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October 15, 2004
Bing Cherry
This story about a MacOS emulator is beginning to break through to a wider audience, including the AfterNoon paper so I thought I'd link to it.
I'm the first to admit this is one strange story. What you supposedly have is an Albanian born guy, raised in Germany, living on Maui. And if you believe what he is saying, he, in his spare time, wrote software that allows the MacOS to run on Intel platforms with only a 20 percent speed hit.
If true, this would be a remarkable achievement because emulating in software what another platform does in hardware usually means you can go to the kitchen to grab yourself a cup of coffee between screen updates.
As of yet, all is vaporware so this is just so much speculation and guessing. But as the old saying goes: If it looks too good to be true...
Day 3, and still no reply from O'Reilly.
UPDATE: Within 10 minutes of posting this morning, I got this email from Valerie Dow of O'Reilly:
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:05:48 -0700
To: Dan Seto
From: Valerie Dow
Subject: O'Reilly sweepstakes: HawaiiDear Dan,
Ye gads, thanks for writing in. Please, please enter the sweepstakes. http://www.oreilly.com/promos/perfectpc/index.csp "Continental" should not have appeared in item 7. under eligibility for the online sweepstakes and we're very grateful that you spotted it (horrified and chagrined at the error would also apply). I've just asked our online producer to delete that word in the rules document so the correction should appear later today. We work with an outside counsel who's a specialist in sweepstakes regulations because, as you noted, the details matter a lot in these things. This one was particularly thorny since there's an online, US retail, Canadian retail, and Quebec retail iteration of the rules. Anyway, that fellow confirmed today that he blew it by letting that word stay in the online rules document.
I'd love to send you a copy of Building the Perfect PC in thanks for helping us get this right. Please send me an address and I'll get one to Hawaii! (note in the email below the affection for Hawaii here).
All best,
Valerie>I have no idea why my beloved Hawaiians were cut out of this promotion.
>(I'm rather fond of Alaska, too.) Guess I didn't read the fine print, either.
>>Bill/Val, any idea what this is about?
>
>Mark
>>At 09:12 PM 10/12/2004 -0700, Tim O'Reilly wrote:
>>Care to respond?
>>
>>Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>From: Dan Seto
>>>Date: October 12, 2004 1:48:14 PM PDT
>>>To: oreilly.com
>>>Subject: "Building the Perfect PC"
>>>
>>>Mr O'Reilly:
>>>
>>>I was all set to enter the contest tied in to Robert Bruce Thompson's
>>>new book "Building the Perfect PC." But as is the case when I enter
>>>these things, I carefully read the contest rules. Imagine my dismay
>>>when I realized O'Reilly had decided to disenfranchise millions of US
>>>citizens by saying only people living in the "continental" US could
>>>enter.
>>>
>>>I realize the number of O'Reilly books sold in Alaska and Hawai'i may
>>>not count for much, but why go out of your way to create ill will?
>>>
>>>People like to say the Internet is about conversations. Well, one way
>>>of killing a conversation is to tell people they don't count. Indeed,
>>>tell them you don't even want to hear from them is a good way of
>>>ending things real quick.
>>>
>>>I hope, in the future, that your company will honor the fact that
>>>there are 50 states in the United States of America and that opening
>>>lines for conversations are better than saving a few bucks for
>>>shipping.
>>>
>>>Aloha,
>>>
>>>Dan
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>>Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly Media, Inc.
>>1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
>>http://www.oreilly.com (company), http://tim.oreilly.com (personal)
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>Mark Brokering
>O'Reilly Media, Inc.
>1005 Gravenstein Highway North
>Sebastopol CA 95472
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Have a Great Weekend, Everyone - Aloha!