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While Microsoft was occupied with the largest, most expensive consumer marketing effort in history, the launch of Windows 95, Netscape was equally busy capturing the Web browser market. By mid-1995 it looked as if Bill Gates and company had missed the paradigm shift created by the Internet, and many pundits doubted Microsoft could recover. Meanwhile, the Justice Department was aggressively investigating claims of unfair practices levied by Microsoft's competitors. Suddenly the company found itself in the unfamiliar role of lumbering corporate giant--and underdog. James Wallace's Overdrive, his sequel to Hard Drive, is the story of Microsoft's response to this challenge. A veteran investigative reporter, the author paints a vivid portrait of... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Revenge of the Computer Widow -- How to Get What You Want in Life When Computers are Required exposes the secrets of the nerd next door and how computers are changing our lives after 5 p.m. In the last decade, the growth of high-tech jobs has leaped 100 per cent. High-tech workers are the second most affluent societal segment today. You'll learn from this book, who become techies and why, how they work, play and spend their money. You'll learn what makes techies tick,a bout women and computers, and how to raise your computer quotient. You will also learn the good, bad and ugly on how computers and technology have embraced our home lives -- sex, money and love in cyberspace and how computer widows cope. This book is based on research from a ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Gregory Rawlins has a gift for explaining complex things in ways that not only make them crystal clear but also delightfully funny. He can explain, for example, the challenges of computer programming in terms of trying to get a "Napoleonic army of idiots" to invade Russia. And in just such a way he evolves a picture of what future computers might mean to society by taking the reader point by point through cyberhistory, science, and mechanics. Are we truly in danger of becoming subservient to our machines? Maybe, says Rawlins. This is no alarmist book, nor even an anti-computer book. It's an extremely sensible look at past and present reality with an equally sensible willingness to stay alert for future surprises. --This text refe... Rest of this review on the detail page
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In the two decades prior to the middle of this century, dozens of individuals and groups conceived and built dozens of computing machines. Mechanical and electric, analog and digital, they all contributed to the design of the computers we know today. The author of this book worked on the design and construction of the control circuitry for the "Standards Western Automatic Computer", funded and operated by the National Bureau of Standards in the late forties. Reading the promotional material for the book it would seem that the SWAC is central to the text. In actuality, the author has put together a fairly good overview of much of the work that was being done at the time, with some added emphasis and insider info on the SWAC. Rutland,... Rest of this review on the detail page
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A very funny book about computers and their users. Although published in 1983, this book gives a very 1950's feeling when reading it. Using a computer, dealing with 'computer people' (including how to get a hacker into bed), buying a computer, the 'valley boys' and developments like computer games are handled in a funny and somewhat absurd way. Good as a gift to the computer user who needs to see his ways from both sides. If you can actually find the book, that is, since it is out of print.
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