Power to the Peeps
Mood:  hug me
Topic: Integroty
The URL for this blurb is on index.blog?start=1175403839 'Microsoft can be Green too'... hey, you gonna eat that pickle? 31mar2007

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39163

'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.'

So in other words, 'if you think Microsoft servers can be treated like IBM servers because the marketing information tries to make it look and sound that way, please invest in some education about what IBM can do regarding energy management via EMPATH and what Microsoft Vista servers can do. We don't want stupid people suing us for thinking we could do energy management.'

I like this quote from 'Businesses shouldn't justify upgrading to Vista just because of improved power management'. HA. You can say that again.

OK

'Businesses shouldn't justify upgrading to Vista just because of improved power management'

There should be a disclaimer on Microsoft marketing literature if they have to caution clients to become more knowledgeable about the subject before you go telling people you're upgrading to Vista because of subject matter X. 'Heh heh yeah we don't do dat. Dees udder guys dey do dat.' 'Yeah. Other guys.'

I would submit and contend they should be sprinkling disclaimers to their developers about a lot more than just energy management. How about maybe software? I mean, a runaway electrical bill because of too many Vistas up at the same time I don't think will be that much of a concern before long. Do you?

Secret Koolaid Recipe
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: The DISCLAIMER

 Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to direct your attention to the center of the web page.  Count to ten in whatever direction you may like and tell yourself 'This is just a dream. This is just a dream.' Now, depending on whether you closed your eyes when you did that please line up on the left (your left) side of the page. Others to the right please. Watch the edge.

 I am who you think I am if you're thinking I'm like Chicken Man which,as many may attest, was at one time 'everywhere. everywhere.'.

 So I am. Without this machination I would have been reduced to buzzard poop long ago but for a few faithful friends and followers who wandered with Rasta Ranger throughout the wilderness of bummed out aspirations. We few have grown to a noticed number and we're been outliving our current living spaces at ProgrammersHeaven

Our collective experience in owning stock in Vertical Computer Systems has forged a socialized network of 'longs' meaning we are all 'long' VCSY stock. Wallstreet jargon where 'long' does not have the same connotations as someone from the farmland might.

Nevertheless, despite our  prurient lust for antiquities in pointed p2p prose we have intended all along to maintain a strict code of 'if you can't cut it and paste it don't talk about it'. But when you get a cut and paste that just cries out by itself to be made??? You paste that mutha and burn the barn down because it is truth... albeit in different roles in different stages.

 So we supply speculations. We are all Spartacus and any one of us may assume their own and varied long demonstrations of exuberance and elation, as it were, should we all come to enjoy a communion of spirits in being lifted to the spire of having been... dare I say it? Dast I would? Would I woo? Would I coocheecoocheekoo?

 Sure. Right.

 Look around and think but don't touch that trading button until you're sure you're acting with your own thoughts and not mine or say sirius or baveman or rapidrobert.

 If you don't know those names you got some serious catching up to do.

 Put the comic books away and prepare to meet your future whether you like it or not. If you like it you can profit. If not, you're gonna hate Thursdays. 

DOing THIS in a Reiterative Loop
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Microsoft and VCSY

 Hoot Gibson. I love it when people read. Reading is FUNdaMental. There should be a law: No read no breed.

 By the way you get odd results using copy/paste to 'the clipboard' as it exists today so please excuse the huge type and all from some of these page to page cut and paste jobs. This tripod stuff does a realy good job of trying but there are so many hurdles between WYSIWYG formatting and the web page. So be glad what ya got and shut up with the complaining. You're lucky you ain't eating mudbugs with grits casserole for breakfast. The green beans. Can't do the green beans.

 I suppose Oz is yearning for a universal clipboard and he thinks THAT will spur and spawn the next great leap in productivity Microsoft can mine for rubies among the manual-oriented crowd while the rest of the machine world marches on ahead to explore neato subjects like semantic automation and socialized aggregation.

 Heh heh. Yep. I like this blogging life. Sit up in your altogethers and make pronouncements that the experts have to decode and verify. It's great. Great. I could actually make a business out of this one day. You know. Put an adding machine on the right side over here and then a percents calculator so peeple can figure out how many percents they are. Maybe a movie thingie down here by the pepsikoala hits motif. It would be mahvelous. Thimply mahvelous.

 Now, as for Microsoft and what they can't do as opines our guru from the blue, I ... naw I'll save that until next post. I like this blogger's life ya know. I could take a real shine to it. Maybe paint my face and sing while the redwoods burn. Tragic. Tragic. By the way, what was that clown crying about again?

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By: danfl_11
02 Apr 2007, 12:08 PM EDT

Msg. 180518 of 180518
(This msg. is a reply to 180513 by bart2e.)

bart2e??? I thought we had all agreed IBM has VCSY under its wings and Verizon has NOW Solutions in a cozy place.

Microsoft could have 'squashed' VCSY anytime it wanted since 2000-2001!!!! Why would they not try now? How about a whole bunch of eyes watching now as opposed to back then???

When Microsoft announced Hailstorm don't you think they WANTED to squash VCSY? Do you think Microsoft did NOT know about Emily and the XML Enabler Agent and the patent application. Now that VCSY has the patent (and remember the allowance for it went out one week after Microsoft announced it would have to delay Vista - do I think Microsoft is capable of getting an advanced heads up from people in the USPTO that would have known VCSY was going to receive this patent. Uhhhhhh I don't know. They seem pretty inept at everything else. Why should they succeed in subterfuge?) the patent gives VCSY ownership of an architectural bottleneck and you can see it in Ray Ozzies complaint there's nothing 'out there' to sew up the web and glue things together!

In fact just for giggles and grins look here and read these two posts:
http ://ajaxamine.tripod. com/
Monday, 2 April 2007
What Microsoft needs that it can't do:

and

Hmmmpphhh. I would not be good company right now.

Compare notes and how about reading the patent while you're at it:

patent: 7,076,521 Web-based collaborative data collection system
http ://patft.uspto. gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=7076521.PN.&OS=PN/7076521&RS=PN/7076521

LOL And isn't collaboration what Ozzie is supposed to be most up on? He invented Lotus for crying out loud for IBM. And he has the father of websphere working for him now. Where's the flying cars?

All that stuff is over at IBM and we know who 'all that stuff' belongs to. By now if you don't see the elephant you need to turn around because you're looking the wrong direction. Just read the material. Then you'll go fix yourself your OWN glass of koolaid. 'Excuse me sir. May I have more?' 'MORE???!!!'

WE know there's something 'out there' but Ray Ozzie doesn't!!! ROTFL Somebody needs to help him forget about a clipboard between the web and the pc because computers don't use clipboards. They use two-way transacting conversations. Not clipboards. LOL That's so low-brow even I can see that's an attempt at giving developers some way of competing with the agent patent.

Microsoft is dead meat pete!!! If they couldn't squash VCSY when they had the chance how would they squash them now when they obviously can throw some weight around???

Who knows maybe we've been too hard on poor Microsoft and poor Ray. Maybe they really DON'T see VCSY or the USPTO 7,076,521 "Web-based collaborative data collection system." patent!!!

Dear me. What will happen to the inner circle at Microsoft when they finally do get to read a copy of patent 7,076,521 Web-based collaborative data collection system??? Maybe Ozzie will jump for joy he finally has a way to sew the web and the pc together. Just think about the great articles Microsoft 'researchers' will be able to write about as their 'discovery'...

I mean... Ray IS looking for a way to collect data between the web and a pc and have it available to collaborate with right? Well USPTO 7,076,521 Web-based collaborative data collection system does the trick as far as I can see. Heck I bet you could actually build this 'web/pc clipboard' out of USPTO 7,076,521 couldn't you? I bet you could. Well HECK then. SOmebody write Ozzie an email and tell him we found just the thing for him.

Only one thing. Microsoft won't be able to say they invented it unless they pay like $25billion. That should be enough for something like that that can be used in EVERY proprietary legacy system that wants to get on to the web like Vista wants to but can't.

Isn't what Ozzie is looking for a web-based data collection system that you can connect to the web and any other system??? I think that's what he says he wants... but on a clipboard. No problemo. Looks like a work in progress to me.



(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

What Microsoft needs that it can't do:
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: VCSY

Check it out. I don't have to exert much energy at all to let you know what the deal is. Hell yeah. Couldn't a done it better cause I did it myself. And here it is, ladies and gentlemens, prepackaged for us:

 http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AAPL&read=199237

By: danfl_11
27 Mar 2007, 02:39 AM EDT

Msg. 199237 of 199443d here's another one if you're curious:
http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=158009
By: ajax203
06 May 2006, 03:58 PM EDT
Msg. 158009 of 179897
(This msg. is a reply to 157961 by RapidRobert2.)
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RR - I dont know why Im so flappergasketed about that Microsoft PR. It really sounds like Larry and Moe trying to explain why Curly is late with the thanksgiving turkey.

I know 90% of the people reading think this is completely ridiculous to say VCSY can trip up Microsoft. But maybe 10% were long time readers of this board since 2000 and they had a chance to watch the same things we all see. Those are the people that are carrying on a conversation about what might be happening between VCSY and IBM and what might be happening inside Microsoft and why.

What is so wierd is that the Microsoft things happening last year and now are what you would think would happen if somebody threw a monkey wrench into the Micrososft development. They cant make Vista work? Security? Vista is a system that tries to wrap all of the operating system ties to windows applications in a internet wrapper basically so you can control applications across the internet Its one of the easier things to do PLUS they own the applciations and the OS specs so they know exactly how things are going to behave. And they cant do that? They have armies of the best programmers in the world and they cant do it? The problem is their operating system has so much of a "kludged by committe" history they have to incorporate all that background compatability in whatever they do. Plus they have to wait on standards to be laid down so they can coral all the small players and keep them in line using the protocols. SiteFlash and Emily doesnt need any protocols other than what they decide to do since their system is standards transparent and arbitrary. If your system is based on a standard they can use you. If your system is proprietary they can use you.

It doesnt make sense for Microsoft to come up short like this and alot of people on the tech blogs are saying exactly that. What the hell does that mean?

IBM had a alphaworks XML Enabler they were advertising. After VCSY put out their XML ENabler Agent IBM retired their XML Enabler. What gives with that?

VCSY published a PR about Emily XML Enabler Agent in a top Redmond Washington technology magazine just a few weeks before Microsoft announced Hailstorm in 2001. Hailstorm went down in flames by the end of 2001.

Somebody compared VCSY having something better than what Microsoft has to be like comparing VHS and Betamax. And that would be true if Microsoft had something that worked and people liked to use. Thats what happened with VHS. more people were using it because it worked. Betamax died out slow because the tech geeks used it.

OK Ill buy that it is like that. So show me the VHS product Microsoft has in XML/SOAP SOA when the industry they are trying to reach is snickering about what they are doing. Micrososfts stuff is too complicated and that means workarounds because they cant go from point a to point b without screwing up their own standards or without crossing comebody elses IP backyard.

Maybe VHS has a dominant comparison here because just the size of the user base MSFT has. The fact that VCSy pulled advertising for the XML Enabler Agent package for $495 is really strange and it tells me Wade is in the bunker and hes not ready to come out until his IP and what they are trying to do with is safe. They need to start advertising right about now to face this flood of AJAX advertising and pieces and hype. Aand I know Microsoft is pooring money out the ### into AJAX and they wont say. They are pooring a billion dollars into a search engine. What does it do look for blue quarks out of a pile of green quarks? OK THATs a search engine.

Know what I think? Maybe VCSY is going to be the betamax that wins out because people get disgusted with MSFT. MSFT will ALWAYS be around because they have such a large user base and they have a huge store of cash and some of the best talent in the world. But their management lost direction when they started fighting over the stupid browser because they couldnt see the idea about the desktop moving from MyComputer to MyDesktop across a generally available network (the internet).

It looks like all Micrososoft knows about the internet is in the browser. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? because they had a self interest in keeping Sun close like a buddy and away from IBM. So they lived off of Java and didnt realize until just recently what everybody else knew trying to match XML to Javascript. It dont work none too good.

So they needed a fix for that and Lo and cornholed it turns out Microsoft had it in their back room all that time. It crawled out of the back room with Mark Lukovsky when he went to Google in Jabuary 2005. Now its out on the world and the developers are extending what it can do. Its called AJAX and if you really take the time and effort to dig through the internet information on all this you can see like a movie with these actors reacting to something nobody can see.

Its like three giant stars orbiting around something that is invisible. MSFT Sun and IBM all working around a real XML RPC method that is simple and correct that will work on the http and be as loose coupled as the marbles in your pocket. If they go to somebody elses pocket they assume another class of coupling and associations. If you can stratify this activity over time you can track who what when and where such and so marble has been. Then you can ask yourself "Self. Why would people be trading marbles?" And you can granularly advance regress and branch or even transcend your inquiry (what a real search is supposed to look like)

And that brings me to the question about why nobody can see IT and why "nobody ever bought one". VCSY had the XML Enabler Agent "on sale" for $495. But when you tried to buy one they wanted so much background and information on use and the license basically said "Here ya go buy this sucker and whatever you end up making out of it beyond the XML Enabler Agent" is our invention and theank you very much for developing it for us." I didnt have a baby available to feed to them so I didnt go any closer to the cage.

The ony reason you do that is because you dont want people using your "publicly available" stuff until you coral up all the IP you can chase down before taking the covers off

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- No Position)

 

Hmmmpphhh. I would not be good company right now.
Mood:  down
Topic: Integroty

 I've been reading through some things Ray Ozzie has said lately and I just rumbled across a set of words in a phrased package that just gave me the redass.

 Sorry to assail our more genteel readers but if you will study the entire problem of 'enabling the web' etcetera and then look at one specific little patent you may come to the same conclusion as I.

 Now here it is almost April 2 and I'm really deliberating as to whether to write this or not. Not because I doubt my take on this piece. Heck no. I would sooner walk out front of a San Antonio biker bar in a pair of horny-toad skin boots and kick one of the bikes over than to disavow my certitude. No indeed. No genteel reader I'm a wondering whether to give the yanks a break. KWIM?

 Nope. Didn't take long.

 

I am going to toss out this little blurb from here:  http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com/

Which is:

Wiring Progress...

 In its simplest form, the clipboard enabled the user to simply grasp the concept of moving a copy of the information from one application to another (i.e. by value).

 

more at above URL

Want to know what I think? Read the next blog entry. That's what I think. 

And just so we can be impartial as far as competitors are concerned...
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Apple Fritters

I thought I would post this to show Microsoft is not alone in the disrespectful ways paid to journalists, bloggers and researchers.

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=451

March 20th, 2007

How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers

Posted by George Ou @ 2:06 am

 

Last summer, when I wrote "Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers," it set off a long chain of heated debates and blogs. I had hoped to release the information on who orchestrated the vicious assault, but threats of lawsuits and a spineless company that refused to defend itself meant I couldn't disclose the details. A lot has changed since then: Researcher David Maynor is no longer working for SecureWorks, and he's finally given me permission to publish the details.

more at above URL

Pommelgranite
Mood:  amorous
Topic: Off the Wall Speculation

http://images.google.com/images?q=pomegranate&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

The above is an example (not a particularly good one) of what some people would refer to as 'code'. As in 'speaking in code'. The amount of meaning in symbolic literacy is limited only by the imagination of the individual. Some simply know more what those signals mean thatn the average doberman. Birds and bees do it everyday and others feel left out because they can't imagine being a bee or a bird. They just sit there like a dog drooling on the patio.

 So if you come across language or images in word or 1kpicture you don't understand but a lot of others seem to understand perfectly don't feel alienated. You just need to be indoctrinated into treeforting and V watching.

 And remember; just because you don't understand the language of the birds and the bees doesn't mean things that peck and sting when you intrude are trying to screw everybody. 

Vas you shtink? Maybe I should put up a banner like for a grand opening and all. Things are getting hectic and peptic.

 

GRAND OPENING

 Get 10 quarts past date gefelte fish for $1.95.

You want I should roll out the awning?

Uhhh Yo Teach. Ovuh heya...I like saw the bat signal and all.
Mood:  cool
Topic: Off the Wall Speculation

Ye be peep he. Tired of the rat race. Escaped the home and found a duplex on the south side. Moved in with a blind woman with rug rats. If I don't move around alot she don't know I stays up in here. If I don't move around alot the rug rats think I'm furniture. Know what I mean? Some foo shorty tied theys baby to the dog and chased that around the neighborhood for hours. Little Baby had that little Lone Ranger hat on down around his ears tight with the string around his chin and all. Funny $#!@ homes. Looking like a old Roy Rogers movie.

I be stays up in heya fa shnotz. Drop me a cement any time. Shalom out. 

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By: teachrcoach
29 Mar 2007, 12:22 AM EDT
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Anyone know what happened to Rastamafoo? After reading many of his posts and posts by many of the other knowledgeable longs like RR, Beach, Arthur,etc., and after doing a little DD myself I decided to buy some shares(not a huge amount as I am a school teacher after all!). Did Rasta get tossed or is he back under another name?


(Voluntary Disclosure: ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

The Cisco Kid Was a Friend of Mine
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: VCSY
http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=180229
By: 4sirius2
29 Mar 2007, 03:36 PM EDT
    Msg. 180229 of 180466
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Silver, it got so bad at one time that Portuno Diamo started a
board for Vertical shareholders and it is there that sanity
has prevailed for some years for what is now 104 members.

Many of the longs you see here migrate here to deal with the
insanity on behalf of the innocent public and the investments
of shareholders.

It's PH members who have been going to court who also post here
btw.

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)