Word: models
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Suhayda, a water-resources expert at Louisiana State University, is the kind of guy who could have given Noah a computer model of all 40 days and 40 nights of rain, including the Ark's soft landing on Mount Ararat. So it is real cause for concern that he has joined the chorus of scientists and environmentalists who are saying that the watery threat to New Orleans is extreme--that in the worst-case scenario, in fact, there might not be a city of New Orleans left standing by the end of the century...
...rivals, with revenue doubling every year. Celera's stock has gyrated wildly from $15 a share to more than $320 and down to $50 in the space of a year, so Wall Street obviously can't make up its mind about the company. But, says Venter, "our business model is working terrifically." He expects profitability in another couple of years...
...failure does look high. One major risk: Microsoft says .NET will be "open code"--accessible to non-Windows platforms--meaning the company may not be able to leverage its monopoly as intensely as it has in the past. Another risk: Microsoft is moving from its lucrative pay-for-software model to a far dicier subscription model...
...Laura's responses to the grilling session should serve as a model for how conservatives should handle a liberal reporter. She was concise, unwavering, and passionate. When leading questions were thrown at her, she simply stated the facts with a "I already explained that to you" sentiment. I've never been a big fan of Dr. Laura, but she moved up a notch in my book after nuking this reporter...
...minimal monthly fee--around the price of a single CD--to have online access to thousands of albums. This music channel--along with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks of life...