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    Really they had game play mastered with Sega Hockey.

    You brought back some childhood memories! That game was great back in the day. Especially when the player would get injured and his head would split open and blood would be all over the ice. ;)

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    Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive "like wolves," according to documents filed Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.

     

    The allegations, filed in a Washington state court, represent the latest salvos in a showdown triggered by Google's July hiring of former Microsoft executive Kai Fu-Lee to oversee a research and development center that Google plans to open in China. Lee started at Google the day after he resigned from Microsoft.

     

    The tug-of-war over Lee â known for his work on computer recognition of language â has exposed the behind-the-scenes animosity that has been brewing between two of high-tech's best-known companies.

     

    Ballmer's threat last November was recounted in a sworn declaration by a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, who said he met with Microsoft's chief executive 10 months ago to discuss his decision to leave the company after six years.

     

    After learning Lucovsky was leaving to take a job at Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, according to the declaration.

     

    Ballmer then pejoratively berated Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lucovsky recalled.

     

    "I'm going to f------ bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again," the declaration quotes Ballmer. "I'm going to f------ kill Google."


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    Hopefully they don't "kill" Google because its probably the leading search engine out there.

     

    -----You MUST put in a quote tag when you post quotes. That is why the quote button is there, if you haven't figured it out.-----szupie

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    Another Storm Possible in Hard-Hit Region

     

    Katrina may seem like the last word in hurricanes, but there is a very real possibility that another major hurricane may hit New Orleans or some other portion of the 200-mile coastline devastated by Katrina in the weeks to come.

     

    "We're not out of the woods yet," said Susan Cutter, director of the University of South Carolina Hazards Research Laboratory. "We're not even in the height of hurricane season."

     

    A forecast released Friday by meteorologists at Colorado State University calls for six more hurricanes by the time the hurricane season ends on Nov. 30, three of them Category 3 or above. On average, about one major hurricane in three makes landfall in the United States.

     

    "We expect that by the time the 2005 hurricane season is over, we will witness tropical cyclone activity at near record levels," the Colorado State meteorologists wrote.

     

    So far there have been four hurricanes this year â Katrina, Irene, Emily and Dennis, a Category 3 storm that caused more than $1 billion in damage to the Florida panhandle in July. There have been nine tropical storms.

     

    That puts this season's tropical cyclone activity to date above the average for an entire year, the Colorado State forecast noted. In a more normal year, Mother Nature has produced about a third of her annual allotment of hurricanes and tropical storms by this point in the season.

     

    No major storms currently threaten the U.S. coastline. The latest report from the

    National Weather Service mentions only Tropical Storm Maria.

     

    "Maria could be near hurricane strength by Sunday," said Jack Beven, a meteorologist at the

    National Hurricane Center in Miami.

     

    The storm is not currently expected to reach the U.S. mainland.

     

    The number and intensity of hurricanes is largely determined by water temperatures at the sea surface. This year the waters of the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico are about as warm as they ever get.

     

    If a major hurricane were to make landfall somewhere on the U.S. coast in the next two months, with the situation in Louisiana and Mississippi still demanding such a large portion of the nation's emergency management resources, mounting another relief effort would certainly be more difficult than usual. But as Florida demonstrated when four hurricanes passed through the state in seven weeks last year, repeated storms are not necessarily unmanageable.


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    -----Added quote tags in the post. Please do not make posts 100% not by you in the future-----szupie

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