Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first federal prosecution of online sports betting, a $600 million operation that may violate a 1960s law making it illegal to place wagers over interstate phone lines. Though the six companies charged with conspiracy are based in the Caribbean or Central America, most of the bets are placed on PCs...
...sitting on the right side of the speaker's table, and [Sun Microsystems'] Scott McNealy was next to me. Even though he doesn't like PCs and wants to put them out of business, he's a very charming guy. After the hearing was called to order, I was invited to speak. They have lights up there that time you in five-minute intervals. I went through my statement pretty much as I had written...
...PCs, the process is not much different. From the Internet software group, run the program WS FTP. Provide the same information as that described for Macintoshes. Once connected, you will be presented with two panes. In the left is your local PC; in the right is your fas home directory...
Technology, democracy and capitalism, the themes of this decade, interreact. PCs may have been born in the '80s, but the productivity payoff came in the '90s. (It took 10 years to figure out how to use the damned things!) Thus technology added mightily to this decade's prosperity, which reinforced the prestige of capitalism. Capitalism, meanwhile, repaid the favor. A few years ago there was talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival...
...easy, says Hager. Park-ophiles simply record episodes on their VCRs and squeeze the signals into their PCs using a nifty piece of digitizing software called RealVideo. A few simple instructions put the episodes on the Web, where anyone on the Internet can point, click and view them within seconds. Hager started distributing South Park in August, a few days after after RealNetworks began giving away its once pricey server software. Why did he do it? His justification is that while the show is enormously popular with 18-to-25-year-olds, most college students don't have cable...