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Before a standing-room-only crowd of about 500 undergraduates and graduate students in Science Center C, Ellison briefly presented his vision of the Network Computer (NC) before engaging in an interactive dialogue with the audience...
According to Ellison, the relatively inexpensive and easy-to-use NC presents a viable alternative to the personal computer. Without built-in hard drives, NCs will offer word processing and research functions through network access coordinated on a remote server...
Dubbing the device "a simple, low-cost appliance," Ellison explained that uniformity of structure and reliance on Internet standards will make the NC the computing product of the future...
...Jeremy Davies) for dropping his role as flunky to become "man of the house." (Flyboy, since his father's suicide, only speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what could have been the year's grossest cinematic moment, into something that's as disturbing as it is oddly poetic. But it is not representative...
...Stone of old did make an appearance in the question-and-answer session. Warming to the audience, he ripped into modern American culture with zest, blaming the spiritually devoid lives of teens on pervasive media-influenced materialism. On the Block-buster Video and Wal-Mart policies forbidding NC-17 videos and many CD's: "I personally would like to blow up Blockbuster...I would like to nuke Wal-Mart...