Word: digital
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That last possibility is something the men who run the movies are finally considering. For two decades--since 1975, when Jaws proved that the all-male action adventure could generate huge returns--moguls have dreamed of tough-guy melodramas that produce nine-digit grosses. Because women's films didn't seem as if they could fulfill these home-run fantasies, studio chiefs saw trouble in women's projects and had a litany of rejection phrases for them: "Risky." "Guys choose the movie on a date, and women just go along." "Too small; it's a TV movie." "Women's films...
...scheme used by Netscape's Navigator software to conceal information such as credit card numbers in transactions over the Internet. (Rumor has it that the authors of the cracking program did their handiwork after watching the movie Hackers.) The security flaw stems from Netscape's use of a 30-digit binary "key" to decrypt such messages; the company has since released a new version using a 300-digit key which is significantly harder to defeat...
...sees as its "left-wing ideological agenda"? And wouldn't it be depressing to meet in a land where abortion rights are under violent assault, where affirmative action looks to be doomed, and where the percentage of congressional seats held by women is sinking back toward the single-digit level...
Timing may also explain the progression of fins to feet. In tetrapods (four-legged animals), feet do not grow straight out of the leg, proceeding from the ankle out, but develop in a fanlike progression that runs from the smallest digit to the largest. In Geneva, Duboule and his colleagues tracked the activity of four Hox genes in the budding feet of embryonic mice and found precisely this pattern. By contrast, studies showed that in the zebrafish, the Hox genes switch off earlier, perhaps to ensure that a flexible fin ray (useful for swimming) will form in the place...
...unambiguous and bloodcurdling. "WARNING: the terrorist group F.C., called Unabomber by the FBI, is planning to blow up an airliner out of Los Angeles International Airport sometime during the next six days." To establish his credentials, the letter's author cited the first two numbers -- 55 -- of a nine-digit code Unabomber had earlier given to editors of the New York Times so that they would know they were in touch with the real killer and not a wannabe...