...you cannot have drm in oss, it just is not possible.
if your software can render it, which involves processing the drm (decrypt, etc) then you can remove the drm pretty much just as easily and since the rendering code is there for everyone to see, the is trivial to adjust the app to play to disk.
is it just me, or does the sony thing seem overblown?
yes it was stupid and hide files from the user.
however a malicious user would still need to drop files on the machine first.. and if they can drop files on your machine, they could just as easily install a rootkit like sony's.
i think DRM and Personal Computer Security are distinctly different.
You forgot these pros for.NET - can write in any of at least 50 languages including VB - dev environments that accountants can figure out - value types - a well organized api - extensive active progress,.NET 2.0 was a huge step, wonderful tools like linq comming down the pipe
i am not saying it is superior, but you seem to present an extremely shallow view of what.NET offers
AdWords is apparently a fairly messy jumble of c++ code, and there are some problems with it.
the main thing i have heard is from the OTHER perspective, people with adwords on their site getting cut off for "fraudulent" clicks, losing as much as 1,2,3k because too many clicks were made from the same ip address.
so bottom line is, if you want to cut off a website's adwords revenue, just make a quick bot to cut them off!
the first word in the article is "US" however the comment line makes it seem like it is a global phenomenon.
I do a lot of work onsite for law firms and financial institutions in canada, these people are probably in the "more wealthy category" but they tend to use Msn way more than Google.
Though the "net savvy" part (in canada) seems to be accurate from my experience.
some interesting parallels... but as many as half the things listed are common features or common sense, especially all the "features"
you cannot play hd-dvd or blu-ray? well thats not available in the market anyways
you can output in hd? what console would skip this?
how many consoles no longer play previous gen games?
so a racing game company is releasing a similar game to one it had released previously? OMG
so it comes with a headset? that's very noteable:rolleyes:... etc... some of these just really are stupid
got angst?
it is an update to a open specification for a computer language... for which there is hundreds of thousands of programmers and millions of dollars invested......clearly this is not newsworthy
you might ask yourself why mandrake gets an "ad" when dell offers it as an option on 1 laptop model...
ASP is leagues behind PHP... and ASP.NET is leagues ahead of PHP... they really should not be compared at all.
roughly, ASP is like VBScript for the web while ASP.NET is much more like JSP, but more powerful imho
maybe this is an account for ISP based yahoo accounts or a plus member?
i don't have ads in my yahoo mail, because it is through my ISP.
i rarely use the webmail version, except when i am on the go, so i don't notice too much
i needed some low-end servers for testing/development on windows 2003 in our satallite locations.
i was going to grab some dells, but the fire 2100's with a memory upgrade were a much better deal i think.
so i just ordered 3:)
linux will always be 10 years off as long as the majority of linux developers stay the way they are... software elegance in C and/or the commandline is fine and dandy, but it is pretty much the anti-thesis of the business world.
the fact than it can run, and probably is more often run on windows systems means this point is mute...
and i still wouldn't want an extension cleaning out my local storage and sending off my credit card info to malicious boogernaughts
who cares if an OS comes with a bundled media player?
are they going to start suing the distro groups now too?
there is a serious flaw in the logic behind this whole issue, you buy windows, it comes with media player, as advertised. If you don't like media player, install something else, or don't buy windows.
perhaps the problem is that europeans don't know what a market economy is?
perhaps, but its the same with fax numbers, snail mail and phone numbers - to not expect to get unsolicited adverts is naive, and if you don't take cost-restricting precautions, the blame for lost profitability lies with your court.
this article is terrible, it raises a lot of confusion and muddles the waters...
first of all XUL and XAML have nothing to do with this, they are both application layout languages, not data field and validation languages, why the auther mentioned them, i don't know, IMHO they are both great, and have nothing to do with the W3C (beyond that they are built on top of XML) they are not web standards, and no one is trying to claim they are as such.
The arguments the involved parties have are very logical:
application developers aka "XML Purists" : (IBM, SUN, NOVELL, etc)
Want the cleanest, best solution for their big clients that are tired of shitty javascript forms, they want it to work seamlessley with other XML applications in a big friendly XML web service world.
active browser makers aka "if it works, don't fix it" (opera, mozilla, apple)
are afraid of spending time/money/effort into technologies that aren't adopted, they are more than happy with HTML+Javascript for forms, since it "works" and no one has to do any work that possibly will never get used, thus they back WebForms which is more of the same...
microsoft
i truly believe microsoft has no interest in developing a web browser anymore, they took up the torch because they saw what everyone saw around 10 years ago - web browsers (netscape) sucked horribly, they brought about a new world to the web with IE, but its time as passed, and i think everyone will be happy when it dies, even microsoft - so i don't think they really care what form technology gets adopted, as long as they don't have to pay more IE developers.
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...you cannot have drm in oss, it just is not possible. if your software can render it, which involves processing the drm (decrypt, etc) then you can remove the drm pretty much just as easily and since the rendering code is there for everyone to see, the is trivial to adjust the app to play to disk.
is it just me, or does the sony thing seem overblown?
yes it was stupid and hide files from the user.
however a malicious user would still need to drop files on the machine first.. and if they can drop files on your machine, they could just as easily install a rootkit like sony's.
i think DRM and Personal Computer Security are distinctly different.
i am confused, what was removed? you can still progam the "inline" asp/php/etc way...
this is way off topic and incorrect, why was it moded up?
You forgot these pros for .NET .NET 2.0 was a huge step, wonderful tools like linq comming down the pipe
.NET offers
- can write in any of at least 50 languages including VB
- dev environments that accountants can figure out
- value types
- a well organized api
- extensive active progress,
i am not saying it is superior, but you seem to present an extremely shallow view of what
AdWords is apparently a fairly messy jumble of c++ code, and there are some problems with it.
the main thing i have heard is from the OTHER perspective, people with adwords on their site getting cut off for "fraudulent" clicks, losing as much as 1,2,3k because too many clicks were made from the same ip address.
so bottom line is, if you want to cut off a website's adwords revenue, just make a quick bot to cut them off!
the first word in the article is "US" however the comment line makes it seem like it is a global phenomenon. I do a lot of work onsite for law firms and financial institutions in canada, these people are probably in the "more wealthy category" but they tend to use Msn way more than Google. Though the "net savvy" part (in canada) seems to be accurate from my experience.
which features were stripped?
the only thing removed that i know of is WinFS, and it will be made available sometime after launch, and also on XP...
soon, we will be all bitching that certain browsers support certain non-standard tags.
some interesting parallels... but as many as half the things listed are common features or common sense, especially all the "features" you cannot play hd-dvd or blu-ray? well thats not available in the market anyways you can output in hd? what console would skip this? how many consoles no longer play previous gen games? so a racing game company is releasing a similar game to one it had released previously? OMG so it comes with a headset? that's very noteable :rolleyes: ... etc... some of these just really are stupid
got angst? it is an update to a open specification for a computer language... for which there is hundreds of thousands of programmers and millions of dollars invested... ...clearly this is not newsworthy
you might ask yourself why mandrake gets an "ad" when dell offers it as an option on 1 laptop model...
ASP is leagues behind PHP... and ASP.NET is leagues ahead of PHP... they really should not be compared at all. roughly, ASP is like VBScript for the web while ASP.NET is much more like JSP, but more powerful imho
maybe this is an account for ISP based yahoo accounts or a plus member? i don't have ads in my yahoo mail, because it is through my ISP. i rarely use the webmail version, except when i am on the go, so i don't notice too much
i needed some low-end servers for testing/development on windows 2003 in our satallite locations. i was going to grab some dells, but the fire 2100's with a memory upgrade were a much better deal i think. so i just ordered 3 :)
linux will always be 10 years off as long as the majority of linux developers stay the way they are... software elegance in C and/or the commandline is fine and dandy, but it is pretty much the anti-thesis of the business world.
the fact than it can run, and probably is more often run on windows systems means this point is mute... and i still wouldn't want an extension cleaning out my local storage and sending off my credit card info to malicious boogernaughts
activex is the same way though.
since these things have full access to the local machine, remind me why we love extensions and hate activex?
who cares if an OS comes with a bundled media player?
are they going to start suing the distro groups now too?
there is a serious flaw in the logic behind this whole issue, you buy windows, it comes with media player, as advertised. If you don't like media player, install something else, or don't buy windows.
perhaps the problem is that europeans don't know what a market economy is?
the other relevant issue that your story makes me think about it it, what, if any legal "value" do website disclaimers have?
perhaps, but its the same with fax numbers, snail mail and phone numbers - to not expect to get unsolicited adverts is naive, and if you don't take cost-restricting precautions, the blame for lost profitability lies with your court.
there is plenty of decent ways to avoid all spam, if you get spam i have no sympathy for you
this article is terrible, it raises a lot of confusion and muddles the waters...
first of all XUL and XAML have nothing to do with this, they are both application layout languages, not data field and validation languages, why the auther mentioned them, i don't know, IMHO they are both great, and have nothing to do with the W3C (beyond that they are built on top of XML) they are not web standards, and no one is trying to claim they are as such.
The arguments the involved parties have are very logical:
application developers aka "XML Purists" : (IBM, SUN, NOVELL, etc)
Want the cleanest, best solution for their big clients that are tired of shitty javascript forms, they want it to work seamlessley with other XML applications in a big friendly XML web service world.
active browser makers aka "if it works, don't fix it" (opera, mozilla, apple)
are afraid of spending time/money/effort into technologies that aren't adopted, they are more than happy with HTML+Javascript for forms, since it "works" and no one has to do any work that possibly will never get used, thus they back WebForms which is more of the same...
microsoft
i truly believe microsoft has no interest in developing a web browser anymore, they took up the torch because they saw what everyone saw around 10 years ago - web browsers (netscape) sucked horribly, they brought about a new world to the web with IE, but its time as passed, and i think everyone will be happy when it dies, even microsoft - so i don't think they really care what form technology gets adopted, as long as they don't have to pay more IE developers.