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Sounds tidy, if a little unoriginal, as the proposed ratings vary only slightly from the well-known M.P.A.A. ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17) affixed to theatrical movies. What many child advocates object to is that the ratings would not specify the content that makes a show potentially objectionable. The advocates were hoping for a system closer to one being tested in Canada that rates shows, on a sliding scale of 1 to 6, in each of three areas: violence, sex and language...
...more than a year, two of Silicon Valley's most outspoken maverick CEOs--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises...
...have started to arrive--Sun's JavaStation last week, Oracle's NC this week--and a few things have changed. The machines have grown a bit, at least in memory capacity. The price, in some cases, has nearly doubled. The target audience has turned out to be corporate rather than home users. And Microsoft, which was studiously ignoring the NC threat, has suddenly awakened and started making promises...
Close on Sun's heels, Oracle this week is scheduled to introduce the first NC with the promised under-$500 price tag. "The PC is too expensive and too complex to ever be popular," Oracle's Ellison insists. "We need devices that are cheaper and easier to use." To that end, he is planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers...
Like home computers of old, the NC won't be as expandable as a desktop computer. It'll do a great job for surfing the Internet and light writing tasks. But chances are many users will soon outgrow these lightweights and buy a PC after...