Word: paradigm
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...mergers often fail (see DaimlerChrysler and AT&T/TCI). In a staff memo just days after the merger was announced, Case and Levin asserted that the new company would "fundamentally change the way people communicate." That's a tall order. And no matter how hot the paradigm or how far and fast the technology reaches, AOL Time Warner is still in the business of satisfying finicky consumers, who want content from everybody, for nothing if possible. It will take more than synergy for this new Internet-age media colossus to succeed. And as Case and Levin would be the first...
...occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel, a brilliant molecular biologist, gradually withdraws from human contact. Unable to experience emotion, he finds solace instead in his work, which culminates in no less than a Kuhnian shift in paradigm. Bruno, who is neither particularly dashing nor particularly well-endowed (the latter being of even more importance in this new age of increasing debauche), eases his pain by masturbating in public, exposing himself to students, and when lucky, participating in orgies...
Ryan cited the Anthony Porter case as a paradigm of what has happened to the Illinois justice system. Porter, who has an IQ of 50, was convicted of shooting two people in a park...
Before we indulge these philosophical concerns, it's worth exploring just how intelligent and inventive machines are evolving. A powerful paradigm for emulating the creative process in a computer is to copy the ways of nature. One particularly compelling "biologically inspired" approach is actually to simulate the process of evolution inside the computer...
Using the Scour Media Agent, users could gain access to a wide range of media hosted by other servers and websites. The program, however, was less reliable than those based on the peer-to-peer paradigm--such as Napster--which allow users to download files directly from other clients who were also logged into to the service...