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CALL IT MINI-PC The i-Opener ($99, $21.95 a month), from Netpliance Inc., looks like a tiny PC, with a sleek flat-panel screen, attached keyboard and 56K modem for Web access and e-mail. Surfing may be sluggish at 200 MHz, and the browser may gag on fancier websites. But for folks with limited needs, it's like a Yugo: for the money, it's an adequate way to get where you want...
...estimates his wealth as "north of $700 million"--most of which he made when Netscape, a Web-browser company, was sold last year to America Online. The Barksdales had long given to their church, their children's schools and the United Way. But when they hit it big, they felt it was time to give big too. "If there is any money left when we die, it will be because we miscalculated," says Jim. He and Sally considered their favorite causes and decided that "if we spread it all out, it would greatly decrease the chances that we would...
...more than $1 billion--an achievement celebrated in Michael Lewis' best-selling book, The New New Thing. Clark saw in primitive computer graphics chips the potential for powerful new workstations built by Silicon Graphics. He looked at a simple interface for websites, and turned it into the Netscape Web browser. And he most recently has exploited the potential of the Web for dispensing medical information through a company called Healtheon. Each of these ideas has netted Clark a cool billion or so. Shouldn't such a visionary come up with a similarly new way of giving those bucks away...
...stuff that's already in the record. This is familiar territory for Microsoft, which has long insisted that all those venomous e-mails and extracts from Gates' videotaped deposition were taken out of context. For example, Microsoft will claim that its brutal campaign against Netscape during the browser wars was ultimately benign, not anticompetitive; both sides issued rapid-fire improvements to their Web browsers, millions of programs were distributed for free, and the Internet revolution continued apace...
...least serve to counter some disability, acquired or inherited. If I were to lose my eyes, I would quite eagerly submit to some sort of surgery that promised a video link to the optic nerves. (And once there, why not insist on full-channel cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat, in which weapons in the field are remotely controlled by distant operators. At least there's still...