Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken sides in a simmering national argument. The question before the house, as the deer season bangs on in the rural background this Thanksgiving week, concerns the morality and future of hunting--and specifically whether children, who are its future, should be taught to hunt. Does it help them connect with their elders and the outdoors; to respect the power of weapons and the realities of life and death, as hunters believe? Or does killing animals, as hunting's opponents claim, damage young psyches, making children indifferent to suffering and ready to see deadly violence as acceptable behavior...
...machines in different rooms? Not me. Yet there's a growing need for a simple solution. By 2000, half of all homes that have PCs will have lots of PCs. Networking them saves money, since even the dumbest machine will be able to share files with the smartest. Or connect to a single printer. Or tap into the Pentium II in the home office and blast out over the Net on its 56K modem. In February 1999, Intel plans to start shipping a chip that will be built into both computers and peripherals, allowing them to network through the phone...
...meantime, a number of companies, including WebGear and Proxim, are offering inexpensive ways to connect the computers scattered throughout your home without the hassle of running complex (and expensive) grids of cables and routers between them. I decided to try Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree Wireless, since I know and use Diamond's excellent graphics card. The $199 DeskTop Pack connects two computers by radio waves; you can add as many as 15 others for $100 each. And for an additional $129, you can buy a HomeFree PCMCIA card and hook in a laptop...
...turned out, that process lasted the better part of two days--roughly six hours of my time. It took almost two hours just for the very nice tech guy to figure out why the network wouldn't connect to my run-of-the-mill printer. Helpful as he was, the experience bodes poorly for a product geared toward the average, hapless home consumer. While my wireless network finally appears to work, I'd recommend that you don't buy HomeFree until it comes out with a far better instruction manual--and a toll-free help line...
...proposals presented at the community meeting would connect the Fogg and the Sackler through a double tunnel underneath Broadway. The aim of the tunnel, according to the architect Renzo Piano, is many-fold: to relieve pedestrian congestion at the intersection of Broadway and Quincy, to unify visitors' experiences of the museums, and to allow the University to transport artwork more safely between the Fogg and the Sackler...