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...it is slipping toward the safer appliance. For example, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console is a powerful computer, but, unlike Microsoft’s Window... ...cated paper-based filing systems to shame. 15 Entirely new applications like video games, beginning with text- based adventures, 16 pioneered addition... ...paper-based filing systems to shame. 15 Entirely new applications like video games, beginning with text- based adventures, 16 pioneered additional use... ...based adventures, 16 pioneered additional uses of leisure time, and existing games—such as chess and checkers—soon featured the computer itself as a w... ...uld be used only to produce documents. For gaming, they would use dedicated video game consoles—just as many do today. A per- sonal checkbook might h... ...bscribers, messaging on bulletin boards, and playing rudimentary multiplayer games. 9 But if a subscriber or an outside company wanted to develop a ne... ...t backbone and asked that it be used only for noncommercial purposes, but by 1991 was eager to see it privatized. 36 Internet designers devised an en-... ...accepting commercial interconnections with- out network research pretexts in 1991. The public at large was soon able to sign up, which opened developm... ...’ C, C I U U S: 1989, at 1 (1991), available at http://www.census.gov/population/www/ socdemo/compute...
...he Britannica switch to multimedia and added tables and graphs to the CD. Video and sound were to make their appearance even later. This error in tr... ...n saver and ticker in a "push technology"). Downloading of digital music, video and text (e-books) leads to the immediate gratification of consumers... ...invade each other's territories. Phone companies were allowed to transmit video and cable companies were allowed to transmit telephony, for instance.... ...ople rarely understand the power of doubling something every so often. In 1991 we were doing one e-Book per month. This was totally revolutionary at ... ...ith a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, and an Encarta Kids interface. Installation is easy. The Encarta is ... ...des a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, 32 Discovery Channel videos, 25,000 photos and illustrations, 2800 ... ...bed Encarta Kids with age- appropriate, appetizingly presented content and games to boot! The 2007 Encarta's User Interface is far less cluttered th...
... the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.” The Supreme Court sees no First Amendment problem with this. 3 Ma... ...s of animators and musicians and software gurus and meld their labors into a videotape that will successfully anesthetize your children for two hours;... ...ntury to the world of the twenty-first, from elevators and grain hop- pers to video recorders, the Internet, and file-sharing services. I use the story ... ...toms. The downside dominates the field, the upside is invisible. The story of video recorders is the best-known example. When video recorders—another t... ...the genre, a harmless or even complimentary homage. Or so they thought. In a 1991 case called Grand Upright, that idea was squashed. 19 The rap artist... ...on unoriginal compilations of facts. In the United States, by contrast, in a 1991 case called Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.,... ...alled Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991), the Supreme Court made it clear that unoriginal compila- tions of ... ...ga Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F .2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992); Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc., 975 F .2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992). ... ... Ashish, 161, 252, 284, 285n2. Arrow, Kenneth, 39, 49, 260n30, 263n58. Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of Amer- ica, Inc., 975 F .2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992...
...carry-on bag was swiped by an explosive trace detector and then passed.The video footage indicates that he was carrying an unidentified item in his ba... ...ey screened were CAPPS selectees.We asked a screening expert to review the videotape of the hand-wanding, and he found the qual- ity of the screener’s... ...ng that the military had not been on the call. 188 At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Sit- uation Room by Richard Cla... ...d to secure political power except in Iran and Sudan. In Algeria, where in 1991 Islamists seemed almost certain to win power through the ballot box, t... ...y under the pretext of attending an Islamic gathering in Pakistan in April 1991. 33 By 1994, the Saudi government would freeze his financial assets an... ...no longer had a country he could call his own. Bin Ladin moved to Sudan in 1991 and set up a large and complex set of intertwined business and terrori... ...HE AMERICAN HOMELAND 157 Final 5-7.5pp 7/17/04 11:46 AM Page 157 puter games, viewing movies that featured hijackings, and reading flight sched- u...