...is good—but only if the Internet and PC can remain sufficiently central in the digital ecosystem to compete with locked-down appliances and facilitate t... ... that can run on it. Bill Gates sees the Xbox as at the center of the future digital ecosystem, rather than at its periph- ery: “It is a general purpo... ...uch of what we find useful about the Internet. But along with the rise of in- formation appliances that package those useful activities without readily... ... a type- writer that could store what was typed by making holes in a roll of tape. The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net 12 Rethreading the tape t... ...operating a player piano. Cutting and pasting different pieces of Flexowriter tape together allowed the user to do mail merges about as easily as one c... ...e’s hardware perform that specific task. This embedding process occurs in the digital watch, the calculator, and the firmware within Mr. Coffee that allo... ...retype into their ma- chines, but increasingly affordable media like cassette tapes, diskettes, and car- tridges became a more cost-effective way to ins... ...at substantial expense. The simpler, inexpensive in- Battle of the Boxes 17 formation appliances intended for individual use diffused technology beyon... ...ample, a free operating system such as GNU/Linux can be locked within an in- formation appliance like the TiVo, and classical, profit-maximizing firms l...

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...readers have been kept in mind:-(l) the college student, looking forward to career formation, who is concerned with the apparent dilemma of reconcili... ...stomed to research jargon, or may be omitted completely (again, it so was from the digital edition). Ben Enis {1973) pointed out that the marketi... ...used by change agents. The adoption of innovative ideas is closely related to the formation of values, attitudes, beliefs, interests, opinions and ... ...ngs vying for the consumer's attention. A high school graduate in quest of career formation strategy, can choose between two universities, or decide... ...with government manpower programs, experienced in the past by industry: 1. Red tape and overregulation. 2. Adverse publicity. 3. Bias against... ...ed above) the following: 1. An official to be designated as an ombudsman or "red tape cutter" for participating firms, with a "Hot-Line" phone num... ...P be associated with a better-prepared recruit, but in addition, the amount.of red tape expected of employees is to be demonstrably reduced and simi...

...nsiders legislative proposals that would allow the ownership of facts. 5 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of... ...ium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases it effectively re... ...ust my pond, your forest, his canal. We need to do the same thing in the in- formation environment. We have to “invent” the public domain before we ca... ... the idea that there might be constitutional challenges to the regulation of digital speech by copyright law may wallow in those arguments to their he... ... receives instruction him- self without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light with- out darkening me. That ideas should f... ...o. Perhaps you could find a balky mimeograph machine, or press a reel-to-reel tape recorder into use. You might manage a single unauthorized showing of... ...ot have thought that a search engine that catalogued and displayed in framed format the digital graphics found on the Internet would be sued for infri... ...two respondents in this case, the exclusive right to distribute VTR’s [Video Tape Recorders] simply because they may be used to infringe copyrights. T... ...ere is the fact that the iPod does not restrict itself solely to proprietary formats protected by digital rights management. It also allows uncontroll...

... of Boston Center instructed his quality assurance specialist to “pull the tape” of the radio transmission, listen to it closely, and report back. 110... ...l there? New England Region:Y es, I am. Boston Center: . . . as far as the tape, Bobby seemed to think the guy said that “we have planes.” Now, I don’... ...f the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA cente... ...ders to “instantly” transmit them to Al Quds al Arabi. One proclaimed “the formation of the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places, ” and ... ...ng the fall of 1994,Y ousef returned to Manila and successfully tested the digital watch timer he had invented, bombing a movie theater and a Philippi... ...e Brief (SEIB), distributed to a broader group of officials, has a similar format and generally covers the same subjects as the PDB. It usually contai... ... the mezzanine level—where stairwell C ended—this team spread out in chain formation, stretching from several floors down to the mezzanine itself.They... .... The Middle East can also benefit from some of the programs to bridge the digital divide and increase Internet access that have already been develope... ...BAL STRATEGY 387 FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 387 identifiers—digital photographs and prints of two index fingers—from travel- ers. False...