Interesting Links for 21-07-2013

• Eulogy by a physicist
  (tags: viaTheWeaselKing physics death )
• 'Game of Thrones' Opened Its Comic-Con Panel With Boyz II Men and a memorial to all of their dead.
  (tags: gameofthrones )
• ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (A _very_ odd adventure game)
  (tags: game weird viaCharlesStross )
• Anyone left out there who still believes eggs are linked to high cholesterol?
  (tags: eggs health )
• How Neil Gaiman copes with procrastination
  (tags: NeilGaiman procrastination )
• The Landfill Harmonic Orchestra - Making musical instruments from what they find on the landfill site they live on.
  (tags: music recycling )
• Tom Hiddleston has far too much fun at Comic Con
  (tags: marvel conventions comics )
• Hugh Jackman amuses himself at Comic Con
  (tags: cosplay convention comics )
• 50 Amazing Photos From Cat Heaven Island In Japan
  (tags: cats )

The changing face of computers

You can understand why Microsoft wouldn't be happy about this:


And I'm in intrigued to see where it is in five more years time - whether we end up with another monopoly, or constant competition, or if nearly everything runs over the web, so we don't really care what OS is running underneath the browser.

It's interesting to compare that graph with this one:


Which makes it clear that we're still shipping 50% more desktops than there were in 2004 - it's just that we're also shipping vast numbers of tablet/pocket computers too. I wonder when the first Android desktops will start to appear...

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