Monthly Archives: July 2002

Follow the Leader

Rob Fahrni: I found it interesting that Apple is incorporating ideas from other vendors into OS X (Jaguar). Oh, I’m sorry, it’s called integration. This is what killed Microsoft in court. Integration, or bundling, of features into the OS. It’s … Continue reading

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How Much is OSX Costing You?

El Reg: The kudos Apple won by introducing a generous all-you-can-eat pricing for its server offerings has been lost by gouging its most loyal consumers. If you’ve been working with OS X since the public beta, your bill for the … Continue reading

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Trusting the Stock Market

USS Clueless: When Motorola just racked up losses in the quarter larger than most companies have gross incomes, why is it that it’s had a consistent “buy” rating from the brokers since, well, nearly forever? And why is it that … Continue reading

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Great-looking Outlook 11 Interface

Outlook 11 screenshot (sourced from MS Presspass, so has an air of authenticity to it). Good use of screenspace. Got the link via neowin, I’ll probably be visiting this place more often in future.

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Amazon Search Using Amazon Web Services

How long before this page turns into search.amazon.com?

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Apple Continues to Fleece OSX Customers

$129 for OS X Jag-wire. Hee Hee, this is good. It is now obvious that the relation between Apple and its customers is a strong, healthy, one; based on love, mutual respect and lots of money changing hands . No … Continue reading

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Debunking Atkins

Dean Ornish in the NYTimes: So the diagnosis is correct: we are eating too many simple carbohydrates. But the cure is wrong. The solution is not to go from simple carbohydrates to pork rinds and bacon, but from simple carbohydrates … Continue reading

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Devdas – a Review

Saw Devdas on Sunday. This is probably the seventh or eighth of a long line of adaptations of one of India’s most enduring tragic heroes, and the first ‘musical’ to boot. Bottom line: this doesn’t come close to either the … Continue reading

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Blogger Outage

Blogger seems to be back up, after a long-lasting outage involving a template server. Troubles not over yet, though.

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Interesting AIDS Discovery

BBC: Humans have anti-HIV gene.

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