Word: processors
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...chance to test the industry's hypothesis using the TravelNote C100, the new tablet PC from Acer. Reasonably lightweight (about 2 kg), with a 20-GB hard drive and an 800-MHz Pentium III processor, the TravelNote looks and performs like a normal laptop computer. The screen, however, swivels around and folds back over the keyboard, creating a writing slate. A stylus serves as both a pen for note taking, and as a mouse for operating programs. Using the machine's built-in Wi-Fi (wireless-fidelity) link, for example, you can write a URL into the Internet Explorer browser...
...Powered by a 206-MHz Intel StrongArm processor with 32 MB of memory, the xda will seem familiar to those who use handheld computers running Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 operating system. The device is handsome (thanks to a plastic casing that looks like brushed titanium), has a decent color screen and comes equipped with a full range of applications (such as Pocket Outlook) that can be synchronized with your PC through a USB or serial port...
...lower in saturated fat, and has 14% fewer calories and 10% less cholesterol. But the defenders of meat and dairy can also go on the offensive. They mention the need for B12. And then they ratchet up the fear factor. Kurt Graetzer, CEO of the Milk Processor Education Program, scans the drop in milk consumption (not only by vegans but by kids who prefer soda, Snapple and Fruitopia) and declares, "We are virtually developing a generation of osteoporotic children...
...Tuesday speech has run through the word processor a few times as different administration factions debate over policy and tone. On the one hand, Bush wants to penalize corporate executives who diddle with their books. "They have to know we are serious," says a top adviser, "so that people don't think: 'give them two months, they're Republicans, then we can start doing this again." The president is likely to call for criminal penalties for wayward executives and offer more money for the Securities and Exchange Commission to help hunt down the swindle-doers...
Kurzweil shares some of Joy's concerns but takes a more optimistic view of technology and man's ability to control it. Some critics challenge Kurzweil's claim that software advances can keep up with such trends as rising processor speed, or that the brain is not too complex to reverse-engineer. And pragmatists might see many predictions--not just Kurzweil's--as divorced from larger social issues. What good are eye computers when we aren't sure where much of the world's freshwater will come from? In his next book, The Singularity Is Near, coming in early...