Word: paradigmes
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...have to be stored on your computer anymore. They can reside anywhere on the Internet, called up by whoever needs them, whenever they need them. It's a development that could finally make true Sun's original and hitherto cryptic slogan: The Network Is the Computer. "There's a paradigm shift every 10 or 15 years," says Marc Andreessen, a Web pioneer and co-founder of Netscape Communications. "And we're in one right...
...timers, the idea of a stripped-down desktop machine harks back to the days of bulky mainframes, when all data and software were stored on big, centrally located computers and users had only "dumb" terminals on their desktops, with little or no memory or processing power. Today the operative paradigm is the so-called client-server model, where data may be stored on big file servers but the software runs on real, full-powered desktop computers. Over the years, the pendulum swings back and forth between the decentralized desktop and the centralized machine. In this instance, the idea...
Newt's early proposals revealed the Gingrich paradigm: civic progress on a tight budget. One day when he was 10, he told his mother he was going to the library and instead took a bus to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to lobby city and state officials about building a zoo. He pressed his cause for the next two years, with arguments that echo eerily 40 years later. "A few minutes' conversation with Newton leaves an awed adult with a flying start toward an inferiority complex," reporter Jace Bennett wrote in the Harrisburg Evening News. "Don't you know an African lion costs...
Author James Pinkerton, who coined the phrase "the new paradigm" to describe the world that comes after Big Government, agrees. "What the Republicans haven't done," says Pinkerton, a former aide to President Bush, "is convince the people at the bottom half of the economy that there's something there for them. I think they made a vision mistake by not going after corporate welfare more energetically...
...ridiculous rhetoric of the full-page ad didn't surprise us--over the course of the fall we have seen an endless number of ads and posters asking us if were ready to change the rules of the game, to earn the future, or to participate in a paradigm shift. But this ad stood out in the morass of meaningless slogans and reminded us that their emptiness is in no way innocuous...