here's an Apple vs MS thing at slashdot.org, which i might want to read, but then again it could be all the same old rubbish over and over again. (some comments do look interesting, "August 6, 1997, Microsoft agreed to purchase $150 million in non-voting Apple preferred stock" plus the comment directly below, which states that it was because MS ripped off Apple code). //here's the article they refer to at NY Times but you don't have to sign up.

tin can internet for free in australia. none of this capitalism mumbo jumbo down under!

also, have a look at doom3 benchmarks at http://www.hardocp.com (site seems a bit slow today) on the fastest equipment available, a P4-3GHz, 800mhz FSB, 1GB Dual DDR ram, and the latest graphics cards, the NVIDIA GeForce FX5900 Ultra, and the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb, at 1024x768 (no AA/AF etc), you're getting about tops 80fps, at 1280 x 1024 (again, no AA/AF) you're getting tops 50fps, and at 1600 x 1200 (no AA/AF) you're getting at max 40fps! compare that to an average PC, (XP2400, with a Radeon 9000 - a "budget" card) where you get 60fps at 1600 x 1200 in Quake 3. Next, look at the shear SIZE of the latest NVidia Graphics Card over at the Hexus review (page 3 and 4).

To summarise, the PC they're testing with Doom3, has a very fast CPU, and the fastest graphics cards available (WAY faster than a Radeon 9000) and it struggles hugely with Doom3!

The capitalist revolution?
something you already knew but doesn't get admitted much :
"capitalism" as we know it is failing us as individuals
blah blah blah.. customer support research costs loadsa money and comes up with a pap automated system.. which is a symptom of a larger problem.. "Managers are at the centre, preoccupied with their own interests .. But their path has become corrupted, they are insulated and have become a source of governance catastrophes." .. senior managers at American Airlines.. granted themselves bonuses while negotiating to cut the pay of other staff. .."US companies are driven to please their shareholders ..

all this means is that workers get paid minimum possible (where skills / training not required much).. and companies like apple are concerned more with profit than a customers satisfaction.. ok so that wasn't really what the link was about..

The link is a bit about how if you go into some kind of 'relationship' or partnership with a collection of companies selling you an integrated solution, you maybe get a bit more control over the whole deal. don't see how myself.

anyone find anything interesting to read on the internet? i'm finding it very very boring today. (the internet)

apparently google will index blogs seperately from the rest of the internet. right google index 3billion webpages. i think they should just get rid of the 1.5 billion that are probably a load of crap.

got stuck under a rock? chop yer arm off to get away. *ouch* thanks to phil for pointing out that he wasn't doing it to eat it :)

more about the distorted world apple zealots live in. over here. mac share 2.1%? aac encoding from Apple complete tosh. etc etc. Apple doomed? like I said a while ago. :) another story about apple, and the iMac. and if you think you're PC hasn't crashed enough lately (like my w2k pc at work or home that never crashes) then use crashit.

also, it was the local elections here in Liverpool, UK, and guess what, last year 27% of the electorate (people who could vote) voted, this year 21% voted, while 79% stayed at home not giving a crap about who won the election. That, as a pecentage is nearly how many people use Google, over all the other web search engines out there! Chuffin Nora. The BNP got a pitiful amount of votes, which is good, in fact I think it should be illegal to run such a blatantly racist political party.

Whats for dinner?... Thursday spam day.....

Hotmail has new anti spam features, look in : Mail Display Settings : click : Remove images until messages are reviewed

Brilliant, now if outlook didn't download messages to delete them.

So whats Bill Gates middle name?

"Dressed in a shirt monogrammed with his initials WHG"...

Please guess in the comments below, not cheating and looking it up!

I'm going for Hugo.

infrogrames change their name to ATARI. details. good points : infogrames was a crap name, and difficult to spell, bad points, i doubt they will actually do anything interesting with the Atari name, such as release some hardware. atari.com aparently "the Atari legacy of innovation lives on..." um... where?

some interesting surfing for if you're bored. (i can't promise you'll enjoy them) hippo girl. switch to linux (you've probably seen this one before). this is meant to be pong (requires shockwave - doh! - it's a weird cross between ten pin bowling, breakout/arkanoid and pong). webwar is cool. oh and there's a switch to mac thing here that might wet your whistle.

simply put /input type anything\ (with angle brackets instead of the forward and backslash) in a html webpage and internet explorer will crash. if it's in the body, you're okay, if it's not, then it'll crash. details. more details. and just for you, an example, that will crash your web browser if you're using IE. click here to crash ie. (will open in new window)

apple bad - when screen breaks on guys 17" powerbook, they blame user, leak user information on internet, then damage the laptop further when he sends it to apple for repair. more apple bad-ness, but a different story.

where do we put the links to our favourite website on this blog thingy?

A woman who has a boy out of wedlock is much more likely to marry the father than if she has a girl. Blogworthy ? (My new word for the day)

Britons seek the strangest sites
hey it wasn't me alright: monkey origami / Zebra races / Staffordshire bull terrier portraits (well maybe the last one was I cant remember)

The world's largest record labels are quietly financing the creation of programs that, if deployed, would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music. How is that different to writing a virus? A virus that just deletes suspected copied music files. If the RIAA run a program on a machine without the owners premission are they tresspassing? Stealing thier CPU time?

More spam news, "But (when), asked how to unsubscribe from his e-marketing lists, (he) did not directly answer." ... and ... "If you post your email addresses on the internet, you're going to open yourself up to being emailed," Bit of a no brainer that Josh should take note of. Back to the Mp3's four college students reached settlements, ranging from $12,000 to $17,500 each, for file sharing on a universtitys internal network.

apple sell music and apple give away broken mobile phones (and get lots of free publicity) but one day we hope they learn how to deliver mp3s via gprs etc. for a much lower price

burnley

MAY FOOLS DAY

Did any one else think it was Friday today?

Was I the only one who rang the guy that works Friday and asked him where the hell he was.