You know, Flash respond to a need : Having dynamic web interface with a minimum effort. I'm programming in Javascript and thanks to Jquery it is less difficult to code nice things but God do this language is complicated. I love to program in it but I would love it to be less complicated. I chose Javascript because it is integrated in the browser, there is no plug-in. It use w3c / ecma standards. So my wish is that we drop flash, air, sylverlight and moonlight and have a decent HTML5/Javascript 2 implementation on all browsers.
Another idea... For those old html pages that cannot be changed (like on cd rom), enable a fonction like this "View this page in the IE6 engine" that could be used on demand.
I understand Ms position. They want to be backward compatible. Can I suggest something, why not put the better standards compliant renderer by default and use the old one with the said tag?
I'm not at all happy about this. I use Firefox and it fit my needs. I don't need the IE7 at all on my system. I think I will just disable the security updates.
I think that Opera is seeing in the future and trying to change the approach "à la Microsoft". I mean Microsoft do it own standard and expect the industry to follow it. Opera wants that a company with this large market share should respect a known standard. So if this process is a victory for Opera, you could expect the EU to ask Microsoft to make office conform to a open accepted standard, like Open Document Format.
I think Opera have a very thin line to follow but i they have very good lawyers they could succeed. It's time Microsoft get into the line with the others.
I don't think also that following standards forbid a company to innovate, they can make innovation and also respects the standards.
> I don't have windows at home, and my wife (definitely non techie - doesn't know the difference between a binary and its icon) doesn't want windows at home.
You don't have windows in your home, how can you see the light ?;-p
I think this could really help the community. Yeah Microsoft use the SCO strategy but I think that after SCO, Linux is stronger than before. A lot more. This is a big task but it has to be done someday and better now than later. Software patents, and in this case, Microsoft Patents have to be validated has true or false.
1. Each individual patent have to be read, interpreted, what does it mean, how and where do it apply ? 2. make a list of possible prior art and confirm / infirm them 3. For every confirmed prior art document as much as possible, where, who, phone numbers, etc.. 4. If no prior art is found, Microsoft maybe have a winner here. So start the process of identifying the code which would be affected. 5. update the list has time goes... wikipedia could be a good place to do it 6. the list can only grow better and better as time goes and this will be usefull in courts
To have a full understanding of the repartition of the world wealth an its population, please see this site (all in flash animated sequences):
http://www.gapminder.org/
Google have made its own version based on gapminder.org:
http://tools.google.com/gapminder
Having followed the SCO case, I can hardly think that Microsoft is not behind this. How do Microsoft try to kill Google as Balmer (Microsoft President) promessed ? By trying to alter its image, creating scandals et leveraging the public opinion. This case is a great example. Just follow the money...
Google is a good company for this: their search engine, the way they handle the publicity, their free tools like google earth or maps, trying to free people from the microsoft monopoly, openness, creativity.
Google is a bad company for this: ban of cnet, employee fired because of a blog, their predatory approach to anything that is information, their growing power that i don't trust.
Giving back to open source is a good thing but it's not enough. They will have to convince me that they won't be the next monopoly and that they're not trying to trick me with all their tools. I would prefer that they show openly what are their plans. and that Eric schmit cancel this ban, god i don't like this.
What is happening here have to make us think about what will become Google in the times to come. If a company like Cnet is begging google to not "black it out" from the search results, just imagine what this will be in a couple of years with all the tools they are creating and giving away. The French Library Association (or something) has decided that Google would not digitize their entire library and that they will do it by themselves to make it available to the public. Maybe they sensed what Google can become... The next Microsoft. The big senseless corporation.
If google is listening it is always time to stop this action that is against the "no preference" way of treating information like it is supposed to be.
If find this move so disturbing that I'm wondering if it is not the time to switch to another provider like Yahoo or MSN. But they have also their "preferences" on the results they give.
Maybe an open source one will prevail after all ?
Julius Ceasar told that the best way to win a war is to make divisions between your adversaries. Forbes is known to have crap articles that help ms shit and tell all kind of pseudo-lies. So don't fall into this trap and believe everything that is written. BSD and Linux are helping each others much much more than Ms will ever do or want.
For my part, I tryed Linux many times but never did I kept using it for more than a month. Too many things to catch which are not that intuitive. And I didn't try to make an app. From what I saw OS/X seems more integrated and more intuitive. So I will try it when I can on my PC (if it let me to). Having the pleasure to have a Mac without losing the possibility to boot Linux or Windows is just great.
Longhorn... what is that ?;-)
The thing no one is talking about is that Mac os X is now a containder to the OS hill again. Why use Windows when Mac OS X is so much better ? I know I know legacies... But i believe having a OS X on intel is far more dangerous for Microsoft than linux. (Sorry for the Linux fan I offended)
The problem of blocking the ads will only go bigger with more Firefox users having also enabled the AdBlock extension. Firefox is a better browser because it make surfing the web fun again : That mean in a sense surfing the web like when there were no ads. But since those ads are not clicked or just seen anymore mean less revenue for web sites owners and then less money to invest to make those web sites interesting. So it's like the web sites owners will tend to find that firefox is not a browser to have on its list of visitors. You can imagine the rest !
Well, something that Firefox has that Microsoft is not able to sustain is security. Firefox is a lot less insecure that IE, even patched. So I wonder how M$ will try to circumvent this with their PR and marketing.
"Of course, most registrars don't give a damn about this, especially the Spam friendly ones, but I've successfully managed to shut down a small number of zombie networks by using various means.. not all of which might be considered ethical or even 100% legal.. but who cares?"
Well the spammers! They will use the same kind of trick you used. It will be to persuade someone at the DNS company to repair the "failed" DNS address.
What could be more usefull would be a law that can be applied in every country. But i know, law can also be abused .
Well you enter in the field where psychology and human thinking becomes important. Why do I trust someone I doesn't know ? Because someone I know trust him.
This concept could be applied to the web. With a search engine like Google, you could compute the "trustability" of someone by the number of persons trusting him. Thinking of this, being trusted by someone who is trusted by many others could get me more "trustable" than being trusted by only one person.
Finally, there should be a way to trust a web site. But it isn't clear for me how. Since web sites are created by persons, maybe just making a one on one relation between the site and the person could be enough. There is a whole field of study here!!
Look what the guy also said about bio-nano-tech :
"The world market for nano materials, nano tools, nano devices and nano biotechnology should be over a hundred billion dollars. The fastest among them is nano biotechnology. Nanotechnology worked at the molecular level to create structures with fundamentally new molecular organisations, explained the President, adding that potential benefits covered diverse fields such as materials and manufacturing, nano electronics, computer technology, medicine and healthcare, environment and energy, aeronautics and space, biotechnology and agriculture. Many of these areas had applications in the defence sector and would help countries employing them to leapfrog in the science of warfare."
It looks like the way the war is fought will never be the same after the bio-tech machines will be created. Imagine a thousand little T1000 !
Correct me if i'm wrong but Mono fill a need for an elaborate OOP platform with garbage collection that is not Java. Well it's correct to address it but why plagiate Microsoft when we all know that they always try to monopolise the industry ? Why not start with something different and new that is not Java and not Microsoft? At the moment there's no other alternative.
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You know, Flash respond to a need : Having dynamic web interface with a minimum effort. I'm programming in Javascript and thanks to Jquery it is less difficult to code nice things but God do this language is complicated. I love to program in it but I would love it to be less complicated. I chose Javascript because it is integrated in the browser, there is no plug-in. It use w3c / ecma standards. So my wish is that we drop flash, air, sylverlight and moonlight and have a decent HTML5/Javascript 2 implementation on all browsers.
This is a great news. I think ISO is a bit overwhelmed at the least by the sheer pressure the world is putting on them about OOXML. Neelie Kroes by the way tell them that she can help if they ask : http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/08/317.
Having downloaded the office documents formats and the Windows protocol documentation et having had a look at it I wonder why nobody is at least recognizing the fact that this information is no more secret now. So it's a big step in getting the Ms monopoly to be a little less controlling. Here is the links if you want to take a look : Windows Server Protocols http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/6/ae6e4142-aa58-45c6-8dcf-a657e5900cd3/windows_server_protocols.zip Windows Communication Protocols http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/e/95ef66af-9026-4bb0-a41d-a4f81802d92c/windows_communication_protocols.zip Office Files format (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx What do you think ?
Just to say this comment is a gem!
Another idea... For those old html pages that cannot be changed (like on cd rom), enable a fonction like this "View this page in the IE6 engine" that could be used on demand.
I understand Ms position. They want to be backward compatible. Can I suggest something, why not put the better standards compliant renderer by default and use the old one with the said tag?
I'm not at all happy about this. I use Firefox and it fit my needs. I don't need the IE7 at all on my system. I think I will just disable the security updates.
I think that Opera is seeing in the future and trying to change the approach "à la Microsoft". I mean Microsoft do it own standard and expect the industry to follow it. Opera wants that a company with this large market share should respect a known standard. So if this process is a victory for Opera, you could expect the EU to ask Microsoft to make office conform to a open accepted standard, like Open Document Format. I think Opera have a very thin line to follow but i they have very good lawyers they could succeed. It's time Microsoft get into the line with the others. I don't think also that following standards forbid a company to innovate, they can make innovation and also respects the standards.
> I don't have windows at home, and my wife (definitely non techie - doesn't know the difference between a binary and its icon) doesn't want windows at home. You don't have windows in your home, how can you see the light ? ;-p
I think this could really help the community. Yeah Microsoft use the SCO strategy but I think that after SCO, Linux is stronger than before. A lot more.
This is a big task but it has to be done someday and better now than later. Software patents, and in this case, Microsoft Patents have to be validated has true or false.
1. Each individual patent have to be read, interpreted, what does it mean, how and where do it apply ?
2. make a list of possible prior art and confirm / infirm them
3. For every confirmed prior art document as much as possible, where, who, phone numbers, etc..
4. If no prior art is found, Microsoft maybe have a winner here. So start the process of identifying the code which would be affected.
5. update the list has time goes... wikipedia could be a good place to do it
6. the list can only grow better and better as time goes and this will be usefull in courts
To have a full understanding of the repartition of the world wealth an its population, please see this site (all in flash animated sequences): http://www.gapminder.org/ Google have made its own version based on gapminder.org: http://tools.google.com/gapminder
Having followed the SCO case, I can hardly think that Microsoft is not behind this. How do Microsoft try to kill Google as Balmer (Microsoft President) promessed ? By trying to alter its image, creating scandals et leveraging the public opinion. This case is a great example. Just follow the money...
Google is a good company for this: their search engine, the way they handle the publicity, their free tools like google earth or maps, trying to free people from the microsoft monopoly, openness, creativity. Google is a bad company for this: ban of cnet, employee fired because of a blog, their predatory approach to anything that is information, their growing power that i don't trust. Giving back to open source is a good thing but it's not enough. They will have to convince me that they won't be the next monopoly and that they're not trying to trick me with all their tools. I would prefer that they show openly what are their plans. and that Eric schmit cancel this ban, god i don't like this.
Well until Google ask you to pay for it.
What is happening here have to make us think about what will become Google in the times to come. If a company like Cnet is begging google to not "black it out" from the search results, just imagine what this will be in a couple of years with all the tools they are creating and giving away. The French Library Association (or something) has decided that Google would not digitize their entire library and that they will do it by themselves to make it available to the public. Maybe they sensed what Google can become... The next Microsoft. The big senseless corporation. If google is listening it is always time to stop this action that is against the "no preference" way of treating information like it is supposed to be. If find this move so disturbing that I'm wondering if it is not the time to switch to another provider like Yahoo or MSN. But they have also their "preferences" on the results they give. Maybe an open source one will prevail after all ?
Julius Ceasar told that the best way to win a war is to make divisions between your adversaries. Forbes is known to have crap articles that help ms shit and tell all kind of pseudo-lies. So don't fall into this trap and believe everything that is written. BSD and Linux are helping each others much much more than Ms will ever do or want.
For my part, I tryed Linux many times but never did I kept using it for more than a month. Too many things to catch which are not that intuitive. And I didn't try to make an app. From what I saw OS/X seems more integrated and more intuitive. So I will try it when I can on my PC (if it let me to). Having the pleasure to have a Mac without losing the possibility to boot Linux or Windows is just great. Longhorn... what is that ? ;-)
The thing no one is talking about is that Mac os X is now a containder to the OS hill again. Why use Windows when Mac OS X is so much better ? I know I know legacies... But i believe having a OS X on intel is far more dangerous for Microsoft than linux. (Sorry for the Linux fan I offended)
The problem of blocking the ads will only go bigger with more Firefox users having also enabled the AdBlock extension. Firefox is a better browser because it make surfing the web fun again : That mean in a sense surfing the web like when there were no ads. But since those ads are not clicked or just seen anymore mean less revenue for web sites owners and then less money to invest to make those web sites interesting. So it's like the web sites owners will tend to find that firefox is not a browser to have on its list of visitors. You can imagine the rest !
Well, something that Firefox has that Microsoft is not able to sustain is security. Firefox is a lot less insecure that IE, even patched. So I wonder how M$ will try to circumvent this with their PR and marketing.
yeah and AOL will renamed LOL !!
"Of course, most registrars don't give a damn about this, especially the Spam friendly ones, but I've successfully managed to shut down a small number of zombie networks by using various means.. not all of which might be considered ethical or even 100% legal.. but who cares?"
Well the spammers! They will use the same kind of trick you used. It will be to persuade someone at the DNS company to repair the "failed" DNS address. What could be more usefull would be a law that can be applied in every country. But i know, law can also be abused .
Well you enter in the field where psychology and human thinking becomes important. Why do I trust someone I doesn't know ? Because someone I know trust him. This concept could be applied to the web. With a search engine like Google, you could compute the "trustability" of someone by the number of persons trusting him. Thinking of this, being trusted by someone who is trusted by many others could get me more "trustable" than being trusted by only one person. Finally, there should be a way to trust a web site. But it isn't clear for me how. Since web sites are created by persons, maybe just making a one on one relation between the site and the person could be enough. There is a whole field of study here!!
Look what the guy also said about bio-nano-tech : "The world market for nano materials, nano tools, nano devices and nano biotechnology should be over a hundred billion dollars. The fastest among them is nano biotechnology. Nanotechnology worked at the molecular level to create structures with fundamentally new molecular organisations, explained the President, adding that potential benefits covered diverse fields such as materials and manufacturing, nano electronics, computer technology, medicine and healthcare, environment and energy, aeronautics and space, biotechnology and agriculture. Many of these areas had applications in the defence sector and would help countries employing them to leapfrog in the science of warfare." It looks like the way the war is fought will never be the same after the bio-tech machines will be created. Imagine a thousand little T1000 !
Correct me if i'm wrong but Mono fill a need for an elaborate OOP platform with garbage collection that is not Java. Well it's correct to address it but why plagiate Microsoft when we all know that they always try to monopolise the industry ? Why not start with something different and new that is not Java and not Microsoft? At the moment there's no other alternative.