Diaspora is a DISTRIBUTED social network. The project sets up micro Facebook sites and federates with other Diaspora sites. So in theory, You have a Diaspora server, and your friend has one as well. Yours will connect ot his, and his to yours, only giving out the info each of you set up. You can have it set up to get all your post from Facebook and whatever.

The source code and install instructions are on the Diaspora site, and gitHub for you to use. However, it is no trivial to install. I have not been able to get it ot work in the virtual machines I have created for that purpose. So in reality, what you will end up with may be small sites that focus on a small number of people, then federate to other Diaspora sites, versus everyone and their mother having their own.

Still, it is available, and has been available to those that donated since the summer, as the Diaspora team is using them as guinna pigs.

How about really rethinking the default UI. I currently have my start menu on the right, and the tabs of my browser on the left, because that is where I have more space thanks to the new 16:9 screen ratios that the industry has standardized on. Why not have the Title bar on the left or right, or at least customizable to be. They finally have Windows Update usable, after 15years of working with it, so why not let other companies, such as Adobe, use that technology for their updates, for a price, of course. Why not have a screen when you first start the computer that will walk you through choices of antivirus, and anti-malware. Oh yeah, when are we going to get a Mac OS like, as in the functionality, quick bar, with out having to rely on these things that can't work with windows explorer.

Technically Windows 2000 and Windows ME happened at basically the same time. And Windows 98 was much less buggy than 95, its just more people were using 98, so we received more complaints. They were over the same issues again and again.

I LIKE the fact they targeted the netbook market, this is one reason that Windows 7 runs so well on older hardware. Of course, preparing it to run on more than 64 cores might have helped, as well.

The only issue that Sony might be able to capitalize on is the fact that Amazon is PLAYING the music for you on the web in the form of the Amazon Cloud Player. Another issue is that you were already able to do this in the form of their cloud service, they are specifically targeting music with this pricing and advertising effort. If they were just streaming the files, and providing a means to integrate into an existing player, they could say that they were just offering a home targeted version of their existing services, but as it is, we must wait and see.
P.S. I actually want Amazon to succeed.

I'm a regular listener to Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurott and Leo Laporte. He mentioned Microsoft Signature at the Microsoft store. Here is a link to the article. It is apparently a very Apple store like experience, and they clean the computers of all the crud that is on the laptops originally. They sell several different brands. Hope this helps.

I'm a regular listener to Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurott and Leo Laporte. He mentioned Microsoft Signature at the Microsoft store. Here is a link to the article. It is apparently a very Apple store like experience, and they clean the computers of all the crud that is on the laptops originally. They sell several different brands. Hope this helps.

This is so true, they are supervised by backward thinking district supervisors, that deal directly with their parents that didn't finish high school. We need to allow the teachers to actually teach, not just memorization.

Isn't OpenCL supposed to allow a a lot of this offloading? Aren't you supposed to be able to give the gpu a kernel, then just send it data. Then aren't you able to send it to OpenGL to render on screen? I don't have access to a OpenCL capable gpu, yet, but asa soon as I do, that seems the best solution? Let me know if I am wrong, as I hate being right to much.

There is original content all over the net, just not directly on Netflix. RiffTracks comes to mind, there was a public sponsored series that started last year about the Russians having someone live on Mars, and podcasts galore. Entertaining shows such as Leo Laporte's TWIT Network,Brian Brushwoods Scam School, and R3vision's network with howtos and others. Not to mention all the post hours of stories on Youtube, and animated shorts on the Internet. Oh, you meant stuff spoon fed to us by some major corporate entity, as anything that is created by a person can't be as good, and we wouldn't want to stray to much out of the comfort zone, would we? Goochi-goochi-goooooooo!

Ever hear tell of that newfangled thing called utf 8?