Comment Re:A confederacy of douchebags. (Score 1) 111
Correction, rules are for poor people...
Don't say that too loudly. A certain degree of illusion is necessary to maintain order.
Correction, rules are for poor people...
Don't say that too loudly. A certain degree of illusion is necessary to maintain order.
We're talking about actively exploited critical vulnerabilities. Fix the hole now! You can make it pretty later.
Yea, but I only do bugs once a month. On Tuesdays. I can't be bothered before then. Your problems may seem big, but I choose to do things my way, at my pace. Besides my inaction helps support a large secondary market for security appliances, IT support personnel and the like. We jeopardize an entire sector of the economy by undermining these people.
Not sure coding works on something the scale of google, but programmers are people and they go on vacation, funerals, get fired, get hired and freeshly acquainted with their jobs too.
Will Google be as supportive of this policy after the first time some major bug hits one of their more minor products and the guy who knows all about it is gone whereever hat week?
Huh?
Probably the fault of Windows, or some other Microsoft product.
Cross viral contamination is always a possibility.
Stupid thing indeed, to send lawyers to make things worse for Windows Phone users who are mere pawns in Google's strategic games.
Buy a ms product and expect not to get shit on? Ah, come on! W phones should come with toilet paper.
And MS can fake those.
Sure they *can*. Anyone *can*. But either they have to rebuild and redeliver the app to do that, assuming the devices pull the content directly. That buys them an hour or two before someone notices. Or if its fed via ms infrastructure, then its even easier.
But because it's Microsoft, fuck them, right?
Sure, why not? Tis better to fuck than be fucked. And MS has done plenty of fucking already.
How is Google going to determine whether a request to Youtube is sent from this app?
Really? Presumably via request headers or other fingerprinting techniques. If they wanted to be real jerks (like remember when MS required an IE user agent string just to access microsoft.com?), they could just start disallowing this traffic now.
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.
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