Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mill Valley, Calif., in a one-bedroom apartment above a coin-operated laundry, Andre Mehr, a white 17-year-old with a crew cut, and Emiliano Obiedo, a ponytailed 16-year-old who is half white and half Hispanic, are huddled over a PC. A beat spirals up. Obiedo offers some advice, and Mehr clatters away at the keyboard. They are making music. Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes. Soon they hope to have enough for a CD. Boasts Obiedo: "I'm going to change...
Microsoft is also flummoxed by the government's claim that its allegedly monopolistic practices have hurt consumers. Microsoft argues, with some justification, that PC software has been rapidly improving and continues to do so. As for price, Microsoft's lead witness, economist Richard Schmalensee, testified last week that if it were a monopoly, Microsoft would charge at least 16 times as much for Windows as it actually does. Microsoft makes much of the fact that the government's economist, Franklin Fisher, testified that consumers weren't being hurt by Microsoft's actions in the Internet-browser market. Of course, Fisher...
Microsoft's most intriguing argument is that the industry model it dominates--PCs that run on their own operating-system software--is in peril. "When you think of competition, you have to get out of the mind-set that this is a PC-centered world," says Neukom. In the near future, Microsoft argues, computers may run on free, open-source software, or may use the Internet as a platform for running applications like word processing and e-mail, making Windows obsolete. In Microsoft's view, its dominant market position is just one paradigm shift away from being undone...
...talked into it "naturally," then plugged it into the serial port of my PC, where my voice was magically transcribed into text. The company claims that it can be better than 95% accurate...
...problem? I talked to Kevin Gervais, who provides tech support for Dragon, and he was mystified. First, he made sure that I had an adequate sound card (check www.naturallyspeaking.com for a list), a minimum of 32 megs of RAM and a 133-MHz or better PC. Since the recorder comes with a good microphone and headset, that wasn't an issue, though it can be if you just use the software on your PC without the recorder. Then we went over the setup procedure. I had read 20 minutes of a Dave Barry book into the recorder to familiarize...