Word: scrolls
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...worth every penny. By plugging real-life climate data from satellites and ocean buoys into the Earth Simulator, researchers can create a computer model of the entire planet, then scroll it forward in time to see what will happen to our environment. Scientists have already completed a forecast of global ocean temperatures for the next 50 years, and a full set of climate predictions will be ready by year's end. Soon, instead of speculating about the possible environmental impact of, say, the Kyoto accord, policymakers will be able to plug its parameters into the virtual Earth, then skip ahead...
...Adelphia, end up with no margin for error. Robert Olstein, manager of the Olstein Financial Alert Fund, avoids firms whose debt is greater than half of total capital or more than five times their free cash flow. (Get these ratios at morningstar.com Enter the company name under "Quicktake Reports"; scroll to "Financials...
...fast and impressively stable (i.e., unlike Netscape 6, it doesn't crash every time you look at it funny), but what makes it truly superior is the clever, stress-saving bells and whistles that come from millions of geek hours of testing. For example: every morning I scroll through News.com open-ing articles in new browser windows as I go, for later perusal. These windows tend to clutter up my desktop and get in my face. But Mozilla's "tabbed-browsing" feature lets me open those new windows behind the page I'm currently reading; when I'm ready...
...anyone should junk their Palm just yet. You can't enter text directly onto an iPod, for one thing; you have to do it via the computer. That said, the iPod's design beats Palm's hands down when it comes to reading text; with the trackwheel you can scroll through any document with one hand. And the iPod's gargantuan disc space, which dwarfs the eight megabytes of most handhelds, can hold just about anything--as CompUSA found out when an iPod owner walked in, hooked his device up to one of the store's Macs and downloaded...
...coolest one I saw was the VJ Starz Karaoke Music Studio from Toymax ($99, due out this fall). It's a tiny, stylish unit with a built-in video camera that hooks up to your TV so you can watch yourself singing closed-captioned lyrics as they scroll by. If you think The West Wing is compelling viewing, you've never seen me cover Abba's Dancing Queen at fjord-rattling volume. Younger children might do better with Vtech's DJ Karaoke Studio ($39.99, ages 3 and older, available this fall), a surprisingly comprehensive little music machine with a working...