On the face of it, compressing XML documents by using a different file format may seem like a reasonable way to address sluggish performance. But the very idea has many people -- including an XML pioneer within Sun -- worried that incompatible versions of XML will result.
I agree with his point.
What's wrong with just compressing the XML as it is with an open and easy-to-implement algorithm like gzip or bzip2?
What it's about is squeezing a few extra bucks out of everyone by removing their ability to listen/read/watch ANYTHING without paying for it. Because the media companies just can't STAND it when someone "uses" their product without giving them money.
It's their product, it's their choice.
Go create some great piece of art, music, or software, and give it away for free if you want to change the world.
It's really simple. If Britney Spears' management don't want their shit copied, they lock it up. If $SOME_BAND doesn't care who hears their music, then they dont.
I look at it like two businesses taking two different strategies. Neither is "evil", neither should be illegal.
Master carpenters charge out the ass to do work. But I have a carpenter friend who came and did all the cabinetry in my kitchen for free. Does that mean that I should expect all tradesmen to work for free? Of course not. It's their choice.
Nothing works at -290F. Electronic circuits don't work when it's that cold. Batteries don't work. The thing has to rely on it's built in radioactive heaters, and it's amazing it survived as long as it did, frankly.
It's not like mars at all, which is relatively hospitable.
A "few hours of data" collected by a computerized probe is enough to keep planetary scientists busy for decades. Yes, it's worth it.
The glaciers are receding because colder air holds less moisture. The ice is sublimating (ever leave an ice cube in a freezer for a year and see it shrivel up?), and not being replaced by atmospheric moisture.
Gordon Walton, VP and Executive Producer at Sony Online and presenter of the Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Make a Massively Multiplayer Game
Reason number 11: There ain't enough room for both of us. You just might take business away from EQ, and we'd have to send an army of IP lawyers to bring you down.
Whether you agree or disagree isn't really relevant. My point was, here's Linus, giving his opinion, because he thinks it will make the Linux kernel better.
Thats what he's focused on. He didn't start ranting buzzwords and catchphrases like "obsucirty froo postpurity" or other bullshit. He says, simply, "the more people who know, the faster it's going to get fixed", and "it makes it harder to ignore problems or make excuses".
It's not like I'm in love with Linus. He looks like he probably has that rancid BO geek smell, and if he was here in the room I'd probably smack him after about 15 minutes because he probably has a really goofy accent that would drive me crazy.
But I respect him, what he's doing, and how he goes about doing it.
Whenever theres an article by Perens or RMS or these other blowhards, I cringe a little bit, and hope my boss doesn't read them. Like I've said, I've proposed replacing a clients backend NT4 Servers running SQL Server 6.5, with Linux/Samba and Sybase.
I was shot down because of the RMS type rhetoric, my boss assumed I was proposing it all out of some Free philosophy, when frankly, I felt it was (and still do) a better drop-in replacement than a full roll-out to Win2000.
I wish Linus would publish more so more bosses can read about the guy behind linux, and that he's focused on making a stable, secure, reliable product, and not so much the philosophy behind it.
Go check out Andrew Mortons' feelings on binary drivers. They don't want them in linux. They say that that's the companies "taking" from linux without giving back.
They want all OSS drivers. That means they've chosen to take on the task of supporting all hardware themselves.
Unlike Windows, the Linux kernel hackers - by their own choice, are responsible for every piece of unsupported hardware.
They could easily put in hooks for binary drivers, hell they could implement Windows driver APIs, and automagically have linux support everything.
Linus is the only figure in the entire OSS movement who doesn't have his head shoved up his ass.
Everything he says is practical. He's all about technology, not new-age computer "philosophy" or rhetoric. He doesn't go around promoting linux because he thinks "M$ is Gayer Thean AIdz!@!!", he does so only when he truly believes it's a good solution.
Here he is showing it again. He believes in full disclosure of bugs, not for any philosophical bullshit or imaginary right-to-know, but because it gets bugs fixed faster and improves the product.
Once again, he's the only member of the OSS movement worthy of respect. He's the only reason businesses have considered linux an option, and the reason for any success it sees.
The rest of the movements "figureheads" do more harm than good. Who else has been shot down when proposing a linux/OSS solution, having one of RMS's communist rants thrown back at them?
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Basically, Free DCE is DCOM for linux/BSD/OSS.
I know I already replied. I'm doing it again.
It's basically a library of Open Source buzzwords, with which you can raise venture capital.
In precisely the same way you can call your product Kool Aid, when it helps nobody, and is in no way affiliated with Kool and the Gang.
Or in the same way that you drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway.
.. my ability to download the latest hollywood movies and albums and video games for free, that is, "my rights online"?
It's a copyrighted story, so fuck you.
Was the "Irish Need Not Apply" sign they hung on the front door.
Sounds like the problem is a misapplication of the tech. They want to fit the square peg that is XML into a round hole, by making it skinnier.
Binary XML also sounds like an oxymoron. It's not a meta-language anymore, it's a file container format.
On the face of it, compressing XML documents by using a different file format may seem like a reasonable way to address sluggish performance. But the very idea has many people -- including an XML pioneer within Sun -- worried that incompatible versions of XML will result.
I agree with his point.
What's wrong with just compressing the XML as it is with an open and easy-to-implement algorithm like gzip or bzip2?
What it's about is squeezing a few extra bucks out of everyone by removing their ability to listen/read/watch ANYTHING without paying for it. Because the media companies just can't STAND it when someone "uses" their product without giving them money.
It's their product, it's their choice.
Go create some great piece of art, music, or software, and give it away for free if you want to change the world.
It's really simple. If Britney Spears' management don't want their shit copied, they lock it up. If $SOME_BAND doesn't care who hears their music, then they dont.
I look at it like two businesses taking two different strategies. Neither is "evil", neither should be illegal.
Master carpenters charge out the ass to do work. But I have a carpenter friend who came and did all the cabinetry in my kitchen for free. Does that mean that I should expect all tradesmen to work for free? Of course not. It's their choice.
OH YEAH?
I'm on Internet 3 and we already landed a man on Pluto! We're putting in a starbucks.
What do you think of that?
Nope, it's the content author who gets to decide what you do with his work. That's the law, if you don't like it, tough shit.
Boo hoo my life is ruined beccaues the new bertnay speers video has dee arr em!
NM, I read parts one, two and three, not four.
Did you link the right article?
I couldn't find the word communist on any one of those pages.
I saw a talk about Office on the Mac, the XBox, some vague talk about software of the future, but that's it.
Mod article -1 Flamebait.
How does a Mac stop your 13 year old kids inbox from filling up with pornographic spam?
It doesn't.
If a platypus can lay eggs, then a lizard can have tits.
To relay NASA TV through peercast, or something like that?
It's pretty much slashdotted, I'm getting video in little 3 second chunks.
Any other way to view this bidness with the spacemen and the glayven attempt no landiiiings.?
Nothing works at -290F. Electronic circuits don't work when it's that cold. Batteries don't work. The thing has to rely on it's built in radioactive heaters, and it's amazing it survived as long as it did, frankly.
It's not like mars at all, which is relatively hospitable.
A "few hours of data" collected by a computerized probe is enough to keep planetary scientists busy for decades. Yes, it's worth it.
Greenland is getting colder, not warmer.
The glaciers are receding because colder air holds less moisture. The ice is sublimating (ever leave an ice cube in a freezer for a year and see it shrivel up?), and not being replaced by atmospheric moisture.
Gordon Walton, VP and Executive Producer at Sony Online and presenter of the Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Make a Massively Multiplayer Game
Reason number 11: There ain't enough room for both of us. You just might take business away from EQ, and we'd have to send an army of IP lawyers to bring you down.
Bullshit.
His whole GNU/Linux hissy fit knocked corporate adoption back immeasurably.
Whether you agree or disagree isn't really relevant. My point was, here's Linus, giving his opinion, because he thinks it will make the Linux kernel better.
Thats what he's focused on. He didn't start ranting buzzwords and catchphrases like "obsucirty froo postpurity" or other bullshit. He says, simply, "the more people who know, the faster it's going to get fixed", and "it makes it harder to ignore problems or make excuses".
It's not like I'm in love with Linus. He looks like he probably has that rancid BO geek smell, and if he was here in the room I'd probably smack him after about 15 minutes because he probably has a really goofy accent that would drive me crazy.
But I respect him, what he's doing, and how he goes about doing it.
Whenever theres an article by Perens or RMS or these other blowhards, I cringe a little bit, and hope my boss doesn't read them. Like I've said, I've proposed replacing a clients backend NT4 Servers running SQL Server 6.5, with Linux/Samba and Sybase.
I was shot down because of the RMS type rhetoric, my boss assumed I was proposing it all out of some Free philosophy, when frankly, I felt it was (and still do) a better drop-in replacement than a full roll-out to Win2000.
I wish Linus would publish more so more bosses can read about the guy behind linux, and that he's focused on making a stable, secure, reliable product, and not so much the philosophy behind it.
Go check out Andrew Mortons' feelings on binary drivers. They don't want them in linux. They say that that's the companies "taking" from linux without giving back.
They want all OSS drivers. That means they've chosen to take on the task of supporting all hardware themselves.
Unlike Windows, the Linux kernel hackers - by their own choice, are responsible for every piece of unsupported hardware.
They could easily put in hooks for binary drivers, hell they could implement Windows driver APIs, and automagically have linux support everything.
Linus is the only figure in the entire OSS movement who doesn't have his head shoved up his ass.
Everything he says is practical. He's all about technology, not new-age computer "philosophy" or rhetoric. He doesn't go around promoting linux because he thinks "M$ is Gayer Thean AIdz!@!!", he does so only when he truly believes it's a good solution.
Here he is showing it again. He believes in full disclosure of bugs, not for any philosophical bullshit or imaginary right-to-know, but because it gets bugs fixed faster and improves the product.
Once again, he's the only member of the OSS movement worthy of respect. He's the only reason businesses have considered linux an option, and the reason for any success it sees.
The rest of the movements "figureheads" do more harm than good. Who else has been shot down when proposing a linux/OSS solution, having one of RMS's communist rants thrown back at them?
Baby want a baba? Mebbe his binkie?
Just use linux. It's awesome, you never have to configure anything. Really.
GDI and GDI+ will be replaced with Avalon, but they'll still be around for legacy support.