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There are many stories floating around about Microsoft's latest games console XBOX360. Many of the problems associated with shipping, supply and even hardware failures. But games maker Ubisoft, the company behind the King Kong game has made somewhat of a boo-boo with their XBOX version of it; it's too dark to play! Their developers built and tested the game using high definition televisions, but sadly the majority of us are still with normal televisions, which can't display the game in all its richness. Ooops! Ubisoft have said to buy the game but not for XBOX until they figure out a patch to lighten the game. As the boss says, you can never do too much testing!
In a rather surprising partnership, Google, Sun and Microsoft have all joined forces together to create and maintain a new Internet Lab that will foster new companies and how they can turn their idea into mainstream successes. Situated in Berkeley California, the $7.5M lab will be initially staffed by 10 graduates and 6 faculty members, whose aim is to develop web based services to be given away. Although with that sort of budget behind only 16 people, one is expecting great things from this setup.
Many people talk of the nanny state and how much the government is trying to run our lives. Spare a thought for the small town in Brazil, Biritiba Mirim, where the local council has outlawed dying. Being the law abiding citizen I am, if they have broadband, then count me in, eternal life is a definitely a vote winner. Apparently though should you break the law and go and die, then they have no where to put you!
Countdown to Christmas Fact #10:
Jesus will not be 2005 this December 25th.This error can be traced to Dionysius Exiguus, who calculated that Christ was born 753 years after the supposed date of the foundation of Rome by Romulus. Herod died in 4 BC, therefore the Jesus of the Gospels must have been born before that date.
Courtesy of http://nireland.humanists.net/handbk/12myths.html
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