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...could benefit from a network. Industry analyst Karuna Uppal of The Yankee Group argues that home networking will be even more appealing to householders once the technology is extended to things like TVs, DVD players and stereos, home security systems and central air conditioning. Sun Microsystems is licensing a Java-based technology called Jini that is supposed to offer a no-fuss way to make home entertainment devices and other non-PC appliances part of any home network. Microsoft is working on a competing standard called Universal Plug and Play...
...Just think how inviting Lamont would be if it had its own espresso machine. I can see it now...Cafe Lamont: open 5 p.m.-midnight on weekdays, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. on weekends. Reserve reading becomes just that much more exciting when you've got a warm cup of java, a pretentious pastry and unlimited free refills. With the opening of Cafe Lamont, Harvard's social scene would improve immensely. You've probably all heard the line, "Gee, I'd love to go out for coffee, but I really need to study in the library tonight." Well...
...victims typically bury them rather than acknowledge security breaches. As much as anything else, the incident highlights the ongoing problems with Windows NT security, and the advantages of using more secure operating systems -- Linux, for one. One might be tempted to use Bill Gates's deposition rhetoric about Java against him: That the problem with the virus and Windows NT is evidence of sloppy programming on the part of Microsoft...
...seems like high time to ask, what have we really accomplished? A key aspect of the case turns on whether or not it?s possible to separate Internet Explorer from Windows 95. Is it? Experts disagree. Did Microsoft attack Sun Microsystems by developing its own version of Sun?s Java language, or were they just improving it? Ditto. None of the key accusations in the case have gone undisputed. The tone of ambiguity and uncertainty was set most of all by Gates?s performance in his videotaped testimony, in which he seemed to remember or understand almost nothing relating...
...good news is that students craving dessert or an after-dinner jolt of java can enter Herrell's Ice Cream and Starbucks in the Square and it won't make a difference. A scoop of ice cream or a latte cost the same at the heart of Boston's Newbury Street as it does right outside the Yard...