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Don’t agree with all the end of year best and worst and most important and least important and on and on lists that clog the Interwebitubes and magazines this time of year?
Now’s your chance to voice your opinion on the most important story of the ending year. War, campaigning, MS Vista, Britney… Or something that wasn’t covered enough. You decide and tell us why. |
2007 was the year of the Linux desktop, or maybe that will be 2008, 2009, 2010, or is it 2011?
I almost forgot.
2007 will be the year where you can call a middleaged Republican a big homo and chances are that you are right.
Benazir Bhutto, partly because so many of the other stories of the year make up the context.
The biggest non-story is how little movement has been made in the face of atmospheric changes. The second biggest non-story is the U.S. Presidential elections.
The peaceful Chinese peoples met a quota.
Ron Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Depends on what news the site considers important I guess, which is confusing at the best of times.
I’d say:
Housing Bubble continues to burst.
Dollar falls drastically.
No candidate has any serious, interesting new direction.
Venezuelans actually are smart and rejected Chavez’s attempt at unrestricted power.
Iran is attempting to assert itself in the power vacuum that Iraq left; without its theocracy it could have taken over the gulf.
Russians are not certain where they want to go with their democracy… meaning they probably will lose it.
The Democratic congress has been shown to be far more whimpy than expected — even with two high profile presidential front runners.
China’s government is slowly thawing to scrutiny from within and without.
India is making strides to become a technology power, yet still has millions of poor and hungry in the lower castes and significant infrastructure problems.
Technology:
Vista has failed as an upgrade, it pretty much is only being installed on new computers (and deinstalled when possible).
Apple i-crap is making far more inroads, turning them into more of an electronics maker than a computer maker.
The One-laptop initiative is actually running and doing its mission statement.
Moore’s law looks to be continuing for at least another 5-10 years.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray are fighting a duel to the death, including giving away content and glaring at each other threateningly in dark doorways.
Oracle absorbed Peoplesoft without any problems, and is now hitting its stride profit-wise (and still buying.)
Google seems to be building a conglomerate.
Microsoft really doesn’t know what to do with its 40 billion dollars in cash. No clue. Not a one. Too bad they won’t just buy up a linux vendor or eight.
Yeah, no news at all. Boring year.
The biggest story is the Lying Ventriloquist’s Dummy we have for a President.
China poisoned America and nobody cared.
#28,
And Fox news told us that said poisoning was good for the economy;)
Not very widely reported, but a small tech company (Nanosolar) has created a new type of solar panel that generates electricity at $0.30/watt. Coal’s cost is $1.00/watt, so this new development undercuts coal by a wide margin. Further, the new process can create the lightweight, flexible sheets in any size.
Now, perhaps we can really move forward to a sustainable energy future, rather than clutch at absurd straws, like growing food just to burn it.
For the US political scene
Biggest story: Democrats take congress
Biggest disappointment: Democrats take congress
Biggest story: Vista ships
Biggest disappointment: Vista ships
Not that I’m comparing the Democrats to Microsoft or anything….
Or there is THIS
LOL
#28,
1984 – U.S. poisoned India. Same response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_Disaster