Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...created on a hidden site www.amazon.com:99 now defunct), and 300 friends and family members were sworn to secrecy and invited to crash-test it. "The first time I saw the site, I said to myself, 'Wow, this is it,'" recalls Shaw. It was simple, functional and wonderful. Kaphan's code was incredibly elegant and streamlined, allowing pages to be delivered without delay...
Each item goes into a large green crate that contains many customers' orders. When full, the crates ride a series of conveyor belts that winds more than 1 miles through the plant at a constant speed of 2.9 ft. per sec. The bar code on each item is scanned 15 times, by machines and by many of the 600 full-time workers, all of whom get Amazon stock options...
...crates arrive at a central point where bar codes are matched with order numbers to determine who gets what. Your three items end up in a 3-ft.-wide chute--one of several thousand--and are placed into a cardboard box with a new bar code that identifies your order...
...family's time ringing bells beside a red kettle could be the most rewarding trip to the mall you've ever made. If you don't know which charities are active in your area, check out the website run by the AOL Foundation at helping.org Type in your zip code and your interests, and some of the 630,000 charities in the database will pop up. Volunteering arrangements and dollar donations can be made online. Similar sites are charitableway.com and allcharities.com Shop through the greatergood.com site and at least 5% of the purchase amount will be donated to a designated...
...LINUX November's anti-Microsoft court ruling was the icing on the cake for Linus Torvalds' operating system. Because it is "open source"--anyone can fix bugs in its code--Linux is the least crash-prone system around. That makes it a credible alternative to Windows...