Microsoft is hugely profitable - just not where Google rules - Nov. 26, 2008

 

The answer is very easy to why Microsoft cannot make it online.  Microsoft is far too closed architecture while the rest are all over "open source."  Microsoft wants to run things under their control, while the rest wants to work for the individual customers.  That is why the Internet is so big today, it was the first open source system.

Today, anyone can create a website, blog, use all sort of social media formats, and all the rest.  I have recently read that Twitter was the leading source of information dealing with the attack on Mumbai.  Now that more and more understand the importance of social media like Twitter, I am sure more information will be shared in the very near future.

As Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said, "The people of Microsoft does not have an imagination," or something like that.  It had been a long time since I hear him say that.  The company of Microsoft has done very well, but if they do not get with the new trends of the Internet, then they will be left in the history books.  One might have thought that since Bill Gates left, they would get new blood going through their veins.  It seems that something is clogging up the circulation.

From what I have seen in computer stores, the software industry is not doing all that much.  Let's face it, why buy something that you can down load for free and a legal copy online.  I personally use Open Office.  It is a lot better to use then MS Office, and it is completely and totally free without adware or spyware.  A lot of online services are working with open source software like Fan Fiction.  I post my stories on this service all the time.

Right now in the technical world, social media is the ruler of the Internet Super Highways.  I believe we have not seen all of what social media can do.  In years to come, we will see these wonders.  With Yahoo starting to go down the tubes from what I have been hearing, Instant Messaging is a thing of the past.  It is more secure to use social medias like Twitter in communicating to others.

Right now Microsoft is having a hell of a time with their new OS, Vista.  That big issue is that it is still around the old NT 4.0 system.  Hardly no growth in that.  When companies use only services, it is cheaper for them to upgrade their servers then having to ship thousand of thousands of new software to their customers.  The Internet is here to stay and if Microsoft does not get on board soon, they will be read about in the social study classes in schools.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Microsoft is hugely profitable - just not where Google rules - Nov. 26, 2008

FRONTLINE: growing up online: watch the full program | PBS

 

This video is a total and complete propaganda.  It only shows a very small portion of the negativities of the Internet.  I have stated before, and I will state it here again, children have no business online, though they need to know about how to use the Internet.  Why?  Today in the 21 Century, we have and will be using it on a day-to-day basis.

The Internet is much more then communicating with physical/virtual friends.  Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and the others are means of what is called, "Social Media."  In the few years of social media, it has reached it all time high, and it is still growing at alarming rates.  Businesses of all kinds will need these teenagers that are using Facebook, MySpace, etc. for their Internet needs on the job.

Every news program on television has at least one blog per news anchor.  To be without the Internet is like living in the past.  We have seen from history that anyone that lives in the past is route to a serious disaster.  The older generation might be terrified over the fast and continually growing technology age.  The younger generation has embraced this wonder like it was always a part of their lives.  Teenagers can do more with social media than I ever could, and I was have certificate and three diplomas in the computer field.  That is how important teenagers must continually to learn and apply the Internet in their lives.

When I saw the title of this video, "Growing Up Online," I thought it would show the importance of having the younger generation being on line on a day-to-day basis, but to my shock, it was not.  Social interaction is a must, and do it online.  Online today, we are communicating with people all over the world in real time.  Today, businesses are all over the world.  All of this would not be possible if we did not have the Internet.

With the Internet we can do things a lot easier and even cheaper.  Before business meetings had to have all in the same room.  Even in the same country, that would mean that the company would have to buy all those plane tickets, have them a place to live, etc.  Now we can even use virtual reality, like SecondLife, to communicate in real time at all sorts of different locations throughout the world.  That in turn can make prices of items that the company is selling cheaper for their customers.

It is why teenagers needs to learn all they can now about the Internet and how to interact with it that will in able them to get a wonderful career when they become adults.  To successfully learn the ins and outs of social media takes more then a textbook approach.  This must be learned on a on hands basis, and it must be learned at a constant basis also.  When teenagers do become adults, they just might be needed to be online constantly on the job.

If you were the employer, would you rather have these teenagers that are constantly using the Internet, or someone that hardly knows how to use today's social media formats?  That is why this video is complete and total dogma BS!  Come on!  Frontline and others like them grow up and realize the trends of the technology age.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

FRONTLINE: growing up online: watch the full program | PBS

Avatar' to be released in Imax 3-D

 

Right now our top of the line advanced technology that has to do with 3-D virtual reality are being used for fun, like in games, movies, etc.  Why is this?  Before the engineers can really use this new technology and see what it can be used for in our day-to-day lives, they must flex their muscles.  It may be fun, but for the engineer, they are looking at this new advanced technology beyond the game aspects.

The most recent technology that we all have seen on CNN during the Presidential Election coverage was the hologram projection.  As has been told by the critics, it was only projected on a monitor.  Another words the people at the CNN news room did not actually see the two individuals that was being projected in a hologram image.  this of course does not mean this technology is purposeless.  CNN was simply showing off the wonders of technology.

I hope one day that some educational program can go in detail of this new technology and the possibilities it will have in the future, and when we may be able to see them in production.  CNN took a leap of faith in this new technology.  They apparently saw something wonderful from it.  I am sure they would not have spent all that money on using this technology if it did not have some kind of a future.  This of course is not the only technical wonder.

Virtual reality has been around for going on 6 years now.  SecondLife is a vast and a giant in the virtual world today.  Spite our economy, the United States of America is still excelling in this new age, "The Technology Age."  It perplexes me to see how fast technology has grown.  The first microchip was designed in the early 1970s. 

When the Internet was introduced to the market place and the rest of the world in the early 1990s, it has grow faster then anything known to mankind.  The first text based websites were obsolete before the decade was out. Now the old static design of websites have recently be replaced by a Content Management System (CMS).  There are still some websites that are designed in a static format, but not many.  Church websites are in a CMS design.  Why is this?  In with a small Church, they are a number of ministries.

Each ministry goes their own way within the same church organization.  The big importance in having CMS is that not many are computer savvy less alone web design savvy.  If one can use a word processor, they can easily use CMS based application to post their web page.  CMS is that simple.  CMS also has great security.  The department or ministry can only log into their own web page.  All the web master has to do is link the pages to the home page.

With this new 3-D technology we have gone past the simple still graphic or even basic 2-D animations.  As with virtual worlds like SecondLife, we can see a real world and interact within it in real time.  One day computer engineers will push passed all this and make something more productive then what we have today.  Yes, games are the big thing in 3-D virtual worlds, but as our imaginations grow within what we have now, there is no telling what the future has in store.  They say that the children are the future.  We seen that in the 2008 Presidential Election.  Now that this young generation has both hands on the reins, what more can they do?

Movies are starting to grow just for the IMAX format.  Think about having one day a monitor that surpasses the IMAX screen.  We have already have HD TV in our homes.  What will we have next in our homes?  With this new hologram idea technology, we might not have television screens any more.  Just a holographic projection on the table, floor or where ever we want it to show up on.  The limit to our technology is the imagination of each and everyone of us.  Believe it or not, do to social media, we all can make a difference in our technology wonders in years to come.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Avatar' to be released in Imax 3-D

Was That a Real Hologram on CNN? | LiveScience

 

It might not be a true hologram like it would be from R2D2, but showing what they did on CNN during the election coverage does show that we have or will have the ability to one day have a true hologram in the future.

It is amazing to me that critics can destroy something so wonderful as technology and even science.  I remember reading that so many believe that the telephone, when it first came out, would end in a short lived defeat.  The telephone not only grew, but we have cordless telephones, cell phones, satellite phone, the Internet, Skype (which is an online voice communication), and all the rest.

The practicality of having a true holographic system can be very useful then having some ball game in your living room.  Just about all forms of life could benefit from holographic communications.  Who would think that the Internet would be so vastly used in the early 1990s?  Social media is a biggest thing going on today online.  How websites are being created has changed completely.

The technology we have in the 1980s is every so ancient.   Who uses a Commodore 64 computer these days?  Even the 8-bit video games that was a smash hit in those days are no longer considered an idea in how games are being played today.  Technology has been evolving every since.  Now we have the means to one day have a true holographic image that all will be able to use in any way they want to.

Yes, right now it is very, very expensive to use.  Remember how much the first PC cost?  Computer now can do far, far more then they did at a very much lower cost.  If the price staid the same on how much it cost to make a computer, I would say it would be over $10,000 to buy a computer today.  If you count how fast computers today can run, the quality of the video card, the sound card, and every thing else that makes a computer today, it would cost that much if not more.

Now that we have a very crude form of holographic imagery, engineers can constantly improve on it.  Surely no one will want to use 35 High Definition cameras.  With newer technology, I am sure much less camera usage will acceptable.  I would not be surprised that engineers will have it all up and running before I die.

Think about it.  Having true 3D images of what is out there in our solar system projected anywhere on Earth in real time.  Through the Internet to day, we can see any part of the world right now our computer in real time.  With science and human endeavor, anything can be possible.  We already have the means.  Now it needs to be a reality.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Was That a Real Hologram on CNN? | LiveScience

Report: Social Networking Part of 'Web 3.0' Virtual Worlds Trend

 

I am writing this blog posting on this article due to that I fully agree with all that has been written.  When I wrote on the negativities of SecondLife, I hope I did not bash virtual world reality all together.  If I did, then that posting(s) was very narrow minded.

I am a very big advocate of social media.  I have seen it when it first started and grow to the wonders of it today.  Virtual Worlds is a 3-D aspect of this social media.  SecondLife is a giant in the virtual worlds at this time, but is does have serious issues that Linden Labs is constantly facing.  If LL does not fix these many issues, then newer systems will form to replace SecondLife all together.

I hope LL can win over all these troubles in the end.  Social medial is still young.  Virtual worlds are even younger.  With our recent economy issues, it may take a little longer to have virtual worlds to achieve where it must go in order to excel further in the technology age we are living in today.  Even though we have a economic crisis, there is still hope for the future.  So far, the younger generation has learned how to work together within this virtual world system.  That says a great deal.

Where there is life, there is hope.  If the younger generation made it possible for President Elect Obama to be our next President, then it will be up to the same generation to make a different for the future.  I strongly believe that there is a wonderful future for virtual worlds.  It is how we use them that will allow them to succeed.

The worst thing we can do is drown in our despair.  We have a lot of opportunities yet in our lives today.  There will be hard work to achieve them, but we can do it.  If we all work for the common goal in turning things around and for the better, then we can make a difference. 

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Report: Social Networking Part of 'Web 3.0' Virtual Worlds Trend

How to Make Your Brand Search Engine Friendly | BrandlandUSA

 

These are super great 14 tips on having a website or anything else online.  As it has stated, communication is the key.  Also allowing your customers to interact is also very important.  When I first took a diploma program in web design at Lanier Technical College in Oakwood, GA, I started out with a static website.  Now I moved all that to a blog:  http://bit.ly/3FR1Zq

It has all the links to my other blogs and things I have online.  Blogging, especially Blogger, is a simply CMS (Content Management System) format.  There are not that many static websites out there today.  Also, most blogs have an unlimited space to write on.  With embedded code, one can add video, pictures, and other things without having to worry about adding a lot download time when someone visits your online work.

Social media is a lot more then blogging.  It is a lot more then simple chatting to each other.  Social media is the means of sharing and presenting ideas and things online without the means of spamming and being pain in the butt as with emails, IM, and other forms that spammers used in the past.

The power of social media through CMS, each and everyone of us is in charge of what we see and when we see it.  In the past Hollywood controlled what we saw and when we saw it.  That is why so many news programs and other critics put down social media.  They are not getting the lime life as they once did.  Business can advertise their wares at lower cost if any price at all.  Communication has changed in so many ways that it is hard to tell what will happen next in this technology.

With social media, I have seen my blogs and other things I have online on the first search page, and I did not have to pay any money to do so.  Social media did that for me.   I am not making any money from all what I have done online, but it is giving me more then any income can give me at this moment, recognition.  I can have a portfolio of all that I have presented online.  That right there surpasses all that a single job resume could have ever do for me.

I might not have all to agree with what I write and present online, but at least I am getting notices.  That type of recognition is priceless.  When the economy goes back in the right direction, future employers will see all the work I have done and can do by the trends of all that I have shown online due to social media.  When I first got started in school doing simple static website, I was not at all on any search engines.  now some of my blogs postings have been listed on the first page of a search query.

That is the power of today's Internet.  We can do more, share more, and achieve more then every before.  I cannot wait to see what happens next.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

How to Make Your Brand Search Engine Friendly | BrandlandUSA

Stop the insanity: CNN's 'hologram' was horrendous | The Digital Home - Don Reisinger's take on the tech closest to home - CNET News

 

First of all, if CNET is going to write stupid commentaries like this, then their own reputation is going down the toilet.  Everyone has the right to their opinion including CNET, good or bad, but one must be professional about it.

Second, The reason for showing this "hologram reporting had nothing to do with the election coverage.  It was simply a good time to present this new technology.  This was a crude aspect of a 3-D hologram, but it shown that we are not only in the "Technology Age," but it is growing faster then ever before.  There will be critics that will always demean things.  I know I have done so myself.  There are things that I do not like and will voice my opinion on it.

Why I am writing this blog posting on this article in the first place is to state that I support CNN's endeavor to promote and encourage this new and wonderful technology.  What will make the new technology better is first to allow many to know it is out there.  As time goes by, the engineers that will be working on this new technology will improve upon it.  Right now as CNN stated, it takes 35 HD cameras to develop this holographic image.  Right now that is way to much money to have a live football game or whatever game it is to be shown on one's living room.  Even the projection of it in the home will be a lot of money.

In time, engineers will improve on this technology, so more and more will be able to use it with less hardware.  That in itself will drop the price tag.  How fast our technology is growing, it would not surprise me to see a number of people using this technology in a few years.  Spite our economy issues, technology is growing and growing at alarming rates.  Since the 1970s, nothing has slowed down the fast rate that are technology is growing, and it is growing faster and faster constantly.

As for CNET being critical towards this holographic presentation, it will only get engineers to work on it more.  I have never seen any critic destroying anything.  J. K. Rowling has not yet lost any income on her Harry Potter novels due to all the religious fuss that has been made.  In fact, it has made her more money.  What I have seen, the best way to hurt productivity is to do and say nothing about it.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Stop the insanity: CNN's 'hologram' was horrendous | The Digital Home - Don Reisinger's take on the tech closest to home - CNET News

CNN's human hologram on election night | Emerging Technology News - CNET News

 

This is the leading edge of the Technology Age.  I have said this before numerous times, and I will say it again, "We are already in the "Technology Age."  I also wonder if the economy issues we face have a great deal to do with that we are trying to live in the past age, "Industrial Age."

For once since 1977, we have come close to having the same technology from a galaxy far, far, away.  I can see a great future in this 3-D video display.  All you sports fans, how would you like to see a football game played in your own living room then on a television screen?  That is one of the many possibilities that awaits from this technology.  Before it can happen, there will have to be a way to do so without the 35 cameras.  I would not doubt in a few years it would only take one to three special camera(s).

Now that the voice of the young people in the United States of America have spoken on this 2008 Presidential Election, these same generation can be able to make this possible and a lot more.  Since we are already in the "Technology Age," it is all up to the young generation to make all wonders of life possible.  New ideas are ready to present itself.

What is really hurting us in our economy is not the money in itself, but how we progress our finances and everything we do in life.  Living life backwards is a recipe of complete destruction.  True our technology is growing forward at alarming rates.  We either have to tuck our heads between our legs or we hold on tight and enjoy the ride.  This generation that has made a difference in the 2008 Presidential Election is ready to take the plunge on what awaits them.

If we can see this hologram in real time of a new reporter, what more can we do?  We might be able to integrate that technology to how we communicate with others, like replacing talking on a telephone for example across the globe.  The only limit are our imaginations.

Now that the flame has been burned, it is up to the same generation that made this 2008 Presidential Election possible.  The first stepping stone that this young generation is ready to live for the future and prosperity from this time forward.  The power and responsibilities are in the hands of great people.  The future as always belongs to our children of tomorrow. 

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

CNN's human hologram on election night | Emerging Technology News - CNET News