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Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap 621

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @06:57PM from the head-out-of-the-clouds dept.

stevedcc writes in to tell us about an interview with RMS in The Guardian, in which he gives his views on cloud computing, with a particular focus on user access to data and the sacrifices made for convenience. "'It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,' he told The Guardian. 'Somebody is saying this is inevitable — and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.'" Computerworld has a summary of some of the blogosphere's reaction to RMS's position.

Comment Re:on that topic... (Score 2, Insightful) 185

by tonyquan on Friday March 14, 2008 @07:31PM (#22755988) Attached to: Hobbyists Create GPLed DIY Super TV Antenna

wrong, NTSC is going away in the United States. It is being replaced by ATSC, the new digital standard.. NTSC is inherently an analog standard, there is no such thing as "digital NTSC" for broadcast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsc

"ATSC Standards document a digital television format which will replace (in the United States) the analog NTSC television system by February 17, 2009."

USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology 257

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @09:40PM from the drop-it-like-it's-hot dept.

coondoggie writes "Boeing and the US Air Force today said they have tested new technology that for the first time will let military aircraft launch bombs from aircraft moving at supersonic speeds. Researchers from Boeing Phantom Works and the Air Force Research Laboratory used a rocket sled in combination with what researchers called "active flow control" to successfully release a smart bomb known as MK-82 Joint Direct Attack Munition Standard Test Vehicle (JDAM) at a speed of about Mach 2 from a weapons bay with a size approximating that of the U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber, Boeing said. Active flow control is a tandem array of microjets upstream of the weapons bay that, when fired reduces the unsteady pressures inside the bay and modifies the flow outside to ensure the JDAM munition travels out of the bay correctly."

Yahoo Edges out Google in Customer Satisfaction 212

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @03:11PM from the some-yodels-of-joy-are-heard dept.

athloi writes "The University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index shows some significant shifts this year in consumer satisfaction among several major online players: Google, Yahoo, Ask, and AOL. For one, Google no longer holds first place. 'The ACSI report notes that Yahoo's jump into first place was a 4 percent increase over its score from last year, while Google saw a 4 percent decrease during the same time period. ACSI says that to the untrained eye, Google's home page today looks almost identical to the way it looked years ago. This is where Google's simplicity is apparently hurting it in the long-term, as new users just aren't seeing Google's new offerings--such as increased storage options, additions to Google Maps, and tweaks to Google Image Search--right in front of their faces like they do with other sites.'"

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