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Neither I, nor most students, have enough knowledge of the day-to-day working of the council to know who was most effective in changing library hours or getting better exercise equipment at the MAC. Since most students understandably don't have much information, elections are easily skewed towards candidates who can win the endorsements of large student organizations. Although it is natural to keep the recommendation of a trusted student group in mind when voting, it is too easy to win endorsements by dropping vague buzzwords that hardly translate into competence in office...
...successful Pixar Animation Studios--filled him with so many great ideas that the Apple he's resurrecting could end up being stronger than the Apple he quit. The effects of his sabbatical are especially apparent in Aqua, the front end to the forthcoming operating-system upgrade known as Mac...
...works the way it's supposed to when it's delivered in early summer, I might go back to using a Mac at home. I say "if" because reporters were only permitted to see Aqua demoed under the steely-eyed supervision of Apple's p.r. department. No taking it home to crash test it under real working conditions. So it hardly seems fair to compare it with Millennium, Microsoft's upcoming revision of Windows 98, which I've been running on three machines for the past six weeks...
...truth is, Millennium won't be winning any prizes at Cannes. At this point in its development--it's also scheduled to ship by summer--it has no flash and little innovation. Where Aqua has rethought the way Mac users interact with applications--using something called a "dock" that behaves like the Windows task bar, only with intelligence and flair--Millennium looks almost identical to Windows 98. The main differences are under the hood. One thing I liked: bugs that plagued my home network magically disappeared after installing Millennium, thanks to its emphasis on home networking. But while Millennium...
...does OS X handle software problems? When you try to install a program that conflicts with any other program, the Mac simply won't allow you to run it. Presumably, OS X users will never suffer from software conflicts again. Sure sounds cool. If it works...