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...When the candidacy of a major party is decided by 5 to 8 percent of the population--as it was in this year's primaries--it's that much easier for career politicians to assemble the critical mass necessary for victory (for example, the secret message in the source code at www.gore200.com...
...dawn, Shawn Fanning lay on the brown carpet in the shadow of a converted bar counter, consumed by the idea. He had been awake 60 straight hours writing code on his notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine...
Fanning only dimly recalls that period in mid-1999, when he wrote the source code for the music file-sharing program called Napster. He can't remember specific months, weeks or days. He was just hunched over his Dell notebook, writing the software and crashing on his uncle's sofa or the floor. Then he'd shake off fatigue, scarf a bowl of cereal and sit back down. He worked feverishly because he was sure someone else had the same idea, that any day now some software company or media conglomerate would be unveiling a version of the same application...
...users, Napster has become another appliance, like a toaster or washing machine. Call it the music appliance: log on, download, play songs. The simplicity of the program is part of its genius. Since he took only three months to write the source code, Fanning says he didn't have time to make it more complicated. He had to learn Windows programming in addition to Unix server code, which he had taught himself. It is exceedingly rare for one programmer to excel at client and server applications, but Fanning had no choice. "I had to focus on functionality, to keep...
Discovering that he couldn't win the Republican nomination with such a narrow base, a startlingly different Steve Forbes suddenly appeared in the 2000 election. Now, Forbes mentioned faith and family values almost as often as the labyrinthine federal tax code. Assuming Forbes did not undergo a drastic personal metamorphosis in the last four years, he began to speak about religion solely to attract voters. Actions such as this deserve scorn and condemnation...