Word: ultra
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...iPhone launch was absorbing all the available buzz this winter, two dueling teams of technologists were feverishly finalizing gadgets they hope will refocus the spotlight. The FlipStart, dreamed up and funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, launches in April. Its creators call it the first fully powered ultra-mini PC, or UMPC, that is satisfying to use. Meanwhile a team led by ex--Apple star Jory Bell has countered with the OQO2--a palm-size computer that stakes a similar claim with a slightly different approach. These aren't the only machines to claim UMPC status, but they...
...broader challenge for FlipStart, OQO and their rivals is establishing a market. Although 228 million computers were sold worldwide in 2006, and a billion mobile phones, demand for ultra-mobile computers may not even reach 150,000 in 2007, according to Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology consulting firm in California's Silicon Valley. Bajarin expects that mini-PC sales won't near the million-a-year mark until 2009 and may fall far short if prices don't drop fast. "To get into the millions of units, they'll have to sell for no more than...
...asexual in a way, because he’s such a creature. When you see the graphic novel…I just saw something there that was very ambiguous. And I just think that it makes him more interesting.”BUTT-KICKING SCOTSMANFor Butler, who played the ultra-masculine Leonidas, the issue of characterization was a simpler one. Butler explains that the bulk of his preparation involved physical training, which he said made him feel like a warrior, regardless of his actual strength.“In the middle of the film, maybe I couldn?...
...Harvard transfers, it wasn’t Harvard’s academic character that pushed them out, but the ultra-competitive Harvard environment...
...particular, the event at MIT billed Weiss as representing a "Jewish view" on foreign policy and social justice. Weiss routinely presents the Neturei Karta as representing "authentic Judaism" despite the fact that only several thousand people identify as members of the sect and that most Jews, including the Ultra-Orthodox, have strongly denounced Weiss and his associates. Finkelstein is more subtle: He harnesses his Jewish background in an attempt to bring legitimacy to his opinions. He routinely and targetedly mentions that his mother is a Holocaust survivor, and employs common Jewish expressions—such as "chutzpah...