Word: bothered
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Zelda Fitzgerald may have aced her on the flat-out-crazy part, but few literary women of the 1920s were as miserable as Virginia Woolf, who ultimately drowned herself to get rid of the voices in her head. That doesn't bother NICOLE KIDMAN, who has donned loads of makeup and a dour countenance to play Woolf in an adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, due out at the end of the year. "I'm having a lot of fun," says Kidman. "The theme of The Hours is the way in which Woolf's writing Mrs. Dalloway affects other...
...robotic arm in action on a computer screen. This kind of tactile and visual feedback, Nicolelis hopes, will teach the monkeys to associate the arm's movements with their thoughts. Once they make that link, they might not take the trouble to stretch out their arms anymore. Why bother when a mere thought will move the robot...
...what they are? That's what computers are meant for: to manage lots of information, including details as to how consumers want their data used. True, many users, if you were to ask them to actively consent to the use of their data, simply wouldn't bother. The process of making an explicit choice is a burden for customers as well as for merchants...
...talking about just any pen and paper, of course. To both words, add this century's prefix of choice: digital. The pen "reads" what it writes on the special paper, then transmits this information as e-mail, fax or mobile-phone message. Why bother, I ask, when keyboards are already ubiquitous and so damn easy to use? "There's a reason people still use pen and paper," says Anoto's director of new concepts, Linus Wiebe, with only a hint of admonishment. "It's not because they are stupid or old-fashioned, but because pen and paper are the most...
...bother? Well, if you had a suit made of rubidium canisters, you'd be invisible (except for the suit of rubidium canisters, of course). And solar power - storage being the missing link when it comes to that sort of thing - comes to mind. But most folks, when they think of taming light, dream of super-fast, super-small computers, and that seems to be where this all headed. A so-called quantum computer - one that used light instead of electricity - could use switching mechanisms moved by a single photon. Quantum communications could never be eavesdropped upon. Without the ability...