Comment Re:I can't wait to see this battle (Score 1) 716
I you use youtube quite regurarly but I've never agreed to any 'terms of service'.
When and how did MS agree to those alledged terms of service?
Surely shirley you are not this f'n stupid?
I you use youtube quite regurarly but I've never agreed to any 'terms of service'.
When and how did MS agree to those alledged terms of service?
Surely shirley you are not this f'n stupid?
So why screw this up with a large price hurdle.
... but this is Microsoft.
AWS has many options. You can deploy a single micro server for free for 1 year and stacks of technology and server resources that scale horizontally or vertically very easily. The really were the first successful "Cloud" (IaaS, PaaS) service provider and are probably the cheapest, especially if you want to get your feet wet.
I totally agree. If you at the point where you are needing / wanting node and the like, then spin up a linux image, and install whatever you want. You don't need a traditional hosting company at all. The cost of AWS is negligible in this scenrario (and free for a yr as mentioned), the benefits are great, assuming you have the wherewithal to install and play with stuff like node.
Eh? If silverlight is going away as it seems to be, it's nothing to do with a business strategy - they need to be able to continue to support their service. In addition, I expect they received a fair penny from MS to use Silverlight, and it's quite possible that the specified time on that particular contract is coming to an end.
As far as other platform support: don't look for it anytime soon no matter what tech they go with. There simply is no return on investment for them to maintain and support a service for such a small portion of their user base - especially when you consider partner agreements that are likely rather restrictive in terms of DRM requirements.
Netfix wants something closer to "platform-less". Its not about today, or "anytime soon", its about tomorrow and all those things that no one can predict what will happen. Look at what the iphone did
Which means Windows and OSX. They will not make a linux or BSD plugin, had they wanted to stream to those platforms it would have already happened.
Yea, makes a lot of sense
The great thing about Silverlight is its ability to stream content as your internet line can take it. This means Silverlight will dynamically adjust the video and audio bitrate so that even users on less-than-fast lines can stream Silverlight video content.
Yea, but its from Microsoft.
All in all, Microsoft Visual Studio keeps getting better!
Yea, but its from Microsoft.
When Microsoft gives away IE for free in order to gain market share it is bad therefore when Google gives away a complete OS for free to gain advertising market share it is bad too. QED
Wrong again! It wasn't just the "free" part (I believe the low end Netscape Navigator was also "free"). It was the fact that they bundled IE with the OS and claimed it couldn't be separated . And there were allegations that MS was strongarming OEM's with like "Don't include netscape, and you must include IE, or don't be surprised if your license fees just happen to go up".
We're not pissed with change. We're pissed at reinventing the wheel. Again.
Still sounds a little like pissin and moanin for the sake of pissin and moanin though. There quite obviously nobody here in our friendly little group that has near the credentials of Brendan Eiche for writing browser code. Sorry to all those that think they are smarter than he is, but show some creditibility first. How many languages have you guys written anyhow and how much time have you spent in the guts of a mainstream browser? I doubt you can top him. And if no one took the time to try to make a better wheel, we'd all be doing a fred flinstone with tree trunks for axles, round rocks for wheels, and feets for brakes.
Stop making Windows 8 tablets of any size. I'll go with Android or even, God forbid, iOS before I'd ever consider Win8.
Uncanny, but I had the same thought. Windows is done. We'll have to tolerate the fallout for a while yet, but its done.
A SMART person uses the right tool for the job
Oh well. Who decides "right", you or me? One factor in "right" tool, is who I give money to in a business situation. And "right" for me means not supporting organizations with a criminal past, an organization with a history of shitting on its partners, an organization with a long history of not only ignoring standards, but deliberately breaking them, an organization who's most successful "innovations" come from copying someone else then using their quasi-monopoly to ram it down people's throats, an organization that has actually held back innovation, an organization that laughed out loud at the iphone, an organization that is in many respects clueless and survives primarily because of legacy monopolistic crap. I prefer to support organizations, companies and people that I trust, like and hope to see prosper. Not to say everything MS ever did was bad, but there is enough bad there, that I choose to go the other way. I am happy with my Linux desktops, my Macbook, my ipad, my Nook, my android phone. There is nothing MS has that is "right" for me. And yes, I am a tech fanboy, I love this stuff when its done "right". All the respect in the world for Apple, even though I don't agree with everything they do -- but they do push the envelope, and they do do it pretty well. And Linux? Its the people's OS. The more of us that us it, the better if will get.
So I get a -1 for being honest? Slashdot is bizarely anti-MS, anti-BSD, anti anything but Linux, Android, etc.
In a sane world it's crazy not to be anti MS. They've screwed the pooch too many times to merit anything else.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
