Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fully attentive, he checks his location, pinpointed by a glowing dot moving along a map displayed on a dashboard screen, then exits the freeway and reads instructions on an adjoining screen. Finally, as he nears his destination, he is guided further by a computer voice that intones, "Turn left on Cherry Street...
...auto-navigation systems being developed by Rockwell, among others. To use the Rockwell system, which is already available on some Oldsmobiles, the motorist types the address of his destination on a dash-mounted keypad and reads his instructions on an adjoining screen. Using a small computer in the trunk to process signals from the military's satellite global positioning system, the navigator will track the vehicle's progress and regularly update instructions, including the name of the street where the next turn should be made. As the motorist nears the intersection, a computer voice directs him to "turn left...
...Hollywood, when a high-budget movie opens, insiders discuss whether ``the money'' made it onto the screen--whether the result, that is, justifies the expense. In this trial, O.J. Simpson's money has certainly made it into the courtroom. Scrappy, overworked state employees appear to be just that when set against the silver-tongued, monied and remarkably personable defense lawyers. Cochran, chuckling modestly in a moment of theater that must have infuriated Clark and Darden, told the court last Thursday, ``We certainly don't refer to ourselves as the Dream Team. We're just a collection of lawyers just trying...
...Carnesale ran over long history of stage,screen and concert performances, as well as hercommitment to political activism, the entertainerpantomimed modest embarrassment, playing to theaudience by sneaking under Carnesale's podium toget a glass or water...
...machine worked fine, but then I discovered that TPC had not duplicated my original purchase order: they had forgotten to install an ethernet card. It took another week of phone calls to get one. Then, when I went to print, the screen froze up! I popped out the card and everything was OK: so the card had been the culprit all along. It had been wholly unnecessary for TPC to give me a new computer . And my original machine's ' three weeks at Tech Services had been a total waste of time: they completely rebuilt it but never thought...