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2005-09-15

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Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of ... Ringtone. [ Ø P3K • ]

2005-09-15-ankor

Bill Gates: "There's only really one metric to me for future software development, which is -- do you write less code to get the same thing done?"

Gotta try Q one day. Fun read, as always.

"Who did DHTML?" ^*

"So there's an RSS naivete today that is wonderful, but cannot last."

"I think [WPF/E] was called Jolt internally. It overlaps what Flash does a lot. Now, I don't think anybody makes money selling lightweight presentation capability onto phones and devices and stuff like that.^** We're making this thing free, we're making it pervasive."

^* The guys you recommended to give up their options and join the Peace Corps?
^** Insert "any more" here. I guess Macromedia would've begged to differ ("[Macromedia] receives a royalty for every phone that uses Flash and charges 50 cents to $2 a phone.").

2005-09-15-lessCode

Publish has a first look at Microsoft Sparkle and compares it to Flash, which is now positioned in a very uncomfortable middle between DHTML and an amazingly full-featured graphics/user interface kit (Avalon) - which, however, won't be usable at large scale (whenever reach is an issue) for at least 2 more years. I sure hope for Adobe that Flash 8 is worth writing home about (Colin Moock thinks so); also, reach is now to be expanded at almost any cost.

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