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...Xerox was a short, unusual name for a good copy machine, so we wanted a short, unusual name for a good copy service,” said Sytek, a former nuclear engineer who later became a New Hampshire state legislator and is now a high school Latin teacher. “The fact that it was a geometric figure and we were engineers—it was serendipitous...
...with graduation. That means no more JSTOR, no more Lexis-Nexis, and definitely no more 24-5 swipe access. I won’t have a huge sunny room of comfortable chairs and familiar faces in which to exercise that access. Nor will I have a basement full of Xerox machines, a reference room full of printers, and a whole room devoted to pleasure reading—in which no laptops are allowed...
...would photo-copy the final. The mistake was discovered when Ben-Shahar and teaching fellows Jessica Glazer and Shawn J. Achor ’00 arrived at the Science Center to wish the students good luck—only to find the proctors empty-handed. Harvard’s Xerox machines were already being used to copy today’s exams, so Ben-Shahar, Glazer, and Achor raced to Gnoman Copy to quickly print the 10-page final 1,100 times. When the exams finally reached students’ hands, the multiple choice questions were still warm...
...exist producers like the Wu-Tang’s RZA, who compares his use of a wide variety of short samples in a given song to that of “painter’s palette,” and biters’ approach to a “Xerox machine.”But even this distinction, between creative reuse in a recognizably new composition, and tired theft, was eventually erased by the courts. The real “zero hour” of sampling occurred in the notorious “three notes” case...
...what changed? American business, for one thing. Competitive pressure and the need to prop up stock prices forced many companies to abandon research and focus mostly on short-term product development. Freewheeling corporate research labs that didn't contribute visibly to the bottom line--AT&T's Bell Labs, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center--have been restructured...