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prostoalex writes "Apparently an Israeli company figured out the way to put a 376x296 digital camera into cell phones for less than $15." We've done previous stories about a PDA/phone with included camera, but this could be integrated into a regular phone so that your conversation partner could get a nice real-time view of your ear.
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It is official; Sports Illustrated confirms: Soccer is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Soccer community when FIFA confirmed that the Soccer demographic has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all sport fans. Coming on the heels of a recent Sports Illustrated survey which plainly states that Soccer has lost more fans, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Soccer is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sport's Choice Awards.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Soccer's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Soccer faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Soccer because Soccer is dying. Things are looking very bad for Soccer. As many of us are already aware, Soccer continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Premier League is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core players. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Soccer players Diego Maradona and Bernard Lama only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Soccer is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
UEFA leader Lennart Johansson, states that there are 7000 fans of UEFA. How many users of Premier League are there? Let's see. The number of UEFA versus Premier League posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Premier League fans. Australian Soccer posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Premier League posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of Australian Soccer. A recent article put World Cup at about 80 percent of Soccer competitions. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 World Cup fans. This is consistent with the number of World Cup Usenet posts.
All major surveys show that Soccer has steadily lost fans. Soccer is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Soccer is to survive at all it will be among sport hobbyists and historical recreationists. Soccer continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Soccer is dead.
Fact: Soccer is dying
As opposed to our noses.
Until these two countries can figure out how to live together without pissing each other off.
What pisses off Isreal: Suicide Bombers
What pisses off Palestine: Land grabs/occupation
We should not be supporting the racist state
of Israel. They must give the Palestinians
their rights and join the civilized world.
Until then, ask every supporter of Israel;
do they support the idea that there should be
all rights for every person. If not, why not?