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Busy executives whose Web use is slowed by heavy traffic and firewalls can now access information without waiting an eternity. They can simply use an instant-messaging service to employ a smart bot, an interactive agent that answers general news questions. Send a message to the screen name SmarterChild, for example, and the bot created by ActiveBuddy, based in New York City, will deliver headlines and stock quotes in less than five seconds. It takes a little longer, however, to download a cute little robot icon from the company's website...
...Cusack enlists Dean (Jeremy Piven, who struck a nice chemistry with Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank). Both provide solid support, though I wish that they existed as more than just sounding boards/agents to further the plot, given that they are the only other characters with substantial screen time in this sparsely-populated film...
...Josh could say that. In the fictional world of this playlet, everyone got a good scare, but no one got hurt, lost parents, saw dozens of office workers jump a thousand feet rather than burn to death. It was a lot easier for the fictional class on the screen to take his advice than for the figurative one at home. But that's one problem, with drama and with life, that even I can't blame Aaron Sorkin...
...terms of this insensitive use of language, Harvard is no different than my middle school. Each day brings more “retarded” things: a TF who grades unfairly, a salad bar that isn’t filled, a frozen computer screen. When confronted, my friends sometimes defend themselves. “Oh, it was just an offhand statement. I was caught in the moment. It didn’t mean anything.” Still others defend their use of the word based on its definition. “Well, if I do something stupid...
...nation’s short but intense attention span in the way only a fad could. Ginger was said to have the potential to transform the world. To date, Ginger has transformed very little. People never found out what Ginger was, and soon it disappeared from the radar screen...