Mood:  lazy

If I gets nervous I chucks my hotdog. So y'all stand back. 

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By: danfl_11
03 Apr 2007, 03:50 PM EDT
Msg. 180616 of 180638

Hear ye hear ye Rasta's complaint!!!
Not safe with me channeling around like a haint.
Get out of the others where you ain't.

*bbbsssvvveveevvtttttttttttt* *poop*

Dear Mary jo Foley,

regarding your report in
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=364

Here's how it is Mary Jo (Ya'll go get Bobby Joe and Baby Joe out of the street they's a car coming. Is that Mister Silverberg?) Microsoft had this thing called 'Silkroute', ok? VCSY had this thing most people call the 'XML Enabler'. Silkroute was patent pending and ended up patented in 2003 (I think - pretty sure but you have encyclopedias of information at your fingertips, hon. You can look it up. Or do you have an assitant for that? I need assistance with these kids. Can you baby sit some?) and VCSY's patent application for the claims that can be used to build something like the XML Enabler was in the pipeline. When VCSY's XML Enabler went up for examination the examiner at first said 'like SilkRoute' and no dice. Then the VCSY lawyers showed how SilkRoute is only a one-way direction XML transfer and VCSY is two-directional. Plus Silkroute is just a connector to make XML go from proprietary to XML. XML Enabler is an agent that is able to do ANYTHING in XML with full transaction functions and tracking and management and governance and anything else you want to plug in to the join between proprietary and XML and back.

Head hurts? Mine too.

As you can see the XML enabler is able to 'enable' proprietary data into XML but with all the different kinds of functions you might need to carry off that transfer legally. That's right it's kind of like a Sarbanes-Oxley transaction execution and tracking software device that can be put at any web tool location to record and audit the actions of the web page user. AJAX on steroids with a terminator skeleton. Look at the way IBM does like that with their IBM Web Data Collector and XML Bridge. Same same.

We don't see Microsoft showing anything like that except for AJAX and AJAX would probably still be a mystery meat and Microsoft still gluing longhorn together as far as XML is concerned if Lucovsky had not had a chair thrown thru his space. KWIM?

(That's right Miss Frisbee. Throwed a chair! My daddy woulda jerked me up two dress sizes if I done that. Ya'll don't throw rocks at Mister Silverberg's car! Put that brick down Jilly. Ya'll go watch TV. They's a new episode of Rin Tin Tin coming on.)

Now the moral of THAT story is that the treeforters (People that live at another web site and think they've died and gone to heaven because they aren't at Raging Bull if they don't need to go there. Kind of like Baptists in a mini-mart.) snooped around and found out that VCSY was going to be awarded a patent on the XML Enabler Agent (7,076,521). Well that was more than our little blabby mouths could take so we yelled and screamed about it and sure enough VCSY announced in a PR when they would be granted an allowance for patent 7,076,521. It happened to coincide with Vista being delayed for 'technical reasons' one week before the patent allowance was made public by VCSY. Any nitiwit reading RagingBull could have put two and two together during that time so it was easy to gain early information about it. More than likely it's not what VCSY wanted to happen because they never put out a PR about other patent allowance awards. We never said anything about any allowances before this one. Probably because we never found out about them.

So what am I saying? VCSy has a markup programming language called Emily. Suspicions are it is at the root of a programming language IBM GAVE NASA (just like IBM GAVE speech translation products to the government/military this week) to PROGRAM (A 'programming language' with only 200k words? Can you say Very High Level Language? VHLL?) PROGRAM, mind you, the controls for the James Webb Space Telescope. Check it out if you are interested in advanced languages. Check it out anyway because it's one of the ways all programs will come to be done one day. 'My' prediction.

Anyway back to Emily. Emily is in a class of programming langugages by itself. There are plenty of posts written about what it can do. Use one of these people around heya as a nexus for a new lexus... as it were. Sorry. Can't avoid the rhyme. It's like Tourette's Syndrome for attention.

Microsoft convinced (Somehow convinced I am sure because you would have to hold some pretty strong conviction to maintain this sort of view as articulated by the young man.) the examiner that because FrontPage has a patented claim for managing HTML files the XML file management embodied as some claims in Emily was prior art. Get it? HTML = XML as a 'markup programming language'. Sure. You're 'programming' a web page browser to represent your web page with HTML to link to other webpages of HTML to build a passive website. That? or: You're programming your webpages to have multiple characteristics and functionalities in concert with other functionally capable webpages as aggregated web-based applications in XML.

So the examiner ruled in favor of FrontPage. ???

But, you see, that puts Microsoft in a difficult position (My daddy used to called that the 'pointy pinchers' of life. Kind of like getting the kumkWats pecked by a bluejay. Hurts.) out in the open where people can argue points about technology as it really is and not accoring to the spin cycle on somebody's laundry machine.

So this kumkwat pinch they are in where they can't market Expression as a 'development' package because then they would have to explain how FrontPage can't be viewed as a 'development' package amongst the knowledge community without being laughed out of the auditorium. And here they are now turning around in public due to the outcry from their own development community. Hmmmm. Maybe Expression DOES do some functional work in XML. I think VCSY lawyers should be allowed to have a lookie loo.

I wonder why the about face? Guess they figure embarrassment now is worse than future tort by report. Because when Expression comes up against Emily there will be a very loud laughter heard throughout the Web 2.0 community and Microsoft intent will be full and fluffy under the see through shower curtain.

So it sure looks to me like they TRIED to sneak Expression out the door lowkeyed like back for designers and once developers saw they were manipulating some XML in those designer tools they had created the Microsoft developers cried out in their grief and XML tool famine (My grandpa's favorite Bible verse was 'Lo and behold I come quickly and I'm going to kick some crackerass when I do.' I don't know where exactly that is. Maybe Ekeleesiastees or something like 'at. Darlene take Baby Joe in the house and pick them crawdads off him and ya'll quit putting him in the ditch in mudbug season!) and Moses gave them 'Expression for developers kinda'.

What's going on Mary Jo? We can't see all the way in them big people's house on the hill. Somebody like you can I bet. Won't you please hep our poor information rationed brethren and find out do they or don't they? Can they make web applications with XML or canthey not. And if they can't can we just mail our Emily patent application back with the correct postage and all and they can get somebody WITH SOME FREAKING BRAINS AND A BUCKET TO PUT THEM IN to examine it please. Now, I'm not impuning no integrity here because Lord knows mines not exemplary. But we just had a trial that lasted 5 years in the hands of a judge who couldn't seem to make up his mind. Now we have an examiner who apparently doesn't know what the word 'programming' means.

Here's your chance Mary Jo. Prove me wrong. Do it for me. I'm tired of being right all the time. A life full of success without failure is like pecan pie without corn syrup. There's nothing compelling in there to hold the nuts together.

Prove all of us wrong. We see you're riding on the same carousel because your subjectivities all align so we can see up your youknowwhats. Didn't know you were such abold journalism major. Nobody knows why you got the brass ring but I see you been reaching the past few weeks and sure enough the horse you rode in on seems to be leaning most toward the post.

Come on Mary Jo. You can do it. Sure I'm flushing all your contacts under ground. That way we can tell the diff/delta (Delta Dawn whut's that flower you got on can it be a faded Rose from days gone byyeeeee. Who the hell is home? I thought all your friends were gone... something something something else hmmm mmmm mmmmmm) from the squirrels and the groudhogs. We eat squirrels around here so there is no public park. It's all woods.

Do I hear banjos in the distance?

Besides, I'm getting ready to pull the mask off before long anyway. Gonna hang up the spurs one more time. Get out of the saddle. Pop a top on a Getweiser and watch me some GPS enabled Nascar. Gonna go 'back to my roots' so to speak. Vroooom. The kids in this neighborhood can skin a hornytoad in less than three posts so they don't need no wisecracker making a show. My channeling days are a coming to an end. The professionals who don't exist on here are angry because they can't achieve their objective which was to dash this little piece of crockery to pieces. They didn't realize how big the crock really was. Some things you can kick over and not get stuff on your boots. Some things you kick over and you end up not only topping your boots but filling your mouth. It's a wise one who keeps the mouth shut whilst swimming toward a high point. Nod nod wink wink.

Sincerely,
Masta P

We now return you to our normally scheduled posting curriculum.



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Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:13 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 12 April 2007 1:04 AM EDT

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 And resistance is futile.

... oh darn I forgot the url. How borg am I? I need a tuneup on the nanocircuits and I think I'm going to get one of those eye doohickeys. No eye-boogers with those things I bet...

http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/MsgBoard/read.asp?Board=810&MsgID=357099&Setting=A9999F0001 

Re: mountains and movement By: Portuno_Diamo on April 03, 2007 at 9:46:04 AM Read 1 times (Updated daily).

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This message was edited by Portuno_Diamo at 2007-4-3 9:46:4 : This message was edited by willowstump at 2007-4-3 8:30:11 : : : : : : http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2007/m07-11.pdf : : : : : : : : : : : : "... IA is a client application that resides with the Microsoft operating system ..." : : : : : http://www.vcsy.com/press/releases.php?year=2007&month=03&day=14&num=00 : : : : : : : : : : What do we make of that?---a few ideas come to mind...$$$$ : : : : : _____________________________________________ : : : : : : : : : : Press blurb on the above. : : : : : http://news.com.com/The+feds+weigh+in+on+Windows+security/2100-7348_3-6172158.html?tag=nefd.lede : : : : : ____________________________________ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ----- oh could they be talking about are our baseline : : : : GENO200 : : : : : : ______________ : : : : : :we have had a number of discussions regarding delay and the security products-- and the idea of signing up prospective end users---as stated in the press . Wouldnt it be a hoot if the delay we've been trying to get a hold of was none other than the repeated delays of the Vista operating system??--you gotta admit--thats worth a smile. Alot may have been connected in this regard--Vista--the Networx contracts--Saas rollout and acceptance---all with delays since the beginning of announcements this time last year of the security suite.---- : : : : : : From one of the press releases..."...VCSY may register prospective customers..."---- : : : they started projecting instead of selling from the very beginning--we just dont know on what they were waiting. : : : ------------------------------------------- : : : : Anybody have thoughts about this. Microsoft and fog (or dog) may have described something similar for a few years but the company is what it is. No way does a major security rollout occur without Vista inclusion. : : : : "...The NSA's impact may be felt widely. Windows commands more than 90 percent of the worldwide market share in desktop operating systems, and Vista, which is set to be released to consumers Jan. 30, is expected to be used by more than 600 million computer users by 2010, according to Al Gillen, an analyst at market research firm International Data..." : : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801352.html : : : : ____________________________________ : : Thinking of the past 12 months wait being related to Vista debut is---well enough has been said.---It makes some sense---what is now available addresses the requirements like a girdle. : : http://blog.tmcnet.com/regulations/security/nist-omb-tout-major-windows-policy-fixes-for-federal-agencies.asp : : Port---whats an 'image' : : "....April 20th, 2007 – OMB and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will make available XP and Vista images that hardware and software vendors can use for testing..." : ___________________________ w - an 'image' in a general sense is a way of describing a copy of a single body of data loaded into memory for computer operation. For the most part, the file can be any body of data for any purpose but it would get pretty confusing to refer to various different purposed files as an 'image' so you will find image generally refers to an Operating System unit. Short story: You can either load 1000 OS configurations one at a time by hand or you can load 1 OS configuration on a machine and then copy the image of that installation on to the 999 other same machines. Big job done quick. If you have something able to tell what machines are the same configuration sand which machines are of a different configuration class you can target just the right machines and do management of the machine/software base at a higher abstraction. VCSY technology provides a base for other vendors to provide knowledge and capabilities. This is the beginning of machine managed machines on a large scale. Prognosis: The operation was a success. The patient will die before long. Or we can just pull the plug. +++++++++++++++++++++ Long story: Copies of the image stored on a hard drive can be loaded into random access memory for use provided you know the image is going to be residing on hardware that is compliant with all the configured settings in that particular image. Copies of that image, for instance, will have all the setup and alignment capabilities necessary for operation already loaded in the image. So it is theoretically possible to open the OS software box, load the OS on a server (jump thru all the hoops that you as an installer are required to do) then copy that single image to all the remaining servers in your facility. If any server becomes corrupted it can be reloaded with a fresh image of that OS and on it without harm to the data. This is only possible in situations where all the computers in the entire system are of the same configuration as the first OS installed computer (even on little setup wizard check box difference or 'delta'). I believe the President's directive on standard configuration computers is intended to do a number of things of which standardized images are a critical goal. However... consider a world (especially a government world) where EVERY computer out there was the same configuration because some catnap in the acquisition branch doesn't want to have to be confused. Maybe in Stalin's world but not in the real one, honey. However. If you had a system wide watcher that would recognize an authorized valid 'standard' installation and the subsequently distributed images. This system would allow only the same types of configurations for that particular user group. The authorized user hierarchy would decide who gets what kind of machine in each department/group/coffee-clatch. Once decided and configured so, current state XML documents would provide human governance over the machines in an automated fashion. Thus the system would decide which user group an image was to go to, check the current status of those machines and verify all standard and current configurations, squirt the image on to the hardware memory (RAM or drive as needed - consider if you will being able to do this using web-based memory like Amazon S3 ( http://aws.amazon.com/s3 )) and off you would go with another computer installation ready for the user to use. This is the only scenario I can think of that would make sense for the government to use the words 'standard configuration' beyond a small departmental strategery. p- NOTE: Info on memory. Considering the concept is being stretched by new devices and schemes this is only the beginning of what 'memory' can mean to a computer and a human. We are waiting for analog memory for true 'intelligence' to aggregate. (RAM - random access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access_memory - or the processing chips in the computer intended to store data for use by the processing units. The 'hard drive memory' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk and 'hybrid drive' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive items are for long term storage.) Some wiki info on software images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-system_image The subject and the theoretical boundaries are so vast (especially when you talk about distributed schemes) so you should take your time and think through what the nice people are telling you here to begin with. And before you slap the keys with delight to ask the question 'This sounds like StatePointPlus' yes it does but with other things attached to it as is the wont with VCSY's technology. StatePointPlus + Empath + Enabler + SiteFlash could easily cobble together just such a system which becomes a template driven hardware configuration and software installation system gated for governance and validation by other automated features. See how easy it is to build a brand new business platform by connecting stuff together? Another note: 'image' generally refers to an Operating System. The word 'instance' is usually used to refer to an application or a document image. Image refers to the body of data contained in a slug of memory. Thus the transfer from drive to ram and ready to go operation in an instant is the prime attraction to image and instance management. There is no reason, given the nature of tools IBM has in their arsenal from the Rational acquisition in speculated conjunction with such a system, IBM would not be able build systems capable of configuring departments (not just their hardware and operating systems but their applications and documents - in hours or minutes rather than days and weeks.) by push button from the administrators desk. By ONE pushbutton that is... This kind of problem solving on large scale demonstrates the power of arbitrary referencing and true virtualized performance. Those qualities empowered by enablement, interconnection and interoperation and massive affiliation provide a very scalable and manageable platform for building extremely large interoperative installations with minimal human care and oversight. Connect the code words with their realities and VIOLA! Gimme a beer! you have organic computational evolutions. Yes, Virginia. The machines will eat your mommy. Sleep tight.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 1:32 PM EDT

Updated: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 2:59 PM EDT

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Mood:  accident prone

 Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to direct your attention to the center of the web page.  Count to ten in whatever direction you may like and tell yourself 'This is just a dream. This is just a dream.' Now, depending on whether you closed your eyes when you did that please line up on the left (your left) side of the page. Others to the right please. Watch the edge.

 I am who you think I am if you're thinking I'm like Chicken Man which,as many may attest, was at one time 'everywhere. everywhere.'.

 So I am. Without this machination I would have been reduced to buzzard poop long ago but for a few faithful friends and followers who wandered with Rasta Ranger throughout the wilderness of bummed out aspirations. We few have grown to a noticed number and we're been outliving our current living spaces at ProgrammersHeaven

Our collective experience in owning stock in Vertical Computer Systems has forged a socialized network of 'longs' meaning we are all 'long' VCSY stock. Wallstreet jargon where 'long' does not have the same connotations as someone from the farmland might.

Nevertheless, despite our  prurient lust for antiquities in pointed p2p prose we have intended all along to maintain a strict code of 'if you can't cut it and paste it don't talk about it'. But when you get a cut and paste that just cries out by itself to be made??? You paste that mutha and burn the barn down because it is truth... albeit in different roles in different stages.

 So we supply speculations. We are all Spartacus and any one of us may assume their own and varied long demonstrations of exuberance and elation, as it were, should we all come to enjoy a communion of spirits in being lifted to the spire of having been... dare I say it? Dast I would? Would I woo? Would I coocheecoocheekoo?

 Sure. Right.

 Look around and think but don't touch that trading button until you're sure you're acting with your own thoughts and not mine or say sirius or baveman or rapidrobert.

 If you don't know those names you got some serious catching up to do.

 Put the comic books away and prepare to meet your future whether you like it or not. If you like it you can profit. If not, you're gonna hate Thursdays. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:54 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 2 April 2007 2:25 PM EDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

 Hoot Gibson. I love it when people read. Reading is FUNdaMental. There should be a law: No read no breed.

 By the way you get odd results using copy/paste to 'the clipboard' as it exists today so please excuse the huge type and all from some of these page to page cut and paste jobs. This tripod stuff does a realy good job of trying but there are so many hurdles between WYSIWYG formatting and the web page. So be glad what ya got and shut up with the complaining. You're lucky you ain't eating mudbugs with grits casserole for breakfast. The green beans. Can't do the green beans.

 I suppose Oz is yearning for a universal clipboard and he thinks THAT will spur and spawn the next great leap in productivity Microsoft can mine for rubies among the manual-oriented crowd while the rest of the machine world marches on ahead to explore neato subjects like semantic automation and socialized aggregation.

 Heh heh. Yep. I like this blogging life. Sit up in your altogethers and make pronouncements that the experts have to decode and verify. It's great. Great. I could actually make a business out of this one day. You know. Put an adding machine on the right side over here and then a percents calculator so peeple can figure out how many percents they are. Maybe a movie thingie down here by the pepsikoala hits motif. It would be mahvelous. Thimply mahvelous.

 Now, as for Microsoft and what they can't do as opines our guru from the blue, I ... naw I'll save that until next post. I like this blogger's life ya know. I could take a real shine to it. Maybe paint my face and sing while the redwoods burn. Tragic. Tragic. By the way, what was that clown crying about again?

http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=180518

By: danfl_11
02 Apr 2007, 12:08 PM EDT

Msg. 180518 of 180518
(This msg. is a reply to 180513 by bart2e.)

bart2e??? I thought we had all agreed IBM has VCSY under its wings and Verizon has NOW Solutions in a cozy place.

Microsoft could have 'squashed' VCSY anytime it wanted since 2000-2001!!!! Why would they not try now? How about a whole bunch of eyes watching now as opposed to back then???

When Microsoft announced Hailstorm don't you think they WANTED to squash VCSY? Do you think Microsoft did NOT know about Emily and the XML Enabler Agent and the patent application. Now that VCSY has the patent (and remember the allowance for it went out one week after Microsoft announced it would have to delay Vista - do I think Microsoft is capable of getting an advanced heads up from people in the USPTO that would have known VCSY was going to receive this patent. Uhhhhhh I don't know. They seem pretty inept at everything else. Why should they succeed in subterfuge?) the patent gives VCSY ownership of an architectural bottleneck and you can see it in Ray Ozzies complaint there's nothing 'out there' to sew up the web and glue things together!

In fact just for giggles and grins look here and read these two posts:
http ://ajaxamine.tripod. com/
Monday, 2 April 2007
What Microsoft needs that it can't do:

and

Hmmmpphhh. I would not be good company right now.

Compare notes and how about reading the patent while you're at it:

patent: 7,076,521 Web-based collaborative data collection system
http ://patft.uspto. gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=7076521.PN.&OS=PN/7076521&RS=PN/7076521

LOL And isn't collaboration what Ozzie is supposed to be most up on? He invented Lotus for crying out loud for IBM. And he has the father of websphere working for him now. Where's the flying cars?

All that stuff is over at IBM and we know who 'all that stuff' belongs to. By now if you don't see the elephant you need to turn around because you're looking the wrong direction. Just read the material. Then you'll go fix yourself your OWN glass of koolaid. 'Excuse me sir. May I have more?' 'MORE???!!!'

WE know there's something 'out there' but Ray Ozzie doesn't!!! ROTFL Somebody needs to help him forget about a clipboard between the web and the pc because computers don't use clipboards. They use two-way transacting conversations. Not clipboards. LOL That's so low-brow even I can see that's an attempt at giving developers some way of competing with the agent patent.

Microsoft is dead meat pete!!! If they couldn't squash VCSY when they had the chance how would they squash them now when they obviously can throw some weight around???

Who knows maybe we've been too hard on poor Microsoft and poor Ray. Maybe they really DON'T see VCSY or the USPTO 7,076,521 "Web-based collaborative data collection system." patent!!!

Dear me. What will happen to the inner circle at Microsoft when they finally do get to read a copy of patent 7,076,521 Web-based collaborative data collection system??? Maybe Ozzie will jump for joy he finally has a way to sew the web and the pc together. Just think about the great articles Microsoft 'researchers' will be able to write about as their 'discovery'...

I mean... Ray IS looking for a way to collect data between the web and a pc and have it available to collaborate with right? Well USPTO 7,076,521 Web-based collaborative data collection system does the trick as far as I can see. Heck I bet you could actually build this 'web/pc clipboard' out of USPTO 7,076,521 couldn't you? I bet you could. Well HECK then. SOmebody write Ozzie an email and tell him we found just the thing for him.

Only one thing. Microsoft won't be able to say they invented it unless they pay like $25billion. That should be enough for something like that that can be used in EVERY proprietary legacy system that wants to get on to the web like Vista wants to but can't.

Isn't what Ozzie is looking for a web-based data collection system that you can connect to the web and any other system??? I think that's what he says he wants... but on a clipboard. No problemo. Looks like a work in progress to me.



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Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:47 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 12 April 2007 1:06 AM EDT

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Mood:  celebratory

Check it out. I don't have to exert much energy at all to let you know what the deal is. Hell yeah. Couldn't a done it better cause I did it myself. And here it is, ladies and gentlemens, prepackaged for us:

 http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AAPL&read=199237

By: danfl_11
27 Mar 2007, 02:39 AM EDT

Msg. 199237 of 199443d here's another one if you're curious:
http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=158009
By: ajax203
06 May 2006, 03:58 PM EDT
Msg. 158009 of 179897
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RR - I dont know why Im so flappergasketed about that Microsoft PR. It really sounds like Larry and Moe trying to explain why Curly is late with the thanksgiving turkey.

I know 90% of the people reading think this is completely ridiculous to say VCSY can trip up Microsoft. But maybe 10% were long time readers of this board since 2000 and they had a chance to watch the same things we all see. Those are the people that are carrying on a conversation about what might be happening between VCSY and IBM and what might be happening inside Microsoft and why.

What is so wierd is that the Microsoft things happening last year and now are what you would think would happen if somebody threw a monkey wrench into the Micrososft development. They cant make Vista work? Security? Vista is a system that tries to wrap all of the operating system ties to windows applications in a internet wrapper basically so you can control applications across the internet Its one of the easier things to do PLUS they own the applciations and the OS specs so they know exactly how things are going to behave. And they cant do that? They have armies of the best programmers in the world and they cant do it? The problem is their operating system has so much of a "kludged by committe" history they have to incorporate all that background compatability in whatever they do. Plus they have to wait on standards to be laid down so they can coral all the small players and keep them in line using the protocols. SiteFlash and Emily doesnt need any protocols other than what they decide to do since their system is standards transparent and arbitrary. If your system is based on a standard they can use you. If your system is proprietary they can use you.

It doesnt make sense for Microsoft to come up short like this and alot of people on the tech blogs are saying exactly that. What the hell does that mean?

IBM had a alphaworks XML Enabler they were advertising. After VCSY put out their XML ENabler Agent IBM retired their XML Enabler. What gives with that?

VCSY published a PR about Emily XML Enabler Agent in a top Redmond Washington technology magazine just a few weeks before Microsoft announced Hailstorm in 2001. Hailstorm went down in flames by the end of 2001.

Somebody compared VCSY having something better than what Microsoft has to be like comparing VHS and Betamax. And that would be true if Microsoft had something that worked and people liked to use. Thats what happened with VHS. more people were using it because it worked. Betamax died out slow because the tech geeks used it.

OK Ill buy that it is like that. So show me the VHS product Microsoft has in XML/SOAP SOA when the industry they are trying to reach is snickering about what they are doing. Micrososfts stuff is too complicated and that means workarounds because they cant go from point a to point b without screwing up their own standards or without crossing comebody elses IP backyard.

Maybe VHS has a dominant comparison here because just the size of the user base MSFT has. The fact that VCSy pulled advertising for the XML Enabler Agent package for $495 is really strange and it tells me Wade is in the bunker and hes not ready to come out until his IP and what they are trying to do with is safe. They need to start advertising right about now to face this flood of AJAX advertising and pieces and hype. Aand I know Microsoft is pooring money out the ### into AJAX and they wont say. They are pooring a billion dollars into a search engine. What does it do look for blue quarks out of a pile of green quarks? OK THATs a search engine.

Know what I think? Maybe VCSY is going to be the betamax that wins out because people get disgusted with MSFT. MSFT will ALWAYS be around because they have such a large user base and they have a huge store of cash and some of the best talent in the world. But their management lost direction when they started fighting over the stupid browser because they couldnt see the idea about the desktop moving from MyComputer to MyDesktop across a generally available network (the internet).

It looks like all Micrososoft knows about the internet is in the browser. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? because they had a self interest in keeping Sun close like a buddy and away from IBM. So they lived off of Java and didnt realize until just recently what everybody else knew trying to match XML to Javascript. It dont work none too good.

So they needed a fix for that and Lo and cornholed it turns out Microsoft had it in their back room all that time. It crawled out of the back room with Mark Lukovsky when he went to Google in Jabuary 2005. Now its out on the world and the developers are extending what it can do. Its called AJAX and if you really take the time and effort to dig through the internet information on all this you can see like a movie with these actors reacting to something nobody can see.

Its like three giant stars orbiting around something that is invisible. MSFT Sun and IBM all working around a real XML RPC method that is simple and correct that will work on the http and be as loose coupled as the marbles in your pocket. If they go to somebody elses pocket they assume another class of coupling and associations. If you can stratify this activity over time you can track who what when and where such and so marble has been. Then you can ask yourself "Self. Why would people be trading marbles?" And you can granularly advance regress and branch or even transcend your inquiry (what a real search is supposed to look like)

And that brings me to the question about why nobody can see IT and why "nobody ever bought one". VCSY had the XML Enabler Agent "on sale" for $495. But when you tried to buy one they wanted so much background and information on use and the license basically said "Here ya go buy this sucker and whatever you end up making out of it beyond the XML Enabler Agent" is our invention and theank you very much for developing it for us." I didnt have a baby available to feed to them so I didnt go any closer to the cage.

The ony reason you do that is because you dont want people using your "publicly available" stuff until you coral up all the IP you can chase down before taking the covers off

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- No Position)

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:02 AM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 12 April 2007 1:09 AM EDT

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Mood:  down

 I've been reading through some things Ray Ozzie has said lately and I just rumbled across a set of words in a phrased package that just gave me the redass.

 Sorry to assail our more genteel readers but if you will study the entire problem of 'enabling the web' etcetera and then look at one specific little patent you may come to the same conclusion as I.

 Now here it is almost April 2 and I'm really deliberating as to whether to write this or not. Not because I doubt my take on this piece. Heck no. I would sooner walk out front of a San Antonio biker bar in a pair of horny-toad skin boots and kick one of the bikes over than to disavow my certitude. No indeed. No genteel reader I'm a wondering whether to give the yanks a break. KWIM?

 Nope. Didn't take long.

I am going to toss out this little blurb from here:  http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com/

Which is:

 In its simplest form, the clipboard enabled the user to simply grasp the concept of moving a copy of the information from one application to another (i.e. by value).

more at above URL

Want to know what I think? Read the next blog entry. That's what I think. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 11:55 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 2 April 2007 12:35 AM EDT

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Mood:  a-ok

I thought I would post this to show Microsoft is not alone in the disrespectful ways paid to journalists, bloggers and researchers.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=451

March 20th, 2007

How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers

Last summer, when I wrote "Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers," it set off a long chain of heated debates and blogs. I had hoped to release the information on who orchestrated the vicious assault, but threats of lawsuits and a spineless company that refused to defend itself meant I couldn't disclose the details. A lot has changed since then: Researcher David Maynor is no longer working for SecureWorks, and he's finally given me permission to publish the details.

more at above URL

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 8:02 PM EDT

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Mood:  amorous

http://images.google.com/images?q=pomegranate&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

The above is an example (not a particularly good one) of what some people would refer to as 'code'. As in 'speaking in code'. The amount of meaning in symbolic literacy is limited only by the imagination of the individual. Some simply know more what those signals mean thatn the average doberman. Birds and bees do it everyday and others feel left out because they can't imagine being a bee or a bird. They just sit there like a dog drooling on the patio.

 So if you come across language or images in word or 1kpicture you don't understand but a lot of others seem to understand perfectly don't feel alienated. You just need to be indoctrinated into treeforting and V watching.

 And remember; just because you don't understand the language of the birds and the bees doesn't mean things that peck and sting when you intrude are trying to screw everybody. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:46 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 1 April 2007 12:46 PM EDT

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Vas you shtink? Maybe I should put up a banner like for a grand opening and all. Things are getting hectic and peptic.

GRAND OPENING

 Get 10 quarts past date gefelte fish for $1.95.

You want I should roll out the awning?

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 1:34 AM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 1 April 2007 1:38 AM EDT

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