What did we get for all those billions?

From here. The sad part is you can be sure the response won't be "we have to change our course", but "we need more of the same!"

Quick Notes from MacWorld

MacBooks:
- New 15" and 17" MacBook Pros with upgraded hard drives, enclosure, screen, processor, and RAM
- 13" MacBook is now MacBook Pro with same options as the other Pros
- White plastic MacBook is the only "MacBook"
- Updated Specs on the MacBook Airs
- Price drops across the board

MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Everything previously announced
- $29 for upgrade from 10.5
- $49 family pack upgrade
- Available September

iPhone:
- iPhone OS 3.0 coming soon
- New iPhone 3GS
- 2x speed, 2x RAM, 2x processor
- Digital compass built-in
- Hardware Encryption
- 3 Megapixel autofocus, auto-white balance camera
- Video recording and editing
- MMS (but not on AT&T until the end of the summer)
- Tethering (but not on AT&T)
- Same form factor as iPhone 3G
- 2x speed for 3G cellular radio
- Available June 19 for $199 for 16 GB, and $299 for 32 GB

Defining Terms

For those of you who want a brief description of economic systems, Neal Boortz has up a good description which I will post here:

* An economic system where both industry and business is owned and controlled by the government ..... Socialism.
* An economic system where industry and business is privately owned, but controlled by the government ..... Fascism.
* An economic system where industry and business is privately owned an privately controlled. .... Free enterprise.

Gas prices

Gas prices
Originally uploaded by nomad7674.

(Sent from my 3G iPhone)

Happy WWDC Day!

Today is a very exciting day for Mac Geeks and Apple Fanboys all over the world. It is the kickoff to WWDC - WorldWide Developers Conference. This is the annual event where Apple Computer has typically launched its big products for the year. Most notably for the last two years, it has been the event that launched the Apple iPhone and the Apple iPhone 3G. The keynote - the big presentation where the announcements are made - is scheduled for 10 AM PDT (about 1 PM EST). You can follow along at MacRumors.Com LiveBlog if you wish.

The most current rumors are up at DaringFireball.Net where John Gruber predicts the new iPhone will be called the iPhone 3GS (earlier rumors had it pegged as the "iPhone Video). He predicts 2X the RAM and 2X the processor speed, 15-20% longer battery life, and iPhone tethering (already confirmed in the iPhone 3.0 software). Other sites are predicting integrated video camera (and autofocus digital camera) including possibly the long-awaited integration of video iChat.

We shall see. It should be an interesting day.

Use the Farce!



Every dieter has felt this way

From here.