Comment - I was interested in this prediction: "Hollywood will come up with another new copy protection scheme for music and it will be defeated within two months. Even more significant is the fact that 2003 will see a whole new generation of peer-to-peer file sharing software. Remember, Napster required a central server and Gnutella replaces that with a zillion individual PCs, but this next generation will probably be some form of swarm computing -- a distributed network file system that will chop up the music into a hundred pieces each stored on a different participating PC. So when the RIAA confiscates your computer, they won't be able to find anything stored on it resembling music."

Another interesting prediction is that China will eventually be the largest computer maker in the world.

News - Spartan basketball team loses to Purdue, but don't give up hope yet: http://www.detnews.com/2003/msu/0301/15/c08-60635.htm

Comment - This article in The Detroit News quotes ESPN basketball expert Jay Bilas, who says "They've got some pieces to be very good this year and the potential to be great again (in the near future). They're really not far off from being back up to a no-brainer top-five team."

Lots of talented players, but they just can't seem to grab a win lately. Still, if they beat Minnesota on Saturday, they'll be 2-2 in the Big Ten with a tough three-game road trip out of the way. The season is still young. Remember, last year Indiana went all the way to the Final Four. And a couple years ago, North Carolina barely made it into the NCAA tournament and ended up in the Final Four.

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