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Just as Microsoft and Intel achieved exponential growth by riding the revolution that put a computer on millions of desktops, Cisco hopes to dominate the business of connecting those PCs. Cisco's routers and switches, which sort packets of information as they fly through the ether, are the guts of the Net. If you send E-mail from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, odds are it will pass a Cisco router. With close to 70% market share, Cisco owns the horses of the fastest-growing Pony Express in history...
...galaxy far away..." Not that that's so different from "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." It's just that Star Wars has become such a cultural given that it almost seems as if the film had been channeled from the pop ether fully formed and perfect, like a melody entering Paul McCartney's head. With all the hoopla surrounding the current rerelease, it's easy to forget just how dicey a proposition Star Wars was in 1977 when it opened not on 2,104 screens around the country, as it did last week...
...been the culprit all along. It had been wholly unnecessary for TPC to give me a new computer . And my original machine's ' three weeks at Tech Services had been a total waste of time: they completely rebuilt it but never thought to test it without the Farallon "Ether Mac" card. Two different copies of this card have proven incompatible with my two Performas, a computer model for which it is designated...
Living on different continents, Arendt and McCarthy missed each other's company. Their loss is our gain. Had McCarthy stayed in New York, where Arendt remained until her death in 1975, the irreplaceable contents of this book would probably have vanished into the telephonic ether or gone up in the cigarette smoke of long lunches...
...shape his work really is. Cunningham says he created Signals after observing groupings of chairs in a Paris park: "Sometimes full, sometimes not, people come and go and converse -- only, this time, they dance." A charming dance -- one that might be set in Paris or somewhere in the enchanted ether...