Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies that function more as assembly lines than as manufacturers. Many of these firms, ; such as Zeos, Graystar and PC Brand, don't invest in costly research or development, nor do they own expensive manufacturing plants. Instead they operate out of factories and garages. Rather than make PCs from scratch, they buy everything from circuit boards, displays and disk drives to entire computers from foreign firms that largely copy American PC designs. Says Brad Smith, vice president of PC research at Dataquest: "All you need to start a PC company today is a fax machine to take orders...
...York art world. He doesn't fit the standard profile of postwar American painting. People thought -- and to a degree, some now think -- that his work was "soft": civil and private, figurative in a time of heroic abstraction, obsessed with the invocation of natural beauty. But scratch its agreeable surface, and there is flint below, and an unquenchable heat of pictorial intelligence. Or so one realizes, looking at the retrospective of Porter's work from the 1940s to his death in 1975, now at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. Curated by the art historian William Agee...
...broadcast hundreds of TV channels simultaneously. The phone companies badly need that cable to replace their narrow copper wires, which can barely carry a single TV station. At the same time, phone companies have sophisticated switching and billing systems that the cable companies would otherwise have to build from scratch...
...talk about the advent of the information age, it is remarkable how anchored we are to the past. If we were to start again from scratch, we might be able to implement a much better system. The National Science Foundation funds basic research in the sciences; a National Software Foundation could fund basic programming...
Vice President Al Gore '69 is a strong proponent of information highways. No one but Richard Stallman seems to worry about the vehicles that will travel them. It would be impossible for me to build my own car from scratch, but I can certainly pick out options in the showroom. In the same way, GNU and EMACS can be customized and extended to my individual needs in a way that Windows or System 7 can never...