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Apple Files For Patent On Color Changing Cases, Geeks Freak Out
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Posted on 01/02/2003 5:14:47 AM PST by chance33_98

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To: chance33_98
In the main, Liberals, aka 'Rats, are emotional, image-oriented. Content is secondary to form.

Conservatives are rational, information-oriented. Content is a primary. Form or appearance is secondary, particularly in the world of computing.

Apple, under Steve Jobs, has always focused on form over function. And of course, that is why the self-described 'cool' people think that owning a iMac is superior to a standard PC.

If like Porsche, the engineering performance was beautifully integrated into a stunning appearance, I would be a major advocate, as I am with Porsche.

But compromising performance for looks is like choosing the slutty girl who will screw your best friend and sue for your hard-earned lifetime assets, over the girl next door who will care for you to your dying days and only ask for your affection.

There was a Steve at Apple that earned my respect in the early years. Wozniak was the kind of Steve that could, and did, change the world.

Jobs is a charlatan who wins the Hollywood crowd with color-changing computer cases, and loses the respect of everyone important. My bet - a flaming 'Rat who hates Bush.

21 posted on 01/02/2003 6:36:11 AM PST by Stallone
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To: xm177e2
Every time you open a porn spam email, your computer will blush.

I think you're on to something here. I would like to have a computer that would send a 150K surge of high voltage back along the transmission path of spam and fry the cable modem of the spammer who sent it. Hopefully, the backblast would get the spammer as well.

The Cherenkov radiation produced by said surge and the sizzling sound made by the spammer's electrocuted body would be as entertaining for me as any network TV show.

22 posted on 01/02/2003 6:41:11 AM PST by strela
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well, there are some pretty strange ones out there....

Aquatic golf swing training device and method for enhancing golf swing memory and strength

23 posted on 01/02/2003 6:44:50 AM PST by Textide
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To: chance33_98
You're correct and so are the 900 psychics.
;O)
24 posted on 01/02/2003 6:46:18 AM PST by metesky
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25 posted on 01/02/2003 9:19:00 AM PST by Free the USA
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To: MrsEmmaPeel
 It seems like all flash with no substance.

Bingo.

The core group of Apple users will think it's cool, though...the effete, snotty artiste types which Apple has to play to in order to survive.

There's a group like this in the PC world but the industry largely ignores them.



26 posted on 01/02/2003 9:30:05 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: metesky
They now have non staining chinos. I saw an add where the guy goes to Las Vegas, drinks, eats, spills, sleeps and the slacks are spotless. Why not the tighty-whiteys?

I won’t mention the Bilderburgers.
27 posted on 01/02/2003 6:54:14 PM PST by Leisler
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To: chance33_98
I was going to make a sick comment but I am just going to think it for all those 900 psychics out there...

That's disgusting. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Can I come to your next party?

28 posted on 01/02/2003 6:59:25 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: chance33_98
Apple Files For Patent On Color Changing Cases

Does that mean Michael Jackson will have to go back to being black?

29 posted on 01/02/2003 7:00:17 PM PST by stripes1776
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To: Leisler
Why not the tighty-whiteys?

Real men wear boxers.

I won’t mention the Bilderburgers.

Hold the pickles, please. They're a major cause of color change.

30 posted on 01/03/2003 2:44:10 AM PST by metesky
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To: Stallone
Excellent comments.
31 posted on 01/03/2003 1:03:49 PM PST by Bush2000
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To: chance33_98
The Mood Ring Mac?
32 posted on 01/03/2003 1:05:33 PM PST by Redcloak
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To: Psycho_Bunny
The core group of Apple users will think it's cool, though...the effete, snotty artiste types which Apple has to play to in order to survive...

LMAO!
33 posted on 01/03/2003 1:20:59 PM PST by Bush2000
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To: stripes1776
Does that mean Michael Jackson will have to go back to being black?

Not unless he replaces most of his body with computing machinery ... like the Borg ... ;-p
34 posted on 01/03/2003 1:23:03 PM PST by Bush2000
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