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“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers” - Scott Adams
Gareth continued his walk down computing memory lane, and the associated connectivity problems. I, on the other hand, jumped into the future. I risked my systems stability, and my sanity by installing Windows 7, on my Mac. The good news is, its better then Vista, the bad, its still Windows.
Then we got into these…
iPhone a ‘requirement’ for Missouri School of Journalism students – Hmmm… Someone’s found a clever way to encourage students to their school.
French ’3 Strikes’ law voted in, at the second attempt – A month after failing to pass, the ‘authorities’ in France, vote in a law to throw persistent offenders off the net. I wonder, if the law had failed 3 times would they have given up on it.
Steve Jobs will be back says psychic, but not for long. – Shock, horror, gasp. A psychic guesses at what a lot of people thinking anyway. Hang on, somethings coming through, I see a lot of BS talked about Steve & Co. in the near future.
Intel mess with the EU competition regulators, end up $1.5bn worse off – After giving Microsoft a good bitch slapping, the EU start in on Intel. The fine is enough to give every citizen of the EU 3 bucks each, wonder what I’ll spend mine on.
Zune HD gonna take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google. – The Zune HD (or xYz, or pink, or whatever the hell this weeks codename is) is coming and is going to blow the competition, out of the water. Or disappear without a trace. Delete as appropriate.
Sony lose a billion dollars – They’ve looked down the back of the sofa, and behind the fridge even, but it’s definitely gone. Still it could be worse, the other Japanese CE firms are competing to see who can lose most, with Hitachi winning at the moment, 8 billion so far. Beat that Sony.
