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Dismal Apple Forecasts Are Wrong
Nutrimentia writes "Tom Yager has a new column at Infoworld disputing poor analytic forecasts of Apple's future, especially based on criticism of Apple's lack of innovation (which seems to me to be pretty easy to refute, but whatever). It's a balanced article that looks at what Apple is doing right and wrong, and he offers some good reasons to pay attention to Apple even if you aren't a Mac fan, namely that the company's approaches to the market help understand many broader trends in effect."
suck it!
First it was Petreley on Linux marketshare, then it is Yager on why to take Apple seriously. Infoworld should let CmdrTaco or Hemos do a guest column, assuming they've got enough editorial power to overcome all those typos. :)
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A: We'll soon find out!
Steve Jobs
I just heard that Larry Wall has requested slashdot be rewritten in anything other than perl.
President Bush planned to address the nation Monday night to give Saddam Hussein a final ultimatum. "He will say that to avoid military conflict Saddam Hussein must leave the country," spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
The White House scheduled the address after U.S. and British diplomats announced at the United Nations that there would not be a vote on their resolution to give Saddam an ultimatum or face war. On Sunday, the president and his allies from Britain and Spain announced that they would give the U.N. one day to resolve the diplomatic dispute.
"The diplomatic window has closed as a result of the U.N.'s failure to enforce its own resolutions for Saddam to disarm," Fleischer said.
He declined to say whether Saddam would be given a deadline. "I will not get into any discussions about when military hostilities may or may not begin," he said.
BOSTON (AP) - Presidential hopeful John Kerry poked fun at his disputed heritage in a surprise appearance at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast.
... Except John Kerry," joked state Sen. John A. Hart Jr., the Democratic host of Sunday's event.
Despite his Irish surname, the Massachusetts Democrat recently discovered he is descended from Austrian Jews after a newspaper charted his family history.
"No matter who you are, everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day
Kerry, whose office previously announced he would not attend the breakfast because of his recent prostate cancer surgery, startled the packed crowd by showing up, then taking jabs at himself.
"So who said I don't have the matzoh balls to be here?" Kerry asked.
He ended his brief appearance onstage by singing a parody of "If You're Irish Come Into the Parlor," entitled "If You're Yiddish Come Into the Parlor."
Kerry's unexpected arrival was followed by another surprise: Organizers at the last minute allowed an anti-war veterans group to march in the 103rd annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The group was initially barred from participating by parade organizers who said its message wouldn't be appropriate. Police estimated the parade crowd at 850,000.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CNN) -- The attorney for a self-proclaimed prophet in police custody and suspected of abducting Elizabeth Smart told a local television station his client considers the 15-year-old girl his wife.
... articulate in his expression of his views." He said Mitchell was eating very little food, and only fruit.
... Now, that's quite an accomplishment," the senior Mitchell told CNN over the weekend.
"He wanted me to tell the world that [Elizabeth] is his wife, and he still loves her and knows that she still loves him, that no harm came to her during their relationship and the adventure that went on," attorney Larry Long told KUTV, according to the station's Web site.
Long told KUTV he met with his client, Brian David Mitchell, 49, in the Salt Lake County Jail on Sunday.
The revelation by Long followed efforts by Mitchell's relatives over the weekend to defend the homeless man.
On Wednesday, police arrested Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Ilene Barzee, 57, in Sandy, Utah, after residents recognized the bearded and robe-clad Mitchell as the man police had named as a suspect in the case. Mitchell was walking with two veiled women -- Barzee and Elizabeth.
Police say Elizabeth was abducted at knifepoint from her bedroom during the night of June 5, 2002.
Authorities in Utah have said Brian Mitchell, a self-proclaimed prophet who called himself "Emmanuel," and companion Barzee could face charges of aggravated kidnapping. Charges were expected to be filed against the two on Monday.
Attorney Long also told KUTV reporter Brian Mullahy that he found his client to be "intelligent, very knowledgeable, very coherent and
Asked about Smart's kidnapping, Mitchell "would object to the terms abduction and kidnapping" and considered his actions "a call from God," Long said, according to KUTV.com.
Relatives defend suspect
As details about the case emerged, Mitchell's father over the weekend took to task those who would condemn his son.
Shirl Mitchell, the suspect's father, said there was no justification for the alleged abduction but that his son's actions should be put in perspective.
"Brian is the one who got that girl back safely
"How many of these fiends, degenerates, take little kids and dismember their bodies or kill them outright and bury them. Now when they're getting to be overcritical of Brian, they should remember that," he said, urging that Mitchell not be "dumped out as garbage."
Mitchell's father, 83, who described himself as a voyeur and the author of two volumes about his personal theology that include explicit sexual content, also acknowledged showing his son pictures of genitalia at the age of seven or eight.
The father said he believes his erotic literature contributed to an after-school episode of indecent exposure when Mitchell was a teenager.
A few weeks in juvenile detention, bouts with alcohol and drugs -- including an LSD trip that put him in the hospital -- were other contributing factors, the elder Mitchell said. He added that the family suspected Brian Mitchell was abused in daycare.
Calling himself "too impulsive" as a parent, the father also catalogued early incidents in his own troubled relationship with Mitchell.
"He slapped one of the neighbor kids with a hose, hurting the kid, making the kid cry. So I went out and slapped him with [the hose] and probably said 'how do you think that feels.' That was too harsh," he said.
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Pastor Stig Laegdene knows the Ten Commandments, including No. 8: "Thou shalt not steal."
Car thieves in his neighborhood, however, seemed to have skipped it.
Laegdene, a Lutheran pastor who preaches to small-time criminals and others on the streets of Tromsoe, 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) north of the capital, Oslo, had his car stolen twice last week.
"I know hundreds of criminals, but I don't know if it was 'my criminals' who stole my car this time," Laegdene told The Associated Press Sunday.
Since he started preaching in Tromsoe, his 1986 Saab 900 has been stolen seven times. It's typically returned -- or someone tells him where to pick it up -- the next day after word gets out about its owner.
"When they find it was my car, I get it back," he said, usually in the same condition.
The last time it was stolen, March 12, his car was returned to him with nearly everything in it, including his robe. Missing was a bottle of wine and a sheaf of his sermons.
"I hope they read them," he said of the thieves. "They were pretty good."
Don't you mean "John Kerry a pompodor rich guy" ?
For about a year, Mark Allen, a gay man living in New York, conducted an online relationship with a man living in Austin, Texas. But as the relationship matured, Allen realized it wasn't his cyberboyfriend he was falling in love with, it was his PowerMac G3.
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