Word: rockier
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Going digital was a much rockier road in the U.S., mainly because the FCC chose to let competing technologies duke it out in the market. The result: Qualcomm, Ericsson and others squabbled over whose standard would "win." None did, so we're left with a hodgepodge of incompatible networks and a gaggle of abbreviations (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IDEN) that are not only confusing but also confining, restricting us to a particular carrier's coverage area and delaying the roll-out of advanced services...
...Pretty damning stuff. But apart from the brusque language, it's nothing we haven't heard before. "I know that Bill and Andy both consider that period to be one of the rockier ones for Wintel," says TIME senior editor Joshua Ramo, who interviewed Grove for the Man of the Year issue. Such tension is hardly surprising, given the way chip technology has taken so much of software's workload over the last decade. But while Gates gave Grove credit for "stepping back" on the software issue in a 1996 conversation published in Fortune, Grove claimed he "basically caved." Said...
Plenty. Lots of people like just watching. The road to interactive entertainment has been rockier than a walk in a quarry, and with good reason. Who wants to cook when you can eat at a four-star restaurant? Entertainment should be...entertaining! Not work. And who wants to wade through all the awful stuff that's certain to crowd out the brilliance? Attempts at forging serious art from random accessibility have been interesting in an experimental way. But not accessible in a random kind...
Asteroids are rockier than comets. Yet it is possible for an asteroid to have a halo or a tail, made mostly of dust. Says Hal Weaver of the Space Telescope Institute: "The only real evidence that ((S-L 9 was)) a comet is that it broke apart, and we've never seen that in an asteroid. But maybe this was a fragile asteroid...
...North Country visitors are also eyeing the NCAA tournament, though their road is far rougher and rockier...