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...decades inspire popular music anthologies. The makers of "Disco 70s" and "Totally 80s" have already begun work on the current decade. "Silicon 00s" will feature titles from Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, as well as Weird Al Yankovich's "It's all about the Pentiums...
...titanic clash of wills. In one corner was DotComGuy, a silicon shut-in, living a life that is normally forced on felons as an alternative to incarceration. Not allowed to leave his home, and subject to round-the-clock surveillance by a battery of 16 cameras webcasting to computers around the globe, 26-year-old Dallas resident DotComGuy (known as Mitch Maddox before he changed his name) has turned himself into a sort of wired groundhog, vowing to spend an entire year ordering everything he needs to live, from food to furniture, over the Internet. Like a switched-on Thoreau...
...Tuesday afternoon, the day after the deal was announced, that the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Roger McNamee summed up the object of all this attention: "Let's be clear," he said. "This is the single most transformational event I've seen in my career...
...away. They get faster. They look more and more like hard candy. And they get lighter and thinner. Two announcements this week should go a long way toward advancing that last trend. One is from the chip giant we know and love, Intel. The other is from Transmeta ? Silicon Valley's most secretive and mysterious startup...
...contestants are even followed to the bathroom. Everyone at Millionaire, including the electricians, had to sign two FCC forms, and the writers, who sit in a shredder-filled room with a combination lock that is regularly changed, signed nondisclosure agreements of a sort rarely seen outside secrecy-happy Silicon Valley. The writers have their own kitchen and bathroom and, at first, were told they would have to clean them themselves because the cleaning people would not be allowed in. Worse yet, they can never meet Philbin...