[MyAppleMenu] Oct 25, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Microsoft Notebook: HP Links Up Apple, Windows Media Center
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/196593_msftnotebook25.html>
Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

If you looked closely, even in the middle of the Microsoft event, Apple's presence was evident, thanks to a unique partnership of its own. The latest Media Center PCs from HP come with a special iTunes-related feature builtinto Microsoft's new Windows XP Media Center Edition software.

*** The Cult Of Apple
<http://www.marketingmag.ca/magazine/current/editorial/article.jsp;jsessionid=GMHKCLLKLOLN?content=20041025_64574_64574>
Stan Sutter, Marketing Magazine

*** U2 Are 'Selling Out' With iPod Deal, Say Fans
<http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=575460>
Steve Bloomfield, The Independent

U2 has angered fans with its decision to sign a deal with the global corporation Apple and launch a special-edition U2 iPod.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Coup Starts Media Codec Fight
<http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BTBNNOAVTD5DEQSNDBCSKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=50500181&sub_taxonomyID=>
Junko Yoshida, EE Times

Microsoft's effort to shoulder its way into consumer electronics, movies and TV broadcasting worldwide by proposing its propreitary Windows Media Video 9 as an industry-standard codec seemed like a coup. But the standardization has not gone as smoothly. The process appears bogged down by infighting and general distruct, with no clear sigh of when VC-1 -- the SMPTE standard based on WMV9 -- will reach fruition.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[Linux]

*** Windows v Linux Security: The Real Facts
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/linux_v_windows_security/>
John Lettice, The Register

Microsoft has stripped a single metric out of the underlying data, paraphrased it and put it in the headline.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Not To Worry -- The End Is Very Near
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59785-2004Oct24.html>
Joel Achenbach, Washington Post

As pre-election anxiety disorder sets in, just remember: you'll live. Probably.

*** Growing Up With Mom And Mom
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24KIDS.html?oref=login>
Susan Dominus, New York Times

Raised from birth by trailblazing lesbians, Ry Russo-Young has a boyfriend, a gay sister, a tangled history with her sperm-donor "father" -- and the outlook of a generation that has come of age between gay and straight cultures.

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Life in the city

[Opinion]

*** Bye Bye Holland V
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/28185.asp>
Andrew Wood, Today

The irony? Come 2010, the place might be so dead, we won't even need a station there anymore.