Your logic is that publishers have no interest in promoting a platform? What do you think the games get played on? Publishers need platforms to be popular in order to have a foundation for their games.
designed to change gamer perceptions of Microsoft's console
And that's the problem. Instead of focusing on public perception a game designer should focus on a great gaming experience. Again it's marketing and greed driving a game instead of artists.
That is generally true. But Microsoft's most fundamental security problem is average users running with admin privileges. I do agree that on all systems we need a more modern security model.
What I'm thinking of is filtering blog entries that are little more than links to other blogs. But I also envision natural language processing getting much smarter and easily blocking out things that I don't care to waste time with. If others want to read about some stranger's cat, that's fine with me. But a good tool will know that I don't care.
This isn't news for nerds. This isn't stuff that matters. This is pure speculation by bloggers and *rolling eyes* journalists. No one even knew this was Microsoft related until they started looking up domain name information.
There really isn't any mainstream backlash yet. It's only coming from people who are already into blogging (reading or writing).
And google's blogsearch is hardly the evolutionary tool we need. The reading tools seriously need to get much much better at filtering out spam and things it can figure out are meaningless to us. For example, instead of seeing a stream of posts all pointing to each other figure out the meat of the issue and truely original source and show us just that.
1 - Blogging tools get a little easier 2 - Multimedia blogging gets a little easier, but won't get heavily adopted for a long time 3 - Many many many more people blog 4 - Mainstream backlash from all the BS out there 5 - Really good tools finally crop up to make finding what you're interested in easier (Technorati but 200 times better) 6 - Many of the worst blogs die away as the good reading tools (and people using them) ignore them 7 - If you're not one of the top 100 blogs of these tools you're basically ignored, disgruntling a LOT of people 8 - A few thousand great blogs stay up for years, many consolidating, and any of the rest come and go quickly
The Word document format is barely even documented within Microsoft. Its design is a mess. If Microsoft employees have almost no hope of having it documented the rest of the world has no hope at all.
Microsoft isn't lazy at anything but design (bugs and security are intentional laziness). They don't take their time in order to produce quality. They schedule everything for maximum financial impact. Be sure this product will magically be released at an "interesting" time, whether its quality is there or not.
It has to be something with huge significance, so we won't be rushed.
New Microsoft employee? Marketing department hasn't spoken with you yet? Here are Microsoft products are released on a schedule which provides maximum profits and steady revenue. You'll release it when the quarterly financials tell us it needs to be released.
Who in their right mind would even consider paying for AOL dial-up?!
Those who already have an aol email address and don't want to change it. Many people are lazy enough to pay the extra price just to keep their email address and not have to research alternatives.
Microsoft's lawyer... um, I mean Lionel Hutz: 'Well, he's kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly," and replace "dog" with "son."'
Not at all familiar with corporate intranets, are you? There are thousands of activex controls for sale to corporations who use them on their intranets. IE isn't only about the public web running mostly apache and PHP. It's about corporate intranets who mostly run IIS and ASP. They use these components extensively.
Very true. And specifically in PHP's case objects provide encapsulation that's otherwise impossible. If they simply provided modular scope (similar to Python) I probably wouldn't use PHP objects half as often.
It's a huge step forward for OO development in PHP.
BUT it's still got all the crud of PHP4. For those transitioning from PHP4 objects one great feature is the new warning when using the older style of classes. However all of those things people find quirky about PHP4 still exist. For example, now you can force a function parameter to be a certain type of object, but not a basic type. You still can't even fully overload a function.
My view is that it's two steps forward and one step back. They need to consider deprecating features and making a php.ini option to not allow the use of any deprecated features.
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Some /. comments are like shit, they come from assholes and everyone makes them.
Your logic is that publishers have no interest in promoting a platform? What do you think the games get played on? Publishers need platforms to be popular in order to have a foundation for their games.
designed to change gamer perceptions of Microsoft's console
And that's the problem. Instead of focusing on public perception a game designer should focus on a great gaming experience. Again it's marketing and greed driving a game instead of artists.
Back in '04 Cory Doctorow gave an interesting speech about DRM to the Microsoft Research department. He released it into the public domain, so share it with your friends (and DRM enemies).
That is generally true. But Microsoft's most fundamental security problem is average users running with admin privileges. I do agree that on all systems we need a more modern security model.
According to the Reg the OS X security exploits are largely academic and not serious threats.
For the foreseable future Microsoft Windows will remain a huge security risk.
Is Microsoft doing everything they can to crush competitors? That's certainly nothing new.
What I'm thinking of is filtering blog entries that are little more than links to other blogs. But I also envision natural language processing getting much smarter and easily blocking out things that I don't care to waste time with. If others want to read about some stranger's cat, that's fine with me. But a good tool will know that I don't care.
I has nothing at all to do with my hatred of Microsoft. My complaint is that pure rumor and zero facts are being turned into a /. story.
This isn't news for nerds. This isn't stuff that matters. This is pure speculation by bloggers and *rolling eyes* journalists. No one even knew this was Microsoft related until they started looking up domain name information.
There really isn't any mainstream backlash yet. It's only coming from people who are already into blogging (reading or writing).
And google's blogsearch is hardly the evolutionary tool we need. The reading tools seriously need to get much much better at filtering out spam and things it can figure out are meaningless to us. For example, instead of seeing a stream of posts all pointing to each other figure out the meat of the issue and truely original source and show us just that.
Here's the future of blogging:
1 - Blogging tools get a little easier
2 - Multimedia blogging gets a little easier, but won't get heavily adopted for a long time
3 - Many many many more people blog
4 - Mainstream backlash from all the BS out there
5 - Really good tools finally crop up to make finding what you're interested in easier (Technorati but 200 times better)
6 - Many of the worst blogs die away as the good reading tools (and people using them) ignore them
7 - If you're not one of the top 100 blogs of these tools you're basically ignored, disgruntling a LOT of people
8 - A few thousand great blogs stay up for years, many consolidating, and any of the rest come and go quickly
This certainly isn't the first time Microsoft has attempted to influence governments.
The Word document format is barely even documented within Microsoft. Its design is a mess. If Microsoft employees have almost no hope of having it documented the rest of the world has no hope at all.
But you're forgetting he "works" for "Microsoft".
He has a "job" and doesn't want to "lose it".
Therefore he'll release it when he's told to.
Microsoft isn't lazy at anything but design (bugs and security are intentional laziness). They don't take their time in order to produce quality. They schedule everything for maximum financial impact. Be sure this product will magically be released at an "interesting" time, whether its quality is there or not.
It has to be something with huge significance, so we won't be rushed.
New Microsoft employee? Marketing department hasn't spoken with you yet? Here are Microsoft products are released on a schedule which provides maximum profits and steady revenue. You'll release it when the quarterly financials tell us it needs to be released.
Who in their right mind would even consider paying for AOL dial-up?!
Those who already have an aol email address and don't want to change it. Many people are lazy enough to pay the extra price just to keep their email address and not have to research alternatives.
Microsoft's lawyer... um, I mean Lionel Hutz: 'Well, he's kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly," and replace "dog" with "son."'
Microsoft market share myths versus user base
Not at all familiar with corporate intranets, are you? There are thousands of activex controls for sale to corporations who use them on their intranets. IE isn't only about the public web running mostly apache and PHP. It's about corporate intranets who mostly run IIS and ASP. They use these components extensively.
From the advisory:
Do not open files in ZIP archives originating from untrusted sources.
Duh.
So... no challah for the chosen people at Yahoo?
I'll break bread elsewhere, thanks.
Very true. And specifically in PHP's case objects provide encapsulation that's otherwise impossible. If they simply provided modular scope (similar to Python) I probably wouldn't use PHP objects half as often.
It's a huge step forward for OO development in PHP.
BUT it's still got all the crud of PHP4. For those transitioning from PHP4 objects one great feature is the new warning when using the older style of classes. However all of those things people find quirky about PHP4 still exist. For example, now you can force a function parameter to be a certain type of object, but not a basic type. You still can't even fully overload a function.
My view is that it's two steps forward and one step back. They need to consider deprecating features and making a php.ini option to not allow the use of any deprecated features.