The latest weapon in the supercomputer wars debuted in Tokyo, and will preserve Cray's dominance in the market. The Japanese manufacturers are most directly affected. The Utne Reader is introducing Utne Online, even though founder Eric Utne is skeptical about virtual networks and says the media have tended to separate us from our neighbors. Networks are based on choice. When they get uncomfortable, it's easy to opt out of them.
Communities teach tolerance, co-existence, and mutual respect.
I fear that calling a network a community leads people to complacency and delusion, to accepting an inadequate substitute because they've never experienced the real thing and they don't know what they're missing. More than 200 software developers may have had their computers contaminated by a virus after Microsoft inadvertantly distributed infected disks at a seminar in London. A spokeswoman said a developer spotted the virus after the seminar. We immediately telephoned all the developers who attended and warned them,'' she said. Microsoft has also written to them all and apologized.