This can't and will never happen. Internet Explorer, until 5.5 was mostly written in C++ with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class Library). With MFC you could, in theory, write your code on one platform and run it on almost any platform. If they release the Mac version to the public Microsoft would release at least half, if not more, of its IE source (even from current development branches.)
A lot of that technology is either licensed from other sources, regional and is under local governmental control, or is closed source because it is under court order because of past law suits. In other words much of Internet Explorer isn't a Microsoft product; it would a nightmare for Microsoft to make it such.
"Has the previous hype of Java and J2EE moved on to Ruby (on Rails) and Python?" Some of the people who have to be on the bleeding edge are at Ruby. It does a lot of stuff with minimal programming. Python has very solid segment, but its still and outsider, kinda like PERL. The rest of the coders are either at.NET or PHP. PHP is a great web language which is starting come out with some really solid desktop platforms (PHP/GTK comes to mind.).NET does everything, web, server, and desktop and it keeps expanding every couple of years.
I personally prefer PHP. It flexible and is great for my personal project. But when I can write something in.NET in 5 minutes and have it execute on all the platforms I running, I sometimes have to make a deal with the devil and go with Microsoft. My 2 anyway.
I knew this was going to going happen eventually. The internet will be split into three tiers eventually:
* Standard/Free Class: Which is what most people, only with P2P port blocked. Think CB/Ham Radio in features * Premium Class: Everything will be wide open. Almost every service under the sun will be open to you, including VOIP and special content wrapped into a nice GUI ala AOL. Think G3 Cell Phone in features * Business Class: Premium Class with larger pipes and you don't have to use a GUI system, but the GUI system will be strongly encouraged. Think Satellite phones in features
A lot of people will move to the Premium Class because of the speed while a hard core group will make lean protocols that will run well on the 'Standard Class' pipes. This in the long run this will be a good thing because it will force someone to come up with a new 'killer app' which will either use the basic internet much better or create a whole new system outside the current internet.
Personally I see either a mesh network or a new cell phone base network as the next big thing in data communications. Completely bypass the current land line networks that we have now.
2004 Luxembourg blackout Patriot Missle - Missles had to be shut down once a day because targeting system would cycle every minute and change the internal cordinating system a fraction of a degree. Over the course of a few days the targeting system would be completely useless. PS/2 shutdown bug - Analog copiers at the time fuser componants worked athe same frequency as the processor's shutdown signal. Minus World - Super Mario Brother - A hidden water glitch ErMac - Mortal Combat
Sony or Nintendo could shut down XBox 360 with a one page ad in a gaming mag like EGM and then do another spot in New York Times. The ad would just have to say:
1 million units made, less then 100,000 unit sold. Do the math.
The ONLY differences between Guba and any other service is that it has a slightly better categorization system and a better looking design. Nothing to see here, move along.
I believe that DR-DOS inc is at least required to formaly name the author of the revised software somewhere because of the GPL. Tonly other thing DR-DOS inc is required to do is provide the source code of the modified modules upon request by a licensed owner of thier produuct.
What impact might this have on Microsoft's decision to use HD-DVD on the Xbox 360?
Anyone played a Dreamcast? It was Sega's last from gaming system. It has awesome graphics, sound, and a native modem with an optional network card. One of its main failing was the media. Sega bet on a GD-Drive. GD drives was a modified CD-ROM that could fit nearly a gig of data on a special CD format. GD-Drives had the advantage of being cheap to make (only a few pennies more then coventional CD-ROM's) and similar storage compacity to DVD's system.
So why do I bring this all up? The Dreamcast didn't fail because of the hardware. It failed because it didn't have a good library of title at the US launch. It Japan the Dreamcast sold great for years; and I believe a few RPG's and budget games are still being made for the Dreamcast.
If Microsoft truley wants to thier HD format they have to have critical mas to do it with. Microsoft needs at least 4 solid games the day of the launch and 20 games by Christmas*. Without that volume Xbox 360 will almost certainly fail.
* The reason for the footnote is that Sega Saturn had 4 poorly designed games at launch and 10 titles before Christmas and failed. Sony Playstation has 4 good (for the time) games at launch and within 30 days had 20 games. About 5 to 10 games kept coming a week for a very long time after the original thirty day period.
This rising problem maybe the best way for the UN to get full control of the internet. Create two competing IPv6 systems (US and the UN) that will collide until one ruling authority has been dedicated. They will not get control of the internet for several years, but it will eventually be there and much more effective then controlling DNS.
I thought this site was straight rip off of Eden until I say the various translations of the message. It seems more like a refernce to Greek mythology or paganism Here's Wikipedia's definition of eysium:
In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). "Elysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.... Elysium in Neopaganism Many Neopagans today, particularly Hellenistic neopagans in the United States, have what most would consider a new-age view of Elysium. Elysium is seen as a multi-layered paradise, or Heaven, to many modern neopagans. Some believe that the outer layer of Elysium is composed of great and beautiful fields, often envisioned in imaginative descriptions as having green glowing blades of grass and bubbling springs of glowing water and wine, often made from the nectar of Ambrosia. Beyond the fields of Elysium, reserved only for the most righteous and virtuous, is the Golden City where spirits exist in a state of constant euphoria. Whether or not such beliefs are based in actual mythology often seems rather unimportant to many neopagans. Most claim that old myths are simply mortal accounts and interpretations of the divine, but the same could be argued about any current beliefs regarding Elysium. Much of what many modern neopagans believe today regarding Elysium seems to be borrowed from popular Christian imagery of Heaven.
I partially agree: a dvd of an encyclopedia takes up a lot less room and has a faster index then its wood pulp brother. Of course I've never had to adjust the refresh rate on book. Also my book never looses power, its fairly portable, and has a never been attached by an email virus. Maybe some worms, but never a virus.
Most printed sources can last for centuries in proper condition (see Dead Sea Scrolls). Compatible optical scanners are manufactured on a daily basis and the software to access these resources are freely available in most areas of the world.
If I'm looking for just-in-time data then electronic sources are best; if I'm looking for archived data then well written books and prints article are best resource.
My local library is a part of a group that uses DRM books. You login to the system, download an application that interrupts a custom XML stream. The XML file then has key and paths for downloading the media files. Then it downloads the file and boom, you have a book (audio or textual) for three weeks of use with an option of burning it to CD.
I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, but this will open up a much bigger can of worms then most people think. Examples:
* Monkey Meat - People will no longer have the taboo associated with eat Chimm Chimm. * Cannibals - Someone with phrack one of these units and take a human muscle sample (your own, a friend, a famous person, ect.) so they can indulge in eating human flesh. * Faked Identities - take someone's DNA, grow it, and use it in an examine. * Faked Deaths - take your own DNA, grow it, and put it into a house fire.
I would disagree with that statement. We're talking about x86 emulation on an x86 system. If properly emulated it should keep between 90-99% of its speed original.
The CFC will warm the Earth at the same rate as the bacteria will cool the earth who will win? Will my backyard become a dessert, a winter playland, or just stay the same?
Since BoingBoing is getting hammered here's the text of the article:
Thursday, July 28, 2005 Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h:
window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'
AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."
Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:
Gizmo [don't feed after midnight, is an open] pay service. Confused? So am I.
SIP is a free and open method for making voice calls. But, you need to buy time to use Gizmo's network. Not exacting a great thing since I can already do the same thing on other IM and SIP clients for free.
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This can't and will never happen. Internet Explorer, until 5.5 was mostly written in C++ with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class Library). With MFC you could, in theory, write your code on one platform and run it on almost any platform. If they release the Mac version to the public Microsoft would release at least half, if not more, of its IE source (even from current development branches.)
A lot of that technology is either licensed from other sources, regional and is under local governmental control, or is closed source because it is under court order because of past law suits. In other words much of Internet Explorer isn't a Microsoft product; it would a nightmare for Microsoft to make it such.
"Has the previous hype of Java and J2EE moved on to Ruby (on Rails) and Python?" Some of the people who have to be on the bleeding edge are at Ruby. It does a lot of stuff with minimal programming. Python has very solid segment, but its still and outsider, kinda like PERL. The rest of the coders are either at .NET or PHP. PHP is a great web language which is starting come out with some really solid desktop platforms (PHP/GTK comes to mind.) .NET does everything, web, server, and desktop and it keeps expanding every couple of years.
.NET in 5 minutes and have it execute on all the platforms I running, I sometimes have to make a deal with the devil and go with Microsoft. My 2 anyway.
I personally prefer PHP. It flexible and is great for my personal project. But when I can write something in
I knew this was going to going happen eventually. The internet will be split into three tiers eventually:
* Standard/Free Class: Which is what most people, only with P2P port blocked. Think CB/Ham Radio in features
* Premium Class: Everything will be wide open. Almost every service under the sun will be open to you, including VOIP and special content wrapped into a nice GUI ala AOL. Think G3 Cell Phone in features
* Business Class: Premium Class with larger pipes and you don't have to use a GUI system, but the GUI system will be strongly encouraged. Think Satellite phones in features
A lot of people will move to the Premium Class because of the speed while a hard core group will make lean protocols that will run well on the 'Standard Class' pipes. This in the long run this will be a good thing because it will force someone to come up with a new 'killer app' which will either use the basic internet much better or create a whole new system outside the current internet.
Personally I see either a mesh network or a new cell phone base network as the next big thing in data communications. Completely bypass the current land line networks that we have now.
It sounds like either the dev kits weren't in sync with production units, or someone as MS decided to add a last minute DRM to the BIOS.
2004 Luxembourg blackout
Patriot Missle - Missles had to be shut down once a day because targeting system would cycle every minute and change the internal cordinating system a fraction of a degree. Over the course of a few days the targeting system would be completely useless.
PS/2 shutdown bug - Analog copiers at the time fuser componants worked athe same frequency as the processor's shutdown signal.
Minus World - Super Mario Brother - A hidden water glitch
ErMac - Mortal Combat
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Sony or Nintendo could shut down XBox 360 with a one page ad in a gaming mag like EGM and then do another spot in New York Times. The ad would just have to say:
1 million units made, less then 100,000 unit sold. Do the math.
The ONLY differences between Guba and any other service is that it has a slightly better categorization system and a better looking design. Nothing to see here, move along.
I believe that DR-DOS inc is at least required to formaly name the author of the revised software somewhere because of the GPL. Tonly other thing DR-DOS inc is required to do is provide the source code of the modified modules upon request by a licensed owner of thier produuct.
What impact might this have on Microsoft's decision to use HD-DVD on the Xbox 360?
Anyone played a Dreamcast? It was Sega's last from gaming system. It has awesome graphics, sound, and a native modem with an optional network card. One of its main failing was the media. Sega bet on a GD-Drive. GD drives was a modified CD-ROM that could fit nearly a gig of data on a special CD format. GD-Drives had the advantage of being cheap to make (only a few pennies more then coventional CD-ROM's) and similar storage compacity to DVD's system.
So why do I bring this all up? The Dreamcast didn't fail because of the hardware. It failed because it didn't have a good library of title at the US launch. It Japan the Dreamcast sold great for years; and I believe a few RPG's and budget games are still being made for the Dreamcast.
If Microsoft truley wants to thier HD format they have to have critical mas to do it with. Microsoft needs at least 4 solid games the day of the launch and 20 games by Christmas*. Without that volume Xbox 360 will almost certainly fail.
* The reason for the footnote is that Sega Saturn had 4 poorly designed games at launch and 10 titles before Christmas and failed.
Sony Playstation has 4 good (for the time) games at launch and within 30 days had 20 games. About 5 to 10 games kept coming a week for a very long time after the original thirty day period.
This rising problem maybe the best way for the UN to get full control of the internet. Create two competing IPv6 systems (US and the UN) that will collide until one ruling authority has been dedicated. They will not get control of the internet for several years, but it will eventually be there and much more effective then controlling DNS.
I thought this site was straight rip off of Eden until I say the various translations of the message. It seems more like a refernce to Greek mythology or paganism Here's Wikipedia's definition of eysium:
...
In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). "Elysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.
Elysium in Neopaganism
Many Neopagans today, particularly Hellenistic neopagans in the United States, have what most would consider a new-age view of Elysium. Elysium is seen as a multi-layered paradise, or Heaven, to many modern neopagans. Some believe that the outer layer of Elysium is composed of great and beautiful fields, often envisioned in imaginative descriptions as having green glowing blades of grass and bubbling springs of glowing water and wine, often made from the nectar of Ambrosia. Beyond the fields of Elysium, reserved only for the most righteous and virtuous, is the Golden City where spirits exist in a state of constant euphoria. Whether or not such beliefs are based in actual mythology often seems rather unimportant to many neopagans. Most claim that old myths are simply mortal accounts and interpretations of the divine, but the same could be argued about any current beliefs regarding Elysium. Much of what many modern neopagans believe today regarding Elysium seems to be borrowed from popular Christian imagery of Heaven.
I partially agree: a dvd of an encyclopedia takes up a lot less room and has a faster index then its wood pulp brother. Of course I've never had to adjust the refresh rate on book. Also my book never looses power, its fairly portable, and has a never been attached by an email virus. Maybe some worms, but never a virus.
Most printed sources can last for centuries in proper condition (see Dead Sea Scrolls). Compatible optical scanners are manufactured on a daily basis and the software to access these resources are freely available in most areas of the world.
If I'm looking for just-in-time data then electronic sources are best; if I'm looking for archived data then well written books and prints article are best resource.
I want one, where can I order it from?
It must be really bad. I can't even download it on Bit Torrent. Could this be a scaling issue for BT?
My local library is a part of a group that uses DRM books. You login to the system, download an application that interrupts a custom XML stream. The XML file then has key and paths for downloading the media files. Then it downloads the file and boom, you have a book (audio or textual) for three weeks of use with an option of burning it to CD.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Sri Lanka at the edge of a civil war? Sounds like someone is trying to get some good press for their country.
Is there anyway to get a list of conference rooms on Google Talk?
I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, but this will open up a much bigger can of worms then most people think. Examples:
* Monkey Meat - People will no longer have the taboo associated with eat Chimm Chimm.
* Cannibals - Someone with phrack one of these units and take a human muscle sample (your own, a friend, a famous person, ect.) so they can indulge in eating human flesh.
* Faked Identities - take someone's DNA, grow it, and use it in an examine.
* Faked Deaths - take your own DNA, grow it, and put it into a house fire.
Coming Soon from Microsoft: Visual Javascript for Application
Quote from Microsoft: No one uses VBA for dHTML, so we we thought we would throw together something IE 7 and Windows Vistas/Longhorn.
We pray to our gods that you'll use THIS closed source product.
Umm... boot it into an emulator that has generic drivers?
I would disagree with that statement. We're talking about x86 emulation on an x86 system. If properly emulated it should keep between 90-99% of its speed original.
SNK couldn't have planned a better battle.
The CFC will warm the Earth at the same rate as the bacteria will cool the earth who will win? Will my backyard become a dessert, a winter playland, or just stay the same?
Since BoingBoing is getting hammered here's the text of the article:
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h:
window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'
AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."
Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')
It turns off the trigger for the key check.
Link (Thanks, AV!)
Gizmo [don't feed after midnight, is an open] pay service. Confused? So am I.
SIP is a free and open method for making voice calls. But, you need to buy time to use Gizmo's network. Not exacting a great thing since I can already do the same thing on other IM and SIP clients for free.