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Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina?
theodp writes "He once controlled the world's PCs. Now Bill Gates has set his sights on controlling the world's weather. And patenting it. On Thursday, the USPTO revealed that Gates and ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold have filed five patent applications that propose using large fleets of vessels to suppress hurricanes through various methods of mixing warm water from the surface of the ocean with colder water at greater depths. The idea is to decrease the surface temperature, reducing or eliminating the heat-driven condensation that fuels the giant storms. Hey, a guy can only play so much golf in retirement."
I hope it doesn't blue sky on us.
"Face it - Bill Gates is a about a white Persian cat and a monocle away from being a Bond villain."
Great - more vaporware from Bill Gates... ;-)
Computer Science is all about trying to find the right wrench to bang in the right screw. -T.Cumbo?
I'd at least wait for the first service pack before I install it on my planet.
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Blue sky of death?
"wait for the first service pack"
Yes but what other "features" would be in that service pack?
(1) Clouds reformatted into Microsoft friendly format to show advertising for new products.
(2) Rains on Google offices 24/7
(3) Strong winds blows everyone toward huge advertising signs they cannot ignore.
(4) DRM infested sunshine we have to buy from Microsoft.
(5) Thunder storms raining chairs on Linux offices.
(6) Snow flakes spy on us all and then tell Microsoft what we like.
(7) Apple offices found 6 weeks later under mountain of huge hail stones.
(8) Profit.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
Microsoft seems to have taken "cloud computing" a bit too literal.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.