I doubt it has anything to do with Adobe. It is probably simply yet another MS screwup that was reported to upper management as an Java insecurity and their marketing machine took over.
I happen to be in charge of our government IT policy. I will henceforth dictate that all government departments' IT policy be fixed to accomodate Oracle products henceforth. There, howzzat?
To date, Oracle is only suing Google for creating Near Java, I'm a bit fuzzy about how they feel they are entitled to do this given Google isn't using any Sun tech but then Oracle is probably fuzzy on this point as well. Anyhow, how many organizations are producing Java versions? Why should yer basic Fortune 500 give a rat's ass about Oracle suing for mutant Java implementations when all they doing is using either Oracle's or IBM's version? And IBM just bent over to receive the Uncle Larry's teenie weenie to preserve them from having their license revoked in 2015 when it comes due to renewal. If IBM had any balls, they'd have told Uncle Larry to stick it where the Sun don't shine, remove Oracle IP, and fork the damn thing.
1. End the wars. Yep, let the Taliban finish building their Caliphate so they can finally send us those nukes you aren't worried about.
2. End Dept. of X. Okay, let's start with Health and Human Services, we don't need no stinking FDA making sure those nice drug companies are fielding half-tested drugs on the pop. They also house the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because, well, we'll just outlaw flu outbreaks, e-coli outbreaks, etc. The list continues....Medicare and Medicare, let Grandma fend for her old ass herself. How about Social Security Administration, those blue hairs don't need their checks, we'll use them to cut down the deficit.
3. Eliminate the Deficit...well said, let it be gone!! Hear, hear, now how are you going to change the laws that made the social promises that are driving the deficit?
Damn, you are right, if software didn't have bugs, we wouldn't have such severe security issues. I propose we ban software bugs from now on, call your senator, call your congresscritter; we can do this!!
Sweet spot? Between iPhone and Android? The iPhone is geared toward consumers and Android toward business, at least if I read the reviews correctly. There's a sweet spot between consumers and business? Why would I want a phone integrated with Office? I'm somehow going to edit PPTs,.docs, and spreadsheets? Maybe you mean with the calendar? That's some integration you have there.
You wish to port games between the Xbox360 and a phone?
"This means it's going to be the game changer and has a really good possibility of getting a significant market share in the mobile market."
Oh, I get it, you are from the marketing dept. at MS.
"I wonder what IBM has on Oracle?" Business respectability. No one in their right mind trusts Oracle further than they can spit a two-headed rat. IBM is similar. However, if you have two two-headed rats, you, as a PHB, can buttress your choice of Java + Database + business application software as being dual sourced. Without IBM, its Oracle and their dumb lawsuit against Google. Few organizations would attempt what Google has done with using the language but not the infrastructure. But yer basic PHB won't see that, they'll see Java + lawsuit. Oracle's lawyers convinced the idiots at Oracle, errr....Uncle Larry...that Beeelllions can be made by knackering Google or that Google, left to its own devices, might find a way to supplant Oracle's DBs with Cloudiness. Put yourself in Uncle Larry's position. You see the world in us vs. them. The bigger the Them, the bigger the threat because they might just find a way to stick in a pin in your revenues and suck them dry. Yeah, I know, it isn't a particularly nuanced view, but then Uncle Larry didn't get Oracle to be in the position it is in by being nuanced.
So about now, Oracle realized they've probably screwed the pooch deep enough and are attempting to pull it out a bit...just for aesthetic purposes.
I think it more a case of MS lowering expectations. Of the three, RIM, Google, or Apple, Apple is likely the easiest one for the spokesbots at MS to claim victories over. Once they claim those, then they'll be looking towards Google and RIM. Maybe we'll get to see some new dirty tricks from MS this time instead of the tired old ones we've seen in the past.
How many Western nations put an inmate's wife under house arrest because the poor fellow won a Nobel Peace Prize? How many Western nations get a burr up their ass because one of their own citizens won a Nobel Peace Prize? How many Western nations are run by a one party dictatorship which has state controlled industries? There once was at least one, but then the rest of West showed on no uncertain terms precisely what they thought of it.
Nonsense, we send Carter around the world to talk to them. Last time, we sent him to N. Korea and the N. Koreans were not amused: "Hey, running capitalist pig dogs, this not funny you send Carter here; next time, we kill you with a thousand deaths."
The U.S. promptly apologized and promised never to send him again...
The U.S. did not passively allow the Japanese to conduct the bombing. They were under no illusions as to Japan's intent to start a war after the embargo instituted because of Japan had a tendency to invade its neighbors. The U.S. did figure that if the Japanese started something, it was likely to be in the Philippines or Singapore. The U.S. wasn't stupid enough to hand over the fleet in Pearl Harbor just to get into WWII. Pearl Harbor was considered safe due to its distance. The U.S. miscalculated what the Japanese carriers were capable of doing. However, at that time, there had never been a carrier war; it was brand new weapon that no one really knew how to fit into their military doctrine. The Japanese winged it; it worked...for a short time...and then it didn't.
I'm not sure if the citizens are all that scared. I don't think they trust their government, but they appear to be quite nationalistic. The majority are likely to think that social harmony trumps civil liberty and that a foreign entity threatening that by appearing to insert themselves into internal Chinese affair isn't welcomed.
It is possible that the Chinese government will overplay the "foreign influence" angle. After all, this is a government that gets their bloomers in a knot when the Falun Gong do ballet in public places. It isn't as though the government is well-adjusted and, not being elected and essentially secular, they worry about a lack of legitimacy. No elections to give them a mandate or feedback and no gods to smile at them from the heavens means they are essentially operating blind. All they can do is whack away at perceived threats and attempt to keep up the facade of boldly marching into the future by focusing the military towards their eventual conquering of Taiwan.
Over at TheRegister, he's known as Captain Cyborg. They appear to have stopping putting up articles about him. I sorely miss reading about the insane antics of the Captain.
They do, it is called the Congressional Budget Office. They run spreadsheets and analysis on just about everything Congress does. They also write human readable versions of bills before Congress. Generally, they are a respectable bunch although I sometimes think they as susceptible to Rosy Scenario, that temptress of all things bureaucratic. The proposal would have to be written up as a bill, but frankly, that is the only sensible way because the plan as written by the CEOs is going to be deficient in several areas. Of course, that is were the fun starts with The Porkos attempting to turn it into a feeding frenzy.
Yes, it is shameful. However, one must have a proper perspective. U.S. defense budget for the new year (not yet approved) is about $720 Billion. The budget deficit added to the national debt in the last fiscal year was roughly $1400 Billion. So even whacking defense to $0 still wouldn't pay for health care for anyone.
The projections for increases in expenditures in the U.S. budget for entitlements, that other 2/3's of the budget, is expected to far outstrip the U.S. ability to tax enough to pay for.
Anyhow, of the roughly $700 Billion in defense, about $400 is appropriations, i.e., material like trucks, tanks, bullets, ships, the sort of stuff that wears out, etc. The rest is for personnel. Let's guess for the sake of argument we can whack $200 Billion of that. That'd be $200 Billion that won't be going to help employ the people producing the material. And there'd be the ripple effect through the economy. So you wouldn't even be saving the $200 Billion. Also, don't forget that China is building a large blue water navy...those nice well-adjusted Chinese wouldn't think on leaning upon anyone with that Navy, now would they?
If you want to cut defense, let's start by the mission first, then see what we need to cover. That's sounds sensible. Except that Japan and Korea pretty much cover the U.S. expense for the troops, ships, and planes we use there. Taiwan buys a lot of big ticket defense items from the U.S., no savings there. That would leave Europe. Now, that's an arena ripe for plucking. Their defense budgets are tiny compared to their requirements. The U.S. makes up the difference. My thought is that a people not willing to defend themselves isn't worth defending. Let's start by pulling troops and bases out of Europe.
We could save a few Billion by telling Pakistan we don't like them any longer and since the feeling is mutual, we'll be supporting India from now on. India pays its way, still a few billion is a few billion.
Could try the same with Egypt, except if that pushes the country into the loving hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and their dream of the Final Solution to their Jewish Problem...in which case, we'll be sending Israel a lot more aid.
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Not only that, China lusts after Iranian oil. It would be in their interest to have a nuclear powered Iran since then they'd have more oil to export. China might feel it can get away with that policy since the Uighurs are Sunni, not Shi'ite and so are unlikely to be supported by Iran.
"Clearly Apple won but it's not as if one direction is obviously superior to the other from an objective viewpoint."
I'm not sure about that. I would think a small screen is simply not going to lend itself to head-shrunken Windows. The size changes the paradigm, that's what Apple got but they didn't get it in a flash. It came because the way music is bought for iPods. Music, to Apple, is mere software. People seem to like a lot of choices as long as they are well organized. That's the problem with the Windows world, it isn't well organized. It's a polyglot that makes most owners scared to death they might have to upgrade their OS. Apple figured out it was the closed garden that makes owners feel safe from the horrors only an OS screwup can inflict.
That said, Apple's machines are not for geeks who revel in a freewheeling environment because they know how to navigate it. Instead of a horror they see an interesting challenge. MS has corrupted that experience, Linux is attempting to give it back. But then Linux runs up against the mass market which doesn't care about computer challenges. So the trick for the Android devices will be to neuter the free-wheeling environment that scared the hell out of most people yet still allow for a geek-appeal to get under hood. The later will help encourage apps to be produced for it...as long as those apps don't reopen the box of horrors users do not want.
Apple's old MPW suite did this for its unix like shell scripts. It was called Commando. For any cli command, you could call up its alter ego as a dialog box where you could click radio buttons, check boxes, enter apropos text, etc. In an editable text field, it would build up your command as you manipulated the dialog box. When you were done, you could hit the run button or copy/paste the constructed cli command in another window and execute it.
If I ever get some time, I intend to build something similar for the unix shell for those of us who would rather eat a broom than remember arcane unix cli command with their flags, etc. For bonus points, one could use the old Prograph (now called Marten, but they appear to have made no updates since 2008) dataflow paradigm to wire together cli commands and thus have complete graphical scripting language.
Allah is one weird entity. Apparently, under traditional Muslim belief, Allah is so other that one can never communicate with It directly. Errr...so how do they explain Muhammad? Dunno. Anyhow, Muslims are fond of saying "if Allah wills it" to apply to any of their wishes. Okay, so..this Allah entity, he apparently willed Jews to create modern Israel? Or the Saudi royal family? Or forces making Muslims "victims" in the modern world? The schism between Sunnis and Shi'ites? What about the Alawis, Sufis, or any of the other innumerable Islamic sects?
If Allah is so just, how to explain the status of women in the Islamic world? What about the infidels? Islam is supposed to be a tolerant religion. Okay, where are the Christian churches in Saudi Arabia or the Jewish Temples? How come the Ba'hai are persecuted in Iran? What's with the Fatwas for killing whomever the Fatwa-er deems deserving of death? If Allah is It's cracked up to be, how come It cannot defend Its own turf and must rely on Muslims to do Its dirty work? And if It is so other, how can Muslims be relied on to interpret what It wants?
C'mon, no one it their right mind thinks taking out any surface structures supporting Iran's nuclear activity is going to prevent them from building the Shi'ite Peace Maker Bomb of Allah. Neither the U.S. nor Israel thinks this is possible. All the "leaks" are just rattle Iran's cage. There's no taking out Iran's nuclear ability and everyone knows it. Everything from here on out is either attempting to delay their ability to produce their pathetic attempt at showing they aren't a bunch of Big Swinging Dicks or deal with the consequences. What do they think they Arab regimes will respond with? A collective bow down in the direction of Tehran or nukes of their own? In 20 years, we'll have a nuclear armed Gulf grinning at each other while they sharpen their missiles. Some idiot on the Shi'ite side, begging for the return of the 12th Imam, will push the button...first at Israel. And then, after the Arabs realize this means the potential victory of Shi'ism over Sunnism, they'll push their own button. And all will die satisfied they've killed more Jews than Hilter and Stalin combined. A pox on the lotl of them.
"June 24, 2012" Hey, yer right, isn't this close to the date on the Mayan Calendar when... when... err... something really, really BIG will happen. Coincidence? I think not.
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I doubt it has anything to do with Adobe. It is probably simply yet another MS screwup that was reported to upper management as an Java insecurity and their marketing machine took over.
I happen to be in charge of our government IT policy. I will henceforth dictate that all government departments' IT policy be fixed to accomodate Oracle products henceforth. There, howzzat?
To date, Oracle is only suing Google for creating Near Java, I'm a bit fuzzy about how they feel they are entitled to do this given Google isn't using any Sun tech but then Oracle is probably fuzzy on this point as well. Anyhow, how many organizations are producing Java versions? Why should yer basic Fortune 500 give a rat's ass about Oracle suing for mutant Java implementations when all they doing is using either Oracle's or IBM's version? And IBM just bent over to receive the Uncle Larry's teenie weenie to preserve them from having their license revoked in 2015 when it comes due to renewal. If IBM had any balls, they'd have told Uncle Larry to stick it where the Sun don't shine, remove Oracle IP, and fork the damn thing.
Maybe you should try OS X, it has had a Terminal app since the beginning, unix command lines...go crazy!!
Said by someone totally clueless:
1. End the wars. Yep, let the Taliban finish building their Caliphate so they can finally send us those nukes you aren't worried about.
2. End Dept. of X. Okay, let's start with Health and Human Services, we don't need no stinking FDA making sure those nice drug companies are fielding half-tested drugs on the pop. They also house the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because, well, we'll just outlaw flu outbreaks, e-coli outbreaks, etc. The list continues....Medicare and Medicare, let Grandma fend for her old ass herself. How about Social Security Administration, those blue hairs don't need their checks, we'll use them to cut down the deficit.
3. Eliminate the Deficit...well said, let it be gone!! Hear, hear, now how are you going to change the laws that made the social promises that are driving the deficit?
Grow the fuck up.
Damn, you are right, if software didn't have bugs, we wouldn't have such severe security issues. I propose we ban software bugs from now on, call your senator, call your congresscritter; we can do this!!
Sweet spot? Between iPhone and Android? The iPhone is geared toward consumers and Android toward business, at least if I read the reviews correctly. There's a sweet spot between consumers and business? Why would I want a phone integrated with Office? I'm somehow going to edit PPTs, .docs, and spreadsheets? Maybe you mean with the calendar? That's some integration you have there.
You wish to port games between the Xbox360 and a phone?
"This means it's going to be the game changer and has a really good possibility of getting a significant market share in the mobile market."
Oh, I get it, you are from the marketing dept. at MS.
"I wonder what IBM has on Oracle?" Business respectability. No one in their right mind trusts Oracle further than they can spit a two-headed rat. IBM is similar. However, if you have two two-headed rats, you, as a PHB, can buttress your choice of Java + Database + business application software as being dual sourced. Without IBM, its Oracle and their dumb lawsuit against Google. Few organizations would attempt what Google has done with using the language but not the infrastructure. But yer basic PHB won't see that, they'll see Java + lawsuit. Oracle's lawyers convinced the idiots at Oracle, errr....Uncle Larry...that Beeelllions can be made by knackering Google or that Google, left to its own devices, might find a way to supplant Oracle's DBs with Cloudiness. Put yourself in Uncle Larry's position. You see the world in us vs. them. The bigger the Them, the bigger the threat because they might just find a way to stick in a pin in your revenues and suck them dry. Yeah, I know, it isn't a particularly nuanced view, but then Uncle Larry didn't get Oracle to be in the position it is in by being nuanced.
So about now, Oracle realized they've probably screwed the pooch deep enough and are attempting to pull it out a bit...just for aesthetic purposes.
I think it more a case of MS lowering expectations. Of the three, RIM, Google, or Apple, Apple is likely the easiest one for the spokesbots at MS to claim victories over. Once they claim those, then they'll be looking towards Google and RIM. Maybe we'll get to see some new dirty tricks from MS this time instead of the tired old ones we've seen in the past.
How many Western nations put an inmate's wife under house arrest because the poor fellow won a Nobel Peace Prize? How many Western nations get a burr up their ass because one of their own citizens won a Nobel Peace Prize? How many Western nations are run by a one party dictatorship which has state controlled industries? There once was at least one, but then the rest of West showed on no uncertain terms precisely what they thought of it.
Yep, until they start voting and decide the south western states should revert to Mexico...nope, not an invasion....
Nonsense, we send Carter around the world to talk to them. Last time, we sent him to N. Korea and the N. Koreans were not amused: "Hey, running capitalist pig dogs, this not funny you send Carter here; next time, we kill you with a thousand deaths."
The U.S. promptly apologized and promised never to send him again...
The U.S. did not passively allow the Japanese to conduct the bombing. They were under no illusions as to Japan's intent to start a war after the embargo instituted because of Japan had a tendency to invade its neighbors. The U.S. did figure that if the Japanese started something, it was likely to be in the Philippines or Singapore. The U.S. wasn't stupid enough to hand over the fleet in Pearl Harbor just to get into WWII. Pearl Harbor was considered safe due to its distance. The U.S. miscalculated what the Japanese carriers were capable of doing. However, at that time, there had never been a carrier war; it was brand new weapon that no one really knew how to fit into their military doctrine. The Japanese winged it; it worked...for a short time...and then it didn't.
I'm not sure if the citizens are all that scared. I don't think they trust their government, but they appear to be quite nationalistic. The majority are likely to think that social harmony trumps civil liberty and that a foreign entity threatening that by appearing to insert themselves into internal Chinese affair isn't welcomed.
It is possible that the Chinese government will overplay the "foreign influence" angle. After all, this is a government that gets their bloomers in a knot when the Falun Gong do ballet in public places. It isn't as though the government is well-adjusted and, not being elected and essentially secular, they worry about a lack of legitimacy. No elections to give them a mandate or feedback and no gods to smile at them from the heavens means they are essentially operating blind. All they can do is whack away at perceived threats and attempt to keep up the facade of boldly marching into the future by focusing the military towards their eventual conquering of Taiwan.
Over at TheRegister, he's known as Captain Cyborg. They appear to have stopping putting up articles about him. I sorely miss reading about the insane antics of the Captain.
They do, it is called the Congressional Budget Office. They run spreadsheets and analysis on just about everything Congress does. They also write human readable versions of bills before Congress. Generally, they are a respectable bunch although I sometimes think they as susceptible to Rosy Scenario, that temptress of all things bureaucratic. The proposal would have to be written up as a bill, but frankly, that is the only sensible way because the plan as written by the CEOs is going to be deficient in several areas. Of course, that is were the fun starts with The Porkos attempting to turn it into a feeding frenzy.
Yes, it is shameful. However, one must have a proper perspective. U.S. defense budget for the new year (not yet approved) is about $720 Billion. The budget deficit added to the national debt in the last fiscal year was roughly $1400 Billion. So even whacking defense to $0 still wouldn't pay for health care for anyone.
The projections for increases in expenditures in the U.S. budget for entitlements, that other 2/3's of the budget, is expected to far outstrip the U.S. ability to tax enough to pay for.
Anyhow, of the roughly $700 Billion in defense, about $400 is appropriations, i.e., material like trucks, tanks, bullets, ships, the sort of stuff that wears out, etc. The rest is for personnel. Let's guess for the sake of argument we can whack $200 Billion of that. That'd be $200 Billion that won't be going to help employ the people producing the material. And there'd be the ripple effect through the economy. So you wouldn't even be saving the $200 Billion. Also, don't forget that China is building a large blue water navy...those nice well-adjusted Chinese wouldn't think on leaning upon anyone with that Navy, now would they?
If you want to cut defense, let's start by the mission first, then see what we need to cover. That's sounds sensible. Except that Japan and Korea pretty much cover the U.S. expense for the troops, ships, and planes we use there. Taiwan buys a lot of big ticket defense items from the U.S., no savings there. That would leave Europe. Now, that's an arena ripe for plucking. Their defense budgets are tiny compared to their requirements. The U.S. makes up the difference. My thought is that a people not willing to defend themselves isn't worth defending. Let's start by pulling troops and bases out of Europe.
We could save a few Billion by telling Pakistan we don't like them any longer and since the feeling is mutual, we'll be supporting India from now on. India pays its way, still a few billion is a few billion.
Could try the same with Egypt, except if that pushes the country into the loving hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and their dream of the Final Solution to their Jewish Problem...in which case, we'll be sending Israel a lot more aid.
Siemens is on record as stating they have never sold equipment to Iran and presumes they got it through third parties.
Not only that, China lusts after Iranian oil. It would be in their interest to have a nuclear powered Iran since then they'd have more oil to export. China might feel it can get away with that policy since the Uighurs are Sunni, not Shi'ite and so are unlikely to be supported by Iran.
"Clearly Apple won but it's not as if one direction is obviously superior to the other from an objective viewpoint."
I'm not sure about that. I would think a small screen is simply not going to lend itself to head-shrunken Windows. The size changes the paradigm, that's what Apple got but they didn't get it in a flash. It came because the way music is bought for iPods. Music, to Apple, is mere software. People seem to like a lot of choices as long as they are well organized. That's the problem with the Windows world, it isn't well organized. It's a polyglot that makes most owners scared to death they might have to upgrade their OS. Apple figured out it was the closed garden that makes owners feel safe from the horrors only an OS screwup can inflict.
That said, Apple's machines are not for geeks who revel in a freewheeling environment because they know how to navigate it. Instead of a horror they see an interesting challenge. MS has corrupted that experience, Linux is attempting to give it back. But then Linux runs up against the mass market which doesn't care about computer challenges. So the trick for the Android devices will be to neuter the free-wheeling environment that scared the hell out of most people yet still allow for a geek-appeal to get under hood. The later will help encourage apps to be produced for it...as long as those apps don't reopen the box of horrors users do not want.
What makes you think MS will attempt to honestly compete in the slate/phone market? I expect they'll use the same tools they used in the PC market.
Apple's old MPW suite did this for its unix like shell scripts. It was called Commando. For any cli command, you could call up its alter ego as a dialog box where you could click radio buttons, check boxes, enter apropos text, etc. In an editable text field, it would build up your command as you manipulated the dialog box. When you were done, you could hit the run button or copy/paste the constructed cli command in another window and execute it.
If I ever get some time, I intend to build something similar for the unix shell for those of us who would rather eat a broom than remember arcane unix cli command with their flags, etc. For bonus points, one could use the old Prograph (now called Marten, but they appear to have made no updates since 2008) dataflow paradigm to wire together cli commands and thus have complete graphical scripting language.
Allah is one weird entity. Apparently, under traditional Muslim belief, Allah is so other that one can never communicate with It directly. Errr...so how do they explain Muhammad? Dunno. Anyhow, Muslims are fond of saying "if Allah wills it" to apply to any of their wishes. Okay, so..this Allah entity, he apparently willed Jews to create modern Israel? Or the Saudi royal family? Or forces making Muslims "victims" in the modern world? The schism between Sunnis and Shi'ites? What about the Alawis, Sufis, or any of the other innumerable Islamic sects?
If Allah is so just, how to explain the status of women in the Islamic world? What about the infidels? Islam is supposed to be a tolerant religion. Okay, where are the Christian churches in Saudi Arabia or the Jewish Temples? How come the Ba'hai are persecuted in Iran? What's with the Fatwas for killing whomever the Fatwa-er deems deserving of death? If Allah is It's cracked up to be, how come It cannot defend Its own turf and must rely on Muslims to do Its dirty work? And if It is so other, how can Muslims be relied on to interpret what It wants?
C'mon, no one it their right mind thinks taking out any surface structures supporting Iran's nuclear activity is going to prevent them from building the Shi'ite Peace Maker Bomb of Allah. Neither the U.S. nor Israel thinks this is possible. All the "leaks" are just rattle Iran's cage. There's no taking out Iran's nuclear ability and everyone knows it. Everything from here on out is either attempting to delay their ability to produce their pathetic attempt at showing they aren't a bunch of Big Swinging Dicks or deal with the consequences. What do they think they Arab regimes will respond with? A collective bow down in the direction of Tehran or nukes of their own? In 20 years, we'll have a nuclear armed Gulf grinning at each other while they sharpen their missiles. Some idiot on the Shi'ite side, begging for the return of the 12th Imam, will push the button...first at Israel. And then, after the Arabs realize this means the potential victory of Shi'ism over Sunnism, they'll push their own button. And all will die satisfied they've killed more Jews than Hilter and Stalin combined. A pox on the lotl of them.
"June 24, 2012" Hey, yer right, isn't this close to the date on the Mayan Calendar when ... when ... err ... something really, really BIG will happen. Coincidence? I think not.