Word: warped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening crawl, I was baffled. All these dense factoids about Galactic Empires and Death Stars--it was like some nightmare of a pop quiz in a course I hadn't taken. The sets were Formica, the characters cardboard; the tale had drive but no depth, a tour at warp speed through an antiseptic landscape. I admired George Lucas' attention to detail, his Tolkien-like industry in creating a host of alien life-forms, but I remained unmoved. Peering at Star Wars through the telescope of my disinterest, I made this fearless box-office prediction: "The movie's 'legs' will prove...
...standing in front of my first class and I was teaching C.S. 161 and it was just this really weird mind-warp thinking about how I used to view my professors when I was a student," Seltzer says. "Then it hit me, 'My God, these people take me seriously...
...companies. It had produced a solidly black summer. Profits, the company said, rose ahead of expectations; hot new IBM computers such as the ThinkPad 560 were rocketing off the shelves for the first time in decades; and the company's services business, which helps firms get up to the warp speed of the infobahn, had booked a mind-blowing $11 billion in business in the first nine months...
...transformation that has set Microsoft on the road to a Net-based future has also completed Gates' beatification as not just a great hacker but also a world-class CEO. Microsoft's warp-speed reinvention may set the standard for information-age corporate agility. "I don't think you'd be interviewing me on this topic if we were any less nimble," Gates told Time. "You'd be writing our epitaph...
...resources had been strained as thousands of programmers, marketers and customer-support people slogged through nearly complete overhauls of Windows and Windows NT, the company's marquee operating systems. Gates knew he needed to get as many bodies as possible onto Net projects as fast as possible, a warp-speed course correction that would require superhuman devotion to the Microsoft mission. Fortunately, Gates knew that was one thing he could count...