He clearly is not one to spend much time on any one thing, and only spends a few minutes in meetings. Go to NPR and check out the story morning edition did on him this last week. I'm sorry folks, but I want somebody who is in charge of our nuclear arsenal to be a bit more contemplative.
Yeah, they're locked in for another year or two, as if that was a bad thing seeing this now. Too bad, when the date comes to renew with IE, I think they might want to do it.
government software, as it is the taxpayer that owns it. So I believe you could resell it if you wanted to in your own package. I think it is alot like those "army survival manuals" that you see reprinted when you walk into Barnes and Noble. Also, patents granted to government agencies/employees are public domain (they are quite a few) and you can make/use them for profit. Government funded IP belongs to the people (This does not go for grants given to a company to develop technology however - it's whoever controls the patent/copyright)
I know it's offtopic - only to try to clarify a point thats been posted.
On the surface it sounds like a great idea, and I'm sure your post well is meaning. But can you imagine having to by new proprietary hardware just to view certain web pages? And we all know companies like to "extend" a standard to add more 'features' to their product, and soon you have dilution of the standard with five different boards implementing the standard differently. The whole idea of a standard is to encourage platform independence, not platform dependence.
That being said, todays boards/computers can not really improve on 2d performance anyway - it's 3d texturing where all the action is. So, if (I don't know as I haven't worked with the technology) SVG for some reason needed improvement in rendering speed, the first place to stop would be the code inside the browser. After that I would I would look at the API's my OS was using to see if those could be sped up. Then, if there was still a speed issue (which I really, doubt) I would take a look at the driver software for cards already availble (if it was available) and use the resources already available. I believe the speed issue (if there is ever one with today's fast computers) resides specifically in the browser, IMHO.
My whole point being, it is important not to chance 'fracturing', or 'embracing and extending' the standard with custom hardware.
Of course you know MS is reading/. and saying to themselves 'hhmmmmm'
cuz look, its on fire see the flames - Oh NO!! Slashdot is catching fire too--its going up!!!-- what are we going to do?????? Maybe if I click my ruby slippers three times timothy will post no more kansas stories --
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a stand on this. He is owned by big business. Too smarmy.
He clearly is not one to spend much time on any one thing, and only spends a few minutes in meetings. Go to NPR and check out the story morning edition did on him this last week. I'm sorry folks, but I want somebody who is in charge of our nuclear arsenal to be a bit more contemplative.
Yeah, they're locked in for another year or two, as if that was a bad thing seeing this now. Too bad, when the date comes to renew with IE, I think they might want to do it.
government software, as it is the taxpayer that owns it. So I believe you could resell it if you wanted to in your own package. I think it is alot like those "army survival manuals" that you see reprinted when you walk into Barnes and Noble. Also, patents granted to government agencies/employees are public domain (they are quite a few) and you can make/use them for profit. Government funded IP belongs to the people (This does not go for grants given to a company to develop technology however - it's whoever controls the patent/copyright)
I know it's offtopic - only to try to clarify a point thats been posted.
On the surface it sounds like a great idea, and I'm sure your post well is meaning. But can you imagine having to by new proprietary hardware just to view certain web pages? And we all know companies like to "extend" a standard to add more 'features' to their product, and soon you have dilution of the standard with five different boards implementing the standard differently. The whole idea of a standard is to encourage platform independence, not platform dependence.
/. and saying to themselves 'hhmmmmm'
That being said, todays boards/computers can not really improve on 2d performance anyway - it's 3d texturing where all the action is. So, if (I don't know as I haven't worked with the technology) SVG for some reason needed improvement in rendering speed, the first place to stop would be the code inside the browser. After that I would I would look at the API's my OS was using to see if those could be sped up. Then, if there was still a speed issue (which I really, doubt) I would take a look at the driver software for cards already availble (if it was available) and use the resources already available. I believe the speed issue (if there is ever one with today's fast computers) resides specifically in the browser, IMHO.
My whole point being, it is important not to chance 'fracturing', or 'embracing and extending' the standard with custom hardware.
Of course you know MS is reading
cuz look, its on fire see the flames - Oh NO!! Slashdot is catching fire too--its going up!!!-- what are we going to do?????? Maybe if I click my ruby slippers three times timothy will post no more kansas stories --