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...drank too much. My first year I have a very vivid memory of being sick into a desk-side wastepaper basket. We lived on the ground floor, Adams F-2, and I remember looking up and seeing a middle-aged couple looking in the window with slightly worried expressions, as if they were thinking, "Oh the stress! These poor boys...
...with UIS. The CD-ROM drive on my Dell Optiplex Gs* had stopped working more than a half-year before, weeks after I purchased it from the Technology Product Center. Because of my thesis, I waited to bring it for repairs until April, when I had a two-week window with no written assignments...
...Rebecca Gose, 48, met in the Third Age Cafe and started e-mailing each other. Then in September Firman drove the RV to Colorado Springs to meet her. He has been there ever since; his RV is parked where he can see Pikes Peak out the front window when he wakes up. Firman enjoys that view every morning when he makes himself coffee and checks his e-mail on the computer set up on his dashboard. Sometimes there are messages from one of his five children from his three marriages or from a friend he has made in a chat...
...failed attempts to exorcise "Maxwell's Demon." an imaginary creature who can create heat without doing any work, thus circumventing the second law by simply separating molecules based upon their relative velocities. Norretranders gives a more common-place analogy, whereby one can heat a room simply by opening the window to let fast molecule in and slow molecules our; in the end, however, Norretranders simply concludes that we can never achieve this "because of our own inadequacies, not the universe's...we are too big and clumsy." On the whole, the first part of the book revolves around these kinds...
...window is still small--only 300,000 Chinese have access to the Internet, vs. some 25 million in the U.S.--but it is opening quickly. Officials at China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China...