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...consortium proposal is the key to Zarif's plan, because it could provide the best way to prevent cheating. "Because many countries would own and operate the plants, there would be built-in safeguards against nationalization or cheating," he says. From Iran's perspective, this would be less offensive than just having inspectors. "It is an issue of respect," Zarif explains. "Of course you are monitoring as you do this, but you are doing it with respect as owners and operators...
...surely not the most difficult job in sales to persuade a kid of the appeal of a cell phone, especially one with serious mega-pixels, built-in video recorder and a web browser with access to a "walled garden" of family-friendly games from the likes of Nickelodeon. (Platinum Sudoku: $5) My daughter's one frustration was that the embedded foreign language translator could come up with no Spanish equivalent of "cranberry," which would have been helpful for a school assignment...
Twitch athletes like Fatal1ty are trying to make a claim on sports programming and its rich merchandising spin-offs. There's already a built-in audience, and it's global. In 2006, combined sales of video and PC games hit $13.5 billion, a record for the industry and more than $4.5 billion above Hollywood's total box-office receipts. Competitive gaming is currently insignificant in that universe, with sales between $15 million and $20 million, according to industry consulting firm Parks Associates. But big players are entering the market. In January, DirecTV announced the formation of its own Championship Gaming...
...Vista makes sense, more or less. Much of the challenge of creating a good operating system is design, not technology. Which means figuring out a visually logical way for users to get at all their information easily. Vista is creeping in that direction, with improved search functions and nicely built-in music and photo organizers - you can actually "tag" photos with keywords, which is very handy. Useful widgets like clocks and photo albums cluster happily at the edge of the screen like attentive waiters, happy to serve...
...Vista is secure, or at least it's securer. If that's a word. Being a near-monopoly makes Windows a magnet for phishers, viruses, adware and other malware writers. So Microsoft has worked on that, mostly under the hood. I think what most impressed me were the built-in parental controls: you can decide when your kids will use Vista, what websites they can go to, what applications they can run, whom they can IM with, and so on. And if they try to break the controls, Vista will rat them...