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Apple Planning Intel iBook Debut for January?
axonis writes "Apple is planning to release its first entry-level iBook laptops with Intel processors next January at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, highly reliable sources have confirmed to Think Secret." From the article: "Apple will almost certainly tap Intel's forthcoming Yonah processor for the iBooks, a successor to the company's Pentium M. It is unknown whether Apple will go with a dual-core version of the processor, slated for release in January, or a single-core version, which Intel announced in August would be delivered shortly after the dual-core version. The dual-core Yonah chip could very likely deliver performance greater than Apple's current G4-based PowerBooks."
Apple's FIRST POST-ppc macs? I can't wait!
Despite the numerous Emmy awards and endless critical acclaim, FOX is planning, in its infinite wisdom, to cancel the show after 13 episodes of Season 3.
As we know, FOX is good at making bad decisions, such as canceling Family Guy (which is now back on TV), and canceling Firefly (which is now back as the movie Serenity).
In both cases, the thing that saved those shows was DVD SALES. You've seen the show for free. Now, if you want to see more of it, pay up, and make the world a better place.
You can buy both seasons for a ridiculously low $16 each:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002PYS7Y
Also, if you purchase them through Amazon, you get immediate online access to deleted scenes from the show.
psot?
At least one record company announced yesterday that seteve is now in talk to have variable pricing sometime in the next year. Not a big concession but one he opposed.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Here's the bit that will get this modded off the map by the zealots: The current Mac GUI stinks. I have to use it occassionaly for work and it drives me nuts with frustration. Just moving the windows about or (much worse) resizing them is a nightmare on a large screen. The Dock is far too limited, the menu bar too far away, the general layout of the control panel, to say nothing of the madness which is the file tree with its "sometimes I'm Unix, sometimes I'm MacOS" tangle. I hate it.
I remember when OS7ish (it was a long time ago anyway) was THE OS to beat. OS/X doesn't match up to that, let alone Windows or Linux. Some of the problems are because display sizes have outgrown the UI design, but some of the problems (the ghastly Spotlight) are new.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
What does "biting at the chops" mean? Is it similar to "champing at the bit"? I am simply curious. Even though I consider myself reasonably well read, at least in sci-fi and fantasy, I have never heard of this "biting at the chops" metaphor. Please supply the meaning (other than the obvious one that is clear from the context). Also, if you know the history of this metaphor, I would like to hear it as well. I did google for your metaphor and found 73 hits. For "champing at the bit" I found 120,000 hits. Could "biting at the chops" be a new metaphor? Where did it come from? Who used it first? Which legitimate metaphor was mangled in order to give birth to this "biting at the chops"? Frankly, I don't care for this new metaphor, it doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. Please let me know where you first heard it and why you think it appropriate to use here on /. Thanks!
American Independence = Motivated by high taxes on tea
Indian Independence = Motivated by high taxes on salt
Black civil rights = Motivated by limited seating on buses
These were all business transactions, weren't they? Are these civil rights movements, commercial rights movements or something else?
As it turns out, oppression often takes the form of economic activity. Saying you can't call it civil rights doesn't take away from the fact that people are trying to keep from being oppressed. Note that Rosa Parks paid for her bus ride. She much preferred riding the bus to walking. That doesn't mean forcing her to the back was simply a kind of commercial rights issue.
TW