Word: downloading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early days of the Internet, transmission of sound came largely in the form of Windows. WAV or Macintosh .AU files. Both of these formats had terrific sound quality, but at a high price: since these files were often a megabyte or more in size, it could take minutes to download a 15-second sound bite...
...with an FAS account has just over six megabytes of storage reserved for his or her personal use (except for commercial use, of course). Assuming the computers you use are all connected to the Harvard network, you can upload files to the home directory of your FAS account and download them whenever you need...
...hound, Price has a miniature communications center at his desk. A Motorola mobile phone abuts the Palm Pilot linked to his laptop. Next to the laptop: Price's PC. "I like to keep my files mobile, yet at the same time have the power of a desktop. I can download information between my laptop and palm pilot to have it instantly accessible...
...PalmPilot is available in two models: the Personal and the Professional. The differences are that the Professional has one megabyte of memory, twice that of the Personal, and includes support for TCP/IP, the language of the Internet. The Professional comes with an e-mail program, which lets you download your e-mail from popular desktop software such as Eudora. It also has the ability to access the Internet directly via a modem or a special network cable...
With the future of the printed newspaper in doubt, even staunch advocates of traditional paper-and-pencil scratchwork may in the end have no choice but to download the puzzle from the Times's Web site. Still, the principle behind the crossword will remain the same that it has been since its inception at the beginning of the century: a daily challenge of knowledge and wit for those who need some mental downtime or distraction from the banalities of daily life and work. Whether we're taking about train-bound commuters or bored students in Sanders Theatre, there will always...