"The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the right thing."
It's that bad.
Talk about "close to home"
Somebody pinch me; this must be a nightmare.
A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.
IronPython vs. JPython: who cares?
Microsoft is so completely out of touch with reality it hurts.
Wherein we predict that whoever decides to take dynamic languages seriously will win the interpreted bytecode market.
Short and exceptionally well written take on Microsoft's Vista DRM strategy. I'm really enjoying the FSF going on the offensive with sites targeting very specific issues (badvista.fsf.org).
"Apple calls these songs 'iTunes Plus', because it sounds so much better than calling everything else 'iTunes Minus.'"
eWeek: "... Nearly every Microsoft executive associated with the Windows Vista launch has left the company. Vista has proven to be a career-ending enterprise ..."
Mark contributes the obligatory fisking.
"Welcome to Microsoft."
96 patents with assignee name "Yahoo! Inc"
"... Ballmer is an old-school kind of guy. He's not really a tech guy. [...] He's a Big Three automaker kind of guy. And this is a Big Three move. It's Ford buying Jaguar and Land Rover and Volvo because they can't think of anything else to do."
"There comes a time in every old browser’s life to pack up shop and, well, fuck off. This time has come and gone for IE6 ..." Also: "42% of global users are still browsing the web with IE6."
"What is catching users' eyes? Legibility, correctness, conciseness…. the list goes on and on. Simply put, this history essay is a significant release for me – one that builds on all of the great things that I was able to deliver last year [...]"
"Hernando who worked down the hall and who was large with microbrews came to him and told him that the ship day was upon them but the bugs were not yet out. The bugs which were always there even when you were in Cafes late at night sipping a ..."
Holy crap, this is insane. Just let people run IE6 and IE7 as separate standalone browsers side-by-side with IE8. As James said in my previous post, they can even rebrand it as "Intranet Explorer" :)
Microsoft missing the point with regards to "standards"? Inconceivable! Every time I read stuff like this I wonder if it's intellectual dishonesty or if the folks over at MS are really this ignorant. You have to lean toward dishonesty here, I think.
This trumps Leopard for most important Mac development this year as far as I'm concerned. Words cannot explain the hatred I've developed for booting up multiple Parallels VMs to get at IE.
Dare talks about his transition from WS-* to REST proponent. This mirrors a lot of people's experience, including my own.
"The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does."
"The general thrust of this argument is that having a full-fledge rich-windowing experience in the browser is going to put a stop to all that amateurish mucking around with JavaScript and the DOM. ... that’s hogwash."
"And yes, I've seen the Microsoft news ... If Sun did something like this I'd resign."
I've read the following line five times but it refuses to compute: "... and now it sounds like Dell will be buying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft ..." Huh? Looks like I should have further researched the MS/Novel deal.
"As for me, I’ll take some more Microsoft kool-aid, please." -- I said almost exactly those same words in 1997 regarding Microsoft's OS/Browser integration (I'm quoted in an article on C|Net as proof). There's nothing I regret saying more.
What's next? which(1)?
"Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea?"
"It looks like you are trying to do a regular expression. Do you need some help with that?"
Press caps locks. Press caps lock. PRESS CAPS LOCK! Press capital I. Delete I. Press capital I. DELETE I SCROLL THIS CONFLICT. DELETE ADULT SCROLLS CONFLICT FOR C ... THANK YOU! Delete THINK YOU.
"Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I'm just being mean now -- ignore me. no but seriously.)
"I mean, all through this presentation previously, I talked about how you're using the pawns and you're going to screw them if they don't do what you want, and dah-dah-dah. You can't let them feel like that." and "So you can't let them feel like pawns, no
"The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform."
Whose going to get this running on OS X? I guess it doesn't really matter. I can always X over to a Linux box...
"I have yet to find a women who wants to be squirted with a Zune. I’ve stopped asking."
Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel's Coherence Mode for RDP.
A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.
I need to get back into following free culture. The anti-DRM sentiment is unprecedented.
I'm sorry but it is just baffling to me how developers and cough evangelists can put up with this kind of behavior as being the sort-of default mode of operation at MS. The company needs to consider massive sweeping changes in the way they treat develop
I guess this could be good thing. Good people have a tendency of being taken advantage of in ways they wouldn't expect at MS though so I have to give the whole deal a respectful thumbs-down.
"Dependency management is probably the most important contribution of open source to software engineering." -- I don't know about that but it's definitely up there. It's mind boggling that MS hasn't developed some form of package management.
Prediction: Microsoft will use 3D nonsensically and egregiously for the next two years. 3D notepad!
They ripped a bunch of .NET code out of Vista, replacing it with C. Interesting.
What a surprise!
I miss this Cory Doctorow: "...a stupid DRM standard for suck-ass next-gen DVDs, arguing that Microsoft's sellout suck-ass next-gen HD-DVDs are better."
haha. this cracked me up...
Damn, looks like Microsoft is back to their old ways again...
Looks like RSS will finally be coming to "everyone else" now.
Holy shit Microsoft is copylefting stuff. What's going on?
Hi, we're Forrester Research, a division of Microsoft. -- I really didn't expect Firefox to get this much FUD thrown at it.
Jim Hugunin announces Microsoft's first official release of IronPython. Let's be absolutely clear: Microsoft just released a respected free software project.
I'm seriously considering considering moving to Brazil. That country is really starting to get their shit together and the gov seems close to the people.
wtf: "Visual Studio lead program manager Jason Weber to show how to build extensions for Microsoft's IDE."
From Oct 23, 2000 issue of the German language magazine c't
Stallman cutting through the bullshit.
That's a big prediction for having a "bad smell" but whatever...
Redefining the concept of making sense: "some of the factors that make Firefox more appealing than Internet Explorer are likely to go away as the browser gets to be more popular"
That about nails it.
Samba eating Microsoft's lunch. I smell a patent infingement case...
I almost puked when I read this. I hope there's just been a mix up or something.
Gates backpetals on the previous "creative communist" remarks and talks about DRM as a speedbump... caugh strawman caugh
Dan Gillmor comments on Gates' creative communist statements..
Wired's Katie Dean on the recent Creative Communist fiasco.
At least we got a cool flag out of the ordeal..
Buy it: $1. Proceeds go to the EFF.
Is google the next netscape?
It's not going to happen you guys...
BoingBoing tests the MSN blogs censors..
Maybe Balmer could include the fact that msn search runs on Linux in his next "Get The Facts" campaign.
How to be wrong: "I would argue that Xbox Live is a great experience for the end user precisely because it's a closed, controlled environment, and anything that threatens that is a real concern for Microsoft."
IE team on Firefox 1.0 release. The comments have me rolling on the floor. I can't believe microsoft is letting these guys keep comments on.
Microsoft is claiming some form of IP rights over "a total of 130 protocols which Microsoft is offering for license." The list includes TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Bluetooth, FTP, HTTP, SSL, etc. Looks like a new FUD strategy.
"Help stop Internet Explorer, the world's most popular and worst internet browser."
for some reason, anytime I'm reading ballmer, I always get that charlie-brown-on-the-phone-voice in my head. -- Wah wah.. Wah wah wah wah, wah wah...
Dell Exec: "Spyware installed on roughly 90% of computers."
No. Netscape as a brand/browser is irrelevant. Anyone with a cluestick care to drop by cnet and whap those monkeys around a bit? Some decent history here though.
come on now.. this is silly. leave windows. it's sunny and warm and beautiful over here.
yes. they are. IE is the new Netscape 4.7.
History of WinFS (hint: OFS)
Red Hat Exec Michael Tieman's comments on Microsoft's weird move into the open source mindview.
OMFG Python is reaching critical mass.
"The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars between Linux running on two z900 mainframe CPUs and a Windows Server 2003 image running two 900MHz Intel Xeons chips." Since when are mainframe chips only 10 times more expensive than x86 chips?
Ted Leung explores recent developments that seem to suggest that both Sun and Microsoft might be thinking about hijacking Python. If Jython and IronPython grow large followings, the library support has split three ways: Standard Python Libraries, Java Lib
haha. just horrible.
New York Times talking about people moving away from IE. It may finally be happening...
Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!
Installing Linux might be a bit easier..
