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From this: Apple has always only competed in the middle-to-high range of the computer market. But it was never the case, historically, that Apple sold a majority of middle-to-high-end computers. Even given that NPD’s numbers represent only retail sales, is there any reasonable doubt that Apple’s share of the non-retail market for $1,000+ computers is …
Monthly Archive: July 2009
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Jul
31
2009
Join the Club. Maybe Not! A Strange Tale of Two Worlds in Palm Beach
Originally written and posted March 2005. Since that time, Bernie Maddoff has made one of the clubs featured in this piece famous (if impecunious,) so I’ve rewritten it a bit. The following year I got to play golf at the Ridgeway Country Club, a formerly “Jewish country club” in Memphis, TN, which opened its membership …
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Jul
30
2009
Atheism Isn’t Self-Evident From a Scientific Education
In describing a “camp for atheists” (that’s not an entirely accurate generalisation, but it’s close) Ruth Gledhill notes the following: At Camp Quest, children will be led to believe that science, which forms the main substance of their instruction, is incompatible with religion and religious beliefs, not because a scientific education makes this fact self-evident …
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Jul
29
2009
Hillary Clinton: Still Running for Office
She is, to use the old military expression, keeping her powder dry: Hillary Clinton says running for office isn’t on her “radar,” but she still has an eight-person political team and sports two overflowing campaign war chests. Her team transformed the former Democratic White House contender’s massive campaign debts into a $3 million mountain of …
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Jul
29
2009
Around South Florida at the Turn of the Unix Era
South Florida is a place of great natural beauty. The basic problem is that it is a victim of its own success; too many people agree with this, so they move there. The result has been development that has exceeded the ability of the region’s natural resources to support it properly. It has also destroyed …
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Jul
27
2009
To Leave TEC, or Not to Leave TEC: That Is the Question StandFirm Doesn’t Want in its Threads
Sarah Hey lays the law down: Everyone who has been commenting any length of time here is well aware that we don’t allow comments exhorting people to leave TEC or stay in TEC, nor do we allow comments castigating either decision… But for ourselves, we are so determined to have a blog with a larger …
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Jul
27
2009
Making Science Into a Religion, and the Nomination of Francis Collins to the NIH
This had to happen sooner or later, and it did in Sam Harris’ op-ed piece for the New York Times: One can only hope that these convictions will not affect his judgment at the institutes of health. After all, understanding human well-being at the level of the brain might very well offer some “answers to …
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Jul
27
2009
On the Water: Palm Beach, Yachting, And…
It’s generally true that “champagne tastes and caviar dreams” involve a yacht somewhere. Today most of them are fibreglass creations, but as soon as he could see his way clear, my father got us into the era of “iron men and wooden ships.” Well, at least the wooden ships… Before we got there: the course …
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Jul
25
2009
The Importance of Being Abroad
Shortly after my family moved to Palm Beach, my mother visited the Embassy Travel Bureau to make some arrangements to go to Europe. The Bureau was owned by Nigel and Yvelyne “Deedy” Marix (Deedy was later Mayor of Palm Beach.) Nigel, a very proper Englishman, asked my mother, “Have you ever been abroad?” “All my …
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