[MyAppleMenu] May 24, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, May 24, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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OpenOSX Ships Gimp Update (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/23/openosxgimp/>
Version 1.2.4 has been rebuilt for Mac OS X 10.2 and purportedly delivers over 200 percent performance spikes over the previous version.

802.11g Transfer Rate Controversy Meaningless, Says Apple (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/23/80211g/>
The data rate has always been around 20Mbit/sec and hasn't change in the final draft standard.

Microsoft Prepares Reply To iTunes (Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1009794.html>
Microsoft is betting that new security enhancements planned for later this year could make renting music, rather than owning it, more attractive to consumers. Microsoft said it is developing software that makes it easier for subscription services to transfer music to portable music players.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Multiprocessor Work Sharing With Cocoa (Drew McCormack, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/05/23/multiprocessor.html>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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The Orphans Of Invention (Ellen Ullman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/opinion/22ULLM.html>
Enormous sums of money were lost in the great Internet bust, and analysts are still wringing their hands over the industry's fall from grace. But something mor ewas lost in the bust. It has nothing to do with money, at least not directly. It has to do with people and history, with what might be called industrial memory.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Study Sheds Light On Dark Matter (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58966,00.html>
Astronomers have made the most direct measurement yet of dark matter, some of the most prevalent stuff in the universe -- about which almost nothing is known.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Where Nothing Is Fun (Mark Guydish, Times Leader)
<http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/5905874.htm>
By definition, aimlessness mus tbe the cornerstone of a "Seinfeld Club."

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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My Friend, The Indirect Sars Casualty (Yeo Kok Seng, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,190797,00.html?>
It would seem that the hospital management has lost its focus on saving lives because of the attention paid to Sars prevention. Health-care workers who care about their patients are restricted in what they can do by red tape. How many lives will we lose, not to Sars, but to the preventive measures that become a roadblock for those seeking treatment?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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'No Visitors' Rule Meant To Protect Singaporeans (Karen Tan, Ministry of Health, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,190796,00.html?>
To protect the health of everyone, such cautious measures are necessary.

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