Word: startup
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Longtime competitors raise a more philosophical issue about Gates: his intensely competitive approach has poisoned the collaborative hacker ethos of the early days of personal computing. In his book Startup, Jerry Kaplan describes creating a handwriting-based system. Gates was initially friendly, he writes, and Kaplan trusted him with his plans, but he eventually felt betrayed when Gates announced a similar, competing product. Rob Glaser, a former Microsoft executive who now runs the company that makes RealAudio, an Internet sound system, is an admirer who compliments Gates on his vision. But, he adds, Gates is "pretty relentless. He's Darwinian...
...comes down to the same traits that his psychologist noted when Gates was in sixth grade. "In Bill's eyes," says Glaser, "he's still a kid with a startup who's afraid he'll go out of business if he lets anyone compete." Esther Dyson, whose newsletter and conferences make her one of the industry's fabled gurus, is another longtime friend and admirer who shares such qualms. "He never really grew up in terms of social responsibility and relationships with other people," she says. "He's brilliant but still childlike. He can be a fun companion...
...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one is run by the system at startup, forcing users to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...
Anti-viral startup disks may be obtained from House User Assistants or from the Science Center Help Desk located in the basement of the Science Center...
...similar model built by Ford, reports: "The electric cars drive and feel very much like a regular car. The acceleration is good, and it handles the same. But it's a bit of a stretch to say, as GM claims, that it's quieter than a regular car. At startup and slow speeds, that's certainly true. The electric motor is almost silent. But at normal driving speeds, most of the noise you hear in a car comes from the road and wind, so it sounds pretty much the same...