MS Must Ship Sun's Java

Mmmm.... DirectX from C#...

According to the Register, Microsoft is lining up to buy Macromedia. It's Flash they want. via [Scripting News]

Ah, now this makes sense. Not because of the anti-J2EE nonsense in the Register article, but 90% because of Flash and 10% because of Cold Fusion. The Price:Book ratio for Macromedia …

Joe Strummer, RIP. The one time I saw Joe Strummer in concert was when he was singing vocals for The Pogues. Oh man, that was a good concert. Well, I guess I know what's on the turntable today...

DirectX 9 Released. Including managed libraries and C# support! Woo-hooo! Note that you have to download not just the DirectX for C# SDK, but the DirectX SDK 9.0 Developer Runtime in order to get the Managed Direct X (MDX) libraries.

But that doesn't mean I'm not happy to see you, too

The LAT notes the conviction this week of a man who smuggled rare monkeys into the U.S.--in his pants. Upon discovering four endangered birds and 50 exotic orchids in his suitcase, officials at Los Angeles International Airport …

Web server statistics: JSP fastest growing server-side scripting language, 1% of ASP.NET servers running on Linux. Interesting stuff from Netcraft.

Elcomsoft acquitted. Even though I sell Thinking in C# via Adobe Acrobat and therefore am vulnerable to piracy of my intellectual property, I am happy for this verdict. I don't know what is a fair policy towards digital media, but the DMCA ain't it.

This comment on this post asked if my argument meant that AI is impossible:

I don't think that follows from my argument. The greatest challenge with AI is that we have no good theories on the non-material representations comprising consciousness. Brain mechanics we're beginning to get a handle on, and …

I hope Microsoft doesn't buy Borland. Apparently, in light of IBM's acquisition of Rational, there's been talk that Microsoft may acquire Borland, which bought TogetherSoft earlier this year. I hope not. Microsoft does not need Together/J, a Java-based UML tool -- they have Visio if they want a diagramming tool …