Looking for Mac programmers alone is likely to restrict your talent pool. Try widening it by using Qt, that way you can use standard C++ with Qt talent. Which I think is a much larger user base. Your OSX deliverable is just a compile away.
Why do you, a biogeek think Cocoa is the way to go? Shouldn't your developer have some say if he's the one to code it?
In addition to rentacoder, there is also elance.com
I think it depends on what the definition of "safari" is. It is webkit, the same thing Adobe uses for AIR. You can do the same thing in Qt, which also supports webit, and code Qt custom widgets and have your browser look-alike instantiate the widgets from HTML....
So many people are going to call BS on this, but...
I was in the mac store the other day, and I swear I could tell the difference between the new Mac books with the NVIDIA chips and the ones without. From just looking at the scaling performance of the doc as you mouse over it, it looked so much more solid.
I tend to be very sensitive to visual artifacts. I hated my MythTV box because of the tearing (memory bus issue) and blocking on Comcast (so glad I now have FIOS, which still blocks, but only for static or oceanscapes).
Things like a dock where it feels "solid" (better servicing of repaints) just give a better impression of stability and performance, even if its just a simple scale operation. Having no flicker in position or delay in rendering make an impression on people who may not even be aware of what they are seeing.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. -Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. -Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other menâ(TM)s rights. -Abraham Lincoln
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -Barry Goldwater
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C. S. Lewis
Thereâ(TM)s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arenâ(TM)t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws. -Ayn Rand
Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. -Daniel Webster
Your use of windows is unfortunate. A company called NoMachine makes a fantastic product called NanoX, which is a caching, compressing proxy server. Your remote system has to be X windows based, but your local system be one of several supported platforms.
This is where X really shines. Where Windows has no alternative to ship you bitmaps over the wire, the X protocol is quite nice at making use of data updates that your client then renders. An old modem link (33kbps) was adequate for most software. As soon as you get past the 56k barrier, it gets very usable.
So if you have a choice, get those things running X windows!!!
I find calls for âoetax reformâ to be somewhat comical, when you take into account the history of American taxation.
The first income tax was in 1862: âoeThe income tax is imposed upon a certain proportion of the income of these two classes, viz: 1st. Every person residing in the United States; and every citizen residing abroad who is in the employment of the Government of the United States. 2nd. Every citizen of the United States residing abroad and not in the employment of the United States.
Every person in the first class will be taxed at the rate of three percent when his or her annual gains, profits, or income exceed $600 and do not exceed $10,000. Every person in the first class will be taxed at the rate of five percent when his or her annual gains, profits, or income exceed $10,000, after the following deductionsâ¦â (From the 1962 Federal Income tax Return http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df80075b9dd/9134d0498e7c820085256e4400040844?OpenDocument )
$600 in 1862 is $15,000 in 2007.
Congress then got fast and loose with their terms and the Supreme Court over turned a law in 1894 in the Pollock Case, because the language was not clear if it violated the Constitution or not. This then was the impetus for the 16th amendment, which is a very poorly worded amendment⦠But eventually we get to a tax of 1% on incomes over $3000 ($75,000 in 2007), topping out at only 6% in incomes of excess than $500,000 (12,500,000).
Those are truly modest amounts compared to what we pay today.
Prior to our modern income tax scheme, the Federal government was funded mainly by import tariffs. Congress would get to bicker on what to raise or lower the tariff on, sugar and cotton were favorites. The problem was this meant a man of meager means paid a larger portion of his earnings to fund the federal government. It was then proposed that the government be able to tax the vast sums of accumulated wealth of the likes of the Rockefellers, the J.P. Morgans, etc, which held about 80% of the wealth of the nation. The reasoning was money that creates money through investment should be taxed because no effort is expended in the creation of the additional wealth. Also, as an excise tax on the increase, the original principal is left untouched to continue to grow.
The speeches in congress at the time were quite noble, the idea was to remove the burden of funding the federal government from the poor or common man to those who could better afford to pay it. People spoke nobly about it, and that is was an instrument that would be wielded with considerable care as it would a direct line into the bank account and household of every American.
Given our current state of affairs: 30%+ taxes, bail out after bail out, it seems that any modern tax âoereformâ is just a shell game. True reform could only come as a consequence of government reform, and specifically the role of government. As we go forward, we continually enlarge the role of the federal government. We never talk about doing away with federal governmental operation, because we think more of something we want must be better. For example, the Department of Education. We all want education, so we are too scared to eliminate the department of it, because that might mean that our county-operated schools might suffer (how exactly?). We are contemplating national healthcare which we all know to be an active industry full of people inventing new ways to spend money. It grows 3x the rate of the GNP.
People are going to the polls today to vote for either big government or bigger government.
I am reminded of the words of Alexander Tyler (1787):
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
Sadly, the background is probably the most important part of the initial user experience. So why are all these backgrounds ass-ugly? They might have been cool in 1994 with the release of NIN's Downward Spiral, but this is 2008. Everything is glossy black and blue.
I can't wait to see how Apple takes advantage of this:
PC: (pushing computers into African kids (starving)) Mac: Oh that's nice PC, I see you're donating to the needy in Africa PC: Uh, yeah (suspiciously). This has nothing to with Vista finding a user base that is happy to have it.
Matter can be created and destroyed, but the by-product is energy. The resulting sum of matter and energy is what cannot be lessened.
As Trent Reznor one said "I am sure there is a god. I'm just not sure of his relevance." I think it would be mighty presumptuous to assume that it would be preoccupied with the ins-and-outs of our daily lives, and even our "salvation".
Without a caring god, we're left to science, cause-and-effect. And the body of evidence is that this world, the one free of deity intervention is the one we live in. So what is the point of his existence in excess of initial creation? Science has caused the planets to form, the organic chemistry to take place. In a universe of science there is no room for a controlling deity.
Global warming is real! But temporary. The real question is: "is it anthropogenic?" and "is it permanent?"
We have a very limited view of what weather should be like. Only now are we finding out that Cairo Egypt used to be a very fertile place, with water up to the pyramids. Of course, anthropogenic factors did not cause/that/ warming, but now for some reason, the/current/ warming is somehow our fault? Co2 has been 0.28 of one percent! Now it went up by 0.040 of one percent over two hundred years.
There are dicussions being started about the growing evidence to the anthropogenic contrary. How many outlier events do we have to have before the outliers are no longer outliers?
Well the 6 digit UID of mine is about 10 years old. That puts him at 46 when he signed up, as a rough upper bound. I'd believe it. If I had to guess, a 5 digit UID is 11 years old and he'd have been 44ish.
A democracy produces the will of the majority (what ever that is)
A republic produces liberty
A monarchy produces order
A dictatorship produces a national product.
Linus is called the "benevolent dictator" because he's making a product.
Our Constitution guarantees a republic. We've "overridden the base class" (in OOP-speak) to produce an arguably functioning democracy. But the bigger the democracy gets, the more problems we have. We want what the majority wants (by definition) - however right now, what we want does not exist. We're chasing entitlements right into bankruptcy. This isn't a problem with democracy as a form of government per se, it is a problem with the people in it, and what they feel they should be able to get. We elect those who promise the most, but without the ability to pay for it we end up "borrowing" really stealing our entitlements from our kids.
The intended product of the Constitution was one where the federal government was of limited authority. It had control over interstate commerce, international operations, and ability to make laws and fund itself and to those ends only. States were supposed to be our real governments, where as small groups of people, we can affect our immediate environment to a much higher degree. Unfortunately the Uniform Commercial Clause and taxation have eaten away at the limits of the federal government.
I think it is better to focus on the features of government than the government itself. Any government this far has had a treasury. This is an accumulation of wealth. It can be raided (and is routinely) with acts of congress. I'd like to see a government without a treasury. The bills are instead direct billed to the people. The people then can pay based on itemization of the costs. Anything not endorsed by the people won't be funded. And there is no treasury to be raided. There can never be costs past on to the next generation... While congress can still have lobbyists, their effectiveness is limited. Congress can pass any law they want, but without funding the effect of corruption is limited by the people.
What spammers did was to use a slashdot email address as a destination. The idea is that a random, unsolicited yet strange email would solicit a reply, at which point you now have a validated email address to sell. Each message played to a particular emotion in hope to get a reply.
Each tactic: Humility Severity Compassion Offensive
While someone might not reply to offensive emails, that psyce might reply to calls for compassion. Or vice-versa.
I don't understand your question. Are you talking from a module-centric (code) way, or a content-centric way?
The module centric stuff should be easy to do. You have a mainline which is staging, and a release branch for deployment. Your developers develop in their own branch and integrate to main. If you want a QA cycle, then that's branched to from main, then integrated back to main.
The only problem is the database... you'd need a partial replication. You need to take the production database and have that feed into your staging and development without having staging or development feed into production...
Well, I liked the idea, until I saw it was just an energy sink.
You see, the photovoltaic cells we have today run at 10-14% efficiency. Compare that to natural photosynthesis at 2%, ergo, outside fo manufacturing we should be able to do 5x what the plant can do. Imagine a "plant" with a dehumidifier that separates the collected water into HHO2 gas (via electrolysis) you can store the Hydrogen for a lamp at night, and just release oxygen in the room. And you can still do whatever with extra electricity - LED colored leaves?.
We should be able to do plant functions 5x better than a plant.
this article seems to give a good idea of what happens when sun spots are too low for too long, and what this has lead to in the past. There is only one other place on the images that looks like today: the lead up to the Dalton Minimum
I follow this blog which gives regular reports on the sun.
The problem is all up until yesterday-ish had been short lived, less than 24-hour sunspots at a latitude consistent with the previous solar cycle. (There seems to be a pattern where spots begin and progress to during the cycle's life cycle.)
However to really understand just how quet the sun is, look at this animated graphic
Many, many people are predicting another mini-ice age as a result. Check out this article for a wavelet image of sun spot numbers. The only other part of the chart that looks like today is the Dalton Minimum.
Are both Open Source (Commercial Qt apps can be linked against the OpenSource version)
Both are compilable on just about every platform.
Qt provides the ability to embed a Qt custom control into WebKit, and expose it to JS for scripting. You can even use Java with it if you're a byte-code purist.
It seems the Qt+WebKit combo is only in need of convenience functions to make it more appealing.
1. MS has the developer interia to control the market. 2. MS continues to fracture the market, rather than compete. People like Icaza are mislead by MS, and end up being MS's Linux department. But it will always be a 2nd rate platform to Windows. This only benefits MS, because now they can make a claim that it "'can' run on Linux", but it actually won't be 100%, because they hold back some libraries. 3. Of the stuff that is available for linux, it isn't available until way late int he game. 4. Microsoft doesn't compete with better technology. They compete with inertia. The products are floating on install base, like the company is floating on cash reserves.
I wouldn't mind MS if they were really cross platform - meaning that they are responsible for mono, and make sure all libraries are available and work on mono on the same day they are released for windows.
Basically, I ask the same thing, except I throw WebKit out there (Its what Adobe AIR is based on). Flash and Silverlight are proprietary licensed products. WebKit is not.
Given that Adobe AIR is based on WebKit, and the OpenSource world has Webkit (Qt has Webkit integrated, but Qt is not required for my suggestion), why don't we just make a fully AIR/Silverlight clone using WebKit and Javascript?
Slashdot Mirror
Looking for Mac programmers alone is likely to restrict your talent pool. Try widening it by using Qt, that way you can use standard C++ with Qt talent. Which I think is a much larger user base. Your OSX deliverable is just a compile away.
Why do you, a biogeek think Cocoa is the way to go? Shouldn't your developer have some say if he's the one to code it?
In addition to rentacoder, there is also elance.com
I think it depends on what the definition of "safari" is. It is webkit, the same thing Adobe uses for AIR. You can do the same thing in Qt, which also supports webit, and code Qt custom widgets and have your browser look-alike instantiate the widgets from HTML....
So many people are going to call BS on this, but...
I was in the mac store the other day, and I swear I could tell the difference between the new Mac books with the NVIDIA chips and the ones without. From just looking at the scaling performance of the doc as you mouse over it, it looked so much more solid.
I tend to be very sensitive to visual artifacts. I hated my MythTV box because of the tearing (memory bus issue) and blocking on Comcast (so glad I now have FIOS, which still blocks, but only for static or oceanscapes).
Things like a dock where it feels "solid" (better servicing of repaints) just give a better impression of stability and performance, even if its just a simple scale operation. Having no flicker in position or delay in rendering make an impression on people who may not even be aware of what they are seeing.
And DC re-elected a convicted drug user years ago. It explains a lot about the city.
Oh, no, you don't have to save. They'll take it right out of your paycheck before it ever gets into your hands.
Lets hear it for withholding provisions!
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
-Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
-Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other menâ(TM)s rights.
-Abraham Lincoln
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
-Barry Goldwater
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-C. S. Lewis
Thereâ(TM)s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arenâ(TM)t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.
-Ayn Rand
Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
-Daniel Webster
Your use of windows is unfortunate. A company called NoMachine makes a fantastic product called NanoX, which is a caching, compressing proxy server. Your remote system has to be X windows based, but your local system be one of several supported platforms.
This is where X really shines. Where Windows has no alternative to ship you bitmaps over the wire, the X protocol is quite nice at making use of data updates that your client then renders. An old modem link (33kbps) was adequate for most software. As soon as you get past the 56k barrier, it gets very usable.
So if you have a choice, get those things running X windows!!!
If you're going to all this expense to
I find calls for âoetax reformâ to be somewhat comical, when you take into account the history of American taxation.
The first income tax was in 1862:
âoeThe income tax is imposed upon a certain proportion of the income of these two classes, viz:
1st. Every person residing in the United States; and every citizen residing abroad who is in the employment of the Government of the United States.
2nd. Every citizen of the United States residing abroad and not in the employment of the United States.
Every person in the first class will be taxed at the rate of three percent when his or her annual gains, profits, or income exceed $600 and do not exceed $10,000. Every person in the first class will be taxed at the rate of five percent when his or her annual gains, profits, or income exceed $10,000, after the following deductionsâ¦â (From the 1962 Federal Income tax Return http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df80075b9dd/9134d0498e7c820085256e4400040844?OpenDocument )
$600 in 1862 is $15,000 in 2007.
Congress then got fast and loose with their terms and the Supreme Court over turned a law in 1894 in the Pollock Case, because the language was not clear if it violated the Constitution or not. This then was the impetus for the 16th amendment, which is a very poorly worded amendment⦠But eventually we get to a tax of 1% on incomes over $3000 ($75,000 in 2007), topping out at only 6% in incomes of excess than $500,000 (12,500,000).
Those are truly modest amounts compared to what we pay today.
Prior to our modern income tax scheme, the Federal government was funded mainly by import tariffs. Congress would get to bicker on what to raise or lower the tariff on, sugar and cotton were favorites. The problem was this meant a man of meager means paid a larger portion of his earnings to fund the federal government. It was then proposed that the government be able to tax the vast sums of accumulated wealth of the likes of the Rockefellers, the J.P. Morgans, etc, which held about 80% of the wealth of the nation. The reasoning was money that creates money through investment should be taxed because no effort is expended in the creation of the additional wealth. Also, as an excise tax on the increase, the original principal is left untouched to continue to grow.
The speeches in congress at the time were quite noble, the idea was to remove the burden of funding the federal government from the poor or common man to those who could better afford to pay it. People spoke nobly about it, and that is was an instrument that would be wielded with considerable care as it would a direct line into the bank account and household of every American.
Given our current state of affairs: 30%+ taxes, bail out after bail out, it seems that any modern tax âoereformâ is just a shell game. True reform could only come as a consequence of government reform, and specifically the role of government. As we go forward, we continually enlarge the role of the federal government. We never talk about doing away with federal governmental operation, because we think more of something we want must be better. For example, the Department of Education. We all want education, so we are too scared to eliminate the department of it, because that might mean that our county-operated schools might suffer (how exactly?). We are contemplating national healthcare which we all know to be an active industry full of people inventing new ways to spend money. It grows 3x the rate of the GNP.
People are going to the polls today to vote for either big government or bigger government.
I am reminded of the words of Alexander Tyler (1787):
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
Sadly, the background is probably the most important part of the initial user experience. So why are all these backgrounds ass-ugly? They might have been cool in 1994 with the release of NIN's Downward Spiral, but this is 2008. Everything is glossy black and blue.
I can't wait to see how Apple takes advantage of this:
PC: (pushing computers into African kids (starving))
Mac: Oh that's nice PC, I see you're donating to the needy in Africa
PC: Uh, yeah (suspiciously). This has nothing to with Vista finding a user base that is happy to have it.
Matter can be created and destroyed, but the by-product is energy. The resulting sum of matter and energy is what cannot be lessened.
As Trent Reznor one said "I am sure there is a god. I'm just not sure of his relevance." I think it would be mighty presumptuous to assume that it would be preoccupied with the ins-and-outs of our daily lives, and even our "salvation".
Without a caring god, we're left to science, cause-and-effect. And the body of evidence is that this world, the one free of deity intervention is the one we live in. So what is the point of his existence in excess of initial creation? Science has caused the planets to form, the organic chemistry to take place. In a universe of science there is no room for a controlling deity.
Global warming is real! But temporary. The real question is: "is it anthropogenic?" and "is it permanent?"
We have a very limited view of what weather should be like. Only now are we finding out that Cairo Egypt used to be a very fertile place, with water up to the pyramids. Of course, anthropogenic factors did not cause /that/ warming, but now for some reason, the /current/ warming is somehow our fault? Co2 has been 0.28 of one percent! Now it went up by 0.040 of one percent over two hundred years.
There are dicussions being started about the growing evidence to the anthropogenic contrary. How many outlier events do we have to have before the outliers are no longer outliers?
When is the warming trend over? And melting trend over as well? When are record lows a sign of a change in direction?
It seems there is as much more evidence against global warming continuing as there is for it to continue.
When will we see NASA AIRS co2 distribution factored into the IPCC models? (Right now they assume even atmospheric distribution)
Well the 6 digit UID of mine is about 10 years old. That puts him at 46 when he signed up, as a rough upper bound. I'd believe it. If I had to guess, a 5 digit UID is 11 years old and he'd have been 44ish.
Different governments create different products:
Linus is called the "benevolent dictator" because he's making a product.
Our Constitution guarantees a republic. We've "overridden the base class" (in OOP-speak) to produce an arguably functioning democracy. But the bigger the democracy gets, the more problems we have. We want what the majority wants (by definition) - however right now, what we want does not exist. We're chasing entitlements right into bankruptcy. This isn't a problem with democracy as a form of government per se, it is a problem with the people in it, and what they feel they should be able to get. We elect those who promise the most, but without the ability to pay for it we end up "borrowing" really stealing our entitlements from our kids.
The intended product of the Constitution was one where the federal government was of limited authority. It had control over interstate commerce, international operations, and ability to make laws and fund itself and to those ends only. States were supposed to be our real governments, where as small groups of people, we can affect our immediate environment to a much higher degree. Unfortunately the Uniform Commercial Clause and taxation have eaten away at the limits of the federal government.
I think it is better to focus on the features of government than the government itself. Any government this far has had a treasury. This is an accumulation of wealth. It can be raided (and is routinely) with acts of congress. I'd like to see a government without a treasury. The bills are instead direct billed to the people. The people then can pay based on itemization of the costs. Anything not endorsed by the people won't be funded. And there is no treasury to be raided. There can never be costs past on to the next generation... While congress can still have lobbyists, their effectiveness is limited. Congress can pass any law they want, but without funding the effect of corruption is limited by the people.
What spammers did was to use a slashdot email address as a destination. The idea is that a random, unsolicited yet strange email would solicit a reply, at which point you now have a validated email address to sell. Each message played to a particular emotion in hope to get a reply.
Each tactic:
Humility
Severity
Compassion
Offensive
While someone might not reply to offensive emails, that psyce might reply to calls for compassion. Or vice-versa.
I don't understand your question. Are you talking from a module-centric (code) way, or a content-centric way?
The module centric stuff should be easy to do. You have a mainline which is staging, and a release branch for deployment. Your developers develop in their own branch and integrate to main. If you want a QA cycle, then that's branched to from main, then integrated back to main.
The only problem is the database... you'd need a partial replication. You need to take the production database and have that feed into your staging and development without having staging or development feed into production...
Well, I liked the idea, until I saw it was just an energy sink.
You see, the photovoltaic cells we have today run at 10-14% efficiency. Compare that to natural photosynthesis at 2%, ergo, outside fo manufacturing we should be able to do 5x what the plant can do. Imagine a "plant" with a dehumidifier that separates the collected water into HHO2 gas (via electrolysis) you can store the Hydrogen for a lamp at night, and just release oxygen in the room. And you can still do whatever with extra electricity - LED colored leaves?.
We should be able to do plant functions 5x better than a plant.
Drupal (PHP)
Zope/Plone (Python)
this article seems to give a good idea of what happens when sun spots are too low for too long, and what this has lead to in the past. There is only one other place on the images that looks like today: the lead up to the Dalton Minimum
I mangled the link.
I follow this blog which gives regular reports on the sun.
The problem is all up until yesterday-ish had been short lived, less than 24-hour sunspots at a latitude consistent with the previous solar cycle. (There seems to be a pattern where spots begin and progress to during the cycle's life cycle.)
However to really understand just how quet the sun is, look at this animated graphic
Many, many people are predicting another mini-ice age as a result. Check out this article for a wavelet image of sun spot numbers. The only other part of the chart that looks like today is the Dalton Minimum.
Qt+Webkit:
It seems the Qt+WebKit combo is only in need of convenience functions to make it more appealing.
1. MS has the developer interia to control the market.
2. MS continues to fracture the market, rather than compete. People like Icaza are mislead by MS, and end up being MS's Linux department. But it will always be a 2nd rate platform to Windows. This only benefits MS, because now they can make a claim that it "'can' run on Linux", but it actually won't be 100%, because they hold back some libraries.
3. Of the stuff that is available for linux, it isn't available until way late int he game.
4. Microsoft doesn't compete with better technology. They compete with inertia. The products are floating on install base, like the company is floating on cash reserves.
I wouldn't mind MS if they were really cross platform - meaning that they are responsible for mono, and make sure all libraries are available and work on mono on the same day they are released for windows.
see my comment here
Basically, I ask the same thing, except I throw WebKit out there (Its what Adobe AIR is based on). Flash and Silverlight are proprietary licensed products. WebKit is not.
Given that Adobe AIR is based on WebKit, and the OpenSource world has Webkit (Qt has Webkit integrated, but Qt is not required for my suggestion), why don't we just make a fully AIR/Silverlight clone using WebKit and Javascript?