Word: plugged
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Microsoft promises much smoother interaction with the user under Windows 95. Along these lines, the new operating system's greatest asset may be its "Plug and Play" functionality. "Plug and Play" will provide users with a simple way to upgrade their PCs with CD-ROM players, sound cards and other multimedia hardware, as well as standard peripherals like printers, monitors and modems...
...problem sets on which students' grades are based are notoriously difficult. That may be because of their focus on explaining concepts rather than "plug-and-chug" problem solving...
Take AT&T's TV Information Center, for instance. Plug your cable TV and phone lines into it, and you've got a television that doubles as a secretary, organizing your voice messages and gathering E-mail while letting you keep up / with the soaps. By the time the $329 "intelligent device" goes on sale next spring, AT&T hopes to be able to offer a whole range of telephone-cum- television information services, from home banking to personalized weather reports to crossword-puzzle crib sheets...
Hawkins' strategy is to stay just ahead of his competitors -- whether they are PCs, CD-ROMs or video-game systems. So his next project is a plug-in device called the M2 that turns the 32-bit 3DO into a 64-bit system -- yet still plays all the old software. That's if he makes it through Christmas...
Then again, it should only be fitting that Bettman pull the plug on the season since it was his idea to start the lockout anyway...