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...sure, this is unmistakably a Disney product, mounted and mass-audience-tested like a theme-park ride. The opera's tragic story--about an Egyptian captain, Radames, and his forbidden love for the slave princess Aida--has been put through the studio's familiar food processor. Each of the main characters clashes with an authoritarian father; Aida is a feisty, headstrong heroine in the line of Mulan and Pocahontas; the bad guys dress in fascistic black trench coats. (And while the Nubian slaves are mostly African Americans, the Egyptians seem to have acquired a blond gene.) Those Disney magicians have...
...feeding all this information into the food processor of statistical analysis, your faithful software servants will be able to make smooth, creamy, startlingly accurate guesses about your plans for the near future. They will find patterns in your life that you didn't know were there. They will respond correctly to terse spoken commands ("Call Juliet," "Buy food," "Print the news") because they will know exactly who Juliet is, what food you need and what news stories you want to read...
...Second, how old is your PC? You'll want a speedy processor (at least 300 Mhz) plus at least 2 gigabytes of hard disk space and 128 megabytes of RAM. You can get by on less, but it won't be pretty. If you got the computer before last fall, check with the maker to see if there's a BIOS upgrade needed for W2K. And if you need one, pray that it's a simple software download, not a chip that needs to be replaced...
...touch with everything at all times." Cut off from his e-mail, he felt alone, adrift. "You can exist without it, sure," he said. "You're just sort of living in a different milieu." Worse, the journalist learned he wasn't able to write coherent sentences without his word processor. "The new style becomes a scribbly, scratchy mess covered with arrows," he wrote in his column...
...product that offers the most flexibility is the Matrox Marvel G400-TV, a $300 kit consisting of an advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch...