Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of her acting skills originated in New York, where she attended Professional Children's School (PCS), an institution for child star hopefuls, while working as an actress. There she and current roommate Allison E. Lane '02 rubbed shoulders with the likes of Macauley Culkin and Christina Ricci, a talented actor she says is genuinely nice in person...
...same number of mobile subscribers could be online by the year 2005. Little wonder that traditional computer companies are scrambling to enter the mobile business. Bill Gates, whose aim has been to put a PC on every desk, told a symposium in February that "Microsoft's vision for PCs five years from now is a wireless device you can carry around...
...marketplace. Hand-held-computer makers could offer machines with Symbian's software in hopes of making them more appealing to consumers with mobile phones. Or the mobile-phone industry could beat a retreat and adopt Windows CE to ensure that their devices link up easily with existing desktop PCs. Either way, it's likely that the nations of Europe will be communicating with a single standard-- even if they are not yet talking with a unified voice...
...work as advertised or don't work at all. In a new Windows magazine survey, some 87 percent of respondents reported that their computers booted up just fine. That sounds pretty good at first glance; but what it really means is that an astounding 13 percent of PCs are either dead on arrival or seriously maimed...
Some 3 million people have downloaded MP3 players from such sites as www.winamp.com (The player is the software program that allows you to listen to MP3-encoded music, and a dozen different flavors are available, free, for PCs, Macs and UNIX machines.) Countless search engines like mp3search.com are devoted to finding the vast archives of MP3 music that exist online. A lot of the music, from the Beatles to Beethoven, is on underground "pirate" sites, which specialize in the illegal practice of giving away copyrighted music. The recording industry employs an army whose job it is to root out pirate...