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same person anymore? Has Apple Computer, unknown
to me, performed some kind of clandestine brain
transplant on me? Am I in fact the same person
I was before March 24, 2001? I am not sure anymore.
I am so unsure of many things. I feel haunted,
haunted by a daemon.
I promised you a walk down there.
Ok. Lets take a stroll among the atoms and see what we can
see!
First of all, there is a premise, accepted as fact by some since
‘In The Beginning…” More recently, Einstein and others who
followed him have affirmed it.
–Its all Energy and empty space out
here in this reality, babe!–
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everything there is. When Light was formed into matter, both
space and time were also locally created at the same time as a
part of that process.
Every once in a while an idea will just “pop” into my head. Most of the time, these ideas are either impractical by modern technology or would take more time to implement than I have to give. But a few months ago, one of those ideas not only would take little time on my part, and is easily done with even ten year old technology, but would (I think) be of great benefit to Macintosh users everywhere.
The idea? To publisher previews (entire chapters or just parts) of Macintosh books you can buy today, or a “First Look” of soon to be released books. As you may well know, there are a lot of Macintosh related books out there to choose from, on just about every subject you can think of. And while I do believe that reviews, such as our own authority on Macintosh books John Nemerovski’s Book Bytes, are an invaluable resource, I do think actually being able to preview a book is important as well. Like hearing a song on the radio before buying the entire album.
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Mac aRa Modem Magic™ 5.0
Company: macntosh
Price: $55.00
CD version- add $5 for S&H
http://www.macntosh.com
It has not been a good year at all for me, modem connection-wise. From January 1st 2001 until approximately the 15th of March, I suffered from the worst connections I have ever experienced. I went from a “normal” connection speed of 38,000 bps to a whooping 9,600-24,000bps with the worst static, disconnects and other problems. Of course, the great and powerful telephone company, despite numerous calls, complaints and pleas, switched pairs, etc., continued to tell me that nothing was wrong, I had never connected at the speeds I had been (for more then 2 years!) and that they only ensured “voice quality transmissions, not data quality transmissions.” Thankfully, through the good graces of my next door neighbor (he couldn’t even connect online at all during the same time period) who had friends in the telephone company, a “perfectly good” piece of equipment was replaced at the slick and all problems suddenly disappeared.
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It showed up on my doorstep on a Sunday morning. I had just poured a cup of coffee and was going outside to smoke a cigarette. I opened the front door and nearly tripped over the briefcase sized package. It was an all white package about 25 inches long by 20 inches wide and only 2 inches thick. I picked it up and turned it over in my hands looking for an address label or other markings. My nameÑso small I almost didn’t see itÑwas typed across the middle of the parcel. No mailing address, no return address, just my name, Pete Miner. I brought the package inside. It felt heavyÑmaybe 8 or 10 poundsÑand set it on the kitchen table. It must have just been delivered because my wife had only left for church about ten minutes prior to me going outside and she would have picked it up or told me it was there. Who the hell delivers on Sunday I wondered, and without an address? Must be mine though, it has my name on it.
I used a letter opener to cut through the tape on one side of the box and opened the flap. As I raised the other end of the package a single piece of white paper slid out the flap and onto the floor. I picked it up and read the four words that where on it. “Your Very Personal Computer.”
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Thanks to mole operative (iDeep Throat) in Apple Computer’s Cupertino Campus comes this startling information on the major revamping of Apple’s consumer products as well as the dramatic shift in their marketing and design philosophy.
Apple has apparently learned some lessons from the many iMac ripoffs. The computer company that revolutionized the industry is set to save millions of megabucks by curtailing both innovative technology and cutting edge industrial design. Sure it will be bland and less colourful but it appears it is the only way to draw large numbers of Wintel customers who fear radical change and creative design.
Currently in the final stages of the design criteria, the following models are being set for prime time. It is not clear if they will be released to the public at July’s MWNY or MWSF 2002. For this exercise we will concentrate our focus on the box design only. Gone is the rounded watermelon look replaced by a sleek more angular case.
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