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Intervention! Microsoft falls off the wagon
by Ryan Carter Aug 2nd 2006 at 12:05PM
Microsoft announced a mere ten days ago (as of this writing) that they had changed. The "12 tenets" they developed to promote competition, including such virtues as: "defaults", "installation of any software", "business terms", and more were the bedrock of a fresh start for Microsoft. Apparently Microsoft has fallen off its own wagon. Whoa! DIdn't see that coming. Just days into software sobriety, Microsoft has already violated its own imposed standards. Things like shunning Firefox users with its new homepage preview, and kernel patches Vista, to prevent a non-Microsoft programmer from modifying the kernel. This article from InformationWeek illustrates Microsoft's binge further. All of us downloaders need to help Microsoft with this problem, call our congressmen or something. Yeah, that would do it.[Via InformationWeek.com]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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