Posts by lucmars

the main problem with the web

is that you don't have a control from A to Z. You have to target some browers and sometimes even an OS. Not sure that a Flash/Flex app behaves in the same way on a Mac and a Windows.

The fragmentation arranges nothing, but in the first place you don't control the client and that's the problem.

Adobe is giving for free the development side, that's very appealing but you're still dependant to his player plus how is it handled by the various browsers.

If you want to cope with AJAX, you just have to take in account the browsers and the OS

So, what do you choose ?

everyone is not a designer

That's true, cos a designer isn't an artist.

Following Micheal C

He's right and the reasonment from Kiwi Airline is a hypocrisy : a plant which can grow in a desert doesn't mean that one cannot cultivate it elsewhere, hence that doesn't prevent any deforestation. In fact, the market drives the production around the world.

net-killer ?

If Viacom wins, I really don't see how that could kill this part of the net.

"User generated content" doesn't mean creativity and even less authority. If it was at least about some "User created content", that wouldn't be a problem because, as a creator, you decide or not to use Youtube.

One could argue that a service like Youtube fails in its essence to prevent infringements, because it's just about "generated content", not "created".

Wrong reason

The EBU explanation is correct but their reason is wrong. TV programs are stupefying, they're never been interesting and they never have elevated anybody.

why?

Why Mars when the Moon is nearer?

Always the same story

Now the "magic lantern" and later Palladium or hardware backdoor again.

Lack of imagination

Furthermore, they don't seem to bother with the consequences if they hit a nuclear plant (radioactive aerosols spreading by the wind). Not mentionning that they could provoke a real earthquake.

@ligaz A-cal

Do you mean that everybody in enterprise care about Yellow Dog?

Not a good idea

This kid will become more fierce.

in the long term

one can fear the wrong idea to save the diversity through DNA, which will end in a collection of licenses indeed.

need Office 2007

According to the logic of this report, it seems to me that OOXML will be adopted if Office 2007 is adopted as well. This is not currently the case, unless Redmonds give it up for free.

@Ros

And why not indexing the captchas ?

Cool it everybody

Ok, Flash has a problem and those who don't like it jump on it. But your rants aren't mainly about security.

What you dislike is simply the fact that webdesigners use Flash for their own pleasure: they don't realise that the user is most of the time unabled to recognise an animation in Flash or else, because he/she don't care, they should almost realise that, for the user, there's a time, a circumstancy, where Flash or else is OK and otherwise this is not the moment.

Interesting

So, if it is just a matter of getting a revenu stream from art, every Museum, galeries and co keep theirs masterpieces in a bunker and license theirs reproductions.

I should read again Walter Benjamin and his fellows from Francfort, did they have spotted this aspect in their time?

Did Warhol manage his IP upon all the reproductions of his production ?

title

So, if by 'testicules' you meant "b........ks', "couilles' would have been a better translation.

A easy figure to understand

6/10 that is to say fifty-fifty indeed:

90% of the pool has answered without any clue about the purpose ; only 10% of the pool really knew what was put in task, and so these people couldn't respond "Yes, I trust".

Due to its own complexity

Yes, that's the most likely and it's the present : don't be impressed by IT, losing a CD is a part of this ever growing complexity indeed.

Virtualisation

If loading PE is about something, that will be for virtualisation. In any case that would be to run/install a windows app, you'll always need a windows license. I'm not sure that Apple and Microsoft are in competition indeed, they need each other. Sadly for us, one will have to pay twice.

Virtualisation will become usual and by this way a PC will become OS indifferent, but those who have a control on their hardware, like Apple, will have an advantage. Especially when you have an edge on some funky peripherals.

the lifter

Yes, it's impressive. That remembers me how Jean-Pierre Petit, a french physician, explained the possible use of the MHD by the flying-saucer.

Linux doesn't matter...

...what is on the top at it really matter indeed, and in this sense, the licensing model is a concern. Google is leveraging its brand, one will uses it on mobile as one uses it on a PC. But the net result could be a kind of tivoization where Google keeps all the controls in such way that one couldn't do anything without it.

gOS is still a desktop

The emphase about Google apps is just a wise marketing as well as the emphase about iTunes. At a first glance there're three keys explaining this success story:

- targets the hype apps and devices

- cheap

- still a computer (not a diskless or a thin client)

Nonetheless gOS is a desktop.

as with Linux

The irony in all this story is that you have to check for compatibility hardware as with a Linux distro.

Hmm

Not sure that the login password of a porn site account is the same as for the other accounts. I bet that for many people who like porn site, this activity is a bigger secret than the credentials of their bank account.

Fear

CCTV, database, monitoring and Taser, a lot of technologies which avoid the contact, deleguating the police to be a witness, a surveyor, an eye in the sky dropping lightning. Does the police ever want to fulfill its hard task?

Popular because...

It was free (beer) at the start, while Opera was encumbered with ad.

Epiphany (webkit) anyone?

Typo

I think that you wanted to write "de rigueur" instead of "de rigeuer", no?

No gun, no light

This man just doesn't know.

@ JonB

No corruption needed, the tax can do this job and more simply the offer of a rent, the perspective of a "better" earning.

This is in the nature of biofuel since it requires a mass production. So the real point is: do we want to lead the poorest countries in some other culture of rent again?

Obviously the EU don't care, the real concern is not so much to be green but to rely a little less upon the fuel.

Source code, but what about the binary?

Having a look at the source code would be a good thing in the principle; nonetheless, if one could trust the code of a given app, can one trust its binary? In principle one should compile the source code and never rely upon the binary.

Not so flawed

Gary describes very well how Microsoft leverages its monopoly: don't focus on a single product like Office for example, but how the Microsoft's products interact altogether. The point is not just about a file format but its combination with the rest.

For him, the goal is to slow this fiendly strategy which leads quickly the users to the point of no return; so, don't fight in the Office battleground and take an edge in the collaborative battleground.

Besides that, we can consider ourself in a jail: an escape is risky and costly if we get caugth. Hence, we invest in freedom or nothing, but that involves a collective move.

University and public domain, still connected?

@ Anonymous Coward

Frankly, the Universities are still funded by the public fund but the trend is to reduce this part for some privates funding. Hence, what can be the part which should return to the citizens and the part which should stay in the stakeholders' hands?

Don't search: tables, chairs, bricks and mortars will stay to the public domain while the most valuable part will go to somebody else.

@ Rob

Hmm...I think that once the Dalai knocks at your door, the communication game has already started without you, hence, you better have to receive him

Good recommendation but...

It's too late.

Nonetheless, pré-installed OS should be a service (for free or not, it's up to the vendor) and the bundling practice should be banned.

Note: Mac user used to install from a CD - as well as for recovery and upgrade. That seems very odd for a Windows user, nonetheless, the Mac hardware isn't a surprise, so the installation is easy.

This is not the case with a PC, even Windows can't be installed so easily.

A prio-art office

UPSTO nor EPO and else shouldn't handle prior-arts, these ones should be handle by a separated entity. Hence, when the litigations come one can compare. The fact that a prior-arts compulsory exist for itself would cool any attempt to benefit unlegitimately from some patents.

The patent practice has failed, so its counter-part is needed.

Split it

There's a long time ago the US anti-trust body had broken in parts some big entities (Schotch, AT&T). This was not the case for Microsoft, but may be just that would have be enough.

The real question is, did the regulators take the best measure against the Microsoft's monopoly?

Sure, if nobody want to compete, regulators can't do anything, but if they don't take the best option, the monopoly goes on and consequently nobody want to compete because in this case, nobody can't.

Google is not the advertiser

So, it won't bother FF or anyone else since it just sales the places and it hasn't any obligation to be successfull like any TV channel or magazine which sale their places to the advertisers.

IT enable a lot of possibilities, but this isn't a reason to enable a right.