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...That's not what he's supposed to say. Tech journalists are obsessed with spec lists and functions. Does it do this? Does it do that? They often look at devices as the sum of their features. But that kind of thinking isn't in Apple's DNA. The iPad does perform tasks - it runs apps and has the calendar, e-mail, Web browsing, office productivity, audio, video and gaming capabilities you would expect of any such device - yet when I eventually got my hands on one, I discovered that one doesn't relate to it as a "tool...
...Tillman considered as his “hero” Rachel Corrie, a peace activist crushed to death when she placed herself—living Mario Savio’s words—between a bulldozer and a home. And, according to Tillman’s friend, Army Spec. Russell Baer, “Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f***ing illegal.’… He totally was against Bush...
...problem with letting your buying be swayed by specs is that your underlying preferences likely don't change along with your purchase decisions - and so you wind up at home with things that don't make you as happy. In one experiment, researchers presented two cell phones, and told subjects that one had a more vivid screen. Some subjects were also told that model A had a vividness value of 1,800, compared to model B's score of 600. Everyone was then asked to rate on a 7-point scale both how much they liked phone...
...inhaler. "If you came in with chest pain, [the physician] would do an electrocardiogram. If you came in complaining of high cholesterol they would do a blood test. But we're not measuring asthma before we start to throw medicines at it. We're making the diagnosis on spec, as it were...
...what I really wanted to do, which was work in Hollywood...but once you’re terrible at everything else you try, it’s a lot less risky to go to Hollywood...So I took out the “Law & Order” spec script I had written five years before and I rewrote it and I wrote another spec script for “The Sopranos”...I gave them to my friends who were writers and they gave them to their agents. And all of a sudden, a whole bunch of agencies wanted...