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Even so, we all may be affected by the year 2000 problem due to similar date limitations within the embedded processors of more common electronic devices such as VCRs and microwaves...
That was eons ago, in pop-cultural terms. Records were still on vinyl; CDs, VCRs, video games and home computers were barely dreamed of; and films were shown in theaters or, years later, on broadcast TV. Before Star Wars, a blockbuster movie was one that everybody, of every age, wanted to see once. The big hits of the '70s--Airport, Love Story, The Godfather, The Sting, Jaws--were broad based, reflecting the audience's demographic democracy. Star Wars devised a novel equation: here was a film every teenage boy wanted to see a dozen times. Lucas spoke, from his bionic...
...thinking that it won't work that way. From what you've read, you understand the V chip to be so simple to use that a grownup can do it. That's what was said about VCRs. Yet we all know people like Bennett and Linda Weber, whose travails I reported on a year or two ago. The Webers thought they were pleased that their 26-year-old son Jeffrey had finally moved out of the house, and then they realized they had lost the ability to tape...
...designed to run across the Internet on any computer. For Web programmers, this means their pages can do more than just display pictures. Java-enabled sites will be able to act as word processors, telephones and even (if you have a TV receiver hooked up to your computer) vcrs. And although Microsoft has tried to embrace Java--its new Explorer browser will run programs written in the language--it is still seen more as a strategic weapon for Netscape, since Java software could one day compete with Microsoft products such as Word and Excel...
Making belly buttons was not what James Gosling had in mind in 1990, when he started work on the language he called Oak (after the tree outside his office window). The veteran programmer wanted to get the microprocessors inside consumer appliances (TVs, VCRs, car alarms) to talk to one another--a programming challenge that required writing software code that was not only highly compressed but also virtually idiot-proof. Most consumers, unlike most computer owners, don't expect their toaster ovens to "crash...