The latest juicy tidbit is what looks to be the official names of the three models Apple is rumored to be announcing next Tuesday — and they suggest Cupertino is skipping its usual 'S' generation convention for this release, as well as throwing in a curve ball christening for the most expensive model of the trio.
As the Republican Party puts forward its wealthiest presidential standard-bearer in generations, convention planners have striven not just to project a more ethnically and racially diverse party, but also a less fortunate one.
Not an angry divide, necessarily, but an unavoidable one; a divide of generations, convictions, conventions and therefore of styles.
In April the Generation X convention, a nonpartisan meeting of voters ages 18 to 35, will consider issues like Social Security, the environment, First Amendment rights and the Internet.
ICMM3D is proposed in the framework of independent cover, which avoid the time-consuming and error-prone cover system generation of convention numerical manifold method (NMM).
He uses the example of cigarette smoking: Smoking in public became taboo over the span of just one generation after social conventions changed.
From the political arena to the courts, the emergence of same-sex marriage as a mainstream issue in less than a generation has upended convention, scrambled long-held assumptions and defied history.
So can Generation Kill challenge convention and give us a good Iraq war drama or is it the case, as Bochco has argued, that this war is too immediate, its wounds too raw and recent, for anyone to want to watch?
The same generation that questioned convention in sex, birth and marriage will probably do the same in death care, says Char Barrett, 48, a funeral director in Seattle and the owner of A Sacred Moment, a business that helps families prepare the bodies of loved ones at home.
"This is the generation that reinvented social conventions," she said of baby boomers.
