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Comment Re:No serious enterprise customers will adopt this (Score 1) 227

by MickDownUnder (#25598327) Attached to: Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in
Yes this is article is total speculative horse shit. In so many ways it would be totally impractical for Microsoft to attempt to do this. As it's all XML based, anyone who knows anything about XML will know that they can quite easily support several different schemas and backwards compatibility. My limited understanding of Azure is that it is closely related to Amazon's EC2 and S3 work. They are adopting many of the standards Amazon created for their platform, as are others currently developing cloud based computing services. So basically Azure is only going to help move forward the standardisation process that will inevitably take place for cloud computing services. Any standard with a hope in hell of achieving broad community support is going to require extremely good support for maintaining backwards compatibility with previous releases. In short this guy is completely and utterly clueless.
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Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster 880

Posted by Zonk from the up-up-and-away dept.
electrostatic writes "In a Nature.com oldie-but-goodie, a physicist says he has solved a problem that costs airlines millions every year: what is the quickest way to get passengers aboard an aircraft? Boarding is a serious issue for airlines, particularly those operating short flights that run several times a day, yet boarding times have steadily increased for decades. Back in 2005 Jason Steffen of the Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois said the method used by many airlines to this day is almost the worst. 'The best way to board, according to the researchers, would be a row-by-row, seat-by-seat, strict order. That would mean everyone lines up, row 25 first. I can't imagine fliers will go for that. Next best, they say, would be boarding all the window seats first, followed by those in the aisle. Obviously that's not practical, at least for couples or families traveling together.'"
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Submission + - Surface:a look at Microsofts new platform (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by ThirdPrize
ThirdPrize writes: Here is a story on Microsofts "Surface". It is a touch screen/interactive/computer/table beastie that looks a bit like an old school Space Invaders machine. It goes into hardware as well as software details. Interestingly the front end is written using the same libraries as Xbox 360 games.

Why Sony Should've Put Its Weight Behind Hi-MD 519

Posted by CowboyNeal from the hindsight-is-perfect dept.
An anonymous reader writes "OSNews has an article making a case for Hi-MD: 'Currently, .mp3 players are all the hype. Everyone has one, and if you don't, you're old-fashioned. I do not have an .mp3 player. I tried to have one, but for various reasons it did not please me. I'm a MiniDisc guy. I've always been. MiniDisc has some serious advantages over .mp3 players, whether they be flash or HDD based.'"

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