Yep, at a naive first approach, I'd assume that a non-funcional implementation is worse than a partially functioning one. The problem here is that the partially functioning implementation creates pressure against the servers using a double stack, on this case Microsoft's bugs are better than the Unix ones.
That is a big deal because the problematic condition happens to be very common on the real world. That causes servers to not use a IPv6 stack, since their clients will see an unstable service.
That is easy to solve, what is good news, but it is an important problem.
As you said, one must only change the device. People do that from time to time, and if Apple's one gets lame, people will change from it. Not a big lock-in.
Who cares, Safari doesn't dominate the marketplace. If it gets behind, people will be anoyed, and change browsers, Apple has little power to keep them against their will.
He is saying (on bad english) that Microsoft will be open for attacks once they release a browser that can only display H.264 movies, and that their competitors may be happy to show them their vunerabilities.
The advantaje is that the market share of alternative browsers wil increase.
For me, it looks like Microsoft is helping a partner. Microsoft being Microsoft, I'd expect them to retract from that helping once they get they share of the agreement (whatever it is). They may also not want a patent unencubered format to gain market share, software patents are one of the instruments they use to keep Linux away, and the media patents are a very important lot. They probably won't succed on that, or, more specificaly, they won't make any difference, since nearly everybody will use H.264 anyway, but the few sites that use Theora will look defective on IE. When nearly everybody used IE, that was more a problem for the site than it was for Microsoft, but now people will easily see that the site works on other browsers, and that it is IE that isn't working. There is a similar situation right now with SVG support, and Microsoft already anounced it'll backtrack (and right on time, waiting more would make the problem more visible).
They still are 1/3 of the world's economy, and will drag everybody down until the cost of software companies (and free software developers) making business with them (partnering with their developers/testers) is highter than the perceived income (improvements).
Microsoft wants the current patent mess to spread all over the world, and eternize. They want to give power to (not trollish) patent holders. Anyway, it is still a stupid move, making their browser defective, and I expect them to retract before release date or shortly after.
Don't take stastistics too far. On several countries Catolicism is the "default" religion, that people say they follow when they didn't think about it, and don't care to follow anything. Even for those that tought about it, and follow a religion, a big share still doesn't follow the words of the Pope literaly, or don't belive that he's infalible. One'd be hard pressed to find a few millions that care about his opinion on the internet.
Now, if the digital divide is a problem, shouldn't we work to make the internet available for everyone?
"That also means the things they use computing devices for will change too, it'll be all communication and networking."
The things people use computer for will not change. People may add more things, they even may find other means to do what they do now, but current uses simply won't go away. If handhelds aren't a good fit for the current uses, people will use something else (and a handheld, since we've already seen that they are good for some stuff). Unless something can completely replace the desktop, people won't stop using at all.
As a sidenote, you do know that the mainframe business was never as big as it is today, don't you?
I do have mod points, but bad/. scripts aren't working today, and I can mod. But I can comment:)
People don't see the "browser is the OS" idea as a clear winner because, well, it isn't quite clear it is a winner idea. It was already tried, and didn't work on the past. This time, it may be different, but more often than not it isn't.
"XP is supposed to go out of support in a few years, and there's no IE6 for Vista or 7"
Ok, but there is for Linux! Microsoft will surely br glad that people have an alternative to upgrading after they EOL Win XP. (I'm sure those companies have plenty if XP install disks around to get IE from.)
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I do pay half the amount I pay for having Linux on my machines.
Yep, at a naive first approach, I'd assume that a non-funcional implementation is worse than a partially functioning one. The problem here is that the partially functioning implementation creates pressure against the servers using a double stack, on this case Microsoft's bugs are better than the Unix ones.
No, I'm not assuming that.
Well, altruism evolved somehow.
Microsoft implementations don't have the problem he outlined.
That is a big deal because the problematic condition happens to be very common on the real world. That causes servers to not use a IPv6 stack, since their clients will see an unstable service.
That is easy to solve, what is good news, but it is an important problem.
IPv5 was an experimental version that never left the lab. (And I'm serious here. Really, no sarcasm.)
Only if at least one ISP provides IPv6, of course. And that is how free market players collude to destroy any deregulated market.
Fiat money doesn't care about your physical restrictions.
As you said, one must only change the device. People do that from time to time, and if Apple's one gets lame, people will change from it. Not a big lock-in.
Put a loop on your code, and you'll see how Mathlab craws. It slows down more than proportionaly to the number of iterations.
Scilab and Octave consistently beated it when I was into image processing. I did not try it in R.
Everytime it makes the frontpage of slashdot (and it never has good news, only problems) I get amused on why people still pay for that thing.
Who cares, Safari doesn't dominate the marketplace. If it gets behind, people will be anoyed, and change browsers, Apple has little power to keep them against their will.
Firefox is on a very confortable position with 1/3 of the market, and we really don't want another browser to own the Web.
Oh, no. That is fault of the bigger tyran.
He is saying (on bad english) that Microsoft will be open for attacks once they release a browser that can only display H.264 movies, and that their competitors may be happy to show them their vunerabilities.
The advantaje is that the market share of alternative browsers wil increase.
For me, it looks like Microsoft is helping a partner. Microsoft being Microsoft, I'd expect them to retract from that helping once they get they share of the agreement (whatever it is). They may also not want a patent unencubered format to gain market share, software patents are one of the instruments they use to keep Linux away, and the media patents are a very important lot. They probably won't succed on that, or, more specificaly, they won't make any difference, since nearly everybody will use H.264 anyway, but the few sites that use Theora will look defective on IE. When nearly everybody used IE, that was more a problem for the site than it was for Microsoft, but now people will easily see that the site works on other browsers, and that it is IE that isn't working. There is a similar situation right now with SVG support, and Microsoft already anounced it'll backtrack (and right on time, waiting more would make the problem more visible).
They still are 1/3 of the world's economy, and will drag everybody down until the cost of software companies (and free software developers) making business with them (partnering with their developers/testers) is highter than the perceived income (improvements).
Microsoft wants the current patent mess to spread all over the world, and eternize. They want to give power to (not trollish) patent holders. Anyway, it is still a stupid move, making their browser defective, and I expect them to retract before release date or shortly after.
Don't take stastistics too far. On several countries Catolicism is the "default" religion, that people say they follow when they didn't think about it, and don't care to follow anything. Even for those that tought about it, and follow a religion, a big share still doesn't follow the words of the Pope literaly, or don't belive that he's infalible. One'd be hard pressed to find a few millions that care about his opinion on the internet.
Now, if the digital divide is a problem, shouldn't we work to make the internet available for everyone?
The things people use computer for will not change. People may add more things, they even may find other means to do what they do now, but current uses simply won't go away. If handhelds aren't a good fit for the current uses, people will use something else (and a handheld, since we've already seen that they are good for some stuff). Unless something can completely replace the desktop, people won't stop using at all.
As a sidenote, you do know that the mainframe business was never as big as it is today, don't you?
Well, as soon as you plug your handheld device on a big TV and a keyboard, it is not handheld anymore, and should really be called "Desktop device".
I do have mod points, but bad /. scripts aren't working today, and I can mod. But I can comment :)
People don't see the "browser is the OS" idea as a clear winner because, well, it isn't quite clear it is a winner idea. It was already tried, and didn't work on the past. This time, it may be different, but more often than not it isn't.
Woooosh.
Ok, but there is for Linux! Microsoft will surely br glad that people have an alternative to upgrading after they EOL Win XP. (I'm sure those companies have plenty if XP install disks around to get IE from.)