And it's also a convenient coincidence that they talk about this after recently releasing Office 2003 which supports saving the file as XML, and releasing the DTD giving others an option to be compatible with this XML format (albeit the license is somewhat incompatible with the GPL).
Can you get a 32" widescreen monitor to the same price as a TV? Also, buying a DVD player, place it in your computer and have it show the DVD on the TV is not exactly a trivial task for most users.
You said yourself they're (single purpose devices) easy to set up, and Gates' vision is that the computer should be able to do this task without much need for interatctions with the user.
Exactly. What Inuit is doing is not exactly commonplace. Microsoft dropped support for Win98 or whatever many years later, but what Inuit is doing is basically disabling certain features of an application that's 3 years old. Perhaps a lame analogy, but that would be like Microsoft disabling the ability to use Internet for Win98 users in 2001. This is a bad decision from Inuit, but has nothing to do with proprietary software vendors as a whole.
W3C's OWL standard is a "language" to mark-up information to make it more meaningful to machines. Machines can draw conclusions to what a word means by context. So even if two words are the same, they may not mean the same and the computer can draw that conclusion based on the context. It's all a part of W3C's Semantic Web initiative. There is research dedicated to query languages for these kinds of files.
Well, when I was in the army, it was very strict that whatever was said over a network DIDN'T have an ambigous meaning. That's why the army language sounds kinda weird at times, because you are not supposed to misunderstand anything.
So, if it's too late, Microsoft should just stop caring and do what they want. Yeah, they've done some pretty shitty things, but there is still a chance that they will actually have to comply with the EU and DoJ come Longhorn release date. I will wait to cast judgement until I actually see Longhorn, and frankly, I think most people should.
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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That might certainly be the case. They are cracking down on the distribution of these games and not the games themselves. Poor wording in the article.
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But what has FIFA 2005 or the Sims done wrong? There might be a chance that FIFA has a country listed that China doesn't recognize as sovereign, but I'm not sure which one that would be (I don't even play FIFA).
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Further: Among the 50 illegal games, 26 are pirated game software including Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. The remaining are illegally distributed foreign games including Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation
I can't really figure out why they would outlaw FIFA and Sims..? I agree that it sounds like banning pirated games and not the games themselves.
FTA: The probe was to transmit data on two channels, A and B, Atkinson said. His Doppler wind experiment was to use Channel A, a very stable frequency.
But the order to activate the receiver, or oscillator, for Channel A was never sent, so the entire mission operated through Channel B, which is less stable, Atkinson said.
I guess it makes it even worse that it was purely a human error.
Even so, he said the overall space mission was a huge success, and the Europeans in particular were thrilled with the success of their Huygens probe. Yeah it's a success. Although you cannot guarantee that nothing will go wrong, making precautions to prevent everything from going wrong will add to the overall cost. The had two channels to transmit data, it's not easy to prevent a human error like this. They simply forgot to turn it on.
I know there's a phyiscal difference, but from a legal standpoint, they are both ways to control the market price. Now, they can up the price in Europe without having to see what the prices are like in the US and vice versa. How does a consumer "win"? And why is it more illegal than what is essentially done on DVD's?
Personally, I put printer vendors up there with Hitler or something..
Have you ever heard about accessibility? I imagine there are a lot of people out there who would actually make GOOD use of this, simply because they are physically unable to use a keyboard.
Few dispute that they are related to climate change, the issue is mostly if it is caused by the greenhouse effect and if humans are almost solely responsible for it.
The key point for me is that you get updated news constantly. I mean, the newspapers report what happened yesterday (more or less), online, you get what happened today and what is happening. Also, there's just as much ads in a paper version as an online version.
Tanenbaum is on the list.. However, this is a list that takes the main people into account. It's not like Linus Torvalds did everything on his own, and all of them probably based a lot of their stuff on research, but these are the guys who are credited for the work and got it into the open.
First sponsored link was indeed from Microsoft, but it's "only" the first 5 that are sponsored. Further down you'll see "acoona results". That said, this was the first site it found on Linux: http://software-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.org/
First 5 results are sponsored links it appears.. "sponsored results" link to this page: http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/bjump/. So unless you want to pay to have your site on top, I bet it won't get there at first.
My adblock does not block google ads or simple ads. I DO block servedby and the likes which provide annyoing flash ads. Some newspapers had ads with sound in them for a while, those got blocked right away! Ads are not the issue for me, but I'd rather have a set of text ads like you suggest than a bunch of annyoing colours running around the screen screaming "BUY ME!!!".
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And it's also a convenient coincidence that they talk about this after recently releasing Office 2003 which supports saving the file as XML, and releasing the DTD giving others an option to be compatible with this XML format (albeit the license is somewhat incompatible with the GPL).
Can you get a 32" widescreen monitor to the same price as a TV? Also, buying a DVD player, place it in your computer and have it show the DVD on the TV is not exactly a trivial task for most users.
You said yourself they're (single purpose devices) easy to set up, and Gates' vision is that the computer should be able to do this task without much need for interatctions with the user.
Exactly. What Inuit is doing is not exactly commonplace. Microsoft dropped support for Win98 or whatever many years later, but what Inuit is doing is basically disabling certain features of an application that's 3 years old. Perhaps a lame analogy, but that would be like Microsoft disabling the ability to use Internet for Win98 users in 2001.
This is a bad decision from Inuit, but has nothing to do with proprietary software vendors as a whole.
W3C's OWL standard is a "language" to mark-up information to make it more meaningful to machines. Machines can draw conclusions to what a word means by context. So even if two words are the same, they may not mean the same and the computer can draw that conclusion based on the context. It's all a part of W3C's Semantic Web initiative. There is research dedicated to query languages for these kinds of files.
Well, when I was in the army, it was very strict that whatever was said over a network DIDN'T have an ambigous meaning. That's why the army language sounds kinda weird at times, because you are not supposed to misunderstand anything.
Well, to be fair, Berners-Lee was behind the World Wide Web, not "the internet", although the two are more or less synonymous to the regular user.
So, if it's too late, Microsoft should just stop caring and do what they want. Yeah, they've done some pretty shitty things, but there is still a chance that they will actually have to comply with the EU and DoJ come Longhorn release date.
I will wait to cast judgement until I actually see Longhorn, and frankly, I think most people should.
That might certainly be the case. They are cracking down on the distribution of these games and not the games themselves. Poor wording in the article.
But what has FIFA 2005 or the Sims done wrong? There might be a chance that FIFA has a country listed that China doesn't recognize as sovereign, but I'm not sure which one that would be (I don't even play FIFA).
Further: Among the 50 illegal games, 26 are pirated game software including Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. The remaining are illegally distributed foreign games including Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation
I can't really figure out why they would outlaw FIFA and Sims..? I agree that it sounds like banning pirated games and not the games themselves.
FTA: The probe was to transmit data on two channels, A and B, Atkinson said. His Doppler wind experiment was to use Channel A, a very stable frequency.
But the order to activate the receiver, or oscillator, for Channel A was never sent, so the entire mission operated through Channel B, which is less stable, Atkinson said.
I guess it makes it even worse that it was purely a human error.
Even so, he said the overall space mission was a huge success, and the Europeans in particular were thrilled with the success of their Huygens probe.
Yeah it's a success. Although you cannot guarantee that nothing will go wrong, making precautions to prevent everything from going wrong will add to the overall cost. The had two channels to transmit data, it's not easy to prevent a human error like this. They simply forgot to turn it on.
I know there's a phyiscal difference, but from a legal standpoint, they are both ways to control the market price. Now, they can up the price in Europe without having to see what the prices are like in the US and vice versa. How does a consumer "win"? And why is it more illegal than what is essentially done on DVD's?
Personally, I put printer vendors up there with Hitler or something..
Well, DVD region codes still exists, is there any difference when it comes to a legal standpoint?
Have you ever heard about accessibility? I imagine there are a lot of people out there who would actually make GOOD use of this, simply because they are physically unable to use a keyboard.
Few dispute that they are related to climate change, the issue is mostly if it is caused by the greenhouse effect and if humans are almost solely responsible for it.
It's basically just firmware, not hardware in any way. How do you upgrade the firmware for your DVD rom ?
One of the ideas behind the Semantic Web is an integration like that. here's an interesting paper from Tim Berners-Lee on the idea behind it.
The key point for me is that you get updated news constantly. I mean, the newspapers report what happened yesterday (more or less), online, you get what happened today and what is happening. Also, there's just as much ads in a paper version as an online version.
Tanenbaum is on the list.. However, this is a list that takes the main people into account. It's not like Linus Torvalds did everything on his own, and all of them probably based a lot of their stuff on research, but these are the guys who are credited for the work and got it into the open.
First sponsored link was indeed from Microsoft, but it's "only" the first 5 that are sponsored. Further down you'll see "acoona results". That said, this was the first site it found on Linux: http://software-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.org/
First 5 results are sponsored links it appears.. "sponsored results" link to this page: http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/bjump/. So unless you want to pay to have your site on top, I bet it won't get there at first.
My adblock does not block google ads or simple ads. I DO block servedby and the likes which provide annyoing flash ads. Some newspapers had ads with sound in them for a while, those got blocked right away! Ads are not the issue for me, but I'd rather have a set of text ads like you suggest than a bunch of annyoing colours running around the screen screaming "BUY ME!!!".
And you know as well as they that we will buy it ...
Thanks for the link! Why didn't I check wikipedia myself?
IMO, this is a good idea, we fight over enough down here, if not the moon.