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MS invested $150 million in Apple, resulting in the renaissance of Apple.
That's a bit of a stretch.
There were a myriad of factors, but $150 Million is only a drop in the bucket of an (at the time) $3 Billion company (Apple).
By settling the mutual lawsuits between Apple and Microsoft, Microsoft gave the $150 million token amount as a good faith showing and promised to keep developing MS Office for the Mac.
The buying of NeXt (to replace the failed attempt at a similar OS) and bringing back Steve Jobs, who had gone on to get a bit more maturity over his ten-year hiatus (and not a little business accumen) were a far greater factor in the re-emergence of Apple to major-player status.
Apple was never mostly dead, despite what the news media loved to claim.
Buyer's Guide: FireWire hard drives
Thank you Tom Scola! Yay. V. useful.
Though between buying the printer/scanner/fax-y thing (it was on sale, see!) and the planned purchase of the hard drive and a speaker-y thing for the iPod, I have completely blown the top off my tech budget for the year. Doh.
Re: Laser printers. HP's do seem to be good printer, but the price for the cartridge given cartridge life seems outragous. Some of the competing brands seem to offer a better price per page, even if the printers last half as long, because the cartridges are so much cheaper and have higher capacities. Is my reasoning flawed? Am I missing a gotcha that means I should get a HP?
Stoopid XML/Javascript question...
Say I have a web page with an xml document embedded in it called xmlJobList. I want to replace this document's xml using Javascript. Say that I have a variable called xmlRetrievedJobStruct that's just a string of the xml I want.
Can I go
xmlJobList.xml = xmlRetrievedJobStruct;
to replace the xml document in memory with the new xml?
Actually, I can't. I get
Microsoft JScript runtime error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment
Can I only do stuff like this for xml that's loaded separatly into a web page, not xml that's embedded in a page?
OK - non-HPs have seperate imaging drums. HP is not so far off in per page cost. Sorry to obsess .
I was able to get to handson. The other two timed out.
Only "all hands" worked for me.
Grr. Thanks. That's what's happening from here too.
I'll put in the support tickets.
