But I don't know about how much extra work that would require. There are already several different standards on content syndication. Make sure that all open source CMS tools use these open standards and that would be a amazing step in the right direction.
Ted Tschopp
PS: Isn't that the whole idea behind Open Standards?
Reminds me of a friend of mine who works at Cal Tech. We were hanging out and they had nothing to do, I jokingly said that if they didn't have anything or were bored I could lend them my Laptop (A Sony Picture Book) and they could go study math.
The response (Not an exact quote, but it stuck with me), "One needs a good imagination to study math, not a calculator or computer; paper & pencil are helpful when it comes to proofs."
Of course that was my point, but they assumed that I was like most other people today... thinking that a persons ability to use a computers or a calculators make them smart or able in the sciences/math/computer programming.
No, but the compass and geometry are not patentable, and therfore there is no push from companies to sell them to schools, margins being what they are.
I wonder what this has to say about educating the consumer and educating the student.
As the ability to copy, distribute, and consume art increases, the only value left will be in the types of art which are live.
We already see this today. Who cares about the Mona Lisa, we all have seen pretty damn good pictures of it, who wants to own one? Who wants to put one up on their wall, who cares.
Well, now If said Mona Lisa comes into town and is touring the local Art Museum here in Los Angeles. I'll be the first in line to pay the $30 bucks to go and see it.
Classical music is the same way. My parents own one or two CD's of classical music (and perhaps 40 - 50 LP's) but they go every other weekend to see live concerts in the park, at the local Colleges and universities or whatever.
They also attend the local plays. Screw Television, Screw the movies. It's the live performances of art which will only have value.
Ted Tschopp
www.tolkienonline.com
From the processor's point of view, the coders point of view, and the computer hardware's point of view is there a difference between an OS and a Program....
As open source grows in popularity the total cost of ownership for users will decrease.
The effect of the growing open source community will have is to drive down the price on software or it will drive up the number of features on software. If Microsoft falls behind in either of these areas and open source catches up, Microsoft will have to either increase the number of features in their software to make them better (and justify their higher cost) or they will have to lower the price of their products.
One of these options presents a problem for Microsoft and the future of the computer industry in general.
If prices drop then profits must also drop. If profits drop, then Microsoft will have to cutback on the number of employees that it has and that means that their ability to develop new software will also decrease.
As this happens the PC will become more and more like the calculator becuase the price of software and the hardware will decrease to the point where the margin will be so small that you can't afford to do hire any developers to make things at a profit.
There are several ways to mitigate this problem:
1) Microsoft continues to add features, and there by continue to justify their higher prices.
2) Microsoft and other companies create a way to make money off of free software. This includs the idea that software is not a sting of 1's and 0's but a service or peace of mind.
Microsoft for years has taken path 1. I suspect that the instant they Start their attempt to enter and absorb the open source movement we will be seeing their final steps in their transisition to a company that provides services instead of software/hardware. Granted they will continue to develop new versions of software and hardware (Mice, game controlers, and PDA's). All these efforts in Service, Software, and Hardware will be used to prop up a Research and Development team which will ever so often come up with a new feature which will allow them to fall back to the old Plan 1.
This is the path that IBM has taken for years. They continue to develop truly unique pieces of R&D. But for years they have been taking the idea this approach and when they developed something cool in the hard drive arena they were able to leverage this to take a bit more market share in this arena for a couple of years before everyone else either licensed or caught up with them.
Anyway, I could continue to ramble, but I need some sleep or caffene.... Just my 0.02
I run a site which uses CF. Nice product. It is not the saviour of the free world, but it is nice.
The one thing that I found interesting is that they failed to mention or they didn't know, that for version 5.0 of Cold Fusion, CF will be an abstraction layer on top of JSP.
Or at least that was the plan the last time I heard it from Allaire.
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But I don't know about how much extra work that would require. There are already several different standards on content syndication. Make sure that all open source CMS tools use these open standards and that would be a amazing step in the right direction.
Ted Tschopp
PS: Isn't that the whole idea behind Open Standards?
Hmmm... Look at all those tags which have been depricated. Perhaps he should have spent more time making sure they didn't end up in the article.
AMEN. PREACH IT! Microsoft screwed Java and Sun (and they continue to do so), but Sun made some major missteps as well.
Something is fucked up in the world with the death of a human being is compaied to what happened to JAVA.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who works at Cal Tech. We were hanging out and they had nothing to do, I jokingly said that if they didn't have anything or were bored I could lend them my Laptop (A Sony Picture Book) and they could go study math.
The response (Not an exact quote, but it stuck with me), "One needs a good imagination to study math, not a calculator or computer; paper & pencil are helpful when it comes to proofs."
Of course that was my point, but they assumed that I was like most other people today... thinking that a persons ability to use a computers or a calculators make them smart or able in the sciences/math/computer programming.
Ted Tschopp
No, but the compass and geometry are not patentable, and therfore there is no push from companies to sell them to schools, margins being what they are.
I wonder what this has to say about educating the consumer and educating the student.
Ted Tschopp
As the ability to copy, distribute, and consume art increases, the only value left will be in the types of art which are live. We already see this today. Who cares about the Mona Lisa, we all have seen pretty damn good pictures of it, who wants to own one? Who wants to put one up on their wall, who cares. Well, now If said Mona Lisa comes into town and is touring the local Art Museum here in Los Angeles. I'll be the first in line to pay the $30 bucks to go and see it. Classical music is the same way. My parents own one or two CD's of classical music (and perhaps 40 - 50 LP's) but they go every other weekend to see live concerts in the park, at the local Colleges and universities or whatever. They also attend the local plays. Screw Television, Screw the movies. It's the live performances of art which will only have value. Ted Tschopp www.tolkienonline.com
From the processor's point of view, the coders point of view, and the computer hardware's point of view is there a difference between an OS and a Program....
As open source grows in popularity the total cost of ownership for users will decrease. The effect of the growing open source community will have is to drive down the price on software or it will drive up the number of features on software. If Microsoft falls behind in either of these areas and open source catches up, Microsoft will have to either increase the number of features in their software to make them better (and justify their higher cost) or they will have to lower the price of their products. One of these options presents a problem for Microsoft and the future of the computer industry in general. If prices drop then profits must also drop. If profits drop, then Microsoft will have to cutback on the number of employees that it has and that means that their ability to develop new software will also decrease. As this happens the PC will become more and more like the calculator becuase the price of software and the hardware will decrease to the point where the margin will be so small that you can't afford to do hire any developers to make things at a profit. There are several ways to mitigate this problem: 1) Microsoft continues to add features, and there by continue to justify their higher prices. 2) Microsoft and other companies create a way to make money off of free software. This includs the idea that software is not a sting of 1's and 0's but a service or peace of mind. Microsoft for years has taken path 1. I suspect that the instant they Start their attempt to enter and absorb the open source movement we will be seeing their final steps in their transisition to a company that provides services instead of software/hardware. Granted they will continue to develop new versions of software and hardware (Mice, game controlers, and PDA's). All these efforts in Service, Software, and Hardware will be used to prop up a Research and Development team which will ever so often come up with a new feature which will allow them to fall back to the old Plan 1. This is the path that IBM has taken for years. They continue to develop truly unique pieces of R&D. But for years they have been taking the idea this approach and when they developed something cool in the hard drive arena they were able to leverage this to take a bit more market share in this arena for a couple of years before everyone else either licensed or caught up with them. Anyway, I could continue to ramble, but I need some sleep or caffene.... Just my 0.02
I run a site which uses CF. Nice product. It is not the saviour of the free world, but it is nice. The one thing that I found interesting is that they failed to mention or they didn't know, that for version 5.0 of Cold Fusion, CF will be an abstraction layer on top of JSP. Or at least that was the plan the last time I heard it from Allaire.