Posted by Makin, at 03:18PM 08/29/08 and by 1 others:
Mac Designer Andy Hertzfeld Looks Back at 25 Years of Mac
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Steve made zero technical contributions. Hes not a technical person, so sort of his main contribution was setting the goal, setting a very high goal, and then being really passionate about exceeding the expectations, you know just trying to make every single conceivable aspect of the product as brilliant and creative and wonderful as possible.
tags: looks
groups: in Apple Computer
Posted by Maxx, at 07:00AM 08/29/08 and by 2 others:
The Anti-Cheney? How Biden would compare to Bush's No. 2.
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During the hard-fought primaries last spring, Barack Obama swooped in from the campaign trail for a brief stop at the Senate hearings on Iraq. With Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker giving testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee, it was one of those rare moments when the spotlight panned back to Washington. And Obama didn't disappoint. Even with all the distractions of taking on Hillary Clinton, Obama asked one of the most penetrating questions of those two days of hearings: How much of an Iranian and Al Qaeda presence in Iraq would be acceptable before we would leave? Both Petraeus and Crocker seemed caught by surprise by this realpolitik reckoning, and Obama received kudos in the media for his smarts. Even Petraeus acknowledged that Obama was "exactly right" in saying that the most the United States could achieve was not to wipe out Al Qaeda entirely but to leave behind a "manageable situation."
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· biden
· chaney
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Posted by pkrf1end, at 06:22AM 08/28/08 and by 2 others:
Michael Phelps Strokes His Way to $1.6M Book Deal
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Even before landing back in the US, Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps, winner of 8 gold medals in Beijing, was converting his fame into a big pool of Yankee dollars.Phelps snagged an estimated $1.6 million advance from the Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster for his latest book Built to Succeed.
tags: deal
groups: in Sport, Books