Word: saversion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chances are that your monitor is almost always in operation while you're working at your computer, so many users have one or more so-called screen savers installed on their computers. These programs normally stay dormant in the background (that is, somewhere in your computer's RAM, or random...
Screen savers helped avoid the forming of "ghost" images by varying the displayed image on the screen. While they were useful five or six years ago, they are no longer needed on today's computers. Modern monitors are coated with a layer of specially processed phosphorus that resists burning, even...
Gary Gordon, president of B.G. Mudd, a trading company in Gallup, New Mexico, thinks the key to Indian fever is neither politicized rockers nor savvy savers. "People drifted West, all the way to Los Angeles, but they found it was too kooky," he says. "What we have now is the...
Much of the money propping up share prices comes from small savers who have put their money into mutual funds simply because returns on alternative investments have got so low. With money-market deposits and CDs barely eking out 2% in interest, individuals poured a record $11.3 billion into stock...
Still, a Letterman-vs.-Leno matchup would be one of the most intriguing in TV history. Though they are nearly the same age (Letterman is 45, Leno 42) and have similar roots in stand-up comedy, the two seem to represent different show-business generations. Letterman, with his subversive antics...