Besides, nothing has actually happened at Apple that wasn't planned, announced in advance, and accounted for. One of those things is a dramatic cutback of their European operations. The Economist is published in Great Britain. Drop them some e-mail and tell them to get it in gear. To the victor goes the glory, and the loser will donate a pre-determined sum of money to a local charity.
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Now for some questions that have been e-mailed to me recently. PRAM, or Parameter RAM, is a small piece of memory, separate from your standard RAM, that stores, among other things, the settings from your Views panel, the mouse tracking speed, preferred startup disk, and the date and time. Every Mac has a battery on the motherboard, good for up to five years, that keeps a charge on the PRAM to preserve the data therein when the Mac is shut down, and even unplugged. Sometimes information in PRAM can get corrupted, causing the Views panel to reset itself to factory defaults every time you start up, or create unexplained crashes and other odd behavior. If done correctly, the screen will flash and the Mac beep while you are holding down the keys and the process will repeat until you release them.