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Cisco's principal products are routers--souped-up computers that sort the streams of information packets that whiz throughout the Internet. As it happened, routers turned out to be the indispensable heavy artillery of the digital revolution. As the Internet has grown, so too have the demands for bigger, faster, better routers. Today, Cisco manufactures gigabit routers that can handle a billion bits of information a second. Coming soon, as bandwidth requirements increase and Internet traffic doubles every 100 days--and as we consumers increasingly upload and download video, voice, music and data--Cisco will be ready with terabit (trillion...
...really don't want to walk away from your PC, the Web will still be there. Watch for more gee-whiz applications to draw you into retail websites, like the virtual dressing rooms at eddiebauer.com and boo.com or furniture.com's floor-planning program...
...over two years dumped me and started shacking up with a man old enough to be my older brother. Our problems were compounded when the first issue of the new guard was scheduled to appear during the week of Valentine s Day. It was decided by FM s conceptual whiz-kids that the theme of their endpaper would be "love." Unfortunately, these very same whiz-kids failed to recognize that, given my circumstances, of the six thousand undergraduates on this campus, I was the least appropriate person to expound on such a theme. Still, I was coerced, cajoled and bamboozled...
...matches are held in some of the most meticulously rendered backdrops ever presented on a computer screen. I found it hard to play without gawking. The lighting! The mist! The way bullets whiz through water! It feels like you're reliving the first half-hour of Saving Private Ryan--except, surprisingly, it's not as gory...
According to Band Director Thomas "Gee-Whiz" Everett, early one Sunday morning in the 70s as the band was returning from the University of Pennsylvania, the bus made an unscheduled stop in New Haven...