Well I reviewed a good bunch of your comments and they are well articulated. Having both side points of view is interesting but you can say "fair, you found me !":) You're definitely government paid.
No one know the end to this story. PJ did her part when it what her time. She's asking what can she do now... Maybe it's time to do something else... or not. I think PJ has to choose what in her heart she feel is right even if that mean nobody will follow her there.
Right on. The most dangerous thing in facebook is the relations with our peers that can be harvested. Spammers will now not only exchange e-mail lists but the relationship between each e-mail. Talk about effective spamming, malware propagation, phishing, etc....
Well I scored 62. I would not be happy to be where you are and you probably would not be happy to be at my place. So I think that things are ok after all. Hmm ? But it's true that I do not fit well in the "cruel corporate world":-) I found a niche and it's great for me.
It's just Microsoft that want to control the web in place of Adobe. Nothing will be gained for the user with this. That codec is managed by a patent pool.
I was really disturbed by the buzz fiasco with privacy and was awaiting a good action from Google to restore my faith in them. I think this move deserve to be called a good action.
That, with the buzz fiasco, made me consider all the information that Google had on me.... And it was a lot.... I think that Google lives in a ivory tower and do not understand what the real world is made of...
Anyway, I'm in the process of closing my Google account, my only problem though is Google Reader, I have a lot of feeds that I follow and there do not seem to be anything that good around as reader.
Well the problem here is the saved games are remote and you have to have an authenticated version to connect to it. So a cracked game is not the solution. Or the cracker will have to enable a local save game engine. Which will be tricky to say the least.
I am currently studying the phenomenon of spirit possession. I know it is designated as crazy on this newsgroup but I take the risk of a least writing about it. From my readings, I would say that most young people today are likely to be owned by one or more bodies of deceased persons. The fact that religion and interest in what happens after death is rejected as a whole since the 40-50 could explain a large mass of people died since the last 15-20 years, with no or little spiritual cue, come back to haunt consciously or not the spirit of young people who are easy prey. The solution is therapies based on hypnosis and regression.
>Instead, everyone will continue hacking browsers into submission ad nauseam..
I would mod you up if I could. Trying to design an interface in HTML + css + javascript is really, really hard. But even if I agree with you on this, I don't think that the solution is Silverlight. We have to have better standards instead of proprietary technology. Few people will win with the Microsoft approach, we will be stuck in another Microsoft prison. A prison with golden bars maybe but still no liberty.
Because instead of trying to get HTML 5 or whatever standards to be on par with what they offer with Silverlight they got there own proprietary technology. If they wanted something for the web, Silverlight would have existed only as a proof of concept to back a standard. If they wanted the web to be better, IE would never have stalled like it has. No, Microsoft want the web for itself, its own platform, with technology like Silverlight and active-X that only Microsoft control.
Even with IE8, we are still stuck with Javascript 1.5 which date from 2000 and was first implemented in IE5.5. Almost nothing has been done by MS since then. So it's not a lie. Sorry. About the performance.. well they are less slow. And from the standards pov, particularly CSS, your right IE8 is better. It's a great move by MS, ex: having the most standard compliant mode by default. I applaud them for it. That's good.
So instead of going full speed on Ecmascript they do silverlight, since 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight). Silverlight is great on itself from what I know. That's not the problem. It reinvent what is already available with other standards, ex: Canvas. One of the good thing of silverlight is XAML. But I wouldn't touch it because I do not want to be stuck in MS-only technolgy.
Each time I read about silverlight I get angry. Why won't Microsoft invest time and energy making IE html5 compliant instead of promoting this f*** product that nobody wants anyway. I mean, look at the competition for god sake. IE is stuck with Javascript 1.5 since November 2000. Man we are now 9 years since Ms has updated its Javascript engine. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, name it, all have javascript support almost if not ready for ECMAScript 5.
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Well I reviewed a good bunch of your comments and they are well articulated. Having both side points of view is interesting but you can say "fair, you found me !" :) You're definitely government paid.
Well now this makes sense ! And if this is the case then Microsoft is slowly sinking.
No one know the end to this story. PJ did her part when it what her time. She's asking what can she do now... Maybe it's time to do something else... or not. I think PJ has to choose what in her heart she feel is right even if that mean nobody will follow her there.
Same story for me... discarded edits should at least be justified. This is Wikipedia where everybody can contribute, not Encyclopedia Britannica
Oracle is doing much harm to Java. In the longtime this will not pay off at all.
Right on. The most dangerous thing in facebook is the relations with our peers that can be harvested. Spammers will now not only exchange e-mail lists but the relationship between each e-mail. Talk about effective spamming, malware propagation, phishing, etc....
Well I scored 62. I would not be happy to be where you are and you probably would not be happy to be at my place. So I think that things are ok after all. Hmm ? But it's true that I do not fit well in the "cruel corporate world" :-) I found a niche and it's great for me.
When most people on earth have a problem with a law, maybe the law is the problem ? Huh?
It's just Microsoft that want to control the web in place of Adobe. Nothing will be gained for the user with this. That codec is managed by a patent pool.
Well Google insights give another view and this confirm the trend that tiobe gives :
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=java%20job%2Cc%20job%2Cc%23%20job%2Cjavascript%20job&cmpt=q
To "unblock" an ad-blocked site in ad-block plus, the technique is described here :
http://www.devcha.com/2007/08/how-to-disable-adblock-plus-or.html
I think it's fare so ask us to disable our ad blocking engine for specific site we visit often.
I was really disturbed by the buzz fiasco with privacy and was awaiting a good action from Google to restore my faith in them. I think this move deserve to be called a good action.
That, with the buzz fiasco, made me consider all the information that Google had on me.... And it was a lot....
I think that Google lives in a ivory tower and do not understand what the real world is made of...
Anyway, I'm in the process of closing my Google account, my only problem though is Google Reader, I have a lot of feeds that I follow and there do not seem to be anything that good around as reader.
Well I don't have it yet and do not want it. Is Google trying to answer a need I have or trying to stuff me with things I do not need ?
I copy pasted this info from here: http://lwn.net/Articles/372416/
These three Nokia patents look like they could be enforced against Theora:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Ic0CAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ieIVAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=zGWBAAAAEBAJ
Well the problem here is the saved games are remote and you have to have an authenticated version to connect to it. So a cracked game is not the solution. Or the cracker will have to enable a local save game engine. Which will be tricky to say the least.
You're welcome ! :-) ;-p
It's probably because of the body of a deceased person.
I am currently studying the phenomenon of spirit possession. I know it is designated as crazy on this newsgroup but I take the risk of a least writing about it. From my readings, I would say that most young people today are likely to be owned by one or more bodies of deceased persons. The fact that religion and interest in what happens after death is rejected as a whole since the 40-50 could explain a large mass of people died since the last 15-20 years, with no or little spiritual cue, come back to haunt consciously or not the spirit of young people who are easy prey.
The solution is therapies based on hypnosis and regression.
>Instead, everyone will continue hacking browsers into submission ad nauseam..
I would mod you up if I could. Trying to design an interface in HTML + css + javascript is really, really hard. But even if I agree with you on this, I don't think that the solution is Silverlight. We have to have better standards instead of proprietary technology. Few people will win with the Microsoft approach, we will be stuck in another Microsoft prison. A prison with golden bars maybe but still no liberty.
Because instead of trying to get HTML 5 or whatever standards to be on par with what they offer with Silverlight they got there own proprietary technology. If they wanted something for the web, Silverlight would have existed only as a proof of concept to back a standard. If they wanted the web to be better, IE would never have stalled like it has. No, Microsoft want the web for itself, its own platform, with technology like Silverlight and active-X that only Microsoft control.
I took my facts here before posting : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
Even with IE8, we are still stuck with Javascript 1.5 which date from 2000 and was first implemented in IE5.5. Almost nothing has been done by MS since then. So it's not a lie. Sorry.
About the performance.. well they are less slow.
And from the standards pov, particularly CSS, your right IE8 is better. It's a great move by MS, ex: having the most standard compliant mode by default. I applaud them for it. That's good.
So instead of going full speed on Ecmascript they do silverlight, since 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight). Silverlight is great on itself from what I know. That's not the problem. It reinvent what is already available with other standards, ex: Canvas. One of the good thing of silverlight is XAML. But I wouldn't touch it because I do not want to be stuck in MS-only technolgy.
Thanks for this. But like a wrote, this gives an idea. Thats it.
Each time I read about silverlight I get angry. Why won't Microsoft invest time and energy making IE html5 compliant instead of promoting this f*** product that nobody wants anyway. I mean, look at the competition for god sake. IE is stuck with Javascript 1.5 since November 2000. Man we are now 9 years since Ms has updated its Javascript engine. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, name it, all have javascript support almost if not ready for ECMAScript 5.
What is comforting in a way is the low deployment of silverlight. Google can give us a slight idea : http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=adobe%20flash%2Cmicrosoft%20silverlight&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q
I know at least that it is not deployed at work : 20,000 less pcs for Microsoft + the 2 mine at home.
Secunia is better. Take a look here:
IE6 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/?task=advisories
IE7 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12366/?task=advisories
IE8 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21625/?task=advisories
Firefox2 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12434/
Firefox3.0 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19089/?task=advisories
Firefox3.5 http://secunia.com/advisories/product/25800/?task=advisories
Based on these, I would choose Firefox and not IE
If you want a version with commentary, try this one : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWWt_L-qeo
1.5 stars over 5 ! That sums it !