According to Bill Gates, Microsoft’s next version of Windows, which is currently code-named Longhorn and is due out late 2005 / early 2006, will cost them more than it cost the US government to put a man on the moon.
Quite interesting. I can’t wait to see what the guys at Microsoft have hidden up their sleeves.
From The Inquirer.
[via eclecticism]
It seems like Google don’t find it enough to just search information on websites, they want to go further and extend into the offline world, and start searching information that’s in books too.
According to their Google Print FAQ page, they say:
Now this could be bad news for Amazon, which is working on a similar full-text book search effort.
Other movies i rented and saw this weekend are:
Bad Boys II:
This is as much fun as the first one, and with a soundtrack which is as good or even better.
Martin Lawrence and Will Smith are great together and so funny.
I watched the movie twice and wouldn’t mind seeing it again.
The Italian Job:
I just love this type of movies. Heists are one of my movie fetishes 😛
So, basically any movie from this genre is a must see for me.
This one was done pretty well, and i really liked it. Not too complicated or as fancy as other heist movies i’ve seen, but pretty good anyways.
I also like the cast that worked in this movie.
I started watching Solaris too, but haven’t finished it yet. First impression though is that it’s a bit stretched out and getting a bit boring.
Well, as some must have noticed, Subzero Blue (this blog) was offline during most of Dec. 15 & part of Dec. 16.
This downtime was on purpose, and as a manifestation of this blog’s everlasting support for a very important cause !
Oh, ok, i’m lying, loool…
I do strongly support a lot of important causes fully, but i regret to say that the downtime was for purely technical problems this time.
It was a problem with the hosting and all.
Anyway, thanks to Houssein (THE MAN), we’re up again on a new host; faster, better and stronger.
Hip Hip, Hooray 😉
So Saddam Hussein has finally been captured.
I was a bit surprised and shocked by the news yesterday, not because i like Saddam, but because i wasn’t expecting him to be caught at all.
Anyway, i think it’s good he was caught and that he will be put on trial for all the crimes he did. I knew a lot of people in Jordan who were from Iraq, and i’ve heard my share of stories about life in Iraq and how Saddam and his sons were treating the people.
Of course, there were equally as much stories about the disastrous life people were living because of what the US did to them and because of it’s sanctions.
After months and months of search, he’s been caught, giving the US administration something to try and brag about.
BUT, wait a second, this whole war wasn’t about Saddam in the first place, it was about weapons of mass destruction. Weapons that were never found and never will be.
So even though it’s good that Saddam is gone, it doesn’t change the fact that the war was one big lie, and that they’re trying to cover it up by using Saddam as a scapegoat.
The only problem is that catching him nearly means nothing; from what the news are saying attacks are still happening, Iraq is still one big mess, the people still want the US to get out of there (people of both the US & Iraq) !
So, it seems like it’s no big deal, just a big media story, but one that means nothing at all.
Houssein told me about this when we met in Tunis, but he forgot the exact words, anyway today while surfing around, i found it.
If you go to google and type in “miserable failure” and then click “I’m feeling lucky”, you’ll actually find yourself on the George Bush biography page of the White House’s website.
Interesting, funny and very true i think 😉
Btw, another related thingie i found is this: Resume of George W. Bush.
“Time asks no questions, it goes on without you.
Leaving you behind if you can’t stand the pace.
The world keeps on spinning, can’t stop it if you tried to.
The best part is danger staring you in the face”
From You Gotta Be
By Des’ree.
I rented the DVD for Anger Management last night, and I have to say that it’s the best Adam Sandler movie as yet, and in fact the best Comedy movie I’ve seen this year.
The movie is totally side-cracking hilarious, and I’ve already seen it twice.
Adam Sandler & Jack Nicholson are a great match. And John Turturro is amazing, he steals every scene he’s in and never fails to break me into laughter.
Everything in this movie is perfectly put together to make a fun and very enjoyable movie experience. A true must see.
Other than a great laugh and lots of fun, there’s something else I came out with from this movie, and that’s a diagnostic of myself 😛
The character of Buddy (played by Jack Nicholson) explains: “There is explosive and implosive anger. Explosive anger is the guy in the supermarket yelling at the cashier for not taking his coupons. Implosive anger is the cashier meekly submitting to his abuse — until one day he calmly shoots everyone in the store.”
And well, when thinking of it, I found out I’m of the implosive type.
Ok, I’ve known that about myself for a long time 😛
I’m the kind of person who people think is the calmest and most cold-blooded person on earth just because I don’t get angry quickly, but the thing is they don’t really know what’s going on behind that icy cold fa
Well this little test says my Digital IQ is 111, which makes me out to be a Digital Ace.
But, well, i know i deserve more 😛
If i only had the money to buy all the gadgets i want and were in a country where i could hook up to wireless hotspots and networks, i’d have aced the test, lol…
You can take the test yourself over here, then come back and comment your score 😉
