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...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...
Most of the album's songs, written in the '90s, have a time-warp directness that locates them firmly in Clineland. Barnett climbs inside them all, the jingles and the ballads, with equal agility. But the standouts are the torch songs. The opening cut, Planet of Love, has a blue-eyed bluesy aggressiveness that Barnett builds nicely from a throaty murmur into a dominatrix growl; it's an invitation to a dangerous liaison, delivered deadpan. A Simple I Love You has the same let's-fall-in-love message, this time sung not as a come...