Really, MS is getting left in the dust for phone and tablet sales. If they don't get their foot in the door to the app markets, how are they going to gain any ground?
Embrace (Android), Extend (with Silver Light drivers), Compete (with a Windows phone/tablet).
I mean, what keeps people on Windows after all these years? It's not the stellar track record of performance and security. Its the huge range of apps. But if people are using apps that have the best support they can expect on their Droids, why switch to Windows?
If you can make headway into the application markets though, you can use that as a marketing angle to get people to make the jump to a Windows based device instead of an Android based device.
Heck Windows 7 Phone OS supposedly has XNA support for Silverlight. That can be a huge marketing advantage. "Like your Silverlight applications on the Droid? They run 1 bazillion times cooler on Windows 7!" But if they don't get people on to Silverlight apps, they've got nothing.
I'm not supper fond of Windows, but I loathe developing Flash.
I'm going to have to charge you royalties. You see, that "wooosh" noise you just heard is a copy righted track from my latest albumn, "Sounds of Sarcasm". For the illegal usage of my art, I am going to have to sue you for $75,000. I'll settle out of court right now for just $2,000.
Every time we drop court orders out of the mix, we wind up with abusive crap (see FBI and National Security Letters).
Just suck it up, deal with the paper work, and live in a nation governed by three equal branches of government that each work to ensure the other branches are not overstepping their bounds.
And so far as I have seen reported, none of them have had a drastically shortened life expectancy.
A whole lot of people saying "IF they are killed" but no reports that I can find of one of these named individuals being killed due to the Wikileaks leak.
Pure horse crap. You have the right of Free Speech. You do NOT have the right to Free Speech without Repercussions.
If you say something offensive, people will be offended. You don't have an unalienable right to make people not be offended by the things you say.
Now, if everyone sticks to the legal realm, the repercussions should be limited to other people exercising their own right to free speech opposing you, or to sue you, or to convince people to stop listening to you, or even, here's a shocker, try to convince the people who support you to stop supporting you.
Our actions have repercussions, and if you want to do something highly offensive, you're going to have to deal with it.
Now, if those offended people turn to violence, then we've got issues. But your right to free speech does not bar any other individual's right to free speech.
If the Boxee Box strikes your fancy, you can download and run the Boxee client for FREE (as in beer) on your existing Windows (XP or newer) machine.
I'm not a huge ZOMGWTFBBQSAUCE fan of the Boxee interface, but on my old XP box, it plays DVDs, ISOs, and ripped movies with ease. The other features and apps are nice, but I use it primarily as a media library, and it does just fine at that.
Forget fancy programming and protocols. There will be plenty of time for that later.
At the 9th grade, you should be teaching research, research, and more research.
Teach kids how to find what they need to find. And show them that there are multiple sources with different points of view on almost every subject. Show them how to get around in your research library (assuming you do have access to an online digital library that allows students to search thought and read published peer reviewer journals). Teach them how to cite the documents they find. Teach them basic word processing. Teach them about spread sheets.
Teach them the skills that they will need in virtually every other class they will ever take for the rest of their eductional career.
And absolutely teach them about the threats. About scams and preditors. About annoniminity + audiance. And last, but definately not least. Make sure that they are all perfectly aware that what ever they put online will be accessable for anyone to look up for the rest of all time.
Did I miss something in the picture? It looked like the only broken part was the corner of the battery case. epoxy the broken piece back in, glue the spring back in place, and run a small lead from it back to the power line.
Or does this guy have access to a 5 axis milling machine, but not a soldering iron?
Heh, late night posting. I totally missread that as the Washington, not Lincoln. Oddly enough though, searching for the Lincoln Monument points to the correct place, even though it is a memorial.
people have presupposed Assange's innocence because they like him. I don't mean given him the benefit of the doubt and said "Well let's see what evidence comes up," I mean saying that this is clearly an evil government plot, even though there is, of course, no evidence of that at this point.
Yeah, well, quite possibly that is because the majority of/. readers are from the USA. You know, where you are PRESUMED INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY.
So until there is sufficient proof offered, Julian, in the eyes of most Americans, is completely innocent and the charges are completely bogus.
Likewise, until sufficient proof is offered, the US government is not performing a conspiracy. But/. does tend to draw out the conspiracy theories;)
Mark challenges Paget to point to a single instance where RFID was successfully used for nefarious purposes
I challenge Mark to point to a single instance where Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Nuclear Warheads were successfully used for nefarious purposes.
Nothing?
Well then, I guess we can just stop all this silly nonsense about non-proliferation, missile defense shields, and international nuclear arms reduction treaties.
Funny, I have only ever had a handful of issues with the netflix player, and those I'm pretty sure were attributed to other aspects of the machine (likely a temperature related failure).
Jumping over to Flash though, to watch the Daily Show, or anything through Boxie or Hulu, I get choppy play back, or the video drops out, or I have to try to skip ahead a second after the player hangs coming back from a commercial. Total pain in the ass. My favorite is when the Flash player crashes the tab in IE8, so IE tries to restore the tab, which fires up the Flash player, that crashes the tab... and the cycle continues until I bring up the task manager and kill IE. Pure win.
The MLB jump was totally expected. At that point they were using SL2, which was really SL1.1 with a name change so people wouldn't associate it with SL1, that used an entirely different system (SL1 was basically a XAML rendering plug in that depended on JS for everything). SL2 was the first iteration of SL to use the Silverlight Framework (a trimmed down version of the.Net framework).
It was too much, too early. And I would expect the exact same failure if the MLB attempted to make the same transition to Flash version 2 or to HTML5 today. They would have been much, much better off waiting for another year and getting SL3 out, THEN trying to crack into the bigger markets.
I'm not sure if Adobe has followed suit, but Microsoft has released "Express" versions of the VS 2008 and 2010 IDEs. You can go to the MSDN right now and download a VB.Net or C# tooled version of Visual Studio 2010. No expiration, no credit cards, and you might not even need to register (can't remember on that one). Sure, you lose out on a bunch of the advanced functionality of the IDE, but you get all of the basics you need for doing SL development for FREE.
Now, if you want to have integrated unit tests, source control integration, automated web publishing and tons of other tools, then yeah, pony up the cash to get a retail copy.
Heck, even if you don't want to go that far, you can download the SL Dev tools and the.Net Framework from MS, write all your code in note pad, and just do compiles from the command line.
I haven't followed SharpDev for a while, so I'm not sure if they are supporting XAML yet, but their VB and C# IDE was pretty good a few years back if you wanted more features with out paying for it.
If you are curious about developing in Silverlight, you don't have to pay a dime to start. Just go get the free tools and play with it.
Also, the idea that anybody expected Apple to release a "sub-$500 netboook" is sheer lunacy. Nobody seriously expected that-- the iPad was widely anticipated by just about everyone for months before it was released.
The entire concept of a "sub-$500 netbook" market is sheer lunacy. I can get a Core-2 duo 2.3ghz 15" laptop for just under $400 (it's in this month's special from NewEgg.com). Why the hell would anyone pay $500 for a netbook when they can get a way more powerful note book for $400?
If I'm going to buy a netbook, we better be talking about the sub-$200 market.
I enjoy a good ribbing of Murdoch as much as the next guy, but wasn't it just last week that he started to move out of the China market, including selling off his primary media company in the country to the state-owned print/news media corporation?
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Silverlight support on Android.
Really, MS is getting left in the dust for phone and tablet sales. If they don't get their foot in the door to the app markets, how are they going to gain any ground?
Embrace (Android), Extend (with Silver Light drivers), Compete (with a Windows phone/tablet).
I mean, what keeps people on Windows after all these years? It's not the stellar track record of performance and security. Its the huge range of apps. But if people are using apps that have the best support they can expect on their Droids, why switch to Windows?
If you can make headway into the application markets though, you can use that as a marketing angle to get people to make the jump to a Windows based device instead of an Android based device.
Heck Windows 7 Phone OS supposedly has XNA support for Silverlight. That can be a huge marketing advantage. "Like your Silverlight applications on the Droid? They run 1 bazillion times cooler on Windows 7!" But if they don't get people on to Silverlight apps, they've got nothing.
I'm not supper fond of Windows, but I loathe developing Flash.
-Rick
I'm going to have to charge you royalties. You see, that "wooosh" noise you just heard is a copy righted track from my latest albumn, "Sounds of Sarcasm". For the illegal usage of my art, I am going to have to sue you for $75,000. I'll settle out of court right now for just $2,000.
-Rick
So Sayeth Graham Henderson:
"(Canadians) just seem to have no appetite for a legal marketplace."
Damn you and your illegal market tastes. We hate your for your love of violating the law and living on the edge of civil and criminal lawsuits.
-Rick
What's wrong with getting a court order?
Every time we drop court orders out of the mix, we wind up with abusive crap (see FBI and National Security Letters).
Just suck it up, deal with the paper work, and live in a nation governed by three equal branches of government that each work to ensure the other branches are not overstepping their bounds.
-Rrick
And so far as I have seen reported, none of them have had a drastically shortened life expectancy.
A whole lot of people saying "IF they are killed" but no reports that I can find of one of these named individuals being killed due to the Wikileaks leak.
-Rick
Free speech refers to lack of any interference.
Pure horse crap. You have the right of Free Speech. You do NOT have the right to Free Speech without Repercussions.
If you say something offensive, people will be offended. You don't have an unalienable right to make people not be offended by the things you say.
Now, if everyone sticks to the legal realm, the repercussions should be limited to other people exercising their own right to free speech opposing you, or to sue you, or to convince people to stop listening to you, or even, here's a shocker, try to convince the people who support you to stop supporting you.
Our actions have repercussions, and if you want to do something highly offensive, you're going to have to deal with it.
Now, if those offended people turn to violence, then we've got issues. But your right to free speech does not bar any other individual's right to free speech.
-Rick
If the Boxee Box strikes your fancy, you can download and run the Boxee client for FREE (as in beer) on your existing Windows (XP or newer) machine.
I'm not a huge ZOMGWTFBBQSAUCE fan of the Boxee interface, but on my old XP box, it plays DVDs, ISOs, and ripped movies with ease. The other features and apps are nice, but I use it primarily as a media library, and it does just fine at that.
-Rick
Forget fancy programming and protocols. There will be plenty of time for that later.
At the 9th grade, you should be teaching research, research, and more research.
Teach kids how to find what they need to find. And show them that there are multiple sources with different points of view on almost every subject. Show them how to get around in your research library (assuming you do have access to an online digital library that allows students to search thought and read published peer reviewer journals). Teach them how to cite the documents they find. Teach them basic word processing. Teach them about spread sheets.
Teach them the skills that they will need in virtually every other class they will ever take for the rest of their eductional career.
And absolutely teach them about the threats. About scams and preditors. About annoniminity + audiance. And last, but definately not least. Make sure that they are all perfectly aware that what ever they put online will be accessable for anyone to look up for the rest of all time.
-Rick
You mean an RPG game like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94E3IeBquY
And a cheap DIY Surface like this: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_builds_a_multitouch_surface_computer?page=0,0
-Rick
Did I miss something in the picture? It looked like the only broken part was the corner of the battery case. epoxy the broken piece back in, glue the spring back in place, and run a small lead from it back to the power line.
Or does this guy have access to a 5 axis milling machine, but not a soldering iron?
-Rick
just use 5 cents worth of epoxy to put the broken piece back in place?
-Rick
Heh, late night posting. I totally missread that as the Washington, not Lincoln. Oddly enough though, searching for the Lincoln Monument points to the correct place, even though it is a memorial.
Weird. And Sorry for my missreading ;)
-Rick
Know that it is the Washington MONUMENT. And that if you search google maps for the Washington Monument, it points right at it.
The Washington Monument was started while Washington was still alive, thus, it is a monument, NOT a memorial.
-Rick
Your proposed solution to our current economic problems is to become a communist nation? (not to be confused with a Communist nation)
-Rick
Apparently not satisfied with the current scope of the minimum age of concent laws, NAMBLA President ????? wants to broaden the scope of the law.
-Rick
(note, you'll have to excuse me for not digging up the name of the NAMBLA president from work.)
people have presupposed Assange's innocence because they like him. I don't mean given him the benefit of the doubt and said "Well let's see what evidence comes up," I mean saying that this is clearly an evil government plot, even though there is, of course, no evidence of that at this point.
Yeah, well, quite possibly that is because the majority of /. readers are from the USA. You know, where you are PRESUMED INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY.
So until there is sufficient proof offered, Julian, in the eyes of most Americans, is completely innocent and the charges are completely bogus.
Likewise, until sufficient proof is offered, the US government is not performing a conspiracy. But /. does tend to draw out the conspiracy theories ;)
-Rick
Can we please get the reviewers a new stamp that says: "REJECTED: Unintelligable"
When paragraphs are written in legalese and jargon for the express purpose of introducing vagueness they should be rejected.
IMO, if an 8th grader can't read the patent and paraphrase it well enough to explain it to someone in the field, it shouldn't be granted.
-Rick
If you work on Wall street.
-Rick
Mark challenges Paget to point to a single instance where RFID was successfully used for nefarious purposes
I challenge Mark to point to a single instance where Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Nuclear Warheads were successfully used for nefarious purposes.
Nothing?
Well then, I guess we can just stop all this silly nonsense about non-proliferation, missile defense shields, and international nuclear arms reduction treaties.
-Rick
Funny, I have only ever had a handful of issues with the netflix player, and those I'm pretty sure were attributed to other aspects of the machine (likely a temperature related failure).
Jumping over to Flash though, to watch the Daily Show, or anything through Boxie or Hulu, I get choppy play back, or the video drops out, or I have to try to skip ahead a second after the player hangs coming back from a commercial. Total pain in the ass. My favorite is when the Flash player crashes the tab in IE8, so IE tries to restore the tab, which fires up the Flash player, that crashes the tab... and the cycle continues until I bring up the task manager and kill IE. Pure win.
The MLB jump was totally expected. At that point they were using SL2, which was really SL1.1 with a name change so people wouldn't associate it with SL1, that used an entirely different system (SL1 was basically a XAML rendering plug in that depended on JS for everything). SL2 was the first iteration of SL to use the Silverlight Framework (a trimmed down version of the .Net framework).
It was too much, too early. And I would expect the exact same failure if the MLB attempted to make the same transition to Flash version 2 or to HTML5 today. They would have been much, much better off waiting for another year and getting SL3 out, THEN trying to crack into the bigger markets.
-Rick
I'm not sure if Adobe has followed suit, but Microsoft has released "Express" versions of the VS 2008 and 2010 IDEs. You can go to the MSDN right now and download a VB.Net or C# tooled version of Visual Studio 2010. No expiration, no credit cards, and you might not even need to register (can't remember on that one). Sure, you lose out on a bunch of the advanced functionality of the IDE, but you get all of the basics you need for doing SL development for FREE.
Now, if you want to have integrated unit tests, source control integration, automated web publishing and tons of other tools, then yeah, pony up the cash to get a retail copy.
Heck, even if you don't want to go that far, you can download the SL Dev tools and the .Net Framework from MS, write all your code in note pad, and just do compiles from the command line.
I haven't followed SharpDev for a while, so I'm not sure if they are supporting XAML yet, but their VB and C# IDE was pretty good a few years back if you wanted more features with out paying for it.
If you are curious about developing in Silverlight, you don't have to pay a dime to start. Just go get the free tools and play with it.
-Rick
Is that they want $170 for a book on calculus.
-Rick
Also, the idea that anybody expected Apple to release a "sub-$500 netboook" is sheer lunacy. Nobody seriously expected that-- the iPad was widely anticipated by just about everyone for months before it was released.
The entire concept of a "sub-$500 netbook" market is sheer lunacy. I can get a Core-2 duo 2.3ghz 15" laptop for just under $400 (it's in this month's special from NewEgg.com). Why the hell would anyone pay $500 for a netbook when they can get a way more powerful note book for $400?
If I'm going to buy a netbook, we better be talking about the sub-$200 market.
-Rick
A wide variety of remote controlled cars and other assorted toys could also be covered by this patent.
-Rick
I enjoy a good ribbing of Murdoch as much as the next guy, but wasn't it just last week that he started to move out of the China market, including selling off his primary media company in the country to the state-owned print/news media corporation?
-Rick