Word: processors
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...creating digital videos and drawing pictures. Kids can use Microsoft Works for homework and can safely surf the Net, thanks to the ContentProtect Internet filtering program. Built by the European PC maker Medion, the $599 PC (plus $299 for the 14.1-in. monitor) features a 2.66 GHz Intel Celeron processor, a 40-GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory and a CD burner. And there's an array of matching accessories, including a 1.3-megapixel digital camera ($79) and a game controller...
...creating digital videos and drawing pictures. Kids can use Microsoft Works for homework and can safely surf the Net, thanks to the ContentProtect Internet filtering program. Built by the European PC maker Medion, the $599 PC (plus $299 for the 14.1-in. monitor) features a 2.66 GHz Intel Celeron processor, a 40-GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory and a CD burner. And there's an array of matching accessories, including a 1.3-megapixel digital camera ($79) and a game controller...
...science dogma depicted the human mind as having few built-in features--kind of like a computer with no programs, a blank slate. Pinker, along with others in the young field of evolutionary psychology, disagrees. For starters, he argued in The Language Instinct, we have a genetically based word processor, engineered by natural selection. Among the other legacies of natural selection, say the new Darwinians, are such impulses as jealousy and vengefulness. So Pinker draws fire from those who ascribe all ills to the corruption of pristine souls. But evolutionary psychology has a brighter side: love and compassion are also...
...here. We ordered a recovery, heavy on the jobs, please. What we're getting is a new kind of homeland insecurity powered by the rise of outsourcing, a bland yet ominous piece of business jargon that seems to imply that every call center, insurance-claims processor, programming department and Wall Street back office is being moved to India, Ireland or some other place thousands of miles away...
...notebook computer is too bulky to carry around. But so far, tinier mini-PCs haven't taken off. Vulcan Inc., started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, may change that with its new FlipStart PC. Weighing in at less than 1 lb. and powered by a 1-GHz Transmeta processor, the FlipStart measures just 6 in. wide, 4 in. deep and 1 in. thick yet packs in a 30-GB hard drive and 256 MB of memory. Available in late 2004, it also has special touches to make navigating its bright 6-in., HDTV-quality display easier. A thumbwheel...