Word: screening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sort of place where you expect great machines to be built--a cramped, windowless room where keyboard wires and screen cables coil round cups of stale coffee. A handful of X-shaped boxes in brushed metal, each polished to perfection for a punishing 15 hours, lie on workbenches in varying states of completion. The team of six engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help...
...speed, memory and hard drive, the X-box is beefier than any other games console, including the much ballyhooed PlayStation 2. Early demonstrations are jaw-droppingly good. Imagine 1,024 Ping-Pong balls on screen--the engineers take geekish delight in disclosing the exact number--bouncing around like crazy on a varnished oak floor, springing 1,024 mousetraps. Or 1,024 butterflies fluttering organically round a Japanese garden where plants sway gently in a breeze you can almost feel on your cheek. It's like watching your first Pixar movie, except you're the director--making butterflies scatter...
Guns are hot these days - everyone from the President to Moses (or at least the guy who played him on the big screen) has taken to the airwaves, deploring the most recent shootings and pleading their personal brand of sanity and law enforcement. While the NRA seems to be relishing its provocative role in the current confrontation, taking verbal shots at Clinton and the FBI, its presumptive allies, the gun makers, may be less interested in alienating the government. Friday, Smith & Wesson announced it had struck a deal with the feds; the gun giant agreed to implement safety devices...
...their stock value increase by 100 or 200 percent in a day and think their good fortune is forever. Liu, wisely, would take his gains and sell, regardless of whether the stock was on the rise. After a while, Liu says, the money is just numbers on the screen. You forget the value of a dollar. Since the New York Stock Exchange runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., day trading is a full-time job. "It takes nerves of steel, and you can't be shy about losing money. You need to invest...
Type, say, "Ferrari" into a search engine like Excite or Yahoo, and within seconds an ad for an online car dealer will pop up on your screen. This may not sound terribly sinister, but if your keystrokes are tracked not just within a single website but across thousands of sites, they can create a chillingly detailed profile of behavior you probably think is nobody's business but your...