Word: macs
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Though they only constitute one out of every 33 computer owners, Mac users have long held a reputation for acting smugly superior to their Windows brethren. And with the release next week of Apple's latest operating system software, Tiger ($129), they'll have good reason. Tiger is the fourth and easily the most significant upgrade to Mac OS X (following Puma, Jaguar and Panther). Its main selling point, a desktop search application called Spotlight, is similar to a feature Microsoft is touting in its next Windows release, Longhorn-which won't be out for at least another year...
...Tiger's upgrade of the Mac's stellar instant messaging program, you can now have voice chats with up to ten other users at the same time (which is better than most confusing conference calls, since iChat keeps track of the last person who spoke). You can also video conference with up to three other users with an iSight camera. Tiger's new high-definition video technology makes for the smoothest video chat yet. The other participants appear on what looks like the inner walls of a 3-D cube, with their reflections on the floor. You can invite...
Mydans was released in time to cover the fighting in Italy and France, then accompanied General Douglas MacArthur's campaign in the Philippines, where he took one of the war's best-known shots: Mac Arthur sloshing onto the beach at Luzon. For a home front with fresh memories of the war's bleak beginnings, it was more than a picture; it was an encapsulation of every hope. Forty years later, we see not just the redoubtable general but also the canny military showman who knows that victory is the ultimate photo opportunity...
Serious business, indeed. West Point, said General George S. Patton Jr., class of '09, is "a holy place." The academy, said General Maxwell Taylor, '22, is "not for everyone, only for those with a true vocation." That calling is to lead in battle. "Your mission," General Douglas Mac-Arthur, '03, told the cadets in 1962, "remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars...
...unsafe. Staff members say that they received an e-mail instructing them to be on the lookout for suspicious locker room behavior. But because putting video cameras in the locker rooms would be both sketchy and really, really unconstitutional, no other measures can be taken to protect our showers. MAC lovers beware—don your shower shoes, because the tiled floors may be “slippery when wet” for more than one reason...