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Back in his office, a message on his screen...
...looked up local movie listings, browsed synopses of techtrends on Slashdot.org (a website whose motto is "News for Nerds") and snagged up-to-the-minute Yankees scores. The Palm fits comfortably in my shirt pocket, runs for a month on a pair of AAA batteries, has an invitingly readable screen and a cute, clip-up antenna, just like a Star Trek communicator. It is perfect and adorable in every respect save one: it costs way, way too much...
...saying the portions are too small at a four-star restaurant. But in this case, the criticism could be fatal. The unit itself retails for $599, which is supportable, I guess. But Palm's basic wireless service is $9.99 a month, which buys you 50 kilobytes, or 150 Palm-screen pages of text. I ran through that in a day. And at the end of two weeks, after consciously limiting consumption, I had used 138 kilobytes--$35.20 more than the basic charge. Even the $24.99-for-150-kilobyte, big-user plan would be inadequate for me. How can any self...
Paul Rudnick, author of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, writes for stage and screen...
What Canby missed is that it's the moments between the plot points that are worth watching. It was the ballet of precision violence that flew off the screen; every combination you can create in Mortal Kombat can be found in a Lee movie. And even with all the special-effects money that went into The Matrix, no one could make violence as beautiful as Lee's. He had a cockiness that passed for charisma. And when he whooped like a crane, jumped in the air and simultaneously kicked two bad guys into unconsciousness, all while punching out two others...