Well, I can see how this can be commercially exploited:
Imagine best-deal/coupon/bargain search engines syndicated with A( OpenSearch and people willingly subscribing to these searches because they love good deals?
The only difference will be that now they won't have to leave their primary seaarch engine. A9 has something here with the potential to drive a lot of business! And I guess they can collect a lot of information and simply use it to sell more products on amazon.com, being the largest/broadest online store and all that.
Cool.
In this case, you probably made a mistake. Microsoft tools are excellent for Windows development. C# is easier to use than C++.
If a job makes you unhappy, you shuld probably look for a new one but I don't see that there's any reason to believe that using the latest Microsoft tools for windows development will make you unhappy.
Sorry.
- For programming and software development work, I find Linux much more productive.
- For traditional uses of a PC - word processing, office applications, even graphics - I find Windows more productive.
- I've never used the Mac but I hear it's good for graphics.
is to work exactly like MS Office. Let's learn from the success of Firefox (vs Mozilla). Shortcuts, Menus, should be similar even if functionality is different. So people can migrate from Word without noticing the difference.
The IT Conversations site (itconversations.com) comtains a handful of talks by leaders in the Open Source community, but in MP3 format only. If we can combine the talks with the presentations it would be swell. The presentations alone aren't very useful since they don't have much depth
The Problem With XML
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Is that it's not a very machine-friendly language (more wordy than it ought to be; parsing of tags is not very efficient) and it's not a very human-friendly language (the human style is free-style, really). I don't think it's a very good universal data description language.
sorry that I had to go on a bit of a tangent...
First they drop a PC line tha was not making them money. Then they drop a server line that's clearly not the future of that space. I think they're making some right decisions here.
If the POWER platform succeeds, as it more likely would when resources are focussed on it, and it is accepted as a viable alternative to the PC platform, the ensuing competition would probably be good for all of us.
What seems obvious to me is that Larry and Sergey are geeks at heart, not businessmen. The fact that they are young may not be the point. There's a lot for a company to gain by being geek-friendly (ask Microsoft). Yahoo, really, is cooler, MSN is richer (and has the OS advantage).
Google will probably maintain their current status as an established Internet company, but I don't think they are a future Microsoft. There is nothing left to disrupt:-P
The economics of distribution have changed, and they're trying to maintain their income stream while looking for alternate means. What google has taught us is that advertising can support freely copy-able content if done right.
SSL server certificates usually only need to assure of one thing: that the owner of the certificate is the same as the person in control of the domain. Everything else really is for the purpose of justifying the salaries of people who work with Certificate Authorities, really
Nobody needs to read a GPL license more than once; why can't we have standard comercial agreements?
What we need is a standard set of EULAs for different types of software with coded variations ("basic closed source EULA with XXX clause").
is the most important problem. This restricts applications of this device to custom software development (e.g. a gadget portable that gets some work done that's specific to a company). A platform for deployment of custom mobile apps requiring large hard disk space and image manipulation capabilities.
In line with this, their SDK should permit and encourage development with dynamic languages and repid prototyping and development tools like Python/PyGTK. In addition, they should have an desktop emulator.
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One of the linked sites proposes that a monthly access fee that allows users to share files indiscriminately('freely') is the ultimate and best solution. The problem with this is, how are we going to determine how the money will be distributed among the many target beneficiaries (the various record companies, the artists and composers who are paid a commission, etc.) _____
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Politicians would pretend to care about any topic that was really important to the average voter. Surprise, surprise, it appears that the average Canadian voter is not a Slashdot-reading geek!
I have subjected my e-mail address, afriguru@gmail.com to the same abuse. by redirecting all e-mail addresses that recieve lots of junk mail to this one and posting the address unprotected to lots of websites and newsgroups. At the initial stage, a lot of 419 scam mails got through, but now I hardly get any spam. No false positives for me so far.
_____________________ Seun Osewa, Abeokuta Nigeria
It used to be that 'beta' signified 'buggy', then the 'speed of the internet' age came. And when something that gives companies more excuses for releasing buggy software to the public at large becomes fashionable, well, they had better just take advantage of it!
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Well, I can see how this can be commercially exploited: Imagine best-deal/coupon/bargain search engines syndicated with A( OpenSearch and people willingly subscribing to these searches because they love good deals? The only difference will be that now they won't have to leave their primary seaarch engine. A9 has something here with the potential to drive a lot of business! And I guess they can collect a lot of information and simply use it to sell more products on amazon.com, being the largest/broadest online store and all that. Cool.
It is a well known fact that European governments prefer to support the under-dog: "Go Bill, go Bill, go!"
"You're fired for blogging!"
"Hmmm ... Steve, Bill, he's already left us!"
In this case, you probably made a mistake. Microsoft tools are excellent for Windows development. C# is easier to use than C++. If a job makes you unhappy, you shuld probably look for a new one but I don't see that there's any reason to believe that using the latest Microsoft tools for windows development will make you unhappy. Sorry.
- For programming and software development work, I find Linux much more productive. - For traditional uses of a PC - word processing, office applications, even graphics - I find Windows more productive. - I've never used the Mac but I hear it's good for graphics.
is to work exactly like MS Office. Let's learn from the success of Firefox (vs Mozilla). Shortcuts, Menus, should be similar even if functionality is different. So people can migrate from Word without noticing the difference.
The IT Conversations site (itconversations.com) comtains a handful of talks by leaders in the Open Source community, but in MP3 format only. If we can combine the talks with the presentations it would be swell. The presentations alone aren't very useful since they don't have much depth
Is that it's not a very machine-friendly language (more wordy than it ought to be; parsing of tags is not very efficient) and it's not a very human-friendly language (the human style is free-style, really). I don't think it's a very good universal data description language. sorry that I had to go on a bit of a tangent...
First they drop a PC line tha was not making them money. Then they drop a server line that's clearly not the future of that space. I think they're making some right decisions here. If the POWER platform succeeds, as it more likely would when resources are focussed on it, and it is accepted as a viable alternative to the PC platform, the ensuing competition would probably be good for all of us.
What seems obvious to me is that Larry and Sergey are geeks at heart, not businessmen. The fact that they are young may not be the point. There's a lot for a company to gain by being geek-friendly (ask Microsoft). Yahoo, really, is cooler, MSN is richer (and has the OS advantage). Google will probably maintain their current status as an established Internet company, but I don't think they are a future Microsoft. There is nothing left to disrupt :-P
John Udell, by writing this post, has just succeeded on bringing one unsung hero - Roger Binns - out of obscurity. Well done, John!!
The economics of distribution have changed, and they're trying to maintain their income stream while looking for alternate means. What google has taught us is that advertising can support freely copy-able content if done right.
SSL server certificates usually only need to assure of one thing: that the owner of the certificate is the same as the person in control of the domain. Everything else really is for the purpose of justifying the salaries of people who work with Certificate Authorities, really
Nobody needs to read a GPL license more than once; why can't we have standard comercial agreements? What we need is a standard set of EULAs for different types of software with coded variations ("basic closed source EULA with XXX clause").
is the most important problem. This restricts applications of this device to custom software development (e.g. a gadget portable that gets some work done that's specific to a company). A platform for deployment of custom mobile apps requiring large hard disk space and image manipulation capabilities. In line with this, their SDK should permit and encourage development with dynamic languages and repid prototyping and development tools like Python/PyGTK. In addition, they should have an desktop emulator.
Is that another VoIP company decided that Open Source is a good strategy. That's the real story!
.. In topics like this one? Because, apparently, security is so boring.
So, Is this really an important story?
One of the linked sites proposes that a monthly access fee that allows users to share files indiscriminately('freely') is the ultimate and best solution. The problem with this is, how are we going to determine how the money will be distributed among the many target beneficiaries (the various record companies, the artists and composers who are paid a commission, etc.)
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Internet, Productivity Blog
Politicians would pretend to care about any topic that was really important to the average voter. Surprise, surprise, it appears that the average Canadian voter is not a Slashdot-reading geek!
I have subjected my e-mail address, afriguru@gmail.com to the same abuse. by redirecting all e-mail addresses that recieve lots of junk mail to this one and posting the address unprotected to lots of websites and newsgroups. At the initial stage, a lot of 419 scam mails got through, but now I hardly get any spam. No false positives for me so far.
_____________________
Seun Osewa, Abeokuta Nigeria
It used to be that 'beta' signified 'buggy', then the 'speed of the internet' age came. And when something that gives companies more excuses for releasing buggy software to the public at large becomes fashionable, well, they had better just take advantage of it!
It was meant to be Funny :-(