Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the conflict is the part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM PC, are controlled by entering commands letter by letter on the computer's typewriter-like keyboard. The Mac, by contrast, uses artful screen displays to create the visual illusion of a desktop littered with objects and documents that can be selected and manipulated with a "mouse," a handheld pointing device...
...almost inevitable: a TV anchor trying to play modern-day power broker, using split-screen technology to seek the deal that had eluded Paul Kirk. First pairing Dukakis and Gephardt, Koppel relentlessly bored in: "Governor, would you accept the Congressman as your running mate if he would endorse you?" Dukakis answered with characteristic caution, "I would % certainly consider Congressman Gephardt, as well as Senator Gore, along with many other fine Democrats." Suddenly Gephardt was gone, and Gore was on the split screen. "Senator," Koppel intoned, "would you accept the vice presidency?" Gore remained unruffled as he answered...
...computer at the University of Illinois is simulating something that no one saw: the evolution of the universe in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Re- creating conditions that may have prevailed billions of years ago, the computer reveals on a remote screen how massive clouds of subatomic particles, tugged by their own gravity, might have coalesced into filaments and flattened disks. The vivid reds, greens and blues of the shapes are not merely decorative but represent the various densities of the first large structures as they emerged from primordial chaos in the near vacuum of space...
PRINCE has appeared in three movies in his short cinematic career which have run the gamut of praise (or lack of praise) depending on how much music he performs on the silver screen...
...precise times. Finally, Hamilton and others had to evade smoke missiles while dropping a bulky parachute-equipped 500-lb. bomb. Hamilton, alone among all Gunsmoke pilots, elected to try an F-16 computer program called dive toss. The pilot fixes the target inside a box projected on the up screen, punches his pickle button as if setting an alarm for a wake-up call, then flies toward the target. The computer drops the bomb. "The other pilots would have thought I was crazy to let the computer decide," Hamilton admits. Like a fox. The aging warrior scored a near perfect...