it will be difficult for open-source developers to make.NET based data readable on Linux. In fact, it may be a boon to Linux users; if Office Documents are generated in XML, it may not be too difficult to reverse engineer rendering engines.
As a tech journalist, I write more than a few pieces dealing with security, and have to sort throught the hacker/cracker conundrum. I've found that even if I use "cracker" in a piece, it doesn't make it past the copyeditor, who changes it to "hacker." Now, I use the term "malicious user," which gets to the point, and avoids these political issues.
I saw the bit about electric streetcars & sort of chuckled, since I take the trolley nearly everday. It's great, it picks me up on my corner in West Philly and I never have to think about parking.
There is something to be said about the dedicated right-of-way issue. In West Philly, the tracks lay in the street, so motorists have to stop everytime the trolley stops. It seems like the areas in Boston where the T runs between the lanes of traffic might be a better scheme.
Whether or not GM killed of trolleys, they frankly don't make a lot of sense in low-density suburban area, where most Americans seem to live. Although, I did talk to an older gentleman on the subway one day, who said that trolleys used to run from Norman, OK, where he was stationed during WWII, to downtown Oklahoma City! Today that's easily a 40 minute drive on the Interstate.
The cops in Philadelphia did their job, and they did a fine job of it as well. ... Honestly, how many cops are being charged with Gestapo-like tactics?
The fact there were standing Federal injunctions (since '76) against Philly cops infiltrating, surveiling, and making pre-emptory strikes against protester, yet Philly cops shut down a puppet facility and state troopers infiltrated dissenting organizations takes any luster off of the police's behavior during the convention.
This story from this morning's Inky describes how state troopers infiltrated organizations deep enough to be arrested at an action. Were the cops aiming to keep the city moving smoothly, or prosecute persons with dissenting opinions?
Finally, I saw plenty of footage showing cops mistreating protesters, particularly at Broad and Locust, so I feel that your assertion that the cops did a fine job is unfounded.
If the protesters would have gotten a permit (and they could have gotten one)
I'm unsure if you're being disingenuous or simply ignorant, but many of the actions, such as the Kensingtion Welfare Rights Union march applied for permits and were denied. In addition, Philadelphia does not give the same show of support for leftist causes as they did for the Republicans. On one hand you have a $6 million budget and tax incentives to build new hotel rooms, and the MOVE bombing on the other.
you clearly spend too much of your time smoking dope and reading "alternative" (read extremely biased) news sources.
The role of the alternative media is to provide coverage of underreported stories. As you might remember there's a crisis in the Middle East, but you might not know that by reading the front page or turning on the television, since coverage is dominated by the Florida recount. The stories in alternative papers may reflect topics that threaten interests related to the mainstream media. Or the mandate of mainstream news outlets does not include topics related to social justice or the environment, but it seems that you at once closed minded and making an intellectually lazy ad hominem attack.
ot to gloat or anything, but these are bad times for Microsoft.
I really wouldn't say that. With the economy still expanding in spite of the stability in the stock market, good news for Linux isn't necessarily bad news for Microsoft. Both platforms are attempting to grab pieces of the pie, but the pie is getting bigger, and quickly.
Microsoft has had a lot of positive news as well since the summer. It's pretty clear that the anti-trust litigation is losing momentum on the government side, and as far as platform expansion goes, Microsoft has made some major steps, the first being the release of Datacenter Server, their attempt at challenging Sun's dominance for midrange databases. This is the first release where Microsoft is guaranteeing a support organization for its product.
In addition, Microsoft has launch a slate of back-end enterprise applications, notably Exchange 2000, which add functionality to the platform, so a comprehensive web or ebusiness infrastructure can be built around Microsoft products. Of course, M$ isn't the first to offer the functionality, but they do offer relatively easy integration, something purchasing decsions tend to be based around. For example, Exchange 2000 adds instant messaging, VoIP, and Multimedia Conferencing to the base email server
That said, I'm no Microsoft fan, but I do feel that the holy wars and score keeping do undermine the image and goals of Linux and Open Source.
I'm not so sure - I don't know what goes in the guts of a consoles, but from what was said about Cell Phones and MP3 players, there have been widespread shortages for D/A chips and DSP chips. A Playstation would have to have some kind of D/A converter, just to create an analog video signal. I find it hard to believe that Sony makes their own general purpose chips, since the economy of scale would suggest that it would be cheaper to use off the shelf chips used by a variety of manufacturers, so, no, if Sony uses any third party chips, I don't think they can dictate how many PS2s get made.
This was my favorite quote from the page after the form: Postal Inspectors caution that, once you've been targeted in a fraud scheme, your name may be passed along to other con artists, so beware of future solicitations.
Sounds like the whole "new economy" business model! Just swap "marketing push" for "fraud scheme" and "dot com" for "con artist," and you've got a tasty little nugget.
How much use can a barcode scanner really be to you at home ?
What I would love to see is a home UPC scanner and a database of companies with iffy corporate responsiblity (chinese prison labor, tropical deforestation, operation rescue, seal clubbing) so I could instantly tell if the products I buy are advancing causes I disagree with.
Y'know, kinda like CDDB, only for UPCs, instead of CDs.
QNX, an embedded device maker, will takeover Be's desktop market.
Ummm, I think QNX is still primarily an internet appliance OS, so Be's desktop market is basically just withering on the vine, not eaten away by QNX. Although Be may very well make a nice internet appliance OS, it often appears that BeIA is a "hail mary" play by the company. Too bad, it would have been a nice OS if they could have kept up with all of the multimedia technologies, but since the Internet quickly moved to proprietary standards like flash and realplayer, which Be was hesitant to license, making their claims of being the "multimedia OS" unfounded. OTOH, Internet Appliances have a built in "killer app" (the Internet), so there may be less risk than creating a desktop OS w/o any application support. BeOS would be pretty cool if there were prosumer or professional content creation apps.
What's interesting is, by this standard, microsoft has yet to make an operating system.
Although it never gained wide adoption, and was subsequently dropped, Microsoft did have an alpha flavor of Windows NT, so, well, Microsoft has made an operating system meeting this definition, valid or not.
Carrying a gas mask anywhere near a protest zone is only common sense, given the cop's fondness for indiscriminate gassing.
Actually, the Philadelphia City Council passed an ordinance banning masks of any kind at a demonstration, just before the Convention. So, yes, carrying gas mask in Center City was grounds for arrest. I'm unsure if this was directed at gas mask in particular or Zapatista masks and others that could obscure demonstrators' identities.
The ordinance was met with a lot of resistance, since many Philadelphians felt that it was simply baiting the protestors.
I happen to live in Philly and am horribly ashamed of the cops pre-emptive strike on the puppetistas, the confiscation of property and overall condescending attitude of the cops toward the protestors. I really, really take issue with your assertion that "we're all incredibly proud" of the cops.
The cops' manipulations of truth is only further supported by the DA's announcement that beating victim Jones could not have shot that officer, yet the news was not announced until the convention was over. The cops lied and the DA suppressed the truth until the convention ended. Hardly elements of a "justice" system.
I found it interesting that at the bottom of the article, they wrote out the url to 2600 (http://www.2600.com) rather than place a link, which they do for other sites related to stories - I guess they want to avoid litigation.
VHS was more popular (not sure why, anyone care to comment?) it won.
VHS was an open standard developed, I believe, by Phillips, JVC, and some other vendors. Betamax was a proprietary standard that Sony kept close to the company and refused to license to other vendors. Because of the competition between VHS vendors, the poorer standard had lower prices and more content released for the platform. Sony felt that it could keep prices high because it was a better standard, but Beta was adopted primarily in midrange production environments.
This port would be better served for BeOS, where the latency for multimedia operations is much lower (and much more predictible).
I suspect if they already have an Irix flavor, accomplishing a "red hat" port would be a simpler undertaking than reworking it for BeOS, assuming that they could find developers experienced in porting apps to BeOS. I don't have a lot of experience with Irix, but wouldn't porting an app from Irix to Linux be fairly trivial. I suspect that the majority of the business cost would be in marketing and packaging, rather than development.
The market may also play into their decision to port to Red Hat, rather than BeOS. SGI platforms have a fairly good adoption rate in entertainment/media production & HP and other vendors are releasing Linux boxen for content creation to compete with SGI. Is it possible that this port is an attempt at breaking into this market?
How exactly is OS style development going to work on an OS for a burglar alarm - I mean these devices aren't readily available for playing around with. I know that this is Windows-centric, but there is currently a dearth of Itanium machines for developers to code and test on, so Microsoft and Intel have released development environments for writing 64-bit applications on 32-bit machines. Code is written and compiled on standard commodity machines, then tested on Itanium boxen accessible by remote. Although it may be a step down, rather than a step up, a similar strategy may work for embedded machines - vendors create development tools for taking advantage of device specific functionality, while writing on standard boxen. This would allow applications to be in the pipeline before devices hit the market.
You could always pull the old johnny rotten trick of writing "I Hate" atop his Pink Floyd t-shirt. Surely there's some parallels btw. No Logo and punk's agenda of stripping the meaning from symbols?
I've seen these around, and I've been wondering about their compatibility with Linux and BeOS. More specifically, does the TV-out functionality require drivers, for these operating systems, or is TV-out a hardware issue only? Is this true for most video cards with TV-Out?
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According to this site, the HP 48SX was introduced in 1990.
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is not going to be able to keep .NET a Microsoft only incantation, and I would bet that they won't even be substantial front-runners.
.NET will basically be a set of prefab schema.
.NET, so it wants to be first out the gate with packages.
.NET support on the desktop, I don't think it will be difficult for open-source developers to make .NET based data readable on Linux. In fact, it may be a boon to Linux users; if Office Documents are generated in XML, it may not be too difficult to reverse engineer rendering engines.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Microsoft is acting on two premises here. First, in order to gain a greater role in the enterprise, it has to interoperate with most common enterprise platforms, including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Its implementations of SOAP promise machine to machine transactions through XML.
Second, Redmond knows that since it is basing its initiative on open standards, it will not be difficult for open-source projects to interoperate with
Regarding
As a tech journalist, I write more than a few pieces dealing with security, and have to sort throught the hacker/cracker conundrum. I've found that even if I use "cracker" in a piece, it doesn't make it past the copyeditor, who changes it to "hacker." Now, I use the term "malicious user," which gets to the point, and avoids these political issues.
This picture makes it look like Scott McNealy of Sun makes a cameo as well.
I saw the bit about electric streetcars & sort of chuckled, since I take the trolley nearly everday. It's great, it picks me up on my corner in West Philly and I never have to think about parking.
There is something to be said about the dedicated right-of-way issue. In West Philly, the tracks lay in the street, so motorists have to stop everytime the trolley stops. It seems like the areas in Boston where the T runs between the lanes of traffic might be a better scheme.
Whether or not GM killed of trolleys, they frankly don't make a lot of sense in low-density suburban area, where most Americans seem to live. Although, I did talk to an older gentleman on the subway one day, who said that trolleys used to run from Norman, OK, where he was stationed during WWII, to downtown Oklahoma City! Today that's easily a 40 minute drive on the Interstate.
The cops in Philadelphia did their job, and they did a fine job of it as well.
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Honestly, how many cops are being charged with Gestapo-like tactics?
The fact there were standing Federal injunctions (since '76) against Philly cops infiltrating, surveiling, and making pre-emptory strikes against protester, yet Philly cops shut down a puppet facility and state troopers infiltrated dissenting organizations takes any luster off of the police's behavior during the convention.
This story from this morning's Inky describes how state troopers infiltrated organizations deep enough to be arrested at an action. Were the cops aiming to keep the city moving smoothly, or prosecute persons with dissenting opinions?
Finally, I saw plenty of footage showing cops mistreating protesters, particularly at Broad and Locust, so I feel that your assertion that the cops did a fine job is unfounded.
If the protesters would have gotten a permit (and they could have gotten one)
I'm unsure if you're being disingenuous or simply ignorant, but many of the actions, such as the Kensingtion Welfare Rights Union march applied for permits and were denied. In addition, Philadelphia does not give the same show of support for leftist causes as they did for the Republicans. On one hand you have a $6 million budget and tax incentives to build new hotel rooms, and the MOVE bombing on the other.
you clearly spend too much of your time smoking dope and reading "alternative" (read extremely biased) news sources.
The role of the alternative media is to provide coverage of underreported stories. As you might remember there's a crisis in the Middle East, but you might not know that by reading the front page or turning on the television, since coverage is dominated by the Florida recount. The stories in alternative papers may reflect topics that threaten interests related to the mainstream media. Or the mandate of mainstream news outlets does not include topics related to social justice or the environment, but it seems that you at once closed minded and making an intellectually lazy ad hominem attack.
ot to gloat or anything, but these are bad times for Microsoft.
I really wouldn't say that. With the economy still expanding in spite of the stability in the stock market, good news for Linux isn't necessarily bad news for Microsoft. Both platforms are attempting to grab pieces of the pie, but the pie is getting bigger, and quickly.
Microsoft has had a lot of positive news as well since the summer. It's pretty clear that the anti-trust litigation is losing momentum on the government side, and as far as platform expansion goes, Microsoft has made some major steps, the first being the release of Datacenter Server, their attempt at challenging Sun's dominance for midrange databases. This is the first release where Microsoft is guaranteeing a support organization for its product.
In addition, Microsoft has launch a slate of back-end enterprise applications, notably Exchange 2000, which add functionality to the platform, so a comprehensive web or ebusiness infrastructure can be built around Microsoft products. Of course, M$ isn't the first to offer the functionality, but they do offer relatively easy integration, something purchasing decsions tend to be based around. For example, Exchange 2000 adds instant messaging, VoIP, and Multimedia Conferencing to the base email server
That said, I'm no Microsoft fan, but I do feel that the holy wars and score keeping do undermine the image and goals of Linux and Open Source.
I'm not so sure - I don't know what goes in the guts of a consoles, but from what was said about Cell Phones and MP3 players, there have been widespread shortages for D/A chips and DSP chips. A Playstation would have to have some kind of D/A converter, just to create an analog video signal. I find it hard to believe that Sony makes their own general purpose chips, since the economy of scale would suggest that it would be cheaper to use off the shelf chips used by a variety of manufacturers, so, no, if Sony uses any third party chips, I don't think they can dictate how many PS2s get made.
This was my favorite quote from the page after the form:
Postal Inspectors caution that, once you've been targeted in a fraud scheme, your name may be passed along to other con artists, so beware of future solicitations.
Sounds like the whole "new economy" business model! Just swap "marketing push" for "fraud scheme" and "dot com" for "con artist," and you've got a tasty little nugget.
How much use can a barcode scanner really be to you at home ?
What I would love to see is a home UPC scanner and a database of companies with iffy corporate responsiblity (chinese prison labor, tropical deforestation, operation rescue, seal clubbing) so I could instantly tell if the products I buy are advancing causes I disagree with.
Y'know, kinda like CDDB, only for UPCs, instead of CDs.
QNX, an embedded device maker, will takeover Be's desktop market.
Ummm, I think QNX is still primarily an internet appliance OS, so Be's desktop market is basically just withering on the vine, not eaten away by QNX. Although Be may very well make a nice internet appliance OS, it often appears that BeIA is a "hail mary" play by the company. Too bad, it would have been a nice OS if they could have kept up with all of the multimedia technologies, but since the Internet quickly moved to proprietary standards like flash and realplayer, which Be was hesitant to license, making their claims of being the "multimedia OS" unfounded. OTOH, Internet Appliances have a built in "killer app" (the Internet), so there may be less risk than creating a desktop OS w/o any application support. BeOS would be pretty cool if there were prosumer or professional content creation apps.
I like how /. posters think they see through corporate media, then post press releases as "articles."
What's interesting is, by this standard, microsoft has yet to make an operating system.
Although it never gained wide adoption, and was subsequently dropped, Microsoft did have an alpha flavor of Windows NT, so, well, Microsoft has made an operating system meeting this definition, valid or not.
Carrying a gas mask anywhere near a protest zone is only common sense, given the cop's fondness for indiscriminate gassing.
Actually, the Philadelphia City Council passed an ordinance banning masks of any kind at a demonstration, just before the Convention. So, yes, carrying gas mask in Center City was grounds for arrest. I'm unsure if this was directed at gas mask in particular or Zapatista masks and others that could obscure demonstrators' identities.
The ordinance was met with a lot of resistance, since many Philadelphians felt that it was simply baiting the protestors.
I happen to live in Philly and am horribly ashamed of the cops pre-emptive strike on the puppetistas, the confiscation of property and overall condescending attitude of the cops toward the protestors. I really, really take issue with your assertion that "we're all incredibly proud" of the cops.
The cops' manipulations of truth is only further supported by the DA's announcement that beating victim Jones could not have shot that officer, yet the news was not announced until the convention was over. The cops lied and the DA suppressed the truth until the convention ended. Hardly elements of a "justice" system.
This story says that the IMC site's implementation of slash was done by members of the Debian core team.
I found it interesting that at the bottom of the article, they wrote out the url to 2600 (http://www.2600.com) rather than place a link, which they do for other sites related to stories - I guess they want to avoid litigation.
VHS was more popular (not sure why, anyone care to comment?) it won.
VHS was an open standard developed, I believe, by Phillips, JVC, and some other vendors. Betamax was a proprietary standard that Sony kept close to the company and refused to license to other vendors. Because of the competition between VHS vendors, the poorer standard had lower prices and more content released for the platform. Sony felt that it could keep prices high because it was a better standard, but Beta was adopted primarily in midrange production environments.
This port would be better served for BeOS, where the latency for multimedia operations is much lower (and much more predictible).
I suspect if they already have an Irix flavor, accomplishing a "red hat" port would be a simpler undertaking than reworking it for BeOS, assuming that they could find developers experienced in porting apps to BeOS. I don't have a lot of experience with Irix, but wouldn't porting an app from Irix to Linux be fairly trivial. I suspect that the majority of the business cost would be in marketing and packaging, rather than development.
The market may also play into their decision to port to Red Hat, rather than BeOS. SGI platforms have a fairly good adoption rate in entertainment/media production & HP and other vendors are releasing Linux boxen for content creation to compete with SGI. Is it possible that this port is an attempt at breaking into this market?
How exactly is OS style development going to work on an OS for a burglar alarm - I mean these devices aren't readily available for playing around with. I know that this is Windows-centric, but there is currently a dearth of Itanium machines for developers to code and test on, so Microsoft and Intel have released development environments for writing 64-bit applications on 32-bit machines. Code is written and compiled on standard commodity machines, then tested on Itanium boxen accessible by remote. Although it may be a step down, rather than a step up, a similar strategy may work for embedded machines - vendors create development tools for taking advantage of device specific functionality, while writing on standard boxen. This would allow applications to be in the pipeline before devices hit the market.
Here's a startup that uses a policy similar to what you've outlined: insuretrust And here's a story about them.
You could always pull the old johnny rotten trick of writing "I Hate" atop his Pink Floyd t-shirt. Surely there's some parallels btw. No Logo and punk's agenda of stripping the meaning from symbols?
I've seen these around, and I've been wondering about their compatibility with Linux and BeOS. More specifically, does the TV-out functionality require drivers, for these operating systems, or is TV-out a hardware issue only? Is this true for most video cards with TV-Out?
Uhhh maybe: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/geeks-with-guns/
Try Here: http://www.gemm.com/ I don't know if the copy listed is First Ed. but it sure is pricey