Mark Pilgrim has switched to Lenovo as well. He was not impressed with Apple's current hardware offering, and as an IBM employee he got a Lenovo discount.
I actually switched from AZERTY to QWERTY just for this. In Belgium all computers use AZERTY keyboards because the french-speaking half of the country looked to France for a keyboard layout. I speak Dutch (language with almost no accented characters), so it made sense for me to switch to a QWERTY keyboard (in use in the Netherlands, our Dutch-only neighbours), since there was no advantage in AZERTY, and the disadvantage of difficult to type unix commands and Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts...
The only disadvantage I've found in switching to QWERTY is that I no longer type error-free on computers in public libraries... (but I don't need those too often)
I've read Men in Black II marks the first appearance of Apple's Mac OS X in a big movie.
The article (I lost the url) said it was shown in a custom/adapted version for a round display, with the Dock flowing along with the form of the display...
Nine of the world's largest electronics companies have taken a joint step towards commercialization of a next-generation optical disk system and with it raised the possibility of a new format battle.
(...)
Four of DVD's main backers -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp., AOL Time Warner Inc., Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Toshiba Corp.-- are absent from the initial Blu-ray disk consortium.
Toshiba's absence is the most significant. The company is chair of the DVD Forum, the industry group that promotes DVD and handles development of new DVD formats, and has publicly stated that it intends to propose its prototype blue-laser optical-disk format to the organization as a next-generation DVD format. It's absence from the Blu-ray disk group raises the possibility that a format battle, just like the one that took place before the industry settled on DVD, may be about to begin again.
"We are not in that discussion group," said Midori Suzuki, a spokeswoman for Toshiba. "For the next-generation blue-laser optical disk, we will keep proposing a standard to the DVD Forum."
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Mark Pilgrim has switched to Lenovo as well. He was not impressed with Apple's current hardware offering, and as an IBM employee he got a Lenovo discount.
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I actually switched from AZERTY to QWERTY just for this. In Belgium all computers use AZERTY keyboards because the french-speaking half of the country looked to France for a keyboard layout. I speak Dutch (language with almost no accented characters), so it made sense for me to switch to a QWERTY keyboard (in use in the Netherlands, our Dutch-only neighbours), since there was no advantage in AZERTY, and the disadvantage of difficult to type unix commands and Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts... The only disadvantage I've found in switching to QWERTY is that I no longer type error-free on computers in public libraries... (but I don't need those too often)
I've read Men in Black II marks the first appearance of Apple's Mac OS X in a big movie.
...can anyone confirm this?
The article (I lost the url) said it was shown in a custom/adapted version for a round display, with the Dock flowing along with the form of the display...
This "news" is oooold.
Reasons 1 to 5:
- Natalie Portman
I believe he is.
There was no webcast.
iBook (Late 2001) - 600 MHz, 384 MB, 20 GB, OS X.1.3: sleeps in one (1) second, awake when lid is open... = instant.
From an article at Maccentral:
Nine of the world's largest electronics companies have taken a joint step towards commercialization of a next-generation optical disk system and with it raised the possibility of a new format battle.
(...)
Four of DVD's main backers -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp., AOL Time Warner Inc., Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Toshiba Corp.-- are absent from the initial Blu-ray disk consortium.
Toshiba's absence is the most significant. The company is chair of the DVD Forum, the industry group that promotes DVD and handles development of new DVD formats, and has publicly stated that it intends to propose its prototype blue-laser optical-disk format to the organization as a next-generation DVD format. It's absence from the Blu-ray disk group raises the possibility that a format battle, just like the one that took place before the industry settled on DVD, may be about to begin again.
"We are not in that discussion group," said Midori Suzuki, a spokeswoman for Toshiba. "For the next-generation blue-laser optical disk, we will keep proposing a standard to the DVD Forum."