If developers who look at MS Office code are prhobited thereafter from working on other software projects such as open source projects that cross Office's domain, how many less contributers might there be to open source projects as a result of this?
Anytime something labelled state-funded or state-sponsored is claimed independent, roll your eyes and demand a refund.
In Britain there is no refund for the TV tax, only jail for avoidance.
The funding may be totalitarianistically acquired from the pockets of the masses... but journalists at the BBC and the ABC are a fiercely independent lot, unbeholden to corporations and remarkably out of reach from short-term government interference.
More than that, the hiring practices of the BBC and the ABC are based on merit and subject to public scrutiny. Consequences? Less Barbie and Ken, real journalism, better pronunciation.
The United States doesn't have an independent state-funded broadcaster like the BBC or the ABC. Consequently, journalism, journalists and what you see on the TV at 6pm (and 7.30pm when the current affairs shows air outside of the US) is vastly different to Britain or Australia.
It's a big difference! But one that is difficult to explain to Americans.
MCA featured technical improvements that were appropriate for the times. Computers were speeding up and the bus was a bottleneck.
The verdict of history?
Although MCA was a huge improvement over ISA, it was limited only to IBM hardware. It was not compatible with either EISA or XT bus architecture so older cards cannot be used with it. This small market made for very high prices, and IBM didn't help matters by charging high licensing fees. MCA was largely ignored, and with the introduction of PCI, MCA swiftly disappeared.
You've chosen narrow views of both XML and interoperability, or you aren't familiar with granularity as an architectural imperative, but let's just skip that for now and focus on the core assertion of this thread, that investment is required before innovation can be yielded.
"Why hasn't XML lead to a new generation of innovative products?"
Because XML is not the silver bullet for all the worlds interoperability problems?
It doesn't have to be what you just said in order to enable massive amounts of innovation. The technology just has to be an enabler with some capabilities, and then investment will yield solutions.
How much investment? First of all, just enough to make the enabling technology available at the platform level. After the platform supports the technology, further investment to instantiate products can be made by anyone using the platform, one good idea at a time.
Who is responsible for investing to develop the platform in the first place? In the case of Internet Explorer, the opportunity to invest and improve the platform is open only to MS. And they aren't investing to develop the browser platform anymore.
So, uh, the rest of the discussion is only theoretical. MS likes it that way.
I myself would prefer to have the discussion after $0.01 - $0.1B has been spent to improve the platform by enabling XML technologies including XHTML, SVG, XFORMS, and SMIL. That would still leave $74.09 - $74.90B to redistribute to MS shareholders. They'd be free to do what they want with the money, and the rest of the software industry would be free to create employment through a new generation of innovative browser-based applications.
So much more could be happening with IT but we're stalled.
During the 90's, the world's leading computer scientists, including Jean Paoli and Adam Bosworth of Microsoft, went most of the way towards solving the single biggest challenge in IT, interoperability, by developing and standardizing protocols for communication and data translation among disparate systems. The result is XML, an acronym that even CEOs and CFOs know but one which has not been widely productized.
Why hasn't XML lead to a new generation of innovative products?
1. XML technologies are not supported by the monopoly browser.
2. "The industry" hasn't invested to develop XML platform products and bring them to market.
Could you sleep at night knowing you failed to invest $56b?
2D graphics data expressed as XML can be highly efficiently gzipped.
You can see from these examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The same documents in any other available 2D format are generally larger.
And yet, when ungzipped, these SVG files are verbose XML text. You can see that by right-clicking when you view any of those examples with Adobe viewer and selecting View Source.
SVG is a good example of how XML can be implemented efficiently over the wire (gzipped into efficient filesize) and yet accessed by the programmer at either end with no more than a text editor.
VOIP telephony will improve the quality of technical support because by the time it is widespread, graphical displays will be widespread on desktop phones as well as mobile phones. These displays will be used by support technicians to display diagrams that answer questions unambiguously for the customer.
Over time call centres will mature and provide good consistent service independent of location.
By then, voice recognition and text-to-speech technologies and applications will have advanced sufficiently to enable the next generation of call centre, which will employ zero people.
File > Print, cut and fold... Yamaha's excellent PaperCraft models are challenging but require no great origami expertise. The results are truly spectacular and will delight your kids or your friends.
When I bought my Garmin Etrex, I wanted to use it to store mountain bike rides and overlay them with maps.
Dave Wissenback's free program "allows you to plan and record your hiking and mountain bike trips with a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver and share your local knowledge of trails with others. You can also use the program to print topographic maps with these trails, either on a single page or as a mosaic on many sheets of paper. And you can use the program to visualize planned or past trips in 3D by virtually flying across a landscape of colorized aerial photographs draped over a three dimensional terrain model."
Don't be fooled by their recent Linux-friendly stance. IBM are no different than Microsoft, HP, or any other big company.
Those companies are all separate. That's why they have different names and different stock symbols.
IBM's business strategy involves supporting open standards. They have worked out a services model that enables them to grow their business harmoniously with the proliferation of open standards.
Sorry about the high-quality arithmetic compression tools, dude. I guess it is an imperfect world. Do you feel that IBM is the only group of people in the world who can give you what you want? Does that make them somehow different from other large companies such as HP and Microsoft for example?
Consider that Microsoft developed Windows (Mac), Excel (Lotus 1-2-3), disk compression (Stac), IE (Netscape) and the rest using other people's work as templates and the true value of #1, #2 and #10 is revealed:
1. Don't know what you don't know.
2. Get to a known state and stay there.
10. Design time at design time.
Then there's the way they "develop" products including MS-DOS, PowerPoint and Visio...
3. Remember the triangle.
resources (people and money), features and the schedule
The lessons of Microsoft "development methodology" belong in university commerce and economics departments, not CS.
* Amenities like cup holders that can absorb or produce heat, keeping beverages at the perfect temperature.
I didn't realize that was such a big problem.
"Any part of the car that's made has the potential to be improved by nanotechnology," Messner said, "because ultimately materials and parts are made out of atoms and molecules."
Assuming the ethical question of whether to change Mars or not was resolved in the affirmative, how might life be introduced to the red planet sustainably?
Bulldozers, cows and fish are all problematic for such a distant destination.
But what about microbes... and a lot of time? What might be the result of microbes?
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If developers who look at MS Office code are prhobited thereafter from working on other software projects such as open source projects that cross Office's domain, how many less contributers might there be to open source projects as a result of this?
Anytime something labelled state-funded or state-sponsored is claimed independent, roll your eyes and demand a refund.
In Britain there is no refund for the TV tax, only jail for avoidance.
The funding may be totalitarianistically acquired from the pockets of the masses... but journalists at the BBC and the ABC are a fiercely independent lot, unbeholden to corporations and remarkably out of reach from short-term government interference.
More than that, the hiring practices of the BBC and the ABC are based on merit and subject to public scrutiny. Consequences? Less Barbie and Ken, real journalism, better pronunciation.
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The United States doesn't have an independent state-funded broadcaster like the BBC or the ABC. Consequently, journalism, journalists and what you see on the TV at 6pm (and 7.30pm when the current affairs shows air outside of the US) is vastly different to Britain or Australia.
It's a big difference! But one that is difficult to explain to Americans.
.
IBM tried the same strategy when it introduced MicroChannel architecture (MCA) for PS/2 in 1987.
MCA featured technical improvements that were appropriate for the times. Computers were speeding up and the bus was a bottleneck.
The verdict of history?
Although MCA was a huge improvement over ISA, it was limited only to IBM hardware. It was not compatible with either EISA or XT bus architecture so older cards cannot be used with it. This small market made for very high prices, and IBM didn't help matters by charging high licensing fees. MCA was largely ignored, and with the introduction of PCI, MCA swiftly disappeared.
"didn't get the joke"
'Twas more an observation than an attempt at humour.
people could be landing on Mars in the next twenty or thirty years. If that is true, I estimate that within 50 years, Mars will need women.
Maybe Mars could find some women before 50 years amongst that pool of "people".
"Read the candidates' responses on topics such as stem cell research, greenhouse emissions, and manned spaceflight to Mars."
Part of me is loathe to RTA. From here outside of the USA, I imagine the dialog to be stupefying.
I hope I'm wrong. Meanwhile, I'll read other articles.
You've chosen narrow views of both XML and interoperability, or you aren't familiar with granularity as an architectural imperative, but let's just skip that for now and focus on the core assertion of this thread, that investment is required before innovation can be yielded.
"Why hasn't XML lead to a new generation of innovative products?"
Because XML is not the silver bullet for all the worlds interoperability problems?
It doesn't have to be what you just said in order to enable massive amounts of innovation. The technology just has to be an enabler with some capabilities, and then investment will yield solutions.
How much investment? First of all, just enough to make the enabling technology available at the platform level. After the platform supports the technology, further investment to instantiate products can be made by anyone using the platform, one good idea at a time.
Who is responsible for investing to develop the platform in the first place? In the case of Internet Explorer, the opportunity to invest and improve the platform is open only to MS. And they aren't investing to develop the browser platform anymore.
So, uh, the rest of the discussion is only theoretical. MS likes it that way.
I myself would prefer to have the discussion after $0.01 - $0.1B has been spent to improve the platform by enabling XML technologies including XHTML, SVG, XFORMS, and SMIL. That would still leave $74.09 - $74.90B to redistribute to MS shareholders. They'd be free to do what they want with the money, and the rest of the software industry would be free to create employment through a new generation of innovative browser-based applications.
.
So much more could be happening with IT but we're stalled.
During the 90's, the world's leading computer scientists, including Jean Paoli and Adam Bosworth of Microsoft, went most of the way towards solving the single biggest challenge in IT, interoperability, by developing and standardizing protocols for communication and data translation among disparate systems. The result is XML, an acronym that even CEOs and CFOs know but one which has not been widely productized.
Why hasn't XML lead to a new generation of innovative products?
1. XML technologies are not supported by the monopoly browser.
2. "The industry" hasn't invested to develop XML platform products and bring them to market.
Could you sleep at night knowing you failed to invest $56b?
2D graphics data expressed as XML can be highly efficiently gzipped.
You can see from these examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The same documents in any other available 2D format are generally larger.
And yet, when ungzipped, these SVG files are verbose XML text. You can see that by right-clicking when you view any of those examples with Adobe viewer and selecting View Source.
SVG is a good example of how XML can be implemented efficiently over the wire (gzipped into efficient filesize) and yet accessed by the programmer at either end with no more than a text editor.
VOIP telephony will improve the quality of technical support because by the time it is widespread, graphical displays will be widespread on desktop phones as well as mobile phones. These displays will be used by support technicians to display diagrams that answer questions unambiguously for the customer.
Over time call centres will mature and provide good consistent service independent of location.
By then, voice recognition and text-to-speech technologies and applications will have advanced sufficiently to enable the next generation of call centre, which will employ zero people.
File > Print, cut and fold... Yamaha's excellent PaperCraft models are challenging but require no great origami expertise. The results are truly spectacular and will delight your kids or your friends.
Oh, and PaperCraft is free.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/
When I bought my Garmin Etrex, I wanted to use it to store mountain bike rides and overlay them with maps.
Dave Wissenback's free program "allows you to plan and record your hiking and mountain bike trips with a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver and share your local knowledge of trails with others. You can also use the program to print topographic maps with these trails, either on a single page or as a mosaic on many sheets of paper. And you can use the program to visualize planned or past trips in 3D by virtually flying across a landscape of colorized aerial photographs draped over a three dimensional terrain model."
"They are calling this a glitch, but I thought we wanted everything blocked by default so we would have to choose what was unblocked?"
Yes, so this is a transition. You'd expect issues because there is change.
Change from what? Now that's another story.
Change to what? Much more interesting story...
Its already been done.
Without rails.
Those companies are all separate. That's why they have different names and different stock symbols.
IBM's business strategy involves supporting open standards. They have worked out a services model that enables them to grow their business harmoniously with the proliferation of open standards.
Sorry about the high-quality arithmetic compression tools, dude. I guess it is an imperfect world. Do you feel that IBM is the only group of people in the world who can give you what you want? Does that make them somehow different from other large companies such as HP and Microsoft for example?
Part of the balance could be redressed in many interesting ways through computers reading to humans.
What is the state of that art?
Some groups have spent millions to advance text-to-speach technology.
Others have made a free open source text-to-speach engine.
synthesizer.allocate();T Y);
synthesizer.resume();
synthesizer.speakPlainText("Hello, world!", null);
synthesizer.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMP
synthesizer.deallocate();
Those are different things -
There's no particular reason why you should like one just because it's authors are from the same geography as the other.
Otherwise if you like Matt Groening's cartoons, you'd have to like Tonya Harding's work too.
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Max Froumentin of W3C shows how to animate chess games by converting ChessGML to SVG with XSLT.since the war on drugs eliminated drugs.
Consider that Microsoft developed Windows (Mac), Excel (Lotus 1-2-3), disk compression (Stac), IE (Netscape) and the rest using other people's work as templates and the true value of #1, #2 and #10 is revealed:
1. Don't know what you don't know.
2. Get to a known state and stay there.
10. Design time at design time.
Then there's the way they "develop" products including MS-DOS, PowerPoint and Visio...
3. Remember the triangle. resources (people and money), features and the schedule
The lessons of Microsoft "development methodology" belong in university commerce and economics departments, not CS.
* Amenities like cup holders that can absorb or produce heat, keeping beverages at the perfect temperature.
I didn't realize that was such a big problem.
"Any part of the car that's made has the potential to be improved by nanotechnology," Messner said, "because ultimately materials and parts are made out of atoms and molecules."
Oh, right.
Assuming the ethical question of whether to change Mars or not was resolved in the affirmative, how might life be introduced to the red planet sustainably?
Bulldozers, cows and fish are all problematic for such a distant destination.
But what about microbes... and a lot of time? What might be the result of microbes?
Fish, cows and bulldozers perhaps?
Is that what happened on Earth?