Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time in a long while, I turned on the television in my room. As a program started, some odd letters flashed on the left hand side of the screen: TV-something. What were they, these mysterious letters? A glitch of the emergency operating system? Some odd code to alien spaceships so their attacks could be synchronized? Perhaps even a subliminal message? In fact, the strange message in the corner of my screen was a part of the new system of television ratings...
Apple's future is not "rotten at the core," as Davis claims. Apple will ship this year both Mac O.S. 8 (code-named Tempo, a complete revitalization of the Macintosh interface, which includes significant performance and stability improvements) and its first release of the Nextstep-derived Rhapsody, which promises to put Microsoft back on the defensive...
Picture a state's department of motor vehicles. Your little brother, born in 1980, gets a ticket New Year's night in 2000, but because of the unconverted code in the DMV computer, he was ticketed in 1900 and now has a 100-year record...
...past few years, corporate information managers have been hard at work trying to create an organized plan for converting their old system code to year 2000-compliant code...
Robert Wright's otherwise excellent article "Can Souls Be Xeroxed?" [SPECIAL REPORT, March 10] stated that humans share "99.9%" of the same genetic code. But two car keys can be 99.9% identical and yet one may start up a VW and the other a Mercedes. It's not the amount of difference, it's where the difference lies. ROB VERMEULEN Redwood City, California...