Why do people flock to these gated, closed, proprietary online communities? They resemble far too much previous proprietary online enclosures like 'newbie-land' AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, old MSN incarnations, and similar.
I thought people hated being herded together in such online corporate cattleyards, which is why the open, standards based Internet flourished and those old behemoths all died off.
Perhaps the cycle will repeat itself though. The evolution of online Gitmos and ghettos like Facebook, MySpace etc will hopefully soon be followed by a user revolt against their limitations, not to mention the corporate capture of vast online reservoirs of user content by the likes of News Corp they represent.
Of course HP - who had the most printers emitting the most crap in the study - can be expected to get defensive and spread FUD.
But you can be sure that if the report listed HP printers as low emitters, HP would have put out a press release praising the study and it probably would have also put a sticker on each new printer saying 'Low particle emissions'.
Oh, and BTW: people should read the original researchers paper in full, and not just accept the HP PR 'contoversy hose-down' attempt at face value. The original study is a detailed scientific paper with full details of its methodology, and with numerous citiations of relevant authorities and similar recent European, Japanese and US studies.
The computers are in fact made in Germany by EADS
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Hmmm - the hardware and primary software are in fact German made:
"The German-built computers, which operate in pairs, went out Wednesday morning, and several attempts to reboot them were unsuccessful...The computers normally operate in three pairs, where one computer (called the central unit) specializes in overall commanding and the other (the terminal unit) handles guidance, navigation, and control functions. The three pairs provide redundancy, via a special control software developed by the German aerospace firm DARA, which is now part of the European Astrium consortium."http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19228925/ has a good summary of the issue.
The computers have been very reliable to date too. So while they run within the Russian part of the ISS, and may have some Russian code on them, to call it Russian hardware is not exactly correct.
And for them to be running OK for years - until a new power source was added into the ISS - suggests the cause is not the computers per se, but some new element in their environment introduced by the new power infrastructure.
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Ughh. Death to all social networks.
Why do people flock to these gated, closed, proprietary online communities? They resemble far too much previous proprietary online enclosures like 'newbie-land' AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, old MSN incarnations, and similar.
I thought people hated being herded together in such online corporate cattleyards, which is why the open, standards based Internet flourished and those old behemoths all died off.
Perhaps the cycle will repeat itself though. The evolution of online Gitmos and ghettos like Facebook, MySpace etc will hopefully soon be followed by a user revolt against their limitations, not to mention the corporate capture of vast online reservoirs of user content by the likes of News Corp they represent.
Of course HP - who had the most printers emitting the most crap in the study - can be expected to get defensive and spread FUD.
But you can be sure that if the report listed HP printers as low emitters, HP would have put out a press release praising the study and it probably would have also put a sticker on each new printer saying 'Low particle emissions'.
Oh, and BTW: people should read the original researchers paper in full, and not just accept the HP PR 'contoversy hose-down' attempt at face value. The original study is a detailed scientific paper with full details of its methodology, and with numerous citiations of relevant authorities and similar recent European, Japanese and US studies.
Hmmm - the hardware and primary software are in fact German made:
"The German-built computers, which operate in pairs, went out Wednesday morning, and several attempts to reboot them were unsuccessful...The computers normally operate in three pairs, where one computer (called the central unit) specializes in overall commanding and the other (the terminal unit) handles guidance, navigation, and control functions. The three pairs provide redundancy, via a special control software developed by the German aerospace firm DARA, which is now part of the European Astrium consortium." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19228925/ has a good summary of the issue.
The computers have been very reliable to date too. So while they run within the Russian part of the ISS, and may have some Russian code on them, to call it Russian hardware is not exactly correct.
And for them to be running OK for years - until a new power source was added into the ISS - suggests the cause is not the computers per se, but some new element in their environment introduced by the new power infrastructure.