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...major European aerospace company has tested the software. That's an industry whose products take years to develop and remain in the market for decades but are loaded with electronic components that have the life span of gnats. The company has used the software to trim costs by figuring out the best time to replace many components across several product lines while also introducing product upgrades. "Offering options over time is pretty unique to these guys," a company executive tells Time...
Confession of a movie-mad youth: I enjoyed seeing pictures of all kinds, and by my early teens had become a little connoisseur of certain actors, directors and genres-all American, since I was an American kid, and since Hollywood product dominated movie theaters. Then one day, at a Philadelphia art house in early 1959, I saw Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, and saw the light. The knight playing chess with Death, the panorama of medieval questing and suffering, the clowns and flagellants, all convinced me: this was art! There were movies, I knew, and now... there was film...
...what has turned out to be my most enduring obsession is DVDs, since it's just the product-line expression of my lifelong fascination with movies. So it was only a matter of time before I found my way to Criterion, the DVD company that grew out of the Janus film collection and Voyager/Criterion laser disc...
...last word in insanely thorough reconstruction of a much fractured product. Welles' 1955 film, about a shadowy billionaire who hires an American smuggler to look into his past, exists in multiple versions, all of which are collected here, along with a new "comprehensive" version, three radio plays, outtakes and alternate scenes, and the novel "by" Welles, more or less, that the film is more or less based on. Welles' admirers are sure that a man of his genius must have made more great films than he did. They're always combing through his threadbare later output for one more masterpiece...
...today would argue that the news industry is anything but that: an industry. That is to say, it competes to sell a product, turn a profit, and do it all over again the next day. The major news networks—and they are “networks” in the sense of being synchronized for the same purpose—have become giant businesses. As a result, those of us who revel in knowledge are blessed with a deluge of it: 24-hour news channels, e-mail updates, and news websites with handheld access...