due to funding cuts most elementary and middle schools have no art classes and few if any high schools do either has any affect what so ever on basic drawing skills. It's gotta be the computers. Damned if any baby boomer (my generation) would dare take the blame for screwing this one up.
The lazy mans way to admin. Take the lockdown approach and don't let anything happen. End result a constant battle that you as the admin can NEVER win. You can't lock down the computer tight enough to make yourself happy and allow me to do work. Period. I've got to get my work done and if you are in the way of me keeping my job. Pow. You lose big time.
I've grown especially wearing of id10T's like the one from ABN. "I don't allow Skype because I don't know what it does." Well dumbass. The blackhats are no were near as lazy as you are. They do know the ins and outs of every piece of software you use. Unlike you they are willing to get up off their asses and put some effort into RTFM. They poke they prod and they know that there is a 50-50 chance that your passwords for the entire network are written under your keyboard.
Stop using passwords and move to pass phrases with ssh, phrases are easier for humans to memorize and harder for john the ripper and it's clones to guess. Start asking your users "What do you need to work" and then taking the time to grab a copy. Audit it and put that copy in a place where your users can grab it instead of one off of the net. (they will like it becaue it will be a lot faster and easier) Start actually reading all of the security newsletters you subscribe to. Better yet subscribe to some of the news letters the black hats use. Get off your butts and do your friggin jobs! for chrissakes.
If your only answer to protecting your net is to lock it down annally tight, then you need to change careeres. IMHO you are not capable of admining a network in the 21st century. If you are complaining that the boss won't let you, then find another career field, because you lack in the basic social skills needed to learn how to convince and persuade your co-workers and move your organization forward.
Sorry but if the jobs too big for you find a new job. BTW I maintain about 250 desktops and a small (100 systems) data center along with 3 others. All software installs done by the user come from an audited in house repository. We have a system for requesting software to be added. When something is rejected the requester is informed of exactly why it's rejected and we work with them if this inhibits their work flow. I treat my customers (the users of the systems) as if they are inteligent. In response they have started to act inteligently. Funny how that works. Now 2 years and counting without a breakin or virus attack. Oh yes one thing except for the people doing our website, IE is currently verbotten. Opera and Firefox and lynx are not.
Every single collaboration tool I've seen is developed with the same model. "We think this is what you will want" I've yet to see one that is developed by asking "What do you need." and until developers and Market experts get their heads in a place where they don't fear the customer, it will continue to be crap that inhibits work instead of adds to it. BTW one collaberative tool is growing in popularity. IM.
Ports buy Ports... danged if they didn't go out and buy computer ports. Ok got them straight now. The Chinese are now buying our SHIPPING ports. Whew. I need to get a better English to Chinese translation system. My bad sorry for the confusion.
If speed where the only contention.... then MacOSX does win but not by a lot. However if quality of rendering, Usability when dealing with large file sizes (100's of MB range) etc etc etc come into play then Mac has and still does blow Windows away in this area. That is why if you head into any graphics studio (not web shop they really are different) doing graphics for print media, or doing what used to be called offset layout, you will find Mac leading the way. It really is that much better.
Interesting the way you have worded this. As it's exactly what Apple did to Steve Jobs. (Not say Gael is another Jobs.) Next move could be interesting.
First off. No they aren't idiots. Take the one line
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
Has it ever occured to you that the fact that things are working at all is a testiment to how hard the IT people are working. Do you have any idea how many systems they have in the data center that reached their predicted EOL 3 or 4 years ago, and the front office refuses to allow them to replace the system when the HDD fails because it looks better on the bottom line to spend 75 bucks on a cheap 40G drive instead of the 300G needed for expansion. Do you know how many times they've been forced to configure some dumb piece of crap software because end users had to have it to prove their manhood. Or even more importantly they had to have it because they are too dang lazy to move to a more secure product.
No it's easier as an end user to just sit back, and play both ends (Management and IT) against the middle. Perhaps just for once you and other end users could try working with us instead of against us. Just once try and understand that the easier we make your life the easier it makes ours and vice versa, meaning I'm not suggesting the change to bother you, I'm doing it to protect you.
My fear is that in your company, end users and management deserve each other. One group to bent on the right now bottom line. The other group bent on using IT as an excuse for not being able to meet unreasonable demands made by the same management that can't see past todays ink.
The first step in any situation like this is to ask yourself the question. What am I doing wrong. Stop trying to fix others problems before you bother to fix your own.
Is that job sites are not designed to get employers and employee's together. Instead they are designed to keep them appart until one or both parties (depending on the site) cough up the necessary dough to "see" a little of what the other offers. More effort has gone into hiding one from the other than has gone into enabling one to see the other.
Sorry to bust any bubbles but I know I submitted the prior art over a year ago as an article (that was turned down) as this was and is actually an invention of a Japanese Gentleman who has been working on it most of his life. The original inventor is a Mr Kohei Minato who has a number of patents already on this motor.
Sorry to the younger slashdotters here but I've also got a song from the Doors in my head with the line "This is the end, my friend the end," Sorry but at this point in time I'm willing to put money on the Vegas odds that the internet will no longer be a viable business or personal tool by 2008.
I'm also will to bet that the only ones willing to pay the certification fee will be spammers. Others don't have enough volume to justify it.
Having had the honor of meeting the man, I can assure you that what you found the site to be is exactly what Jeff felt all computing should be. Though I don't agree with all of his methods, I fail to find a way to argue with his objectives.
Go to the person who is most likely the creator of the whole idea of UI testing and design. Jeff Raskin. All others came after him. His writings, ideas etc are still maintained by his family on his home page.
The drivers/devices auto install and auto remove. I don't have to do jack. (on windows Linux includes the drivers already)
You assumed that the only USB device on the host is the BD. But if the host has others there are ways to use them (like a USB keyboard and Mouse) Firewire access I'm now told is flakey. (don't have a way to test so... I'll take their word)
I do understand what it is... I'm using it right now..... doH!
You don't need admin access on the hosts. It runs at, well, what windows calls user level. Unless you've got the anal retentive mindset of a company I was recently at. 10 Windows boxes connected by ethernet and totally blocked from communicating with each other or the world. Yep, floppies and thumbdrives where everywhere. (and the guy couldn't understand why he still got viri, go figure)
With all due respect. It is you who may not get what the BD really is. Its that putty colored box shrunk down to fit in a pocket (in all respects shrunk down) that works as a symbiont.
Micro "servers" (god how I hate how the word server is mis-used) seems to be a concept that most I show mine to, or talk to about them, don't understand. So lets get a few things straight.
1. You aren't going to be able in the immediate future to compress a 8-way opeteron Raid 5 terabyte server into a pocket device.
2. That 500 dollar video card you just bought won't help you read e-mail faster. (gameing may rock, video editing may be helped but e-mail just won't care)
3. More Ram just like anything else has it's limits. If you exceed the amount the system can use efficiently you are wasting money and time (I had a customer with 3 1gb sticks in his mobo, each slot had a 512mb limit.... guess what! that's why he's a customer *grin*)
4. In the Windows world the concept is "Bring the mainframe to the desktop" In the *nix world the concept is "Many hands make light work" Neither concept is wrong per se. Unless applied at the wrong time, to the wrong place.
Given the above and especially #4 trying to turn the Gumstick or the BlackDog into a high end Opteron is a joke. BUT, what if I took a 1U connected to a Storage server and filled it with gumsticks. Each one is in it's own right a computer, each computer is independent of the other.. and say for the sake of arugument I could fit 500 gumsticks in this box. I now can supply my users with their own idividual server, choice of OS, Choice of XXXXX as they desired for what 90% of all Net systems are, low volume. The guy who gets 100 unique visits an hour doesn't need even a pIV to do what she's doing. The cost savings for the ISP in electricity (Cooling and server) are huge, those get passed on to the user in many ways, (lower colo costs, lowered pollution etc).
The days of acting like the Seagulls in "Finding Nemo" are over. Mine, Mine, Mine, is no longer a way to go, doing everything in one box is a waste..... Someday even the RIAA and SBC/ATT will figure this out.
All the host computer does is supply hardware. If I ask you where your computer is and you point to the monitor... I'm not goint to be able to explain this.
The BlackDog doesn't have 1. A video card 2. a nic 3 a keyboard port 4 a mouse port 5 a usb port 6 a firewire port. You desktop on the other hand does. So If I want to check my mail I pop in my BlackDog, "borrow" the 6 items I don't have that I need to use, and exit when finished, leaving nothing behind. I don't need your computer, CPU, Ram etc, but I do need your input devices and display device.
1. If you need/want ongoing commercial support Open Country is your answer Cross distro supporting.deb and.rpm both. Totally web based admin of all of your linux systems and the users (note they can make apps follow users) Disclaimer: I helped in the founding of the company.
2. If you want Debian only in what is IMHO a very well designed setup, also web based Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame has created m23 the iso, and it's documentation (quite extensive) are both on the knoppix 4.x DVD.
and just use firefox. With the search set into the bar if I type in Slashdot I end up at slashdot.org. If I type in IBM I end up at IBM..... dang this sounds like Bezos invented it.
Not by design, but by the fact that I have small children *sigh*. However I am familiar with the end result of similar "designs" The problems I've seen are not with regurgitated sewer gas but rather the result of bacterial growth in the "leavings"
The assumption in these kinds of toilets is that there is a 100% movement of urine from the location of initial entry (man it's hard to dance around this) to the "downspout" However if anyone here as ever pourd a liquid out of any container knows. There is a small but potentially significant amount of fluid that remains.
Now not only do you have to deal with the various "odor levels" of peoples urine. But you also have to deal with the bacterial growth in the droplets left behind. This is a greater problem in Womens restrooms than in Mens, as men tend not to "hover". Resulting in greater "splatter" and more of those, unwilling to drain, droplets.
So my solution is. Send all the "No Water" advocates to the Snake Pit at Indianapolis, on a really hot day in May. Then remember, that odor, isn't sarin, it's urine.
Actually the first browser to incorporate XMLHttpRequest was/is the W3.org browser (now called I believe Amaya) W3.org is also the inventor if you will (or more acurately the incorporator)
Javascript again predates RemoteScripting by about 5 + years. During the time between the creation of Javascript and the Asynchronous access was done using databases and flat text files (I know this only because I was doing this, and I was doing things that others did.) So this concept is nothing new. (the async part)
As for Usage of RemoteScripting to do XML releated requests. Well I know a lot of perl cgi developers that could argue that they did this long before RemoteSripting came around. The real stopping point at that time with coming out with the XML 1.0 standard was MS. At that time they were trying to control w3 and force standards. As well intentioned as they may or may not have been, Sun vs MS vs IBM vs, vs, whomever, did slow things down in coming out with the standard.
Just like how everyone credits MS with Xenix. However what they forget is that ATT was busy getting online with computers and fighting the DOJ when they agreed to give up their computer business (which ran Xenix), sold the OS to Microsoft and the manufacturing plant for the systems to Tandy. So M$ bought what was really the best OS around at the time (Better IMHO than C/PM basic, pascal, dos or anything else I saw.)
Just because a company did something that is kinda sorta like someone else's technology doesn't mean they are the inventor, or even the concept creator. It simply means you did something in this area. Most importantly if you didn't continue with it to fruition... you've no claim at all.
Javascript is a child of LiveScript, both were created by Netscape. Nothing in what is Ajax was ever created by M$ period. The fact that they are able to see the value and talk it up is cool, but they invented none of it.
Now I'm sure someone will bring up M$ Remote Scripting. It like LiveScript where basically in house products. Remote Script did not exist in the public realm. However at the time of it's "creation", M$ was lacking a viable browswer (Definition of Viable is it works.) IE 1.0 and 2.0 where total jokes, 3.0 was the equal of Netscape 1.0 and 4.0 began to work. By this time however both MS and Netscape were fully supporting LiveScript/JavaScript (Sometimes in name only, as each tried to extend beyond the other.)
But in short Please, stop say M$ invented Ajax. This is like claiming that Honda invented the Car. They build them yes but they did not invent them.
Now according to wikipedia something called. Remote Scripting supposedly pre-dated HTTP requests. (according to Wikipedia.) Nope.. sorry didn't. The concept of HTTP requests etc had been layed out for a long time before M$ existed (pre-dating the Altair) But it took Berners-Lee to be able to make it usable and, Stanford Linear Accelorator to do the most important step. Create a Distant End. In fact at the time the ONLY usable OS for this was..... da ta da da! Next. Given that the only thing it (the web) could run on at the time was Next... I guess Steve Jobs had more to bring to bear in creating Ajax than MS did.
Since Remote Scripting required a Java applet to work.... it had to exist post Sun creation. Sun was created After the Http request was first used. Java was first created in 1991, and introduced to the public in 1994. LONG after javascript had existed.
So no, I had more to do with Ajax than M$ did. And I had nothing at all to do with the concept.
The company know industry wide as the parent of so many software products. What do these products do? Simple they allow you to be able to make SAP run......
I can see how well written software open or closed source would be something SAP would fear.
CustomizeGoogle - Make searching less of a chore Tabbrowser Preferences - So I can stop saying "I wish I could" Sage - A great RSS/Atom reader Calendar Help - For Moz Calendar EditCSS - Real time editing of CSS Image Zoom - Postage stamp killer. Mozilla Calendar - I'm supposed to WHAT WHEN! TextMarker - Highlighter for websites TinyUrl Creator - turn that 300 character URL into something easy Translate - Key Euro and Asian languages to/from English I must not fear! - Teaching from the Bene Gesserit BugMeNot - For people tired of filling out registration forms Bookmark Backup - corrupted.mozilla folder prevention. Linkification - turns plain text url's into clickable links xMirror - More xpi locations Configuration Mania - this and the next one offer more config options Things They Left Out - see above. Google Pagerank Status - No reasonable reason I just like to know. Bookmark Duplicate Detector - Cause once sometimes is enough. Research Buddy - a great tool for cataloging and sharing research links Allow Right-Click - defeat the anti capture javascripts. Objection - gets rid of Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies) Download Manager Tweak - makes the DL manager work right. Google Send to Phone - SMS messages from the browser. Mimetype Editor - Edit mime types Ext2Abc - Alphabatize your extensions Gish It! - Anti Spam tool create tempory e-mail addresses. Mozile - Developer tool. MediaPlayerConnectivity - great for controlling all of those win only sites SwitchProxy Tool - for use with Tor Browse Images - cruise those pics easily and quickly. AJAX Yahoo! Mail - Just cause it's pretty.
The best of all is......
quitomzilla - This IMHO the reason It's been 10 months 3 days and 22 hours since I last smoked!
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due to funding cuts most elementary and middle schools have no art classes and few if any high schools do either has any affect what so ever on basic drawing skills. It's gotta be the computers. Damned if any baby boomer (my generation) would dare take the blame for screwing this one up.
The lazy mans way to admin. Take the lockdown approach and don't let anything happen. End result a constant battle that you as the admin can NEVER win. You can't lock down the computer tight enough to make yourself happy and allow me to do work. Period. I've got to get my work done and if you are in the way of me keeping my job. Pow. You lose big time.
I've grown especially wearing of id10T's like the one from ABN. "I don't allow Skype because I don't know what it does." Well dumbass. The blackhats are no were near as lazy as you are. They do know the ins and outs of every piece of software you use. Unlike you they are willing to get up off their asses and put some effort into RTFM. They poke they prod and they know that there is a 50-50 chance that your passwords for the entire network are written under your keyboard.
Stop using passwords and move to pass phrases with ssh, phrases are easier for humans to memorize and harder for john the ripper and it's clones to guess. Start asking your users "What do you need to work" and then taking the time to grab a copy. Audit it and put that copy in a place where your users can grab it instead of one off of the net. (they will like it becaue it will be a lot faster and easier) Start actually reading all of the security newsletters you subscribe to. Better yet subscribe to some of the news letters the black hats use. Get off your butts and do your friggin jobs! for chrissakes.
If your only answer to protecting your net is to lock it down annally tight, then you need to change careeres. IMHO you are not capable of admining a network in the 21st century. If you are complaining that the boss won't let you, then find another career field, because you lack in the basic social skills needed to learn how to convince and persuade your co-workers and move your organization forward.
Sorry but if the jobs too big for you find a new job. BTW I maintain about 250 desktops and a small (100 systems) data center along with 3 others. All software installs done by the user come from an audited in house repository. We have a system for requesting software to be added. When something is rejected the requester is informed of exactly why it's rejected and we work with them if this inhibits their work flow. I treat my customers (the users of the systems) as if they are inteligent. In response they have started to act inteligently. Funny how that works. Now 2 years and counting without a breakin or virus attack. Oh yes one thing except for the people doing our website, IE is currently verbotten. Opera and Firefox and lynx are not.
Every single collaboration tool I've seen is developed with the same model. "We think this is what you will want" I've yet to see one that is developed by asking "What do you need." and until developers and Market experts get their heads in a place where they don't fear the customer, it will continue to be crap that inhibits work instead of adds to it. BTW one collaberative tool is growing in popularity. IM.
Phishing works because of the large number of computer experts in places like Tuttle Oklahoma. (btw the verbage in the subject was intentional.)
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/27/tuttle_em
For the follow up.
Ports buy Ports ... danged if they didn't go out and buy computer ports. Ok got them straight now. The Chinese are now buying our SHIPPING ports. Whew. I need to get a better English to Chinese translation system. My bad sorry for the confusion.
If speed where the only contention .... then MacOSX does win but not by a lot. However if quality of rendering, Usability when dealing with large file sizes (100's of MB range) etc etc etc come into play then Mac has and still does blow Windows away in this area. That is why if you head into any graphics studio (not web shop they really are different) doing graphics for print media, or doing what used to be called offset layout, you will find Mac leading the way. It really is that much better.
Interesting the way you have worded this. As it's exactly what Apple did to Steve Jobs. (Not say Gael is another Jobs.) Next move could be interesting.
No it's easier as an end user to just sit back, and play both ends (Management and IT) against the middle. Perhaps just for once you and other end users could try working with us instead of against us. Just once try and understand that the easier we make your life the easier it makes ours and vice versa, meaning I'm not suggesting the change to bother you, I'm doing it to protect you.
My fear is that in your company, end users and management deserve each other. One group to bent on the right now bottom line. The other group bent on using IT as an excuse for not being able to meet unreasonable demands made by the same management that can't see past todays ink.
The first step in any situation like this is to ask yourself the question. What am I doing wrong. Stop trying to fix others problems before you bother to fix your own.
Is that job sites are not designed to get employers and employee's together. Instead they are designed to keep them appart until one or both parties (depending on the site) cough up the necessary dough to "see" a little of what the other offers. More effort has gone into hiding one from the other than has gone into enabling one to see the other.
Sorry to bust any bubbles but I know I submitted the prior art over a year ago as an article (that was turned down) as this was and is actually an invention of a Japanese Gentleman who has been working on it most of his life. The original inventor is a Mr Kohei Minato who has a number of patents already on this motor.
Here are some links
article 1
article 2
google search
Sorry to the younger slashdotters here but I've also got a song from the Doors in my head with the line "This is the end, my friend the end," Sorry but at this point in time I'm willing to put money on the Vegas odds that the internet will no longer be a viable business or personal tool by 2008.
I'm also will to bet that the only ones willing to pay the certification fee will be spammers. Others don't have enough volume to justify it.
2 browsers pass Safari and Konqueror 3.5. IE 7 is actual worse than IE 6 on CSS if you can believe it.
Having had the honor of meeting the man, I can assure you that what you found the site to be is exactly what Jeff felt all computing should be. Though I don't agree with all of his methods, I fail to find a way to argue with his objectives.
Go to the person who is most likely the creator of the whole idea of UI testing and design. Jeff Raskin. All others came after him. His writings, ideas etc are still maintained by his family on his home page.
http://jef.raskincenter.org/home/
Including his work on the Humane Interface.
The drivers/devices auto install and auto remove. I don't have to do jack. (on windows Linux includes the drivers already)
... I'll take their word)
You assumed that the only USB device on the host is the BD. But if the host has others there are ways to use them (like a USB keyboard and Mouse) Firewire access I'm now told is flakey. (don't have a way to test so
I do understand what it is... I'm using it right now..... doH!
You don't need admin access on the hosts. It runs at, well, what windows calls user level. Unless you've got the anal retentive mindset of a company I was recently at. 10 Windows boxes connected by ethernet and totally blocked from communicating with each other or the world. Yep, floppies and thumbdrives where everywhere. (and the guy couldn't understand why he still got viri, go figure)
With all due respect. It is you who may not get what the BD really is. Its that putty colored box shrunk down to fit in a pocket (in all respects shrunk down) that works as a symbiont.
Micro "servers" (god how I hate how the word server is mis-used) seems to be a concept that most I show mine to, or talk to about them, don't understand. So lets get a few things straight.
.. and say for the sake of arugument I could fit 500 gumsticks in this box. I now can supply my users with their own idividual server, choice of OS, Choice of XXXXX as they desired for what 90% of all Net systems are, low volume. The guy who gets 100 unique visits an hour doesn't need even a pIV to do what she's doing. The cost savings for the ISP in electricity (Cooling and server) are huge, those get passed on to the user in many ways, (lower colo costs, lowered pollution etc).
..... Someday even the RIAA and SBC/ATT will figure this out.
1. You aren't going to be able in the immediate future to compress a 8-way opeteron Raid 5 terabyte server into a pocket device.
2. That 500 dollar video card you just bought won't help you read e-mail faster. (gameing may rock, video editing may be helped but e-mail just won't care)
3. More Ram just like anything else has it's limits. If you exceed the amount the system can use efficiently you are wasting money and time (I had a customer with 3 1gb sticks in his mobo, each slot had a 512mb limit.... guess what! that's why he's a customer *grin*)
4. In the Windows world the concept is "Bring the mainframe to the desktop" In the *nix world the concept is "Many hands make light work" Neither concept is wrong per se. Unless applied at the wrong time, to the wrong place.
Given the above and especially #4 trying to turn the Gumstick or the BlackDog into a high end Opteron is a joke. BUT, what if I took a 1U connected to a Storage server and filled it with gumsticks. Each one is in it's own right a computer, each computer is independent of the other
The days of acting like the Seagulls in "Finding Nemo" are over. Mine, Mine, Mine, is no longer a way to go, doing everything in one box is a waste
Read more ..... *grin*
All the host computer does is supply hardware. If I ask you where your computer is and you point to the monitor... I'm not goint to be able to explain this.
The BlackDog doesn't have 1. A video card 2. a nic 3 a keyboard port 4 a mouse port 5 a usb port 6 a firewire port. You desktop on the other hand does. So If I want to check my mail I pop in my BlackDog, "borrow" the 6 items I don't have that I need to use, and exit when finished, leaving nothing behind. I don't need your computer, CPU, Ram etc, but I do need your input devices and display device.
1. If you need/want ongoing commercial support Open Country is your answer Cross distro supporting .deb and .rpm both. Totally web based admin of all of your linux systems and the users (note they can make apps follow users) Disclaimer: I helped in the founding of the company.
2. If you want Debian only in what is IMHO a very well designed setup, also web based Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame has created m23 the iso, and it's documentation (quite extensive) are both on the knoppix 4.x DVD.
and just use firefox. With the search set into the bar if I type in Slashdot I end up at slashdot.org. If I type in IBM I end up at IBM. .... dang this sounds like Bezos invented it.
Not by design, but by the fact that I have small children *sigh*. However I am familiar with the end result of similar "designs" The problems I've seen are not with regurgitated sewer gas but rather the result of bacterial growth in the "leavings"
The assumption in these kinds of toilets is that there is a 100% movement of urine from the location of initial entry (man it's hard to dance around this) to the "downspout" However if anyone here as ever pourd a liquid out of any container knows. There is a small but potentially significant amount of fluid that remains.
Now not only do you have to deal with the various "odor levels" of peoples urine. But you also have to deal with the bacterial growth in the droplets left behind. This is a greater problem in Womens restrooms than in Mens, as men tend not to "hover". Resulting in greater "splatter" and more of those, unwilling to drain, droplets.
So my solution is. Send all the "No Water" advocates to the Snake Pit at Indianapolis, on a really hot day in May. Then remember, that odor, isn't sarin, it's urine.
Actually the first browser to incorporate XMLHttpRequest was/is the W3.org browser (now called I believe Amaya) W3.org is also the inventor if you will (or more acurately the incorporator)
... you've no claim at all.
Javascript again predates RemoteScripting by about 5 + years. During the time between the creation of Javascript and the Asynchronous access was done using databases and flat text files (I know this only because I was doing this, and I was doing things that others did.) So this concept is nothing new. (the async part)
As for Usage of RemoteScripting to do XML releated requests. Well I know a lot of perl cgi developers that could argue that they did this long before RemoteSripting came around. The real stopping point at that time with coming out with the XML 1.0 standard was MS. At that time they were trying to control w3 and force standards. As well intentioned as they may or may not have been, Sun vs MS vs IBM vs, vs, whomever, did slow things down in coming out with the standard.
Just like how everyone credits MS with Xenix. However what they forget is that ATT was busy getting online with computers and fighting the DOJ when they agreed to give up their computer business (which ran Xenix), sold the OS to Microsoft and the manufacturing plant for the systems to Tandy. So M$ bought what was really the best OS around at the time (Better IMHO than C/PM basic, pascal, dos or anything else I saw.)
Just because a company did something that is kinda sorta like someone else's technology doesn't mean they are the inventor, or even the concept creator. It simply means you did something in this area. Most importantly if you didn't continue with it to fruition
Microsoft DID NOT invent Ajax.
..... da ta da da! Next. Given that the only thing it (the web) could run on at the time was Next... I guess Steve Jobs had more to bring to bear in creating Ajax than MS did.
.... it had to exist post Sun creation. Sun was created After the Http request was first used. Java was first created in 1991, and introduced to the public in 1994. LONG after javascript had existed.
Ajax = Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
XML is a subset of SGML which existed before M$.
Javascript is a child of LiveScript, both were created by Netscape. Nothing in what is Ajax was ever created by M$ period. The fact that they are able to see the value and talk it up is cool, but they invented none of it.
Now I'm sure someone will bring up M$ Remote Scripting. It like LiveScript where basically in house products. Remote Script did not exist in the public realm. However at the time of it's "creation", M$ was lacking a viable browswer (Definition of Viable is it works.) IE 1.0 and 2.0 where total jokes, 3.0 was the equal of Netscape 1.0 and 4.0 began to work. By this time however both MS and Netscape were fully supporting LiveScript/JavaScript (Sometimes in name only, as each tried to extend beyond the other.)
But in short Please, stop say M$ invented Ajax. This is like claiming that Honda invented the Car. They build them yes but they did not invent them.
Now according to wikipedia something called. Remote Scripting supposedly pre-dated HTTP requests. (according to Wikipedia.) Nope.. sorry didn't. The concept of HTTP requests etc had been layed out for a long time before M$ existed (pre-dating the Altair) But it took Berners-Lee to be able to make it usable and, Stanford Linear Accelorator to do the most important step. Create a Distant End. In fact at the time the ONLY usable OS for this was
Since Remote Scripting required a Java applet to work
So no, I had more to do with Ajax than M$ did. And I had nothing at all to do with the concept.
The company know industry wide as the parent of so many software products. What do these products do? Simple they allow you to be able to make SAP run......
I can see how well written software open or closed source would be something SAP would fear.
CustomizeGoogle - Make searching less of a chore .mozilla folder prevention.
Tabbrowser Preferences - So I can stop saying "I wish I could"
Sage - A great RSS/Atom reader
Calendar Help - For Moz Calendar
EditCSS - Real time editing of CSS
Image Zoom - Postage stamp killer.
Mozilla Calendar - I'm supposed to WHAT WHEN!
TextMarker - Highlighter for websites
TinyUrl Creator - turn that 300 character URL into something easy
Translate - Key Euro and Asian languages to/from English
I must not fear! - Teaching from the Bene Gesserit
BugMeNot - For people tired of filling out registration forms
Bookmark Backup - corrupted
Linkification - turns plain text url's into clickable links
xMirror - More xpi locations
Configuration Mania - this and the next one offer more config options
Things They Left Out - see above.
Google Pagerank Status - No reasonable reason I just like to know.
Bookmark Duplicate Detector - Cause once sometimes is enough.
Research Buddy - a great tool for cataloging and sharing research links
Allow Right-Click - defeat the anti capture javascripts.
Objection - gets rid of Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)
Download Manager Tweak - makes the DL manager work right.
Google Send to Phone - SMS messages from the browser.
Mimetype Editor - Edit mime types
Ext2Abc - Alphabatize your extensions
Gish It! - Anti Spam tool create tempory e-mail addresses.
Mozile - Developer tool.
MediaPlayerConnectivity - great for controlling all of those win only sites
SwitchProxy Tool - for use with Tor
Browse Images - cruise those pics easily and quickly.
AJAX Yahoo! Mail - Just cause it's pretty.
The best of all is......
quitomzilla - This IMHO the reason It's been 10 months 3 days and 22 hours since I last smoked!
Did anyone else think that this was a same day dupe of the article about M$ doing Zombie testing to combat spammers?