so. how much do you think you're worth? the personal salary report thinks it knows.
posted by e3
7:30:13 AM
i think i may have knocked a screw loose last night. i'm far too excited that the mozilla 0.95 release is official. i love the smell of testing in the morning. smells like victory.
posted by e3
7:21:07 AM
the latest browser stats mighty interesting indeed. while mozilla and its related ilk still have a paltry overall percentage (0.5%) it "...has grown significantly since the release of Netscape 6.1." and i'm continually amazed at the browser resolution stats - 51% of people are still stuck on 800x600 and 42% are at 1024x768.
posted by e3
7:22:15 PM
i spent my formative years on the craggy coast of maine and it just warms my heart to see glennf write about an 802.11 isp on maine's rocky coast. maybe there's a reason for me to move back downeast afterall.
posted by e3
11:23:14 PM
i was trying to formulate my thoughts about clay's recent web services: it's so crazy, it just might not work. on the one hand, it's a great hype-deflating piece, with quotes like:
posted by e3
9:09:51 PM
"Web Services can't create a framework in which any two arbitrary applications can interact because XML doesn't provide shared languages, merely shared alphabets. The Web Services stack pushes this shared semantics problem into higher and higher layers without solving it. Humans often cannot create perfectly transparent descriptions even when they are trying to, and they simply won't try when there's an economic incentive to stretch the truth."on the other hand, the piece can also be viewed as an overblown version of that oldie, but goodie - xml and semantic transparency:
"We may rehearse this fundamental axiom of descriptive markup in terms of a classical SGML polemic: the doubly-delimited information objects in an SGML/XML document are described by markup in a meaningful, self-documenting way through the use of names which are carefully selected by domain experts for element type names, attribute names, and attribute values. This is true of XML in 1998, was true of SGML in 1986, and was true of Brian Reid's Scribe system in 1976. However, of itself, descriptive markup proves to be of limited relevance as a mechanism to enable information interchange at the level of the machine.ahhh. but how to complain and yet not appear to be approving of the hype? well, julian bond does a fine job:
As enchanting as it is to contemplate the apparent 'semantic' clarity, flexibility, and extensibility of XML vis-à-vis HTML (e.g., how wonderfully perspicuous XML <bookTitle> seems when compared to HTML <i>), we must reckon with the cold fact that XML does not of itself enable blind interchange or information reuse. XML may help humans predict what information might lie "between the tags" in the case of <trunk> </trunk>, but XML can only help. For an XML processor, <trunk> and <i> and <booktitle> are all equally (and totally) meaningless. Yes, meaningless.
Just like its parent metalanguage (SGML), XML has no formal mechanism to support the declaration of semantic integrity constraints, and XML processors have no means of validating object semantics even if these are declared informally in an XML DTD. XML processors will have no inherent understanding of document object semantics because XML (meta-)markup languages have no predefined application-level processing semantics. XML thus formally governs syntax only - not semantics."
"I think the commentators and practitioners in the web services space are in danger of promoting the same sort of muddy thinking. We're setting up a straw man by focussing on one aspect of the problem in order to provide an excuse to pull down the whole edifice."so the business process semantics of arbitrary application to application communication isn't really on the event horizon. point taken - even by the analysts:
"According to Gartner, more than 40 percent of enterprises' first experience with the technology will be an internal deployment of a Web services-enabled architecture. Almost without anyone recognizing it, Gartner says, applications will move from a code-and-recode model to one of connect, disconnect and reconnect dynamically.[update] hmmm. coincidence or not. clay just posted a message to decentralization that clarifies the point that i was trying to make:
"Setbacks should be presumed, particularly in vendor interoperability conflicts, but ensuing layers of metadata and ad-hoc collaboration at low levels should ensure 'good enough' solutions," said Daryl Plummer, group vice president and research group director for Gartner."
"This is one of the points I was trying to make -- this stuff is a tool for developers to work out the details of application interop. It is not a tool to create interop out of thin air."
the whole bert and bin laden thing is just to wierd for me to wrap my brain around. this is exactly the type of thing i would expect from robert anton wilson.
posted by e3
11:14:31 PM
whoa. groove got a boost today:
posted by e3
8:05:25 AM
"Microsoft Corp. MSFT and Groove Networks Inc., the leading provider of decentralized software for secure business collaboration, today announced a strategic relationship designed to advance the delivery of Web and peer services to businesses. As part of the relationship, Microsoft has invested approximately $51 million in Groove Networks, resulting in a minority equity stake. Previous investors, including Accel Partners, also participated in Groove Networks' $54 million financing."this has the potential to be good on a number of fronts. obviously bad because of the bad things that can happen to good companies that work with microsoft. then again, i know billg respects ray, so i suppose it's not out of the realm of possibility that ray and company are in the early stages of a courtship.
"Both Microsoft and Groove Networks believe that utilizing an appropriate mix of centralized and decentralized infrastructure is critically important to organizations of all sizes."
i've got more programmers than you:
posted by e3
7:38:13 AM
"One of the things to take away from this is that EDS has very thin gross and operating margins. Further, if a free software business based on services wants to do some development and contribute back, that R&D line is going to have to go up to at least 1% or 2%. That's going to reduce operating margins to 7.4%. At 7.4%, investors are going to be tough to attract. Remember, that's operating margin. Net income is going to be 3% to 5%. Double tax-free municipal bonds are 5%. Why would an investor put money into a company (where there is risk), when they could put that money into low-risk munis and get the same or better return??? Further, why invest in a business like EDS at all when MS returns 41% net income? This is why MS is a much more valuable company."[ via tim ]
there's an interesting mefi thread on moveable type, which i'm giving serious thought to taking for a spin.
posted by e3
11:22:57 PM
hmmm. the aim transport on my local jabber server is acting funny. i wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the aim protocol has been revealed . i'm sure sombody at aol is staying up late trying to figure out how to do damage control on this one.
posted by e3
11:19:40 PM
moveable type is now available for download and it sports an impressive array of features for such a young product. not that it's a vicious contest, but it'll be nice to see the the fruits of evan's labor. healthy competition is a good thing.
posted by e3
8:08:46 PM
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