What were they showing at the Microsoft Booth?
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LWCE Wrapup
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I've yet to hear word on the actual experience of Microsoft in the belly of the beast? What sort of stuff did they have there? Did anyone approach them, or were they shunned? Did they "respectfully" keep a distance from people so as to not be exposed to the open-source cancer? Were they brutally GPL'd? Wha happen?
A news.com article discusses two separate new flaws found in Flash Player. One allows malicious code to be run on Windows/Unix OSes. The other allows an attacker to read files on a person's local hard drive. For the first flaw, All Windows and Unix versions of Flash Player before 6,0,40,0, are affected. Any application capable of reading SWF files (email, instant messenger, browser) can be used. For the second, it relies on the XML functionality of Flash Player 6 and tricks the browser into reading local files.
Interesting article about Frances E. Allen in the NY Times yesterday. She just retired from IBM after 45 years. She joined the company in 1957. Her first job: teaching FORTRAN to skeptical IBM programmers. Up until then, everybody at Big Blue was hand coding assembly.
How do you rescind acceptance of the EULA?
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Shattering Windows
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When the Windows Media Player patch came out, I installed it on a box that I sometimes use. It was only later that I found out about the DRM component of the EULA. I immediately removed WMP. But does that legally rescind my agreement?
I'm asking a legal question: does removal of the software constitute rescinding your agreement? Or if Microsoft has somewhere noted your initial agreement, is it in perpetuity? Does Microsoft permanently own that box?
That is a misconception. As both Janis and Courtney have shown in their articles about all of this, the only one who believes themselves to be benefitting from DRM are the labels. Look at the sales of Eminem's new CD. It was available on all of the P2P networks for at least two weeks before it came out, and the sales have been huge. People liked what they heard and wanted to own the real thing (with it's supplements).
Of course, the labels aren't actually benefitting from DRM, but their mindset allows them to think they will. They're wrong.
He'll have to cut the line to register for the conference before everyone else, take all the donuts, leave a coat and bag on the chair next to him even though the conference room is full, blab away on a cell phone during the presentation and leave 10 minutes early.
It doesn't matter if they credit CDex on their website. They have no legal right to remove/change CDex's copyright info. Once they violate that they have no right to use the code for anything.
I'm sorry, but for all the "honesty" of this article, Dietzen is trying to act as if there is an equivalence of evolution between.Net and J2EE, and Java and C#. Despite the huge Microsoft push, there is still an enormous amount of development of.Net and C# that still needs to come, and a significant amount of widespread acceptance/usage before they should be included in the same article.
Java and J2EE are realities that real world developers have been working on for years. Years.
Have C# and.Net even been fully documented yet? How many months do you have to have worked with them to be considered old dog on the development team? Have they been in the wild, real world tested yet? Are they really anything other then Microsoft marketing concepts that they're giving the full court press to?
Since their press release states "its technology allowed Windows-based x86 games to be simultaneously released onto multiple platforms including the Sony PlayStation 2, Apple Mac OS X, set-top boxes, PDAs and wireless devices", I wonder if there is a working port.
Trangenics will have to be careful
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They'll have to wear their hair long to cover the tattoo, so that when the security drones fly by, they won't be recognized and...oh, wait. Dark Angel was cancelled. Never mind.
While PwC Consulting itself does not have FA to do with accounting, PwC does. Having the consulting arm attached in this time of accounting meltdown is a risky thing. Legal pressures to completely separate it were ever growing, to avoid accusations (valid) of conflict of interest.
From what I've read since, PwC was planning on separating PwC Consulting and raising money from an IPO. They hoped to get $7 billion to $9 billion for it. And they were planning on incorporating it in Bermuda. So I'd say your claim that the price would be about the same seems a bit off.
Looking back on 10 years of doing this, what would classify as your greatest success, and your greatest failure?
Apple controls the conversation
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Switch Different
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The sheer width and breadth of the Switch parodies just goes to show: Apple really does control the conversation. It has the mindshare.
An article on Yahoo News today about Northgate's new "challenge" to Apple with their all-in-one computer/home multimedia machine (Personally, I think it looks sort of a combo iMac/eMac... an eiMac) was the latest example to my mind.
Flat screens were unusual and esoteric. Apple makes them defacto with the iMac; now they are expected, necessary. MP3 players externally were the size of walkmen (and internally not much better then zip disks), connected via USB (if you were lucky) and were incredibly kludgy. Out comes the iPod; everyone is racing to remake/top them.
I remember when the beige computer makers tried to reinvent their products with translucent plastic as if that was the key to the original iMac/G3s. I remember how desperate and sad Windows 1 - 3.1 were in their attempts to approach the simple elegance of the Mac OS. I remember how many Gnome/KDE Aqua themes were floating about (and still are, slightly under the radar) after OS X was unveiled.
My point: however much Linux drives the geek masses forward in their open source quest, Apple is the internalized mental image that a majority of people hold when they think of the next step in computing. Not just civilians: examine the Aqua themed page that you're reading right now.
(For every "too damn expensive, one button mouse" geek dismisser, I wonder how many are willing to admit that they drool at night at the thought of owning a TI Powerbook, and wish they could have back all the months it took them to try and configure their window manager to approach the functionality of Aqua out of the box).
While I liked the "Cherry 2000" model,
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Social Robot?
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on my quest to find a replacement body, I eventually found true love with the tracker I hired to take me into "The Zone", E. (Edith) Johnson.
Fire them. Do the work yourself and then work to hire people who you've interviewed and seen their coding ability. I'll assume these people weren't hired with your input.
the majority of the discussion of which Jack Valenti was a part. You follow with this: "All in the room, even Valenti, agreed that P2P technology was not inherently bad, but could merely be put to bad uses."
The impression given is that with his "good ol' southern gentleman" manner and self-deprication, Valenti can be agreeable and reasonable.
He can't. In his core, he has an anti-consumer agenda and if he's acting nice and agreeable, it's because he feels he already has the votes he needs to screw over the consumer. When Valenti agrees, something is wrong.
I'd look out the window thrice if Valenti said the sky was blue, and then I'd check the dictionary to make sure what the word meant.
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I've yet to hear word on the actual experience of Microsoft in the belly of the beast? What sort of stuff did they have there? Did anyone approach them, or were they shunned? Did they "respectfully" keep a distance from people so as to not be exposed to the open-source cancer? Were they brutally GPL'd? Wha happen?
Does anybody have the google cache URL?
A news.com article discusses two separate new flaws found in Flash Player. One allows malicious code to be run on Windows/Unix OSes. The other allows an attacker to read files on a person's local hard drive. For the first flaw, All Windows and Unix versions of Flash Player before 6,0,40,0, are affected. Any application capable of reading SWF files (email, instant messenger, browser) can be used. For the second, it relies on the XML functionality of Flash Player 6 and tricks the browser into reading local files.
Interesting article about Frances E. Allen in the NY Times yesterday. She just retired from IBM after 45 years. She joined the company in 1957. Her first job: teaching FORTRAN to skeptical IBM programmers. Up until then, everybody at Big Blue was hand coding assembly.
(I'm not sure you can I'm typing the brogue correctly. Can you tell?)
If not fully finding a way to use WAIS or another distributed search engine qualifies in your mind, that's all I was asking.
It gives you warnings, but it is removable.
I'm asking a legal question: does removal of the software constitute rescinding your agreement? Or if Microsoft has somewhere noted your initial agreement, is it in perpetuity? Does Microsoft permanently own that box?
are belong to us
Of course, the labels aren't actually benefitting from DRM, but their mindset allows them to think they will. They're wrong.
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He'll have to cut the line to register for the conference before everyone else, take all the donuts, leave a coat and bag on the chair next to him even though the conference room is full, blab away on a cell phone during the presentation and leave 10 minutes early.
It doesn't matter if they credit CDex on their website. They have no legal right to remove/change CDex's copyright info. Once they violate that they have no right to use the code for anything.
While the source is available for download, they've removed/changed copyright strings. That is a violation of the GPL. That's what.
Java and J2EE are realities that real world developers have been working on for years. Years.
Have C# and .Net even been fully documented yet? How many months do you have to have worked with them to be considered old dog on the development team? Have they been in the wild, real world tested yet? Are they really anything other then Microsoft marketing concepts that they're giving the full court press to?
Create a hotmail email address, sit back and wait. If that isn't fast enough for you, post a Usenet message. Better yet, sign up for AOL.
Has this been ported to Mac OS X?
Since their press release states "its technology allowed Windows-based x86 games to be simultaneously released onto multiple platforms including the Sony PlayStation 2, Apple Mac OS X, set-top boxes, PDAs and wireless devices", I wonder if there is a working port.
They'll have to wear their hair long to cover the tattoo, so that when the security drones fly by, they won't be recognized and ...oh, wait. Dark Angel was cancelled. Never mind.
Just a thought.
From what I've read since, PwC was planning on separating PwC Consulting and raising money from an IPO. They hoped to get $7 billion to $9 billion for it. And they were planning on incorporating it in Bermuda. So I'd say your claim that the price would be about the same seems a bit off.
Looking back on 10 years of doing this, what would classify as your greatest success, and your greatest failure?
An article on Yahoo News today about Northgate's new "challenge" to Apple with their all-in-one computer/home multimedia machine (Personally, I think it looks sort of a combo iMac/eMac ... an eiMac) was the latest example to my mind.
Flat screens were unusual and esoteric. Apple makes them defacto with the iMac; now they are expected, necessary. MP3 players externally were the size of walkmen (and internally not much better then zip disks), connected via USB (if you were lucky) and were incredibly kludgy. Out comes the iPod; everyone is racing to remake/top them.
I remember when the beige computer makers tried to reinvent their products with translucent plastic as if that was the key to the original iMac/G3s. I remember how desperate and sad Windows 1 - 3.1 were in their attempts to approach the simple elegance of the Mac OS. I remember how many Gnome/KDE Aqua themes were floating about (and still are, slightly under the radar) after OS X was unveiled.
My point: however much Linux drives the geek masses forward in their open source quest, Apple is the internalized mental image that a majority of people hold when they think of the next step in computing. Not just civilians: examine the Aqua themed page that you're reading right now.
(For every "too damn expensive, one button mouse" geek dismisser, I wonder how many are willing to admit that they drool at night at the thought of owning a TI Powerbook, and wish they could have back all the months it took them to try and configure their window manager to approach the functionality of Aqua out of the box).
on my quest to find a replacement body, I eventually found true love with the tracker I hired to take me into "The Zone", E. (Edith) Johnson.
Fire them. Do the work yourself and then work to hire people who you've interviewed and seen their coding ability. I'll assume these people weren't hired with your input.
The impression given is that with his "good ol' southern gentleman" manner and self-deprication, Valenti can be agreeable and reasonable.
He can't. In his core, he has an anti-consumer agenda and if he's acting nice and agreeable, it's because he feels he already has the votes he needs to screw over the consumer. When Valenti agrees, something is wrong.
I'd look out the window thrice if Valenti said the sky was blue, and then I'd check the dictionary to make sure what the word meant.