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05 Dec 09

Joseph Schumpeter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Schumpeter's theory is that the success of capitalism will lead to a form of corporatism and a fostering of values hostile to capitalism, especially among intellectuals. The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism; it will be replaced by socialism in some form. There will not be a revolution, but merely a trend in parliaments to elect social democratic parties of one stripe or another. He argued that capitalism's collapse from within will come about as democratic majorities vote for the creation of a welfare state and place restrictions upon entrepreneurship that will burden and destroy the capitalist structure.
  • In his vision, the intellectual class will play an important role in capitalism's demise. The term "intellectuals" denotes a class of persons in a position to develop critiques of societal matters for which they are not directly responsible and able to stand up for the interests of strata to which they themselves do not belong.
28 Nov 09

Karl Rove: Voter Anger is Building Over Deficits - WSJ.com

  • In February, Mr. Obama's budget plan for the next decade projected that revenues would equal about 18% of GDP while spending would jump to 24% of GDP, up from its post World War II average of 21%. Annual deficits of about 6% of GDP were projected for years to come.
  • When Mr. Obama was sworn into office the federal deficit for this year stood at $422 billion. At the end of October, it stood at $1.42 trillion. The total national debt also soared to $7.5 trillion at the end of last month, up from $6.3 trillion shortly after Inauguration Day.
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19 Nov 09

wave-protocol - Project Hosting on Google Code

ConsoleClient - wave-protocol - Guide to the example console client - Project Hosting on Google Code

  • There is currently no character-by-character transmission as this would require extra effort to behave nicely with multiple participants (but, feel free to add it!).
18 Nov 09

10 Persistent Messaging Problems that Google Wave Solves

Google Wave suffered something of a letdown when the company began rolling it our more broadly to the public. Pundits largely panned the real-time collaboration platform for squelching productivity. However, eWEEK believes these folks didn't spent enough time getting comfortable with the platform. Below are 10 work-related problems Wave solves, most of which come courtesy of Daniel Tenner, CTO and co-founder of Woobius, which makes a Web-based document sharing tool, bookended by some solutions from eWEEK. This is timed for the impending launch of Wave to more people, which Google CEO Eric Schmidt said is coming soon.

www.eweek.com/...that-Google-Wave-Solves-243466 - Preview

14 Nov 09

Kanjorski Reveals Paulson's Closed-Door TARP Threats - Home - The Daily Bail

  • Transcript of Rep. Paul Kanjorski statement on C-SPAN:


    "It was about September 18th [sic]. … On Thursday at about 11 o’clock in the morning the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of, uh, money market accounts in the United States to the tune of $550-billion was being drawn out in in a matter of an hour or two.

    The Treasury opened up its window to help, and pumped in $105-billion into the system, and quickly realized it could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close down the operation, to close down the money accounts. … If they had not done that, in their estimation, by 2 PM that afternoon $5.5-trillion would have been withdrawn and would have collapsed the U.S. economy and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.

    We talked at that time about what would have happened. It would have been the end of our economic and our political system as we know it."

Thoughts from the Frontline

  • + Each year we allow
    almost 1 million immigrants into the US, mostly family of people already here.
    I suggest that for the next two years we stop that. Instead, let anyone who can
    buy a home, passes basic screening, and can demonstrate the ability to pay for
    health insurance immigrate to the US and get a temporary green card. If they
    behave, then the card becomes permanent after four years.
  • We almost immediately
    put a floor on the housing market, absorb the excess homes, and within a year
    the housing-construction market, along with the jobs that are now gone, will be
    back. That is stimulus that costs the taxpayers nothing.
03 Nov 09

Google, SAP, and Salesforce.com Could Save Credit Markets and Journalism | paulwilkinson.com

  • The main points of Friday’s memo were to advance the idea that giving all market participants the same information simultaneously helps markets work better and to generate interest in having the U.S. compete (or less likely cooperate) with Europe to create a working and transparent market.
  • The main points of Friday’s memo were to advance the idea that giving all market participants the same information simultaneously helps markets work better and to generate interest in having the U.S. compete (or less likely cooperate) with Europe to create a working and transparent market.
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28 Oct 09

Gray Matter : Office and SharePoint 2010 Highlights from SharePoint Conference

  • Hey, look at this!  Marbux and the Universal Interoperability Council is listed with the "bloggers".  - garyedwards on 2009-10-28
  • Marbux's Blog

Blogger: An Antic Disposition - Post a Comment

  • http://www.cio.ny.gov/policy/esra/erecords-study.htm
19 Oct 09

Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why | VentureBeat

  • Running video on the iPhone AT&T network is awful. Verizon’s VCast technology, by contrast, allows streaming mobile video that is best in class. Verizon’s network will get better in the coming months.  Brian Higgins, Executive Director of Verizon’s LTE Innovation Center, recently told VentureBeat that “when we are further along with LTE [Long Term Evolution, or Verizon's 4G technology, expected to be rolled out soon], one of our primary focus points will be how we get more video onto the network. We believe that this will be the first high-end network which will support mobile video in a robust manner — true video.” Verizon’s creation of a “4G Venture Forum” with highly regarded venture capital firms (including Charles River Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Redpoint) is designed to encourage further innovation on the network — creating applications that are designed for it, and ready to go when 4G is launched.
  • Droid is vastly better interface and hardware front than previous Android phones.
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03 Oct 09

IBM aims at Google, Microsoft with new Webmail

........ It seems to me that IBM has taken their first very tentative step into cloud computing services.  But eMail hardly makes for a comparison to the sprawl of free Google Apps and Services let alone the enterprise professional versions.
Did i forget wiki's, portals, blogs and social networking?  Or is it IBM that has forgotten?

www.computerworld.com/...gle_Microsoft_with_new_Webmail - Preview

  • since when did lower in price beat free? - garyedwards on 2009-10-03
  • OK, so Google does charge for Google Enterprise.  But that includes the proffessional versions of working Google Apps - gDocs, gMail, gTalk, and gVoice.   Where are the iNotes collaborative online Office editors?  Does Outblaze have gMail equivalent anti virus and anti spam download edit/read tools?  How about mapping and language translation?  Integrated chat?  gVoice integrates chat and eMail messaging.   What does iNote have that compares?   - garyedwards on 2009-10-03
18 Sep 09

Review: Microsoft's Office's Slow Road to the Web - PC World

    • This is a key feature for the California Project and wiki-word.  I'm wondering though how it is that collaboration works if MSWeb apps is missing this capability?  Users should be able to open local documents in MSWord, click a "collaboration" button, select collaborators and assign roles, and have the system transparently move the document to a server where collaborators can open it and edit from either a MSWeb browser or a MSWord desktop.  The iPhone-WebKit functionality is also a must have feature, but Microsoft has fallen way behind when it comes to advanced mobile computing.  They don't have a play in that market. - on 2009-09-18
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  • Two of the most useful-sounding features-the ability to open documents stored on the Web from within a local copy of Office as if they were stored on your hard drive, and to view documents in phone browsers-aren't ready yet.
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11 Sep 09

Section 461-A:14 Support. - New Hampshire Section 461-A:14 Support. - New Hampshire Code :: Justia

  • IV. The amount of a child support obligation shall remain as stated in the order until all dependent children for whom support is ordered shall terminate their high school education or reach the age of 18 years, whichever is later, or become married, or become a member of the armed services, at which time the child support obligation, including all educational support obligations, terminates without further legal action. This amount shall remain as specified unless a legal order expressly allocates the payments on a per child basis. If the order involves a disabled child, the court shall specify the duration of the order, which may be beyond the time when the child reaches the age of 18.
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16 Jul 09

The Battle Of Microsoft Mirrors The French Revolution | BNET Technology Blog | BNET

  • Of course, we can believe the "three guys without a garage" (http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/10/cracks-in-foundation.html) that IBM, Sun, Google, Oracle and Microsoft are plotting together to destroy interoperability, while pretending to be competitors, with little ol' me as the evil genius in charge.
  • I am not saying that the whole business process integration side of MS Office does not exist or it is not important. I'm just saying that the solution peddled by you and Gary does not work, that it is snake oil, ineffective, impractical and without technical merit, and that in the five years you've been peddling it to corporations and governments, you've failed at every step of the way and have nothing but a heap of rejection letters to show for it. I wish it were otherwise. Honestly, I do. I also wish the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy existed. But they don't, so I need to fall back on solving real problems with real engineering solutions, and not playing with fairy dust.
21 May 09

The Phantom Proposals

  • OK, once again things are looking very nasty at the ODF TC wonderland. This may surpass the infamous "List Enhancement" donnybrook that ended up with OASIS closing down the OpenDocument Foundation OSS sponsorship loophole. - garyedwards on 2009-05-21
17 May 09

Could Adobe be open-sourcing Flash? - Computerworld Blogs

  • Paul, you forgot WebKit! This is now a three horse race; Adobe "Flash-Flex-Air", Microsoft XAML-Silverlight, and the Apple-Google-Nokia-Palm-RiMM "Webkit".

    Novell's "Moonlight" is to Siliverlight what "WiNE" is to the Win32 API.

    Adobe has a long history of gradual open sourcing, with PDF a good example. What they seem to do is to milk a proprietary technology for all it's worth, developing best they can a "platform" of tools, services, developers and end user dependencies. As competitors and emerging technologies grind away at the proprietary platform, Adobe hastens the transition to "open source / open technology" basis. This allows them to milk the platform even longer.

    Trust is an important part in the establishment of any platform. Submitting parts of a proprietary technology to an open standards consortia helps offset developer and end user fears of lock-in. Adobe seems to have mastered this aspect of the quiet trap. They somehow manage to get these technologies into an open standards - open tech footing / future direction, before the accusations start. I think it's also true that Adobe is careful and in many ways respectful in how they "milk" a platform. Especially compared to the ruthless way Microsoft squeezes users, developers and trading partners. (Once the platform is established though, dependencies and the cost of moving become far more important factors than "trust").

    One other point is that WebKit has won this race for next generation "Rich Internet Application" (RiA). Silverlight and Flash are browser plug-ins capable of running as standalone run-times or, application based add-ons. WebKit didn't win by challenging Flash and Silverlight in the RiA sense of a highly graphical and fluid interface. The way the WebKit community won was by re-writing the basic browser components to accommodate three things:

    ..... the browser as a "rich internet application" OS

    ...... target the Web document model with the webkit API for a highly graphical, multi-dimensionally interactive, backwards compatible but classically structured document advance. This is HTML+ (HTML5, CSS4, SVG/Canvas, JS, jQuery).

    ..... Own the edge of the Web (devices), and let that emerging marketshare whipsaw the document model for the greater Web.

    Oh yeah. WebKit is an open technology that was open source from the gitgo. The way they deal with vendor dominated standards consortia is to submit their enhancements as proposals, but keep advancing the open technology regardless of the competitive vendor wars and alliances guaranteed to slow/kill things behind the thin veil of "standards" work.

    Because of the dominance of webkit at the edge, the vendor consortia are unable to stop WebKit enhancements. They are forced to consider the proposals. This has numerous effects. For instance, after eight years of left-for-dead neglect, the W3C was forced to resurrect work on HTML, CSS, CSS layout, and SVG. It's the only way the W3C could stay relevant. Adobe will be similarly forced to accelerate the openness of Flash. Given a choice between a truly open technology like WebKit, and a somewhat/eventually open Flash, developers will choose WebKit.

    And oh yeah; there is that little thing about WebKit owning the edge of the Web.

    The killer that seals the deal for WebKit however is that the greater Web's document model is changing. As Google, Facebook, Yahoo and many other web site service providers move to get their pages iPhone ready, the greater Web ends up adopting the WebKit document model at it's core.

    Microsoft has lost the battle for the Web's document model. The OOXML-XAML-Silvelight chain of WPF technologies will dominate the "business Web" primarily because we were unable to break the desktop monopolist grip on business documents and processes. The incredible success that WebKit is having both at the edge and across the greater Web insures however that the future of the Web will be "open". At least in part.

    ~ge~     - garyedwards on 2009-05-17
  • Hey Paul, watch out for diigolet. It does cut your comments off!!!! If you post the comment first, and then go to Diigo later, you can complete the full edit. I have notified Wade and Maggie about this killer problem. - garyedwards on 2009-05-17
  • Just a note about the diigolet cutoff problem: i wrote my lengthy missive by clicking on the comment link in the "Future of the Web" eMail notification:

    Could Adobe be open-sourcing Flash? - Computerworld Blogs - Add comment
    Tags: Adobe flash open source | shared by Paul Merrell 2009-05-17 03:46:22

    Kind of a shortcut to get around the diigolet limitations.     - garyedwards on 2009-05-17
20 Mar 09

Open Documents Standards Proposed in Texas Legislature | The Cowtown Chronicles

  • Mindless drivel from someone who obviously drank the kool-aid, but has no idea what he's talking about. Jesper has highlighted a paragraph that shouts loudly just how out of touch these charlatans can get. No doubt any article about ODF and Microsoft is sure to gin up the hits, but this guys a clown. - garyedwards on 2009-03-20
18 Mar 09

Microsoft's Next Big Thing - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

  • What the world is searching for now is the right combination of underlying technologies and some killer apps that will demonstrate that the capabilities of this integrated end-to-end view of the cloud-plus-client will enable things that the world hasn't seen yet. That's what we're focused on here.
    • The "integrated end-to-end view of the cloud-plus-client" describes exactly how Microsoft intends on leveraging their desktop monopoly into the next generation of Web based cloud computing. Microsoft has managed to maintain control over how server side information systems integrate with the MSOffice productivity environment. Looks like they have reserved the high end integration for themselves :) No surprise there, but they paid one hell of a whopping anti-trust cost to pull it off. (Upwards of $14 Billion in settlement costs and fines).



      Must be some kind of profits sitting at the end of this cloud plus integrated rich client plot.       - on 2009-03-18
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  • Think of it as the successor to the graphical user interface. Microsoft was the company that drove the broad adoption of the GUI by putting Word and Excel on the early version of Windows. That became the killer app that brought us personal computing. Now we can see the outline of the NUI, just as we could see the outline of Windows coming. And yet you have to figure out, what are the killer apps?
27 Feb 09

Nvidia: Turbo Boost for Android and WinMobile

NVIDIA today introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges.<br><br>

Tegra integrates an ARM processor with GeForce graphics. The goal is to bring PC-like graphics to small devices like an Android phone. It’s not an end-user product yet. NVIDIA says its platform will enable OEMs to quickly build and bring to market devices that carriers can offer for as low as $99 and deliver mobile HD content.<br><br>

Looks like Nvidia is not going to wait around for Intel. They are pushing forward into a wireless "always on" world of visual computing. This article discusses the ViA-Nvidia ION effort as well as the ION Android. I'm wondering when mulit-media Linux vendor "Archos" will announce a deal with Nvidia ION? Archos has announced a Android tablet, but it's based on the ARM processor.

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