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To: JC Jaros who wrote (49232)	9/13/2000 5:06:58 PM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Nice to hear from you too! gg You have to see the "affair" from the eyes of petroleum exporters. Since 1972, the inflation has hiked the cost of basic goods more than 10 times and yet these guys are still selling at the prices that they did in 1970's! They are getting poorer and poorer, and their petro-dollars are not satisfying their needs. So they want more money! They also know if they hike the prices, the demand will diminish, and they have nothing to gain by that. They are between a wall and hard place, and Saudi's in particular are smart enough to know that! So, I think they will lower the prices. If they don't, US will lift the embargo on Iraqi Oil and Iraq will dump another 5 to 6 million barrels a day on the marekt. That will cool the marekt to a great extent. So, Iraq is the trump card that US have up in their sleeves and will play it if necessary. Iranians and Gulf States, and Saudi's in particular don't want the embargo is lifted against Iraq, wo they will compromise.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (49232)	9/13/2000 5:38:28 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Could MacOS X Be 'Holy Grail'? Developers and beta testers are all agog over Apple's new operating system. Asked to compare Mac OS X with Windows ME, one fan says it would be "like comparing Apples to...er, something inedible." By Leander Kahney wired.com ... All the developers said the most exciting part of Mac OS X is the new software development environment, called Cocoa, that will lead to a new generation of Mac software in a year or two. ... "Right now it's hard to write software, you need a huge team. There's no such thing as a mom-and-pop shop anymore writing commercial applications," Shipley said. "Cocoa is going to bring back the early days of computing when three guys in a garage can make software that will ship to millions without having a big company like Microsoft or Adobe behind them. "It will allow two or three programmers working in a garage to keep up with 100 programmers working at Microsoft because Cocoa is such a great foundation -- it's so powerful," he added. Cocoa is an object-oriented programming environment that allows programmers to create software by combining chunks of code, or modules. Stone compared coding in Cocoa to shopping. "You can now develop with high-level modules of code," he said. "It's like a department store, you go in and shop, you get a piece from the networking department, and the Windows department, and stick these things together." Stone said Cocoa also automatically adds support for multiple processors, which he said is perhaps the most important feature of Mac OS X as Apple continues to release machines with more than one CPU. "Apple has done most of the work under the hood," Stone said. "You don't have to know anything about multiprocessing. You now have something that takes advantage of that hardware and that is what is so mind-numbingly wonderful about X. "I've been at this a long, long time and I've never seen anything like this in my life," he said. "It's mind-boggling." Meanwhile, Microsoft on Thursday will release its latest operating system for consumers, the Windows Millennium Edition. More of an update to Windows 98 than a new OS, a basic install of ME nearly doubles the disk space required for Windows 98 -- between 500 to 600 MB. ... "They keep throwing more girth at this monolithic monster," he said. "Mac OS X is a very clean rewrite with a future in it." Another nail in the MSFT coffin. Maybe "B"-Rex can "innovate" by giving Windows another new name ... like "Windows FU". Cheers. Microsoft ... not just mediocre software - mediocre software at a high price that's expensive to maintain.