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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: text stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to tex stuff. My name is Chris Poulette, and

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Speaker 1: I am an editor at how stuff works dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Sitting across from me as always, just as he was

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Speaker 1: a year ago, his senior writer, Jonathan Strickland. You all

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Speaker 1: know me, know how I earn a living. I'll catch

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Speaker 1: this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy.

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Speaker 1: Bad fish now like going down the pond chasing bluegills

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Speaker 1: and Tommy CODs. This shark swally a hole, little shaken,

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Speaker 1: little tenderizing and down you go. Okay, so wow, I

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I think we'll figure that out in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Of course. You know, if you know the source of

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Speaker 1: Jonathan's quotes, please let us know some of you of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: some of you have been very good about that. We

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Speaker 1: got one email that that listed I think thirty nine

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Speaker 1: of the quotes. How much Jonathan loves Tron. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: by the way, that movie I just quoted from not Tron. Alright, Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is our this is our annual. Hey, let's see

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Speaker 1: how well we did last year podcast where we we

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Speaker 1: talked about the predictions we made the year before and uh.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, we should mention that we're recording

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Speaker 1: this podcast at the very beginning of December of two

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Speaker 1: thousand ten, and this is about the predictions we made

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Speaker 1: for two thousand ten. Now, the reason why I say

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Speaker 1: that is because some of these wrong answers may still

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Speaker 1: something happened on December thirty one. Some of them were

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the list here, Polette, the list oh

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Speaker 1: predictions that the two of us made together. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: was the second time we tried this. We tried this

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Speaker 1: Jonathan made a ton more predictions for two thousand ten

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Speaker 1: if you remember how I graded them last year, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna start this up. Because I made a

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Speaker 1: few more predictions than Mr Pillette, We've decided that Mr

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Speaker 1: Pellette will read out some of mine and then we

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Speaker 1: about some of the big stories that neither of us predicted. Yes,

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Speaker 1: let's get started. So you said, yes, that would be

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Speaker 1: saying that you know, well, you were about to head

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Speaker 1: there are other actual set top devices that are doing this.

428
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Speaker 1: I call this a win. Well Netflix, Uh, the Netflix

429
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: CEO just not terribly long time before we recorded this,

430
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: in early December, announced that Netflix is a streaming video

431
00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 1: company and not a DVD mail company anymore. So it's

432
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: definitely the way they're they're headed. Well, I only have

433
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: two more left, so, um, there's one more I have,

434
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: but I think we should save that before right before

435
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: yours then, so let's go with yours. The newspaper attempt

436
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,479
Speaker 1: to get behind a paywall. That was a big thing

437
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: at the end of last year. Um, people talking about

438
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: the possibility of removing themselves from Google. Uh, you know

439
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: for some companies that have newspapers behind the paywall. Now,

440
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: if you access the article through Google instead of going

441
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: directly to the site, you can read the whole article.

442
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: I won't mention any you know, major newspaper names. Rupert

443
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: Murdoch may be involved with them, famous business publications owned

444
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: by Yes, but yeah, I mean there there are situations

445
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: where in which they've said, you know, hey, no free

446
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,719
Speaker 1: ride if you come to our site, no matter how

447
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: you get there, You're gonna have to pay if you

448
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: want to read our content. And um, yeah, at the

449
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: time him, you said that you expected other newspapers and

450
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: blogs would step in if some of them went behind

451
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 1: a paywall, and uh, the big, bigger papers would go

452
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: back to the old business model. Yeah, we haven't seen

453
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: it happen whole sale like that. No, No, I mean

454
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: the Telegraph just announced that it's going to be having

455
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: some sort of not a paywall, but it's going to

456
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: have a paid uh access model of some sort. And

457
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: the details were not available as of the recording of

458
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: this podcast, but they did specifically say it wasn't going

459
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: to be a paywall system. Uh. So there are other

460
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: newspapers that are trying this, but it did not happen

461
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: at the speed at which I imagined. So this one,

462
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: this one's is still just a maybe. Yeah. I I

463
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: just thought have a prediction uh for the Predictions podcast

464
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: based on this, so I'll bring that up when we

465
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: actually do our predictions. But yeah, I kind of expected

466
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: it to happen with a couple of them have been

467
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: rumbling around, but they didn't. Actually it was saying go forward.

468
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: It moves slower than we thought. So alright, so we're

469
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: down to the lab the final two. Right, So here's

470
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: here's Chris Palette's final prediction for which was Jonathan's computer

471
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: will die before people. I want you to listen carefully

472
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 1: to this. All right, hang on, that's me hitting the

473
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: E key and nothing is happening. Still, I still have

474
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: the same computer, and the E key does not work.

475
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: The W key does not work, the A key does

476
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 1: not work, the S key does not work. The tilty

477
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: is still missing in action. I never found the tilty key,

478
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: so I have to actually plug in a supplemental keyboard

479
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: if I want to type anything on this computer. But

480
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,959
Speaker 1: the key the keyboard is although it is not functioning,

481
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: the rest of the computer is well for a given

482
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: definition of functioning. Yes, so it did not let me

483
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: it this way. I don't have a new one, so

484
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: that one is U for all intents and purposes on

485
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: this alright, technically that's a technicality, and I still have

486
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: three weeks. Um that's true. Actually you could if you

487
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: wanted to, maybe maybe it will quote unquote slip off

488
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: my desk before the end of the year, so you

489
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: uh can I can I read the last one for

490
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: you to Jonathan will appear on This Weekend Tech sometime

491
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: in well, so c E. That's in January. Yeah, that

492
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: was like two weeks after we recorded my podcast. So

493
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: we recorded the podcast about two weeks later. I went

494
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: to c and as I was there, I was passing

495
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: by Leo Laporte and he had his This week in

496
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: Tech live coverage of c e S table up and running,

497
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: and his producer saw me and waived me on and

498
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: got me on This week in Text live coverage. Now,

499
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: technically that was not an episode of This Weekend Tech.

500
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: It was, however, on the This Weekend Tech network and

501
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: I was live, so I thought in January, I'm like, oh,

502
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: I'm just going to call us a win. I still

503
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: haven't been technically on the show This Week in Tech, however,

504
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: I have appeared several times on Tech News Today, which

505
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: is one of the shows on This Weekend Tech hosted

506
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: by Tom Merritt. So yeah, and I'd like to point

507
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: out that you have a very nifty cap on. I'm

508
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: also wearing a This Weekend Tech baseball cap right now.

509
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,479
Speaker 1: I totally wasn't thinking about that, but yes, I am

510
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: wearing a baseball cap with the Twit logo on it.

511
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: And that's because I got that at CS and not

512
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: because he is a Twit. No, that that's unrelated but

513
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: also true. So, yes, you wanted to mention a few

514
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: of the stories before we wrap it up, on things

515
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: that we didn't hit here. So I I see some

516
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: of those stories that you listed that interrupt him? Sorry, no,

517
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: go ahead, Uh, but you know some of these things

518
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: I think the listeners will agree we we wouldn't necessarily

519
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: have hit anyone they were they were not Yeah, they

520
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: were not on the radar. Yeah yeah there, and and

521
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: they're probably. I'm sure there's some big ones I didn't.

522
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: I did this off the top of my head, so

523
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: I was mostly thinking of the stories that were recent.

524
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were stories that happened throughout the year

525
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: that anyway. We did not predict Google TV. No, we didn't.

526
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: We didn't predict Google Buzz nor the massive fallout that

527
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: immediately followed the launch of Google Buzz, because if you

528
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: don't remember, some people, probably a lot of people aren't

529
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: using Google Buzz at all anymore. I do. I still

530
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: use it, and there's there's been a legal settlement involving

531
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: that too, right, but Google Buzz, if you don't remember,

532
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: there were a lot of there was a big outcry

533
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: about privacy issues where you could see people who were

534
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: context of the people you knew and um, and there

535
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: were a lot of other issues around it. So we

536
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: didn't predict that at all, Nor did we predict the

537
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: other big Google story of about the driverless car program.

538
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. Yeah, for a while there it

539
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: looked like Google is going to be in the news

540
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: every week. Actually, for a while there, Google was in

541
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: the news every week. Uh, I meant for the rest

542
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: of our lives. I wouldn't be surprised if that still

543
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: holds true. You mentioned Facebook the exactly where all of

544
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: your messages are going to go through a kind of

545
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: central funnel on Facebook, So it's kind of like email messaging,

546
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: instant messaging. All that the notes and all that kind

547
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: of stuff all kind of goes through one I don't

548
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: have access to that yet. But we didn't predict that.

549
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: We didn't think that. We didn't think about Facebook having

550
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: a what some people had been calling a Gmail killer,

551
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: and even Facebook has said since then that that's not

552
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: what this is intended to be. UM did not predict

553
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: my spaces redesign, despite the fact that I think they

554
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: had announced it sometime in two thousand nine. Where do

555
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: we predict that they would be partnering with Facebook? I

556
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: think I think maybe gone out of business or something else.

557
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: I think we mostly didn't think about my Space at all.

558
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: We did not We didn't think that Windows Phone seven

559
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: was going to be uh well, we didn't predict that

560
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: Windows Phones seven was really gonna look as awesome as

561
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: it does. You know, Um, I actually got to play

562
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: with Windows Phone seven recently, and uh and I was

563
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: really impressed with the operating system. I thought for a

564
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: while I was skeptical that Windows could I know, crazy

565
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: huh A skeptical that Windows could jump back into the

566
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: smartphone wars, because I thought that Android and Apple really

567
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: had that sewn up. But Windows fun seven does look

568
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: like it's a legitimate contender. I mean it, it's slick,

569
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: it does what it's supposed to do, at least the

570
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: limited amount of time I've had with it, it did. Um,

571
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: so I would not be surprised to see that actually

572
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: take off, especially if if Windows partners with some really

573
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: good handset manufacturers. Uh. We did not predict the iPhone

574
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: for the massive redesign of the iPhone. I mean, we

575
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: didn't predict that. We didn't predict FaceTime. We did not

576
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: predict and ten I gait. There was no way we

577
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: can know that we were holding it wrong. I'm left handed,

578
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: by the way. So anyway, UM, we did not predict

579
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: the whole this was Yeah, this is the story that

580
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: one of the stories that drove me crazy in Gizmodo

581
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: and leaking the iPhone four story months before it actually launched,

582
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: and not just the leak, but the whole stolen slash

583
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: missing iPhone for debacle, finding it quote unquote on a

584
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: bar stool and or stealing it depending on who you ask,

585
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: and then selling it essentially to Gizmoto and then Gizmodo

586
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: running the story. Did not predict that. UM didn't predict

587
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: the Microsoft Kid going on sale, then not being on sale,

588
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: then being on sale again. We didn't predict the Danger debacle. Either,

589
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, that's something that came up earlier, the

590
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: Danger servers, and I would not have I would not

591
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: have imagined that after Microsoft acquired Danger. I mean that

592
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: the kin as kin to uh, the T mobile sidekick, um,

593
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: and I would not have expected that to have gone

594
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: away the way it did. But and I also have here,

595
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: we did not predict this one's. This one's the juicy

596
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: story of the bunch. We did not predict HP CEO

597
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: Mark Heard having to resign from HP due to a scandal, which,

598
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: depending again upon whom you ask, either was about inappropriate

599
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: relationships or just mismanagement of money or or unreported expenses.

600
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: I guess it's the nice way of putting it. Uh.

601
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: Nor did we predict that that he would then just

602
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: turn around and become a co president over at Oracle. Yeah,

603
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: that was actually a pretty scandalous story all around, because,

604
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: I mean HP and Oracle. You're talking about two major companies,

605
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: and you're talking about a man who presumably has quite

606
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: a bit of knowledge about one company's I p going

607
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: to work for a competitor, Yes, in a very prominent position, Yes,

608
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: as a prominent as it gets as it turns out. Yeah, yeah,

609
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: that's a little freaky. Yeah, we also didn't know I

610
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: think about it, predict the wiki leaks. That's something that

611
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, has become very and it's still unfolding as

612
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: we record this podcast. They've been undergoing denial of service attacks.

613
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: They switched over to the Amazon Cloud system, and now

614
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: I've just heard before we win in that Amazon has

615
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: pulled that. Yes, they are no longer on Amazon. Yeah,

616
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, maybe we don't want to

617
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: have the target of all these d d o S attacks. Yeah, no,

618
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: we didn't predict that at all. Um. Yeah, there's and

619
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 1: what we didn't predict could go into another eight episodes.

620
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: So let's wrap this up because I think we've gone

621
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: way too long for this one. Yeah, it's it just

622
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: goes to show you how mercurial I hate that word mercurial.

623
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: The tech world is. Things changed so frequently, and you know,

624
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: we take our our best shots, but we don't always. Yeah.

625
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: I can't wait for us to record the predictions for eleven.

626
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: We're not doing that during this particular record wording sessions. Yeah. Yeah,

627
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: they should be fun though. All right, So if you

628
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: guys have any predictions for eleven, that you think are

629
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: absolutely positively going to come true. Email me and that

630
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: way I can get the advantage over Poulette, or you

631
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: can post to our Facebook or Twitter accounts they handle

632
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: There is tech Stuff H s W. Our email address

633
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: is tech stuff at how stuff works dot com and

634
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,399
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00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: really soon. For more on this and thousands of other topics.

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