Word: presetting
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...took me about 15 minutes to set up Sonicbox, and the software came with hundreds of preset stations--everything from talk radio in San Francisco to police scanners in Amsterdam--so I didn't have to spend hours online looking for sites. I loved being able to lie on my bed and flip from a ska music station in New Jersey to pop music from Greece in less than a second. Unfortunately, I can't turn my PC and Net connection off with the remote. So, just when I'm about to drift off listening to Beethoven.com I have...
...course, most people who trade options aren't buying insurance; they're gambling. A call option grants the right to buy a stock at a preset time and price. A put option grants the right to sell at a preset time and price. These tools make it easy and cheap--and treacherous--to bet on near-term swings in a stock price. Consider: today you can buy a call option for about $600 that gives you the right to buy 100 shares of Oracle in mid-July at $85 a share. Oracle is now trading at about...
What I didn't know is that each of those settings can be customized. In other words, I could have left the Young Teen preset in place, blocking unrestricted Web wandering, for instance, while lifting the ban on Instant Messaging. Better still, I've since learned how to fine-tune the buddy-list setup (under Privacy Preferences) to make my kids "invisible" to anyone but their friends. I mean their school friends, not their new friend with the panties...
...pledged so often to balance the non-Social Security budget and stay within preset spending caps that something had to be done. With defense and highway spending on the rise, the brunt of the cuts fell on health, education, and social service programs, but billions of dollars still remained to be accounted...
...virtually any speakers, including the ones on your home stereo. The device, somewhat smaller than a VCR, pumps out 30 watts per channel, has "virtual" Dolby Digital (which simulates five-speaker "surround sound") and has a digital signal processor that allows one-button access to a variety of preset audio mixes. CD players have been offering that last feature for a while--you can simulate the echoey acoustic footprint of a church, for instance, or a jazz club, a movie theater or a concert hall. Another setting is designed for gamers, making explosions boomier and ray guns zappier. Technophiles will...