Word: virtually
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...result of linking all of the data is a virtual library, which brings students instant access to the sort of information high-level strategists seek: up-to-date public opinion polls; historic election returns; state ballot access laws; prices of television advertising and state-by-state demographic information...
Computer geeks heralded the triumph of the virtual office. One public relations firm sent out a fax crowing that all its employees had made it to work, since they all work at home. It should have included their cure for claustrophobia. Said a Connecticut mother to the New York Times, contemplating yet another snowed-in day with her kids: "Amanda and I are getting along. It's Jordan you are going to see hung up by her toenails...
...Java is the way it will run with equal ease on a variety of computer operating systems: Microsoft's Windows 95, Apple's Macintosh and various flavors of Unix. Java carves out what Sun calls a "virtual Java machine" within the software of each of these computer systems, thus getting around an irksome problem that has bedeviled programmers and users since the dawn of the computer age: incompatibility. Incompatibility is the reason that a program written for, say, a Windows machine won't run on a Mac, and vice versa. "Java really levels the playing field," says Scott McNealy, chairman...
That would not necessarily be a bad thing in the minds of many programmers, who are always on the lookout for what they call a "new platform" on which to write new, hot-selling software. The virtual Java machine represents, as Sun co-founder Bill Joy puts it, "the lightest-weight platform we've ever had"--made not of metal, plastic and silicon but of a few thousand lines of code...
...result of the debate, the Harvard Memorial Society decided that a memorial should wait until there was virtual unanimity on the issue...