On my machine, every single userspace program runs with a different uid. No program has read or write permissions to any other program's data. And that's just one line of defence. And for people that run everything as themselves, there is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor"> apparmor that will effectively do the same thing.
Looking at this company and then looking at Nokia and saying they're relationships map 1:1 vis a vis Microsoft because they're both "partners" is laughable.
tl;dr "gold microsoft partner" = pure marketing spiel.
There is a difference between writing a plugin for VS and partnering with Microsoft. If you are thinking the former is what we are talking about then the conversation loses all meaning as you could make the argument that simply using Office is "partnering". I'm happy for Beckhoff Automation but comparing their experiences with Novell, Nokia, Sendo, et al is a bit of a reach.
From the licensing that other vendors such as HTC have done with MS it is pretty clear that they do have some patents that apply. So B&N needs to license them like everyone else.
That is an absurd argument. The fact that HTC et al have deals with MS means jack concerning the validity of these patents. You have no idea what circumstances surrounded the licensing deals between MS and those other vendors. Any legal department at a major corp. that just says "everybody else is doing it (licensing) so we should too" thus giving up a major competitive advantage like using the free operating system Android, should be summarily fired.
This late in what game? The streaming video game? Ahem, Youtube. And furthermore, as has been shown many many times, predicting the outcome of business competition based on when the particular participants chose to get in is completely futile. Apple was late to the smartphone game. Microsoft was late to the GUI game. Facebook was late to the social networking game. None of that mattered. They came in with compelling services/products and spanked the competition. Your contention that Google is "too late" is laughable.
That's not what you said. There is a difference between being aware of competitive realities and slavishly aping somebody else's product whilst maybe adding +1 to the end of each checkbox. You implied that if Google doesn't do the latter, they are not "competing".
You weren't just doing a simple comparison. You were implying that if this Youtube thing doesn't have $NETFLIX_FEATURE_1, $NETFLIX_FEATURE_2, and $NETFLIX_FEATURE_3, then Google is not competing with Netflix. That's just laughable.
And it will fail since what Netflix offers clearly seems to be what customers want since they also have more customers than even a larger cable company.
That's nonsense. I don't doubt that Netflix is a compelling service, however, it is not the be all end all of movie and television delivery. You are saying that because Netflix is popular that it will always be so. Uh, hello? IBM, DEC, Sun, Chrysler, and thousands to millions of others.
I think that any service/good that competes with anything else brings its own mix of features and limitations that may or may not map 1:1 with what is already available. Netflix did not do what Blockbuster did. We saw the result. This will probably be different from what Netflix does. Competition is good.
How many movies? In what release window? will they be in HD? Will my xbox/PS3/blu-ray player support their streaming? Will they mail physical copies of movies that aren't available for streaming to my mailbox within 24-hours? What's the monthly fee?
Until these and many more questions are answered, I wouldn't call them a Netflix competitor at all.
So, you think that in order for someone to compete, they must clone the incumbent? I'll bet Blockbuster, Tower Records, Hollywood Video, et al wished that were true.
I personally don't care if WebM is inferior, superior, on par, or whatever. I like competition. Seems to be working for web browsers finally. Why not streaming codecs? What is it about competition that scares you?
Heh heh. I added the Linux wedge by finding two parts of the network that could only communicate one way (don't ask) and setting up an ssh reverse tunnel so I could mount all of the cifs shares on a Linux box on one end and then access them from the other Linux box on the other side. Could it have been done another way? Sure. But where's the fun in that. And I have two Linux boxes at work strutting their stuff now.
Using HTML5 would limit it to a smaller subset of viewers than Silverlight.
Bull. Practically every platform in existence has a browser for it that can play the <video> tag. Silverlight works on 2 platforms only and it is proprietary to boot.
Considering that's probably 98% of the machines in use it's a non-issue,
During version 6's heyday, IE had almost that amount of marketshare Browser innovation by Microsoft came to a grinding halt for years. Cool progressive technologies like svg support? Fuggedaboutit. Fast javascript engine? Yeah, right. You wouldn't want to make the browser too powerful right? Might usurp some of the need for, you know, a particular desktop operating system. Fortunately, Firefox got some traction and now we have a very healthy browser market with newer and more advanced capabilities coming down the pike all the time. Why go back to the bad old days of the internet? The argument that, "well, it works on Winders and mcintosh" isn't good enough. It wasn't good enough then and it isn't now.
Moonlight is there for Linux, and if it doesn't work, well you can just grab the source and fix it yourself.
Moonlight is not Silverlight. If I want to fix Word, it isn't going to help me to get the source code for notepad. And that's about where you stand with moonlight vs silverlight.
Wow, get over yourself. The fact that MS is using something as sacred as Feynman's lectures to peddle their silverlight lock-in is just scandalous. I hope you and your ilk are being paid well.
Its not Microsofts fault your particular setup doesn't work
It's not a question of whose fault it is. The bottom line is this is just another internet grab from MS. We just got out from under "This website only works in internet explorer" now you expect us to get right back into an MS only web? Yeah, right.
Wow, using a free browser addon that has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux
That's interesting. Because, you see, I just went here, was told my browser was not officially supported so I should go here and install moonlight. Okay, cool, so I do it and go back to here. Guess what. No lecture. That's some support.
I don't think I'd enjoy your Internet very much.
My html5 open standards based internet is fantastic, thank you very much. Works on my iPhone, my Xoom, my Ubuntu netbook, my Ubuntu desktop, and my Droid smartphone. Have fun playing with your silverflash.
Really? I need to "get a life"? I went to the site was kindly informed that my browser/os wasn't supported and given a link to the moonlight download. Just for fun, I clicked it and installed it. Then I navigated back to the feynman microsoft site. Guess what. It still doesn't work. You get a life.
I've been doing a lot of web development lately with aptana which basically is eclipse just with a whole bunch of web-by add-ons and plugins. I must say that it is the best experience I've ever had with an ide for this kind of work. Supports code completion for jquery, dojo, plain javascript, css, html and a whole lot more out of the box. Add in some vi keybindings and I'm in dev heaven. Not sure if it will impress anyone's co-workers but it sure makes writing web pages fun.
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On my machine, every single userspace program runs with a different uid. No program has read or write permissions to any other program's data. And that's just one line of defence. And for people that run everything as themselves, there is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor"> apparmor that will effectively do the same thing.
Um, Beckhoff is a gold microsoft partner,
Looking at this company and then looking at Nokia and saying they're relationships map 1:1 vis a vis Microsoft because they're both "partners" is laughable.
tl;dr
"gold microsoft partner" = pure marketing spiel.
There is a difference between writing a plugin for VS and partnering with Microsoft. If you are thinking the former is what we are talking about then the conversation loses all meaning as you could make the argument that simply using Office is "partnering". I'm happy for Beckhoff Automation but comparing their experiences with Novell, Nokia, Sendo, et al is a bit of a reach.
Microsoft has had versions of Windows running on ARM now for 15 years
Yeah, I know! I love running Windows on my phone. I was just about to edit some photos with Photoshop on my HTC HD2 running Windows Mobi... wait
From the licensing that other vendors such as HTC have done with MS it is pretty clear that they do have some patents that apply. So B&N needs to license them like everyone else.
That is an absurd argument. The fact that HTC et al have deals with MS means jack concerning the validity of these patents. You have no idea what circumstances surrounded the licensing deals between MS and those other vendors. Any legal department at a major corp. that just says "everybody else is doing it (licensing) so we should too" thus giving up a major competitive advantage like using the free operating system Android, should be summarily fired.
If your Linux box is hanging regularly, you have a hardware problem. Putting Windows on there is not going to change that.
This late in what game? The streaming video game? Ahem, Youtube. And furthermore, as has been shown many many times, predicting the outcome of business competition based on when the particular participants chose to get in is completely futile. Apple was late to the smartphone game. Microsoft was late to the GUI game. Facebook was late to the social networking game. None of that mattered. They came in with compelling services/products and spanked the competition. Your contention that Google is "too late" is laughable.
That's not what you said. There is a difference between being aware of competitive realities and slavishly aping somebody else's product whilst maybe adding +1 to the end of each checkbox. You implied that if Google doesn't do the latter, they are not "competing".
Hulu has crap content compared to Netflix. I'm sure Google realizes this and will hopefully address it with their offering.
You weren't just doing a simple comparison. You were implying that if this Youtube thing doesn't have $NETFLIX_FEATURE_1, $NETFLIX_FEATURE_2, and $NETFLIX_FEATURE_3, then Google is not competing with Netflix. That's just laughable.
And it will fail since what Netflix offers clearly seems to be what customers want since they also have more customers than even a larger cable company.
That's nonsense. I don't doubt that Netflix is a compelling service, however, it is not the be all end all of movie and television delivery. You are saying that because Netflix is popular that it will always be so. Uh, hello? IBM, DEC, Sun, Chrysler, and thousands to millions of others.
I think that any service/good that competes with anything else brings its own mix of features and limitations that may or may not map 1:1 with what is already available. Netflix did not do what Blockbuster did. We saw the result. This will probably be different from what Netflix does. Competition is good.
How many movies? In what release window? will they be in HD? Will my xbox/PS3/blu-ray player support their streaming? Will they mail physical copies of movies that aren't available for streaming to my mailbox within 24-hours? What's the monthly fee?
Until these and many more questions are answered, I wouldn't call them a Netflix competitor at all.
So, you think that in order for someone to compete, they must clone the incumbent? I'll bet Blockbuster, Tower Records, Hollywood Video, et al wished that were true.
I personally don't care if WebM is inferior, superior, on par, or whatever. I like competition. Seems to be working for web browsers finally. Why not streaming codecs? What is it about competition that scares you?
Heh heh. I added the Linux wedge by finding two parts of the network that could only communicate one way (don't ask) and setting up an ssh reverse tunnel so I could mount all of the cifs shares on a Linux box on one end and then access them from the other Linux box on the other side. Could it have been done another way? Sure. But where's the fun in that. And I have two Linux boxes at work strutting their stuff now.
Using HTML5 would limit it to a smaller subset of viewers than Silverlight.
Bull. Practically every platform in existence has a browser for it that can play the <video> tag. Silverlight works on 2 platforms only and it is proprietary to boot.
I'm a consultant ... gibberish ...
Wow, no kidding.
Please take your meds.
Considering that's probably 98% of the machines in use it's a non-issue,
During version 6's heyday, IE had almost that amount of marketshare Browser innovation by Microsoft came to a grinding halt for years. Cool progressive technologies like svg support? Fuggedaboutit. Fast javascript engine? Yeah, right. You wouldn't want to make the browser too powerful right? Might usurp some of the need for, you know, a particular desktop operating system. Fortunately, Firefox got some traction and now we have a very healthy browser market with newer and more advanced capabilities coming down the pike all the time. Why go back to the bad old days of the internet? The argument that, "well, it works on Winders and mcintosh" isn't good enough. It wasn't good enough then and it isn't now.
Moonlight is there for Linux, and if it doesn't work, well you can just grab the source and fix it yourself.
Moonlight is not Silverlight. If I want to fix Word, it isn't going to help me to get the source code for notepad. And that's about where you stand with moonlight vs silverlight.
Wow, get over yourself. The fact that MS is using something as sacred as Feynman's lectures to peddle their silverlight lock-in is just scandalous. I hope you and your ilk are being paid well.
Its not Microsofts fault your particular setup doesn't work
It's not a question of whose fault it is. The bottom line is this is just another internet grab from MS. We just got out from under "This website only works in internet explorer" now you expect us to get right back into an MS only web? Yeah, right.
Wow, using a free browser addon that has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux
That's interesting. Because, you see, I just went here, was told my browser was not officially supported so I should go here and install moonlight. Okay, cool, so I do it and go back to here. Guess what. No lecture. That's some support.
I don't think I'd enjoy your Internet very much.
My html5 open standards based internet is fantastic, thank you very much. Works on my iPhone, my Xoom, my Ubuntu netbook, my Ubuntu desktop, and my Droid smartphone. Have fun playing with your silverflash.
Really? I need to "get a life"? I went to the site was kindly informed that my browser/os wasn't supported and given a link to the moonlight download. Just for fun, I clicked it and installed it. Then I navigated back to the feynman microsoft site. Guess what. It still doesn't work. You get a life.
You know what else was a free download? IE6.
I've been doing a lot of web development lately with aptana which basically is eclipse just with a whole bunch of web-by add-ons and plugins. I must say that it is the best experience I've ever had with an ide for this kind of work. Supports code completion for jquery, dojo, plain javascript, css, html and a whole lot more out of the box. Add in some vi keybindings and I'm in dev heaven. Not sure if it will impress anyone's co-workers but it sure makes writing web pages fun.