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...Company, which last week announced it will debut a U.K. digital-download singles chart this fall, the world's first such national chart. Weighting the various download formats is a huge challenge, and security to thwart chart riggers will be tight, but the unspoken sticking point remains price. A high-tech black market is flourishing - global sales of blank CDs soared 40% last year. Meanwhile an old market founders: Madonna's single, a steal at just $1.49 a download, made Billboard's Top 10 with a paltry 4,000 sales in one week. "We know the demand is out there...
...high-tech tracking was valuable, but a recon mission would provide critical intelligence for Charlie Rock. First Sergeant William Mitchell headed out with in M-113 track along with a squad of three tanks and a scout humvee. The order was fire only if fired upon. And yet somehow, soon enough, those high-tech thermal images would become a flesh and blood enemy in a heavy exchange of fire...
...Much of the war effort is spent programming high-tech bombs to hit targets in Iraq. Over an encrypted email system, strategists are dotting the map, marking coordinates, which are entered into a missile's guidance system using Global Positioning technology. As soon as they have their orders, some 30 ships will shower these pre-planned targets with Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, an 18 foot long weapon that carries a 1000 pound warhead. Saddam has seen these before, during the Gulf War. They seldom miss their target - something that Iraqi civilians are banking on as they brace themselves...
...predecessors for an overreliance on technology in action films perhaps lie behind such comments. Although moral lines become fuzzy within the film, the meta-filmic lines of combat stay fairly stable: Friedkin lives up to his goal, producing a nauseatingly violent action film without any key high-tech, high-caliber sequences...
Besides attracting high-tech industries to the area, the report says the eight universities also constitute one of the region’s largest employers—providing jobs for 50,750 people...