Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...otherwise fee-based offerings, among them such marquee sites as the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and ESPNet SportsZone. Navigator 3.0 followed days later, boasting similar deals with 26 partners, notably SportsLine U.S.A. and the New York Times, and spicing them up by offering daily delivery of customizable content--a personal newspaper of sorts...
...lesson? It's the message, not the medium, that matters. Browsers themselves will inexorably devolve into the equivalent of a dial tone, and the Web battles will be decided by how effectively content providers are able to develop and maintain increasingly rich, complex sites to keep users engrossed enough to spend their time and money online...
...hope to stop Microsoft world domination"). Java is starting from scratch, though, and it could take painfully long for its adherents to produce high-quality applications. Microsoft's Active-X platform, by contrast, supports both Java and the venerable Visual Basic language, at which the company's army of content partners is already adept. Microsoft is starting the browser game late but with a much larger pile of chips...
Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy Who You Are is a solid number, but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the sound track to the film Dead Man Walking. Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker Smile sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo (Pearl Jam worked with Young on his 1995 album, Mirror Ball); it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine...
Which leaves the question of whether reporters in Chicago this week will be bumping into a Dole look-alike or into some real Republican who didn't have a lock of hair falling over his forehead in the first place. Or will they have to content themselves with an enigmatic man dressed in a bumblebee suit...