Let me see, Microsoft has announced that their cloud computing initiative is called Azure, the color of the sky without clouds...
Why Microsoft keeps using oxymoron to name their products is beyond me. We all remember "Microsoft Works", "Trustworthy Computing" and "Plays for Sure" (abandoned music format), amongst others.
We know Bill is mad about the Get a Mac ads. For one thing, these ads keep remembering people precisely what MS (and every PC maker) is trying to make them forget, that Vista has tons of problems.
The Get a Mac ads is a comedy about two computers chit-chatting and one is always getting itself into trouble. With each new commercial, we know that PC is going to get into trouble, and you keep watching because you are curious to know *how* he will get there.
With the new MS ads, there is a subtle difference at the begining: "Hello, I am a PC and I have been made into a stereotype" and then it shows people resisting that stereotype. Suddently it is not just two computers doing a comedy, but real people defending their identity. The tone is very assertive and they are not laughing. It's like they say: "I am busy working, doing important stuff, just don't laugh at me".
With these new ads, Microsoft is trying to change people's perception of the Mac + PC duo. Suddenly, this is not about two computers, this about real people. And if Apple is making fun at the PC, it is making fun at real people doing their work.
And Apple keep laughing at the PC, they will comes out as insensitive and arrogant. Brilliant!
so are shoes analogy to Windows... it doesn't quite fit but if you bend it up long enough you can squeeze your feet into it?
Not exactly... what it means is that for Vista to feel better, you must, before installing it, flex five or six time the install CD to soften it a little.
The process of making lime generates CO2, but adding the lime to seawater absorbs almost twice as much CO2. The overall process is therefore 'carbon negative'.
1. To absorb 1 mole of CO2, you need 2 moles of CaO (one mole of CaCO is used to negate the effect of the production of CaCO), that gives is a ratio of 2:1
These numbers look suspicious, but remember that the weight of CO2 is huge due to the fact that burning fuel (which almost only made of carbon) adds 2 atoms of oxygen to carbon, therefore quadrupling the weight: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/Feg/co2.shtml.
3. Divide the weight of CO2 by atomic weight of 44g/mol, multiply by CaCO atomic weight of 84g/mol, and then multiply by the ratio of 2:1, you get:
115 million tons of lime per year (roughly 4 times the weight of CO2)!
Thus is huge: in comparison, the world is producing just under 1 billion tons of mineral ore per year, which means that we would have to divert the equivalent of 12% of that effort to the task of producing and transporting lime. Imagine the cost! http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/iron_ore/340302.pdf
In comparison, saving one pound of oil which produces 4 pounds of CO2 would save 16 pounds of lime.
It has the appearance of a miracle, like hydrogen fuel or biogas, but it isn't going to solve the problem:
How are you going to produce the energy to crush all that limestone?
And what will be the environmental impact of crushing entire mountains?
We'll surely hear that stupid line "scientist will solve the CO2 problem with limestone" from all the deniers of global warming who have been repeating for years that "it is just a natural cycle".
US has a tiny retail market?
Every time "Apple is gaining/performing well on ABC", the counter-claim is coming as "but ABC does not matter":. In fact, Apple caught a long time ago the Bas press flu, and that is still lingering today. The bad press is so predictable that I am sure it could be scripted.
It's like Joe translates "Apple is gaining/performing well on ABC" into "Apple is winning" and he perceives that as a threat and then begins fighting agains it.
Maybe it's in the way that theses articles are introduced here. Just look at the theme used for the page layout... it's a Windows look and reveals that the write was thinking at some point about the Mac/PC war.
Sorry but I saw two years ago an implementation of Microsoft data center code name Wildcat ant it was usable. It was not complete, but very usable. It the time, they were looking for partners to hook into their data center.
What if......there was one day on Slashdot without any news regarding MS?
"Oh, Bill slurped his soup today, let's put it on Slasdot"
Surely looks like there is a Slashdot team in Redmond that keeps MS in the talks.
Let's have a MS-free day...
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Wait a minute, he just meant he would have been more competent if he had kept his mouth shut!
Let me see, Microsoft has announced that their cloud computing initiative is called Azure, the color of the sky without clouds... Why Microsoft keeps using oxymoron to name their products is beyond me. We all remember "Microsoft Works", "Trustworthy Computing" and "Plays for Sure" (abandoned music format), amongst others.
We know Bill is mad about the Get a Mac ads. For one thing, these ads keep remembering people precisely what MS (and every PC maker) is trying to make them forget, that Vista has tons of problems.
The Get a Mac ads is a comedy about two computers chit-chatting and one is always getting itself into trouble. With each new commercial, we know that PC is going to get into trouble, and you keep watching because you are curious to know *how* he will get there.
With the new MS ads, there is a subtle difference at the begining: "Hello, I am a PC and I have been made into a stereotype" and then it shows people resisting that stereotype. Suddently it is not just two computers doing a comedy, but real people defending their identity. The tone is very assertive and they are not laughing. It's like they say: "I am busy working, doing important stuff, just don't laugh at me".
With these new ads, Microsoft is trying to change people's perception of the Mac + PC duo. Suddenly, this is not about two computers, this about real people. And if Apple is making fun at the PC, it is making fun at real people doing their work.
And Apple keep laughing at the PC, they will comes out as insensitive and arrogant. Brilliant!
so are shoes analogy to Windows... it doesn't quite fit but if you bend it up long enough you can squeeze your feet into it?
Not exactly... what it means is that for Vista to feel better, you must, before installing it, flex five or six time the install CD to soften it a little.
From the article:
The process of making lime generates CO2, but adding the lime to seawater absorbs almost twice as much CO2. The overall process is therefore 'carbon negative'.
1. To absorb 1 mole of CO2, you need 2 moles of CaO (one mole of CaCO is used to negate the effect of the production of CaCO), that gives is a ratio of 2:1
2. We are producing almost 30 million metric tons of CO2 per year from fossil fuels (and accelerating).
http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea/carbon.html
These numbers look suspicious, but remember that the weight of CO2 is huge due to the fact that burning fuel (which almost only made of carbon) adds 2 atoms of oxygen to carbon, therefore quadrupling the weight:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/Feg/co2.shtml.
3. Divide the weight of CO2 by atomic weight of 44g/mol, multiply by CaCO atomic weight of 84g/mol, and then multiply by the ratio of 2:1, you get:
115 million tons of lime per year (roughly 4 times the weight of CO2)!
Thus is huge: in comparison, the world is producing just under 1 billion tons of mineral ore per year, which means that we would have to divert the equivalent of 12% of that effort to the task of producing and transporting lime. Imagine the cost!
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/iron_ore/340302.pdf
In comparison, saving one pound of oil which produces 4 pounds of CO2 would save 16 pounds of lime.
It has the appearance of a miracle, like hydrogen fuel or biogas, but it isn't going to solve the problem: How are you going to produce the energy to crush all that limestone? And what will be the environmental impact of crushing entire mountains? We'll surely hear that stupid line "scientist will solve the CO2 problem with limestone" from all the deniers of global warming who have been repeating for years that "it is just a natural cycle".
US has a tiny retail market? Every time "Apple is gaining/performing well on ABC", the counter-claim is coming as "but ABC does not matter":. In fact, Apple caught a long time ago the Bas press flu, and that is still lingering today. The bad press is so predictable that I am sure it could be scripted. It's like Joe translates "Apple is gaining/performing well on ABC" into "Apple is winning" and he perceives that as a threat and then begins fighting agains it. Maybe it's in the way that theses articles are introduced here. Just look at the theme used for the page layout... it's a Windows look and reveals that the write was thinking at some point about the Mac/PC war.
Sorry but I saw two years ago an implementation of Microsoft data center code name Wildcat ant it was usable. It was not complete, but very usable. It the time, they were looking for partners to hook into their data center.
YouTube has a cool video about the"ice theory" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc
What if... ...there was one day on Slashdot without any news regarding MS?
"Oh, Bill slurped his soup today, let's put it on Slasdot"
Surely looks like there is a Slashdot team in Redmond that keeps MS in the talks.
Let's have a MS-free day...