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Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Comet carries a building block of life

"Life came from outer space".It made me smile to read that.He is called God. He created life. And yes, in a way you could say He is from 'outer space'.It's funny how more and more knowledge becomes available including the major faults in the evolution religion, and people still staunchly...

Tags: Gunther, dinosaur, major fault, COMET

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Google missed a marketing turn with the 'decision engine' thing

Google missed a marketing turn with the 'decision engine' thingNew York Post? Are you serious?Anything written in the New York Post should be taken with a grain of salt. I believe Google worries about Bing about as much as a water buffalo worries about a gnat on its backside.

Tags: Marketing research, Google MISSED, decision engine, Google Inc., marketing

Discussion threads 2009-06-14

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.

We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.WWW = aggregator the world wide web is a aggregatoreveryone is quoteing everyone, i dont think AP get s how big this will be for them to *sue* the internet RE: We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.No, no, no.... Let the A.P....

Tags: INTERNET, Dinosaur, Aggregators, aggregator

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Desktops are becoming extinct

Desktops are becoming extinctIts happening but there are legitimate addressable concernshttp://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2009/02/cloud-computing-and-compliance-be-careful-up-there.htmlhttp://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2009/01/systems-administrators-role-changing-via-the-cloud.htmlHopefully sooner than laterThere are lots of reasons for companies to migrate from desktop applications to browser-based applications:1. Tools like AJAX and Native Client allow browser apps to run with near desktop performance.2. Gears allows applications to be used offline.3....

Tags: Desktops, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

HP intensifies the mainframe battle

HP intensifies the mainframe battleDinosaurs are immortal - fortunately.1) With apologies to whoever coined the phrase: "Most of IT history of the last 25 years has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good".2) Anything you can do on a server, can be done on a mainframe - and orders-of-magnitude...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, commodity computing, Dinosaur, mainframe, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

Is our resident millennial a dinosaur, too?

Is our resident millennial a dinosaur, too?Hmmm...Touché Chris... touché ;)I don't see much of an issueI'm not sure what's Zack point - bringing up the fact that a touch screen, when used by a lot of people, can be unhygienic. Keyboards are very similar, the main difference is that keyboards...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Grime, touch screen, dinosaur

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs

Khosla: Don't Save the DinosaursFacts, schmacts who needs themHere's an interesting articlehttp://freep.com/article/20081205/COL14/812050400Love them pollsI note there isn't an "I disagree" response that doesn't disparage the proponent. Maybe something like: "I disagree because helping the automakers is better than letting them fail", or maybe, "I disagree, but the automakers shouldn't...

Tags: Manufacturing, automobile company, Khosla, Dinosaur, New Car

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Measuring (not so) recent BIND nameserver patching

Guest editorial by Derek Callaway This post is meant to provide an approximation of BIND nameserver updates that occurred during the past month, most likely in response to Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. I conducted this research because I was curious as to how widely BIND...

Tags: Vulnerability, BIND, Domain, Dinosaur, Domain Names, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-14

(Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64)

(Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64)Please let me plat C64 games again...I just want to play Beachhead AGAIN!!!!I think that was name.mayno17@bellsouth.netRE: (Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64)Awesome machine... I first feel in love with computers reading Popular Science magazine. Not sure exactly why... But, I dreamed about getting...

Tags: Commodore 64, Dinosaur, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free music

Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free musicSales SlumpRemoving DRM from thier music won't improve sales. The Major Labels are in slump because of the content they are offering. First it's limited in terms of choice and what you have to choose from is all the same. You can have...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Sales strategy, Digital media, UNIX, Major Label, Apple Inc., dinosaur, similiarity, Amazon.com Inc., music, slump, digital-rights management, RIAA, late 80s, CD, sales

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

Options expand despite telecom mergers

Options expand despite telecom mergersSpecies get largerJUST before they go extinct. Look at the dinosaurs. The paradigm is shifting - technology has made the old telcos obsolete - so they merge in the hopes that a larger organization will have its fingers in enough pies so that at least ONE...

Tags: Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, merger, Nothing, dinosaur, cable, cable company, telecommunications

Discussion threads 2005-04-01

Additional Resources

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: especially in this economy, it's hard to hate a laptop that only costs $350. It's even harder to hate a Windows 7 laptop that costs that much. The Toshiba L455-S5975 is, by 50 dollars, the least expensive notebook computer in our...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Intel Celeron, Microsoft Windows 7, Toshiba Corp., laptop computer, processor, Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-02

(Gallery: A visit to Microsoft's first store)

Another copy-and-paste by MSntImage 12Just what is that? Do you sit at the "kit" and play it somehow? Looks cool.RE: (Gallery: A visit to Microsoft's first store)It is an almost exact copy of an Apple store... Take the Apple store and remove the Genius bar, and you get the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., first store, Gallery, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Google's and Microsoft's very different approaches to computing, and the history behind them, beg the question, is it time for Microsoft to reinvent itself if it wants to avoid becoming the computing equivalent of fossil fuels? by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

You don't want to know that the BBC,the most listened to source of news in the English language, is reporting on global cooling?There you go again, HarryYou almost made it - a whole week without enviro-whacko. But you didn't make it...Sad...Reading AssignmentPlease, take a look. Page 10 might enlighten...

Tags: climate change, Climate Change Denial, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Google Wave: The moral equivalent of sliced bread

So far, there seems to be a bit of schism here at ZDNet over the utility of Google Wave. Some of us really dig it, the jury is still out for others, and our resident dinosaur, Jason Perlow doesn't get it. I have to call him out on this...

Tags: Google Inc., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?

Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...

Tags: Operating systems, Chrome OS, Facebook, Next-gen operating system, operating system, Next-Gen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07