Show me an affordable method for supporting xvid, divx, or ogg in the hardware I use every day (rca lyra, mitsubishi dvd player, sony cd player in the car), and we can talk about it not being hit-or-miss. Right now, ogg support is scarce, and getting the right video codec installed and configured for divx is a pain in the ass.
And you refuse to use products just because they include drm features? I guess you don't use quicktime, dvd/dvd-r, or encrypting filesystems then?
Uh, if I remember, WMV/WMA are pretty much the only 'free' (I.e. No or little license fees) formats other than DivX and Vorbis that offer even decent quality, and as much as I love Vorbis, support for the two (especially divx, ugh) is rather hit-and-miss.
Uh, you talk about it being like IE - you mean they will make a version for other platforms that is superior to the windows version, and keep giving it away because people like it? I hardly see how palladium could have anything to do with this, except maybe WMA/WMV DRM... Palladium is about content/software creators controlling the use of their content/software, and while I don't like that idea, it has nothing to do with the evil-empire-FUD you're spouting.
I'm sorry, but you're a fool. Games are not necessary for anything (except promoting a hardware platform), so MS has no responsibility to port them. Access has no business being ported to Mac - filemaker serves almost every purpose access does, and for things too complicated for that companies are using higher end products than Access. Frankly, I'm suprised ms didn't port access just to muscle out filemaker. Probably figured it wasn't worth trying for such a small, low profit market. 8-) if you really need Access, use virtual PC. And finally, apple is going to have to add an assload of 'value' to justify the $2,000-$20,000 cost of moving your production environment to OSX capable macs. Not only are macs more expensive, but not all the expensive audio/video hardware people owns will work with them. Then there is the possible cost of training your people to use the environment (though with osx that's probably negligable.) And when I say they need to add a lotta value to justify the cost, I mean a *lot*. And aqua-themed UI widgets and cool sliding windows hardly begin to come close to that. As good as Apple is at software dev, I think that removing windows support is going to hurt their bottom line for those products, not help it. That's why quicktime is available for windows. Basically, you don't know what you're talking about.
While I agree with your basic point, we're hardly the only ones to blame for racism, supporting dictatorships, and religious oppression. Religious oppression is extremely common over there (hell, numerous countries over there have state-enforced religions). Racism isn't exactly a nonexistent problem in the eastern world either, and countries like Russia also supported lots of dictators in developing countries. The only difference is that the U.S. is the main country that did these things and remains around.
But it seems like this whole 'building names on each other' thing is getting out of hand. GDDR2 SDRAM? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Sheesh. Why can't you just call it something like DDR3 or GDRAM or something simple like that?
There's a ~$40b reserve of money from the Iraq oil sanctions and oil for food program(s), if I remember, and that's being used for the war - that was reported on the news a few days ago.
I don't see why our stupid politicians (like feingold!) can't just CUT SPENDING instead of taxing us more. It's not like we don't pay a lot for taxes already!
I'm sorry, but this is idiotic. I've had about enough of this 'coupling' shit.
This is how it works: Media Player and IE are both FULLY REUSABLE ActiveX components that come with windows. Any windows developer can 100% rely on the fact that they will be installed on a windows machine (Well, not 100% with media player, but with IE, 100%). This means you can add simple media playback and web functionality to a program without having to purchase external tools or spend hours integrating some external solution!
I don't WANT components I rely on to be uninstalled. All Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer really ARE is glorified activex component hosts. The real work is done by DirectShow and the Microsoft HTML library.
I can see how this is bad for competition, but we're going after the wrong target here - IE and Media Player aren't the problem; the way they're being used is.
Looks like someone altered your DNA to make you spell badly and forget to use the Shift key and apostrophes! I hope that doesn't make your immune system weak against leet speak!
This is a great thing for the patent system, and the U.S., and for humanity.
Of course, if Microsoft had patented their recycle bin icon, we'd all be screaming like mad. But hey, it's Apple, and Apple's *never ever* done anything bad... right? Right?
I'm starting to agree with the people who say patents are bad in general. This is utter idiocy.
California is looking into claims that the site is practicing geology without a license. If you let people practice geology without a license, The terrorists have already won.
Sounds like typical snake oil salesmen to me. But I wonder, why on earth do you need a license to practice geology?
Sorry, even with how much control over the computer industry MS has, I find it hard to believe that anyone can be 'forced' to pirate Windows, or Office, or whatever. There ARE free alternatives.
Windows 3.x ripped off mac os. 95 was more a ripoff of os/2 or nextstep's guis than mac os's. Until os x came out, the macintosh's gui was far behind other platforms.
And as far as I know the lack of an opteron/itanium release of windows is mostly due to the difficulties involved in developing for the platform(s)... It's not purely market-based.
Bill gates is one of the world's biggest funders of AIDS research, and other such things, in third world countries if I remember. So he IS doing such things, on a much bigger scale than popular figures like steve jobs.
This seems to be a mostly server-side technology, and Java is generally accepted on the server, so I don't see it as a bad thing that it's in Java.
However, if this technology requires the client to implement some complex authentication stuff, you've got a problem. Exclusively tying your reference implementation to 'weighty' technologies like.NET or Java is a very negative thing, because many clients will either not have the necessary runtimes, or will have very outdated versions of them. Both.NET and Java weigh in at at least 10mb, and that will definitely hurt deployment of any technology.
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Show me an affordable method for supporting xvid, divx, or ogg in the hardware I use every day (rca lyra, mitsubishi dvd player, sony cd player in the car), and we can talk about it not being hit-or-miss. Right now, ogg support is scarce, and getting the right video codec installed and configured for divx is a pain in the ass.
And you refuse to use products just because they include drm features? I guess you don't use quicktime, dvd/dvd-r, or encrypting filesystems then?
Uh, if I remember, WMV/WMA are pretty much the only 'free' (I.e. No or little license fees) formats other than DivX and Vorbis that offer even decent quality, and as much as I love Vorbis, support for the two (especially divx, ugh) is rather hit-and-miss.
Huhh??
Who said anything about camels? We're talking about MS! Did you mean to post to a news story about perl?
Silly arabs...
Uh, you talk about it being like IE - you mean they will make a version for other platforms that is superior to the windows version, and keep giving it away because people like it?
I hardly see how palladium could have anything to do with this, except maybe WMA/WMV DRM... Palladium is about content/software creators controlling the use of their content/software, and while I don't like that idea, it has nothing to do with the evil-empire-FUD you're spouting.
I'm sorry, but you're a fool.
Games are not necessary for anything (except promoting a hardware platform), so MS has no responsibility to port them.
Access has no business being ported to Mac - filemaker serves almost every purpose access does, and for things too complicated for that companies are using higher end products than Access. Frankly, I'm suprised ms didn't port access just to muscle out filemaker. Probably figured it wasn't worth trying for such a small, low profit market. 8-) if you really need Access, use virtual PC.
And finally, apple is going to have to add an assload of 'value' to justify the $2,000-$20,000 cost of moving your production environment to OSX capable macs. Not only are macs more expensive, but not all the expensive audio/video hardware people owns will work with them. Then there is the possible cost of training your people to use the environment (though with osx that's probably negligable.)
And when I say they need to add a lotta value to justify the cost, I mean a *lot*. And aqua-themed UI widgets and cool sliding windows hardly begin to come close to that. As good as Apple is at software dev, I think that removing windows support is going to hurt their bottom line for those products, not help it. That's why quicktime is available for windows.
Basically, you don't know what you're talking about.
While I agree with your basic point, we're hardly the only ones to blame for racism, supporting dictatorships, and religious oppression. Religious oppression is extremely common over there (hell, numerous countries over there have state-enforced religions). Racism isn't exactly a nonexistent problem in the eastern world either, and countries like Russia also supported lots of dictators in developing countries. The only difference is that the U.S. is the main country that did these things and remains around.
Michigan residents being arrested on april fools' day because of a law that's a joke.
Slashdot the specs so nobody can develop clients! That's absolute genius. I wonder how much Hilary Rosen is paying Taco for this? ;)
But it seems like this whole 'building names on each other' thing is getting out of hand.
GDDR2 SDRAM? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Sheesh. Why can't you just call it something like DDR3 or GDRAM or something simple like that?
There's a ~$40b reserve of money from the Iraq oil sanctions and oil for food program(s), if I remember, and that's being used for the war - that was reported on the news a few days ago.
I don't see why our stupid politicians (like feingold!) can't just CUT SPENDING instead of taxing us more. It's not like we don't pay a lot for taxes already!
And yet they were spit on anyway? I don't see a connection.
And to think Clinton is trying to get himself made the next UN Secretary General!
Valid point.
Getting fiber to my door is cool, but when will they get it to my living room? I don't have a plug for my computer at the door :(
I'm sorry, but this is idiotic. I've had about enough of this 'coupling' shit.
This is how it works:
Media Player and IE are both FULLY REUSABLE ActiveX components that come with windows. Any windows developer can 100% rely on the fact that they will be installed on a windows machine (Well, not 100% with media player, but with IE, 100%). This means you can add simple media playback and web functionality to a program without having to purchase external tools or spend hours integrating some external solution!
I don't WANT components I rely on to be uninstalled. All Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer really ARE is glorified activex component hosts. The real work is done by DirectShow and the Microsoft HTML library.
I can see how this is bad for competition, but we're going after the wrong target here - IE and Media Player aren't the problem; the way they're being used is.
And the women all have big breasts, oddly colored hair, and wear little to no clothing! I love evolution, don't you?
Looks like someone altered your DNA to make you spell badly and forget to use the Shift key and apostrophes! I hope that doesn't make your immune system weak against leet speak!
This is a great thing for the patent system, and the U.S., and for humanity.
Of course, if Microsoft had patented their recycle bin icon, we'd all be screaming like mad. But hey, it's Apple, and Apple's *never ever* done anything bad... right? Right?
I'm starting to agree with the people who say patents are bad in general. This is utter idiocy.
California is looking into claims that the site is practicing geology without a license. If you let people practice geology without a license, The terrorists have already won.
Sounds like typical snake oil salesmen to me. But I wonder, why on earth do you need a license to practice geology?
Incoming Call From: Bill Gates ...
Accept/Decline?
Sorry, even with how much control over the computer industry MS has, I find it hard to believe that anyone can be 'forced' to pirate Windows, or Office, or whatever. There ARE free alternatives.
Windows 3.x ripped off mac os. 95 was more a ripoff of os/2 or nextstep's guis than mac os's. Until os x came out, the macintosh's gui was far behind other platforms.
And as far as I know the lack of an opteron/itanium release of windows is mostly due to the difficulties involved in developing for the platform(s)... It's not purely market-based.
Bill gates is one of the world's biggest funders of AIDS research, and other such things, in third world countries if I remember. So he IS doing such things, on a much bigger scale than popular figures like steve jobs.
When Mr. Wanke said "it's in longhorn", he meant the feature the team was working on. That was to punish them for not showing up for the bug meeting.
Perhaps you should read articles before quoting them? That wasn't a correct quote either, you abridged it.
This seems to be a mostly server-side technology, and Java is generally accepted on the server, so I don't see it as a bad thing that it's in Java.
.NET or Java is a very negative thing, because many clients will either not have the necessary runtimes, or will have very outdated versions of them. Both .NET and Java weigh in at at least 10mb, and that will definitely hurt deployment of any technology.
However, if this technology requires the client to implement some complex authentication stuff, you've got a problem. Exclusively tying your reference implementation to 'weighty' technologies like