Robert Scoble recently sat down with Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer to ask some pertinent questions. They mostly revolve around Microsoft’s developers and their life at Microsoft.
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This is welcomed news:
Comcast will soon increase speeds on its different tiers of broadband service, according to Broadband Reports. The industry Web site reports that some users are being told by Comcast technicians that higher speeds should appear within a month or two. Download speeds could reach 6mbps (megabits per second) for downloads and 384kbps [...]
Real life Lemmings
First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.
In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white [...]
Flickr: The 7/7 Community (formerly London Bomb Blasts) Pool
My thoughts go out to those friends & families that were affected by the London bombings. Flickr has a photo pool with photos taken by real people.
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Billy Reisinger writes:
There are a few “secrets of the trade” in making your own pizza; once you know them, it is not hard to make your own and it takes very little time. In fact, after you make it a few times you’ll wonder why I made such a big deal out of it.
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CPU magazine has written a very straight-to-the-point editorial on the lack of quality and innovation in software for the mainstream OS. They compare it to the Mac, which is found in a much different light.
Robert Scoble has a rebuttal.
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Ever had the annoying message “Cannot delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using hte file and try again.”? Unlocker adds a right-click option that lists all the programs that have a hold on the folder or file(s). Simply select the ones [...]
If you’re a typical Windows user, you’ve probably had to reformat & reinstall a few times. It’s been over 2 years since I last reformatted. Surprisingly, my computer is still stable. It has made it through several versions of just about every piece of software I use, including Windows itself. [...]
Is this the beginning of the end for property rights?
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling approving a Connecticut city’s plan to take private land by eminent domain may seem far away.
But to John Revelli, whose family has operated a tire shop near downtown Oakland for decades, the [...]
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HATE being stuck in a movie theater with no choice but to watch advertisements on the big screen? Get used to it…Advertisers like these spots, and have been buying more of them…
Yet another reason not to go to the movies.
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