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irritatedNote: Article in post below is on this URL:
http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/APODGadget.asp
http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/MsgBoard/read.asp?Board=810&MsgID=356950&Setting=A9999F0001 What are Vista Gadgets? |
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incredulousSo by Microsoft saying 'Hey we can be green too.' Who are they tooing?
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39163
We do know IBM has a system for monitoring and controlling server farm power parameters using software. They call it EMPATH and it promises to squeeze out the last lonely penny of savings out of your server power profile on a farm-wide (city wide? country wide? Nationwide? Hmmm. It simply uses messaging and middleware glue so why not?) basis.
I wonder if anyone else besides New Zealand with their free geothermal electrical supply worries about heavy mainframe power profiling. And heck why wouldn't they? Even if your power is free the wear and tear on machinery and ecosystem due to excessive current, magnetic and heat load over life is worth squeezing.
So what is Microsoft saying here? 'We can do that.' Really? REALLY?
I would like to see more about that. In fact, I'm sure everyone and all would like to see more about that.
Hey wait a minute! What the...? Who the...? What the...?
following excerpt from article at above URL
"...they could reap about the same savings in electricity and carbon dioxide emissions by reminding users to shut down PCs after hours, show them how to remove screen savers and put monitors into stand-by mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. "Before embarking on an expensive Vista upgrade to achieve green benefits, businesses should spend a much smaller amount on a broad-based education and training program to help staff understand why saving energy is important to the business. Businesses shouldn't justify upgrading to Vista just because of improved power management," Simon Mingay wrote in a research note this week..."
That's it? That's their 'power management'? Go to screen saver? Oh I'm terribly sorry I have wasted the reader's time far too long with this nonsense of comparing what Microsoft is able to do with their mountain of money against what I see IBM able to do with what is obviously Vertical oriented IP.
This is like carrying the glass slipper on a velvet tufted pillow by coach and accessorized prancing equestrea to the trailer court. Geez looeezz. Who's big ass feet are we going to try to shoehorn into what industry vertical market speak this week?
don't askI was just going to change the topic on this thing from Off the Wall Speculation to The DISCLAIMER but I looked at the title of the article posted originally on this post (before I went back and edited it - the date is down at the bottom, noodnick - I trust Lycos keeps backups) and 'Host not found' made me think of James Gray the unfortunate Microsoft expert in distributed transactional computing who sailed off to where there be dragons.
And then I thought. No. Could be about a parasite looking for a dwelling and finding it in the stomach of a cow. And not a very productive cow at that. Of course, you don't want to eat that parasite so you don't eat the cow. But while the parasite is there whatgood is the cow? Smelly. Poopy. Stuff green stuff in one end and get brown on the process end? Great. OK the brown stuff is useful for cabbage patching but what else do you do with it until it dries into a useful form? GACK.
And Methane (and you have to say it 'me-thain' like the brits do or it isn't hauf as funny) my god the Methane. We shall be roasting Al Gore's bollocks on the sidewalk it's so damn hot.
So I don't have a clue what this article is about because I don't have the energy to scroll any further frankly. Aside from some tragic accident involving Merve Griffin and Weslie Snipes I have no interest beyond prurience and pockets.
To wit:
As the internet enters its second decade as a mass medium, it's worth looking back at one of the old saws that was bandied around in the covered-wagon days, when Californian sages made gnomic pronouncements about the future and the rest of the world repeated them at dinner parties. "The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." These are the words of John Gilmore, radical libertarian, Sun Microsystems employee number five and bona fide west-coast guru-gazillionaire, and for much of the last 10 years they've been repeated as part of the founding story of the internet, along with a gloss about the net's inception as a military communications network designed to withstand partial destruction by nuclear attack.
more at above URL
What the... knucklear attack? I better get my Bell helmet and my gomer goggles and head down to the bastement. I got a feeling the turkey's gonna blow up in the mikerwave any minute... spittooee
bluehttp://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/channel_9_unwired.html
March 30, 2007 5:09 PM
Joe Wilcox This week, a Microsoft snit with Wired magazine inadvertently revealed how employee blogs act as public relations tools spinning the message to the software giant's favor. Ironically, the topic of debate was increased transparency of Microsoft operations. |
The story begins with publication of April Wired, which cover topic is how companies are realizing the benefits of greater transparency. Part of the package: "Operation Channel 9." I received a copy on Saturday.
The Channel 9 story came to a troubling end with reporter Fred Vogelstein revealing:
"Someone at Microsoft unintentionally e-mailed me the confidential dossier the company keeps on reporters writing stories about it (presumably a common practice among big corporations). My file ran to 5,500 words and included all the angles I had been pursuing (along with suggested responses to my questions), the people outside the company they thought I had talked to, detailed background on Wired and how it has covered Microsoft, and notes on me and my interviewing style."
Microsoft Pitches Wired on Channel 9
The story might have ended there if not for Wired's next step. In the interest of transparency—after all, that was the cover topic—Wired chose to post what Microsoft calls a briefing file Microsoft must have taken the publication of the dossier as an affront because bloggers at Microsoft and public relations firm Waggener Edstrom went on the offense and, in typical PR fashion, used misdirection to divert away from the leaked material.
The dossier's existence isn't the problem for Microsoft. Many journalists covering Microsoft know that Waggener Edstrom keeps dossiers about them. I've never seen my file, but a half dozen years or so ago, someone at Waggener Edstrom shared some contents during a phone call. No doubt, other companies keep files on reporters—and who knows what files the White House keeps on Washington-based reporters.
more at above URL
a-okAnd here's a handy URL you might use to track Apple Leopard rumors that never exist. The table is a sample per March 30, 2007.
http://realitymarkets.com/index/8/Mac-OS-X-Leopard-Ship-Dates
Upcoming Apple products and Apple product rumors.
| Stock | Prob. | Last | Day's Change | Volume | ||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship May | 32.24% | 18.04 | -0.54 | (-2.91%) | 50000 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship Apri.. | 16.81% | 9.40 | -0.03 | (-0.32%) | 880 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship June | 10.30% | 5.76 | 0.33 | (6.09%) | 100000 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship Octo.. | 8.89% | 4.97 | -0.30 | (-5.65%) | 300000 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship Augu.. | 8.77% | 4.91 | -0.02 | (-0.47%) | 1910 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship Sept.. | 8.76% | 4.90 | -0.02 | (-0.45%) | 1660 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship Marc.. | 7.33% | 4.10 | -0.02 | (-0.39%) | 1250 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
| Apple OS X Leopard Ship July | 6.90% | 3.86 | 0.00 | (0.00%) | 0 | |
| Sectors: apple macosx computers technology | ||||||
BIG isn't it?
suaveGreg Hunt Published on: Friday, 30th March, 2007
Almost ten years ago Bill Gates’ Microsoft lent a helping hand to Apple. Apple was heading for the commercial landfill that Microsoft had so diligently flattened. Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple Computers Inc as it was known then. The joke was that Gates had told his advisers to buy a ton of Snapple but they had misheard him.
more at above URL
celebratoryLinda Rosencrance
March 30, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A briefing memo that Microsoft Corp. and its outside public relations agency kept on a Wired Magazine reporter who was writing an article on the company accidentally ended up in the reporter's e-mail inbox.
In February, while reporting on a story about Microsoft's video blogging initiative Channel 9, a Web site designed to facilitate communication between Microsoft's developers and its customers, reporter Fred Vogelstein received the e-mail that was intended for a Microsoft executive, not him.
"As journalistic windfalls go this is about as good as it gets," Vogelstein said in his blog. "There I was writing a story about how Microsoft is on the cutting edge of using the Internet to become more transparent, and there in front of me are the briefing documents they are using to manage the story. The timing was so fortuitous that I wondered whether it was intentional. When I told Microsoft about it, they convincingly told me it was not."
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/pc-makers-to-microsoft-vista-is-not-a-seller-you-suck-248336.php
March 30, 2007
This may feel like Groundhog Day for you and Steve Ballmer, but according to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hot cake that they were hoping for. The not-so-shiny-shiny-anymore OS is not helping sales at all and some companies may end with a whole bunch of unsold stuff in their warehouses.
Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that "PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry". Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole.
So forget about Señor Gates' words on Vista pushing PC sales. You may want to punch us, Bill, but apparently those 20 million copies sold are indeed business as usual.
Hasta la Vista baby, say PC makers [India Times]
accident proneI've endured my share of phishing expeditions and I know what these people are talking about but I also am suspect of those who believe there should be an 'acceptable code' for speech.
Do I REALLY need to climb up on the coffee table and make my 'we are all Spartacus' speech again?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6502643.stm
Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 11:41 GMT 12:41 UK 
Kathy Sierra went public on her fears in her blog
(me: Excerpts only. I can't stomach the entire thing on here. Imagine people so vile as to prohibit a person from speaking their mind and calling things as they are seen. Wow. And THEN you got people telling you they're going to kill you for what you write. Well thankee Jesus cause they'll be killing me for your name's sake cause I just cemented it to the wall here. Thankee.)
Among those calling for a bloggers' code of conduct is Tim O'Reilly - one of the web's most influential thinkers.
He told BBC Radio Five Live that it could be time to formalise blogging behaviour. 
The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the internet is not a statement about the internet 
"I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that it doesn't come through any kind of [legal/government] regulation it would come through self-regulation."
While condemning the bloggers who issued the threats, Mr O'Reilly was keen that the whole blogosphere should not be tarred with the same brush.
"The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the internet is not a statement about the internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about this is what's happening to the blogosphere."
chillin'let's all be certain who puts out rumors and who puts them to rest.
Not my job.
I just reports what I sees.
Oh. And one other thing. I most decidedly do post on a predominant bias.
