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Submission + - Bill Gates on software, from 1989 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2007 @02:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: The University of Waterloo has uploaded a talk by Bill Gates, on software, that took place there in 1989. Available here, the talk was only recently digitized and contains many predictions from someone who was already starting to become an industry leader at that time. Many are surprisingly accurate and quite relevant today.

Submission + - New York Taxi Drivers Will Strike if GPS installed (gpsdaily.com)

Submitted by

wooferhound

on Friday August 24, 2007 @12:33PM

wooferhound writes: "http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/New_York_taxi_driv ers_threaten_two-day_strike_999.html New York's taxi drivers on Thursday said they would mount a two-day strike in early September if authorities did not scrap plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in the city's yellow cabs. "We are ready to go on strike on September 5 and September 6," Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents some 8,400 of New York's 26,000 cabbies, told AFP."

Submission + - Iran Claims Space Launch

Submitted by massivefoot on Sunday February 25, 2007 @06:43AM

massivefoot writes: Iranian TV claims Iran has launched its first rocket into space. Iran already has a civilian satellite programme but so far it has relied on Russia to put its satellites into orbit. The article contains few details, this appears to be breaking news.

Submission + - The Best P2P Network Nowadays?

Submitted by

rigamarole

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @02:58AM

rigamarole writes: "Well, I've been using Limewire for most of my mp3 downloads for the past while. At first I was very satisfied with it after switching from Ares, because my download times were significantly faster. Recently though, I've been getting a lot of results like, "Stephen Spielberg gets a hilarious prank call!" and other such nonsense. Note that I get a lot of search results like this on both audio and video-specific searches. I'm sick of Limewire now, and I'm wondering what people in the know are using for their downloads nowadays. I should note that I've had some satisfactory results from using isoHunt for movie downloads, but I have no idea how good of a music source it is...and I prefer the classic KaZaA/Ares/Limewire layout anyhow. Thoughts?"

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