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...this competition should be good news for road warriors and teenagers. Screens and memory sizes will get larger, mobile music and video services will proliferate, and sending instant text messages (assuming Microsoft and Nokia can agree on a common standard) should become just as popular in the U.S. as it is in Japan and Europe. And if you still want an old-fashioned cell phone without bells and whistles, you will pay a lot less than you do now, since wireless carriers will aim to make most of their money on the extras. Just try to keep it down when...
...Interesting, yes, the empty metal canister seems to recall the all-too-familiar Beckettian void created by the obligation to speak and the ironic knowledge that one has nothing to say. I’ll have to footnote that. I never thought that 40–60 pages of text about English literature could so completely distract me from the real world. The Olympics went by (or are going by…I confess, I’m not sure if they’re done or not) in a blur; senior bacchanalia is nothing more than a few discarded...
...allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital radio because its increased market segmentation will let them target specific audiences. Text and pictures can be transmitted with the audio signal as well, which should provide additional advertising and e-commerce revenues to digital stations. Several platforms can distribute the signal. Home and car radios use a terrestrial system called Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). But signals can also be received from cable...
...from library reserves. If he had made his fair use copies earlier, I am sure he could find a time when he wouldn’t have to duke it out with his fellow students. He expects someone to go through the trouble and expense of creating a custom text and then set up a copier for him to use to copy it for free—and make 50 originals available so that there would be no lines, no waiting. Who does he think would pay for this convenience, which he considers his “right?...
Eldred argued the law interfered with his ability to run a free Internet library that offered the text of about 50 classsic books, poems and essays in the public domain...