Tish and Piffle: Week 5

March 10th, 2007

Two weeks have gone by - not through forgetting, rather blatent laziness. I’ve been busy with other things, so this week’s is actually remotely funny.

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Windows 7 will be in 32-bit

March 8th, 2007

Source: Winsupersite

Q: Will Windows Vienna be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions like Vista?
A: No, Vienna will almost certainly ship only in 64-bit versions. This is in keeping with Microsoft’s x64 migration schedule.

How wrong. Sorry Paul but you’ve got this one mixed up once again, and what a surprise - we can hardly get anything accurate from this man. Microsoft has pledged in the past that they will provide 32-bit operating systems until 2012, of which then 64-bit takes precedence. VistaBase has an article somewhere but it doesn’t seem to be working so I’ll update this page later.

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Hasta la ‘vista’ Bin!

I came across an item on Amazon. It cost $99,999.99 and weighs 13 pounds. There is no image of this product and they do not have it in stock right now. There is one customer review though. I think it is a hi-spec computer for designers. What do you think? Leave a comment if you know anything about this mysterious ‘Product 7′.

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Click here to see the listed Amazon item.

“The MPAA have responded to the claims that they illegally used Patrick Robin’s blogging software. They say they were only testing it, and that the blog was “never advertised to the public in any way”. I wonder what would happen if a filesharer said he was just “testing” a movie.”

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Read more about this absurdity here!

From BBC News:

The anti-impotence drug Viagra will be available on the High Street without a prescription from Valentine’s Day. Boots the chemist is introducing a trial scheme at three of its branches in Manchester. Men aged between 30 and 65 will be able to buy four pills for £50 after a consultation with the pharmacist.

So now that Viagra is out on the market in the UK, does this mean that the end of the Viagra orientated spam emails? We don’t need to buy them over the Internet any more (not like we actually did anyway) so can we stop with the Viagra spam emails please? :P

Google - I am feeling lucky…

January 31st, 2007

Search for ‘Search’ on www.google.com and click on I am feeling lucky…

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What do you see? Irony? ;)

It takes you to Live Search!

Update: March 3rd 2007, It now takes you to www.google.com. So google did correct it’s error.

This is what the abstract of the patent says:

“An amusement apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user’s buttons by a plurality of elongated arms bearing a flexible extensions that rotate under the user’s control.”

erm.. seriously, wtf!? 

Wait! you have to see the diagram of this g*mp machine!:

User Butt Kicking Apparatus

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Source : European Patent Office

Thanks to Matt for ‘Hey check this out!’