Nuketown

Archive - Nov 1, 2002

motleyfool.com: A Letter to Martha

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Fri, 11/01/2002 - 2:00am

I don't agree with Martha's Democratic Party leanings, but I can't help but feel that she's the subject of a witch hunt, a hunt driven almost entirely by envy. David Gardner at Motley Fool agrees. Read the full story.

The Mighty Mac Mouse Myth

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Fri, 11/01/2002 - 2:00am

As a Mac user, I get a fair amount of flack from PC folks. Some of it was about the toilet-seat design of the original colorful iBooks (hey, I agree – those things looked awful). Some of it was aimed at processor speed (I admit it – PCs have faster processors, although gap isn’t nearly as great as PC folks might like you to believe). But the single greatest source of scorn has been the Mac mouse.

The term “double click” is synonymous with the Mac – after all, Apple’s the one who took the mouse mainstream. Yet although Apple pioneered consumer use of the mouse, it’s been the PC side that’s seen a true explosion in mice utility. Three button and four button mice, scroll mice, inverted mice – you name it, you’ll find it … on the PC side.