vruz:
if he can trivialise and choreograph the images of Dr King and Gandhi in a fucking commercial to sell computers, I can détour and hijack his fake zen too.
take that, steve.
I want to interact with my computer in a fundamentally different way. The desktop metaphor is dead; a generation of children have grown up never working with the physical objects that the virtual desktop represents. What I really want is a modernized Plan 9, a software platform that’s designed from the ground up for our networked, distributed world. If you try to placate me with the assertion that the Web is this new operating system I will become violent.
I want better software: more usable, more accessible, more open, more secure, more integrated, more seamless. I want a better software development experience. I want better programming languages with better development toolkits. Fundamentally, I want better abstractions for the same computation I can do today with all that lovely hardware.
Sometimes I feel like software innovation stopped in the 80’s. Alex articulates this thought better than I.
(via thegongshow)
I completely echo Alex’ sentiment, but I add one further point, and one we didn’t openly acknowledge until two weeks ago: We know that platform has to be networked, but it also has to be generative: tinkerable, hackable, open to innovation directly from the platform. Steve Jobs has laid out his vision of what software can be, and while it certainly improves on many of the metaphors of computing, it’s a huge step back to the completely managed, completely vendor/operator reliant computing of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The Plan 9 vision was one of an open, networked, generative computing that made sense in a modern context. Lets not agree we need to start over and find that our new environment is an innovation prison.
“Many online video sites have been experimenting with a new video format, called HTML5. Unlike Flash, which is a downloaded piece of software that can interact with a computer’s operating system, HTML5 works directly in a Web browser.”
“In addition, the patents surrounding HTML5 are owned by a group of companies; Apple is a part of that group.”
-The New York Times
NO, NEW YORK TIMES. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THOSE STATEMENTS ARE CORRECT.
Yes, it’s hard to explain that Firefox only supports Ogg Theora (I know you gave it that awful name to expose more people to Terry Pratchet scifantasy) because H.264 is protected by various patents, however, I’m not sure that the <video> tag means HTML5 is a video format, nor protected by patent.
How does this sound?
“Only recently did the HTML standard, used for making web sites, include a way to use video natively, without a plugin like Flash. However, that new standard of HTML, called HTML5, has sparked a debate among browser manufacturers because one version of the standard uses a video technology that is protected by patents, held by several companies, including Apple.”
“Flash AND HTML5”
I was just reading quotes from this guy in the actual newspaper while on the subway. I’m pretty sure this picture was taken during the interview.
