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...love you" only when he is naked and horizontal. Another claims that men want to hear "I love you" only once, whereas women want to hear it more than once. It recommends that men say "I love you" three times in a row. That advice appears in The Silicon Syndrome: How to Survive a High-Tech Relationship, by Jean Hollands, but it's really too rough a book to discuss with you, recalcitrant...
...other systems have been available, IBM is so dominant in computers that many potential customers delayed making decisions on new equipment until they saw its network. In fact, many experts think such delays have contributed to the current computer-industry sales slump. Says Skip Bushee, director of research for Silicon Valley's InfoCorp: "Without seeing the standard from IBM, the industry was confused. This should enhance sales for everyone." The market for computer-network gear is expected to zoom from the current $300 million annually to as much as $6 billion by the end of the decade...
...different sort was taking place in Denver's Radisson Hotel. The world's top-ranked chess machine, a $14 million Cray X-MP/ 48 supercomputer running a program called Blitz, was about to lose the North American computer-chess championship to Hitech, a rack of custom-made silicon chips attached to a $20,000 Sun minicomputer...
...computer that cracked the Night Stalker case was designed by the Nippon Electric Co. to overcome these deficiencies. It combines high-speed, custom- made silicon chips with a new technique for analyzing points of minutiae. Besides plotting each point, the computer also counts the number of ridge lines between that point and its four nearest neighbors. This provides a fairly good measure of the relative position of minutiae points; if two minutiae taken from a print in the police files are separated by eight ridge lines, chances are they will be separated by the same number of lines...
Meanwhile, Jobs has inspired hopeful activity far from Silicon Valley. The Chamber of Commerce of Boulder, Colo., last week invited Jobs to bring his new company to that city (pop. 77,000), where some 7,000 high-tech workers have been laid off during the past 18 months. Jobs could probably use a Rocky Mountain high, but he has yet to respond to the offer...