Not so sure about that. It was rather obvious that the discussions about "Silverlight only" would overshadow the release of the video at least in all the technical circles. Offering the videos in more than one format - so people with Silverlight could have gotten advanced features while others still could have watched it would have been a lot better marketing.
Can you name some companies in which he has stocks ?
He is doing something good. Appreciate it if you can.
And hopefully you know that he has promised to give away most of his wealth to charity.
Even if it requires silver light, ain't it better than not
having the videos available to you at all ?
Also, it is a part of windows research team work. If google
can force you to not use ie, why can't windows research team
force you to use their technology ?
And this is my general observation. People liking linux or
similar *nix systems, take it too personally, and start
cribbing at anything and everything microsoft does.
It Doesn't matter to them if it is actually good stuff.
Well, I would anyways want you to substantiate your claim
that bill gates has shares in those drug companies and that
he is actually making more money from investing in those
companies than the charity he is giving away on those drugs.
If it hadn't been Silverlight, someone would be saying "see, even Bill Gates doesn't think it's good!" Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I find this a really frustrating critique.
Not "Silverlight" is the problem, but "Silverlight exclusive". How hard would it have been to put up an alternative webpage with other formats for people which don't want or can't install Silverlight? The answer is certainly - not hard at all. Not doing so makes them just looks bad when they could have looked good so easily.
edit: Hm, do you think that would be hard? We offer our videos in several formats and I know lots of other people doing that and I don't see the problem with that. Run it through a converter and add another link...
Can someone explain whether we might in theory watch the video using moonlight?
From Ubuntu I tried installing moonlight-plugin-mozilla (I assume this installs Microsoft Media Pack), and spoofing my Agent as IE 8; that got me a different version of the page where I can only click to "Install [Silverlight] and go to Project Tuva".
If Microsoft doesn't use Silverlight, do you expect Adobe to? Or rather they'd use something as tentative is HTML5's video tags? Sure it's annoying but it's to be expected.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 33.5 ms ] threadUnrelated, this is a great biography of Richard Feinman: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119
Nope. The billions of dollars of donations to protection against malaria is simply to keep more people alive to buy Office, I'm sure.
Well, I would anyways want you to substantiate your claim that bill gates has shares in those drug companies and that he is actually making more money from investing in those companies than the charity he is giving away on those drugs.
edit: Hm, do you think that would be hard? We offer our videos in several formats and I know lots of other people doing that and I don't see the problem with that. Run it through a converter and add another link...
From Ubuntu I tried installing moonlight-plugin-mozilla (I assume this installs Microsoft Media Pack), and spoofing my Agent as IE 8; that got me a different version of the page where I can only click to "Install [Silverlight] and go to Project Tuva".