In the end we're asking for the local and state governments to process all these ballots within 24 hours basically. Let me say that again--that's local and state governments working together to get a 100% accurate result by midnight.... (and not considering the media report winners by 8pm). You think that's possible?
I don't think so with the process, regulations and technology in place.
they forgot to tell you that it runs at a cool 90degrees.
And when you using those power apps like Keynote, will easily substitute as a frying pan for making breakfast when you're on travel.
It's nice effort, excellent for those need-to-have-bling consultants of Silicon valley (and pretty much any Big5 consultant). But for a home use it's not that practical.
Silverlight port? Huh. I don't give squat about ports of silverlight since the performance will be horrible--anything multimedia will likely use directshow, or directx from Microsoft. That's their ace in the hole and yes this is another trojan horse to lock you in on their products:
Does DirectX work in Linux/Mac: Nope.
Does DirectShow work in Linux/Mac: Nope.
Does WVA work in Linux/Mac: Nope.
And guess what, Wine, VMWare and Parallels can't play directshow stuff too!
And even if they created a port, guess what, none of the video manufactures aside from VIA have non-directx-based drivers to access the h/w acceleration features. ATi, Nvidia--nope, only mpeg-2 decoder access... That's another problem for another topic. Kudos to VIA for stepping up to port their unichrome MPeg4/H264/H263 encoder/decoder api for X...
So we all think silverlight will be cross platform and good... Just wait, with the above ports only XP/Vista will have the best experience and everyone else will be looking at AVI flipbooks w/mono sound @ 10fps. Novell will likely port a software video decoder version of silverlight and it will suck on quality/video frame rates unless both MS and the video card vendors step up (i.e. open up)...
well, I just had a dream where I was married to Jessica Alba, I was thin!, was CEO of some competitor to Google and arguing over dinner with politicians on how to solve the global economy problems.
Boy that was some useless training... but great entertainment!
Thinking about about Smith and folks back in then, it was a great time back in the 1700's--rediscovery of the Americas, Newton, Jefferson, Smith, Laplace, etc...
isn't Ecma the steward of all the current Microsoft open standards?
So far the only Ecma standard that isn't Microsoft referenced is Universal3D (which is more Adobe related). The again, U3D should have given way to X3D and VRML...This
Going with Ecma make sense, they need something to battle ANSI and ISO.
Sure, I can bid too if I had the deposit amount. And if I don't win, I don't waste any money aside from upfront fees. This is a great strategy to keep the telcos in check.
Google has nothing to lose and everything to gain--it's an auction for crying out loud. If they lose the auction, they win by pushing the telcos inline with the gphone alliance. If they win, well, they have bandwidth for an internal company network and a R&D network (think beta apps FTW!). Problem is they can not provide free [production level] service to consumers cause they are not geared up for customer service at that scale, unless your willing to accept telco QoS. I suspect they are planning to lose the action, but it's an easy chess move and adds to the bling status of Google.
Just like the sports industry, just stop paying millions to the entertainers that don't deserve it.
The industry should return to the olde days, that people should be getting into the industry for their artistic interest and paid accordingly. None of this entertainer stuff, I want musicians--and it's called quality music content. This is all too familiar in the sports industry (high priced players, mediocre performances, greedy owners).
ok, now back to the article. Companies are only embracing OSS and not the Free part. This has been around for a long time since the UNIX-mainstream days. The problem I see is that end users will not have the free-version of the software available anymore as the industry goes both feet into SAAS mode--that was a nice aspect of the business that were involved in F/OSS efforts today, but with the big 3 coming in will likely disappear.
I thought RISC was the equivalent to the semantic web effort.
But since h/w evolves faster, it got too complex, redundant, and eventually expensive, earlier--and is likely a preview of where the semantic web is heading.
Will this effect people using rEFIt? I'm using a bootcamp partition, but starting with rEFIt to boot into either windows, osx or linux. And end up using parallels to run my bootcamp partition.
Sounds like this update really pushes me to use more linux:) It's clear Apple is using their monopoly powers to force folks to BUY more software, with less functionality...
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According to this your first two predictions maybe true by next year (Oracle + Sun for MySQL/SleepyCat or Google + Sun for J2ME).
I don't think so with the process, regulations and technology in place.
And that's why exit polls are very important IMO.
And when you using those power apps like Keynote, will easily substitute as a frying pan for making breakfast when you're on travel.
It's nice effort, excellent for those need-to-have-bling consultants of Silicon valley (and pretty much any Big5 consultant). But for a home use it's not that practical.
"thank you for trolling, please move along...."
and skip the "LCD displays FTW" mentality. Just beam the suckers
There is no server in the sky, just a database... Then again I can't imagine IT staff flying around all day.
Now really, gold shielding at 200mil is a bit over the top.
Like a simple organism, their DNA is to consume money, so I'm not surprised at this situation.
So you're saying that those who do, do it, those who can't, teach? Hmmm... sounds vaguely familiar.
And even if they created a port, guess what, none of the video manufactures aside from VIA have non-directx-based drivers to access the h/w acceleration features. ATi, Nvidia--nope, only mpeg-2 decoder access... That's another problem for another topic. Kudos to VIA for stepping up to port their unichrome MPeg4/H264/H263 encoder/decoder api for X...
So we all think silverlight will be cross platform and good... Just wait, with the above ports only XP/Vista will have the best experience and everyone else will be looking at AVI flipbooks w/mono sound @ 10fps. Novell will likely port a software video decoder version of silverlight and it will suck on quality/video frame rates unless both MS and the video card vendors step up (i.e. open up)...
Boy that was some useless training... but great entertainment!
Preparation? Yeah right...
make good BB gun targets. I doubt these things are made to be bulletproof due to the weight factor.
Or call it democracy.
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Thinking about about Smith and folks back in then, it was a great time back in the 1700's--rediscovery of the Americas, Newton, Jefferson, Smith, Laplace, etc...
And one step closer to dating robots
isn't Ecma the steward of all the current Microsoft open standards? So far the only Ecma standard that isn't Microsoft referenced is Universal3D (which is more Adobe related). The again, U3D should have given way to X3D and VRML...This Going with Ecma make sense, they need something to battle ANSI and ISO.
I see Apple.com... Where's Microsoft.com?
Google has nothing to lose and everything to gain--it's an auction for crying out loud. If they lose the auction, they win by pushing the telcos inline with the gphone alliance. If they win, well, they have bandwidth for an internal company network and a R&D network (think beta apps FTW!). Problem is they can not provide free [production level] service to consumers cause they are not geared up for customer service at that scale, unless your willing to accept telco QoS. I suspect they are planning to lose the action, but it's an easy chess move and adds to the bling status of Google.
The industry should return to the olde days, that people should be getting into the industry for their artistic interest and paid accordingly. None of this entertainer stuff, I want musicians--and it's called quality music content. This is all too familiar in the sports industry (high priced players, mediocre performances, greedy owners).
It's about developing traits, not how much you can memorize in your head, which is what the 3Rs really do in the long run.
ok, now back to the article. Companies are only embracing OSS and not the Free part. This has been around for a long time since the UNIX-mainstream days. The problem I see is that end users will not have the free-version of the software available anymore as the industry goes both feet into SAAS mode--that was a nice aspect of the business that were involved in F/OSS efforts today, but with the big 3 coming in will likely disappear.
But since h/w evolves faster, it got too complex, redundant, and eventually expensive, earlier--and is likely a preview of where the semantic web is heading.
Sounds like this update really pushes me to use more linux :) It's clear Apple is using their monopoly powers to force folks to BUY more software, with less functionality...
Some patent troll will surely hit this up. "Wind, powering ships? It's already been patented! Cha-ching!"
ok, better technology, but you still need prep time to slap on the suit and sensors--i.e. prep to look goofy I say.
Keyword--spokeswoman. If it was a engineer or scientist making the analogy, I believe it. Nice idea though.