Posts by tempemeaty 958 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Oct 2007
Heh, plausible. Yeah, what Chinese Gov departments or businesses would want to have to keep their computers on permanent connections to USA servers 24/7 to do their office work. If I was Chinese I'd consider it very suspect. So Microsoft Orifice 356 hacked and cloned, yeah, I can see that happening. I bet those clone servers would more reliability than Microsofts' servers as well.
I'd hate to be a large Western corporation with a large presence in China only to have operations the there suddenly disrupted due to dependance on Microsoft services when the Chinese Gov authorities block access some cold morning. Considering the multiple levels of gov and different legal business issues such a thing could even happen repeatedly.
Having read this and other articles on Microsoft's latest update plans, it leaves me thinking this is about Microsoft pushing for a new OS version every year now. It's about Microsoft using constant OS version changes to acclimate users to an acceptance(or acquiescence) of/to the outcome being a cloud based OS in the shortest possible time.
Have to go to the cloud now at gun point? Looks like having no choice is being swiftly delivered by Adobe. I guess all the monopolies like Adobe and Microsoft are feeling empowered to do as they will to you, it's the cloud or nothing soon. Never mind what the user actually needs. Most American households are suffer with those "average" horrible broad bands speeds they have. Can I put my boot up Adobes' bum now? Please?
Oh and Apples premature discontinuance of Optical discs and Adobes' apparent love of this. They both can stuff it.
Alright, got the chemistry found in the rocks to show it could have supported life to add to the knowledge water once was present on Mars. Now that this is out of the way I hope it opens the door they need to allow for actually looking at the really interesting stuff they've been caught running from a lot lately.
Now that China has all American trained engineers in their own schools teaching American level Engineering, state of the art factories being built by the thousands, making everything themselves and need nothing more from westerners they are beginning to say "All your base are belong to us" to all the big Western Corporations.
Hollywood already uses digitizers to create 3D meshes of sculpted work for monsters, masks and whatnot. Digitizers have allowed the creation of good four pointed polygon based 3D mesh. Scanning has been a poor substitute for digitizers because of the random disorganized polygons they generate. It would be nice if they've discovered a process to create good four point poly meshes with scanning. That would be true progress in recording objects to a computer 3D mesh that's useful. That is what I hope is happening here.
I've sat and listened to researchers getting hot under the collar because NASA seems to be stonewalling with the Curiosity Mars mission. Every time there's something to investigate that is truly out of the ordinary NASA sends the rover away from it as fast as they can. Now it's also having a convenient issue just when there was demand for testing that last little shiny bit they ran from too. Only thing NASA needs is a kick in the pants of it's Washington management.
""To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl," he writes."
Man you nailed my own issues with Linux. It's even why the companies I need software tell me the simply don't have the budget to support it either. I almost started a massive rant on the subject here but just deleted it. You said it right, nothing more I can say would add anything to it other than allow me to vent about it.
Just one thing. Having to recompile a code for every version of a given flavor of Linux and again for every different flavor has stopped my most needed software companies from going beyond Mac and Windows. Get it to the point where one compile will install and work on multiple successive versions of Ubuntu or other Linux and it will break down this barrier. This gives me the impression that is a possible here.
Just an additional way to force people into software as a net connection dependent ongoing keep paying forever service. Steve Ballmer is a fat chair throwing tyrant and I've grown as tired of his abusive treatment of customers as I can handle.
May a thousand thousand camels leave unwanted gifts in Steve Ballmers' bath room.
May he be forced to dig out his bathroom with a spoon.
So convenient how they opened it on earth, this way even if evidence of life turns up they can still deny it. Lovely. Seems this mars mission is a pointless expedition to scoop dirt and play with rocks just like the last ones. We wont have any real progress until someone does a clandestine private expedition. Then again the Chinese will go to mars and probably tell us more than NASA would.
The question is what kind and what is it's composition. Anything this different from the surrounding landscape with it's apparent color brilliance makes one wonder if it's a new mineral /gemstone and what kind.
If this is a "gemstone" it could have a mineral composition that is different than any on earth. If it doesn't then we still learn something, how much Mars has a mineral composition like earth. They have a laser for this kind of thing, why avoid it's use here? Either way NASAs' cut and run behavior has become an aggravating exerciser in avoidance of opportunities for possible new discoveries.
If NASA is going to "proclaim" this shiny rock is nothing to look at and run the other way rather than "Test" it, then I have to ask if NASA practices science anymore.
Big Blue (IBM), supercomputer Blue Gene/Q Sequoia (IBM), The Blue Card (American Express), Blue Ray (Sony) and now Microsofts' "Blue". I seem to notice a lot of blue fondling by big wigs here. Are they trying to tell us something?
btw if this MS "Blue" is also going to spit out the solution to Windows 8 as being an OS as a subscription service, to that I think the chaos that is Windows 8 might well have been planned in order to crowbar us all into accepting a more orderly subscription OS. (Order Out Of Chaos or From Chaos Order, "Ordo Ab Chao")
So just now another thought on the double digit drop. Windows 8 has affected PC manufactures' sales negatively. All parts suppliers are part of that food chain. I wonder what amount of Hard Drive makers sales are just providing for PC Manufactures?
I wonder how PC Manufactures' suppliers all have been impacted by the "Windows 8 Effect".
I think of services like this not as a back up but as a way to access data I didn't have on my laptop when I'm out and about.
Also, I never use cloud storage as back up, only as an additional source to retrieve my data from. Leaving my data to the cloud is a risk I don't take but as an extra source of access to my data it seems okay. I sure can use a 50Gb option like Kim is offering for that.
How about aiming for/looking for some kind of life forms? Last I remember drilling rocks wasn't an activity employed in looking for microbes or anything else alive. We'll probably get a commercial transportation to mars long before NASA gets beyond looking at, laser-zapping, and drilling rocks. Oh, and what happened to the one rock that had a piece of transparent something sticking out of it? If all you are going to do is look at rocks go back to that one. That might have been a rare mineral or glass or quarts. NASA come on and look for life or at least stop avoiding interesting stuff.
The judge decided to tell her what her religious beliefs are and are not in order to come to the ruling. In the US judges are not not supposed to do that, they don't have authority to so it this is going to an appeal. If the appeal fails then the respect for ones religion and it's constitutional protections by Governemt will have been nullified in the US. For those who value their freedom from Gov oppression this is one to watch.
So Microsoft has succeeded in baiting the DOD into expanding it's use of their software which will have to be re-licensed after 3yrs? Then what, Microsoft comes back and enjoys hitting them with huge licensing fees for all the extra computers and devices now running more software than ever? Looks to me like the DOD is out to lunch on basic strategy. I wouldn't brag like they did if I was the DOD, they just got embarrassingly taken advantage of.
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