What's more satisfying than sharing good things with your friends? For example computer files, pictures, programmes. On your local area network between members of the family and in the big bad world, when travelling and seeking sync of files with events at the home office. The latest state of documents when you are in a meeting and the office is trying to revise things on-the-fly for instance. There are methods for this, but to do it between Windows, Linux and Mac OSX crisscross operating systems is a different story. That means: it was... Then now there is DropBox!
I always have the feeling that referencing Sun's "VirtualBox" is like crashing in some open door. Then doesn't everybody have it already? My friend Lorenzo Celsi inspired me to take a different look at an associated phenomenon, briefly mentionned in our discussions about Windows 7: multi-booting operating systems and the Linux' GRUB. That means GRand Unified Bootloader and organizes a healthy start-up of your PC. Windows knows a slightly different method with its bootloader NTLDR and master boot record MBR. But GRUB can safely and easily be used to create a multi-boot Windows-based PC. Stay on, then this sounds technical but it isn't in fact. It's jargon at best.
Where many are concerned about having some 'glasslike transparency' and '3D' multiple desktops on their computers, a new trend for personal computing and gaming is the Tesla Supercomputer. A magical name perhaps for a PC interface/card/box that indeed could revolutionize supercomputing and gaming if... the prices come down to consumer levels (125-250 US dollar 4.Jan.09)). Engineers and scientist can buy this product for about 50 times those amounts. But then you have the teraflops whizzing over your desktop!
What a hype! Hardly 2009 has started or many people seem to get excited about Microsoft's promise to come with a "new" Windows version in the course of this year. Hardly three years after the latest "new" Windows version, called "Vista", a successor appears to be on its way. Will this "new" Windows-7 save Microsoft from an existential crisis or will it come too late and offer too little against fierce competition from Apple's innovative OSX and nice 3D, complete Linux software distributions? What effect has the current economic crisis on these intentions?
Climate changes. It did so for millions of years. The political climate and that for those who live from it changes as well, with only a minuscule progress in thinking every 4 years or so. Sciences and politics have much in common with Churches. One must believe in their message, then today's wisdom is tomorrow's foolishness. We live in an era in that the "laws of physics" are turned upside down, politics have lost all credibility and people are left to believe the Earth will become (almost) a micro-oven when they smoke, drink, eat, travel, work and enjoy there lives... Time to cool opinions and take a moderate look at realities. A very intriguing reality: it is cooling for years already. Bad science or bad politics? Or both because they are interdependent? Are we blind...?!
How to get out of the 'economic' crisis? Pumping more proxy-money into an archaic society based on structures stemming from the 17th century? Pumping that money-on-paper into a fabric that -now being torn apart- reveals next to nepotism many scams, frauds, criminality, even partial officialdom? What is the value of today's political promises that too often were nothing but assumptions about our reality? Many people no longer appear to believe them. Politics seem to have much in common with a religion! Insiders like Harry Schulz and his international HSL, as well as Gerald Celente and his Trendsresearch Institute warn for it, but point to innovations as a secure road to a new world. They warn not to add more to a piramid-scheme that kept us believe in the benevolent role of the mega-State, the mega-corporations and their mutual global policies. Trendsresearch (Celente) claims that innovations will bring new opportunities, prosperous perspectives and a healthy future for those who can think out of the box. Masdar (see my earlier article) is innovative, but there is more. I discovered a few true innovation for which 'experts' have little if any attention, claiming that it would turn their concepts of 'physical laws' upside down... The same hardheaded people opposing the idea we are plunging into a new Ice Age, not giving a dime for our wellbeing and safety, but supporting their own ego and self-interest.
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