Word: disc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...driving range you get to hit time-delayed exploding golf balls at moving targets--everything from armadillos to hot-air balloons. I felt the game required intensive night testing at my home laboratory, as well as further experimentation under office conditions. My problem was remembering to carry the disc back and forth. The obvious solution? Make a copy...
...year. Partly, that's owing to ever falling costs; you can now get a decent one for $250 or less. Another reason is the spread of MP3, the hugely popular standard for downloading music online. What better way to store your MP3 collection than on CDs? Blank CD-R discs (which can record only once) cost about $2 each and hold 650 MB of data. If you figure an average of 5 MB per MP3 tune, one disc holds about 130 songs. By any measure, that's a lot of tuneage...
...Aptiva E Series 585, which shipped to retail stores last week. At $1,899 (a monitor costs extra), the 500-MHz Pentium III desktop PC has the usual amenities, but comes with an internal Sony CD-RW drive. RW is industry jargon for rewriteable, which means it can handle discs that can be recorded over and over again, just like a floppy disc. CD-RW discs, however, tend to cost about $10 each and can be flaky, as I soon learned...
Holland is least clear about what students will do for fun in the future. But he foretells more recreation sports and has a vision for one new pastime involving a "ball or a disc...you shoot it out," he says. Asked to provide more details, he says only, "Some of type of science ball or something...
After that addictive, mind-altering experience, I'm surprised to find Josh doubting that violent video games can have ill effects on children. While our daughters have so far shown little interest in the muscle-bound assassins that populate their dad's beloved Tekken 2 disc, several neighborhood boys play at our house and sit mesmerized by the game, kickboxing their way across the screen. Then they go outside to practice head slams...