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Yeah, we've both had our share of hope and disappointment in this game. Let's just hope for a good b... |
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I'm not sure how I feel about this game. On one hand, I feel pretty optimistic that we have the tale... |
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Glad to see you'll be back writing football again, Ken! Congrats on the easy win today. You didn't ... |
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Yeah, sorry one of our teams had to lose. I've come to appreciate Penn State as a classy and sympath... |
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Hey Ken, congratulations on the win yesterday! Some really odd choices by our coaching staff in that... |
Apple Watch: Tuesday Special Event | Monday, 2007 August 6 - 10:07 pm |
New iMacs tomorrow? That's the rumor. Well, Apple is holding a special media event tomorrow, and everyone is expecting new iMacs. The iMac hasn't been updated in a long time, and Apple has clearly stated that this is a Mac-oriented event, not an iPod- or iPhone-related event. There are some questions, of course. Will the Mac Mini be updated, or discontinued? Will the new iMacs have a radically new form factor? And, given that the dot.mac web service is going to be down tomorrow, will we see updates there too? I think the conservative thinking would be to get 20" and 24" iMacs with similar but sleeker enclosures, a speed bumped Mac Mini, and dot.mac with a handful of new iLife-style features. There are some that believe we'll see touch-screen technology, given what we've seen with the iPhone, as well as Apple's flurry of touch-screen patents. I don't think the time is right for that; touch screens are one thing for a handheld, but for a vertical screen on a desk, that would just be awkward. Here's some more radical thinking. What about a modular Mac that replaces both the iMac and the Mac Mini? We could finally see the long-awaited headless iMac... but maybe it could even dock to a monitor, using a DuoDock-style connector, to eliminate cable clutter. The computer part could be larger than a Mac Mini, and use desktop components instead of laptop components to keep costs down. We could see a $500 computer, a $600 20" monitor, available as a package for $1000. It's possible we'll see an ultraportable notebook too, though I think that's less likely. As for dot.mac, I'm hopeful that we'll get the PHP/SQL expert-level features that allow us to host real dynamic web sites. And maybe, along with that, we'll see a FileMaker-lite application that lets us create database-driven sites easily. |
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