Should we bend over when the Monopolist wants to Screw Us ? (again) Was: " Death of Java [ Linux, Portability, Choice, Freedom, ... ] " Linux, VRML & Java provide viable ... *** BETTER *** solutions ... The Web Standards will Prevail over Microsoft Assaults. HTML, IP, XML, Linux, VRML & Java will survive & prevail. Yes, Microsoft wants us to buy and use Microsoft products. Yes, Microsoft wants to manipulate and control standards to benefit Microsoft: not you or the consumer in general. Yes, Microsoft has done things are illegal and unethical to destroy competing companies & standards including Netscape, Java, and portable graphics languages like VRML -- this is NOT my opinion -- the US Justice Department investigated the matter, found prosecution was warranted, took Microsoft to court, there was a trial, and the US Federal Judge and Courts ruled : Microsoft is _ GUILTY _ of _ illegally_ using its monopoly powers to destroy competing companies and standards including Java ... and __ hurting consumers ____ ... and __ stifling competition __ Thus sayith the Judge -- don't gripe to me --- if __ you __ have a __ problem ___ with the judicial system here in the United States or are __ against freedom ___ ... competition & choice. I prefer fair and open competition, capitalism where companies and technologies compete ~~ in an ethical manner ~~, freedom of choice, freedom from the excessive powers of either gangs, governments, or monopolists. Microsoft tried to 'pollute' & kill Java: Microsoft failed: Java grows & lives. Microsoft dominates the Desktop ( where technology stagnates & sales stagnate ) but is very weak in the fast growing new markets. ~~ Five of Five ~~ of the top cell phone makers will use the Symbian EPOC Operating System in their web capable phone with color displays and faster processors. That's giving you the ** FULL ** Web experience ... A ** FULLY ** capable web browser is a Java enabled Web Browser, so you can display *** YOUR ** VRML in it .... AVOID devices that are CRIPPLED by the Monopolist. Microsoft's WebTV is a CRIPPLED device. Microsoft's WinCE OS and PocketPC are CRIPPLED devices. ParalellGraphics' VR-not-really-ML Viewer for the WinCE Devices does _NOT_ support Java: that's bad for VRML. AOL-TimeWarner-Netscape is all one company now and they are large and effective counter weight to Microsoft. AOL-TimeWarner-Netscape can and will support VRML and Java will through it's __ MILLIONS __ of AOL subscribers ... AOL is the #1 ISP provider in the US ( and the world ? ) AOL's RoadRunner Cable Modem service is the largest in the US ( and the world ? ) Cable TV Converter Boxes will support games & interactive programs ... Java will be there ... Java is there ... Java is in your Palm: The MS Win API is not. Java is in 'Smart' Credit Cards: The MS Win API is not. Java is in Cell Phones: The MS Win API is not. Java is in TV Cable Converter Boxes: The MS Win API is not. The ( ' big three / tiny three' ) VRML Plug-in Viewers don't work on Linux ... Java does ... Let your VRML run all Devices connected to the Internet ... ( all except the ones illegally CRIPPLED by the Monopolist ) Some companies are against VRML and against the ideal of having portable graphics, they want __ YOUR __ VRML__ to __ FAIL __ on machines ... where the consumer has not paid the Microsoft Tax ... These companies included : Microsoft & ParallelGraphics. Using their non-standard-standards will make YOUR VRML FAIL on: - the neatest, newest, fastest growing market segments including : The " New Internet Computer Company " -- Think NIC -- Linux Web Appliance --------------------------------------------- $200 -- Linux, doesn't Crash like windows. http://www.thinknic.com/ FEATURES : - NO Microsoft Tax, NO Microsoft Viruses, NO Microsoft Crashes - NO Microsoft twisted, changing, proprietary non-standard-standards - YES: YOUR VRML works ( if you're not using non-standard ParallelGraphics ) - YES: YOUR Java works. " Linux Based PDA with Color Screen & 206 M-Hz Arm CPU ( Yopy ) " ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gmate.co.kr/english/news/gmate-news/21-01-04.htm " Connected Web Pad " -- with Linux & a Crusoe -- From Gateway & AOL -------------------------- available __ TODAY __ http://www.gateway.com/consumer/connectedhome/kepler/intro.shtml " Interactive TV with Java " ----------------------------- | Liberate TV Navigator combines the best of | television and Internet standards into one | compelling, interactive environment. This content, | called enhanced TV, is delivered to interactive TV | receivers as a component of the television | broadcast signal. The Liberate software platform | combines | | Internet content standards such as | | ____ HTML, ____ JavaScript, and | ____ Java _______ with digital television standards, | http://products.liberate.com/tv_navigator/datasheets/index.html http://press.liberate.com/archives/1999/111099.html http://press.liberate.com/archives/1999/091399.html " Cool Devices with Linux " including Intel, Nokia, ------------------------------- http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4936596231.html http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/05/0821207.shtml http://www.nokia.com/multimedia/mediaterminal.html Microsoft is on the decline, the 1900's are over, the Desktop Era is over. The Web is open standards : HTML, XML, IP, VRML, Java, Linux. ... is Linux more open than Java ? ... yes, and both are better the Win API. Can *** I *** create Web Animations that are portable across: - Windows - Linux, Solaris, and other Unix-es - Macintosh - Symbian / EPOC - Be - PDAs, Phones, Game Machines, Automobiles & etc ? Y-E-S ! ! YES ! ! Yes ! ! ! yes ... with VRML & Java ... I've done, you can, we all can: VRML is the portable solution. " VRML & Java work on Win-Lin-Mac & More " : Today & Forever. ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/H-Anim_Avatars.html "Distributed Virtual Worlds:... Using Vrml, Java, and Corba" --------------------------------------------------------- | everyone connected to the Internet can directly | enter a virtual world __ without __ installing | a new kind of software. The VRML technology offers ... | interactive three-dimensional ... [ coming March 31, 2001 ] | | Stephan Diehl, author & General Chair of __ Web3D __ 2001 __ | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3540676244/ | Is it true MS won't be supporting [ Java ] Virtual Machine | anymore starting with the next release of IE ? | If so, won't this eventually lead to the demise of all | our Java aps? | Post to comp.lang.vrml: "Death of Java ?" by "Mike Smith" | http://nooz.org/comp.lang.vrml/msg01617.html Any computer connected to the web that doesn't have Java installed can get Java installed via the Web -- and it will work even on poorly designed, over-priced OSes that crash too often, and get viruses from e-mails. Microsoft's War against the consumer and Web Surfer continue, now some companies deliver error messages when you browse with Netscape, Opera, or Mozilla: " Train Game but SCREW YOU if you're not using MS Explorer " ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.parallelgraphics.com/showroom/stuff/games/railways/ This gave me this 'error message' : | | [!] __ Sorry, __ ... only _ [ Microsoft's ]_ Internet Explorer | ... for ____ [ Microsoft ] ____ Windows can do this ... | This from a company that pretended to support the __ portable __ vendor & platform neutral Graphics Language ___ VRML ___ ! ! ! | A totally gobsmacking production! | From the Parallelgraphics team. | Web content like this is going to make | vrml the long awaited Buzz word! | Well done you guys and gals this is smokin`!!!!!!! | | Check it out for yourelves! | | Jake WOOO! WOOOOOOOOOO! Chuffin Great!!! | Jake wrote to comp.lang.vrml An Error message is all I got ;^( For portable animation on the Web ... use Java. For animation that FAILs for many users, try the URL above. Is 3d Profitable on the Web ? Yes : 3D _ is _ profitable on the web : ' EverQuest ' has more than a ~~~ 100,000 ~~~ _ subscribers _ who both bought the game and pay a __ monthly fee __ ... to play: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,26830,00.html http://everquest.station.sony.com/downloads.jsp The above is the innovate game from * SONY * ... Sony is pretty good at games, graphics & consumer devices ... and since the X-Box was announced ... and Sony got screwed by Microsoft ... yet again ... Sony is looking favorably on Java and Java run's in Sony's Palm Based PDAs ... and Sony will support Java in more and more consumer products in the future ... Microsoft has screwed a few too many companies, Microsoft __ HAS BEEN __ found __ GUILTY __ of doing too many __ ILLEGAL & UNETHICAL __ things. Microsoft dominates the Desktop ... Microsoft dominates the declining, boring, stagnating, obsolete, 1900's era technology of the x86 stand-alone PC. The Web Grows ... and the Web API is ~ NOT ~ the Win API. If ... We want VRML and / or Java to succeed ... ... We should use, support, and speak up for VRML & Java. Java is more than applets, Java works on the Server, Client, and in Mobile and Embedded devices ... and Java has seen its biggest successes beyond the browser, but it grows & thrives in the browser as well ... The Law, Justice, Innovation, & Consumers are on our side. -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Imaging the Imagined : Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
