Virgin Galactic - Please Marry Intelligence and Consummate!!!

    Virgin Galactic's "space" travel is mere vanity.  What would be useful is space clean-up, and boomerang travel to save aviation fuel, long-haul space travel, terraforming tech, lightspeed travel, and the like.  Virgin's efforts are like a millennial singing a cover of an old popular song, no innovation, only repetition.  It is akin to deploying man-made bird nests to discourage bird skills in making nests; it will deplete the capability of birds to make nests .... Something what Moughals did to pigeons.  Ever seen a proper pigeon nest?!

    Virgin's reinvention of the wheel achieves nothing,unless it need to be a mere travel agency for rich vain tourists who do not understand 'space', and think it is the sky.

EMail to NoMail!!!

A World without Protocol is a World in Anarchy ... burying traditional email 'subject' line, the cc and bcc only serves non-protocol environments. The death of the Email is being celebrated in context of the overwhelming existence of MS Outlook, ThunderBird, etc. and the fact that we still enter into written agreements that are drafted, titled, printed, signed and witnessed. Had all these things been outdated by the coming of the Email, then right now the email would also die off with the advent of the Facebook Mail-messenger thingy. But its not so, as the email merely replaced the letter format by being in the letter format, yet being in soft copy and on a server or a GUI with server back-end.

Subject Lines might be considered irrelevant, but it seems absolutely discourteous if one has to open everything up to know what the damn content is saying. Nevertheless a Subject-line is always welcome from those who summarize the contents in a phrase, otherwise it is as good as having no subject-line at all!!! Ruling out CCs would be possible to a certain extent, but in a protocoled environment that means "please read it later and its just FYI" so don't bother right away. BCCs on the other hand are not replaceable by any means I can imagine ... possibly I am not thinking out of the box here, or is there any box at all to be considered in the first place!!??



References:

Will Facebook sound death knell for email?

Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook's aggressive social strategy

Salvage Inc.

The flag has to be borne by someone. So the soldiers of open source march on without Oracle!!! It is sad that Oracle does not think OOo to be worth its while. Yet the believers still strive to compete against M$ Inc.




Reference:

Future Ubuntu Releases Will Ship with LibreOffice an OpenOffice Fork

Ubuntu: The First Seduction

Introduction of the Paid Market Space will give an opportunity for Mac & Windows application and software vendors to reach Linux customers directly. People who shift from Mac or Windows will then have an option to continue to use their favorite proprietary software even in Linux. This is a move to earn revenue as well as make the free desktop Linux popular. Shuttleworth has once again shown his brilliance at marketing!!!



References:

Ubuntu 'Maverick Meerkat' erects own App Store

Instant Weather Reports with ForecastFox

Re-Create a New Internet ...

Create an extreme so that the obvious becomes relevant and important. The Google-Verizon deal did just that for net neutrality. Polarization was the only way oblivious Internet users could be awoken from their dream that all is now no more well. Governments in the name of net neutrality want complete control of what we do, and so do private corporations, with or without their cartels.

The NEED to create a parallel Internet, like most parallel economies, never had a more compelling argument like the Google-Verizon debate has sparked off!!!



References:

Net Neutrality: What's the Price? - PCWorld

Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Critics Pile On

Jail House Break!!!

The DMCA does not crack down as expected, but Apple has surely been bitten by the Copyright Board ruling on Cellphones, both for adding unapproved software installation as well as untethering of phones to run with all operators. Let the free market rule, without any anti-competitive measures forcing the consumer, who has ownership rights over his phone, to give-up his usufructory rights. Sadly of course, violation of contractual terms, thereby voiding of warranty, has not been held as a conscionable violation, merely the DMCA Copyright violation has been waived, so to speak!!!





References:

DMCA ruling supports smartphone jailbreaking, unlocking

Copyright Office OKs iPhone 'Jailbreaking'‎

Jailbreaking the iPhone: Not a Federal Offense‎

iPhone Jailbreaking: Legal, but Dangerous

More legal reasons to circumvent electronic locks | Technology | Los Angeles Times

Apple: Jailbreaking an iPhone can (still) violate your warranty

Let he who is without sin, cast the first Apple!!!

Disparagement is the only word that comes to mind upon reading the following. One and all phone makers are dismissing Apple's claims of signal drop upon strategic handling of other smart phones. Now what is to be seen is, whether the Law of Defamation of Goods comes to take a bite at the Apple after its almost eaten by the Antennagate!!!





References:

Apple's iPhone 4 Antenna-gate Gambit Pays Off

More phonemakers condemn Apple's defence of iPhone 4

Samsung dismisses Apple's claims on smartphones

Apple: The farce of innovation!!!

The "innovation" truth is revealed, as Apple's "own" A4 is actually a build around the Samsung S5PC110A01 processor. Both the chips share the same ARM CORTEX A8 core!!!




Reference:

Apple's A4 exposed! features Samsung Wave S8500's ARM core

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Clone Wars ... Let the Price Competition Begin!!!

The next year from today shall see cut-throat competition in the touch screen and qwerty cellular phone market with the rise of Indian phone makers and their value driven product targeting. This Clone Wars of new cheaper models to their expensive branded siblings is driven by two determinants: Newer Open Source OS and Local Hardware development.





References:

G-Fone 777 Dual SIM Phone now in India

Samsung debuts Bada, its own OS with launch of Samsung Wave in India

Smartphone Apps, Android Phones and the Search for Open Mobile Ecosystems

Samsung S8500 Wave: 5 MP camera AMOLED touchscreen handset @10000 in India

INQ to launch a touch screen, Android based mobile phone in India!‎

Micromax Q55 Bling Price and Features‎

Saved by the Dell!!!

Dell is riding the wave or is just being supportive or is trying to push in Ubuntu based Servers in future, it all would be seen in time, but as of now Dell is the only one out there that thinks Linux has a chance and is betting heavily on it!!!



References:

Dell flirts with Ubuntu as Windows rival

Ubuntu 'more secure' than Windows, says Dell

Dell Says: "Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows"

Ubuntu safer than Windows, its official

War of the Roses: Back-stab ... Adobe justifying Apple's fears!!!

On the 11th of June 2010, Adobe announced their discontinuance of Linux 64 bit support for Flash 10.1, a move that has left many Linux desktops Flashless so to speak. Linux 64 bit first came into existence way back in 1993 when DEC released the 64-bit DEC OSF / 1 AXP a UNIX-like operating system (later renamed Tru64 UNIX) for its systems based on the Alpha architecture followed by the year 2000 release of Linux on zSeries, much before Windows (in 2001) or Apple (in 2003) even created their 64 bit OS versions!!! More so Linux has been aligning with Adobe till WebM comes along. But this move of Adobe totally changes the scenario and creates a rift for Linux to now start suspecting Adobe and seeing reason in Apple's fears. Much is rest to be seen. In the meanwhile all 64 bit Linux users are inter alia without the benefit of YouTube for starters!!!



References:

Adobe Closes Flash Player 64-bit for Linux Labs Program

Adobe euthanizes Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux‎

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta 64bit For Linux Discontinued ~ Web Upd8

Apple bites the dust!!!

The Apple chose to fall instead of being handled by the FSF!!! This is pure intellectual snobbery, let alone proprietorial dictatorship over consumer choice. Isn't anyone peeking into such Abuse of Dominance!!!???







References:

Apple picks death not compliance for open source iPhone game

FSF: Apple's iTunes Store terms of service at odds with GPL

Apple of Deceit ...

The Devil works its ways through the apple once again!!! Trade related restrictions upon partners is not only abuse of dominant position but also a road to take over the universe like Darth Vader! But little do we all realize that Apple has already made us slaves by selling us bare bones and thereafter requiring us to run those bones with purchased muscles, skin and the works at its app store.

Apple also restricts access to open source developers to develop freely executable applications for its operating systems/embedded software.

I hope to see the Competition Commission of India taking a peek and wrestling with this sumo Apple for exacting fairness.


References:

EFF Breaks Down Apple's App Store License

EFF posts Apple's Iphone SDK licence terms

Green Fuel: Animal that fails to get tamed!!!

Crop production cycles of bio fuels cumulatively fail to meet emission standards, a classic case of environmental externalities being considered. Do we have a no go on bio fuels then?! The only remedy then is solar, until we discover silicon pollution; or wind, until we discover high cost of maintenance; geo-thermal, until we discover fissure safety depletion ... is there actually a remedy to the energy crisis of our times or are we doomed inevitably??!!!



References:

Biofuels could increase emissions

Biofuel is not as green as it seems

Enforcing freedom ... to be free

One of the major landmark settlements and probably a de facto precedent, the enforcement of a dream seems to be coming true. Law is now being used to free the once constrained and fettered premises that law itself imposed!!!



References:

A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled

Settlement in benchmark case means FOSS licenses can be enforced

iCompetition Freak ...

With hardware restricting competition by not allowing other software to be run on it, I think its time we reassess our competition law strategy. Its very akin to Windows coming preloaded with Internet Explorer and Windows not supporting any other office suite other than MS Office!!! Composite embedded software and appliances utilizing such platforms should now be checked as they have grown beyond cellphones into smart-phones and now have evolved into cell-pads (iPhone into iPad). The Adam is a more competitive and acceptable equivalent to this evolutionary chain.



References:

Apple iPad will choke innovation, say open internet advocates

Apple’s iPad vs Notion Ink’s Adam tablet with Ubuntu: battle of two worlds « sola's blog

The Wolf of Environment amongst the flock of Unemployed Sheep assisted by Artificial Intelligence ...

Run the local newspaper wala out of his livelihood, cashiers jobless, bill payment haats closed, so we now see how the New Year will evolve with such resolve !!!

New Year equation:

Value Added Services + I.A. = Unemployment



References:

Save trees, Save Environment great message by idea mobile

'Environment' is Idea Cellular's next big idea

Wild Karma!!!

The Koala ventures into the unknown of consumer choice where now we have Windows 7 with difficult upgradability and system hunger, and Snow leopard showing bugs of self-distruct, and then we have but one choice of an OS with a design as rare as the marsupials of Australia and is as free as an animal in the wild.



References:

Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Scurries Into the Wild

Canonical Matures Linux-based Netbook OS

Hands On with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmi ...

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

Ubuntu 9.10 [Karmic Koala] Released

10 reasons Ubuntu 9.10 will be a game changer for business

Ubuntu 9.10 brings karma to the market

The Bug!!!

THE AIM OF UBUNTU:

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

It is the beginning of the end!!! Open is aggressive now, like never before, with the Ubuntu release of Karmic Koala coming up this October end and Lucid Lynx in mid April 2010 to be followed by Mystic Mammoth; the future seems bright for the Freemasons of the Wild in their war against the Orthodox Church of Proprietarians ...




References:

Bug #1

5 years later, 5 ways that Ubuntu has made Linux more human

Ubuntu 9.10 RC edition released

Canonical Takes on Win 7 With Ubuntu 9.10 RC

Relax, kids...Windows 7 is just another OS

Ubuntu's Encrypted Home Directory: A Canonical Approach to Data Privacy

Feature-By-Feature: Ubuntu 9.10 Vs. Windows 7

Windows 7 meets Ubuntu 9.10

Canonical pushes out Ubuntu 9.10 server

Existentialist Futility!!!

Why bother about water in Moon, is there a water pipeline planned from there; are we now going to run it dry!? Futility of our civilizational efforts is all around us when all we need is a joint effort to eradicate the earth of more important things as hunger, thirst, inequality, pollution, oceanic submersion & the like.




References:

NASA Wants to Mine Moon Water

Porsche launches Panamera in India

Samsung India bets big on touch screen mobiles

Upcoming Bugatti Galibier 16C to carry a price tag of $1.44 million

Ape Man? Researchers Spot Legendary Orang Pendek in Sumatra