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And Adobe's Project Apollo and to some extent Sun's announcement of JavaFX are more the competitors in this area than MS.

Whats better than a hybrid?
Building a better hybrid.

In particular a plugin hybrid electric vehicle.
Or in this case a prius with a bigger battery.
(Although a fully electric car, with the bare minimum for a gasoline generator is more ideal)

This study found that in regions where electricity comes primarily from natural gas, a plugin hybrid puts up 3x less CO2 emmisions.
And in the least green region of the United States powered almost entirely by coal.
They found that the CO2 emmisions per mile were practically idential to a normal hybrid.
http://www.aceee.org/pubs/t061.htm

Whats more, we could replace 84% of the US fleet of cars with electric, and not need to build even 1 new power plant by leveraging downtime grid usage. (More fuel use, but no new infrastructure needed)
http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2006/12/plu gin_nation_g.html

Whats more, by having the distributed battery network stabalize the grid capacity.
We could actually make the grid far more reliable than it is today.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/17930/
http://news.com.com/2100-11392_3-6174672.html

And there's some pretty sexy electric cars on the way.
http://www.greyfalcon.net/electriccars.png

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Cool part about all this?
You can get electricity from the grid at a cost similar to 50 cents a gallon.
http://www.greyfalcon.net/plugins

And it's the perfect, "flexible fuel", since electricity can come from practically anything.
Unlike Ethanol for instance, which might be even worse than gasoline in pollution.
http://www.greyfalcon.net/ethanol2
http://www.greyfalcon.net/ethanol3
And biodiesel, which could potentially make Indonesia/Malaysia put up more CO2 than China.
http://www.greyfalcon.net/biofuel

Best part about this from an environmental perspective, is that combines two big problems into one.
So all you have to do is green the grid, to green everything.

And that can readily be provided by printable solar panels
http://www.greyfalcon.net/pv

And geothermal using inexpensive super powered electric drilling motors
http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=1206
http://www.rasertech.com/media/movies/html/well_to _wheels.html
http://www.insidegreentech.com/node/1088

Here's an old article that listed which companies claim to have said "no" to the NSA and those that said "no comment":

http://news.com.com/Some+companies+helped+the+NSA% 2C+but+which/2100-1028_3-6035305.html

I don't know how reliable this is, but one may want to consider this when choosing your next communications provider.

Dell will also establish a services and marketing program to migrate existing Linux users who are not Dell Linux customers to Suse Linux, Microsoft said.

Dell will also establish a services and marketing program to migrate existing Linux users who are not Dell Linux customers to Suse Linux, Microsoft said.

Because your presumption is false.

Here is Illinois, I am using Insight Communications as my cable internet provider. I have had no problems with them. I do not like Comcast. Now this is based upon what I have read about them, and what I have noted from news reports about them. I definitely do not like AT&T, which is what the local DSL is.

I work in a small store. The local Insight Communications ad lady came in to drop off some pamphlets and see about getting us to advertise on television. I struck up a conversation with her, and during that, she mentioned that by the end of the year, Insight will effectively be Comcast using Insight's name. I stated a very frankly that I would be leaving Insight if that was to happen. She then stated that they already have a sharing agreement with Comcast in effect. I have found this article about it at Cnet.

So when this situation finalizes and I am under Comcast, what am I to do? Do I stay with Comcast, or do I switch to AT&T? I do not like either company. It is not a good situation for me here. I need more options. I guess it is time to write a letter to a politician.

Shares of Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM are down 2.3 percent this year amid investor concern over revenue and profit growth for 2007.

yay for not reading the post directly above the one you replied to, gp was referring to the link http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6084601-7.html being nearly a year old [June-2006].

If you take the time to log into yahoo photos, you'll see they are about to roll out a new version, which is not Flickr. CNet news.com has reviewd the new site, and they don't think it looks like yahoo is shutting photos down: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6084601-7.html

In other news, a molehill has become a mountain. Here's tom with the weather:

I am reminded of This 2001 train accident in Baltimore, where a tunnel fire severed a major internet backbone among other things and disrupted local communications as far away as Africa. It seems that while decentralized and robust on the massive scale, the internet is vulnerable as a child to small accidents or attacks, whose ramifications can be felt worldwide. It is too big to be defended or destroyed.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714669-7.html?pa rt=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Amazingly GE announced in February that they can produce "incandescent bulb to match compact fluorescents". Amazing what a bit of competition can do or is this just a scam to brake CFLs.
Wonder how long they have been sitting on this one? Anyone know if they have shares in the electricity companies?
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6162567-7.html

"Many Web entrepreneurs and established software providers are hoping that AJAX can reinvigorate the PC software business by marrying the graphical user interface of desktop computers with the benefits of the Web."
http://news.com.com/AJAX+gives+software+a+fresh+lo ok/2100-1007_3-5886709.html

This is a little over two years ago, on the subject of Ajax...and Web 2.0/ other buzzwords/works seem to be plugged more on technological forums/media...Who wouldn't want to be hip..Especially when your information's reputation is on the line.

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IMO: Online Banking/money transfer/any sort of transaction/communique' that needs security should be held in the highest regards, with the most minimal in looks! Give us the information, not the bells and whistles!

The CNet version looks like it was picked up by a runaway screen scraper, which sucked up two following articles. Then some paragraphs were duplicated. Lame.

Please don't link to PhysOrg. They're a link tarpit... their business model is to take press releases from elsewhere on the net and post them without linking back to the original article, so that searches terminate there among their ad banners. It's usually not *hard* to find the article they copied, it does usually have non-hypertext attribution, so using PhysOrg's tarpit is just laziness.

This appears to be the original article: at Ziff Davis' C|net.

I'll accept your funny problems and raise you another:
AMD K6/2 too fast for Windows 95: News MS Support

PCI is doubtless the cheapest option available. Many systems have multiple PCI buses, for example I used to have a system with a SiS chipset whose slots were split between two PCI buses, and it had an AGP8x and at least one additional internal PCI bus; it had both 32 and 64 bit PCI devices onboard (a RAID controller was on a 64 bit, 33MHz bus internally.) If the IBM mainframes that use PCI buses have enough of them, then it might be worth it. They might be envisioning this on a "mainframe" cluster, where you could distribute them throughout the network. Or of course, the person who wrote the article could simply be ignorant enough to not differentiate between multiple flavors of PCI. If we look at some other Stephen Shankland articles on C|Net we find that they tend to be very simple and formulaic, without any technical detail whatsoever. Just putting those letters "PCI" into the article must have just about killed him. Normally if you see a "word" in an article by him that isn't plain English, it's the name of some company.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,105963-page,1/ar ticle.html

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.as px?docid=154189

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper .aspx?docid=284783

Sounds like Intel had been planning to scale Itanium to more than one core for a long time.

Do you have some information that says these Itanium 2 chips were never made?

Intel's site seems to say they do exist.

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/itanium2/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,105963-page,1/ar ticle.html

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.as px?docid=154189

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper .aspx?docid=284783

Sounds like Intel had been planning to scale Itanium to more than one core for a long time.

Do you have some information that says these Itanium 2 chips were never made?

Intel's site seems to say they do exist.

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/itanium2/

I mean seriously, remember how much Oracle is being a dick when they bought PeopleSoft? And now MySQL with "only" $50 million in revenue is going IPO?

I mean hell, remember this? A private firm can turn down an offer, but a full public company has to go to its shareholders.

Its not about the software, its just that MySQL is a nice company that worked hard to get where it is. I just don't want to see it get destroyed because they just needed a bit more capital.

Soooooo...is it a problem with OS X or a problem with Javascript? I read that the same vulnerability exists for FireFox on Windows. Seems to me like this has little, if anything, to do with Mac OS X specifically.

From Anand, AMD, News.com and X-bit labs the numbers tell of an ever increasing marketshare for AMD. Note that this is for all servers, not just against Intel, meaning that Sun, IBM, and other servers are included. Then there's the 4 socket server category, where AMD has 48% of total marketshare in Q2 2006, and is the category I'd be more interested in as that is a true high-end server market. Then there's the Top 500 Nov 2006 List which lists 4 Opteron systems and a single Intel Itanium system in the top 10, along with 5 PowerPC systems. I should also note that only 31 Woodcrest systems are on the list vs 76 dual core Opterons.

Basically, AMD's server market share has been growing in leaps and bounds over the past 2 years, and has broken Intel's x86 monopoly in the space, especially once you exceed 2 processors. With Dell now finally offering AMD CPUs, I expect that number to grow.

Is this post really interesting? did anybody actually look at the trustix link? Is there really evidence of DoubleClick using cookies to obtain users personal information? If so, how? Aren't cookies basically just key value pairs that a domain can store on a users browser to access later?

Are cookies really spyware? Is every site on the internet that uses cookies spyware? I believe that's most of the internet... I don't know but it just seems like the quality of peoples opinions on this issue is quite poor due to a general intellectual laziness and a willingness to assume the worst.

The site also mentions that DoubleClick acquired Abacus direct and announced plans to tie together web-identities with Abacus's already existing database on real people. Rightfully there was an outcry and laws should have been passed to protect peoples privacy, but I don't know that any laws were passed. And the site doesn't mention that DoubleClick chose not to follow through with this plan due to the privacy concerns.

So what does this amount to? DoubleClick is basically a marketing technology company that provides advertisers with technologies to profile users by their browsing habits over the ad networks. The data is not identifiable and does not even belong to DoubleClick. If you don't like it you can opt-out and basically you will get ads that aren't relevant to you instead of ones that are more relevant to you. And that's about it. My biggest gripe would be with the fact that their technology enables publishers and advertisers to make ads that annoy the hell out of me. Although I think that has improved over the past few years.

Well I don't know the details all that well, perhaps someone has some more damning evidence against them, but it should be laid out. Because so far the conversation has been more hysterical than informative. It's also a somewhat depressing reflection of the current crop of Slashdotters maybe... Am I getting old or are the threads dumbed down relative to 4-5 years ago?

...or they ARE keen to and are immediately silenced.

Sure thing. Check out the recently-approved Data Retention Laws. Link 1 Link 2. They are cursory introductions, you can dig further if you wish. The articles don't talk about wifi spots but they are regulated too: they have to keep a copy of ID for each customer and be able to track them individually, as I said. Anyway you are perfectly right in not just believing me, so check it out. You'll be appalled.

It's interesting though, because now Microsoft is actually on both sides of this fight.

They just recently partnered with Novell, and were funding SCO through Baystar.

Wouldn't it be great to just have 1% of the money that Microsoft has wasted on this? I'd retire.

It's interesting though, because now Microsoft is actually on both sides of this fight.

They just recently partnered with Novell, and were funding SCO through Baystar.

Wouldn't it be great to just have 1% of the money that Microsoft has wasted on this? I'd retire.

In February 2009, the FCC of the United States cuts off analog television broadcast, and Americans will make a run on the big box stores to buy spanking new televisions to watch the NCAA men's basketball tournament on. How many of those 3+ million PS3s will connected to HDTVs by the end of March 2009?

What do you think the odds are that the type of person who isn't willing to spend the money on cable or satellite TV is going to spend $500+ on an HDTV when they could instead spend $50 on a converter box? Don't forget the government subsidy on a converter box, making the cost as low as $10.

Also, how much of an intersection do you really see between the set of people with old TVs that don't spend any money on television service and the set of people who are early adopters for the PS3 ?

The actual settlement was $92 million, a far cry from the $1 billion they asked for.

Which was about 92 million more dollars than what they deserved, but still, when your business model (film) becomes obsolete, whatcha gonna do? Innovate? Ha!

I won't succeed simply because they look like shit. Maybe if they used blue instead of puke yellow then the symbol would look more nifty. Now those monochrome semacodes discussed above, I've seen those on packages before, and those have style!

Kodak won $1 billion from Sun for (spurious?) patent violations in Java. I would not be surprised to see MS lose this fight.

And considering how similar C# and Java are, I'm surprised Kodak isn't alleging the same patent violation.

Novell is a weak company - they inked a deal with M$ because it suited both parties who feel threatened in this space.

But following links in TFA, and back beyond them:

1. The M$ Balmer FUD bullshit:

"...and because open-source Linux does not come from a company -- Linux comes from the community -- the fact that that product uses our patented intellectual property is a problem for our shareholders..."

i.e. we can't threaten to sue *everyone*, so we picked-off the weakest member of the flock...

"But to the degree that people are going to deploy Linux, we want Suse Linux to have the highest percent share of that, because only a customer who has Suse Linux actually has paid properly for the use of intellectual property from Microsoft."

i.e. we'll claim to push technical interoperability with Novell/Suse, (which will probably be more bullshit), since they will be more pliant to our desires...we'll also threaten to sue anyone who develops, distributes or uses other products.

2. Novell rebuttal

"We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. When we entered the patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell did not agree or admit that Linux or any other Novell offering violates Microsoft patents," Hovsepian [boss of Novell] said.

A Microsoft representative on Monday issued a response to the Novell letter, saying the two companies disagree on this point.

i.e. Who cares about public posturing - we both know that this is all about the two getting together to screw everyone else, including users.

3. The reaction from IBM & Red Hat

Scott Handy, IBM's vice president of Linux and open source, said that the patent protections included in the Novell-Microsoft deal are unnecessary. "We aren't sure what Microsoft's intentions here are, but IBM has long asserted that we don't see the need for this coverage," Handy said. "To our knowledge, there has never been a patent suit against Linux, and it is our view that legal claims, if they exist, should be settled without involving end-user customers...Microsoft is trying to create "fear, uncertainty and doubt" around Linux because it poses a competitive threat."

This from the company that INVENTED FUD - they should know... And RH?

"The day after the announcement of the Novell deal, Red Hat responded with a statement saying that it will not pay an "innovation tax."

So, a big 'fuck you' from the major players. Why? They know that if M$ could attrack them directly, they already would have.

Especially after the SCO debacle, M$ knows that if they take on IBM, in particular, the only winners will be the lawyers. Nobody has more patents than the boys in blue. But that won't stop them trying to chip away at the edges...

By the way, the original article was far more interesting:

http://news.com.com/Microsoft%2C+Novell+spar+over+ Linux+agreement/2100-7344_3-6137444.html

I would like to send you some links to publications about my criminal case. I was forced to confess to the possession of internet digital pictures of porn in deleted clusters of my computer hard drive. My browser was hijacked while I was browsing the web. I was redirected to illegal sites against my will. Some illegal pictures were found on my hard drive, recovering in unallocated clusters, without dates of file creation/download. I do not know how courts can widely press these charges on people to convict them, while the whole Internet is a mess. This is my story in inquisition21.com. There is all information about case written by Irish writer Brian Rothery. You can see a lot of violations of law by police http://www.inquisition21.com/article~view~7~page_n um~3.html This is publication in Wired news http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,633 91,00.html This is publication in Theregester http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hi jacking_risks/ Article in Globe and Mail newspaper http://ctv.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20040617.gttwhijac17/tech/Technology/techBN/ctv-t echnology Article in ZDnet http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5344831.html This is article in Washington Times, May 22, 2004 There is information about my case. http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/ dailys/05-30-04.html Article in Crime research center: http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.22.2004/506/ Article in Dallas, TX Newspaper http://www.crime-research.org/news/24.12.2004/862/ Child porn law was declared unconstitutional in Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA' http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=11750 "I came here to the US as political refugee from the former Soviet Union, and, now like many other people in the US, I feel shame that all of this can happen in the US - supposed to be the greatest democracy in the world."

I was under the impression that China was moving away from Windows...

:-/

Well some claim IBM supplied the Nazis with machines to keep track of the Jews.

http://news.com.com/2009-1082-269157.html

You may want to read up on the anti-trust testimony before you start defending the pricing practices of the Borg.
What are you, a Microsoft shareholder?

One such document could be a 1997 e-mail note from Jeff Raikes, a Microsoft group vice president, asking billionaire Warren Buffett to consider investing in the Redmond, Wash.-based software company.

Some observers have likened Microsoft's lucrative operating system dominance to a "toll bridge," Raikes wrote in an exchange that The Wall Street Journal first reported Wednesday. With a worldwide sales force of just 100 to 150 people, Raikes wrote, "this is a 90%+ margin business."
Raikes, who noted in the e-mail message that his own net worth was "well into" the hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to Microsoft, tried to convince Buffett to change his mind. "A PC is just a razor that needs blades, and we measure our revenue on the basis of $ per PC," Raikes wrote. "In FY96, nearly 50 million PCs were purchased and Microsoft averaged about $140 in software revenue per PC or $7 billion...I don't really see our business as being significantly more difficult to understand than the other great businesses you've invested in."


http://news.com.com/2100-1016-5173992.html

Maine didn't pass a law rejecting the Real ID act. As the CNet news article you provided the link to said, Maine passed a resolution not a law not to force their citizens "to use driver's licenses that comply with digital ID standards".

First state?

I thought Maine http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6153532.html already did this with Idaho and Washington following closely behind? Or have those laws not been enacted yet?

Very true, and the outcome is not written yet. After one year, I don't see lots of Windows Media Photo format images around. The same can't be said about Windows Media Video, unfortunately.

It is melancolie that once a typical person learns a desk top manager, that that person will stay with that desk top manager; Even when it means giving up big bucks, as opposed to just downloading a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 - For Free! Microsoft knows this, cold. When it comes to those who would exploit users sloth for purchasing a known product riddled with flaws, it only takes a enterprising few to ruin every microsoft user's day; Globally. One should notice that Microsoft's "Software Agreement" says you can not sue them for their negligence, but not the other way around. Mircrosoft may be many things, but foolish is not on that list.

I hope this proposal fails. They probably know it will fail but this is a "make work" project -- just a method of researchers to spend grants so that they will get further grants like governments do at end of fiscal.

When they talk about "The internet" they mean layers 4 and 5: IP and TCP (or TCP/IP).
[Points about the internet]
- The author of that article knows nothing about the internet; not once did he mention any of the layers.

[[Important]]
Just because the internet is old does not mean that it is by any means bad; in fact, for most users, this "older version" is better.

- IP was formalized back in the 1980s; it was designed back when memory was expensive; it was designed when every bit and byte counted. A new "version" of the internet would in fact be much slower than the current IPV4. IPV6 for example has more over head than IPV4.

Read about the formalized protocol here
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html

The paper may seem a little complex; however, realize that the purpose of IP is for simply routing messages so that one machine on the internet can reach another

-- Final comments --
The only service which the "old" internet does not offer is functionality for quality of service (technically it does, but those bits are not used).

And this is a good thing. No quality of service prevents ISPs from gouging their users. How would you like it if your ISP implemented IPV6 and then said "Oh, and if you want your latency below 200ms that will be an extra $20/month).

That is the type of functionality they are looking to add into the "new internet". Anything else can just be built ontop of TCP.

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Also, to clarify the IP running out of addresses issue: TCP/IP supports 4 billion address. Only 1 or 2 are in use. Why is there a shortage problem you ask? Because of the method in which IP addresses are assigned. IP addresses are assigned in classes of A, B, and C (do further research for understanding this).

For example, Stanford university has more IP addresses than all of china.
http://news.com.com/5208-1028_3-0.html?forumID=1&t hreadID=190&messageID=26576&start=-1

http://news.com.com/Adobe+to+take+Photoshop+online /2100-7345_3-6163015.html
"Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.

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Hey, say what you want, but Apple fanboy blogs (daring fireball, appleturns, etc.) are always better written and more interesting than PC-centric blogs. This is probably because Mac users are more literate than their Windows-using counterparts.

Well, it takes money to make money. And it is not as he was out there, spending his money on flimsy things like space travels, or something like that. Oh, wait!, he already did that. But, with a name like Shuttle worth, I would too, just for the sake of the pun.

Anyway, if he believes that he will eventually make Canonical profitable, it is money well spent.

Well, it takes money to make money. And it is not as he was out there, spending his money on flimsy things like space travels, or something like that. Oh, wait!, he already did that. But, with a name like Shuttle worth, I would too, just for the sake of the pun.

Anyway, if he believes that he will eventually make Canonical profitable, it is money well spent.