The computing sense of crash lacks onomatopœa, is gross hyperbole, and is far too widely encompassing to be meaningful.
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She was reduced to giving her half-hour talk whilst pointing at successive thumbnails in PowerPoint’s overview. Members of the audience tucked into flasks of coffee, or rose and strode out.
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a dial-up Internet connection under Mac OS 8 or 9.
It is hard to understand why traditional publishers are so recalcitrant in making electronic editions worth their comparatively high prices.
An important collection of essays which are extremely well written, and well worth reading, and reading again.
Do the huge fines for Big Bad Banks serve any useful purpose?
Most systems in everyday life had readily accessible fallbacks that you could rely on when the system of first choice was not available. We seem to have lost those now.
Whilst we can improve our technology to enhance our abilities, our anatomical and physiological limitations also determine what we can and cannot do.
This is a book to dip into only if you have good self-control: one word will lead to another, until you have visited each of the 500 or so.
The arrival of consumer VR is being delayed not because the headset can’t be done, but because current computers can’t deliver good enough graphics.
