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Today I did receive an email from Google… well from “Your Google Team”…… – in which they write;
Hello,
As we near the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for the time, energy, commitment, and trust you’ve shared with us in 2009.
With sharing in mind, this year we’ve decided to [...]

Yesterday there was an interesting topic, in one of those consumer programs, on the national tv in Holland……
They where talking about Apple and their behavior with “warranty”.
We have a nice rule/law in Holland; the manufacturer can put a warranty term on their product – but the “how long the warranty should be”is depending on what [...]

In Europe we have this nice discussion about Windows 7. As you probably know; Microsoft had some problems with Neelie Kroes about their monopolistic behavior regarding Internet Explorer. Neelie thinks that Microsoft is not allowed to make an Operating System including their own web browser….. Well [...]

Earlier this blog brought you a story about possible developments in computer technology and music in the future. With increasing computer capabilities it might be possible one day the computer produces music that’s good by human standards. It was mentioned that new algorithms inspired by nature might be used for this, evolutionary techniques improving the [...]

Maybe this question sounds absurd to you. Maybe you think there’s no limit on new musical pieces that can be created. But this can’t be true, limitations on human hearing puts constraints on the number of possible sounds we can hear. Since not all sound is music, it follows that the number of all possible [...]

I still think it is a bit disturbing…. oh yes – I do agree with Mr. Neil Thompson (Director of Xbox UK)….; ”Kids’ guardians still don’t realize that Xbox 360 and other consoles aren’t toys”.
But every time I see this topic showing up – I am missing a big part of the whole problem; [...]