Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some employers fall victim to an electronic version of Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the digitized time available for its completion. In many graphics departments, says New York consultant Reppen, employees use their computers to try so many different images that "they spend more and more money to get things done at the last minute." And, of course, employees often spend some of their work time idly surfing the Net or playing games. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and systems manager in California and author of Silicon Snake Oil, draws this analogy: "Suppose a business said everyone...
...dedication Winfrey brings to the role, there is still the nagging sense that the movie is unable to grasp the true inner conflict of her character. Without the novelist's luxury of being able to enter a character's head, Beloved is only able to deliver a skin-deep version of Sethe, one whose subconscious turmoil is never clearly evident...
...downsides to Brother's Gonna Work It Out is that the average listener will not recognize many of the original records that the Chemical Brothers have mixed. It is hard to appreciate a remix without ever having heard the original version. For these people, tracks three and four may drag on. However, the album does finish with mixes of two very familiar songs: Manic Street Preachers' "Everything Must Go" and Spiritualized's "I Think I'm In Love." The effects and rhythms sampled into "Everything Must Go" make it stand out as a great moment in the record. Just...
...necessary evil. Chocolate Ecstasy is a towering mound of stratified richness--cream, chocolate mouse and chocolate cake soaked in kahlua--alluring enough to be devoured in spite of flagging spirits. Coconut flan sounds interesting, and for a palate cleansing option, Baja offers Key Lime Tart, a denser version of the more common Key Lime...
...resident was running Linux at the time of the breach, which is a free alternate version of Unix popular with students and with hackers...