Well it's the end of another week, but this one has been a very memorable week for me. I have seen 3 members of the computer elite, all in the flesh, in the space of two days!
On thursday (25th) I was luck enough to be able to attend the UK launch of Windows XP (groans come up from the back of the room ;) ). There i saw Steve Balmer, CEO and President of Microsoft, do his launch keynote speech. It almost made up for missing Steve Jobs/Paris Expo, but not quite. I was also treated to all the business an pro demonstrations, man that was good fun ;). Having seen all the features and facets of XP and seen it in action in a lot of tasks I have to say, much as I hate to, that I was very impressed. Sure MS are going to go out of their way to sway people's opinion and make it look as good as possible, but I have XP on my PC now (free trial :) ) and I have to say 'WOW'. It's tidy, fast, reliable (to a point ;) ) and compatible. We have had a few USB gremlins in it so far but that's it. I seriously believe Apple have good reason to be very worried about it, it's going to boost the PC side of the market in business and home areas. Anyway, enough harping on about that... On Friday I got yet more excitement! We had two guest lecturers in to talk to us. They were non other than Doug Engelbart, pioneer of the pointing device and interlinking of data. The other speaker was Ted Nelson, who is seen as the father of 'hypertext' , the power behind the world-wide-web. He's a funny guy and he thinks the whole way computers are used is dumbed down and wrong. He has a much better alternative... Doug's website is at: http://www.bootstrap.org Ted's site is at: http://www.xanadu.net Anyone who has an interest in computer evolutio past or present will find both men's works interesting I'm sure, definitely did. -- Mark Benson aka SiliconValleyPirate (EveryMac) Kane_NUFC (Yahoo! Messenger) SilValleyPirate (AOL Instant Messenger) AirportMan (ICQ - 70745942) Sent using Mac OS X Mail 'It's like an airplane. When you really get down to wanting to fly from one place to another, it's not very much a free market. You don't get to bid for the tail and the wing. Somebody puts it together and says, this is an airplane, I guarantee it, lets go fly' -Bill Gates - 1983 -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
