XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: alangbaker@telus.net   
      
   In article <43bf3c8a@dnews.tpgi.com.au>,   
    Nicholas Buenk  wrote:   
      
   > Lefty Bigfoot wrote:   
   > > Tim Smith wrote   
   > > (in article   
   > > ):   
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   > >>In article <0001HW.BFE3510700A14AB9F0386550@news.verizon.net>,   
   > >> Lefty Bigfoot  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>>>* Global, fast search. Vista can now find words in any of your files,   
   > >>>>quickly and easily, just like the Spotlight feature of Mac OS X.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>Wow.  I wonder where they got that idea?   
   > >>   
   > >>They had it before Apple did.  Apple just got it into a *released*   
   > >>product first.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > IOW, Apple got there first.  Announcing and idea and getting it   
   > > working properly are too different things.   
   > >   
   > > I hereby announce the ray gun and the home-size teleporter and   
   > > personal holodeck entertainment system will be shipping real   
   > > soon now.  If anyone beats me to the market with them, they're   
   > > ripping me off.   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > Having the idea first counts for something.   
      
   There's no evidence they had that Microsoft even had the idea first...   
      
   --   
   Alan Baker   
   Vancouver, British Columbia   
   "If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall   
   to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect   
   if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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