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Silly Jilly
Conversations With A Cupcake: Birkenstocks
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Freebie Gallery: The Peacock
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yew kno… « Loldogs, Dogs ‘n’ Puppy Dog Pictures - I Has A Hotdog!
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Silly Jilly
Sesame Honey Cupcakes ~ Cupcake Project
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Silly Jilly
Once Upon a Plate: Cinnamon Scones with Raspberry Butter
Once Upon a Plate: Cinnamon Scones with Raspberry Butter
Once Upon a Plate: Cinnamon Scones with Raspberry Butter
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Silly Jilly
Unemployed? 4 Ways to Avoid COBRA's Bite - On Health and Money (usnews.com)
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"A report released today spells out in hard numbers what we all already intuitively knew: There's no way most laid-off workers can afford to hang on to their employer's health insurance on the strength of their weekly unemployment checks. The math just doesn't add up. According to the Families USA report, the average monthly premium for family health coverage under COBRA, the federal law that allows laid-off workers to continue with their former employer's health insurance, is $1,069. The average unemployment benefit, meanwhile, is $1,278 a month. That means that COBRA family coverage eats up 84 percent of a worker's unemployment check, on average. Single workers are somewhat better off: The bite for COBRA coverage is "only" 30 percent of their check. Either way, it's easy to understand why only about a quarter of those who are eligible for COBRA coverage take it." - Silly Jilly via Bookmarklet
COBRA is so frustrating. It would be almost $900 for me + Akiva under my COBRA plan, for medical only (not including dental or vision). - Rochelle
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Silly Jilly
10 Things You Didn't Know About Sanjay Gupta - US News and World Report
10 Things You Didn't Know About Sanjay Gupta - US News and World Report
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Oh, is that Steve Carell? - Rochelle
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Silly Jilly
Hands on with the Novatel Wireless MiFi
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FFundercats on TV
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Apparently this is 40" of SeaKitties hooooooooo! - WorldofHiglet
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Ladysillybug Heather
“It's not the way that you say it when you do those things to me; it's more the way that you mean it when you tell me what will be.”
yesterday at 6:21 am - Link
Between the silence of the mountains and the crashing of the sea, there lies a land I once lived in, and she's waiting there for me. - Ladysillybug Heather
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But in the grey of the morning, my mind becomes confused between the dead and the sleeping and the road that I must choose. - Ladysillybug Heather
This song is pure poetry. :) - Ladysillybug Heather
Whos lyrics are they Ladybug? They are sort of familiar - are they yours? - Chris Loft
Not mine... The Moody Blues, "Question" - Ladysillybug Heather
Video here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=... - Ladysillybug Heather
Ah, no wonder it sounded familiar. That has sure been a long time. I'd better check out the video. thankx - Chris Loft
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Karin Dalziel
“I hate hate HATE how the macbook pro shutdown works. I have to choose shutdown and then WAIT TO CLOSE IT until it actually shuts down. Otherwise it will sleep. Dumbest thing EVER. I hope this is changed in the new macs.”
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Oh, just be glad you have a Pro. ;) (Nah, I know what you mean - the regular MacBooks work the same way, which has screwed me out of battery more than once.) - teleken
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I don't think I've ever had any kind of laptop that didn't do this. - ĻßĈ
ĻßĈ - Really??? I have had 5 laptops (dell, gateway, sony, mpc) and none of them did this. Just choose shutdown and close and the computer did the rest. Granted, they took WAY longer to shut down. - Karin Dalziel
teleken - it is a 2.5 year old macbook, but I will take what I can get. - Karin Dalziel
Yeah my macs have always been like this. Windoze are different - Fiona Bradley
I'm hoping maybe at tax time this year I can swing one of the new ones - want for backlit keyboard, aluminum, etc. :) - teleken
(Gateway/Vista here): The "WAY longer" is strange. Most of the time, this machine will power down within 5-10 seconds of telling it to. Once in a while, it takes upwards of a minute. I've given up trying to figure out why. (Powerup is consistent, about 30 seconds including all the startup items.) - Walt Crawford
Walt- I'm guessing sometimes you have a program open that takes longer to close out. - Karin Dalziel
My XO laptop too, since upgrading to build 767. Have to wait until it is completely shut down before closing it. Have you seen that on yours Karin? - Jacquelin Siegel
Jacquelin Siegel - no, I didn't notice that! That would explain the mysterious dead battery though. - Karin Dalziel
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Silly Jilly
“THESE TOILETS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY”
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DRINK DEEP. - Steven Perez
UB GLUB GLUB - Silly Jilly
OH NO. FUUGUU - Akiva Moskovitz
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Ladysillybug Heather
“I just fed Scott his first Filipino food. We had lumpia, pancit, and pork siopao for supper. The lumpia and siopao were a hit, the pancit less so. Is okay - more pancit for me and my boy. OM NOM NOM!”
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He also walked a dog for his first time today. Who's a good Scott? Yes you are! You're a good widdle ScottyWottyYummyPants, aren't you? - Ladysillybug Heather
LOL to the comment. Way to break him in, Heather! :) - ♫Laura B., Laura B.♪
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Wordles: Autism Healthcare Twitter Day
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LSW: åņņå
“Did you like your LIS program and would you recommend it to a newbie with very experience working in a library (but was a heavy user)? If so, please include the name of your school.”
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That should be "very little experience" - ugh, Friday. - åņņå
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If your (presumably) American friend is up for an international experience, I did enjoy my time at the University of Western Ontario, but it is a more traditional sort of program than many of the new "information schools" - DJF via twhirl
Yes, I did. But for my purposes. I'd need/want to know more about their interests before saying "Yes, UIUC is for you!" I also had fairly extensive experience before coming so that may disqualify me from this one. ;-) - Mark Lindner
Yes, I did, and I think UW-Madison does reasonably well by such people. We have a practicum requirement and several well-regarded institutionalized programs for gaining real-world experience in such things as bibliographic instruction. - D0r0th34
I am at the University of Maryland. I cannot honestly answer this question without separating the recommendation of the program from the amount of work experience. I believe that I am at a great LIS school, but regardless of the school, I believe that it is NEVER the role of the school to teach someone how to be a librarian. The student is on her (or maybe, his) own to figure that part out, and make the career happen. - Julian
I don't expect any program to teach people how to be a librarian in the real world, even the ones that try, but I personally think that a program that is oriented towards scholarship in the classroom and has a healthy practicum program is the best balance for a newbie. - åņņå
Some people are able to walk in with little experience, having only what they learned in school, and be allowed to learn what they need for their role once they arrive. This profession seems to celebrate fit over expertise and experience a lot of the time. School can't teach fit. The rest of us have to be experts walking in the door, with said expertise coming from outside of school (since what we do while earning the MLS does not matter to employers). "I love books" seems to be the best way to be. - Julian
I would recommend Maryland for the person with a history degree (or two or three) who wants to work in archives, or the teacher who wants to make a slight career change while remaining in the schools. Also, not bad if you want to work with government information. But since we mostly have no practicum, thesis, or comprehensive exam requirements, you're on your own. - Julian
I loved mine at San Jose State University, but it has since changed to almost entirely online learning. I really appreciated actually going to classes, so I don't know if I can wholeheartedly recommend it now. Still some great faculty there, I know that. ADDENDUM: I had no experience and that was not a problem. And they do encourage practicums. - Laura Norvig
I enjoyed my time at UW-Milwaukee. Every class I took, no matter how abstract the subject matter was, tied what we learned to real world things, with the idea that we'd actually be getting jobs when we graduated. Lots of opportunities for practicums and other work situations while going through the program. - joshua m. neff
I agree with Mark - UIUC was mostly great for me, but I'd want to know a lot more about the person & their interests before wholeheartedly recommending it. If they did go there, a practicum and/or graduate assistantship would help a lot with the lack of experience. - Jaclyn
I went to UIUC also (in my last term now). I *loved* my assistantship, but I was getting pretty frustrated by the end at how many classes were strictly online, having moved across the country to be here. Several of my classes felt rather dated to me, as in, not really addressing what's happening now and coming soon. As others have said, it all depends on what the student is hoping to get out of the program. The assistantship opps here are marvelous, but they're getting major cuts for next year. - Librarienne
I'd recommend FSU's distance ed program particularly if your friend has an interest in the IT side of libraries. At the very least they should start the program with a high degree of computer literacy. I saw a lot of people floundering cluelessly with the online aspect of the program. It is also best suited for the student with a high degree of self-motivation, as I'd think any distance ed program is. - Jαsοn Puckett
I also went to UIUC, failed to get an assistantship, and still enjoyed it for the short time I was there. - Greg Schwartz
I enjoyed my "in-person" experience at FSU in 1994-95. There were plenty of us, myself included, with no library experience at that time. What frustrated me was that it seemed the profs thought we'd all end up in public libraries and almost discouraged us from pursuing anything else. I hope that part has improved by now; I think it has. - ♫Laura B., Laura B.♪
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Alex Scoble
“A Mac is still a PC...the fact that people equate PC with Windows is so annoying and not even close to reality.”
8 hours ago - Link
A decades-old historical artifact that may never go away. - Logical Extremes
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Apple has been making PCs longer than anyone else still on the market...And the IBM PC never ran Windows. - Alex Scoble
People equate the two together because the term PC was used by the media to refer to Windows machines. I want to say that Jobs himself made a distinction in an ad campaign along the lines of "PC vs Mac" at some point. People forget that PC just means personal computer. - xero
I'm hear to remind them that PC just means personal computer. - Alex Scoble
Thank you, Alex! - Helen Sventitsky
Isn't Apple a big part of trying to make the distinction between the two. "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC, hi PC" commercials and all. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, that would be known as marketing FAIL. - Alex Scoble
A Mac is a personal computer, but it's not a "PC". "PC" stopped meaning "generic personal computer" many years ago. Such is the way of languages: always evolving. - James Williams (willia4)
It's always been associated with 'PC'. All the way back from the IBM PC being married to Microsoft OS's. Blame Apple with their commercials for continuing the trend. 'Wintel' was used for a short time but then not just Intel made x86 processors too. Us geeks know better and just say XP, Vista, Linux, OSX.. - Rodfather
See also: iPod. - Steven Perez
What do you suggest as a replacement term? - Matt M.
I like MSFT's new "I'm a PC" adverts running in the BART stations right now. heavy on the nostalgia factor. Guitars, 70s muscle cars and baseball t's, huge vinyl record collections, etc. Seems like they are reading my mind to try and find out what is hip and cool. - Thomas Hawk
Mac PC, Windows PC, Linux PC...PC is the type of box, not what you have installed on the hard drive. - Alex Scoble
Actually, Alex, it's Marketing Win. Apple works very hard to reinforce the perceptions that distinguish its premium products from the rabble of Windows-based personal computers ;-) - Logical Extremes
No, those Mac vs PC commercials are about the lamest, sleaziest, most dishonest commercials out there. EPIC Marketing FAIL! - Alex Scoble
windows on a mac still sucks, so equating a mac to being better then a pc is stupid - clarke thomas
Aren't Macs "PCs" by definition? (i.e. they're computer systems designed for one local user/personal use). Doesn't help that the line has been blurred even more with the shift to x86 from PowerPC, either. - Tyson Key
That's what I'm saying, Tyson. Thanks for reiterating the point. - Alex Scoble
I think that early on there were hardware architectural differences (also other than processor) that differentiated PCs and Macs (and possibly others), and a certain OS was fit for that. Hence the different historical names for the hardware associated with the OS. It wasn´t like today when you can choose to install Windows, OS X/OSX86, Linux on whichever computer/PC (or game console!) you buy. - Thomas Bøhm
I used to use "PC" as short for "personal computer" until too many people thought I was talking Windows. You can only struggle upstream against the popular interpretation of English for so long. - Spidra Webster
You can argue phones are PC's too now.. Or even some MP3 players. Better not to use the term at all unless you're making a point that choosing a PC is a 'personal' choice. - Rodfather
WHY are people arguing the point? - Rob Sellen
I am a Mac and I am a PC. I'm also a Gemini. - Christopher Galtenberg
Alex, I'm talking about Apple's long-term marketing strategy, not specifically those commercials, - Logical Extremes
Hmm, they used to use a proprietary implementation of Open Firmware on the machines prior to the Intel transition, and their proprietary Macintosh Toolbox firmware prior to that. They've been using commodity parts for several years, though (barring most of their older motherboards). - Tyson Key
I'm actually surprised that Microsoft doesn't have a TM on "PC". - mathew, keynote not lame
Yep, one could also argue that there's a delineation between desktop PCs and laptop PCs, but PC is so broad of a term that any computer used for one's personal needs and is small enough for a person to carry around is a PC. But basically this myth that there's a difference in hardware is perpetrated by Apple and the "pod people". - Alex Scoble
IBM might have had a trademark, but the term PC is so broad and well used that Microsoft would never be able to defend it in court. - Alex Scoble
Yes, and a tomato is a fruit.... - Kelly W.
Of course, they used NuBus expansion cards for a while, before phasing them out for PCI ones. Barring probably the very earliest machines, they've used standardised RAM, SCSI (and later PATA) hard disks, and replaced LocalTalk/DIN serial ports in favour of Ethernet eons ago. Other than using Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) instead of PS/2 prior to the USB transition, there really weren't all that many architectural differences. - Tyson Key
It *is* easier to say mac than "PC installed with Mac OS X" though :) I guess that´s why some Linux people call their computers Linux-box too. - Thomas Bøhm
Heh, how far are you willing to go? Is my Nokia smartphone a "personal computer"? Are the barely working PlayStation, or the broken Apple Newton I have in a drawer somewhere "personal computers"? Hell, what about a Nintendo DS? - Tyson Key
I thought it was funny when Dwayne Wade was asked, what do you use, a Mac or a PC? He answered, neither, I use a Vaio. Relationship to a brand may be more important than what's inside. Like when you say 'Netbook', you can't really associate it with an OS since it's running Linux, XP, OSX (through hacks), and now Android.. - Rodfather
Kleenex. Need I say more? - Martha
It should be "Windows," not "PC" - klecu
If Apple was smart, they'd leverage this. Make new commercials that have Justin Long begin with, "I'm a PC" ... lot's of interesting directions to go from there. LOL! - michael silverton
Rodfather: I agree about "netbook", but the older acronym PC has, at least in some circles, become to mean Windows computer (no matter what the P and C stands for). Although ironically, you can now legally only use the term Netbook about a Psion ;) - Thomas Bøhm
So, if I am the only one that uses my toaster, and that toaster has a circuitboard, is my toater a PC? - Mark VandenBerg
@Steven Perez - I find the insistence of many people to refer to all personal audio players/"MP3 players" (regardless of brand) "iPods" grating. Still, even more annoying are those few that reckon that an "iPod" is not an "MP3 player" (and yes, I know a few people like that :()... - Tyson Key
Even more confusing is when commodity "PC" hardware is running Linux, given how "PC" means both that hardware and Windows. - J Wynia
Personal Toaster? ;) - Tyson Key
At least everyone who has commented in this thread knows a 'Computer' is not the Monitor. I've met so many people who think everything is in that monitor - Chacha
It is if it's an eMac or iMac Chacha...or even a Mac Classic. - Alex Scoble
@Chacha my apple lisa would like a word with you... - Mark VandenBerg
...or the keyboard. - WorldofHiglet
Because "Hi, I'm a personal computer with an x86 CPU running Windows" doesn't sound nearly as catchy... - Tyson Key
I don't come from the world of Macs ... cut me some slack - Chacha
This is friendfeed...not slackfeed. Slack is for those who aren't friends. - Alex Scoble
How about this, you buy me a new Mac, and then you can not cut me slack :) - Chacha
I can't cut you some Slack', but I can give you some Ubuntu... ;) - Tyson Key
Pretty sure HP, Gateway and Acer have "All-in-Ones" for ale as well. - Mark VandenBerg
How about you buy me a CycloDS Evolution flash card for my Nintendo DS and then I'll cut you some slack...yes, I can be bribed. - Alex Scoble
PCs for beer...nom nom nom. - Alex Scoble
It took a minute to figure out exactly what you were naming Alex - Chacha
Alex eats PCs? Yuck! ;) - Tyson Key
I sort of agree. I mean, they're all personal computers. But back in the day when there were multiple architectures, PC only specifically meant a machine manufactured by IBM with a 16-bit x86 CPU. I can't remember, but did people call machines made by Commodore, Atari, Tandy, etc. PCs? - Victor Ganata
Wouldn't you rather have an impersonal computer? ;) - Tyson Key
I'd rather just have a computer. A COMPUTER DAMMIT! - Chacha
@alex it's a shame that compaq are only around in name only.. they'd have been the ones to claim longer time on the market ;) - alphaxion
@victor technically everyone referred to them as "home computers". Oh, and there's still multiple achitectures. powerpc is found in all your games consoles, ARM RISC CPU's can be found in most mobile devices (intel xscale is an ARM RISC chip), alpha and dec are still hanging on but are the great whites of the computing world - endangered as fuck. - alphaxion
Hmm, "Lenovo-compatible PC" or "IBM-compatible PC"? (Not that it matters, these days) - Tyson Key
At my workplace everyone apart from me calls the whole computer cabinet a "harddisk". *That´s* annoying because it leads to all sorts of misunderstandings. - Thomas Bøhm
Apple was in business before COMPAQ. Apple II was released in 1977. COMPAQ wasn't founded until 1982. Apple II was the first mainstream PC. - Alex Scoble
Heh, I know some people insist on calling it the "CPU". :( - Tyson Key
Something tells me this will not change any time soon. - Ryan
MIPS, anyone? They're still hanging on in there... It seems sometimes that Sony's their biggest customer, although I know they're used in most ADSL modems/routers... - Tyson Key
they were one of the first to produce IBM compables tho.. which is where most of the PC industry today stem from in the family tree. - alphaxion
Apple still produced the first mainstream PC. - Alex Scoble
Props to Alex for his insightful comments like this. - Mohomed=genieyclo
I have one of those. - Logical Extremes
@alphaxion - Do Sun or Stratus Technologies still count? (I suppose SGI now is pretty much a shell of it's former self). Still Acorn, or at least their technology managed to stick around in some form, until this present day (in the guise of ARM CPUs, and the Shared Source RISC OS project)... - Tyson Key
True. But, people have also probably bought Zunes by asking for an "iPod" rather than asking for a "digital music player." - Sonya Smith
If it were marketing fail, why would they still be running the ads? Now, those Microsoft commercials with Seinfeld and Bill Gates - THOSE were marketing fail. - Cecily
how do you consider the altair? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... note, I'm not claiming it is the first mainstream PC, but it is just as important on the way towards the PC. - alphaxion
It's marketing FAIL because they are patently false and insulting most of the time. Who needs ethics when you have marketing, eh? - Alex Scoble
Who has a patent on PC? - Chacha
Yes, the Altair was earlier, but it wasn't the first mainstream PC and the maker is no longer in business, as far as I know. This makes Apple the oldest PC maker still in business. - Alex Scoble
You can't patent something as broad as a personal computer. - Alex Scoble
Acorn is long dead.. all that exists is the spin off company that became totally seperate to acorn (ARM, the only british CPU designer and the most successfull fabless CPU company). And if anyone ever asks for my fav PC, I'd always answer the RISCPC (A5000). First computer I ever lusted after! - alphaxion
Any thoughts on their "World Without Walls" (or something like that) promotion? - Tyson Key
@alex I just wanted your thoughts on it, I did say I said it didn't count in the rest of the convo :) - alphaxion
Did Apple really ever call their machines PCs? - Victor Ganata
@alphaxion - Not sure if it's of interest to you, but seeing http://www.riscosopen.org/cont... makes me happy, given that the software would have died off a long time ago, even if there is a lot of politicking about the hardware side of things (Iyonix and numerous never-to-be-seen products) and ROM/OS revisions. - Tyson Key
I'm pretty sure that they have, Victor. Although they've always differentiated their PCs from IBM's PCs and the Windows PCs that came afterwards. As for the Altair, I can't say too much about it as I never got to play with one. My first PC was an Apple II with 48k of memory. - Alex Scoble
But as far as I can tell the Altair is another legendary story about a silicon valley idea that never quite reached its potential. Kind of like how Atari could have gotten in on the ground floor of PC computing with the Apple II, but pooh poohed the idea. - Alex Scoble
I'm surprised that Psion is still around in some form, even they're now based in Canada, are sniping people over the use of the word "netbook", and have reduced their product line to a few industrial devices, and spare parts... - Tyson Key
I thought it was all about what OS you are using? I like the Mac OS the best! - orionstarr
You're sure that the term PC wasn't just IBM marketingspeak from the early '80's? As @alphaxion points out, I think most people called them home computers or microcomputers, generically. I got the impression that when people said PC, they basically mean a DOS-based computer, even way back when. - Victor Ganata
psion could have been the british version of sony, but in typical british style it failed and failed hard :( @tyson I played around with RISCOS emulators.. shame I can't get my stash of DD floppies to work, I have some stuff on them that I haven't seen in over a decade! - alphaxion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... The term has been in use long before IBM came out with the IBM PC in the early 80s. - Alex Scoble
PC=Personal Computer. Simple enough, choose your OS... - orionstarr
Alex: Isn't it kind of disturbing in a way, how many people don't even know the origin of the term PC? So many "insignificant background stories" that shaped things -- and failures that resulted in suboptimal current situations. Maybe there should be a cadre of contemporary tech historian vetting quotidian cliches and better advising sitcom script writers to somewhat prevent complete loss of contact with genesis of present realities. Nah, we're Television, we LIVE for easy-to-digest plausible mischaracterizations that help the illiterate feel empowered and enlightend by shopping rather than learning. *sigh* Same as it ever was. More cortisol is not the solution. - michael silverton
Well being that windows is what on 95% of everyone's "PC" according to MS users, it's no wonder that the stereotype is there. - orionstarr
It's disturbing that so many people don't even know the origin of their chosen religion, city, state, country, let alone the PC they use, if they even use one. Ignorance is the gravest disease known to man. - Alex Scoble
alot of truth in what you say there alex ;o) - Rob Sellen
So you are saying religion came from a PC? lol.. - orionstarr
no he is saying, its strange that people dont realise the ORIGIN of things... ;o) - Rob Sellen
I understand the etymology of "home computer" (pretty self-explanatory) and "microcomputer" (as opposed to mainframes and minicomputers) but what does "personal computer" actually mean? Along what axis does it differentiate itself? I realize the term existed prior, but IBM certainly popularized it to mean their machines, and only their machines, so we're basically striving against nearly 30 years of history here. Not only is the term used inaccurately, I think it's just obsolete. - Victor Ganata
@Alex - Saddens me even more so that people either generally just don't care, or actively go out of their way to not learn about the history of things. "Ignorance is bliss", so they say, but more fool them... :( - Tyson Key
... there is not a windows pc or linux pc or Mac pc, but a MULTIBOOT PC! - Adrian Culici
...make software, not war... - Adrian Culici
It means a computer designed specifically for personal use, as opposed to the use of multiple people. Up until the 70s, all computers were designed to be used by groups of people. It just wasn't cost effective to build a computer for just one person until the advent of the microprocessor made it possible. - Alex Scoble
And now we're back to where we started - nearly everyone's running operating systems designed for multiple users, albeit on computer systems only used by one person (barring servers)... - Tyson Key
Yeah, I think that Victor is right about the term being obsolete. - Alex Scoble
@Adrian ROTFLMAO! multiBoot multiVM multiOS PC! I (heart) my Mac-PC runinng FreeBSD, and Windows 7 inside VMWare Fusion. Now, if only I can do all of this inside Android or Symbian, we can declare The Future, Present. And why do we call our pocket computers phones? "Phone" is another complete anachronim. PC should mean Pocket Computer, today, no? No, wait, it's a PokeCom! - michael silverton
@michael silverton Amen... when you can plug a usb pocket drive into a computer and boot an OS from it no matter what OS is loaded on the host... where does that really leave us? In Geekvana of course :) - Adrian Culici
It'd be nice if someone found a way to get Symbian OS and other OSes of that kind running on QEMU or a VMware product, for what it's worth. (I know that it runs on ARM, although there's nothing to stop VMware or anyone else from producing a virtual machine monitor/emulator for it)... - Tyson Key
@Kelly W. regarding "tomato is a fruit" - anatomically it's a berry (if you believe Wikipedia on this). Legally in the US it's a vegetable (yes, in the 1800s the US Supreme Court weighed in on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... ) based on common usage in the kitchen. Oh, and I'm sure the agricultural industry had no influence on getting a court ruling / classification because fruit had a tariff applied whereas veggies did not :) - Micah Wittman
Micah you rock with your accuracy and research. The point I was tryng to make is that it's all semantics and perception. What was once defined or considered one thing evolves into something else. PC though derived from "personal computer" has evolved to define specifically one that runs a Microsoft OS. - Kelly W.
-100 Kelly for incorrectly defining a PC as a computer that runs a Microsoft OS. - Alex Scoble
Here's your problem Alex: you think people mean Personal Computer when they call a Windows machine a PC, when they really mean Piece of Crap. (I kid! I kid!) - invariant
LOL invariant...now that actually makes sense. - Alex Scoble
This is all a surprise to me. I have an old Mac kicking about - not mine, but nobody wants it. My own computer is f****d. I also have a spare windows disk. Can I really just download windows on to this mac? Its a Power Macintosh 3. Is it really that simple? - laprensa66
Sadly, laprensa66, since that machine has a PowerPC CPU, Windows won't run on it natively. I doubt it's capable of running an x86 PC emulator, either. - Tyson Key
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