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...notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine, wonderful, simple application. That was his idea. And it was big and frightening and full of implications, and it filled him up, this 18-year-old college dropout sprawled...
...COMPUTER One of the most ingenious ideas being pursued is to compute using DNA, treating the double-stranded molecule as a kind of biological computer tape (except that instead of encoding 0s and 1s in binary, it uses the four nucleic acids, represented by A, T, C, G). This approach holds much promise for crunching big numbers. Hence large banks and institutions may one day use it. However, a DNA computer is an unwieldy contraption, consisting of a jungle of tubes of organic liquid, and is unlikely to replace a laptop in the near future...
...important thing to remember is that bits are bits. In the digital world there are no movies or magazines or pieces of music. There are just 1s and 0s, for which we did not even have a name until 1946 when Princeton statistician John Tukey concatenated the words binary and digit into the term...
Every hour of every day, warplanes take off from bases across Europe--and some in the U.S.--bound for Balkan targets. The sweep of weapons is impressive. Not since World War II has the U.S. military hurled three types of heavy bombers--B-1s, B-2s and B-52s--at an enemy. The fleet of 430 allied warplanes that began this war will soon grow to more than 1,000 planes. The escalation will force the Pentagon to call up as many as 33,000 reservists...
...week, as Air Force officers and contractors crammed the bombers' onboard computers with the latest intelligence on the radar and surface-to-air missiles they are facing over Yugoslavia. After a B-1 with the new software passed a critical flight test last Tuesday night in Florida, two B-1s were ordered into action two days later. The same night the B-1s debuted, so did the Predator, an Air Force drone able to relay targeting and bomb-damage data to commanders...