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...graded on their work. If they fail to meet certain minimum requirements they fail the class—and at Harvard they are even forced to take time off. In this case, the quality and timeliness of the feedback I received demonstrated my tutorial leader’s virtual indifference to the course. I wasn’t thrilled with the mark or satisfied with the feedback, but I was appalled at his behavior. I couldn’t imagine that such a cavalier attitude towards my education—especially in a one-on-one tutorial—would...
...virtual wedding bells about to chime for America Online and Microsoft? Senior execs from AOL and Time Warner (which owns AOL and TIME) have been meeting with Microsoft officials for several months, trying to work out a deal that could unite AOL with Microsoft's MSN network. The talks, which were first reported in the New York Post, have risen to the highest levels of both companies, involving direct discussions between Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer, says a source close to the talks. Negotiations are now at an impasse over key technology issues, such...
...acquisition of the West can be seen as a century-long act of aggression, serious films are more likely to question gun love than to celebrate it. In Aric Avelino's American Gun, a film shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style, spreading the virulence around the globe. There's "one firearm...
...implications for U.S. security are disturbing. In recent years, the counterintelligence community has grown increasingly anxious that Chinese spies are poking into all sorts of American technology to compete with the U.S. But tracking virtual enemies presents a different kind of challenge to U.S. spy hunters. Foreign hackers invade a secure network with a flick of a wrist, but if the feds want to track them back and shut them down, they have to go through a cumbersome authorization process that can be as tough as sending covert agents into foreign lands. Adding in extreme sensitivity to anything involving possible...
...searchable satellite views of the planet. A9.com Amazon's search subsidiary, sent trucks around 22 U.S. cities with digital cameras linked to laptops to photograph every street. So far it has 35 million pictures, which will be overlaid on maps. Microsoft is combining the approaches from the air--its Virtual Earth project is flying planes over cities to take pictures. The aim is to have views from all directions so users can circle buildings onscreen--a bit like being in a video game. "This is going to a fully immersive virtual-reality experience," says Erik Jorgensen, general manager...