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New Project To End Stupidity Online 336

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 12, 2007 @05:12PM from the then-they-make-a-better-idiot dept.

mrneutron2003 writes to tell us that StupidFilter, a new Open Source project started by Gabriel Ortiz and Paul Starr, plans to provide an intellectual prophylactic for memetically transmitted diseases. "Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise. The advent of user-driven web content has compounded the matter yet further, straining our tolerance to the breaking point. It's time to fight back."

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Comment 1/6th the population? (Score 0) 365

by this213 on Friday July 27, 2007 @09:30AM (#20009587) Attached to: Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008

Seriously, they must be counting everything from Win 3.x that wasn't bought as an "upgrade". They're at the very least counting every new Dell that gets bought and promptly reformatted for Linux (or BSD even).

The world only has 6.6 billion people (google for "world population"). Once you figure some people are too young to even know what a computer is, some are physically disabled to the point of not being able to use a computer, many elderly couldn't care less about a computer and then the billions who can't afford one; Something like this would have to mean that every single person who has a computer runs Windows on something like a hundred systems or so.

Yeah right. You can't even get me to install it on one system.

Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008 365

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 27, 2007 @09:01AM from the one-beeellion dept.

eldavojohn writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed yesterday that there will be a billion machines running Windows within a year. 'The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion. If you stop and just think about that, parse that for a second, by the end of our fiscal year '08, there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles, which is at least to me kind of a mind-numbing concept.'"

Feed news.com: Blue Blue and Solar (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Friday July 27, 2007 @08:12AM

Blog: To add to the list of long term multinationals pushing solar technologies, count several recent entrants from the automotive, semiconductor equipment, and now computer and IT industries.

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