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...Secretary of State Warren Christopher, were denied entry to important meetings because they lacked the proper credentials, or so some overzealous Russian bodyguards said. Then just before last Wednesday's joint press conference with Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton was left without his prepared opening statement. A speechwriter's floppy disk had failed. But that too was small beer since no one wings it better than Clinton...
...architecture represents a series of tough trade-offs. CISC's major problem is that a processor which allows many instructions is difficult to design and difficult to speed up; RISC chips are easier to develop and easier to speed up. The RISC architecture, however, requires greater memory and hard disk space than the CISC architecture, as most PowerMac owners will readily attest...
...three characters share a preoccupation with light, electric and otherwise. Ward wields a gadget with blatant Freudian implications. It is a light bulb attached to a long rod and disk which he uses to inspect people and swings like an orchestra conductor. This rod is one of several futuristic props which look annoying awkward in the play's early 20th century setting. But the more Ward dangles and sways it, the more interesting it becomes. As the trail of the light bulb moves back and forth like a pendulum, it induces a trance which is bolstered by the constant whir...
...available information is immense--and spectacularly manipulatable. The agency's computer system at Langley stores more than 4 trillion bytes of secret information--equal to a stack of documents 30 miles high. Its computer-disk farms, which take up two floors the area of two football fields, have numbers and letters painted on the walls, like a parking lot, so technicians don't get lost in the mainframes. It once took cia analysts months to identify members of a terrorist group who might be recruited as informants. Now using an "link-analysis" program, the informants can be spotted in seconds...
...also recommend having at least 20 MB free on the hard disk, in addition to the 35 MB or so that OS/2 takes up itself. While many people recommend a 486 or better, we found that OS/2 performs adequately on a 33-MHz 386 with...