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Herakleion's re-emergence from the sea should provide a treasure trove not only for archaeologists but also for historians. "Now when you read the ancient text," says Goddio, "everything makes sense...
Judicial Competence The harsh language of Judge Jackson's ruling makes no secret of his feelings toward Microsoft and its leaders--the text is sprinkled with words like untrustworthy and disingenuous. The feeling, Microsoft will make clear in its appeals, is mutual. "The judge simply got it wrong," says a senior Microsoft attorney. "He committed errors from the start of the proceeding and became more and more confused as time went on. He doesn't have special expertise in economics. He's a trial-court judge." Ouch...
...screen, words move, meld into pictures, change color and perhaps even meaning. Sometimes there are no words at all, only pictures or diagrams or glyphs that may be deciphered into multiple meanings. This is terribly unnerving to any civilization based on text logic...
...minute it has a poem on it, the next it has the weather. Bind a hundred of these digital pages between covers, and you have a book that can change its content yet still be read like a book. You turn the pages (a way to navigate through text that is hard to improve), and when you are finished, you slap it into a holster to fill it with another text. The ordinary reader might have a collection of several dozen leatherbound and different-size book containers, ones that mold themselves to the reader's hands and habits over many...
...this is a sloppy job, both in little goofs (lyricist Dorothy Fields' name is misspelled in the opening credits; one character reads a letter, and the same text she is "reading" is visible on the other side) and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the Fame kids. Even such old pros as Nathan Lane and Timothy Spall are made to perform their face-contorting comedy so close to the camera that mugging becomes assault...