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This debate I think is all about movies. What we're saying is that you can't provide dedicated line, virtual private network services for free.

Jim Cicconi

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson

Many kids who are using this type of technology are plugging virtual rock concerts into their ears. Parents, grandparents and all other significant adults in our children's lives need to be aware of the risk and make sure the children are, too.

Pam Mason

What this means is that Windows becomes the platform for virtualization. Customers will consolidate existing systems to Windows using virtual technology. This is very compelling to our customer base.

Bob Kelly

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

Paula Poundstone

It is a violation of our prohibited services policy … which includes no virtual relationships. We have the policy in place to protect our community members. EBay strives to have a clean and transparent marketplace.

Catherine England

I suspect they'll probably get a kick out of the illusions that can be created to give them a more total immersion experience as part of virtual reality.

James Collins

Although the prospects are still remote today, in-store and virtual top-up methods have the potential to lead wireless phone carriers or related players into merchant acquiring, threatening banks' and card networks' market positions.

Gwenn Bézard

On-demand, virtual call centers are the way the market is headed, and we are constantly working to help educate people about this model. ALVA is an excellent example of how our on-demand call center service offers flexibility offers customers a flexible, profitable alternative to the traditional call center model and the ability to pursue new business opportunities.

Brian Silverman

We're knitting together a virtual exchange.

Thomas Joyce

The idea is that your body, on this very deep, unconscious level, is controlling a virtual person. It's a much more complex, ambiguous type of interactivity, but it's very real interactivity.

Lynn Hughes

It's as complex a Web site as you'll find. I'm not aware of another site that builds the virtual geometry of a home.

Mark Morton

Working together we will create the new Commerce Virtual Private Bank, the next great idea in building customer relationships. Our dynamic Virtual Private Bank will enable our customers to bring all of their Commerce assets together and link them to the assets and liabilities they have with any of more than 3,400 financial providers around the world.

Cherry Hill

If the cell were a forest, we can now pull out individual trees to study them. We are using virtual reality approaches as they are being developed for the computer gaming industry. Nonetheless, what we eventually want to do is to be able to walk into the forest and explore it in that way.

Manfred Auer

We are in the process of launching a major virtual opera house tour.

Naomi Grabel

Every student will be required to learn how to be a forensic expert in the courtroom. They will learn how to collect evidence, write a report, submit it to a virtual crime lab, and to testify in court. You can be the greatest investigator in the world, but if you can't explain the evidence in layman's terms, the jury will be lost.

Lamar Jordan

The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week.

David Atkins

It's a 24-hour operation. We've got a virtual army out there.

Steve Stengel

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

William Bernbach

I'm disappointed I was not able to persuade the court to seize the opportunity to become the first state Supreme Court to require expert testimony in order to prove that a still image transmitted by computer is of a real person rather than a virtual person.

Richard Emanuel

Pennsylvania truly is a growth opportunity in what has been an otherwise slowing domestic growth business. The way Pennsylvania is laid out, the operators who get the licenses could have virtual monopolies. Most will have minimal competition.

John Mulkey

How do you create a virtual network for three-quarters of an organization that doesn't have an office?

James Canton

Offline, we tell our kids not to take candy from strangers and not to get into cars with strangers, ... But in chat rooms, they take the (virtual) candy and jump in the (virtual) car all the time.

Colin Gabriel

A call is developing to ban this out-of-control game of virtual economic extortion.

Bob Orr

For 17 years, EDS' technology has enabled millions of kids to experience firsthand the excitement of science and exploration by transforming the classroom into a virtual adventure.

Steve Schuckenbrock

By isolating the computer's protection in a virtual environment outside the main operating system, enterprises will have confidence that the security itself has not been compromised, that it is always on, and that they can trust the result that it gives. We believe this new approach will improve security and reduce the overall cost of administration.

Jeremy Burton

Held in virtual slavery.

Doris Meissner

They can't change the AMT tax consequences of that $55 that they made in virtual income when they exercised and they will pay taxes on that extra money if they still hold those shares on Dec. 31st of this year.

Claudia Hill

Whoever builds the first elevator will have a virtual monopoly on all future ones. The political and economic structure of the world could be completely different 50 years from now.

Brad Edwards

We are executing very well on the Niagara program. We would really like to show all the evidence we have, not just some virtual benchmarks.

David Yen

Integr8 IT has configured a private APN to allow for 3G, Edge, GPRS and GPRS+ access into the virtual private network. This will allow users a totally secure and regulated link into a company's network.

Robert Sussman

By nature of its unlimited potential, Second Life has already attracted a large community of creative individuals from a wide range of disciplines. By creating the Linden Lab Fellowship, we hope that we will encourage students of the expressive arts to explore the potential of the virtual world, for the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

Philip Rosedale

What's missing is the elephant in the room: all the freebies, the wining and dining, the virtual bribing of doctors.

Fran Hawthorne

The mobile wireless network also gives clinicians a number of other tools, for example we have a virtual medical library on-line in partnership with Queen's University.

Paul Mcauley

Online auction sites are an excellent way for people from around the world to buy and sell goods. We strongly believe in the convenience and global reach of the virtual marketplace. Unfortunately, a number of online sellers are undermining trust in the system by using the Internet to hawk illegal products to unsuspecting consumers.

Matt Lundy

In the physical world, many of those who look like beggars are actually crooks. In the virtual realm of the Internet, fraud is much easier.

Xia Xueluan

We're using our extension space as a virtual research and development effort to test out new capabilities for the browser before they are incorporated.

Chris Beard

Tape is here for a long time to come. Very few users are completely abandoning tape despite growing interest in D2D and virtual tape. It has a definite future in backup and archiving.

Fara Yale

It even comes with a stylus for text input -- using a virtual keyboard on the screen -- and drawing.

Jeff Lengyel

People were talking about virtual reality, and some were saying one day we will download our consciousness and live forever in computers. And it struck me as just a load of crap. I wondered why we tell ourselves these fantastic stories, and I found it has been happening since the telegraph.

Jeffrey Sconce

I think it's great, ... It shows the product in a very elegant, beautiful way. My favorite [detail] is the staircase. I'm mad for the staircase because of the proportions, the materials used, the virtual waterfall and all that. Marino reinvented [the store] in a modern way.

Karl Lagerfeld

We focus on the customer experience. It's important for us to help our customers plan their space, particularly since we are an online, virtual shop. It's nice to see how things will fit before you buy them.

Vladimir Voynov

With the move toward more open source, involving larger groups of developers and outsourcing, collaboration has become more difficult. We can now offer virtual collaboration, enabling each developer to share what others are doing and to work on a project together in real-time, regardless of geography.

Rob Cheng

Otherwise her statement would just be another putrid lie to quell the growing public outrage against her virtual despotic rule.

Marlon Manuel

Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. [On virtual memory].

Seymore Cray

Crack the Safe is proving to be the smash hit we'd thought it would be. In this grand promotion, players try to guess the secret code on a virtual safe in effort to win one of hundreds of prizes.

David Brickman

He was trying to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical domain.

Roland Acra

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Michael Crichton

One of the key features for Oracle in supporting large databases is the partitioning feature, where you can break down large tables into smaller, virtual tables and make them easier to manage. Data partitioning has really helped database administrators to manage very large databases more efficiently.

Noel Yuhanna

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realm—such as mentoring or fundraising—and get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

The widespread use of the Internet as a global shopping cart has elevated the importance of product-comparison Web sites, as they have become a bridge between the in-store and virtual-shopping experience.

Grant Whitmore

They're going to see some sights. Everything between Mile 3 and through 12 1/2 was under between four feet and 10 feet of water. They'll see X's on houses marked for demolition, and a zero, one or two for houses in which they found dead bodies. This will be a virtual running tour of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Bill Burke

We are thrilled to work with McAfee to include their award-winning software titles on our virtual inventory system. McAfee is a premiere provider of security technology whose software products represent a major addition to our product offering.

Donald Hoffmann

FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either. Freedom, as every schoolboy knows.

Ambrose Bierce

That's what we are witnessing in urban India today -- a virtual mini-epidemic of these illnesses. And obesity forms the cornerstone of the problem.

Mandeep Bajaj

It has long been Hayes' vision to create a company that could provide a wide range of high quality communications products to serve the rapidly evolving virtual workplace. By combining the two companies, we expect to achieve significant synergies.

Dennis Hayes

And once you combine wall TV with high-definition television broadcasts that will begin in a few years, you'll have virtual walls in American homes capable of receiving top-quality video signals.

Gary Shapiro

It would, if carried out, create a Virtual America, an America based upon a sampling, an imputation, a probability, a likelihood.

David Murray

[The virtual orchestras were to be a temporary measure and] a shield, ... because all of Broadway is under attack by 325 people.

Jed Bernstein

We immediately saw better uptime. We saw better provisioning of hardware. This system makes it easier to keep servers running, as we can move one virtual machine to the other if we need patching done.

George Rapp

It was the less risky and economically sensible approach to take. Taking a phased approach was also useful in learning lessons from a virtual pilot.

Andrew Barker

When I first discovered Second Life , I was immediately impressed by the sophistication of this virtual world, especially the existence of a fully functioning, thriving economy. I look forward to being a part of its future growth.

Jonathan Seelig

The auction makes it fun to compete for a great spot on the global map, but you don't have to wait for an auction. As long as a piece of virtual real estate is unsold it can be purchased instantly by visiting Virtual World Real Estate. You could pick a city, a state, or perhaps a location like the Grand Canyon.

Gary Ewell

A point of emphasis with us right now is that we do not have a virtual returning starter at any position. That's the way we want to go into spring drills. As a staff, we are now evaluating our players on the field. We've had a chance to observe them through winter conditioning, but now let's see where we're at as a football team.

Scott Downing

We are pleased to partner with The Map Network on these innovative online and print maps for Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit. They are essential for attendees, media and staff planning for and navigating the event through the week, but they also offer an entertaining virtual tour for those wanting to see all the exciting activities in the city during the Super Bowl.

David Houghton

Most recently in that regard we started using Instant Message as part of that suite of virtual reference where you can be anywhere you want and ask us a question electronically.

Carol Lang

People don't want to trade ... They don't even want to hear ideas. They just want to know their books are hedged. If an event -- God forbid -- happened, the market could swing pretty hard. But this uncertainty doesn't create more activity; it (depresses) activity because no one wants to do anything. Things kind of grind to a virtual halt.

James Caron

Intel Virtualization Technology provides a foundation for Virtual Iron to efficiently create new and better software capabilities that build upon Intel's platform innovation. By supporting Intel Virtualization Technology in its products, Virtual Iron is helping to increase flexibility and reduce total cost of ownership for its enterprise customers.

Diane Bryant

It is incredible to now think that it is possible to manufacture and sell a virtual item one minute and then go out and buy real dinner the next minute, with the same funds.

Jon Jacobs

Whether top-down or bottoms-up, the facts today point but in one direction: that of sustained, significantly above-trend growth at least through the end of 2000, with virtual certainty of vigorous growth through 2001 and even the likelihood for continued expansion though 2002 as well.

Rick Whittington

We worked closely with Ahern's management team to find practical solutions for both their systems installation, as well as their needs for secure network connectivity. Utilizing our Virtual Core technology enabled Ahern to implement very secure connections in a flexible and cost effective manner. Ahern is an excellent example of our unique ability to provide customized solutions.

Tim Moore

The addition of Hotspot advances Knight's ambition to become a virtual exchange for high-quality trade execution across multiple asset classes.

Thomas Joyce

If you ask data center systems to turn into 10 more machines per machine, suddenly you've created a dramatic problem in managing these. Whether a machine is physical or virtual, it brings about the same management overhead.

Rich Green

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Wayne Cornelius

We have seen no traction for CPU-aggregation technology such as Virtual Iron's within our customer base.

Brian Stevens

Transitioning the data center to a more dynamic virtual model is essential to reducing the complexity and improving the responsiveness of today's IT organization. By supporting the Sun Fire x64 servers, we enable Sun users, for the first time, to leverage the full power of a dynamic data center infrastructure and the dramatic gains it offers in agility, performance and operating expense.

Mike Grandinetti

I fit very well, you don't know how much, with winning the Oscar. It happened before with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. I get sad, especially for the people who surround me and the public who might stop me on the streets. It is a virtual responsibility.

Pedro Almodovar

We have to be able to plan each step. There is a virtual army of folks working on it.

Jeanne Miller

It became apparent a long time ago that we're only going to be successful as a company if we provide our customers with the absolute best support, and the best hardware. It's a model that has worked very well for our virtual hosting customers, and we are applying the same logic to our new dedicated server solutions.

Mike Yablonowitz

As customers are dealing less with rigid [physical] boxes and dealing with more flexible virtual environments, the need to find a better way to count and analyze the utilization of these virtual resources?rather than their physical resources?is important.

Ron Riffe

CA is clearly one of the preeminent global providers of technology management software whose products represent a strong addition to our growing library of content. We view this latest agreement with CA as further evidence that a growing number of major software companies will be incorporating virtual inventory as part of their channel distribution strategy.

Donald Hoffmann

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

James D. Watson

If you are an application provider, you just certify for the software stack, and you are golden whether you run native or virtual.

Simon Crosby

I think we're very lucky to be sharing the same neighborhood as something so momentous as Farnsworth did with television. I would hope that a few years (from now) this location will be marked as one of those spaces in San Francisco that started something very cool that the world has embraced wholeheartedly--this concept of a virtual world.

David D. Fleck

In the past 10 years, under the old rules, cable companies have been virtual monopolies and their rates have climbed unchecked.

Jeffrey Mazzella

[Customers] want to run larger and larger workloads on their virtual machines, but they need better performance to do it.

Mike Grandinetti

With the software, users can create virtualized pools of data center resources that can be dynamically allocated on an as-needed basis via a GUI management console and automated policies. In the Virtual Iron environment, any application can run on any machine, or be moved to any other machine without disrupting the application or requiring time-consuming SAN or network configuration changes.

Mike Grandinetti

There were never more than a few hundred extras on set at a time during the shoot, yet the climactic tournament near the end of the film required a sea of onlookers and a grand and epic feel. Visual effects allowed us to bring thousands of virtual spectators into the scenes, and to do so in an exciting and realistic way.

Dennis Berardi

Integrity of financial transactions, confidentiality within a virtual enterprise, privacy of customer data and availability of critical infrastructure all depend on strong security mechanisms. IBM Research and Business Consulting Services work together to offer world-class solutions to everyday security threats that make sense for your business, whether you have 100 employees or 100,000.

Peggy Kennelly

There is a suggestion that maybe Las Vegas is virtual in that way and it's hard to know how long it will last.

Stephen Hendee

At Bridgewater State College, we look for innovative technology to educate, engage and even entertain our students. All BSC students have laptops and we're wireless across our entire campus. Ruckus is a great next step for Bridgewater State College and our students, a cutting-edge service that offers excellent, legal digital music and movies, and enhances student life and virtual community.

Bill C. Davis

It is a short step to go from selecting virtual children, selecting each embryo which is implanted, to thinking, well, why not go in and do an extra step and so some sort of genetic enhancement.

Gregory Stock

[E-Trade, the virtual stock brokerage, makes no bones about the fact that it is targeting full-service, full-commission brokers. Customers who open an account at www.etrade.com are offered a free copy of E-Trade's guide to online investing titled] Boot Your Broker. ... All those branch offices you all have are going to become fast-food outlets, so you might want to think about your career choices.

Christos Cotsakos

It's still disappointing, but considering BRAC, hurricane relief and the publicity generated by the Coalition (for Change), we feel we did the best we could. We knew reaching the goal was going to be a virtual impossibility given what we were seeing early on.

Steve Wiggs

There might be some sort of virtual version of a virtual Madonna coming to interact before the real one comes out.

Ron Roecker

It's the virtual equivalent of knocking on doors and shaking hands.

Regina Lewis

We are not comfortable using the public Internet, although there has been a lot of good work with [virtual private network] and public-key infrastructure technology.

Rick Rubin

I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or more have become a mailing list of 7,500 people and a virtual community of at least 10,000 people.

Craig Newmark

On-demand, virtual call centers are the way the market is headed.

Brian Silverman

Virtual proofing continues to be a swiftly changing technology and we're committed to providing our customers with the latest technologies and tools. Remote Director 3.2, along with the JDF enabled automation, answers the needs of today's graphic arts community, as we continue to listen and work with our partners in developing additional enhancements that will give them an edge in their business.

Dan Caldwell

Virtual library that would be brought to you by different search systems.

Brewster Kahle

It's a virtual economic development competition here.

Joe Panetta

We are continuing to work with Apple on a possible next version of Virtual PC. We still don't have all the answers, but we are trying to understand what changes need to happen in their operating system and what changes we need to make.

Amanda Lefebvre

In a perfect world, we'd have the resources and funding to send salespeople out to every client, but we don't. This video newsletter does that for [us]. It connects us with the customer; it's a viewer-controlled virtual extension of the IBM sales force.

Leslie Reiser

If we go too much in the direction of virtual sex, what's left out? How you get along in a personal sphere is getting short shrift.

Julia Heiman

Matt and I are more intense, Ramin is the calm, collected one, the technical and graphic genius. All of us are entrepreneurial and work great together. We each offer something different and important to the task at hand. We have been able to utilize technology to make a virtual work force - Ramin works and lives in Ottawa.

David Power

The kids are so interested about the destinations, they want to learn about each spot (they stop at on their virtual field trip of the United States).

Gail Murray

The virtual march on Washington February 26 will be an opportunity for every American opponent of an invasion of Iraq to stand up and be counted in every state in the United States. On that day we will call, we will fax, and we will e-mail the president of the United States and every member of the U.S. Senate to voice our opposition to this short-sighted and unnecessary war.

Tom Andrews

When someone sees the game for the first time, their eyes are immediately drawn to the aircraft, virtual cockpits, visual effects, etc. Then after they sit down and spend some time playing the game, they get immersed into the whole air combat experience.

Tim Gallagher

During the Sanford administration, economic development has come to a virtual standstill, public jobs have been sold to big, out-of-state corporations, and now one of every 14 South Carolinians is jobless.

Oscar Lovelace

What we opposed was that federal aid should go to these virtual universities that disguise themselves as colleges, where it's just something on the Internet with no resources behind it.

Sarah Flanagan

Virtual appliances are entire pre-configured systems that include virtual hardware, operating system, and pre-installed software application. Virtual appliances save customers the time and effort to install and configure software.

Raghu Raghuram

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.

Eli Khamarov

Virtual building is a huge technical initiative this year for us.

Gregg Davis

If your company is just a button on a RealPlayer, it's not your own virtual private network and it's not targeted. By contrast, a Gizmo is an open pipe leading to a targeted audience.

Eyal Gever

The CNN Enhanced TV application furthers DISH Network's standing as a leader in ITV. The application is an extraordinary addition to DISH Network's advanced 25 virtual and enhanced ITV channels.

Eric Sahl

The NBC mosaic lets DISH Network customers quickly preview on a single screen what events are on each network and then watch on a full screen whichever competition interests them the most. The mosaic is an extraordinary addition to the TV marketplace and serves as a platform for DISH Network's advanced 25 virtual and enhanced ITV channels.

Eric Sahl