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Just 38 days after the release of Virtual PC 2007, there have been 1 million downloads already.
Then you recall articles by Myopians where in mentioning virtualization software leaders, they refer to VMWare (correctly) and Xen (incorrectly), another instance of their anointing their current open source favorite ahead of the choice of the people.
Congratulatons to the VPC2007 team.
I watched CSI: Miami the other day for the 1st time, and what I saw prompted me to watch CSI and CSI: New York to verify that I wasn't dreaming!
Forensic technicians packin' heat?
Are you freakin' kiddin' me?
Just like they are sworn officers of the law?
One name came to mind immediately.
Dennis Fung
Yes, Dennis Fung!
He of the OJ Simpson murder trial.
The guy who botched the forensic evidence. Reportedly.
Can you imagine Dennis Fung, or even the coroner of Los Angeles County talking to former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman in the same way the CSI droids talk to actual police officers?
Fuhrman, or any sworn police officer, would not, and should not hesitate to shoot those punks immediately!
Couldn't f-ing believe what I was watching!
If this article, and wall street projections pan out, where is the iPod halo again?
And Stevie has the unmitigated gall to attempt to dump on Windows for security problems?
Magnify his niche OS with the insignificant market share, and you have 45 vulns in the 7th patchfest in just 3 months?
Can you imagine if MacOS had a 7.8% market share? Or even 10%, with attacks actually directed at it?
Come on, Stevorino!
From March 14, 2007
It is always a shame when a formerly relevant glossy goes tits-up.
It is especially galling when you helplessly watched the decline of the same without your words of warning being heeded.
InfoWorld is one such magazine.
For the nearly two decades since I started reading it, InfoWorld was, with the old PC Week, one of those technology weeklies I couldn't wait to get a read of.
However, in the last few years, it, including most of the, ahem, mainstream, IT press seem to have lost their way.
They abandoned reality by:
For goodness sakes, their former CTO openly advocated the use of a Macbook and xServe as enterprise products.
Users fled, and advertisers stayed away, each constituency voting with the tools available to them.
Unfortunate, but, there you go.
I can only hope that the remaking mainstream IT glossies learn from InfoWorld's demise and not fall prey to the Siren Song that is Linux/open source to their own detriment.
In a bonehead article here, an idiot at Network Computing Magazine tells of how to dump Microsoft Office.
Such articles are why children shouldn't run with scissors!
I've been traveling the past ten days, and got back to a cold (as usual - from my kids), so there hasn't been any blogging.
However, I have been reading the news, so expect a flood of belated posts shortly.
EDITED: Wifey says I got the flu from them, not a cold. Same difference, I felt as bad!
I don't think so!
I canceled my home delivery subscription with them after daffy pogue continued to slam Microsoft products without the newspaper stating anywhere that he was once an editor of a mac magazine, and had written books on apple's PMC.
After his Zune rant, I had had enough!
I voted with my wallet, but added their headlines to my feedlist.
For free.
Note: Names and products purposely lowercased.
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Michael Reyes, of The Hardware Geeks, sent me this link about a new pizza eatery where we should lunch the next time I'm in New York.
The headliner on the menu?
A pizza for $1,000.00 USD!
$1000 US
Are you N-U-T-S, nuts?
The featured ingredients include Russian Beluga, Black Beluga, Royal Sevruga, Osetra, Golden Salmon Row, Crème Freiche and Lobster, decorated with 14 karat gold leaf dust.
No diamonds?
Please!
Homie, unless it is served by a 23-year old Tuesday Weld, a 22-year old Jayne Kennedy, and Beyonce, in pale pink boudoir apparel only, fuggedhet-about-hit!
Once in a while comes a device that makes you wonder, "Why didn't I think of that?"
This is one such device, the bastard child of a stun gun and a knuckleduster.
Not only can you break a rival's an assailant's jaw, but you can zap him/her with just a few hundred-thousand - 950,000 to be exact - volts of electricity into the bargain, the 21st-century version of pouring sand into their mouths.
For only $69.99
via übergizmo.com
Easiest way to lose oodles of moola.
Homies, learn to eat without drooling before trying to solve transcendental math!
Ask Airbus Industrie.
Who didn't see this coming?
And what a shame!
If reports coming out of Toulouse are to be believed, the errors stemmed from erroneous data, created as engineers working on different parts of the project used different versions of the same CAD/CAM/CAE and PLM program, Dassault Systemes CATIA.
To which I ask: are you freakin' kiddin' me?
A loss of nearly $20 billion USD because of different versions of the same program creating errors in data passed back and forth?
All I want to know right now is who gets flogged?
I guess building a jumbo jet isn't a cakewalk.
With the public announcement of HD Photo, the immediate availability of plugins for PhotoShop CS (2 & 3), and native functionality built into Vista, Microsoft is again innovating.
Microsoft has moved photography forward with HD Photo which promises the following:
Additionally, HD Photo offers both lossless and lossy image compression, and can retain the full dynamic range and color gamut data from a camera’s sensor.
Microsoft is also offering the HD Photo Device Porting Kit, which is available for download at the Microsoft Download Center, allowing manufacturers to add HD Photo support in devices and to other platforms.
As mentioned earlier, HD Photo is natively supported in Windows Vista by a Windows Imaging Component (WIC) codec, and can be similarly supported in Windows XP and Windows Server® 2003 through a free WIC download. HD Photo is also included in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.
Furthermore, "With support on popular platforms such as Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X, HD Photo will allow consumers to easily view, edit and share images without conversion or special applications. The format also allows for flexible metadata handling and supports industry-standard metadata formats. "
Sweet.
Brandon LeBlanc, The Sidebar Geek, has a blog post here, and there is a thread on it in The Hive as well.
Bill Crow is 'Da Man' as far as HD Photo is concerned, and Barb Bowman also has a post about it here.
Based on Brandon's suggestion, I downloaded the beta 1 version of Microsoft's forthcoming Expression Design and with it I shall keep you abreast of my (mis)adventures with HD Photo.
An indication of Microsoft's belief in HD Photo is its intention to submit the HD Photo specification to a standards body for certification.
© 2007, John Obeto II for SmallBizVista.com®
Can someone give that harpie, Kroes, something else to do?
The harridan wants to fine Microsoft further because it wants Microsoft to essentially license IP for free.
Time to draw a line in the sand and stand fast, MSFT.
A total waste!
A true gamer, and one of the few Celts that ever made me curl up in fear back in the Showtime Lakers days.
Rest in peace, DJ.
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This story is just so incredibly annoying to me!
Just what the fuck is this world coming to?
An astronaut?
A once-in-a-lifetime gig?
I'll eject now before I immolate myself in anger!