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...Quantum Computer Services in 1985, the company has focused on one thing: creating an attractive online experience for the average schmo who can barely plug in his PC. It was a smart plan whose execution has been more or less perfect. The catchy populist name. That effortless user interface. Those millions of free starter discs. Those infamous chat rooms. And, of course, that cheerful robot chirping, "You've got mail" (now the title of a romantic comedy coming soon, via Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and two humming laptops, to a multiplex near...
...Processor in every iMac is over 40 percent faster than a 400 MHz Pentium II. The iMac also integrates the Universal Serial Bus (USB) for connecting peripherals such as keyboards, mice and disk drives. This technology, now standard in many PCs, is over 50 times faster and more user-friendly than its predecessors...
...ergonomic design of the iMac is also faulty. The round mouse, while innovative, is uncomfortable. It does not fit in the palm of the user's hand and is therefore harder to control. The keyboard also has problems. The keys seem too crammed together, and the arrow keys are too small. Furthermore, the keyboard does not have all the keys of the more-standard extended keyboard. A user may adjust to these differences quickly and possibly even find them comfortable. However, most first-time users grumble about the unfortunate design...
Once such a question is entered, Jeeves will attempt to match the question with the millions of question templates available in its knowledge base. The best-matched template questions are then displayed to the user. Once the most appropriate of such template questions is selected, the user is taken directly to a web site that provides the question's answer...
Jeeves, of course, is not a panacea for the difficulties of the Information Age. Questions outside the scope of Jeeves' knowledge base, such as those of a particularly specific or technical nature, tend to leave the user stranded in the glut of Internet information. Although Jeeves attempts to compensate for this behavior by submitting unfamiliar questions to popular search engines, this hardly provides a particularly useful mechanism for searching...