Word: demo
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...everyone wears Tevas and listens to"Grunge Rock." There's a whole world ofopportunity out there that has nothing to do withthe old guard of employment: there are certainoffices where no one is over thirty five (like atMTV, where you basically get fired once you'vegrown out of "the demo"). Hence my roomates' jobs:one is going to be engineering recording sessionsand scoring drugs for rock stars, the otherhelping to develop and sell CD-ROMs. Stuff thatFrida's dad literally has never heard...
Full-function applications are even possible within HotJava Web pages. Already, a demo version of a Web-based spreadsheet has been released on Sun Microsystems' HotJava home page (http://java.sun.com...
...President may protest too much. The evidence of his marginalization is as much a matter of presumption as fact, but that is no less of a problem for him. The Ottawa exchange highlighted Clinton's re-election quandary: his first opponent is not a Republican, not even an upstart Demo-crat; it is the perception of his own irrelevance. Though Clinton's job-approval ratings have hovered near respectability in recent months, a large chunk of the electorate doesn't think he can win in 1996; almost half, in one poll, believes the country would be better...
...that explains a lot of Powell's electoral appeal. He is the perfect anti-victim, validating America's fondest Horatio Alger myth that a black man with few advantages can rise to the top without bitterness and without forgetting who he is. Powell praises entrepreneurship and worries about the Demo-crats' tendency to embrace victimhood. Yet he openly acknowledges his own large debt to government activism. The son of hardworking Jamaican immigrants, he grew up poor in the Bronx and benefited from the fine education available in public schools and at City College of New York, to which he commuted...
This was the holy grail of interactive television: true video on demand. What you want to see, when you want to see it, delivered to your TV and only your TV. And it was real. Not a "proof of concept" demo, but a working system being used in at least a handful of customers' homes...