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    Discuss...
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    I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO LEARN ANY MORE THINGS! MAKE IT STOP!
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    Couldn't care less.

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    ...is that a retirement plan for Bill? Sounds that way...
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    Let's not discuss, let's ignore it and it will go away.
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    Sounds like a plan!
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    Ok ignoring it probably wont work, it looks like some people are really getting excited over this...

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/take-time-to-understand-silverlight-its-important/

    Silverlight will be the platform of choice for developers who build rich Internet applications. It makes Flash/Flex look like an absolute toy. After the keynote, the main topic of conversation in the hallways centered on just how effectively Microsoft carried out its execution of Adobe.

    Nik (a long-time developer) was most impressed by how small Silverlight is (4 MB) and how fast it is (it blows away native Javascript routines - without exaggeration, Ajax looks like a bicycle next to a Ferrari when compared to Silverlight).

    Microsoft-hater Steve Gillmor gives it a thumbs up and says “the engineering behind this is stunning.” Robert Scoble, who’s angry at Microsoft for not giving him a free pass to the Mix event, says “Microsoft “rebooted the Web” yesterday.”
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    I switched off when I saw mention of .NET on the website.
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    What is it? Where can i see it in action?
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    It makes Flash/Flex look like an absolute toy.

    I'm not particularly an MS hater, but neither am I a fan of Flash (and wouldn't shed a tear if it disappeared from t'interwebs tomorrow). However, I do look forward to the irony of MS/SilverLight users playing second fiddle to an inferior, but more pervasive app.

    Even if Flash were to go tits up tomorrow, I doubt SilverLight could be credited with being an Adobe-killer app, seeing as they own the creative industries in several other, key areas.

    Sounds like typical geek twaddle and hubris.
    I can just imagine the scene as they huddle round in small groups, bobbing up and down, and stuffing their fists into their mouths, trying to stifle their over-excited, semi-retarded, hyperventilation-inducing laughter.
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    What is it? Where can i see it in action?

    Go to the silverlight website (google is your friend), download the plugin and then go back and see how amazing it is...........n't. Well, the demo they have just looks like a vid.

    On one hand I think competition to flash could be good, but on the other I silverlight to fail....I don't wanna learn more stuff.
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    This interests me more:

    http://developers.joyent.com/
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    This interests me more:

    http://developers.joyent.com/

    That looks like a great idea

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    isn't Adobe doing something similar - just what we need really - 'd like a gmail app that will let me specify say 'keep 6 months worth of email on my computer' and it just syncs whenever it's connected to the net.

    happy days
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    Silverligh Creed (aka The Count of Monte Fisto) was a fictional character from the Rocky film series.

    Initially Silverlight was Rocky Balboa's target in his quest to become world champion. After their two fights together, they remained on friendly terms. Silverlight then steps in to train Rocky after Mickey's death in Rocky III.
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    Oh, I see what you've done there, Stromboli.
    :chortle:
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    I spy with my little something beginning with.. O. ooh Ostrich, group of.

    I don't think you can bury you head in the sand over silverlight. It won't go away, it's early days and watching the take up could be interesting especially when its not fully cross platform yet, but considering most future windows applications will be/are written with windows presenation foundation (which silverlight is a subset of) its not going to be "one other thing to learn" ok, it will be, but you'll probably pick it up somehow anyway.

    It feels very lonely being the only one here that likes .Net, but you don't need to switch off at the mere mention of .Net, you can use silverlight with ruby on rails

    http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2007/05/01/microsoft-silverlight-to-support-ironruby-aka-ruby-programming-language

    http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45190


    P.S, ostriches don't really bury their heads in the sand
    http://www.phrases.org.uk/m eanings/80800.html ;-)
    (Remove the space between the m and e)
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    I have as much desire to bury my head in the sand as I do to use silverlight.

    I doubt very much it will be fully cross-platform, perhaps in the mind of MS it might be,. I think their definition of cross platform differs from everyone else's.AFAIK you are unable to view it in any browser under certain OS's.
    According to the site it works under Windows Vista, XP SP2 and Mac OS X. hardly cross platform.

    Does the world need another browser plug-in especially from a company which creates it own standards and breaks the API to hinder inter-operability with other systems.

    Doubt it.
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    No.
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    "I doubt very much it will be fully cross-platform"

    Kind of a shame Microsoft isn't extending its Mac Business Unit, actually. The MBU's apps are usually strong (notably Word and Entourage), and a Mac version of Expression Web might go down well—at least if it had PHP support.

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