I have heard a lot of good things about Silveright and I 'was' pretty excited to see a competitor with Adobe's Flash. Played around with the BETA and it was looking... Well BETA can't fault them for that it's just a new kind of flash app at this point not seeing anything special yet but does have potential and does look prettier. But I just discovered that Silverlight is designed to work with Vista's DRM capabilities and is a flash app specifically designed to do DRM, my hopes for a more reliable stable Flash app have been shattered. DRM has destroyed everything it's touched... Microsoft is investing wayyyy to heavily in DRM and it it's probably going to sink it seeing as how it's destroyed every product that's used it except apple. IF Vista isn't a shining example of the damage that the idea of "wrap DRM in a nice pretty package and everyone will buy it" has done to the PC industry I don't know what is. No one is buying Vista because it's pretty and they "want it." They only ones who get it do so because of Microsoft's virtual OS Monopoly and it's shoved down their throats. They'll probably try to do the same with Silverlight.
I'm certainly not saying it's gloom and doom for Microsoft, hell their management could join the ranks of the catholic church in infamy and continue churning out sub par products and they would still come out unscathed financially thanks to the OS monopoly. Until Google decides to openly break their business model they're not going anywhere.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
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WAKE UP PEOPLE: The New World Order is here
This pretty clearly explains the Democrats failure to get their agenda done. They're not actually in power.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction. I sincerely believe, with you...that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
- Thomas Jefferson
"To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill [chartering the first Bank of the United States] have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution - taking from the Federal government their power of borrowing (from privately-owned corporate banks)."
- Thomas Jefferson
"We are undone, my dear sir, if legislation is still permitted which makes our money, much or little, real or imaginary, as the moneyed interests shall choose to make it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Makes one wonder witch party he'd support? Neither
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