Like the higher-end MacBook and MacBook Pro, the 2.3-GHz Mac Mini will ship with an Nvidia video card, making this higher-end model a decent gaming device.

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TechCrunch claims to have heard from three independent sources that Apple will be releasing a 'large screen iPod touch device' with a 7-9 inch screen. According to the site, one of their sources have actually seen and handled one of the prototypes

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"On radio, Howard to me was a populist. The truck driver, the average guy would listen in the cafe, the truck, the old car that’s 50 years old and still has an AM radio,” said Mr. Leno in the interview. “But I don’t hear him quoted anymore. People don’t say: ‘Hey, did you hear what Howard said today?’ ”

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Which one of these things wouldn’t we want? A gasoline tax “is not just win-win; it’s win, win, win, win, win,” says the Johns Hopkins author and foreign policy specialist Michael Mandelbaum. “A gasoline tax would do more for American prosperity and strength than any other measure Obama could propose.”

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My favorite song from Dan was about liberals, their hypocrisy and how they are part of the problem and not the solution. My distrust of the right is often eclipsed by my distaste for the inaction, posturing and verbal drooling of the left.

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No, it was the cigarette tax. Every 10 percent price increase on cigarettes reduced sales by about 3 percent over all, and 7 percent among teenagers, according to the 2005 book “Prescription for a Healthy Nation.” Just the 1983 increase in the federal tax on cigarettes saved 40,000 lives per year.

Mr. Paterson suggested the tax — an 18 percent sales tax on soft drinks and other nondiet sugary beverages — to help raise $400 million a year to plug a hole in the state budget. But it’s also a landmark effort that, if other states follow, could help make us healthier.

Despite the early showing, actual delivery of [OS X 10.6] is not expected for at least a couple of months later. This timeframe would still bring it into the 1st Quarter 2009 timeframe that was previously suggested by Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies.

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But Piper Jaffray financial analyst Gene Munster estimates that Amazon will sell 130 million tracks this year -- a paltry sum compared with the 2.4 billion songs iTunes is expected to sell in 2008.

According to NPD Group surveys, only 10 percent of the music fans who bought tracks from Amazon also reported getting them from iTunes. Amazon's customers are predominantly male -- 64 percent, compared with 44 percent for iTunes. The service is also stronger with older demographics: A third of Amazon buyers are 26-35, another third 36-50. Most iTunes users are younger.

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Control of attention is the ultimate individual power. People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them. They can choose from the patterns in the world and lengthen their time horizons. This individual power leads to others. It leads to self-control, the ability to formulate strategies in order to resist impulses. If forced to choose, we would all rather our children be poor with self-control than rich without it.

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But let’s be clear. The problem isn’t farmers. It’s the farm lobby — hijacked by industrial operators — and a bipartisan tradition of kowtowing to it.

This is what everyone contemplating a new creative endeavor craves: that in the moment it turns real, to get it right. To frame it in such a way that the very act of framing propels the project toward an inexorable destiny.

You want to get it right because getting it right can make everything easier thereafter. But really, it’s because getting it wrong can be devastating. You might wind up putting thousands of man hours of work into a project that was doomed by a decision that was made in a second at the inception.

:highlight CurrentLine guibg=yellow guifg=black
:au! Cursorhold * exe 'match CurrentLine /\%' . line('.') . 'l.*/'
:set ut=100

Turning the highlighning off:
:au! Cursorhold
:match none

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Fortunately, a piece of federal legislation called the Child Nutrition Act is up for reauthorization that Obama can champion for change. This is THE legislation that determines what a child eats at school. And considering that more than 30 million children eat a school lunch five days a week, 180 days a year, the federal Child Nutrition Programs are where we can truly make great strides toward a healthier America.

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I don’t buy it. I propose a different take: that the John Does whom Apple wishes to identify are the leading contributors to the OSx86 Project.

I don’t think there’s anything puzzling about Psystar at all. All it takes to do what they’ve done is a pair of brass balls.

Amazon iPhone App: The Whole World's a Store

Wait, let us get this straight: Amazon's new iPhone app lets you buy anything you can take a picture of?

    Dim strTest As String
    Dim strToFind As String
    
    strTest = "this is a long line of words"
    strToFind = "long"
    
    Debug.Print "#" & InStr(strTest, strToFind) & "#"
    Debug.Print "#" & Left(strTest, InStr(strTest, strToFind)) & "#"
    Debug.Print "#" & Right(strTest, Len(strTest) - InStr(strTest, strToFind)) & "#"
    Debug.Print
    Debug.Print "#" & Left(strTest, InStr(strTest, strToFind) - 1) & "#"
    Debug.Print "#" & Right(strTest, Len(strTest) - (InStr(strTest, strToFind) + Len(strToFind))) & "#"

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Here I am, still ruminating over whether or not I should cave and get an iPhone at Canada's exorbitant rates, when I get wind of this news: telephony company, Truphone has unveiled a FREE (2nd Gen) iPod touch version of its VoIP app.

But here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as defendants once Apple in discovery finds out who they are.

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ZDNet reveals that Apple has amended its lawsuit against Psystar with charges of violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA is a controversial law that criminalizes the act of circumventing copy protection.

Motorola left the market at the end of the year, when its license expired, and Umax SuperMac hung in until the bitter end. Apple was working with Umax to license Mac OS 8 for low-end clones - specifically the sub-$1,000 market - but Umax realized there wasn't enough money to be made if they abandoned the high end of the market.

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For instance, let's say you have a Word document named foo.doc, and you want to convert it to Rich Text Format without having to open the program.

$ abiword --to=rtf foo.doc

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I think the high point of the press conference, though, came when Zorn was trying to explain that he calls plays that he expects to succeed — something he explained in characteristically colorful style.

"I don't say that I want you to run 'Green Right Two Jet FAILURE'. We don't have that play in our playbook."

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