Word: creations
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...TIME: I think he was saying merely that computers made possible the creation of sophisticated risk models and trading programs that turned out to be wrong...
...notebooks, and a shift within notebooks to come down in price as volume expands. Both of those trends are very good for us. We have entered a new class of notebook machines called netbooks, which are small machines with 10-inch screens. You don't use them for content creation, but they are great for simple things like surfing the net and e-mail. And they're taking off. They're at great price points, so you see this situation where people that couldn't afford computers before are buying them - and as prices come down, that's just going...
...Laughs) Yeah, try writing your stories on that. Whether it's for work or entertainment or resume creation, computers have become an indispensable tool in the daily lives of over a billion people, and there are another billion people who are going to buy them in the next few years, so that's a different dynamic than we had in the past...
...Flying Machine,” an HRO commission dedicated to Yannatos in celebration of his commitment to HRO as well as his 80th birthday, which is next March. The piece, depicting the construction and flight of a machine, immediately conjured the mystery of creation, with unpredictable harmonies and a rumbling tension foreshadowing the takeoff to come. The percussion creaked, supporting the piece from underneath and generating a sense of the machine that was flecked with eerie harmonics deftly executed by the violins. After the sound of the assembly grew to a roar, the orchestra launched. The strings propelled the machine...
...renew” its 12 upperclass Houses, the House Program Planning Committee—including student representatives—recently ventured out of the Harvard bubble in search of sage wisdom from Yale and Princeton. This trip, along with the distribution of a student survey and the creation of the HPPC in the first place, deserves praise, since such actions demonstrate the administration’s interest in obtaining some level of student input during the House renewal process. Yale and Princeton both embarked on large-scale construction and reconstruction projects in the recent past, and Harvard planners in HPPC...