Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a confession to make: I'm thinking about converting. I'm having trouble believing in my Mac anymore; all the cool stuff on the Web comes out for the PC first and sometimes never even makes it to my desktop. It's dawning on me that the Windows I've scorned for so long might in fact be the One True Way. I've always been an honest, DOS-fearing man, so I go in search of spiritual comfort from the ultimate convert himself: Steve Capps. Capps didn't just abandon a long, brilliant career at Apple. He joined...
...complex. If I were buying my first computer today, he says, a PC would be every bit as easy (or hard) to master as a Mac. In fact, he insists, "there are a bunch of things on the PC that are absolutely superior." With the zealotry of a recent convert, he ticks off the holy trinity of Windows features (the task bar, the start menu, the two-button mouse) and slowly, almost against my will, I start to believe. Forgive me, Bill, for I have sinned...
...Chambers' story is larger and more interesting than just that event. For a brief, hilarious season early on, at Columbia University, he campaigned for the 1920 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Calvin Coolidge; but in the mid-'20s he pinballed leftward and joined the Communist Party, animated by an anguished convert's zeal. A melodramatically ernste Mensch (serious man), as he liked to say, Chambers began as a useful party "literate," hacking away as a foreign-news reporter for the dreary Daily Worker, contributing to the New Masses...
Rudenstine says that since climate control is only a temporary fix to the problem, the current challenge is to find a more efficient way either to treat the books themselves to prevent the decay or convert them to digital form...
...Fund sued Harvard and a developer, Carpenter and Co., after the city Planning Board granted them a permit to convert what is now the Harvard Square Hotel into a six-story office building. Eventually, the University dropped its plans to develop. The developer sued the Defense Fund, but the case was settled out of court, according to Defense Fund President Gladys "Pebble" Gifford...