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Microsoft shares fell 2% on Thursday after a Microsoft executive appeared to avoid confirming the current January 2007 Vista release data for consumers.
Instead, Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson said Vista would be shipped “when it is available”.
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Katanga Canyon had to be closed off to the public today, as something went seriously wrong with the Runaway Mine Train.
Theincident involving the Mack Rides powered coaster occurred shortlybefore midday. The train split into two sections as it was enteringinto the ‘tunnel’ part of the ride, as a coupling holding theindividual carriages together broke. The two parts of the train thencollided, sending debris flying.
Ambulances arrived at the scene soon after, as three people had to betaken to North Staffordshire Hospital – two women were flown by airambulance while a third person was taken by land ambulance. Theseverity of their injuries is not yet known. A number of others weretreated for cuts and bruises.
A spokeswoman for the park said: “The healthand safety of our guests is our primary objective. The ride has beenclosed and will remain so whilst a thorough investigation is carriedout.”
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As things currently stand, there will definitely be no new roller coaster next year, and most likely no major new attraction either.ATA has learnt that the rumoured water ride for next year is based on rough future plans drawn up some time ago, which have since changed. Although the park have not ruled out ever installing a new water ride (bear in mind the park’s future plans change week-by-week), they have confirmed that there will be no major new ride for 2007.
It’s a shame that nothing new will be appearing, however over the last few years there has been a fair bit of development at alton towers in the way of new rides.
Perhaps it is about time they had a year off (although they are opening a new kids ride this summer) and used the off-season time to improve existing parts of the park – painting etc.
Although the new rides are helping re-develop areas like cred street, places like around Oblivion need a lick of paint to keep them smart
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Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software.From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.
The firm will also stop providing security updates for Windows 98 from the same date.
Support for the software was originally due to end in 2003, but was extended following customer protests. Read the rest of this entry »
The European Commission is preparing to impose a fine of between 200m euros and 300m euros ($383.2m; £207.6m) on Microsoft to punish it for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling.
The suggested 300m euro fine is thought to be backdated to a warning issued to the firm in December.
At the time Brussels warned it would face daily fines of 2m euros a day if it failed to meet the Commission’s demands.
Sources say that penalty could now rise to 3m euros a day if Microsoft fails to comply with the anti-trust ruling by 31 July.
Under the 2004 ruling, Microsoft was told to provide rival firms with more information about its software, in order to enable them to write programs that could run more smoothly on Microsoft’s widely-used Windows operating system.
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Until now, Gmail allowed users to set filters only for the future emails. Now when you create a filter or update one, Gmail allows you to apply it to old emails, a fantastic feature if you’ve already received a lot of one type of email and have only just decided to group them.
Also added is a link to delete all spam, however, only some users have access to both of these features yet in google’s typical roll-out method. Hopefully it wont be long until everyone sees them.
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Remember the person who wanted to trade up from a red paper clip to eventually get a house? Well after a few trades he managed to finally get there.
Kyle, the Town of Kipling, Saskatchewan wants you to complete your quest for a house. The Mayor and Town Council with the support of the employees and residents of the Town of Kipling have a revised offer for you. We know you will say Yes!
1. As a new resident to our community you will receive a Community Welcome Package containing local information and promotions from local businesses.
2. The Kipling Chamber of Commerce will give you $200 in Kipling Cash. This Cash can be spent at any local Chamber of Commerce business.
3. You will be given a Key to the Town of Kipling
4. You will become Honorary Mayor of Kipling for One Day.
5. You will be named an Honorary Lifelong Citizen of the Town of Kipling
6. The day we make the trade will be decreed One Red Paperclip Day by our Town Council and everyone will be encouraged to wear a red paperclip in honor of your achievements.
7. Will build the world’s largest red paperclip in dedication to you and your “one red paperclip project”
8. Most importantly to allow you to complete your quest…We will trade to you a house. The house was built in the 1920’s and has been recently renovated. It is locate at 503 Main Street Kipling, SK Canada. It is approximately 1100 square feet on two floors. There are three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, kitchen, living room and dinning room. It has white vinyl siding, a new roof and eaves troughs that have been put on in the last few years. We will be sending you pictures of the house as soon as we have had time to touch up the paint.
Kyle MacDonald, do you accept our offer of one house in Kipling for one role in Corbin Bernsen’s movie “Donna on Demand”?
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But what was really accomplished?
Online search is not a “solved problem”, a senior executive for net giant Google has told BBC News.
“Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do,” said Douglas Merrill, who looks after internal engineering.
Mr Merrill said Google’s search focus for the future included better search for mobiles, personalised search, language translation, accessing offline information and defeating web spam.
Hopefully as a result of this we will be seeing some better spidering and seeing new sites getting featured a lot quicker. Improved accuracy in google searches will be a great advancement.