Is software the only domain where "legacy" is a bad word?
The Register wonders about "legacy" software.
Legacy as a bad word means to me "unworkable" or something nearly so... code or entire systems that you'd rather not have to work with.
Note this has less to do with age than design.
Now I have to go. My dog is leaving a legacy in my back yard.
KCMD 970am in Portland, home of some good local radio (and streaming and podcasts) like the Rick Emerson Show, is bringing back live radio drama.
The first two 25-minute plays will be Sunday, December 7th, at 6pm: A.Z. (After Zombies), and The Crimson Mist (sounds like a 1940's crime drama set in Portland).
"One other small thing: There is going to be a tremendous amount of
emotion in that stadium Saturday. It's going to be close to the
boiling point. So everyone please behave. No fights in the stands. No
stupid behavior. No riots after the game. Treat your rival and the
game of football with respect. I hate it when innocent people get hurt
because of the actions of idiots. Try not to be that idiot"
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DwightJaynes/~3/466425587/and-my-civil-war-pick-is
"For actual business apps, the kind that our servers spend most of
their time running, the war for the desktop is over and the Web
Browser won. I just totally don't believe that any combination of
Flash and Silverlight and JavaFX is going to win it back. AJAX is
increasingly central and we need to make sure that our Web Suite and
its tools support it well. But as for GUIs and the client side, let it
go already."
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/24/What-Sun-Should-Do
It's early still. Observe that almost all energy for the last few
years around the web browser has been aimed at overcoming its many,
serious deficiencies and making it seem more like a desktop operating
system.
I don't know much about silverdoodle or javafx, but "any combination
of flash" includes the AIR combination, which incorporates "the web
browser" and then some.
There are certainly great things about web browsers, html, and even
javascript. But there are great things beyond those as currently
reallized.
In the history of the web, it's still the Stone Age. We have not even
discovered metal yet. We're just beginning to maybe glimpse what the
Bronze Age might be like.
The choices ten years from now will certainly be neither "2008
Desktop" nor "2008 Browser".
-Patrick
Sunday night update from the OS Beavers on the state of Quiz Rogers shoulder injury...
Here's what I understand about a second-degree shoulder sprain: it's worse than a first-degree sprain. I would think if Quiz Rogers plays in the Civil War he runs the risk of worsening the tear, possibly taking him out of whatever bowl game the Beavers get. (No worse than the Sun Bowl.)
I'd suppose Riley will start the game without Quiz and play him, at most, only if needed.
For all you OS fans.
"A little part of MNot dies each time he sees an XML schema"
