Should simple software be free:
During the chat, the entire MacBreak Weekly crew discussed the danger to the music industry that comes from younger listeners having a built-in expectation that music should be free.
On this episode I believe [Leo Laporte] has inadvertently helped to perpetuate the same kind of thinking about software that the panel had just finished expressing concern about with regard to music: the idea that the hard-earned fruits of somebody’s creative labor should be free.
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PowerShell is a complete replacement for any of Microsoft’s DOS or Windows command line interpreters. It is a full fledged object oriented system administration scripting language. With PowerShell knowledge you would run circles around any sysadmin that works predominantly from through the GUI, as well as be able to get Windows to do things that you just can’t do through a GUI alone.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/index.mspx
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From Eurogamer: Unangst said Microsoft would "continue to invest" in Games for Windows, which apart from giving its games an Xbox Live-style service layer with friends lists, Achievements and the like, also insists that games be easy to install, support widescreen displays and include parental controls.
It all sounds promising. The one thing I was most impressed with on Xbox 360 is the whole integration and lack of configuration for games, if they can bring that to Windows Vista then a lot of people will be very happy.
Some ideas:
You can see how they could potentially take the experience index benchmarking framework and develop that into something that can adjust games visual quality, automatic updating and applying of patching without user intervention, matchmaking and the community features could all be very useful and add value to PC gaming. Even some sort of integrated anti piracy tool developed for Microsoft that doesn’t rootkit your machine which would be less painful to consumers would also be an improvement over the current situation.
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Breaks Friday with Cloudseer @ the Drome! It’s my new spot: 3pm-5pm PST! Start off your weekend with the best breaks mixed by live DJ Cloudseer Writer, with a little bit electro thrown in! Bring all your friends to the Drome 
It was good, managed to cram in a lot of breaks in two hours!
| # | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rattle Ya Cage | General MIDI |
| 2 | Bone Snow | HELL, Sam |
| 3 | No Rockstars (Bass Kleph Remix) | Hyper |
| 4 | Loving You (Atomic Hooligan Remix) – Ils | Ils |
| 5 | Soul Of Man – Foxy Moron | Drummatic Twins |
| 6 | Rusko v.s. the 80s | Crendore |
| 7 | Jahova | Rusko |
| 8 | Shake It Up (Hook n Sling Remix) | Stanton Warriors |
| 9 | Slyde – Vibrate To This (Dt’s Re-Edit) | Drummatic Twins |
| 10 | Tell Me How You Feel (Kid Kenobi vs Rogue Element Remix) | Krafty Kuts |
| 11 | Pop Ya Cork | Stanton Warriors |
| 12 | Message 2 Love (Alex Metric remix) | Sharam Jey |
| 13 | Plump Djs – Black Jack | Drummatic Twins |
| 14 | Everybody Get Up (Circuit Breaker Remix) – Transformer Man | Transformer Man |
| 15 | Cockney Thug | Rusko |
| 16 | Good To Go | General MIDI |
| 17 | Undertow feat. Patrick Scott – Oracle’s Man Overboard Mix | Summer Channel |
| 18 | Control (original mix) | AUDIO DEALERS |
| 19 | Rock This Place | General MIDI |
| 20 | Drummatic Twins – Feelin Kinda Strange (Bass Kleph & Nick Thayer Remix) | Drummatic Twins |
| 21 | Shredder | Far Too Loud |
| 22 | Da Virus | Various Artists – XL Recordings |
| 23 | Pop Ya Cork | Stanton Warriors |
| 24 | Turn It Loud | General MIDI |
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Mike Davies works as a web developer for Yahoo Europe and has some insightful comments on the Internet Explorer rendering switch (see source).
When a user upgrades from IE7 to IE8, they will be upgrading from IE7 to IE7. When a user upgrades from IE8 to IE9, they will be upgrading from IE7 to IE7. Notice the trend. [...]
Effectively, with this meta tag proposal, Microsoft have either absolutely guaranteed that they will remain the dominant browser on the web, or it has sown the seeds for its ultimate destruction. If it’s dominant IE7 will be the instrument to hold back all standards compliant progress, just like IE6 before it.
Source [isolani.co.uk]
I can only agree. It seems to me the switch will result in better fitting websites, but not by using more standards. But I noticed this at the whole Eolas patent debacle: the IE team doesn’t take enough responsibility regarding standards. Even though the code was fine they wanted developers to implement a javascript workaround for their own workaround solution in all their pages with embedded content. They didn’t want to (or couldn’t) pay Eolas so people now have to click to start embedded media. Even though it’s a browser issue.
And the same happens in this case: if the browser vendor took its responsibility and improved its implementation, the whole issue wouldn’t exist for webdevelopers’ if their sites written to standards (and valid) don’t display properly. So the whole “the users have to be protected from broken pages” card is a smoke screen in my opinion.
Just be frank then: corporate partners costcutting is more important to Microsoft than the freedom of the web.
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The following sites might prove useful if you suffer from a games addiction:
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Don’t call your submit button ‘submit’ if you want to change the submit event with Javascript:
If you do, the browser (please read “Firefox 1.5 or IE 6″ – that’s what I tested at the moment) will consider submit is an object. And an object is not a function (although you might enjoy later on the paradox that a function is an object).
Source [webprodevelopment.com]