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...city guide is a program that runs on a handheld PDA, such as a Palm or a Pocket PC, and works like an electronic travel guide. You download it from the Web, install it on your PDA, and the next time you need to find the nearest Thai food or Irish pub or French boutique, you whip it out and look up the location. Suddenly, you're the guy who knows what's going on. You're an instant hipster. (Not that PDA and hipster are phrases that necessarily belong in the same paragraph...
People seem to have lost sight of the bottom line: musicians incur costs to record CDs, and many people support families with less-than-glamorous jobs to put these albums out. You can't convince me that a college student who is able to download a whole CD for free on his computer is still going to run out and purchase that recording. Fanning is a punk who is making money off other people's labor. TRACY PASEMAN Issaquah, Wash...
...other" Washington. Now they are grasping the importance of having influence directly inside the Senate. Issues like Internet taxation and H1-B visas for overseas tech workers just keep cropping up too often, and the technology itself just moves too fast. "Not many Senators know what a software download is," says Alex Alben, Real's vice president of government affairs. With the tech-savvy Cantwell and Gorton, that's not an issue. What could matter is which software they download...
Becoming part of a distributed-computing network is easy. You simply log onto a website and download free data-crunching software that doubles as a snazzy screensaver. Anytime you go online after that, the computer contacts a server that beams you a small packet of data for your PC to analyze. The calculations are performed whenever your computer is idle; the next time you log on, the results are beamed back to the server, where they are combined with those sent in by other PCs. Like any other screensaver, the system is utterly unobtrusive. Tap a key, touch a mouse...
Most Internet stations run on RealPlayer or Windows Media Player; a few, such as spinner.com require you to download a player that works only with music channels on that site...