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If you’re trying to get into your car, and the door lock is frozen, you can probably warm it up enough to operate by cupping your gloved palm around the keyhole and blowing slowly. I just did this for Erin.
When you breathe in, the cold outside air gets warmed by your body (you are transferring your heat to the air). when you breathe onto the lock, heat from your warm air transfers to the metal lock. Since it is metal, it has a high heat conductivity. blowing on the outside if the lock would be the same, roughly, as blowing on the inside of it, even though you can’t reach it.
This doesn’t happen to your house usually because most people heat their houses, and their dioorknobs conduct that heat.
The existence of a deity can not be proven by science. The non-existence of a deity also can not be proven by science. Such is the nature of deity.
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In under 12 hours, the keynote presentation at Macworld Expo will begin. Everyone likes to talk about rumors or speculate about new products before one of these keynotes. I am no exception.
I’ve been out of the Mac biz for several years now, so I am not privy to the kind of information that could be leaked. But I’ll speculate anyway:
- Few people expect it, nor do they lust for it, but Apple will announce their entry into the HDTV business. It seems like a logical progression, since Dell is doing it. But Dell is a name known for inexpensive, reliable computers that run Microsoft Windows. Apple is a personal technology company, so it only makes sense that they would use their weight to go after a market which should see a lot of growth soon. Most households do not have HDTVs, and most people do not have televisions capable of receiving digital signals. So when people decide to upgrade, they will have another choice. I expect that most of their HDTV sales will be to people with iPod or Macintosh computers, because these people are already warm to the idea of buying entertainment technology from Apple.
- This TV will also be smart enough to tell you whether you’re actually looking at an HD signal. Many people who buy HDTVs don’t know enough about how to get HD signals into them, so they end up not realizing the benefits of their television. So the TV will be helpful and say “Hey, this is a standard def signal!” in some way.
- Apple will announce something that makes its new Macintosh computers even more compatible with Windows software. No idea whether that means they’re making WINE part of the OS, kind of like they did with KDE, or whether they’re going to ship dual-boot computers (unlikely because it might limit their ability to sue Microsoft, though they already share a lot of patents.)
- (duh) New Macintosh computers will be announced, as well as new iPods, and updates to various software. Mac OS X 10.5 will be demonstrated.
- Maybe Apple will do a 30th Anniversary Mac. (If anyone wants to buy my Twentieth Anniversary Mac, drop me a line. It still works.)
- Apple will not announce that it is going for IT sales, but IBM will announce that they are investing a bunch of money in Apple and making Lotus Notes Server a Mac OS X Server-only product. Then IBM’s sales force will try to sell Lotus Notes and Mac OS X Server.
- Apple will announce that Mac OS X 10.5 will ship a week before Windows Vista. Oh, and they’ll announce that a Macintosh is not required in order to run it. You can run it on any Intel or AMD machine. Its system requirements will be slightly lower than Vista’s. But it will not allow other vendors to sell Mac OS pre-installed on computers. Yet.
- Apple will test Photoshop CS3 on one of its own computers using Mac OS X versus Photoshop CS3 on one of its own computers running Windows Vista in order to prove that a Mac is still the best choice for running Photoshop… since the advantages of PowerPC optimization will be lost, they need to prove themselves in this arena if they intend to sell Macs to designers, who can just switch to Windows.
- If Apple introduces a phone, it will be like a Windows Mobile device except it’s also an iPod and media player.
Well, that’s about all I can think of. We’ll see how good I am at guessing. Remember, I don’t have any inside knowledge, and I intentionally tried to stay away from the topics that are getting the most buzz. I just think that the announcements are going to be bigger as Apple continues to move away from the Mac as its moneymaker. Which is not bad for the Mac, beacuse more people are buying them now than ever before.