Word: whetted
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Gates, as it turned out last Friday, was well pleased with his buffet. He was able to waft the polished X-boxes under the noses of games developers at a conference in San Jose, Calif., just long enough to whet their appetites. Not that he needs to be worried about getting anyone's attention. These X-boxes are prototypes, two generations and 18 months away from anything you might see on store shelves. But when the world's largest software company, currently duking it out with the government for its very survival, starts building a video-games console, notice will...
...would Apple whet the appetite of millions of budding armchair directors, only to require a massive infusion of cash and equipment just when things start to get interesting? Maybe Jobs can devise some midrange software that will at least let you run searches on your clip file. In the meantime, I'm ready to start boring my friends and family with Carnival 2000--scaled down, less like a music video, but finished nonetheless. Let's hope those extras don't start demanding back...