“Robin Cooper & family v The Telemarketer”

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For those that like British humor (or should that be “humour”?), here‘s a wonderful example of it.

This guy does voices very well. You can usually tell when it’s some guy trying to sound like a woman, for instance, but listening to it, I can easily believe that all of the people are who they say they are.

Of course, he can hardly hold a candle to my father-in-law. The last time someone called from the cable company, trying to get him to buy more channels, he played senile and tried to sell the guy his TV. Kept at it until the guy gave up and hung up on him, if I remember correctly. I wish I had a recording of that one!

Poor telemarketers. 😉

“Microsoft mulling 128-bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 9”

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Let me get this straight… 32-bit computers have lasted nearly twenty years, if memory serves me (I got my first 80386 motherboard in late 1991). In the last year or so, Microsoft has managed to get 64-bit Windows adopted, giving us access to 16 exabytes of RAM (“approximately 17.2 billion gigabytes,” according to this Wikipedia article) — a literally astronomical number, far larger than the largest hard drives today or in the foreseeable future, let alone RAM size. And they’re already planning a 128-bit OS for two or three years from now?! In the name of all that’s holy, why?!

(One possibility… they might be aiming for a toe-hold on the ridiculously-huge lawsuit crowd. 😉 )

“Microsoft offers stickers to boost Windows 7 64-bit take-up”

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This should help boost the mainstream take-up of 64-bit computers. With multi-gigabyte memory sizes starting to feel a bit cramped, it’s rather important… 32-bit systems can’t address more than 4GB of memory, or even use all of that — my dearly-departed Dell was limited to 3.3GB of the 4GB I had installed in it, and it was better than most in that respect. The MacBook Pro that I’m writing this entry on has 4GB too, but since it’s a 64-bit system, it can actually use all of it. I plan to put in another 4GB eventually too; the hardware and OS will accept it, and with VMware Fusion I can put it to good use.

64-bit computers should be sufficient for quite a while. I hesitate to claim that they’ll be good for the rest of my natural lifetime, because I’m sure I’d be proven wrong, but it certainly looks that way right now.