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Labor Party wins Australian election
People such as myself who have not voted for Labor for 32 years are delighted with the people's choice and did what we could to assist where possible. No Party should ever assume it owns one's vote. Advance Australia Fair. John J Hay Founder of Australian Federation of Employers 1986 Former National Chairman of The Australian Free Enterprise Foundation 1986 - 1989 .
MIT, Quanta work on computer with no hardware
A REPORT claimed the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and giant notebook manufacturer Quanta are working on a "virtual computer " that doesn't need hardware. Eh? According to the Taiwan Economic News, Quanta chairman Benny Lam reckons a virtual computer only needs a keyboard and a TV. The report has Lam saying that everyone will be wirelessly connected to servers somewhere else using their home system. How this can possibly be good news for Quanta, which makes its money building notebooks for multinational companies which then stick their own brand name on them totally escapes us. Oracle's Larry Ellison, at a press conference in Amsterdam 10 years ago, nearly bit the head off of a British hack when he suggested that the idea of keeping data on a remote server was dangerous.
iPod nano, classic 1.0.3 updates add video OSD, settings
Apple's most recent software update for the iPod nano and iPod classic, version 1.0.3, has surreptitiously added additional features to the devices' TV out functionality. Once the software has been installed, the four-option Video Settings menu becomes a five-option list, with prior option Fullscreen On/Off being replaced by TV Screen Standard/Widescreen and Fit to Screen On/Off. The new features are intended to help the iPods output TV-ready video that is properly formatted for the type of display that's connected, however, your results may vary depending on your TV and its settings. Once the video is playing, version 1.0.3 restores a feature found in fifth-generation iPods but heretofore not in the iPod classic and iPod nano: an on-screen display (OSD) of your current location in the movie's timeline, along with a pause indicator.
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