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...at a decent frame rate?

The Earth Simulator may look sexy (if you're in to that kind of thing) and have 10 TB of memory and all that, but even that would be insufficient for Sims 2 to play properly. Erm, so I imagine...

Anyone know what it plays like on this new thing?

press release and pics

It's something to do with magic and/or capacitance sensors, apparently.

Before the reprice each employee was going to make an average of $2.8m.

I thought i'd read somewhere the options were going to vest much quicker than usual. I could be wrong on that point though.

iTunes Music Store Europe has launched. Cheaper than I thought. Less tracks than they would have liked. Some nice exclusives though.

But oD2 and the others are going to be running scared for a while. There should be some good offers on for European legal downloaders over the coming few weeks/months.

/. being owned by VA makes it part of the corporate Internet, no? Quick ma, run for the hills!

Jon, I don't think you should be suprised there's still cool, small(ish?)-scale, independent stuff happening on the web. Such as (here comes the inevitable plug!) my recently launched newsfilter.co.uk. Erm, I guess someone other than me should decide if it's cool, but, whatever...

There will always be small, independent stuff springing up - I have no doubts about that. Some of it will grow into something bigger, and become part of the "evil" corporate world. Some will tick over at a smaller scale hobby level. Others will fade away. It's all good stuff.

And it will continue to happen, whether or not Steve and Bill end up owning the 'net. That much should not be suprising.

...j

The dotcom I used to work for (redundancy - bah!) used to use a specialised office food delivery service - I imagine it was expensive.

Then we moved to Tesco's delivery service. I think delivery used to be free for orders of £50 or more, but even if they were charging £5, it would have been well worth it to get supermarket prices and to have a beefy guy drag all the juice, bottle water and snack treats up the stairs.

I can't immediately find a link, by it's regularly reported that Tesco's online home shopping is the largest web grocer in the world, in terms of turnover.

I've registered for their shopping service, but as my local Tesco is only a few blocks away, it's easier for me to pop down a couple of times a week. They occasionally send me "wish you were here" postcards.

I have amazing brand loyalty to Tesco, which is a bit weird considering they're just a supermarket. I've bought a fair selection of financial products through them.

Oh, and it probably doesn't hurt that they've just listed my site on their ISPs website, next to other sites with budgets ever so slightly larger than mine. :)

Whaddya know? I've recently started newsfilter.co.uk for vaguely the same purposes - deals with .ukian issues, obviously enough.