on 12/3/02 11:49 PM, Huelbe Arizon Garcia at (...) wrote:


Site que gera esse tipo de texto:
http://www.lipsum.com/
Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum, em resumo, é simplesmente texto "de mentirinha" na indústria gráfica e tipográfica. Lipsum tem sido o texto standard na área gráfica desde 1500, quando um tipógrafo desconhecido misturou letras de diferentes tipos para criar modelos para um livro sobre tipografia. Este site gera este tipo de texto.


iMac inspirado em um ferro de passar alemão
"Rowenta, maker of the Surfline iron, said that the designs were quite similar. Steve Jones, marketing manager at Rowenta, gave Marquis the following statement:
"Rowenta is flattered to see that the new iMac design bears a close resemblance to our Surfline iron, which was launched five years ago. We wish Apple all the success with iMac that we have had with our irons.""
http://www.theapplecollection.com/iMac/iStore/iron.html.

As primeiras referências à comparações entre o iMac e os ferros Rowenta são de ago/1998 (pesquisa no newsgroups do Google)


mp3 existe desde década de 1980
"MP3 is the shortened name for MPEG-1 Layer III (or MPEG Audio Layer III) and is an audio subset of the MPEG industry standard developed by ISO (the Industry Standards Organization) and became an official standard in 1992 as part of the MPEG-1 standard.[...] Development of MP3 started back in 1987 in Germany at the Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen [...]" http://www.mp3-mac.com/Pages/History_of_MP3.html


GSM, nova tecnologia de transmissão do serviço de telefonica celular, desde década de 1980
Proposto em 1982. Demostrado em 1991. http://www.cellular.co.za/gsmhistory.htm


WindowMaker, clone do NeXTStep
"Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP[tm] user interface. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. It is also free software, with contributions being made by programmers from around the world." http://www.windowmaker.org/


NeXTStep via WindowMaker ainda faz sucesso
Neste site, KDE tem 46%, Gnome 26% e WindowMaker 6%
http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/survey/survey.cgi?view=results&id=10292001114335