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Ramona
Corey
Swerdloff
Sofia

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https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ofojbjgaaddibdfpmmjeonahgbacejid

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http://gurpreetdubb.blogspot.com/2008/10/sitereloader-to-help-auto-refresh-your.html

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"When computer scientists dissect the massive rivers of traffic flowing through it, they cannot account
for the source of all the bits. Every now and then a bit is transmitted incorrectly, and while most
of those mutations can be attributed to identifiable causes such as hacking, machine error, or line damage,
the researchers are left with a few percent that somehow changed themselves. In other words, a small
fraction of what the technium communicates originates not from any of its known human-made nodes but from
the system at large. The technium is whispering to itself."

From What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly 

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2010/09/malcolm-gladwell-twitter-social-media.html
Wednesday September 29, 2010
2:55
	
	
The New Yorker: 
Malcolm Gladwell will be joining us shortly. For now, please submit your questions.
Wednesday September 29, 2010 2:55 The New Yorker
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Wow!  I had no idea that Microsoft was so generous as to release a specification they designed to take marketshare/mindshare away from a competitor that they would let an international standards body govern it.  There certainly would be no marketing upside to that.  And I can't think of any other time they've done that before.  Oh wait:

OOXML vs. ODF
Sun JVM vs. MS JVM incompatibilities
Javacript vs. JScript
IE's original HTML "extensions"

They have a phrase for this over there:  "Embrace and extend".

In regards to Johnny Lee being Microsoft hobag, it's more than just his use of C#. His Wii Projects are all based on DirectX and Windows Presentation Framework.  Yes, there are free tools for developing in C# and DirectX/WPF.  Well, OK there's only one:  Visual Studio Express, which is targeted at beginners and designed to get you to "graduate" to their paid product.  But there is no way to run/develop in any other OS unless you use an emulator or WINE...and even then it's a dicey prospect.  I'm not saying C#

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Wow!  I had no idea that Microsoft was so generous as to release a specification they designed to take marketshare/mindshare away from a competitor that they would let an international standards body govern it.  There certainly would be no marketing upside to that.  And I can't think of any other time they've done that before.  Oh wait:

OOXML vs. ODF
Sun JVM vs. MS JVM incompatibilities
Javacript vs. JScript
IE's original HTML "extensions"

They have a phrase for this over there:  "Embrace and extend".

In regards to Johnny Lee being Microsoft hobag, it's more than just his use of C#. His Wii Projects are all based on DirectX and Windows Presentation Framework.  Yes, there are free tools for developing in C# and DirectX/WPF.  Well, OK there's only one:  Visual Studio Express, which is targeted at beginners and designed to get you to "graduate" to their paid product.  But there is no way to run/develop in any other OS unless you use an emulator or WINE...and even then it's a dicey prospect.  I'm not saying C#