Golden State signed 7-foot-1-inch center Deji Akindele of Chicago State.

Never heard of him.

ChicagoSports.com - Pargo accepts Bulls deal: "- Golden State signed 7-foot-1-inch center Deji Akindele of Chicago State. Last season as a sophomore he averaged 12.0 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.5 blocks and was Mid-Continent Conference defensive player of the year."

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Remember, MS think's Sony's Blu-Ray DVD format has technical problems so they will not support Sony's DVD format.

Sony being a MS XBOX competitor and the XBOX costing MS 4 Billion in losses is irrelevant.

Gaming | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Forbes says that the Xbox division has lost $4 billion since 2001. Four. Billion. Dollars."

Blu-Ray and FUD

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News: "'Our decision is based mainly on where the formats are today,' Ribas said, referring to Microsoft. 'A year and a half ago, both format organizations had very similar goals, and to some extent, the story of Blu-ray was actually very powerful. It had higher capacity, it had what we would consider benefits at the time. But then as time went on, and we'd seen what's the reality of both formats today, and what were promises versus what's proven and what's real, that's when we decided to make the decision.'

Blu-ray failed the Intel/Microsoft test in six critical areas, Ribas told us, referring to a document listing those areas that a Microsoft spokesperson provided to Tom's Hardware Guide: "

Forget the B.S. and F.U.D.

MS and Sony are at war over the next generation game console. Both consoles use PPC chips.

Sony backs Blu-Ray and is pushing a their PPC derived processor as an alternative CPU to Intel's IA64 processors.

The problems MS and Intel have with Blu-ray are political.