[MyAppleMenu] Mar 11, 2002

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=== top =============

iMac Emulators Will Always Fail - Design Guru (Mat Loney, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2106356,00.html>
"People like details, and Apple understands that. Companies that try to copy the look of an Apple case without understand the Apple ethos always fail."

Outage Blocks Mac.com E-Mail (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-856987.html>
Mac users who get their e-mail through Apple's servers had trouble getting access to their messages over the weekend, a problem attributed to maintenance and repair.

Apple Flat-Panel iMac the Better Way To Go With Digital Media (Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/11/BU205972.DTL>
In many ways, the Mac remains easier and more fun to use.

=== news =============

Cool Design Won't Save A Dud Product (Bob Parks, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,38671,00.html>
Ever since the iMac, shelves have been littered with bold failures. Here's how to get it right.

iMac Delays Highlight Apple's Forgotten Promises To Resellers (Nick dePlume, Think Secret)
<http://www.thinksecret.com/features/imacresellers.html>
Apple has been readily stocking its retail stores, but most independent resellers have been left in the cold.

Benchmarks Demolish Apple Speed Boasts (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24358.html>
RISC-based machines running OS X fall severely short of expectations, being bested in the floating point tests by an eighteen month old Pentium III-based machine.

=== opinions =============

CodeBitch In The Briar Patch (MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20020311.php>
Will your web site work in IE7?

=== reviews =============

Civilization III (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/civ3.shtml>
For challenge, depth, and replayability, there is simply no game to compare with any Civilization game.

A Movie Museum On Your Mac (Advertiser News Service)
<http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Mar/11/bz/bz06a.html>
The iDVD2 interface lets users create discs with menu buttons for a large number of movies by simply dragging and dropping icons into a template.

4x4 Evolution 2 (Eddie Park, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=236>

Power Macintosh G4/800, G4/933, and Dual -1GHz (Rick LePage, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/05/reviews/g4.html>
The real meat of Apple's product line remains in the desktop towers -- excellent expansion, performance, and flexibility are still the standards that professionals require of their Macs.

=== internet news =============

Outage Blocks Mac.com E-Mail (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-856987.html>
Mac users who get their e-mail through Apple's servers had trouble getting access to their messages over the weekend, a problem attributed to maintenance and repair.

Yahoo Details Price Hikes For GeoCities (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-856713.html>
Web portal Yahoo on Monday introduced two paid services for its home page community.

CodeBitch In The Briar Patch (MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20020311.php>
Will your web site work in IE7?

New Attack Intercepts Wireless Net Message (Dennis Fisher and Carmen Nobel, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=712&a=23806,00.asp>

College Students As Future Spenders (Bob Tedeschi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/technology/ebusiness/11ECOM.html>
Much more important than the current spending power of the nation's 15 million or so full-time and part-time college students is their future spending power.

=== wintel top news =============

Bill Gates Isn't In The Clear Yet (Dan Carney, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_11/b3774041.htm>
In her court appearances so far, Kollar-Kotelly has signaled she'll give as serious consideration to the dissenting states' proposals as the Justice Dept's proposed settlements.

=== wintel news =============

Sun Vs MS: Lawsuit Makes Both Look Silly (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-856607.html>

Experts: Sun Lawsuit Reaches Too Far (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-856678.html>
Legal experts describe Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft as very aggressive and expansive, going well beyond anything pursued by federal and state trustbusters.

Benchmarks Demolish Apple Speed Boasts (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24358.html>
RISC-based machines running OS X fall severely short of expectations, being bested in the floating point tests by an eighteen month old Pentium III-based machine.

Walter Hewlett Confident HP-Compaq Deal To Fall (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-compaq.html?ex=1016514000&en=8617f1baa54cc9a4&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>

=== linux news =============

Red Hat to Support PowerPC, AltiVec (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0203/11.redhat.php>
Promises a "complete toolchain."

Flaw Weakens Linux Computers (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-857031.html>
A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems open to attack, said sources in the security community on Monday.

=== reader : world =============

Lawmakers Put Cronies In Plum Jobs (William Carlsen, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/03/10/MN233966.DTL>
Big pay, few hours on 3 state panels.

=== reader : tech =============

The Poster-Child Who Grew Up (Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1021456>
Marc Andreessen's journey from Netscape to Loudcloud shows how much the Internet has changed.

=== reader : life =============

A Brilliant Tribute (Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Art-X!ArticleDetail-53190,00.html>
A powerful temporary memorial to Sept. 11 offers lessons for those planning a permanent marker.

The Tourists That Ate Florida (Elizabeth Randall, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/11/orlando/index.html>
Before Sept. 11, residents loved to gripe at the out-of-state visitors clogging Orlando. But then they were gone.

Oh Behave! (Mickey Butts, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/style/2002/03/11/silly_spending/index.html>
Why do we buy more when we have less to spend? Behavioral economists can explain.

Hollywood's Dirty War (Sharon Waxman, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5484-2002Mar10.html>
With Oscar just around the corner, the gutters are starting to fill up.

A Path Taken, With All THe Certainty Of Youth (Margaret Atwood, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/books/11ATWO.html>
How is it that I become a writer? It simply happened, suddenly, in 1956, while I was crossing the football field on the way home from school.

Even 6 Months Later, 'Get Over It' Just Isn't An Option (Sarah Kershaw, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/nyregion/11PSYC.html>
Mental health professionals across the country say the psychological fallout from Sept 11 is still strikingly pervasive.

=== reader : eof =============

Pentagon To Receive Novel Toilet Paper (Claudia H. Deutsch, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/business/11ROLL.html>
Two hundreds rolls of it, each imprinted with Osama bin Laden's face and the all-too-easy pun, "Wipe Out Terrorism."

=== singapore top news =============

KL Proposes New Water Pricing Formulas (Brendan Pereira, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,107685,00.html?>
DPM Lee says Singapore studying proposals on unresolved issues.

Economists Expect Singapore To Grow Faster Than Expected (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,107632,00.html?>
Buoyed by a turnaround in the US economy and a rebound in global demand for electronics exports.

=== singapore news =============

Will Creative's Great Graphics Expectations Pay Off? (Kenneth James, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,38517,00.html?>
Sim Wong Hoo wouldn't step into the ring unless he's pretty sure of winning. But it's going to be a long fight.

Eating Out In Singapore An $8b Obsession (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,107693,00.html?>
Study shows the average person spent $2,000 last year at food outlets, forking out more money to eat out than at home.

PSA 'Must Beat PTP In Pricing' (Nicholas Fang, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,107703,00.html?>

Creative Re-Enters Graphics Market (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-856603.html>
Computer peripherals maker Creative Technology on Monday unveiled plans to re-enter the graphics market by taking over loss-making U.S.-based 3Dlabs.

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