Focus groups in San Francisco were recently part of a Microsoft experiment. With all of the hate for Windows Vista, what if people used Vista but didn’t know it was Vista…would they still hate it?

The answer? No.

Participants of the focus groups were all Windows XP users and they were told that they would be testing out a new operating system called “Mojave”. More than 90 percent of the participants gave positive feedback on their experience with “Mojave”, with one user exclaiming “oh wow” while using it.

When each of the groups were finished they were told that they had been using Windows Vista all along, to which they replied “Vista sucks”. No, not really. =)

Something this illustrates is the public perception problem Vista has and while Microsoft has an uphill climb to change that perception, at least this research shows that it’s possible.

As hard as it was for many to believe, that’s what they claimed and now they’ve released a video to prove it.

Keep in mind that the Mojave lovers in the video aren’t your typical geek, some with years of Windows hate lodged firmly in their mind. They’re normal computer users that hated Vista because everyone else did.

Pretty interesting. To see the video for yourself check it out at Mojave Experiment.

Everybody listen all over the world
I got a story 'bout my favorite girl (Wait a minute)

Oh, my baby sexy for sure
I had to have him when he walked through the door (Wait a minute)

She was 'bout to drive me insane
She come with drama while I'm giving her chains (Wait a minute)

I'm focused but I'm losing control
He only wants me for my body and soul (Wait a minute)

Girl, why you do me like that?
You take all my money
Can't even call a player back (Wait a minute)
Boy, why you tripping like that?
You think 'cause you tricking you get it just like that? (Wait a minute)

Minding my business, I was doing my dance
Got my attention, so I gave him a chance (Wait a minute)
Did I mention he was buying a bar?
Gave him my number, he was trying so hard (Wait a minute)
Bought me some things I didn't want, didn't need
Dropped down his jeans like I'm supposed to drop to my knees (Wait a minute)
He been blowing up my phone like he know me
Been leaving messages "You know what you owe me" (Wait a minute)

Girl, why you do me like that?
You take all my money
Can't even call a player back (Wait a minute)
Boy, why you tripping like that?
You think 'cause you tricking you get it just like that? (Wait a minute)
Girl, why you do me like that?
You take all my money
Can't even call a player back (Wait a minute)
Boy, why you tripping like that?
You think 'cause you tricking you get it just like that? (Wait a minute)

What is your problem daddy?
Slow your roll
Who you think you jiving?
You're disturbing my flow (Wait a minute)
Why you be bugging?
Like I'm some kind of hoe
Got no more questions now I want you to go
So break (Break)

Hey, let me talk to you for a minute
Shut up...shut up

I love the way you strut
Girl, you already know
But, I'm feeling like you don't want me
You just after my dough

Baby, please, I'm fine
I'm not one of these hoes
Chasing dreams not diamond rings
So don't call me no more
(Wait a minute)

Girl, why you do me like that?
You take all my money
Can't even call a player back (Wait a minute)
Boy, why you tripping like that?
You think 'cause you tricking you get it just like that? (Wait a minute)
Girl, why you do me like that?
You take all my money
Can't even call a player back (Wait a minute)
Boy, why you tripping like that?
You think 'cause you tricking you get it just like that? (Wait a minute)

See, I don't want your money
Yeah, I seen you rolling up here
In your cadillac
But, I don't need all that
It is a nice color though
(Wait a minute)

What they call you, Mr. Tin man or something?
See, I don't want your cars
I don't want your jewelry
You can't buy this
So you can keep that
Wait a minute...
Uh yeah, you can give me that back

Zimbabwe’s troubled business leaders recently summoned Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Paul Mangwana to seek clarification over renewed government threats to seize foreign-owned enterprises.

Informed sources told this reporter that representatives of the country’s bruised business community on Monday sought Mangwana and his permanent secretary Ozias Hove’s explanations following reports that President Robert Mugabe’s administration had compiled a list of close to 500 foreign owned companies targeted for a hostile takeover.

The sources said the meeting took place at the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) offices in the capital city. Mangwana and Hove reportedly reassured the business leaders that any takeover of companies would be carried out in an orderly manner.

CZI President Callisto Jokonya confirmed the meeting took place.

“We were seeking clarification and Mangwana told us that in no uncertain terms that the implementation of the takeover will be done professionally. As CZI we are not opposed to indigenisation,” Jokonya said.

Zimbabwe’s Parliament recently passed a controversial law which compels all foreign owned enterprises operating in the country to surrender more than half their shares to local citizens in a programme aimed at empowering the country’s marginalised citizens.

President Mugabe recently renewed threats to seize the foreign owned companies, particularly British owned ones after London refused to recognise his victory in last month’s single candidate presidential election which he won after Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out citing political violence against his sympathisers.

Meanwhile, the business leaders hailed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Mugabe, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, the leader of a breakaway faction of the MDC. They said such negotiations would help end the country’s agonising economic crisis.

“This is indeed a historic event which should augur well for our nation and everyone who has the best interests of Zimbabwe at heart applauds this calibre of statesmanship,” said Jokonya.

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - A modern-day love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the Internet has failed to have a fairytale ending with the relationship over.

For Web designer Patrick Moberg, then 21, from Brooklyn, it was love at first sight when he spotted a woman on a Manhattan train last November. But he lost her in the crowd so he set up a website with a sketch to find her — www.nygirlofmydreams.com.

Unbelievably in a city of 8 million people, it only took Moberg 48 hours to track down the woman, with his phone ringing non-stop and email box overflowing as usually cynical New Yorkers took sympathy on the subway Romeo and joined his hunt.

The mysterious brunette was named as Camille Hayton, from Melbourne, Australia, who was working as an intern at the magazine BlackBook and also lived in Brooklyn. One of her friends spotted the sketched picture on the Web site and recognized her.

But after finding each other, appearing on TV and getting international press, the couple took their romance out of the public eye, with Moberg closing down the Web site and with both refusing to making any more comments — until now.

Hayton told Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph that she dated Moberg for about two months but it just didn’t work out.

“I say we dated for a while but now we’re just friends,” Hayton, now 23, told the newspaper. “It’s really nice that people embraced the story. It is part of my life now.”

Hayton said she is still recognized about three times a week on the streets of Manhattan as “that girl”‘ and the question is always the same: “So what happened?”

“I think the situation was so intense that it bonded us,” she said, adding it “bonded us in a way that you could mistake, I guess, for being more romantic than it was. I don’t know. But I wanted to give it a go so I didn’t wonder what if, what if?”

Hayton told The Sunday Telegraph that she is enjoying single life in New York, keeping busy with acting classes, working in two vintage clothing stores and as a waitress.

Last week she had a small role as a waitress in the long-running daytime soap “As The World Turns” and last year she was an extra in a “blink and you’d miss it” scene in the hit movie “Sex And The City.”

“I just can’t believe it happened. It feels like a long time ago,” said Hayton.

Moberg, however, was still refusing to comment on the relationship.

“We’ve decided not to do any more press,” he wrote in an e-mail to Reuters.

Thanks to: Plonc

THREE RIVERS, Mich. - Police in Michigan have arrested a man who they say tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker.

Detective Mike Mohney said Monday 20-year-old Spencer Taylor of Three Rivers has been booked for investigation of larceny and malicious destruction of property.

Taylor is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 5 in St. Joseph County District Court.

There is no telephone listing under his name in the Three Rivers area.

Mohney says officers who were dispatched early Sunday to the theater arrived to find employees restraining a man wearing a purple suit, a green wig and face paint in the style of Batman’s nemesis in “The Dark Knight.”

Thanks to: Plonc

Wikipedia, the online “free encyclopedia” written and edited by its users, now includes dozens of detailed suicide methods with descriptions of ways in which people can mutilate or kill themselves.

The following are among such techniques described in vivid detail: beheading, cutting oneself, drowning, suffocation, electrocution, use of explosives, hanging, vehicular impact, jumping from bridges and towers, drug abuse, inhaling and ingesting poisons, suicide by fire, stabbing, shooting, starvation and suicide attack.

When WND contacted a representative of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, she said, “A site detailing the different methods someone could use to kill themselves could definitely be harmful to the public.”

However, Jay Walsh, head of communications for the Wikimedia Foundation, said the organization does not take responsibility for editing the content of its pages.

“The Wikimedia Foundation operates the software and maintains the servers that power Wikipedia; however the entire Wikipedia project is maintained exclusively by volunteers,” he told WND. “No paid staff make edits to content, rather members of the volunteer community will add or remove information at their discretion and within the auspices of the editorial pillars of Wikipedia, which generally include: noncensorship, neutral point of view, no original research and, to a similar extent, addressing the question of ‘notability.’”

Thanks to: Plonc

We Are Scientists’ new video for third single “Impatience” is now up.

If you are familiar with We Are Scientists’ excellent news archives, Keith’s first glance at Chris’s ear should be sufficient foreshadowing for what is about to occur in the video. Although that kills the “big surprise”, I was undaunted by being given what I expected and watched more until I found myself chuckling at Keith pulling out his shoe to beat the shit out of Chris; then of course, Chris’s antics properly pulled me to feelings of endearment when his charade-winning gestures cried:

“yo d00d I’m not gonna shred ur hair apart lez take pixx cause liek, this only happens once a month”

Adam and Max busting in as police officers (Keith merely had to send a telekinetic message fraught with emotional strife for them to take action) put the cheese on the cornball. It’s not my favorite video (still a big fan of Inaction), but I am glad to know that Keith and Chris are making their dreams come true with making parody b-movie themed music videos.

Thanks to: Plonc

Suburban Legends - Let’s Be Friends… And Slay The Dragon Together!



Artist……………: Suburban Legends
Album…………….: Let’s Be Friends… And Slay The Dragon Together!
Genre…………….: Ska Punk
Source……………: CD
Year……………..: 2008
Ripper……………: Easy CD-DA Extractor 11 & NEC ND-2510A
Codec…………….: LAME 3.97
Version…………..: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality…………..: VBR, (avg. bitrate: 268kbps)
Channels………….: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags……………..: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information……….: http://www.suburbanlegends.com/

Ripped by…………: BangDon on 29/7/2008
Posted by…………: BangDon on 29/7/2008
News Server……….: -
News Group(s)……..: -

Included………….: NFO, SFV, M3U
Covers……………: Front

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Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:26) - (VBR 283 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Let’s Be Friends
2. (00:03:23) - (VBR 274 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Girls Got What I Want
3. (00:03:08) - (VBR 263 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Together
4. (00:03:52) - (VBR 275 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Polyester
5. (00:03:41) - (VBR 285 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Fire
6. (00:03:37) - (VBR 274 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Favorite Face
7. (00:03:26) - (VBR 271 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Unbelievable
8. (00:04:12) - (VBR 279 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Getting Down To Business
9. (00:03:25) - (VBR 284 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Villain
10.(00:03:44) - (VBR 266 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Took My Breath Away
11.(00:04:12) - (VBR 282 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Lucy
12.(00:06:26) - (VBR 185 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Don’t Wanna Wait
13.(00:03:26) - (VBR 269 kbit/s) Suburban Legends - Natasha

Playing Time………: 00:50:01
Total Size………..: 94.49 MB

NFO generated on…..: 29/7/2008 20:06:28

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Thanks to: Plonc