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...quality setting, you only get about 15 minutes of video per gigabyte of storage, so it?s advisable to buy a 2GB SD card, the highest capacity. (At least most have finally come down below the $100 mark.) The good news is that you can squeeze two hours of standard-definition video on the same card...
...skeptical. Last summer, I had read Brown’s earlier novel, “Deception Point,” which is decently entertaining but profoundly unremarkable. The sophomore effort features plenty of shadowy government officials, unbelievable technology, and pretzel-shaped plot twists, but the book is standard fare...
...idea of a standard is nothing new. Long before the personal computer, there were standards for gasoline, so that car manufacturers could build cars and motorcycles and SUVs compatible with readily available gas, and standards for battery size and shape so that people who wanted to build battery-powered gizmos could do so with confidence...
...Microsoft, or you can guess. Most people take the first of these avenues, buying Word and never looking back. Others, such as those who created a program called Open Office, have had a good amount of success at reverse-engineering Word documents. However if Microsoft changes anything in the standard in a new version, the Open Office programmers will have to go back to the drawing board...
...Open standards bear a large part of the responsibility for the success of the computer and the Internet. Because the rules for HTML were agreed upon on back in the early ’90s and made publicly available, the standard was quickly supported on a variety of computer platforms which were otherwise not interoperable. This meant that content producers could create consistently formatted information and distribute it broadly, and so the web was born...