Well... I know that these criptography standards are begining to be dated, and it is very likely that we will see more successful brute force atacks on them in the following years. However, I wonder if changing them will have a noticeable positive effect on the security of Vista. How many of the many exploitable holes in Windows XP are due to bad criptography, and how many are due to bad design and policies?
Is XAML the one (proprietary) format to rule them all?
What I am was working on now was exactly the "Common Controls" bullet for SVG in this chart.
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How many MS products are you using on a regular basis?
Now think about the poor bastards that HAVE to use ALL of them EVERY DAY, for work. Remember about FOXPRO? FOXPRO included.
Parent was probably not refering only to this however. The problem is with their pricing and once-every-two-years-upgrade policies. Finnancially this IS rapeing.
Why develop an app (using XUL) that only 8% of users MIGHT use?
For the same reason some of us develop applications for Linux, you insensitive clod!
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I agree that SVG (and XUL) will are really appealing alternatives to XAML. At least, unless Microsoft has Brainwashed(TM) every single developer on this planet. SVG does it's job very well. We just need the tools and the browser support to be able to really fight back the Microsoft lock-in. In the (not so) limited context of Mozilla products XUL is also a great and stable language.
PS: Sorry for seeing you get a -1 Overrated for a very valid point of view.
Is there the need for yet another XML format when for describing vectorial web interfaces SVG does a very good job? Oh, wait, this is Microsoft we are talking about. And they are really commited to screwing^H^H^H^H^H^H tandards.
The only problems with SVG were the lack of development tools and browser support, and the second is starting to fade away quickly. So, I would suggest everyone interested in evading Microsoft's lock-in to have a look at the existing tools, and maybe lend us a hand.
Macromedia would never never try to push.NET and Vista, so you are right: Sparkle != Flash. On the other hand you fail to explain where exactly is the conceptual difference. Flash is very frequently used for vectorial interfaces and dynamic applications, whether they run in a browser or not. Is being locked on Windows so cool?
They may also want to avoid burning bridges, in case Intel processors become more compelling in the future.
When they are having Get Off the "Itanic" adds on their site, they *are* burning bridges with Intel, no matter how they call their processor architecture.
Trade in any qualified Dell server and get a 20% trade-up allowance off the list price on eligible new Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers with 3-year support services. That's a potential savings of up to $1,900 on new entry level Sun servers that have 1.5 times the performance of Xeon-based Dell servers.* Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers also offer up to 56% savings in power and cooling costs per year over comparable Dell servers.
Sorry to wake you up, but we live in a world in which "build it and they will come" simply doesn't work any more.
Sun advertising their products as "the real thing" on the server market, as opposed to Dell's jokes, is pretty normal. I just have to wonder why didn't they do it earlier?
No they didn't. Only Sun Microsystems, IBM and Adobe Systems however did. Sponsoring OASIS is very different from sponsoring a certain TC. Why do I have repeat this every single time a new article about the OpenDocument comes along?
Advertising methods? On Skype? I have never seen a single ad on Skype since I'm using it? And software is infrastructure now? I think you have a very broad definition of infrastructure.
BTW, it's only two million. But what does this mean? Usually that they installed Skype, and their computer is running and has an internet connection. This tells you nothing about how many calls are being made every second, and how many of these calls are not for free. This is like a POTS operator saying that 99.9% of their users are online. Should I be impressed then by Skype's >3.7% of users online at any given instant?
Skype is not built on open standards like SIP and remains isolated to its own so-called "Peer to Peer" network. It is to the Gizmo Project as AIM is to Jabber.
If starting tomorrow (or version 1.4) Skype starts using SIP, would you tell the difference? Would your mother tell the difference then?
Summer of Code: Mentoring Organization Faq: Q: Does the code have to become part of a mentoring organizations mainstream codebase? A: No, While we hope the code will be useful to the mentoring organization, we will not require that the code be used.
Google benefit because for a small investment they body of Free Software is improved. They can then skim these and use them as foundations for more of their own products.
2.000.000$ is not that small. And the improvements for free software as a whole will not be drastic, maybe not even visible. It's only 400+ students working for 2 months each. That is 66 programer-years scatered around 38 unrelated open source projects. That is an average 1.74 programmer-years per organization, which is not that much if you consider that some of these projects already have hundreds even thousends of programmer-years.
Then there is the fact that Google does not use the most of the projects and even if they do internally use a project, the features the students implemented might be irrelevant to them.
Finally, I am very skeptic that Google wants to use the code that students developed. Not even the mentoring organizations had to use it, so this is quite obvious. What they could use in their products is good ideas, and maybe they found a couple of these in the 8000 (?) project proposals.
I found it very hard to track what was going on, since despite it allegedly being about open development most of the work went on behind closed doors and then suddenly hit projects' CVS repositories a couple of weeks ago. In most cases I couldn't even find out what the projects were until they were checked in.
I really don't think that this the way things happened, although it could be, because the whole thing lasted only two months so the last 2-3 weeks is actually, the last 30% of the time, and it is very usual that newbies commit very late. So, supposing it did happen this way, how could be something like this be improved? Would you force students to make commits every day? Yes it was hard for outsiders, for Google and maybe even for mentors so track everything... but why should they had? Open source is about freedom not about control.
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Well ... I know that these criptography standards are begining to be dated, and it is very likely that we will see more successful brute force atacks on them in the following years. However, I wonder if changing them will have a noticeable positive effect on the security of Vista. How many of the many exploitable holes in Windows XP are due to bad criptography, and how many are due to bad design and policies?
Does it work on Linux?
Is XAML the one (proprietary) format to rule them all?
What I am was working on now was exactly the "Common Controls" bullet for SVG in this chart.
How many MS products are you using on a regular basis?
Now think about the poor bastards that HAVE to use ALL of them EVERY DAY, for work. Remember about FOXPRO? FOXPRO included.
Parent was probably not refering only to this however. The problem is with their pricing and once-every-two-years-upgrade policies. Finnancially this IS rapeing.
Why develop an app (using XUL) that only 8% of users MIGHT use?
For the same reason some of us develop applications for Linux, you insensitive clod!
I agree that SVG (and XUL) will are really appealing alternatives to XAML. At least, unless Microsoft has Brainwashed(TM) every single developer on this planet. SVG does it's job very well. We just need the tools and the browser support to be able to really fight back the Microsoft lock-in. In the (not so) limited context of Mozilla products XUL is also a great and stable language.
PS: Sorry for seeing you get a -1 Overrated for a very valid point of view.
Is there the need for yet another XML format when for describing vectorial web interfaces SVG does a very good job? Oh, wait, this is Microsoft we are talking about. And they are really commited to screwing^H^H^H^H^H^H tandards.
The only problems with SVG were the lack of development tools and browser support, and the second is starting to fade away quickly. So, I would suggest everyone interested in evading Microsoft's lock-in to have a look at the existing tools, and maybe lend us a hand.
Macromedia would never never try to push .NET and Vista, so you are right: Sparkle != Flash. On the other hand you fail to explain where exactly is the conceptual difference. Flash is very frequently used for vectorial interfaces and dynamic applications, whether they run in a browser or not. Is being locked on Windows so cool?
They are going to BUY AOL! Otherwise you are right, they ARE going to try to KILL every competitor, in every market they compete. They always did.
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Well, in that case, I'd like to point out that next year will not be the year for Linux on the desktop.
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No, it won't. Who cares? I don't. Slackware is so cute on my desktop
They may also want to avoid burning bridges, in case Intel processors become more compelling in the future.
When they are having Get Off the "Itanic" adds on their site, they *are* burning bridges with Intel, no matter how they call their processor architecture.
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/x64tradeup/index.html
Trade in any qualified Dell server and get a 20% trade-up allowance off the list price on eligible new Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers with 3-year support services. That's a potential savings of up to $1,900 on new entry level Sun servers that have 1.5 times the performance of Xeon-based Dell servers.* Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers also offer up to 56% savings in power and cooling costs per year over comparable Dell servers.
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Sorry to wake you up, but we live in a world in which "build it and they will come" simply doesn't work any more.
Sun advertising their products as "the real thing" on the server market, as opposed to Dell's jokes, is pretty normal. I just have to wonder why didn't they do it earlier?
Does it run on Linux?
No they didn't. Only Sun Microsystems, IBM and Adobe Systems however did. Sponsoring OASIS is very different from sponsoring a certain TC. Why do I have repeat this every single time a new article about the OpenDocument comes along?
Advertising methods? On Skype? I have never seen a single ad on Skype since I'm using it? And software is infrastructure now? I think you have a very broad definition of infrastructure.
3 million are online at any given time
BTW, it's only two million. But what does this mean? Usually that they installed Skype, and their computer is running and has an internet connection. This tells you nothing about how many calls are being made every second, and how many of these calls are not for free. This is like a POTS operator saying that 99.9% of their users are online. Should I be impressed then by Skype's >3.7% of users online at any given instant?
... they are buying the customers as much as they are buying the infrastructure
Skype is a peer-to-peer "thing", so there is hardly any infrastructure, is it?
Skype is not built on open standards like SIP and remains isolated to its own so-called "Peer to Peer" network. It is to the Gizmo Project as AIM is to Jabber.
If starting tomorrow (or version 1.4) Skype starts using SIP, would you tell the difference? Would your mother tell the difference then?
You have a right to your opinions. I just don't want to hear them.
;) What is your opinion then?
Sorry, I have to make this joke
Summer of Code: Mentoring Organization Faq:
Q: Does the code have to become part of a mentoring organizations mainstream codebase?
A: No, While we hope the code will be useful to the mentoring organization, we will not require that the code be used.
Google benefit because for a small investment they body of Free Software is improved. They can then skim these and use them as foundations for more of their own products.
2.000.000$ is not that small. And the improvements for free software as a whole will not be drastic, maybe not even visible. It's only 400+ students working for 2 months each. That is 66 programer-years scatered around 38 unrelated open source projects. That is an average 1.74 programmer-years per organization, which is not that much if you consider that some of these projects already have hundreds even thousends of programmer-years.
Then there is the fact that Google does not use the most of the projects and even if they do internally use a project, the features the students implemented might be irrelevant to them.
Finally, I am very skeptic that Google wants to use the code that students developed. Not even the mentoring organizations had to use it, so this is quite obvious. What they could use in their products is good ideas, and maybe they found a couple of these in the 8000 (?) project proposals.
I found it very hard to track what was going on, since despite it allegedly being about open development most of the work went on behind closed doors and then suddenly hit projects' CVS repositories a couple of weeks ago. In most cases I couldn't even find out what the projects were until they were checked in.
... but why should they had? Open source is about freedom not about control.
I really don't think that this the way things happened, although it could be, because the whole thing lasted only two months so the last 2-3 weeks is actually, the last 30% of the time, and it is very usual that newbies commit very late. So, supposing it did happen this way, how could be something like this be improved? Would you force students to make commits every day? Yes it was hard for outsiders, for Google and maybe even for mentors so track everything