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Why Microsoft Named Its Search Engine Bing (冰):DISEASE
Microsoft's new search engine, reportedly code-named Kumo, will actually be called Bing! Here's the real meaning behind those four characters.
This is a type of message subliminal that our eyes is capching everyday.When we see this word , our braing behing does the conversion for its proper translation.Then our subconscious will do the rest,just bringing us what what we request trought mental pictures (DISEASE)
- May 26, 2009
Microsoft tells us that its new search engine, reportedly code-named Kumo, will actually be called Bing! I've asked the users of Twitter to reverse-engineer an acronym based on those four letters. The people's choice:
But It's Not Google
Indeed. We're hoping Bing is anything but Google—in fact, we're hoping it's better than Google. But it won't be, and nothing will be until the Google paradigm is destroyed and replaced with something hot.
Indeed. We're hoping Bing is anything but Google—in fact, we're hoping it's better than Google. But it won't be, and nothing will be until the Google paradigm is destroyed and replaced with something hot.
Big Investment, No Goals
All modern search engines are modeled after some of the very first, such as Web Crawler, and evolving right to AltaVista. Google is actually a copy of AltaVista in many ways, including the idea that you can cache the entire Internet on massive server farms. Microsoft cannot seem to break this paradigm either, and Bing can't possibly be anything other than old wine in new bottles.
All modern search engines are modeled after some of the very first, such as Web Crawler, and evolving right to AltaVista. Google is actually a copy of AltaVista in many ways, including the idea that you can cache the entire Internet on massive server farms. Microsoft cannot seem to break this paradigm either, and Bing can't possibly be anything other than old wine in new bottles.
Bing Is Not Groovy
Microsoft has supposedly reinvented its search two or three times from its early MSN search to its current Live Search. (What is "live search" anyway? As opposed to dead search, or what?) Anyway, lately the company has changed its faceplate so the search box appears on a pretty picture that has nothing to do with anything. It's kind of dorky.
Microsoft has supposedly reinvented its search two or three times from its early MSN search to its current Live Search. (What is "live search" anyway? As opposed to dead search, or what?) Anyway, lately the company has changed its faceplate so the search box appears on a pretty picture that has nothing to do with anything. It's kind of dorky.
Brought in New Garbage
Nowadays when you search for images with the Microsoft engine, the site returns JavaScript that make the photos grow and shrink and presents them in unique ways. I've been waiting for an AJAX layout for the search results whereby you could dynamically change layouts or get some visuals for the search. Cuil tries to give us this new look, and it would work well if the results were actually good. Therein lies the rub.
Nowadays when you search for images with the Microsoft engine, the site returns JavaScript that make the photos grow and shrink and presents them in unique ways. I've been waiting for an AJAX layout for the search results whereby you could dynamically change layouts or get some visuals for the search. Cuil tries to give us this new look, and it would work well if the results were actually good. Therein lies the rub.
Big Incompetent Net Grub
The problem with Microsoft search has always been its failure to go the extra mile; where are the massive fleets of crawlers and huge mountain-sized server farms? Microsoft, while probably spending more money than Yahoo on these things, still exhibits a penny-pinching approach, hoping things work out anyway. You have to recall the early MS folklore: When someone wanted to work for the company Gates insisted that they take a cut in pay from their previous job to prove that they really wanted to work at Microsoft. This is a tightwad's cover story. The only time I have seen the company go the extra mile is with the Xbox 360, which for some unknown reason managed to stay under the cheapskate radar as it trolls for spendthrifts. The rest of the time there is always some "on the cheap" initiative.
The problem with Microsoft search has always been its failure to go the extra mile; where are the massive fleets of crawlers and huge mountain-sized server farms? Microsoft, while probably spending more money than Yahoo on these things, still exhibits a penny-pinching approach, hoping things work out anyway. You have to recall the early MS folklore: When someone wanted to work for the company Gates insisted that they take a cut in pay from their previous job to prove that they really wanted to work at Microsoft. This is a tightwad's cover story. The only time I have seen the company go the extra mile is with the Xbox 360, which for some unknown reason managed to stay under the cheapskate radar as it trolls for spendthrifts. The rest of the time there is always some "on the cheap" initiative.
Bill, It's No Good!
There's a rumor going around that Microsoft will buy up any search company it can and incorporate every known idea into Bing (or whatever comes next). Unfortunately Microsoft has a not-invented-here corporate culture, despite the fact that most of what it does is technology bought from someone else. The company's tendency is to absorb a basic product, then reinvent it. Perhaps the moniker should be not reinvented here. In the process of reinvention the company either lets the product languish (like PowerPoint) or ruins it to the point where it is unusable (ever tried Front Page?). So if there is a good search engine being developed, please, don't sell it to Microsoft.
There's a rumor going around that Microsoft will buy up any search company it can and incorporate every known idea into Bing (or whatever comes next). Unfortunately Microsoft has a not-invented-here corporate culture, despite the fact that most of what it does is technology bought from someone else. The company's tendency is to absorb a basic product, then reinvent it. Perhaps the moniker should be not reinvented here. In the process of reinvention the company either lets the product languish (like PowerPoint) or ruins it to the point where it is unusable (ever tried Front Page?). So if there is a good search engine being developed, please, don't sell it to Microsoft.
But It's Nearly Google
Microsoft's unfortunate copycat strategies will not result in anything other than a weak copy of Google, with some visual tweaks to make the presentation look better. Redmond will never take a chance on something radical. My advice to the company is to try to understand what's going on at Collarity, where it's easy to see what a new idea for search is all about. I'm actually kind of surprised that one of the big three hasn't already made Collarity's developers an offer they could not refuse. Maybe none of these guys are paying attention.
Microsoft's unfortunate copycat strategies will not result in anything other than a weak copy of Google, with some visual tweaks to make the presentation look better. Redmond will never take a chance on something radical. My advice to the company is to try to understand what's going on at Collarity, where it's easy to see what a new idea for search is all about. I'm actually kind of surprised that one of the big three hasn't already made Collarity's developers an offer they could not refuse. Maybe none of these guys are paying attention.
Be Innovative, Not Geeky!
The point is, Google owns search. And renaming and starting a rebranding campaign for a dumb-sounding search engine like Bing is a serious waste of resources. New thinking and a new direction are needed, but Microsoft doesn't seem cut out for the job. If Bing is a success, I'll be the one who will be the most surprised
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MY OWN RESEARCH,OUT OF THE AUTHOR POINT OF VIEW
The point is, Google owns search. And renaming and starting a rebranding campaign for a dumb-sounding search engine like Bing is a serious waste of resources. New thinking and a new direction are needed, but Microsoft doesn't seem cut out for the job. If Bing is a success, I'll be the one who will be the most surprised
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MY OWN RESEARCH,OUT OF THE AUTHOR POINT OF VIEW
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Mind control is obvius: ( 冰 )Pronunciation BING .Its translation from chinese is DISEASEThis is a type of message subliminal that our eyes is capching everyday.When we see this word , our braing behing does the conversion for its proper translation.Then our subconscious will do the rest,just bringing us what what we request trought mental pictures (DISEASE)
First Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller 'Europa Report' Unveiled (Video)
The first trailer for the new science fiction film "Europa Report" has launched onto the Internet and just might be the most realistic — and harrowing — depiction of space travel on the big screen in years.
In "Europa Report," an intrepid crew of astronauts leaves Earth behind for Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, on a private space mission to seek out alien life. As the first two-minute trailer shows, the mission does not go anywhere near as planned. Not by a long shot. You can watch the "Europa Report" trailer here.
"This is really a new first step for mankind," one mission official says in the trailer.
In the trailer, we see the Europa-bound crew launch into space, then watch astronauts on spacewalks, and finally see a series of flashes showing what appears to be a space mission going from bad to worse. The anguished scream of a spacesuit-clad astronaut caps the trailer. [See photos from "Europa Report"]
"Europa Report" launches in theaters on Aug. 2 but will be available on iTunes and video on demand on June 27. Filmmaker Sebastián Cordero directed the movie, which stars an ensemble crew that includes Sharlto Copley ("District 9") and Michael Nyqvist ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"). It was produced by Wayfare Entertainment.
"I thought I was trying to do something great for mankind," Copley's character says in the trailer. "I always said it was worth the risk."
To call "Europa Report" just another science fiction thriller does not do the movie justice. (Full Disclosure: SPACE.com has seen the full movie and it is indeed awesome).
The film is by turns moody, suspenseful and stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the extreme isolation astronauts would face on a years-long trip to Jupiter. More than that, though, I'd rather not reveal to avoid spoiling the film.
The views of Europa in the film are amazingly detailed, and the methods used by the crew to probe the moon and its icy crust appear to be pulled straight out of concepts by NASA and other space agencies for exploring the icy Jovian satellite.
Europa has long been a tantalizing target for scientists because its thick icy crust appears to hide a vast ocean of liquid water. Interactions between that ocean and Europa's tidally heated interior could potentially serve as an energy source for primitive life, if it exists at all on the Jupiter moon.
The European Space Agency plans to launch a real-life mission to Europa in 2022 to explore it and several other Jupiter moons as part of the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (nicknamed JUICE) expedition. NASA will provide a radar instrument for the JUICE spacecraft to peer beneath Europa's surface, but the mission will be completely robotic — no astronauts aboard.
So it looks like Wayfare's "Europa Report" will be the closest humanity comes to a manned mission to Jupiter for the foreseeable future. Let's hope the next try goes a bit better.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Moon or Asteroid? Congress Debates Best Pit Stop to Mars
NASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts as a deep-space dry run for a future mission to Mars has some members of Congress wondering if the space agency would be better off setting its sights on the moon instead.
The asteroid mission was announced when President Barack Obama unveiled his 2014 NASA budget request. The scheme would have NASA use a robotic spacecraft to capture a roughly 23-foot-wide (7 meters) asteroid in deep space, and redirect it to an orbit closer to the moon. Once there, NASA would launch a human mission to rendezvous with the space rock and explore it.
But members of the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee expressed their skepticism of the plan during a hearing Tuesday to discuss NASA's ultimate goal ofsending astronauts to Mars. The asteroid mission was proposed as an initial step toward that goal — one that would test technologies needed for a Mars mission and allow crews to gain experience in deep space exploration. [How to Catch an Asteroid: NASA Mission Explained (Infographic)]
Yet lawmakers questioned the mission's technical plan, budget and schedule. "I am not convinced this mission is the right way to go, and that it may actually become a detour for a Mars mission," said Rep. Steven Palazzo (R., Miss.).
Lunar legacy
Some members of Congress favored sending astronauts back to the moon instead.
"To me there is no better way for our astronauts to learn how to live and work on another planet than to use the moon as a training ground," said Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Tex.).
"It is difficult to determine what advantages this [asteroid mission] may offer," he added.
The moon plan was backed by some experts called to testify at the hearing. The moon is easier to get to, offers greater science objectives, and is a better testing ground for Mars exploration technology, compared to an asteroid, argued Paul Spudis, a geologist specializing in lunar science at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. "This effort is not 'been there, done that,'" he said. "It is a wholly new, untried and necessary pioneering enterprise in space."
But one of the architects of the asteroid mission was there to defend the plan, which he said is a realistic near-term goal for NASA that advances its ultimate objective of going to Mars.
"The asteroid retrieval mission creates a first step beyond the moon — the only one we are now capable of performing and the only one which we can afford within the current budget," said Louis Friedman, co-leader of the Keck Institute for Space Studies Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study and co-founder and executive director emeritus of The Planetary Society, a nonprofit dedicated to space exploration.
Friedman was co-leader of the study on the asteroid mission concept that sold the Obama administration and NASA on the idea.
Lure of an asteroid
In addition to providing a testing ground for new solar electric propulsion technologies that could prove useful in going to Mars, the asteroid mission would further scientists' understanding of the space rocks that populate our solar system — some of which might need to be diverted from their orbits if they pose a risk of colliding with Earth, Friedman said. The asteroid chosen for retrieval, however, would be too small to be dangerous to our planet.
"Nonetheless, the asteroid is big enough to be an interesting object to explore," Friedman said. "We may someday have to divert one. Exploring them and discovering new ones is important."
"I believe this is the direct and only sustainable way to Mars," he added.
But not everyone was sold.
"It is a clever concept and such a mission would undoubtedly demonstrate technologies," said Douglas Cooke, former associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate who now owns the Cooke Concepts and Solutions consulting company.
However, Cooke said he wasn't clear on the mission's application to Mars exploration, and he questioned the decision-making process that arrived on the plan without involving enough of the space community.
"I think a healthy process gets inputs from your stakeholders in terms of objectives and goals," Cooke said. "I don't see that that's happened here."
Ultimately, many agreed that whatever plan NASA decides on, the space agency must be given the funding to achieve it.
"NASA is being asked to do too much with too little," said Steve Squyres, a Cornell University astronomer who is principal investigator of NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars. "This overtaxing of the agency is chronic, severe, and it's getting worse."
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