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...about my e-mail program, my word processor and my spreadsheet software--just enough to get the job done. And that's a problem for Microsoft. You see, no matter how many whiz-bang features the boys from Redmond pack into their best-selling Office suite, most users barely scratch the surface. Who needs the latest upgrade when the old version works just fine? What's worse, many people who use Office never bothered to buy it in the first place. A new report by the Business Software Alliance says 37% of all business software is pirated, and most...
...chances are they will be based on Xybernaut technology. With the benefit of a 10-year head start and some valuable patents, the company is so far ahead in the field that even mighty IBM decided to join forces with it rather than try to build wearables from scratch...
...Madison Square Garden with a camera crew, scouting the most enthusiastic Knicks fans in the crowd to display on the JumboTron. Away from the Garden, it's Carluccio, 32, who's the enthusiast. For the past 15 years, he has devoted himself to understanding and publicizing the art of scratch DJs, or turntablists, those men and women who make music through frenzied, seemingly chaotic scratches on vinyl. He has directed a documentary series called Battle Sounds that appeared in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, showing the sophisticated techniques behind the music; has organized concerts all over the world; and has written...
...studio session of the pioneering DJ collective X-ecutioners, Carluccio found a solution. While the X-ecutioners tried to repeat sounds they had made earlier in the day, Carluccio started scribbling down different lines to represent the various scratches. Then he put his lines on a modified musical staff, with the vertical axis representing the rotation of the record and the horizontal axis representing time. Ever since, he's been refining the system he calls TTM, turntablist transcription methodology. "Before notation, the music didn't have a lingua franca," says Carluccio. "People would refer to certain scratches, like a baby...
...newcomer is 1.3 in. thick--a mere 0.3 in. deeper than the titanium model, yet has shed about 2 in. in length (meaning you can almost hide it under an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper). Its keyboard is still full-size, however, and the plastic-rubbery covering should scratch and stain even less than titanium...