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...robot deployed in Antarctica to look for meteorites has returned in triumph. Nomad, a joint project sponsored by the Robotic Institute of Carnegie-Mellon and NASA's Space Telerobotics Program (bet you didn't know they had one), set out on its own to look for space rocks stuck in ice and came back with three of them. Scientists hope Nomad's success bodes well for robotic exploration of other planets. You know what they say about Antarctica: if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere...
...Millennium handles software conflicts is interesting--especially compared with OS X's new approach. Have you ever installed a program only to find out that Mr. Computer doesn't like it? That happened to me recently with Quake3. When I installed the game, it apparently screwed up the driver for my sound card, silencing my PC. I tried uninstalling the program, but that didn't help. I finally had to reinstall the sound-card driver. Millennium behaves like a time machine so you can easily roll your system back to the day before whatever trouble you're experiencing began. Naturally...
...does OS X handle software problems? When you try to install a program that conflicts with any other program, the Mac simply won't allow you to run it. Presumably, OS X users will never suffer from software conflicts again. Sure sounds cool. If it works...
Hall's influence on Trio 99[to]00 is understandable, since Metheny's previous CD, Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (Telarc), released last year, teamed the two friends for a bewitching program of unaccompanied duets. "It encapsulates the love and respect I have for Jim," Metheny says. Best of all is a magically spare version of Farmer's Trust, a tender waltz originally recorded by the Metheny Group in 1982, which leaves no doubt that despite his love of ear-popping electronic effects, he is above all a wonderfully fluent spinner of simple yet indelible melodies...
Like any good executive, Barksdale insists on accountability from those implementing his program. "If we don't see an improvement in five years, we'll move the endowment," he says. "It gives an incentive for everyone involved...