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2007 June 27

Kevin Carmony Drank the Kool-Aid

Kevin Carmony,  the president of Linspire, just sent me a letter. In the letter he explains why he became involved with Microsoft, and why he has not been speaking much since the announcement of their new cooperation.
Personally not worried about the growing fissure between the factions signing on to the agreements, and those not, he [...]

Why We Should Use the Swiss for Testing

Today, in Slate, there is an article about the mandate the Congress is making for ethanol production in the United States. In his piece, the author argues that the amount of raw materials used can never be available, because present uses of them would preclude availability.  The amount of corn needed to deliver just 28.3 billion [...]

One More Reason Vista Upgrade is Superfluous

Many users of XP, including my son, have believed that the upgrade to Vista was going to be a necessity, as the news from Redmond was that new games would be released requiring DirectX 10, the Microsoft advanced screen drawing application programming interface, and therefore, Vista.
Microsoft continues to put forth the message that DirectX 10 [...]

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