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Puzzle Games (Games)

Tetris Turns 25 177

teh.f4ll3n writes "25 years ago a Russian (Soviet) researcher thought of one of the world's most popular games. It is now that we celebrate its 25th anniversary. 'Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer — the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 — and began writing programs for it.'"

Comment The Real Problem With CFLs (Score 1) 859

Since so many people have started switching to them, the electric company has raised rates 4 times. We've changed (almost) all our lights, and we make sure computers get turned off at night. Yet we're paying more now than we were when we had 5 computers running 24/7 and every bulb a 60W incandescent.

Comment Re:Did I miss the news? (Score 1) 399

At some point, though, Apple will have to overcome the (incorrect) perception that "Steve Jobs is Apple", and that without him, Apple will most certainly fail

Well, last time he left Apple (was forced out) Apple did start to fail, and fail big. He came back, bringing the Lisa (which became the Mac), and presto! Apple was back.

Face it ... without Jobs, apple is just an overpriced PC with proprietary software AND hardware.

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