Word: teche
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...party to more than $400,000 in the 1997-98 election cycle. Coincidentally, about that time, 10 Republican senators signed a ?Dear Colleague? letter criticizing the Clinton administration for subjecting the software industry to ?needless regulation through overzealous enforcement of antitrust? laws. ?We must protect our high-tech industry?s freedom to innovate,? said the Oct. 12 letter, copying Microsoft?s p.r. machine practically verbatim. While the letter was circulating, CEO Bill Gates appeared in North Carolina with one of his most vocal Senate defenders, Lauch Faircloth, who is locked in a squeaker of a race. Gates didn?t endorse...
...blond boy with the high-tech gun comes back to the room, having killed off most of the players on our team...
Blake cruised into yesterday's quarterfinalmatch with Virginia Tech's Aaron Marchettifundamentally untested. Having defeated his Hokieopponent and former teammate from the USTAAll-American Summer Team the previous Sunday inthe finals of the ECAC Team Championships (3-6,6-4, 7-5), Blake had to know he was in for a toughmatch...
...course, high-tech surveillance is not exactly the same as village visibility. As the journalist Kevin Kelly has noted, the old-fashioned, small-town lack of privacy was symmetrical. You knew the people who were watching you, and you could watch them back. These days, you are not on a first-name basis with the computers that track your credit-card purchases or your Web browser's wanderings--or with the people who, for all you know, can access those computers. It's this sense of a distant, cloaked observer that's really eerie...
...cutthroat computer industry, in which the future of a company rides on its market share, Steve Jobs' babe is far from being out of the woods. "If you shrink a company to the size of its existing niche, it's simple to turn a profit," says TIME tech correspondent Michael Krantz. "It's good that they've put out a cool consumer product like the iMac, which is selling well. It's necessary for success -- but not sufficient...