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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Cloud Computing + Bragelina Pitt + Must they

In my last post I a little on tech and I’ve decided to follow suite with another. This time around it is cloud computing
First it was web services but now it is cloud computing. I’ve been coming across the word cloud computing but it was only after the Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference that I came to understand what it is all about. I wonder what next. Below is what I was able to scoop on cloud computing.

Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one's own PC than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centers as opposed to on the servers of a given business.
"It's a transformation of our software and a transformation of our strategy," said Ray Ozzie, a computing industry pioneer who now serves as Microsoft's chief software architect Microsoft first outlined a shift to "Live Services" at an event in San Francisco in 2005. The company has released a few things piecemeal, such as Live Mesh, but Monday's announcement marked the first real discussion of how Microsoft's disparate Internet strategies fit together.
With the launch of Azure, Microsoft will find itself in competition with other providers of Internet storage and computing services including Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Rackspace.
Ozzie said he was tipping his cap to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for innovating the hosted computing model. Amazon "established a base-level design pattern, architecture models, and business models that we'll all learn from," he said.
Microsoft is making Windows Azure in preview form to developers, with a limited subset of the features that it plans to have in the product before its final release.

Some pictures from Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference.




There weren't many details on how Microsoft will charge for Azure, saying it will be free during the preview period.Final pricing, Ozzie said, "will be competitive with the marketplace."
The company itself plans to offer businesses the option of running over the Internet the kinds of software that have traditionally run on a company's own servers. Microsoft already sells its Exchange corporate e-mail software in this
way, but that is just the beginning, said Microsoft vice president Dave Thompson.
"All our enterprise software will be delivered as an online service as an option," Thompson said.

So thats that for Cloud Computing.

Brabgelina Pitt


I found this intresting stuff on Brad Pitt and Angelina's career comparison.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are about the most visible and most successful romantically-linked movie stars since Bogie and Bacall. And, yes, we know they are the doting parents of six children and tireless humanitarians. But when you get down to it, which of the two of them has the stronger film career? I crunched the numbers to find out.
Angelina Jolie

Career Stats:
Feature Films
30
Total Domestic Box Office Gross
$1.4 billion
Highest Grossing Film Worldwid
Kung Fu Panda
$629.1 mil
Most Recent Film
Wanted
$134.3 mil US
Awards
1 Oscar
2 Golden Globes


Angelina started early, first appearing at age 7 in "Lookin' to Get Out" with her father Jon Voight. Her professional career started small with supporting roles in films like "Hackers," "Foxfire" and "Playing God." She first broke out as a leading actress on TV, winning Golden Globes for her work in "George Wallace" and "Gia." Her first box office success was police thriller "The Bone Collector" with Denzel Washington, which earned $66.5 million in the US. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted." This was followed by the back-to-back hits "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." Some of her biggest box office takes have been with the animated movies "Shark Tale" ($160.8 mil) and "Kung Fu Panda" ($215.4 mil). Angelina's next film is "Changeling," the true story of a mother in the 1920s whose son was abducted, directed by Clint Eastwood.



Brad Pitt
Career Stats:
Feature Films
34
Total Domestic Box Office Gross
$1.7 billion
Highest Grossing Film Worldwid
Troy
$497.4 mil
Most Recent Film
Burn After Reading
$57.3 mil. US
Awards
1 Oscar nomination
1 Golden Globe
Brad Pitt spent the first few years of his professional career doing bit parts in low-budget films and TV shows. His breakout role was as an alluring drifter in "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In '94 he had hits with "Legends of the Fall" and "Interview With the Vampire." The next year he received critical acclaim for "Seven" and "12 Monkeys." Throughout the rest of the decade his films performed solidly but not spectacularly in the $30-60 million range. It was 2001's "Ocean's Eleven" that brought Brad his first $150 million-plus blockbuster, and the two subsequent sequels both broke $100 million domestically. His only attempt at an animated movie was the massive bomb "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas." Brad will be seen this winter as a man who ages backwards in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," costarring Cate Blanchett.

The Verdict

Both stars' careers are evenly matched in terms of financial success and critical acclaim. In fact, the highest grossing live-action film for each of them is the one they made together: "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Both have generated Oscar buzz for their upcoming films. However, while Angelina has many projects in development, she is not currently at work on a film, nor is she committed to start on one in the near future. She in a recent interview she said, "The kids are my priority, so it's possible that from now on I will make fewer movies." Meanwhile, Brad has finished filming "The Tree of Life" with reclusive director Terrence Malick, and has just started work on Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards." He also has several projects as a producer, including the recently wrapped "The Time Traveler's Wife." So, with his future prospects more certain, I'm declaring:

Winner: BRAD PITT. These guys are my second favourite Hollywood couple after the Will and Jada.

Must they?

I dont understand why oyinbo artists love going naked. Is it that if they cant sing they try to make up with their body. I dont under why Kelis the wife of Nas has to do this.