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...allows him to watch TV on his monitor. Using a free application called VirtualDub, he digitizes any show he wants and saves it to his hard drive. He then spends about five minutes editing out the commercials and an hour compressing the file until it is small enough to swap online. Then he uploads it to a friend who makes it available for others to download...
...allows him to watch TV on his monitor. Using a free application called VirtualDub, he digitizes any show he wants and saves it to his hard drive. He then spends about five minutes editing out the commercials and an hour compressing the file until it is small enough to swap online. Then he uploads it to a friend who makes it available for others to download...
Millennium Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass., has been a step ahead of most competitors. It announced on Dec. 6 the acquisition of COR Therapeutics of South San Francisco, Calif., for a stock swap worth $2 billion--the largest in biotech history and Millennium's fourth acquisition in as many years. That was just the latest in a series of mergers that have changed the face of the industry. Last month Celera Genomics, once the quintessential genetic information-services company, paid $174 million for Axys Pharmaceuticals of South San Francisco, a master designer of drugs. Another major information-services firm, Incyte Genomics...
...Remember Tivo, the gadget that digitally records your favorite shows? The next generation is here: SonicBlue's ReplayTV 4000 ($699) works like a Tivo but also connects to the Internet so you can swap recorded shows online--if you have a fast connection, that is; these are big files. Trading TV shows over the Net for free? If this reminds you of the Napster flap, you're not alone: the Big Three networks are suing...
...help curb academic dishonesty. We will no longer have the problem of students helping each other with homework. There will be no more study groups and no more mooching. For the really creative professors, the system can be further adapted such that students who tell on cheating friends can swap up to take the cheater’s ranking...