Befor you commen, take a serious look and compare SMIL to Flash, Silverlight and XUL in FF 3.0. Or look at it from MS's perspective. Flash on one side, Google Office on another side and XUL in FF 3.0 on another. Either add their own version of Browser-As-Platform or they sit back and lose the market.
Or look at it from MS's perspective. Flash on one side, Google Office on another side and XUL in FF 3.0 on another. Either add their own version of Browser-As-Platform or they sit back and lose the market.
Silverlight is based on C# (a reduced subset) which is a public standard that is already being implemented for Linux in the Mono project and the DotGNU project. It's a matter of effort, little else. And you same arguments hold true when you turn this on it;s head and say that Firefox 3.0 features for building XUL applications will make it hard for IE users and developers.
I'm as much a Linux fan as the next guy but I HATE when I see this crap where MS is supposed to wipe the penguin's ass. Time for hte Open Source folks to innovate or get out of the way. Adobe(Macromedia) Flash has been around for a LONG time and I have yet to see anyone attempt to come up with a serious Open Source alternative.
Wake up. The Democratic party want to regulate the hell out of everything just like the RIAA. Learn from history or repeat it. Time for a real 3rd party. No lawyers or career politicians allowed.
I believe that the way people use email that it should be covered by wiretapping laws. I agree that formal, published content and work product should be fair game if subpoenaed but email is more like phone conversation. Like a stream on conscious thought for most folks. Jump on the wrong side of this issue and don't be surprised when one day an email you wrote 20 years ago winds up embarrassing you or endangering your freedom.
And this is the basic problem with the Liberal cause today. In the late 1990's the US was evil because sanctions were killing millions of Iraqi babies. Now the sanctions are gone the the US is evil for finally deposing the despot who was starving his own people to build castle after castle. Never climb into a life raft with a guy who you know is gonna poke hole in it just to spite you.
Apparently you didn't read my comment or the blog. OF COURSE Microsoft is concerned with this guy's opinion. Hence the special treatment around the MS facilities and his track record. But this guy automatically equates their attempts at kissing his ass as them being "against him".
This guy needs to realize that he is also corrupted by the power that his writing has. For instance, saying "It also was strange to see just how many resources are aligned against me" is a complete giveaway of how highly this guy thinks of himself and how purposefully biased he is that he thinks MS's concern and attempt to show him things that might sway his opinion in the other direction is somehow being "against him".
I used to get frustrated waiting for large file copies in XP but Vista is horrible. I can't get it to un-sleep properly either. I'll drop the lid and open it later and hit a few keys. 2 minutes later the screen is still black so I'll try to shut it down or start it up and I wind up holding the start button for 10 seconds to get anything to work. It's also annoying that 90% of the time the battery is still drained when I shut the lid.
You are being fed stories by the socialist, leftist news organizations. This keeps happening over and over and you guys just eat it up. In the end nothing ever happens because the claims were bogus or exaggerated. Wiretapping? Haliburton? Libby?, etc, etc,. They play off your skewed opinions to skew you further. Name ONE "rightist conspiracy" that has panned out. By the time you realize what is going on you'll be walking around in Chavez t-shirts wondering why it's wrong to nationalize General Motors.
And the even more amusing assumption that the other view has any relevance - even if we acknowledge a warming trend. In other words, "so what?". One side ignores the issues and is simply using them to push an agenda. In other words, even if we assume a warming trend, why should we alter our behavior in any way? Your point is exacly what I'm talking about since it really reveals your true agenda.
Too late for fielded software set to update, government mandated updates and foreign systems. A lot of systems are interconnected in the Java world and in a lot of cases you only have control over a small piece of the puzzle. Personally I'm past caring since no one seems to give a crap.
I tried posting this on several sites but on March 11th, when the new daylight savingsregime kicks in for the first time there will probably be a lot of Java applications that will start having data issues because the latest Java version IS NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE for several three character time codes that have bee removed. Several codes have been deprecated in a way that is not backwards compatible. I could be wrong about the severity, but for he last two weeks my software team has been dealing with this issue and the interaction between Oracle and Java.
How the eck does stuff like this get posted? I've been using Vista Business and Office 2007 since the launch. Office is 35% easier to use and Vista around 15%. I'm not even running a firewall or anti virus. No problems. None. Jerks.
Don't get excited: This new and improved compiler, which supports Visual Basic 8.0 code, is bundled in Mono 1.2.3. In addition to Visual Basic support, this version includes many bug fixes and an almost complete ASP.NET 2.0 API (application programming interface) implementation. WebParts, however, still isn't completely supported.
This is similar to convicts trying to get jobs once out of prison. There is no longer an assumed trust due to prior actions. Who trusts MS to NOT pervert any of their documentation or standards if they see an economic benefit in doing so?
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Befor you commen, take a serious look and compare SMIL to Flash, Silverlight and XUL in FF 3.0. Or look at it from MS's perspective. Flash on one side, Google Office on another side and XUL in FF 3.0 on another. Either add their own version of Browser-As-Platform or they sit back and lose the market.
Or look at it from MS's perspective. Flash on one side, Google Office on another side and XUL in FF 3.0 on another. Either add their own version of Browser-As-Platform or they sit back and lose the market.
Silverlight is based on C# (a reduced subset) which is a public standard that is already being implemented for Linux in the Mono project and the DotGNU project. It's a matter of effort, little else. And you same arguments hold true when you turn this on it;s head and say that Firefox 3.0 features for building XUL applications will make it hard for IE users and developers.
I'm as much a Linux fan as the next guy but I HATE when I see this crap where MS is supposed to wipe the penguin's ass. Time for hte Open Source folks to innovate or get out of the way. Adobe(Macromedia) Flash has been around for a LONG time and I have yet to see anyone attempt to come up with a serious Open Source alternative.
Wake up. The Democratic party want to regulate the hell out of everything just like the RIAA. Learn from history or repeat it. Time for a real 3rd party. No lawyers or career politicians allowed.
I believe that the way people use email that it should be covered by wiretapping laws. I agree that formal, published content and work product should be fair game if subpoenaed but email is more like phone conversation. Like a stream on conscious thought for most folks. Jump on the wrong side of this issue and don't be surprised when one day an email you wrote 20 years ago winds up embarrassing you or endangering your freedom.
And this is the basic problem with the Liberal cause today. In the late 1990's the US was evil because sanctions were killing millions of Iraqi babies. Now the sanctions are gone the the US is evil for finally deposing the despot who was starving his own people to build castle after castle. Never climb into a life raft with a guy who you know is gonna poke hole in it just to spite you.
That's what you get when you try to argue religion.
You appear to be as biased as the writer in question.
Apparently you didn't read my comment or the blog. OF COURSE Microsoft is concerned with this guy's opinion. Hence the special treatment around the MS facilities and his track record. But this guy automatically equates their attempts at kissing his ass as them being "against him".
This guy needs to realize that he is also corrupted by the power that his writing has. For instance, saying "It also was strange to see just how many resources are aligned against me" is a complete giveaway of how highly this guy thinks of himself and how purposefully biased he is that he thinks MS's concern and attempt to show him things that might sway his opinion in the other direction is somehow being "against him".
I think this is more of a perceived risk than an actual risk.
One difference is targeting who you are instead of what you are. Not that it matters much.
I used to get frustrated waiting for large file copies in XP but Vista is horrible. I can't get it to un-sleep properly either. I'll drop the lid and open it later and hit a few keys. 2 minutes later the screen is still black so I'll try to shut it down or start it up and I wind up holding the start button for 10 seconds to get anything to work. It's also annoying that 90% of the time the battery is still drained when I shut the lid.
Let's all drive Viacom out of business and see if YouTube is still around. Works for me.
How amusing, I'm being labeled a troll. What exactly am I trolling?
You are being fed stories by the socialist, leftist news organizations. This keeps happening over and over and you guys just eat it up. In the end nothing ever happens because the claims were bogus or exaggerated. Wiretapping? Haliburton? Libby?, etc, etc,. They play off your skewed opinions to skew you further. Name ONE "rightist conspiracy" that has panned out. By the time you realize what is going on you'll be walking around in Chavez t-shirts wondering why it's wrong to nationalize General Motors.
Between FoxPro and VB it just amazes me that any company can afford to repeatedly crap on it's customers and still survive.
And the even more amusing assumption that the other view has any relevance - even if we acknowledge a warming trend. In other words, "so what?". One side ignores the issues and is simply using them to push an agenda. In other words, even if we assume a warming trend, why should we alter our behavior in any way? Your point is exacly what I'm talking about since it really reveals your true agenda.
Too late for fielded software set to update, government mandated updates and foreign systems. A lot of systems are interconnected in the Java world and in a lot of cases you only have control over a small piece of the puzzle. Personally I'm past caring since no one seems to give a crap.
I tried posting this on several sites but on March 11th, when the new daylight savingsregime kicks in for the first time there will probably be a lot of Java applications that will start having data issues because the latest Java version IS NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE for several three character time codes that have bee removed. Several codes have been deprecated in a way that is not backwards compatible. I could be wrong about the severity, but for he last two weeks my software team has been dealing with this issue and the interaction between Oracle and Java.
How the eck does stuff like this get posted? I've been using Vista Business and Office 2007 since the launch. Office is 35% easier to use and Vista around 15%. I'm not even running a firewall or anti virus. No problems. None. Jerks.
Actually, I was trying to be infomrative. The "silver bullet" here would be to have a Mono VB6 compiler.
Don't get excited: This new and improved compiler, which supports Visual Basic 8.0 code, is bundled in Mono 1.2.3. In addition to Visual Basic support, this version includes many bug fixes and an almost complete ASP.NET 2.0 API (application programming interface) implementation. WebParts, however, still isn't completely supported.
This is similar to convicts trying to get jobs once out of prison. There is no longer an assumed trust due to prior actions. Who trusts MS to NOT pervert any of their documentation or standards if they see an economic benefit in doing so?