So far from my testing, It automatically added people I added through the jabber client to my gmail account. This is also proof of integration with Gmail.
So if you follow the same logic Uruguay can call themselves Oriental Republic? I don't think so.
Everyone living in any of the American Continents, with the exception of the US and Canada, know that America refers to South/Central/North America and not just The United States of America. They simply refer to it as The United States. If America refers to The United States, then what does Americas refer to but collectively North, Central and South America? two or three United States? This is yet another self centered "American" standard. It may be standard to call the United States "America" but America had been used to refer to the continents since 1507.
The confusion is such that they had to come up with "Americas" to refer to the continent to prevent the term from getting confused with the good ol USA.
" The use of the term America for the United States of America in English and colloquially in other languages is seen by some as politically incorrect (it may be seen as cultural imperialism). By some interpretations, this is also illogical (for example, it would place South America outside America), although the context usually makes clear which 'America' is meant. This led to the emergence of the term Americas to take away the ambiguity (in English), if not the illogicality."
So to please the people who call the United States "America", they had to rename a whole continent?
Has anyone tried to see what entering "linux" on google gives you now a days? At-least on my Canadian "copy" of google (actually, even on google.com/linux), I get an interesting sponsored link at the top of my search results (not on the right side as usual):
From their Claim #1: 1. A computer-implemented method for managing a dynamic Web page generation request to a Web server, said computer-implemented method comprising the steps of: routing a request from a Web server to a page server, said page server receiving said request and releasing said Web server to process other requests wherein said routing step further includes the steps of: intercepting said request at said Web server and routing said request to said page server; processing said request, said processing being performed by said page server while said Web server concurrently processes said other requests; and dynamically generating a Web page in response to said request, said Web page including data dynamically retrieved from one or more data sources.
Have no fear, I shall patent the word 'said' and venge the Web!
I guess the theory in this post where you as a seagull, would see the massive roaring white thing with fire coming out its ass and would be something that you would AVOID has been proven to be wrong.
"I'm surprised that Microsoft exposed something that looks so slapdash to the public."
That's one trend I've been seeing with MSN related products. Everything from their latest MSN messenger to their search engine, to their IE tabs toolbar to this. They all look like a weekend hack.
First they hype up an operating system which is not to be released until 2006 yet has all its main features removed, then they finally announce the release of a new version of IE which is only going to work for XP and now they don't want pirated copies of windows to get updates?? I think this is the start of the end for Microsoft...they are building their own coffin.
"More likely, the open-source approach, meaning the pride developers take in making good (or at least decent) code, the peer review of said code, and quick fixing when a bug is found, will prevent a decline."
To pick up on that point, Open Source features and deadlines are usually not driven by management/sales/marketing/, leaving the decision of when the product is as close to being ready as possible, to those people who actually know when that is; the egineers, developers, QA, and testers. The process is usually not hurried and pushed because of a bottom line. People involved are usually there because they like to, not because they are forced to take on any job to bring bread to the table. I think everyone agrees that, generally, people who are doing things they enjoy, and are happy, usually produce a better product.
This is great news but are we ready? Speaking in terms of Office software, as an example, I've tried to use OpenOffice 1.1 and 1.9+ beta and unfortunatlely, It does not compare to the "other" brand yet. It is klunky and full of annoying glitches. I thought I could ride them out but I couldn't. I am confident that all these issues will be ironed out in the future but are OpenOffice and like Open Source alternatives for Office software ready for the average Joe?
I hope it is just a problem with my wrong usage of it.
"I know that I have a huge bias here, but I really think that MS is doing a really great thing when it comes to RSS. The beautiful part of it is that amount of work that an application developer no longer has to do. I think that RSS is going to be so much broader because MS is putting the work they are doing into the platform. The nice part is that this is not novel work... soon you'll see these kind of platform investments in every platform. The surprising part is that any one else could have done the work first, but MS did. I think this may be the first time in a long time that MS has done something big that other people will emulate. Because knowing what RSS is and parsing XML for a dev is absolutely useless. It's like knowing how to handle a TCP/IP packet. It's the start of a brand new world. And when you can synch your databases, web directories, book marks, photos, calendars, reports, contacts, sales pipelines and everything else you can think of over RSS, you can have announcements like this to thank for kicking it off."
Slashdot Mirror
It's obviously a scam! I mean c'mon. Who exactly do they expect to fool with such nonsense?
.. and now, ..it has a hole in it!"
"So there is this invisible thing around the earth
I'm not falling for it.
If you can't stand the heat then move somewhere cold.
The situation in Canada isn't that great either, trust me.
So far from my testing, It automatically added people I added through the jabber client to my gmail account. This is also proof of integration with Gmail.
Interesting. The reply is:
<stream:stream from="gmail.com" id="E454F69B" xmlns:stream="http://etherx.jabber.org/streams" xmlns="jabber:client">
Notice the "from". It seems to be related to gmail some how?
So if you follow the same logic Uruguay can call themselves Oriental Republic? I don't think so.
Everyone living in any of the American Continents, with the exception of the US and Canada, know that America refers to South/Central/North America and not just The United States of America. They simply refer to it as The United States. If America refers to The United States, then what does Americas refer to but collectively North, Central and South America? two or three United States? This is yet another self centered "American" standard. It may be standard to call the United States "America" but America had been used to refer to the continents since 1507.
The confusion is such that they had to come up with "Americas" to refer to the continent to prevent the term from getting confused with the good ol USA.
From Wikipedia:
" The use of the term America for the United States of America in English and colloquially in other languages is seen by some as politically incorrect (it may be seen as cultural imperialism). By some interpretations, this is also illogical (for example, it would place South America outside America), although the context usually makes clear which 'America' is meant. This led to the emergence of the term Americas to take away the ambiguity (in English), if not the illogicality."
So to please the people who call the United States "America", they had to rename a whole continent?
It's easier to pirate games for the PC.
Has anyone tried to see what entering "linux" on google gives you now a days? At-least on my Canadian "copy" of google (actually, even on google.com/linux), I get an interesting sponsored link at the top of my search results (not on the right side as usual):
Windows vs Linux
www.microsoft.ca/getthefacts Read In-Depth 3rd Party Performance Analysis on Linux & Windows!
Microsoft's marketing/advertising department working hard...
From their Claim #1:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a dynamic Web page generation request to a Web server, said computer-implemented method comprising the steps of:
routing a request from a Web server to a page server, said page server receiving said request and releasing said Web server to process other requests wherein said routing step further includes the steps of:
intercepting said request at said Web server and routing said request to said page server;
processing said request, said processing being performed by said page server while said Web server concurrently processes said other requests; and
dynamically generating a Web page in response to said request, said Web page including data dynamically retrieved from one or more data sources.
Have no fear, I shall patent the word 'said' and venge the Web!
I guess the theory in this post where you as a seagull, would see the massive roaring white thing with fire coming out its ass and would be something that you would AVOID has been proven to be wrong.
Isn't that how all "new" Microsoft products actually work? Refurnished/re-coloured interface on top of ancient content.
"I'm surprised that Microsoft exposed something that looks so slapdash to the public."
That's one trend I've been seeing with MSN related products. Everything from their latest MSN messenger to their search engine, to their IE tabs toolbar to this. They all look like a weekend hack.
First they hype up an operating system which is not to be released until 2006 yet has all its main features removed, then they finally announce the release of a new version of IE which is only going to work for XP and now they don't want pirated copies of windows to get updates?? I think this is the start of the end for Microsoft...they are building their own coffin.
Done
Can someone start lobbying to make lobbying illegal?
"I don't know officer, isn't that your job?"
Yah since Apache, historically, has always been full of holes due to its popularity as suppose to IIS.
"More likely, the open-source approach, meaning the pride developers take in making good (or at least decent) code, the peer review of said code, and quick fixing when a bug is found, will prevent a decline."
To pick up on that point, Open Source features and deadlines are usually not driven by management/sales/marketing/, leaving the decision of when the product is as close to being ready as possible, to those people who actually know when that is; the egineers, developers, QA, and testers. The process is usually not hurried and pushed because of a bottom line. People involved are usually there because they like to, not because they are forced to take on any job to bring bread to the table. I think everyone agrees that, generally, people who are doing things they enjoy, and are happy, usually produce a better product.
Where is the +1 Insightfully Funny Option.
According to this interview, the founder and director of development for the Optimus says he can hardly imagine it to be less than $200 to $300 (USD).
So apparently this photo was taken after they cancelled the launch. They seem pretty happy about it lol.. "Phewwwf..we dodged that one"
Because America is run by corporations.
So has Microsoft retracted their stand on Open Source being a a cancer? They can't possibly stick to that story, specially after so many organizations are seeing the benefits of Open Source. Will MS really and their fanboys ever learn?
Interesting, why did they include a google search box.
This is great news but are we ready? Speaking in terms of Office software, as an example, I've tried to use OpenOffice 1.1 and 1.9+ beta and unfortunatlely, It does not compare to the "other" brand yet. It is klunky and full of annoying glitches. I thought I could ride them out but I couldn't. I am confident that all these issues will be ironed out in the future but are OpenOffice and like Open Source alternatives for Office software ready for the average Joe?
I hope it is just a problem with my wrong usage of it.