With the hot standards battle for document formats, which one is your fav.? I’m betting on PDF since it is well understood, supported by tools like LaTeX and LyX; and ODF for new docs, which in turn can easily be converted to PDF. No more .doc, .xls, .ppt, .lwp, .123, .prz, .swx, .sxc, .sxi etc. Nice! Pervasiveness of MS tools may mean OpenXML + XPS is the new standard, but replacing PDF will be tough!
Author: srungta
Wow, an excellent essay – only read it when you’re calm and free-minded, otherwise, it will be a boring lengthy nonsense.
Curve, Split, New, Limits, Recipes and Different.
Why we must give up our obsession with apparently-pretty rocks, for which the supply is artificially reduced and which leads to huge suffering of fellow human beings.
- Future applications = Rich Applications (RA)
- RA = Rich Internet Applications (RIA) or Rich Client Applications (RCA)
- RIA preferred over RCA, where/when ever possible – browser rules
- RIA = Flex, AJAX, …
- RCA = Eclipse RCP, maybe .NET Platform, …
assuming ease of use, cross-platform, wide acceptance, not domain specific etc.
Adobe’s decision to buy Macromedia wasn’t so bad after all!
How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
“I want to talk about the implications for that marvelous aspect of the fundamental UNIX design: the pipe, and its ability to connect small independent programs so that they could collectively perform functions beyond the capability of any of them alone. What is the equivalent of the pipe in the age of the web? …This is one of the REALLY BIG IDEAS that is going to shape the next five or ten years of computing.”
Touted as the biggest change in computer chips in 40 years, the ‘high-k’ stuff allows to transition from current 65nm process to 45nm; Moore’s Law to endure, contrary to popular belief every n years that it has reached its limits! A simultaneous and independent breakthrough by IBM (and co) and Intel. IBM is to focus on higher performance, whilst Intel is to focus on lower power consumption at equivalent or better performance.
Wider recognition of ‘terrorism’ by the world, post 9/11, has made a positive impact. “Kashmiri and diplomatic sources say, Pakistan has ended its long time covert support to jihadi militias, support it has never admitted giving.”
“The reason we’re allocating dollars to this sector is we think we can deliver attractive returns…It’s not because we want to do great things for the environment or great things for the world,” though he adds that that is a “great byproduct.”
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Are Software Patents Evil?
Innovation vs. Invention… listen to what Paul Graham has to say.
Joost, aka the Venice Project — an Internet television browser developed by the Skype team — allows users to instantly flip among thousands of channels of full-screen video. The service is free, and it’s supported by one minute of targeted advertisements per hour.