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...like Fran Tarkenton drew plays in the dirt are long gone. There's now far too much money at stake to leave anything to chance, particularly when a team like Green Bay has $100 million invested in its quarterback, Brett Farve. The modern NFL player is fast, ferocious and laptop equipped, and he reports to a coaching staff so well organized that it puts most corporate setups to shame. That's because if the decision making isn't right on Sunday, you lose. And so do your customers...
...combine, pulls a lever and sits back as the lumbering machinery crashes into a 40-acre cornfield. As the front of the machine noses through the furrows like 13 red moles, chomping at the stocks and churning ears into grain, Mitchell checks his e-mail on a wireless laptop, downloads the moisture content of corn being stored...
...Pocket Surfer, a new 6in. by 3in. portable Internet device from DataWind, a small tech shop based in Montreal. On most pdas and cell phones, Web pages are crunched and reformatted and take too long to download. On the Pocket Surfer, however, pages look just like those on your laptop: pictures, links, even pop-up ads (fortunately, the Pocket Surfer lets you quash those nuisances with a single button). And it's easy to set up. DataWind gives you an adapter to plug into your cell phone, which connects the Pocket Surfer to a wireless Web network. The downsides...
...seems like an astonishing triumph for a Chinese company: Lenovo, China's biggest computer maker, is buying the PC division of American icon IBM. Yet Lenovo's $1.75 billion purchase of the IBM division that makes the popular laptop and desktop machines is less an invasion of the West than an escape from the East. China's domestic market, although still booming, has become a competitive cauldron as foreign companies pour...
Visualizations were projected on a white sheet by the second laptop and featured mostly pastels along with some strange meta/avant-garde text snippets and occasional movies. It would have been interesting if RPL had sampled in/performed some Jim Morrison-esque poetry or spoken word over their samples to create a new musical and lyrical dimension but unfortunately we were left with the visualizations and oft-repeated clips. I think that the main problem with the RPL was that there was really nothing to hang onto in their songs: melodic hooks were completely absent and general tonality was sporadic at best...