If what video format works in the most browser is the metric to determine what format content providers will use, then I guess everybody would be using Flash, which has a 90%+ installation base. If you want to also target mobile devices and internet-aware TVs or media centers, you might as well just use H.264, since it works just fine in Flash.
IMHO, Google's move disrupts this slow but precious momentum of migrating away from Flash to HTML5 with H.264, mainly driven by the new user agents such as mobile browsers. It's sad to see again the big G might change the course of history in a bad way despite potentially good will.
There can be other possibilities. For example, some devices may not support encrypted Wi-Fi. Or I have a friend visiting and I would not want to share the password with him and decide to temporarily disable encryption. Or maybe I am sure my neighbors are far enough away from me. Or maybe I am technically incapable of getting encryption to work properly. Not enabling encryption does not mean I want you to sniff my data, even small pieces of it.
Making something possible to be accessed by public is not the same as making something public. Would you be happy if a company systematically analyze all your postcards and get to know address of your friends? If I have backyard with very high concrete walls, I might walk naked in my backyard. People can still sneak with the help of a ladder. It's not only possible but also easy, but common sense tells us it's unlikely someone would spend the time and money doing that. But you sure won't be comfortable if a company builds a lot of 30-ft robots and lets them walk around your neighborhood with cameras around their head. Sure the robot will only stay a few seconds around your house, and you might not happen to be naked when it comes. But would you be OK with that?
I am also wondering what would happen when WEP is trivial to break. If Google were to integrate the WEP-cracking code into its streetview cars to make it more powerful, would people think that is OK? Would people assume that everybody in the world including every grandma online should be aware of weakness of WEP and be capable enough to upgrade all devices to use something less sniffable?
I am not saying Google is wrong in this case. I am saying sniffing Wi-Fi data in general is wrong, no matter if it is on open or encrypted network. Google chose to remove face pictures of people around strip club. By the same logic, they should also not have collected Wi-Fi data even it is publicly accessible.
When an industrial standard is dominant with implementation from different vendors (think WWW, JPEG, ODF, XMPP and even PDF), there is interoperability and better security through diversity. When a single product dominates (think Flash, Windows), we bring "write once, play everywhere" to malicious code writers.
The mobile web is getting an increasingly larger chunk of the pie. And in the predictable feature, the majority of the mobile web will be not flash-capable (think iPhone OS, the majority of Symbian). So, no, flash is not "write once, play everywhere" any longer.
I work for a research lab in a university and we do a lot of scientific computing and webapp development. Here it is UNIX variants and only UNIX variants. We use Debian Linux on our clusters, Mac OS X or Debian Linux on my Mac Pro or Mac Mini desktops. Knowledge about C/C++ and scripting languages is very important. We are recently interviewing candidates for an opening, and it is very sad to see people who cannot code without IDE and who think building the binary is equivalent to clicking the little button on the toolbar. If education needs to do one thing, then that should be to give students a broader view instead of limiting them to some false impressions. In that sense, UNIX is a much better tool because of its rich history and active development.
I don't think it is true. After Jail-breaking it, you can run OpenSSh server in the background. It is the the OS-level limitation, but constraint set at a higher level.
for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself - something "Mac OS X Spotlight' has been doing for a while.
I turned on the feature on Safari to never delete history, so that I could always find an article I read last month on fossils of mammoth.
Dell do not need an existing standard to start selling Linux Desktops. Dell only need to make a decision on what is the default: a default distro, and a default desktop environment. They do not need to support every single distro or desktop environment or editor or browser under the sun, just the default.
Anybody having special requirements on distro or desktop environment or anything will pretty much be able to figure out how to customize their own environment. This will also create a huge amount of opportunities for third-party support providers, which is good for business and open source.
No kidding, when I open this post, the first thing I see is the "Wow" ad, and "getting windows vista today". Bet it's context-sensitive ad targetting in the worst example.
Why bother with the virtualization when you can throw a hundred bucks and get a second-hand PC for windows? Oh wait, you cannot use it with Vista either.
That hack needs the user himself to install suicide spoof extensions/plugins. Since we trust the users, it should not be a concern.
Good to know the problem has already been fixed.
I think it can be solved by Google checking HTTP referer before sending out the contact list via JSON, as long as the browser does not use cached content.
Why give them another 8 days? Isn't it a long time since the last "warning"? The whole give-you-another-two-year thing is stupid. Look at what happened in US. If they do not cooperate, apply *heavy* tax on every windows sales. This is another way to give advantage to competitors. When MS is trying to kill competitors and refuse to cooperate, you can *help* competitors to effectively reverse the situation.
Microsoft owns more than 90% of the worldwide operating systems market (compared with Apple's roughly 5%), representing some 300 million people. The company expects to have 200 million Vista users within two years.
In relevant news, Microsoft owns more than 99.999% of the worldwide computer virus market (compared with Apple's exactly 0%), representing some 4 million computer viruses. The company expects to have 3 million Vista viruses within two years.
Do we have a chance that the major vendors are linux-friendly this time? considering more and more of their own products are now based on Linux, such as Sony's Mylo.
do not and probably will never install bootcamp, at least not for Windows. I have a MacBook, and I CAN install bootcamp, but that does not mean I WILL install one. These stupid arrogant people should realize there will be less and less people dependent on M$'s crappy products, and there will be more and more people realizing there are better choices. It is just at this transition time when Apple wants to give its customers a choice. It's like having Rosetta built in the Intel Mac: having Rosetta on Intel Mac is not saying Intel Mac and PowerPC Mac are "experiences as being completely separate for quite some time"; it's needed for a smooth transition from yesterday's Mac to a today's Mac.
How is it different from OpenGL? Why don't MSFT simple submit a proposal to extend OpenGL in a open way? It seems MSFT will never learn to play openly.
There is nothing called "Linux HPC Programmer" or "Windows HPC Programmer". HPC has been, is, and will be the area of progammers of C, FORTRAN and some other special-purpose languages. There is no need for GUI, or.NET, or anything else M$ offers for general-purpose programming. Actually, there are so many things only available on UNIX and X11, like special-purpose visualization programs built on X11. If there are some "Windows HPC Programmers", there are much less of them than there are "Linux HPC Programmer", and since it requires so much expertise to port so many special-purpose UNIX-only tools, I bet they will be much much more expensive, too.
Programming tool is not something that can make a difference in this case. Having worked on supporting non-computer engineering people to write HPC programs, I know a lot mechanical engineering people writing programs on Windows, upload it to the cluster, sometimes via nice web interface, and get them compiled to automation tools.
There are 2 types of HPC programmers: computer experts and engineering/science people. For the computer experts who mainly support the engineering/science people in writing parallel programs and who write tools to simplify the use of HPC, most of them are all real geeks and know the UNIX way of doing things is much much more effecient; and for the engineering/science people, you cannot say letting them to learn VS 200x is something easy.
Sorry, MSFT, but HPC is the field having a high concentration of UNIX people and is the field that you way of cheap programming might not work.
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If what video format works in the most browser is the metric to determine what format content providers will use, then I guess everybody would be using Flash, which has a 90%+ installation base. If you want to also target mobile devices and internet-aware TVs or media centers, you might as well just use H.264, since it works just fine in Flash. IMHO, Google's move disrupts this slow but precious momentum of migrating away from Flash to HTML5 with H.264, mainly driven by the new user agents such as mobile browsers. It's sad to see again the big G might change the course of history in a bad way despite potentially good will.
Just like they were fairly confident in Delvik's chances against patent trolls.
In response to embrace, extend, extinguish, Google acquire, alter, and abort.
There can be other possibilities. For example, some devices may not support encrypted Wi-Fi. Or I have a friend visiting and I would not want to share the password with him and decide to temporarily disable encryption. Or maybe I am sure my neighbors are far enough away from me. Or maybe I am technically incapable of getting encryption to work properly. Not enabling encryption does not mean I want you to sniff my data, even small pieces of it. Making something possible to be accessed by public is not the same as making something public. Would you be happy if a company systematically analyze all your postcards and get to know address of your friends? If I have backyard with very high concrete walls, I might walk naked in my backyard. People can still sneak with the help of a ladder. It's not only possible but also easy, but common sense tells us it's unlikely someone would spend the time and money doing that. But you sure won't be comfortable if a company builds a lot of 30-ft robots and lets them walk around your neighborhood with cameras around their head. Sure the robot will only stay a few seconds around your house, and you might not happen to be naked when it comes. But would you be OK with that? I am also wondering what would happen when WEP is trivial to break. If Google were to integrate the WEP-cracking code into its streetview cars to make it more powerful, would people think that is OK? Would people assume that everybody in the world including every grandma online should be aware of weakness of WEP and be capable enough to upgrade all devices to use something less sniffable? I am not saying Google is wrong in this case. I am saying sniffing Wi-Fi data in general is wrong, no matter if it is on open or encrypted network. Google chose to remove face pictures of people around strip club. By the same logic, they should also not have collected Wi-Fi data even it is publicly accessible.
When an industrial standard is dominant with implementation from different vendors (think WWW, JPEG, ODF, XMPP and even PDF), there is interoperability and better security through diversity. When a single product dominates (think Flash, Windows), we bring "write once, play everywhere" to malicious code writers.
The mobile web is getting an increasingly larger chunk of the pie. And in the predictable feature, the majority of the mobile web will be not flash-capable (think iPhone OS, the majority of Symbian). So, no, flash is not "write once, play everywhere" any longer.
I work for a research lab in a university and we do a lot of scientific computing and webapp development. Here it is UNIX variants and only UNIX variants. We use Debian Linux on our clusters, Mac OS X or Debian Linux on my Mac Pro or Mac Mini desktops. Knowledge about C/C++ and scripting languages is very important. We are recently interviewing candidates for an opening, and it is very sad to see people who cannot code without IDE and who think building the binary is equivalent to clicking the little button on the toolbar. If education needs to do one thing, then that should be to give students a broader view instead of limiting them to some false impressions. In that sense, UNIX is a much better tool because of its rich history and active development.
Nothing to see here. Move on.
I don't think it is true. After Jail-breaking it, you can run OpenSSh server in the background. It is the the OS-level limitation, but constraint set at a higher level.
for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself - something "Mac OS X Spotlight' has been doing for a while. I turned on the feature on Safari to never delete history, so that I could always find an article I read last month on fossils of mammoth.
Now web developers will need to test two more assuredly incompatible browsers, IE8 standards mode and IE8 compatibility mode!
Dell do not need an existing standard to start selling Linux Desktops. Dell only need to make a decision on what is the default: a default distro, and a default desktop environment. They do not need to support every single distro or desktop environment or editor or browser under the sun, just the default. Anybody having special requirements on distro or desktop environment or anything will pretty much be able to figure out how to customize their own environment. This will also create a huge amount of opportunities for third-party support providers, which is good for business and open source.
Now it's the time switch to Cingular, and get and iPhone, to continue using my 3rd party applications. oh wait...
No kidding, when I open this post, the first thing I see is the "Wow" ad, and "getting windows vista today". Bet it's context-sensitive ad targetting in the worst example.
Why bother with the virtualization when you can throw a hundred bucks and get a second-hand PC for windows? Oh wait, you cannot use it with Vista either.
That hack needs the user himself to install suicide spoof extensions/plugins. Since we trust the users, it should not be a concern. Good to know the problem has already been fixed.
I think it can be solved by Google checking HTTP referer before sending out the contact list via JSON, as long as the browser does not use cached content.
Except for the name. It's nothing more than a tabbed toolbar, right? Bluefish has also been using similar design for years. http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots/main_win .png
Why give them another 8 days? Isn't it a long time since the last "warning"? The whole give-you-another-two-year thing is stupid. Look at what happened in US. If they do not cooperate, apply *heavy* tax on every windows sales. This is another way to give advantage to competitors. When MS is trying to kill competitors and refuse to cooperate, you can *help* competitors to effectively reverse the situation.
Do we have a chance that the major vendors are linux-friendly this time? considering more and more of their own products are now based on Linux, such as Sony's Mylo.
do not and probably will never install bootcamp, at least not for Windows. I have a MacBook, and I CAN install bootcamp, but that does not mean I WILL install one. These stupid arrogant people should realize there will be less and less people dependent on M$'s crappy products, and there will be more and more people realizing there are better choices. It is just at this transition time when Apple wants to give its customers a choice. It's like having Rosetta built in the Intel Mac: having Rosetta on Intel Mac is not saying Intel Mac and PowerPC Mac are "experiences as being completely separate for quite some time"; it's needed for a smooth transition from yesterday's Mac to a today's Mac.
Is the Ballmer the Chairman?
How is it different from OpenGL? Why don't MSFT simple submit a proposal to extend OpenGL in a open way? It seems MSFT will never learn to play openly.
There is nothing called "Linux HPC Programmer" or "Windows HPC Programmer". HPC has been, is, and will be the area of progammers of C, FORTRAN and some other special-purpose languages. There is no need for GUI, or .NET, or anything else M$ offers for general-purpose programming. Actually, there are so many things only available on UNIX and X11, like special-purpose visualization programs built on X11. If there are some "Windows HPC Programmers", there are much less of them than there are "Linux HPC Programmer", and since it requires so much expertise to port so many special-purpose UNIX-only tools, I bet they will be much much more expensive, too.
Programming tool is not something that can make a difference in this case. Having worked on supporting non-computer engineering people to write HPC programs, I know a lot mechanical engineering people writing programs on Windows, upload it to the cluster, sometimes via nice web interface, and get them compiled to automation tools.
There are 2 types of HPC programmers: computer experts and engineering/science people. For the computer experts who mainly support the engineering/science people in writing parallel programs and who write tools to simplify the use of HPC, most of them are all real geeks and know the UNIX way of doing things is much much more effecient; and for the engineering/science people, you cannot say letting them to learn VS 200x is something easy.
Sorry, MSFT, but HPC is the field having a high concentration of UNIX people and is the field that you way of cheap programming might not work.