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Comes With Free Beer (3/17/99)
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Ah, St. Patrick's Day-- the day on which everyone's Irish and the green beer flows like a mighty river. Personally, it doesn't rank as one of our favorite holidays of all time-- after all, we don't drink, we look terrible in green, and no one even gets any presents. We'd much rather celebrate Ireland on Bloomsday by curling up with some Joyce and reading indecipherable fiction until our brains liquefy and dribble out of our ears-- but that's just a matter of taste. And that's not to say that we don't enjoy watching green-clad celebrators getting drunk and having fun every March 17th. Plus, St. Patrick's Day couldn't escape the commercialism of our culture any more than Christmas or President's Day could, which means that lots of companies roll out the green carpet and offer St. Patty's Day Specials.
Take Apple, for example. Who better to offer a St. Patrick's Day promotion than the only company who produces a bright green computer? If you surf on over to the Apple Store, you'll notice a green banner in the middle of the page that advertises a St. Patrick's Bundle, consisting of a Lime iMac and an Epson Stylus Color 740 inkjet printer (complete with USB cable kit) all for $1399. That's not a bad deal, and we think it's a clever way to reduce inventory on Lime iMacs, which are apparently not the most popular color (though we don't know why-- we think it's a lot cooler than the most-sought-after Blueberry).
Given the ill will borne towards Apple following the massive layoffs in its Cork plant once all iMac production was outsourced to a third party, Jobs and company could probably use a little Irish luck. Hopefully the leprechauns will grant them good fortune after seeing such a burst of St. Patrick's Day spirit. If you're interested in saving some green by taking advantage of Apple's Lime bundle, you'd better act quickly-- the offer ends on Sunday, March 21st.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/17/99 episode: March 17, 1999: Just one day after Apple announced Darwin, open-source advocates have qualms about the wording of Apple's Public Source License. Meanwhile, the fact that Apple's first public-source OS is named Darwin would seem to put to rest the speculation about "mammals.org," and Apple gets into the St. Patrick's Day spirit with a special on Lime iMacs...
Other scenes from that episode: 1404: Source of Suspicion (3/17/99) And here comes the backlash, mild though it may be... Only one day after Apple announced that it was making portions of its new Mac OS X Server operating system "open-source," some advocates of the open-source movement are expressing concern over certain portions of Apple's Public Source License... 1405: Of Mammals and Burnings (3/17/99) By the way, we suppose this whole Darwin thing puts an end to the speculation about just what the heck was up with Apple's registration of the "mammals.org" domain name. Darwin, as you probably know, is Apple's publicly-available open-source operating system that is based on Mac OS X Server's foundation layers...
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