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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bezos & Co. conceived an entirely new way of thinking about the ancient art of retailing, from creating a "flow experience" that keeps customers coming back to Amazon's website to read product reviews or one another's "wish lists," to automating as much as possible a complex process that starts when you hit the patent-protected "1-Click" buy technology and ends when your purchase is delivered to your door. The Coffeyville center, for instance, is part of a nationwide distribution network specially designed to handle e-commerce. Half a dozen warehouses like it have been strategically placed...
...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...
...stop there. I'd rather not contemplate the magazine. For me, over-exposure kills the final product and I can never bear to read FM on Thursdays. The glory of an occasionally door-dropped 24-pager dims in the grim light of a Crimson sunrise. I'm saving my FMs to read them next semester...
...contrast to the three days it takes to produce a fully functional HMV sales associate, Ferranti-Dege needs two or three months to train an employee due to the technical nature of the store's product. So the store bites the bullet during the holiday season...
...people don't mind that their movements are traceable." But that potential for criminal abuse has some legislators at the state and even federal level worried enough that the software may be hit within the next few years with laws banning such anonymizing code. "Inevitably, somebody will buy the product and solicit sex with a call girl and then someone will try to pass a law banning it," says Grossman. "Then we'll find out how both the legislators and courts feel." Just a friendly reminder that while we may feel weightless in cyberspace, real-world rules still apply...