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...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 the forces of the Antichrist. He went to work for Microsoft...
...required of the owners of laptop computers. You must turn on the computer and, all too often, attempt to explain the concept of a C prompt to someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA. THIS IS YOUR...
...with a scientist's sense of the exact. If Beavis and Butt-head seem unwavering in their testosterone-fueled stupidity, it is because their creator has been meticulous in executing his vision for them. Animators who first come to work on the show are given a long list of dos and don'ts. Judge insists that none of the characters move in any manner suggesting the effete. After rendering the image of a peripheral character shutting a car trunk, one former B&B storyboard artist was asked by Judge to try it again, this time with "no sissy wrists...
...electronic guys hangs in the balance," he declares. "We can get wiped." Only the paranoid survive. "The strategic goal here is getting Windows CE standards into every device we can. We don't have to make money over the next few years. We didn't make money on ms-dos in its first release. If you can get into this market at $10, take it." They...
...could not refuse to join in. Even then, however, it was not clear what the interventionists were volunteering to do. They agreed to dispatch armed troops, yes, but before committing itself fully, Washington wanted to make strict, limited rules and stick to them. The list of not-to-dos ran long. U.S. soldiers would be there for four months only. "We are not planning a mission to go in and disarm the factions," said Defense Secretary William Perry, "or to separate military from refugees." The troops would not protect aid convoys, not conduct forced entry into camps, not police camps...