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Gates also mentioned technological innovations such as the increasing power of the chip, optical fibers connected to digital switches, larger storage, faster processors and high-speed connectivity which will improve the quality and expanse of communication over...
When Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in 1965, the stock was worth less than $20. With prudent investments in blue-chip companies such as Coca-Cola and Capital Cities/ABC, Buffett drove BH into the low thirties--$30,000, that is. By refusing to split the stock into smaller units, Buffett effectively kept speculators at bay, until a few cagey money managers figured out that they could form investment trusts with Berkshire Hathaway shares in their portfolios and then sell fractional units at affordable prices...
...deliver game play so startling that his target market would feel they just had to have it was to concentrate on speed--sticking to fast (but expensive) silicon cartridges as his storage medium and leapfrogging ahead to the next-generation 64-bit processors. (The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo are 16-bit systems...
...Jackson took it and several other games for a test run. Playing Mario 64, he reports, is like jumping inside the movie Toy Story. The plot line, something about a princess and a bad guy named Bowser, is, as always, almost irrelevant. What matters is that the Silicon Graphics chip-fueled Nintendo 64 puts the fastest, smoothest game action yet attainable via joystick at the service of equally virtuoso motion. Mario runs, flies, swims, dodges and flips his way past a bewildering welter of walls, ramps, pools and abysses...
RETIRING. GRINDSTONE, 3, Thoroughbred; after winning the Kentucky Derby at the cost of a career-crippling bone chip in the knee; in Louisville...