The recent years have if anything confirmed that Microsoft is still evil and not just in a "proprietary software is evil!" sense but truly evil as in "supporting oppressive regimes" evil.
They provided computer training. How evil is that! Lets close all the schools while we're at it, they too indirectly teach people a lot of ways to do bad things.
Yes? That's what every company has to do. Google should have a major advantage in it too, since they're a huge corporation with lots of lawyers and their own patent search engine.
Why's microsoft think they're the center of the universe?
That's almost like some angry, emo and ugly teenage girl looking at some beautiful girl and thinking "who she thinks she is, the center of the universe?" when all the guys like her instead. Sometimes it helps to come forward and be a little bit more likable - a good advice to Linux and free software.
Actually Silverlight is technically a lot better than Flash. Both technically, and from NetFlix's perspective as it allows better DRM than Flash.
Besides, you can develop Silverlight with.NET and make complete applications and games with it. Flash doesn't have the same kind of support and development tools (Visual Studio) like Silverlight does. Try it even once - you might be surprised how great it actually is.
It's a lot more than that - it's the use of analytics all over the web, the unfair marketing of their own services over others in search results, the sharing of European citizen data to US government and a lot more than that.
Windows XP is 10 years old OS. Besides, those OS won't be able to show H.264 video in other browsers either, unless you install third party plugin. It would be no different between your new fancy browser and the existing browsers.
Besides, Linux desktop market share is so small that it shouldn't dictate rest of the world and make it choose a lot worse format just because a few geeks can't run it (while they can and probably already do, but they just like to bitch). H.264 is technically better and there's no practical reason not to use it, so it should be chosen.
So Microsoft is fairly collecting royalties on what technologies they have researched and developed, just like every other company including all the mobile phone makers, Apple and even Google. Usually the companies make contracts along the lines of "you can use my patents, I can use yours", but Google come in as a new player and didn't have anything to on the table. They tried to sneak out of it by leaving the payments to manufacturers (they do that kind of sneaky stuff a lot, like tunneling money between tax heavens in Europe). It's only fair that Google has to pay for the use of technologies other companies have invested millions into.
It's difficult to create a free browser when you have to cough up for codec licensing to some patent troll.
But you don't have to. Both Windows and Mac OSX include H.264 support in the system, and Linux has their own counterparts too. Your browser can just use what the OS offers.
... HTML5 video would have happened without it. It's already well on its way.
That's almost like the usual "2012 will be the year of desktop!". We've been talking about HTML5 video for years and it has gone nowhere, except for a few special cases from Google (which have required you to install Chrome to view them, by the way). Even Google doesn't use HTML5 video on YouTube, and their old experimental test player is broken as hell and lacking a lot of things that the Flash player has.
No, the recent years have shown that Microsoft has truly changed. Microsoft's antitrust cases are from the 90's, you know. Google is currently being investigated for a lot of shit in various countries, not Microsoft.
And care to link some of those anti-google and anti-apple marketing or patent trolling Microsoft is doing? Because they are not. Microsoft has never patent trolled anyone, they have only used their patents when someone has attacked them or when there has been a good case. Patent trolling is completely different subject.
Adobe doesn't really care about Flash, as long as there's other alternative. They care about selling designing software for those technologies, and that can be either Flash, Silverlight or HTML5. Sadly, HTML5 isn't really there yet, and it's missing a lot of stuff that Flash and Silverlight have.
The lack of plugin support will only serve to kill Metro as a browser platform, not Flash.
iPad doesn't have Flash either and it's doing all fine. Note that Metro interface is designed mostly for tablets and as a simplistic interface for casual users.
But you're right, it won't kill of Flash because it's used for other stuff than video too. The existing video sites will just sniff the user-agent and serve HTML5 video instead of Flash if required. They're both H.264 encoded anyway, so it should be easy, and they have to do it for iPhones and iPads anyway.
It's a lot better offer than Google gives. In return to tracking all the users on your site, Google only gives you statistics about them. At the same time Google can track 95% of the internet - including slashdot.
So maybe it's time to improve your social skills? It's not that hard you know, and once you start doing it you start acting more social naturally. I've been there and even felt awkward in social situations, and now I think it was pretty stupid of me. There's no reason to be non-social, as world is quite stupid without other people.
Social networks, for lonely people, may only show them how lonely they are.
How is this Facebook's fault? Should everyone else stop using social networks and stop being social just because some people are unable to establish relationships with other people?
To be honest, Facebook has done a lot of good. It's incredibly easy to keep up with people living on the other side of the world, even with those you don't really know that well but still have gone out to bar sometimes etc. It has also brought businesses, restaurants and everything to one single page with one unified interface, so you don't have to hunt them from Google or other search engines. The real names and connections between people make it a lot easier for you to discover new things and people too. I can see the popularity and its reason, even though slashdot users seem to hate Facebook. I guess I'm just a little bit more social geek.
Ssh only allows you to execute a list of pre-defined commands (made before you connect). With PowerShell you can interactively work with remote computer.
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He doesn't have to cancel it. The terms say you can write to Sony that you don't accept that part, and it's ok.
Of course, here in Europe our laws are saner and this kind of behavior is forbidden by laws. You can't sign off your lawful rights.
No, they check the relevant patents.
Do they consider silverlight is a plugin?
Yes, and Silverlight won't run in Metro either.
Oh, and then there is the deal with the Tunisian regime in 2006
The recent years have if anything confirmed that Microsoft is still evil and not just in a "proprietary software is evil!" sense but truly evil as in "supporting oppressive regimes" evil.
They provided computer training. How evil is that! Lets close all the schools while we're at it, they too indirectly teach people a lot of ways to do bad things.
Yes? That's what every company has to do. Google should have a major advantage in it too, since they're a huge corporation with lots of lawyers and their own patent search engine.
So, how usable is your Linux distro version from 18 years ago? I doubt you are running such.
Why's microsoft think they're the center of the universe?
That's almost like some angry, emo and ugly teenage girl looking at some beautiful girl and thinking "who she thinks she is, the center of the universe?" when all the guys like her instead. Sometimes it helps to come forward and be a little bit more likable - a good advice to Linux and free software.
Actually Silverlight is technically a lot better than Flash. Both technically, and from NetFlix's perspective as it allows better DRM than Flash.
.NET and make complete applications and games with it. Flash doesn't have the same kind of support and development tools (Visual Studio) like Silverlight does. Try it even once - you might be surprised how great it actually is.
Besides, you can develop Silverlight with
It's a lot more than that - it's the use of analytics all over the web, the unfair marketing of their own services over others in search results, the sharing of European citizen data to US government and a lot more than that.
Windows XP is 10 years old OS. Besides, those OS won't be able to show H.264 video in other browsers either, unless you install third party plugin. It would be no different between your new fancy browser and the existing browsers.
Besides, Linux desktop market share is so small that it shouldn't dictate rest of the world and make it choose a lot worse format just because a few geeks can't run it (while they can and probably already do, but they just like to bitch). H.264 is technically better and there's no practical reason not to use it, so it should be chosen.
So Microsoft is fairly collecting royalties on what technologies they have researched and developed, just like every other company including all the mobile phone makers, Apple and even Google. Usually the companies make contracts along the lines of "you can use my patents, I can use yours", but Google come in as a new player and didn't have anything to on the table. They tried to sneak out of it by leaving the payments to manufacturers (they do that kind of sneaky stuff a lot, like tunneling money between tax heavens in Europe). It's only fair that Google has to pay for the use of technologies other companies have invested millions into.
It's difficult to create a free browser when you have to cough up for codec licensing to some patent troll.
But you don't have to. Both Windows and Mac OSX include H.264 support in the system, and Linux has their own counterparts too. Your browser can just use what the OS offers.
... HTML5 video would have happened without it. It's already well on its way.
That's almost like the usual "2012 will be the year of desktop!". We've been talking about HTML5 video for years and it has gone nowhere, except for a few special cases from Google (which have required you to install Chrome to view them, by the way). Even Google doesn't use HTML5 video on YouTube, and their old experimental test player is broken as hell and lacking a lot of things that the Flash player has.
No, the recent years have shown that Microsoft has truly changed. Microsoft's antitrust cases are from the 90's, you know. Google is currently being investigated for a lot of shit in various countries, not Microsoft.
And care to link some of those anti-google and anti-apple marketing or patent trolling Microsoft is doing? Because they are not. Microsoft has never patent trolled anyone, they have only used their patents when someone has attacked them or when there has been a good case. Patent trolling is completely different subject.
Adobe doesn't really care about Flash, as long as there's other alternative. They care about selling designing software for those technologies, and that can be either Flash, Silverlight or HTML5. Sadly, HTML5 isn't really there yet, and it's missing a lot of stuff that Flash and Silverlight have.
The lack of plugin support will only serve to kill Metro as a browser platform, not Flash.
iPad doesn't have Flash either and it's doing all fine. Note that Metro interface is designed mostly for tablets and as a simplistic interface for casual users.
But you're right, it won't kill of Flash because it's used for other stuff than video too. The existing video sites will just sniff the user-agent and serve HTML5 video instead of Flash if required. They're both H.264 encoded anyway, so it should be easy, and they have to do it for iPhones and iPads anyway.
As opposed to what? All the formats are patented.
H.264 is technically better format too. That's why it should be picked, not based on some religious free software views.
And people are still saying Microsoft is evil? They just made HTML5 video reality. It wouldn't have happened without this.
"on their sites in return for data about their users via JavaScript. "
Is there anyone left who blindly runs code from random sites on their machine?
Like 99% of people? And no, even I won't put up with all that shit with NoScript.
It's a lot better offer than Google gives. In return to tracking all the users on your site, Google only gives you statistics about them. At the same time Google can track 95% of the internet - including slashdot.
So maybe it's time to improve your social skills? It's not that hard you know, and once you start doing it you start acting more social naturally. I've been there and even felt awkward in social situations, and now I think it was pretty stupid of me. There's no reason to be non-social, as world is quite stupid without other people.
Social networks, for lonely people, may only show them how lonely they are.
How is this Facebook's fault? Should everyone else stop using social networks and stop being social just because some people are unable to establish relationships with other people?
To be honest, Facebook has done a lot of good. It's incredibly easy to keep up with people living on the other side of the world, even with those you don't really know that well but still have gone out to bar sometimes etc. It has also brought businesses, restaurants and everything to one single page with one unified interface, so you don't have to hunt them from Google or other search engines. The real names and connections between people make it a lot easier for you to discover new things and people too. I can see the popularity and its reason, even though slashdot users seem to hate Facebook. I guess I'm just a little bit more social geek.
Ssh only allows you to execute a list of pre-defined commands (made before you connect). With PowerShell you can interactively work with remote computer.
.. which makes it even more ironic that U.S. is demanding those countries to fix the problem while they themselves have it too.