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...just get sick thinking about all those Silicon Valley optionaires who lost much of their fortune in the tech meltdown? Perhaps not. Poor little not-so-rich kids. We should all have such problems, right? Turns out many of us do. The number of people holding employee stock options is exploding, up 10-fold to 10 million since 1992. And most option holders are in non-tech industries, where the programs are so new that many recipients haven't a clue how to manage this asset...
...this because when I plug in a new peripheral, something all too often goes horribly wrong. My computer sputters, chokes and begins firing off error messages. Then it becomes eerily silent, unresponsive to anything but the emergency-restart button. After what feels like days on the phone with tech support, I swear never to mess with my PC again...
...when I tested the skinny screens. I just plugged them in, turned them on and watched my PC do the rest. IBM's T540, Philips' 150S and Samsung's SyncMaster 570V each came with its own installation disc. Even so, setup never took longer than five minutes--and no tech-support torture sessions were required...
...shareholders. "Boeing's basic thinking has changed," says Nisbet. "It isn't who can sell the most airplanes but who can make the most money." In order to do that, Boeing is promoting itself not merely as an airplane maker but as a diversified aerospace company with high-tech missile-defense contracts, space and communications systems and a growing aircraft-service business. To emphasize its new orientation, Boeing in March announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters. Its earnings for the first quarter were $762 million, up more than 100% from the same period last year...
...misery loves company, investors hammered by the current slump in tech stocks can take solace in the tale of one of the original financial bubbles. The "Tulip Mania" exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. (through July 23), displays a collection of watercolor paintings of tulips from the 1630s, along with intriguing information about the frenzy over them. During that decade, the price of a rare tulip bulb escalated to as much as 5,200 guilders. (By comparison, Rembrandt's fee for The Night Watch was 1,600 guilders.) Bulbs were used as dowries and exchanged for shiploads...