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...MicroStrategy story is not unfamiliar to students venturing into the high-tech world. After years of seemingly limitless growth, many Internet companies have been forced to face the realities of business...
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says the screenwriter, Gregory Allen Howard, first heard this story in a Virginia barbershop many years after the Titans' famous victories and instantly decided that latter-day America needed to contemplate it. The producer, who is normally associated with high-tech action movies, is inordinately proud of the result, despite the bruising direction of Boaz Yakin. Bruckheimer seems to think they've made an art film...
Many of the fresh entries in the dictionary, like many of the nation's recent immigrants, have been admitted because they play a role in the new, high-tech economy. It's clear what we've been talking about for the past eight years: machines and money. "Usenet." "Comp time." "Bit stream." "Index fund." This is your heritage, America: a language that's forever evolving new terms for small computers ("subnotebook") and exotic lending practices ("reverse mortgage") but still has only one word for snow ("snow...
...tradition, the Oaks is a place for listening to crickets and watching mist hang over low-lying dips in the fields. But with high-tech industry moving into nearby Roanoke, the Rays have wired the inn to court midweek executives who want to carry on business in a relaxed, picture-perfect setting www.bbhost.com/theoaksinn...
SOUND AND FURRY Staid and serious chipmaker Intel has branched out into frivolity with a line of high-tech toys called Intel Play. The latest is the Computer Sound Morpher ($49), which looks a lot like a personal communicator from a '50s sci-fi flick. Armed with Intel's Morpher, kids can record voices and other sounds and then edit, distort, remix and generally transmogrify them on their PCs. Warning: parental commands may lose some authority when played back in "chipmunk" mode...