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Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:12:49 +0000

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By: Jackie Danicki » Out of the dirt

Jackie Danicki » Out of the dirt — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:15:01 +0000

[...] A friend of mine knows an extremely rich woman up in Seattle. She has adopted a little girl from China. She told my friend “this little girl had to be abandoned to win the lottery.” [...]

By: Alexander Scoble

Alexander Scoble — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:12:42 +0000

Actually size of hard drives back then were about 800megs to 1 gig.

Also your memory stats are off by a factor of at least 2 I do believe.

Oh and the big CPU at the time was a 486 133mhz from Intel.

And don’t forget that separate 3d graphics cards were in their infancy…barely existed at all on the consumer front.

Definitely a lot has changed since then.

Heck the original Playstation hadn’t even come out yet (was released in Japan in December of 94).

By: Wreck

Wreck — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:18:42 +0000

In all honesty, I think the smart people will have figured out quantum computing before 13 years are up.

It’s gonna happen soon.

Imagine searching a peta- or exabyte drive in mere nanoseconds for data.

Google will long be dethroned as the Internet leader in 13 years.

Space travel will still be stagnant. I’m looking to the Chinese for interesting space developments.

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:13:35 +0000

Derek: keep working at it. My mom left me some money, and that’s one reason I’ve been able to buy some toys lately.

By: Milan Tracker » Milan Movement

Milan Tracker » Milan Movement — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:06:00 +0000

[...] “A pile of gifts arrived yesterday from lots of my friends (both “real” and “online”). We really appreciate that and we’re going to make a donation in kind to help out kids less fortunate than us.” Robert Scoble [...]