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Take, for example, the graphics chipset—the part of the computer that renders the fancy windows and icons used in OS X Snow Leopard. While Apple??s entry-level machines—the white MacBook and the Mac Mini—both sport powerful versions from Nvidia, the average budget PC laptop will usually sport an anemic integrated variation from Intel Corporation, which were once so pathetic that Microsoft found itself slapped with a class action lawsuit for claiming that they could run Windows Vista with all the bells and whistles. And Apple also offers sizeable...
...these advantages do not excuse some of Apple??s more egregious technological sins. Take, for example, the lack of Flash support on the iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone. Nor do they absolve Apple of its failure to adopt industry standards for its desktop hardware—the iMac uses custom parts that make it almost impossible to upgrade anything more specialized than the memory or hard drive, and the Mac Pro’s parts are all flashed with a special BIOS that makes using non-Apple approved hardware extremely difficult...
...tough. One-time Greenwich studios now house upper-middle-class families; bohemian standby Village Voice has been bought out by New Times Media; college interns willing to work unpaid edge out older degree-holding peers insistent on a wage. Many successful journalists break into the business outside the Big Apple??either cub reporting at small-town papers or finding jobs abroad...
...Professor Michael Sandel’s course “Moral Reasoning 22: Justice” will air on Boston’s WGBH. Though Harvard is still a latecomer to the realm of public access education—schools like MIT and Yale have offered podcast courses through Apple??s iTunes U for years—in general, media reactions to Sandel’s television series have been positive. Most laud it for supporting freedom of information and combating the exclusivity of the Ivy League education; some even go so far as to hail such open...
...bobbing along to the rhythm. This playfulness comes through in Young’s lyrics as well. The album’s title track, released in January this year with an accompanying video of Young playing air guitar to the song and wearing earphones that connect up to an apple??get it?—is a great example of his sense of humor. “Got a pot belly,” sings the musical legend, but he adds, “it’s not too big.” Nonetheless, when Young growls...