At the time the Xbox 360 releases, there really won't even BE an HD-DVD standard. People that are truly vested in such a standard are NOT going to be swayed by a stupid gaming console. The standards war for this will be won by people buying high end, bleeding edge HD-DVD PLAYERS. Not consoles. If MS were to release whatever the current (wrong) format was at the time of the XBox 360 release, it'd be irrelevant inside of 3 months. Sure, it'd be NICE, if your cheap ass little XBox could play the latest, greatest HD movies, but that's not likely, considering the different time-scales of the console and REAL player releases.
So, have the guys that made Forza entered in this contest? Seems like they'd just ROAST all the other teams! Screw that 40 mph entry. I'm thinkin' more like powersliding at 110mph around a gravel road turn!!! Woot!
What in the world is so hard to pronounce about this, given that German is about the most phonetic language in the world? I think English speakers have become inappropriately gunshy of pronouncing new words due to misinterpreting their lineage. This isn't a French word, folks.
Actually, you should think about the "browser OS" concept slightly differently.. the object is not to recreate a client OS on the user's machine, but to, rather, create an environment on the user's machine that easily aggregates and can be targetted by the server the user accesses.
The day of "my app only knows about 'this' machine" is over. The compelling thing now is to be able to easily write applications that span multiple machines, or that are even machine independent... thing about it... do you want to perform whatever your job is in isolation, or do you want to just DO you job, which most likely involves others? And if it DOES involve others, do you want to be bothered with the intracacies of how the machine you use manages those dependencies?
Basically, the idea of "OS" needs to radically change... sure.. it's still a usefull abstraction for a single client, but for "rich client" browsers or whatever they eventually become, the conventional idea of "OS" is insufficient.
Just my $.02.
Except that SQL is nothing at ALL like XML... XML is a markup language, vs. SQL, which is a concrete expression language. I actually can barely understand your implied relationship between the two... SQL is a relatively static, industry defined syntax for performing database operations, while XML is a completely open-ended, schema based facility for defining basically ANY piece of knowledge.
In fact, I really can't comprehend why you'd even compare it to SQL...
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At the time the Xbox 360 releases, there really won't even BE an HD-DVD standard. People that are truly vested in such a standard are NOT going to be swayed by a stupid gaming console. The standards war for this will be won by people buying high end, bleeding edge HD-DVD PLAYERS. Not consoles. If MS were to release whatever the current (wrong) format was at the time of the XBox 360 release, it'd be irrelevant inside of 3 months. Sure, it'd be NICE, if your cheap ass little XBox could play the latest, greatest HD movies, but that's not likely, considering the different time-scales of the console and REAL player releases.
So, have the guys that made Forza entered in this contest? Seems like they'd just ROAST all the other teams! Screw that 40 mph entry. I'm thinkin' more like powersliding at 110mph around a gravel road turn!!! Woot!
What in the world is so hard to pronounce about this, given that German is about the most phonetic language in the world? I think English speakers have become inappropriately gunshy of pronouncing new words due to misinterpreting their lineage. This isn't a French word, folks.
Actually, you should think about the "browser OS" concept slightly differently.. the object is not to recreate a client OS on the user's machine, but to, rather, create an environment on the user's machine that easily aggregates and can be targetted by the server the user accesses. The day of "my app only knows about 'this' machine" is over. The compelling thing now is to be able to easily write applications that span multiple machines, or that are even machine independent... thing about it... do you want to perform whatever your job is in isolation, or do you want to just DO you job, which most likely involves others? And if it DOES involve others, do you want to be bothered with the intracacies of how the machine you use manages those dependencies? Basically, the idea of "OS" needs to radically change... sure.. it's still a usefull abstraction for a single client, but for "rich client" browsers or whatever they eventually become, the conventional idea of "OS" is insufficient. Just my $.02.
Except that SQL is nothing at ALL like XML... XML is a markup language, vs. SQL, which is a concrete expression language. I actually can barely understand your implied relationship between the two... SQL is a relatively static, industry defined syntax for performing database operations, while XML is a completely open-ended, schema based facility for defining basically ANY piece of knowledge. In fact, I really can't comprehend why you'd even compare it to SQL...