Word: versions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the best way to build and market truly great software is to give it away and then enlist the collective talent of the thousands of programmers on the Net who will use it, debug it and ultimately improve and extend it. Case in point? Linux, a hugely popular version of the Unix operating system that is even overtaking Unix in some markets...
...Internet or merely caffeinates our clicking remains to be seen. Even the reigning king of online content, America Online, isn't sure. "The challenge is to find new content that is both really exciting and needs to be interactive--you can't just do a bad version of TV," says Bob Pittman, president of America Online. He has a team at AOL working on concepts. In the meantime, we'll take the speed...
...Angeles was a perfect proving ground for this slicker, more humanized and glamorous version of modernism than the Bauhaus produced. It had the climate and the light. It had the talent, the money and the daring to support a new design movement. And of course there was all that postwar production capacity. Eames' molded plywood chairs, in fact, used a technology he developed for making lightweight splints for the Navy...
...even though it is shot in austere black and white on palpably real locations, turns into something new for him: an epic. It contains 242 speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...
...Aczel's final calculation, leading to the number 1 for the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, uses a watered down version of Drake's equation to compute the probability of intelligent life evolving around a particular star. Drake's equation, a description of the factors involved in calculating the number of civilizations in the galaxy capable of communicating with each other, is useful in concept. But the equation is not a very practical tool for performing actual calculations because its factors include numbers like the percentage of planets in their stars' habitable zones that contain...