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Will look forward to reading this book, as I have the others. I think often about how many character traits we have in common. God fearing men who have love for animals, for nature, for the power of weather, an innate curiosity on how technology works, but also the social and humanistic perspective on the impact technology has on individual and professional work flows. I'm not the fisherman nor sailor you are, but I spent my formative adult years in the woods and learning the art and science of the war machine. I think we also share a pragmatic approach to public policy, and while idealist at heart, reasonable men seek consensus from all stakeholders, not merely shareholders. I suspect I will find many familiar themes in your book, David.
A Journey To My Country
White Oak River Near Swansboro, NC Updated- July 4, 2020,- Writing is one of those things that operate on sparks of imagination. Something starts to nag you and if it is truly important, eventually what is in the back of your mind ends up being a blog post or a book. The fifth book publish...
I have tried as best I can to become as device independent as possible. My NAS storage device holds all my pictures, historical documents, movies and music, backed up to a local store and Google. My second hand iPad really functions as social media hub, newspaper reader, and an all-day Evernote assistant. When it dies I'll probably look at something else, but I'm not tied to the device, nor am I passionate about it. Been in the cloud email/contacts for years with Gmail. Actually migrated all of my old Mail.app messages into Gmail several years ago, so no local mail I have to worry about.
Why Writing About Apple Is Such Fun?
After some of the experiences that I have endured at the hands of Apple fanboys, it is surprising that “fun,” “writing,” and “Apple” could even be in the same sentence much less considered as a serious thought. For example take my recent article, Risk Averse: Will iOS Become Apple's Windows XP?,...
I was able to snag a copy of Appleworks for Windows before I left Apple. I LOVED Macwrite.
Has Apple lost its soul?
My up and down relationship with Apple still hasn't reached a turning point. I remain hopeful that Cupertino will announce a product that will catch my fancy. I have a long history with the company. I have enjoyed watching the launch of the new iPhone 5, but I am still happy with my Android powe...
David, I strongly concur. I was issued a Dell D620 Core 2 Duo 60GB HD running XP for grad school in Jun of 2007.
Several months ago, I upgraded the RAM from 2GB to 4GB for maybe 60 bucks. Another 54 bucks bought me a 360 GB, 7200rpm HD. Two screws and the new HD fit in the sled.
Installed Windows 7 Professional, recognized ALL hardware and downloaded ALL necessary drivers and patches.
Admittedly subjective, but I'd say my 4 year old Win7 machine is just as reliable and a bit faster than a 2 year old 13" Macbook Pro, both with 4GB of RAM. I suspect the 7200rpm HD in the D620 laptop has quite a bit to do with it, however.
But the bottom line is Win7 is boringly reliable and fast, and I will say Office on Windows is MUCH better than the Mac.
I use Postbox for email on Windows, I like the social media integration and Thunderbird extensions to sync with Google's address book.
A Mac user reports after one year on Windows 7
It was on Februay 15, 2010 that I ordered both my wife and myself HP laptops running Windows 7. About a week later I reported my first experiences with Windows 7. I actually was pretty surprised with the hostility that showed up in some of the comments to that post. I did not intend to offend ...
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