I find it a little bit of a coincidence that he seems to be pushing the "plug-in" architecture methodology right after the Committee abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification, which Adobe was pushing hard for.
An external browser module capable of executing most of the proposed ECMAScript 4 specification already exists: It's the Adobe Flash plug-in. Other platforms are available as plug-ins, as well, including Curl and REBOL.
As Web developers, we tend to shy away from these alternatives, but only because of the never-ending efforts to refine and standardize JavaScript within the browser itself.
Paid shill maybe? Sounds to me like Adobe is trying to persuade the public that "their" Flash ActionScript additions to the standard should have been the way to go.
I think the colleges/university's are partially to blame as well. It seems that any of the kids I interview know how to use flash, photoshop, dreamweaver, etc, but the schools don't seem to be teaching them the creative process.
It's as if the schools teach them how to hammer nails into a board and then send them out into the world letting them think that they're carpenters.
It would be nice if the schools would force the students to learn nothing but design principles the first year and then start introducing them to the different tool sets. If you have a strong concept of the pre-planning/design phase, then your better suited to choose from the various tools for any particular project or problem.
I'm assuming that the schools need to have the latest and greatest flashy tools to try and wow the potential students. I don't know.
...unfortunately, and in fact it may just get McCain elected.
Geezzzzus I'm so tired of hearing this... if you keep thinking like that, then nothing will ever change.
Vote for the person or party that best fits your ideals. Don't vote for something just because you don't think you can make a difference or in your case, you think the your party is bad, but the other party is worse. If you keep thinking like that, then there won't be change. Perhaps if enough people voted outside of the major party system, the republicans and democrats will finally wake up and realize that the American people are getting fed up with the way they're running things.
Don't get me wrong, I think its a cool toy I will be playing with, but until it actually works in more than one beta browser, its is no threat to Flash at all.
"So the question is who pays? Should the content owners, who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay?"
Um... how about the third option, which is why haven't the ISP's been upgrading their bandwidth capabilities? This smells of marketing PR to me.
Question: Should the big-bad-rich content providers pay for it, or do YOU the little-guy customer want to pay to for it?
It's not like ISP's didn't know bandwidth usage was going to increase. Instead of investing in their infrastructure, they choose to line their pockets with huge profits. Now as more people are using the so-called UNLIMITED bandwidth they promised, they're freaking out because they can't handle it and make that claim at the same time.
They know they customer isn't willing to pay for it. They're drooling over the fact that they might be able to get another source of income off of the content providers (Which I believe are already paying for their bandwidth capabilities). So what do they do, they try getting the public to sway to their side with articles like this.
I'm not a Microsoft fan, never have been, but this is a prime example of what happens when you put a sales person in charge of your company. Balmer either lacks the vision of what the customer wants or is choosing to ignore it. He seems to be pimping out the company every chance he gets and I think the customers are finally starting to get turned off by what he's bringing to the table.
Bill Gates is an uber-dork, but at least he brought some passion and vision to the company and seemed to think about the customer every once in awhile.
This makes me think, is there a link to where I can check out all of the independent candidates that are running for president? I'm truly getting sick of the two major parties.
Well, as a web designer, I can tell you the biggest hassle of trying to design websites, is that I have to have a Windows box (or virtualization) to test my websites for IE. I think the real reasons Apple released Safari for Windows, is to give the possible iPhone developers a tool to test any Web 2.0 Apps that they might want to develop.
Why does it always have to be a conspiracy with some people?
Seriously, why couldn't some kind of "GOOD" botnet be created that does this? If the spammers can do it, why can't Microsoft, Yahoo, Goolge, AOL, Symantec or someone? A botnet that goes around and secures all these drone computers would save the connected world a lot of headaches.
1. By your computers wherever you want - Buy bulk get discount.
2. By harddrives from wherever you want - Buy bulk get discount. *
3. Swap out hard drives
4. Install whatever operating system you want
5. New PC = Naked PC
6. Sell old hardrives on eBay = Profit
* You could also just completely erase their hardrives, but buying things and putting them in PC's give the tech guys something to do.
If Yellowstone went, we might expect "some 2,000 million tons of sulphuric acid were ejected into the atmosphere to block out sunlight over much of the planet causing global temperatures to plummet by between 10C and 20C.
And I'm sure the rest of the world will blame our government somehow.
Funny thing, that I don't think the music execs are getting, it's not Steve Jobs and iTunes/iPod that's causing them "trouble". It boils down to the consumers choosing the iTunes/ipod solution over the also-rans. IT'S THE CONSUMERS!
You can argue all you want about the "lock-in", but let's face it, everyone else has a lock-in to some degree and Apple's is the one the consumer is choosing.
I have an iPod and I've bought about 5 songs from iTunes. The rest of the music is music I put on there from purchased from CD's, a majority of which I already had and about 20 others that I've bought since buying the iPod
I hate DRM, wish it would go away, but from my point of view, Apple's is the lesser of the evils out there.
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Spirit took the first picture ever taken of the Earth from the surface of another planet.
Holy Crap! How the hell did it know where I was?
I think this was originally said about Tibet and China, but it seems somewhat fitting here.
Lighten up Francis. Hence the word "maybe".
I find it a little bit of a coincidence that he seems to be pushing the "plug-in" architecture methodology right after the Committee abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification, which Adobe was pushing hard for.
An external browser module capable of executing most of the proposed ECMAScript 4 specification already exists: It's the Adobe Flash plug-in. Other platforms are available as plug-ins, as well, including Curl and REBOL.
As Web developers, we tend to shy away from these alternatives, but only because of the never-ending efforts to refine and standardize JavaScript within the browser itself.
Paid shill maybe? Sounds to me like Adobe is trying to persuade the public that "their" Flash ActionScript additions to the standard should have been the way to go.
I think the colleges/university's are partially to blame as well. It seems that any of the kids I interview know how to use flash, photoshop, dreamweaver, etc, but the schools don't seem to be teaching them the creative process.
It's as if the schools teach them how to hammer nails into a board and then send them out into the world letting them think that they're carpenters.
It would be nice if the schools would force the students to learn nothing but design principles the first year and then start introducing them to the different tool sets. If you have a strong concept of the pre-planning/design phase, then your better suited to choose from the various tools for any particular project or problem.
I'm assuming that the schools need to have the latest and greatest flashy tools to try and wow the potential students. I don't know.
Geezzzzus I'm so tired of hearing this... if you keep thinking like that, then nothing will ever change.
Vote for the person or party that best fits your ideals. Don't vote for something just because you don't think you can make a difference or in your case, you think the your party is bad, but the other party is worse. If you keep thinking like that, then there won't be change. Perhaps if enough people voted outside of the major party system, the republicans and democrats will finally wake up and realize that the American people are getting fed up with the way they're running things.
I, for one, am not voting for either candidate.
You mean like say, FireFox AND Webkit?
"So the question is who pays? Should the content owners, who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay?"
Um... how about the third option, which is why haven't the ISP's been upgrading their bandwidth capabilities? This smells of marketing PR to me.
Question: Should the big-bad-rich content providers pay for it, or do YOU the little-guy customer want to pay to for it?
It's not like ISP's didn't know bandwidth usage was going to increase. Instead of investing in their infrastructure, they choose to line their pockets with huge profits. Now as more people are using the so-called UNLIMITED bandwidth they promised, they're freaking out because they can't handle it and make that claim at the same time.
They know they customer isn't willing to pay for it. They're drooling over the fact that they might be able to get another source of income off of the content providers (Which I believe are already paying for their bandwidth capabilities). So what do they do, they try getting the public to sway to their side with articles like this.
It look like I'm going to have to update my favorite 5.
I'm not a Microsoft fan, never have been, but this is a prime example of what happens when you put a sales person in charge of your company. Balmer either lacks the vision of what the customer wants or is choosing to ignore it. He seems to be pimping out the company every chance he gets and I think the customers are finally starting to get turned off by what he's bringing to the table.
Bill Gates is an uber-dork, but at least he brought some passion and vision to the company and seemed to think about the customer every once in awhile.
Yes.
Angela Jolene is absolutely hot.
This makes me think, is there a link to where I can check out all of the independent candidates that are running for president? I'm truly getting sick of the two major parties.
Thanks
~ My rebellion starts at the ballot box
Well, as a web designer, I can tell you the biggest hassle of trying to design websites, is that I have to have a Windows box (or virtualization) to test my websites for IE. I think the real reasons Apple released Safari for Windows, is to give the possible iPhone developers a tool to test any Web 2.0 Apps that they might want to develop.
Why does it always have to be a conspiracy with some people?
Gee, how inovative. He announces the next big thing 4 months after Steve Jobs demos one.
Accept or Deny?
This will never get old...
Accept or Deny?
I hope he's not saying that windows has 50%, 60% or 70% of the mobile handset market share, because microsoft is not even close.
Symbian - 72.5%
Linux - 16.9%
PalmSource - 2.0%
Microsoft - 4.6%
RIM - 3.8%
Others - 0.2%
So if he's saying Apple will get 5% of the market share, well they will then have a larger share of the market than MS.
Silly Ballmer-speak
Seriously, why couldn't some kind of "GOOD" botnet be created that does this? If the spammers can do it, why can't Microsoft, Yahoo, Goolge, AOL, Symantec or someone? A botnet that goes around and secures all these drone computers would save the connected world a lot of headaches.
Simple, each seat should have it's own personal "bubble of solitude". Problem solved.
Finally, watching "Get Smart" has finally paid off on SlashDot.
Wow, sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the day light saving time today.
1. By your computers wherever you want - Buy bulk get discount.
2. By harddrives from wherever you want - Buy bulk get discount. *
3. Swap out hard drives
4. Install whatever operating system you want
5. New PC = Naked PC
6. Sell old hardrives on eBay = Profit
* You could also just completely erase their hardrives, but buying things and putting them in PC's give the tech guys something to do.
You mean there's less reporting and even more sensationalism?
And I'm sure the rest of the world will blame our government somehow.
She's already soft-pedalling on her comment. http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNe ws/idUSL139204020070313
Funny thing, that I don't think the music execs are getting, it's not Steve Jobs and iTunes/iPod that's causing them "trouble". It boils down to the consumers choosing the iTunes/ipod solution over the also-rans. IT'S THE CONSUMERS!
You can argue all you want about the "lock-in", but let's face it, everyone else has a lock-in to some degree and Apple's is the one the consumer is choosing.
I have an iPod and I've bought about 5 songs from iTunes. The rest of the music is music I put on there from purchased from CD's, a majority of which I already had and about 20 others that I've bought since buying the iPod
I hate DRM, wish it would go away, but from my point of view, Apple's is the lesser of the evils out there.