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Les spécialistes de marché de Net Applications rapportent que Microsoft cède du terrain à la fois sur le marché des OS que sur celui des navigateurs.

Net Applications dit qu’au 1er décembre les pdm de Windows sont passées au-dessous des 90% pour la première fois depuis des années. Microsoft Windows dominerait 89.6% du marché des OS alors qu’Apple Mac OS/X a gagné du terrain avec 8.9% de pdm, Linux occupant la plus grande partie des 1.5% restant.

Si Apple a agrandi sa base d’utilisateurs de 10 à 20%, Linux croît beaucoup plus rapidement, avec des débuts en 2008 comptant une base bien plus réduite. Certains évaluent les débuts de Linux en 2008 avec 0.5% de pdm, d’autres avec 1.0%, ce qui nous fait une croissance de 200 ou de 50%. L’un dans l’autre, c’est ce qu’on appelle une croissance explosive.

Apple aurait apparemment bien profité des trébuchements de Microsoft avec Vista, tout comme Linux aurait aussi bénéficié de la satisfaction en baisse des clients de Windows.

La disponibilité de Linux sur des PC pas chers et des Netbooks chez Wal-Mart, Best Buy et autres discounters aurait favorisé le marché des PC bas de gamme. Les clients aprrennent petit à petit que les ordinateurs ne doivent pas forcément avoir Windows pré-installé pour fonctionner correctement et que le matériel plutôt cher au logo Apple n’est pas la seule alternative à l’emprisonnement Microsoft.

Dans le haut de gamme, Microsoft est face à l’élégante concurrence des ordinateurs Apple sous OSX et dans le bas de gamme face aux prix imbattables du matériel sous Linux.

Côté navigateurs, Internet Explorer voit ses pdm passer en-dessous des 70% pour la première fois en plus de 10 ans, à 69.8%. IE a perdu 1.5 points rien qu’au mois de novembre, perdant 5.8% de pdm jusqu’alors en 2008 qui compte encore presque un mois de shopping.

La concurrence Mozilla Firefox et Apple Safari a gagné respectivement 0.8% et 0.6% rien qu’au mois de novembre, d’après Net Applications. Si la tendance continue, Internet Explorer passera sous les 60% de pdm en 2009.

Windows 7, alias Windows ME II SP1a, avec IE 8 ne sera probablement pas en mesure de renverser les tendances, surtout en pleine récession quand les gens comptent leurs centimes et en veulent pour leur argent.

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Traduction et adaptation d’un article d’Egan Orion pour INQ.

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When UserVoice launched its hosted solution for companies looking to harness user feedback a little over 7 months ago, we wrote it could well be a replacement for e-mail when it comes to aggregating opinions, ideas and suggestions from user / customer bases. Now, UserVoice says its offering is solid enough for enterprise usage and is consequently dropping the beta tag.

Billing itself as an ‘online suggestion box that sorts itself’, UserVoice enables companies to embed widgets onto websites and applications to sollicit feedback from users in combination with a Digg-like voting feature. The idea behind that approach is that it’s easier and more scalable to crowdsource user opinions, ideas and suggestions than other ways of communication.

You can use the UserVoice service for free, but with a rather big limitation on features. More advanced packages are available starting from $289 per month, and there are also special packages for startups, non-profit organizations and educational institutions. If you want to take a look at alternatives, you might want to check out similar service providers such as CrowdSound, Suggestionbox and Get Satisfaction.

UserVoice has attracted customers from various sizes so far, including nice references like Sun Microsystems, Nokia and MySpace but also smaller web application providers like Blip.fm, 12seconds and Alert Thingy. According to the announcement, over 120 million widget impressions have already been served, with over 530,000 votes logged to date. Not bad for a startup that operates without outside financing apart from a small seed round from Nuvoiz raised back in 2007.

Bonus points for using Initech as the company for the live demo. Marvellous touch.

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Jean-Noël Le Mével, concessionnaire Renault à Rennes, accueille avec beaucoup de satisfaction l'annonce de Sarkozy concernant la prime à la casse de 1.000 euros pour les véhicules de plus de dix ans.

Débats

De l'offre documentaire à l'action documentaire. BCalenge
Une bibliothèque doit être ouverte ou fermée. DLog
Quels services numériques pour les bibliothèque ? Detoutsurrien, BibApprivoisée
Quels profils numériques en bibliothèque ? Detoutsurien 2 3 4, 5
“Internet, c’est de l’écriture” : rencontre avec Christian Poslaniec. RBNW
Misère de la librairie face aux supermarchés de la culture. Silence
Google devient éditeur et libraire. Affordance 1 2, Télérama
La bibliothèque de Limoges s'affiche en ville. Limoges

Comptes-rendus

"Outils numériques et fonds anciens", Ecole des Chartes 13/11/2008. Bib à Paris 1 2
"Services et médiations, quelle bibliothèque pour le XXIème siècle ?" BM Boissy 13/11/08. Valmedia94
"La bibliothèque publique aujourd’hui", ENACT Nancy 20/11/2008. CPoissenot
Enquête de satisfaction BU d'Angers : réponses de la BU. AssesmentLibrarian
"Les publics du livre d'art en bibliothèques", Bertrand Legendre et Corinne Abensour. CNL

Nouveaux sites

http://www.couperin.org/archivesouvertes
Les blogs de la Bnf http://blog.bnf.fr/
http://tagguerleslivres.eklablog.com/
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Benoit Denizet-Lewis talks to Barney Frank about his personal life, the recent economic bail-out, campaigning, and gay rights legislation in a new Advocate cover story.

In the piece, Frank discusses his House reprimand for a relationship with a male prostitute who said he ran an escort service out of Frank's apartment: " I was not emotionally healthy back when I was closeted. I was very fat, very disheveled, and I now know that job satisfaction is no substitute for personal satisfaction. [The scandal] never would have happened if I wasn’t closeted. When I had this secret, it stopped me from relating to people in a healthy way."

Frank also talks about what LGBT people should expect in the coming years.

"Once we get out of Iraq, we’ll get rid of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell'. There’s not going to be that much of a fight over that—people are over it. Plus it’s hard to argue today that 20-year-olds freak out at the sight of a gay guy. We will also get hate-crimes legislation with transgender included, and we will get employment nondiscrimination with transgender included -- if transgender people keep working for it and lobbying for it. Many people assumed that Nancy Pelosi and I could just deliver that, but that’s not how it works. I think they understand now that they have to go to each congressperson and make the case."

The discussion also turns to marriage equality: "When the conversation turns to gay marriage, Frank says he is 'cautiously optimistic' about Proposition 8 being defeated in California. 'I just wish more time had passed since it was legalized and this election,' he says. 'With discrimination, the fear always outweighs the reality of it. You just hope there’s enough time to show everyone that everything is fine, that gay marriage has no impact on heterosexual marriage.'"

Frank also disagrees with protests on achieving that goal: "[Some gay activists] have this notion that Martin Luther King and the rest of the gang just let it all hang out, that the civil rights movement was just a series of spontaneous outbursts. But it was in fact a series of strategic decisions.... I care deeply about [marriage equality], but the more deeply I care, the more sensible I have to be in achieving it...I’ve seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with gayness. We’ll get to a point soon enough where it’s not even an issue anymore. But progress can be slow. I filed my first gay rights bills in 1972 in Massachusetts. Forty years later, it would be nice to have this wrapped up and put to bed."

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THE GLORY OF THE OBVIOUS

Romans IV

INTRODUCTION:

God the Father is prominent in the first three chapters of Romans. God the Son figures largely from the middle of three to the end of five. And then the Holy Spirit is central from chapters five through eight. We have the wrath of the Father, the propitiation of the Son, and the liberating deliverance of the Spirit. Remember that all three persons of the Trinity are working in harmony together, and that they are not trying to balance one another by leaning in opposite directions. So as we work through the first part of the book of Romans, let us remember that God reveals Himself in His Word, and not just in His creation.

THE TEXT:

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen" (Rom. 1:18-25).

 

SUMMARY OF THE TEXT:

In this passage, Paul outlines what the wrath of God is directed against, which is all ungodliness and unrighteousness (v. 18). He also reveals to us the way God's wrath functions (v. 24). Men in rebellion suppress the truth in unrighteousness, holding it under (v. 18). Paul is explicit that men sin against light. God has shown to man what is manifestly truth about Him. He has shown it to them and in them (v. 19). How did God do this? God's invisible characteristics are understood by inference from the things that are made (v. 20). Specifically, Paul means God's eternal power and Godhead, and this means that men are without excuse in their rejection of Him (v. 20). This is because they started from a position of knowing God (v. 21), but then refused to do two things. They refused to acknowledge the Godness of God, refusing to glorify Him as God (v. 21), and they refused to be thankful (v. 21). As a result, their imagination veered into vanity, and their foolish hearts were darkened (v. 21). Of course, this was not their perspective on what was happening (v. 22). As they became increasingly foolish, they puffed themselves up as wise. The glory of the incorruptible God that they refused to glorify was changed (in their imagination only) into images of corruptible creatures, like man, birds, quadrapeds, and creeping things (v. 23). Therefore God let them go, giving them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts and the dishonoring of their bodies (v. 24). This is what happens to those who swap the truth of God for a lie (v. 25), and who worship and serve the creature more than the Creator--the one who is forever blessed (v. 25). Amen.

THE WRATH OF THE FATHER:

We are accustomed to think that the wrath of God comes on men for their sins. We sin in history, and the wrath of God comes at the end of history. This is certainly true (see v. 32), but it is not the entire truth. The Bible not only teaches that sin brings the wrath of God, but that in an important sense, sin is the wrath of God. In this passage, the wrath of God is revealed against sin (v. 18). But how is it revealed (v. 24)? When God "lets go" that is a form of His wrath. When He takes away His restraining hand, the pit of evil that we fall into is a consequence of His anger, and not just an occasional for additional anger later. We see the same principle elsewhere in Scripture. "The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein" (Prov. 22:14). This adultery is not just something that God will judge; it is a judgment in its own right. Sodom was judged, therefore, before the fire fell, and America is under judgment as we speak. The mercy of God is when we say to God, "Thy will be done." The wrath of God is when He says to us, "No, no, thy will be done."

SUPPRESSION, SUBSTITUTION, SUBVERSION:

The sin starts with rebellion and ingratitude. That is the first step. God takes our heads in both His hands, and points our head towards the greatness of His glory. We refuse to look because to do so would obligate us. We take the greatness of His glory and thrust it away from us, holding it under, suppressing it.The second stage is to substitute something else in place of God--images of men, or birds, or beasts, or crawling things. The final stage of judgment (remember, this is the wrath of God) is subversion. The glory of God in the image of God (man) is still too clear, and so that image must be dishonored. That dishonor takes the form of homosexual practices. This is not something where we can agree to differ. It is not that we believe such practices are dishonoring, while they believe it is honoring. They know it is dishonoring and degrading also--that is the whole point.

REALITY AND IMAGE:

You cannot dishonor the glory of God in the Godhead, and then sustain honor for the image of God in man. Incidentally, Godhead is not related to the word head, but rather from the Middle English hed to our word hood. So this word refers to the Godness of God, the Godhood of God, the divine nature of God.

This means, among other things, that apart from Christ human rights is an incoherent concept. If you hate the person, you won't honor their picture. If your whole orientation is a rejection of the goodness of God, then what are you going to do with the reflection of that goodness that is found in the human body? You are going to figure out ways to degrade it, and unnatural sex acts are one of the most obvious ways to accomplish that kind of degradation.

WHAT EVERYBODY KNOWS:

Never undertake to prove what everybody knows already. When you are in discussions with the office atheist, or with the radical secularist in your family at the Christmas reunion, do not accept their invitation to step into a neutral place from which you can prove to them that God exists. For to do so grants legitimacy to the heart of their rebellion--you have acknowledged that he really does not know, and that he would really like to know. He is holding an overinflated beach ball underwater, and has been doing it so long that his arms are quivering, and he invites you to accept the challenge of proving to his satisfaction that beach balls in fact do exist. He is terribly interested, and wants nothing more than to know the truth.

Remember that he professes that what he is doing is wise (v. 22). But God's evaluation is different (v. 22). They say they want nothing other than respect, mutual affirmation, an elimination of hate crimes, and all the rest of it. God calls it the dishonoring of one another.

Le ministre de l'Administration du Territoire, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, s'est félicité mardi, à Luanda, de l'engagement de l'administration municipale de Kilamba Kiaxi dans la résolution de quelques problèmes de la communauté.

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