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Tech Columnists' Day Without Email
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "When a recent power outage disrupted email service at WSJ.com, our tech columnists were plunged backwards into a time before every meeting, every little task, came with an email-program reminder, and where checking the bottom right of the screen for a new-mail envelope was futile. "Some of us quickly got a reminder that email is the lingua franca of projects that bridge different departments and involve a lot of people," Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry write. "For all the talk of whiteboarding, it's email threads that we rely on to remember where we left certain questions and what our next moves are. Similarly, email has become our storage system for important documents and works in progress--how often do you email yourself? It's also replaced the telephone for lots of our routine touching base between colleagues, friends and families: Instant messaging is simultaneously too casual and too intrusive, and weekday phoning is reserved for more-substantive matters and emergencies. So a lot of that social lubrication went out the window.""
Wouldn't it be ironic if nobody replied to this thread..
DOH!!
When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
You should have seen the day they had to go without toilet paper!
From Apple-X.net covering WWDC:
10:34: Development machines will be in the hands of developers soon. Video playing explaining how to compile for Intel.
10:32: The demos of the last half-hour of Tiger have been on a Pentium 4.
10:31: We face two challenges. The first, is Mac OS X on Intel. We've been maintaining Mac OS X on Intel AND PPC, secretly, for the past 5 years, just in case. Now is the time. Every prior release of Mac OS X has been compiled for multiple architectures.
10:30: June 2006 will begin our Intel transition. By June 2007, we will be complete.
10:29: Why are we switching to Intel? Intel offers great performance. Intel offers great power consumption. The transition will take a few years, but it will be worth it. We want to be making the best computer for the customer going forward.
10:27: We've been through many transistions. 680x0 to PowerPC, Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. Today we begin a third transition. It's true; We are switching to Intel.
10:24: Mac OS X 10.5 will be called Leopard.
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