As the world's best athletes compete in Beijing, the summer Olympic games are setting the stage for a battle between Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc over the Internet's next big competition.
Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash format are currently locked in a race over who delivers the world's online video, but the ultimate prize may be who powers the next generation of Web software.
Using Silverlight, the NBC site offers a glimpse of what is possible with future Web applications because viewers are able to watch up to four videos at once or follow the action with an online commentary that runs alongside the video.
More than 40 million U.S. viewers have gone to NBC's Olympics site to watch some of the 2,200 hours of live footage from the Beijing games. All those viewers need is a Silverlight player on their browser if they do not have one already.
By building up Silverlight's user base, the world's largest software maker is looking to win over developers who see Web platforms such as Silverlight and Flash as a new way to deliver powerful Web-linked programs incorporating rich graphics.
Currently, those platforms are mainly reserved for multimedia applications such as Google Inc's popular YouTube site, which runs on Adobe's Flash technology.
"It's quickly becoming a very popular way to build next generation applications. There's a lot of interest in capturing the hearts and minds of developers," said Jeffrey Hammond, an analyst at Forrester Research. "It'll be a big business."
Microsoft, which said nearly half the visitors to NBC's site did not have Silverlight, plans to expand its reach to close the gap on Flash, which is already running on most of the world's Web-connected computers and powers over 80 percent of the video on the Internet.
Olympics set the stage for emerging Web tech fight
Woman in Spitzer prostitution case pleads guilty
A booking agent for a prostitution ring whose clients included former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer pleaded guilty on Monday to a conspiracy charge relating to prostitution.
Tanya Hollander, 36, was one of four people charged with running the Emperors Club VIP, a high-priced prostitution ring broken up this year. She pleaded guilty to a charge of violating the Travel Act, which bans crossing state lines to carry out illegal business such as prostitution.
The other three charged have all pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
During the hearing held in Manhattan federal court, Hollander admitted after she began working for the Emperors Club in June 2007, "it became apparent that those individuals and clients were engaging in prostitution offenses."
Her lawyer, Michael Farkas, told reporters outside court it was possible Hollander had booked Spitzer, who resigned as governor in March after it emerged he was a client of the Emperors Club.
"Ms. Hollander was a minor player in this enterprise," Farkas told reporters outside the hearing. "It was unfortunate the former governor was involved."
Spitzer, who in his other former role as state attorney general championed anti-prostitution legislation and cracked down on financial crimes, has not been charged in the case and prosecutors refuse to say whether he will face charges.
Farkas said his client was not asked to cooperate with prosecutors in any possible criminal case against Spitzer. If Spitzer is not charged, he said, he will ask the judge at her sentencing to consider she was treated more harshly than other possible co-conspirators such as Spitzer.
Hollander, a holistic health counselor, faces a likely six to 10 months in prison under the sentencing guidelines outlined in her plea agreement. She will be sentenced November 25
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Why Did Obama Pick Biden
The Washington Post's Dan Balz talks with Bob Schieffer about why Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate, highlighting Biden's foreign policy experience and the crisis in Georgia.
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Jesus Christ did not Exist (shocking-proof)
Before I began this post I would like to offer any one this shocking- truth
In video format by request sent to your e-mail box
Now for the post:
This is a comparison between Horus dating back thousands of years before the Jesus Christ myth
was created and commissioned into existence by the Pope of Rome
The mythical Messiah was Horus in the Osirian Mythos; Har-Khuti in the Sut-Typhonian; Khunsu in that of Amen-Ra; Iu in the cult of Atum-Ra; and the Christ of the Gospels is an amalgam of all these characters.
The Christ is the Good Shepherd!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Lamb of God!
So was Horus. Christ is the Bread of Life!
So was Horus. Christ is the Truth and the Life!
So was Horus. Christ is the Fan-bearer!
So was Horus. Christ is the Lord!
So was Horus. Christ is the Way and the Door of Life!
Horus was the path by which they travel led out of the Sepulcher. He is the God whose name is written with the hieroglyphic sign of the Road or Way.
I RECOMMEND READING THE BOOK BELOW
BY GERALD MASSEY
THE HISTORICAL JESUS
AND
M Y T H I C A L - C H R I S T
The New Testament
The conical credibility of the documents of the Old Testament haunted the documents of the New Testament.
In who wrote the new testament: the making of the Christian myth, Burton Mack summarizes the story of the new testament by pointing out that contrary to widely held beliefs, Christian gospels are not historical accounts of a single set of events that complement each other.
The gospels came out of the early history of different and divergent Christian communities whose "anonymous" writers wrote different episodes for special purposes and people
all of these creations in Christianity were therefore nothing but variations and adaptations of ancient Egyptian perceptions of this God in the form of a pyramidal polytheism. Unfortunately, Christians were not supposed to know this because the early apostolic fathers believed that the truth would undermine their faiths.
In part one of this post I offered to send the who's what's, when's, where's and why's to the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to you by e-mail in video format the offer still stands.
You can discover the full story by doing your own investigation
Start with the following books.
Christianity before Christ by John G. Jackson
The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey
Book of the Beginnings by Gerald Massey
The Destruction Of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams
The Egyptian Book Of The Dead by E.A.Wallis Budge
History of the First Council of Nice by Dean Dudley
The World’s 16 Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
The Africans Who Wrote The Bible by Nana Banchie Darkwah, Ph.D
YES BUT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE, CAN BELIEVEING IN JESUS CHRIST HURT ME OR MY FAMILY ?
IN CONCLUSION:
Absolutely critical to the white supremacy system of religious thought was the formation of the image of a white man as the “son” of God.
This white male image then was referred to as” Christ” the brain-computer functions most fundamentally on logic circuits, at deep unconscious levels it automatically computes that God, the father, is also a white male.
If God is other than white, he would have produced a Black (or other non-white) son.
Thus, any person programmed to accept the Christian religion, whether conscious of it or
not, has the image and concept of God as a white man in the logic network of his/her brain-computer.