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Many of today's educational programs were dreamed up by computer-industry veterans who were dissatisfied with what was on the market for their children. One parent, Richard Devine, started Club KidSoft, a mail-order company that distributes a quarterly magazine and a CD-ROM disk that allows parents to try out 40 software programs for free in their homes. To buy one, consumers simply call a telephone number for a code that unlocks the rest of the program. Started last October, Club Kidsoft already has more than 40,000 subscribers...
...Sparcserver will also be inherently faster and allow for more disk space, according to Eugene E. Kim '96, president of the Harvard Computer Society...
...pets on Prozac. In one of the series' typical segments, Moore stands outside the offices of various corporate chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After he completes the chore, Moore, referring to a Ford slogan, asks him, "If quality is job one, what is job two?" Trotman responds earnestly, "We don't have...
Phrases like these -- or worse -- will probably never enter the realm of polite discourse, and perhaps that is just as well. Still, some instances of slang can gain such acceptance that they become useful as colloquialisms and even enter Standard English over time -- for example, blizzard, disk jockey and gadget...
Knowing the velocity of the gas, which was calculated to be about 1.2 million miles per hour, Kirshner says simple Newtonian physics was used to compute the mass necessary to provide sufficient gravity to keep the disk of gases from flying apart...