Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most hunting simulations come with a number of "cheat codes" that allow you to adjust the ratio of blood to sport. In Deer Hunter II, for instance, you can start the hunt with a deer in view rather than work for 15 minutes or so to attract one by scattering scent lures or rattling antlers. Another code permits the hunter to race along, as if on horseback, at the same speed as the running deer. But if you bag a buck while using a cheat code, you're barred from mounting its head in the virtual trophy room...
While L.B.'s moral code was complicated, his zeal was not. When his biggest star at the time, Jack Gilbert, used the word whore in reference to his co-star Mae Murray, and then--gasp--about his own mother, the president of MGM rushed from around his desk and knocked down his million-dollar meal ticket...
Break the code. Right now, some non-Microsoft programmers say they are disadvantaged in writing applications that work on Windows because they don't have sufficient access to crucial Microsoft codes that mate the applications to the Windows software. As a result, they say, Microsoft has a big edge in selling lucrative word-processing, finance and other software to users of Windows, which runs more than 90% of the world's personal computers. The court could supervise the sharing of Microsoft's codes--known in techspeak as application-program interfaces, or APIs--and thereby ensure a level playing field...
...personal computer cost Big Blue its overwhelming dominance. Will Java do the same to Big Bill? The jury's still out on that one, although the release of Java 1.2 this week might help silence some critics of Java software. "We've never had this level of confidence in code," says Sick. "It's not where it needs to be yet, but it's getting there faster than anything has before." And if Microsoft opts to join the Java team with pure intentions, success could come more speedily than ever...
...regrettably brief concert ended with an encore cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" replete with wailing guitars and a three minute code of distorted power chords. The fans seemed dazed, but not unimpressed. Even those who came for the kitsch stayed for the clamor. This wasn't the Cardigans of "Lovefool," but the confidence of this heavier aesthetic was winning. Johansson proclaimed, "People may think we are trying to get more commercial, but we don't make music for a special kind of audience. We make music for ourselves, and we wanted this sound. Lots of violence." Loud...