This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Oops. The Groliers is organized so close to the Colliers I grew up with and reads so similarly I made an unwarranted assumption. Still, the basics stand. Multimedia? No contest–Encarta. Depth? Encarta and Comptons leave a lot to be desired and seem basically intended for the middle school market. Groliers…
Vidtest is an absolutely wonderful program and I wish MicroSoft would make it available all over, particularly on Video for Windows and such disks. Alas, it currently exists in only two incarnations: a strictly beta multimedia Windows version that was created for a beta test and never released as an…
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#New Technology
Message #46459
Rich, I'm really not anti-multimedia or I wouldn't be here, and a good gimmick is always something I like playing with, but most of the thrust of multimedia has been towards little "goshwow" bells and whistles that really have little practical application at this time on the PC platform. Having…
The danger with a nuclear North Korea isn't that it will use them; it would simply cease to exist if it did and it knows it. What is far worse is that they appear to be manufacturing the damned things to SELL….
Yes, the only month I will visit Paris is in August, when there are no Parisians there.
Well, Ed, you remember the Chalker Theory of Westward Migration, don't you? That our ancestors were the scum, crooks, losers, and nuts of the Old World who came here and settled the East becoming the new Establishment, forcing the next wave of scum, crooks, losers, and nuts further west, and…
The Texel package, available only from their dealers, has the Texel in it. MediaVision also has a higher-end (street about $995) package containing the PAS16 and a NEC83. That's a nice package, but steep.
Beethoven was the first of the musical CD ROM titles so it's a big older, yes, but I've had no trouble with it whatsoever and it's actually kind of a neat program.
Only in strange restaurants. I trust the chefs I usually patronize. At least, if they're letting flies get in, I've never suffered any ill effects from the added protein….
Well, yes, you're right. I'd forgotten. My memory manager CAN use the upper memory and I'd forgotten that this isn't a default.
Well, tell me what the files are like and I might be able to tell more.
Ah, yes. We all had to be reminded by the news of the Day, since it isn't even enough of a holiday here to suspend the parking meters. They do a big deal down in St. Mary's City, though. They used to do it where Leonard Calvert planted the cross…
Oh, well, I can prove that everybody has royal blood. Just assume you have two parents (you do, don't you?), four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, etc. and take it back as far as you can. Using average lifespans for the covered period, you will find that your total of ancestors will…
Well, three studies (one by the Wall Street Journal) found that the largest number of pharmeceutical R&D projects, the largest bearing real fruit, and the largest per share investment in same, came from the smallest companies and the government itself! The larger the company, the less it puts into R&D,…
We'll contribute, but there's no way Congress is going to pay for cleanup of German bases! Heck, they haven't even cleaned up all their own WWII stuff, yet.
Actually, my theory is that it's an abnormally large number of buzzards returning to Hinkley, Ohio.
Heck, all I did was install it to a different drive and directory. The two don't seem to conflict and it puts everything in its own named directory. I have a strict policy that's even more strict with betas: other than reading the "what we already know is wrong or…
It's quite possible that it's the MicroSoft Sound System, which is not designed to play all the file types you can with a PAS16 or SoundBlaster card. I have heard of a large number of limitations on the MSS card and its near twin the Compaq Business Sound System. In…
Well, everybody really has some expanded memory if they have a stock 640K system with video; it's possible that it's sticking itself in that small unused kernel above 640K but before the 704K video kick-in. Having now waged the battle of SCSI-2, though, I can tell you that much of…
I'll check out the new section once I learn what number it is and can stick it on TAPCIS.
You will need some sort of Windows driver that can play CD Audio tracks. Many sound boards come with drivers that will do this, and there are several third party and shareware apps that do this and supply the drivers as well. Can you play the MIDI and WAV files…
Except that the record length of the legendary average German vacation is being noted as a factor in its low and declining productivity. Of course, I haven't gone to work for 15 years, so who am I to complain? And I've often taken very long holidays….
Hillary, while you might not have been in touch with Trantor, Trantor has been monitoring the MultiMedia section here (I think it's 6) and others have asked there about similar questions. You might try posting a query there and see what happens. For the record, Trantor offers all sorts of…
Corel Matters
Message #43918
Well, speak and it shall be so. Care package from Corel came today. Wish I could show THIS to some of the Bombay crowd–then they'd know what a beta really was. Oy–bet I have to reinstall Windows from scratch when THIS one's over!
Well, okay, I'm a historian, but I assure you that MY students knew Jefferson was a slaveowner and I don't remember a time when I didn't know, and the slave quarters of Mt. Vernon are still there and explained as they have been for the almost two centuries since it…
To really pump up the economy without a massive defense program would take an equally huge commitment to other, more positive comparable programs that such industries could do, and there's no understanding of that. Recently an airliner crashed in Russia and because of the inevitable deaths got big play in…
Oh, I agree, the cleanup's enormous, and that's true even for non-nuclear bases, since the military has never thought much about damage to the area. It's always been a fact that the defense industry, since the start of WWII at any rate, was a large blind for a massive socialist…
I don't think that the moon itself had much to do with it since the real conjunction of two weeks ago was that the moon was as close as it gets to the Earth in any given year (but it gets there once a year) AND it was full, which…
So far, every time they do one of these massive studies–some health ministry or university or whatever–to try and do in coffee, it has come back saying that it's not at all bad for most people and is beneficial for the majority. They have been going crazy trying to get…
I'm not MediaVision but several possibilities come to mind. First, check to see that your card isn't using addresses that conflict with IRQs or DMAs currently being used by other hardware/software. Second, make sure you have excluded the card's address range both in QEMM's load line and in SYSTEM.INI using…
It really depends on what you want to do. If what you want is the best current Multimedia playback capability and some business audio to boot, almost any of the top of the line multimedia upgrade kits will do, with the top of the line Texel the best price-performance kit…
The new top of the line Texel really is a fine CD ROM at one of the best prices in the business, I agree. Although I use a SoundBlaster card in my main machine, when I got a multimedia upgrade kit for my other big 486 I got the PAS16/NEC83…
I'd been led to believe that the port off the PAS16 wasn't efficient for chaining with or without a manager. Are you saying that it's a fully compliant SCSI port that would accept the usual chain with the right manager and drivers?
Landslides, earthquakes, high humidity–makes the point I made to Ed that there is nowhere you can live that doesn't have a downside. I can't remember who got the full burnout at the moment, but I'm just in on less than 6 hours sleep from an SF convention in New York…
Actually, Lynne, Hillary had to resign from the firm when Bill was elected President. The First Lady, it seems, is covered under conflict of interest laws (and for good reason). However, it seems to me that if we're going to restrict outside activities of first spouses then we've got no…
The only reason I wondered about it was that I received about a week ago the big mailer from Corel on their huge conference in Washington, D.C. in mid-May, the climax of which is supposed to be the world premiere and intro of the very product that, as of almost…
Yes, I notice that mine and another letter with similar sentiments showed up. I didn't think the nerd really answered the points and I hold the NAUTILUS editors ultimately responsible for what's printed and they were conspicuously silent, but by the resolution it appears that I and the other fellow…
Actually, that quotation is universal at least amongst English-speaking peoples, nor is the sentiment exactly new. It was Shakespeare, after all, who had Hamlet say, "First, let's kill all the lawyers."
While State Police performance isn't measured by the number of tickets they write, it is certainly true that unless they turn in a lot of fully used ticket books during this period they aren't going to get the plum assignments. Faking stops, however, isn't necessary in any highway system in…
Insight is an old and reputable mail order outfit. Although I haven't ever used them myself, I know a number of people who have and haven't heard any horror stories. Be aware that while the Talon drive you mention is MPC compliant according to current standards, it's a generation and…
(A) Remember that press releases of not yet existant products are often full of promises of "must have" stuff that might or might not be possible to be delivered. (B) Sometimes promised features are a lot harder to get in and get past beta testing (meaning they don't keep crashing…
There's no good way to find out, but it's likely that if it's an older version it does not. One key indicator is if it states that it is Kodak photo multisession (not single session) compatible. NEC has offered upgrades to the firmware on the 74 and 83, although you…
#Multimedia kit
Message #43694
There is one caveat with the Fusion, a fine and very cost-effective set otherwise. It's been known to cause some hardware conflicts with some systems because it's not as configurable as some of the others. Make sure you have the ability to return it if it proves incompatible, or at…
By the way–you heard anything from Corel on the new project yet? I haven't.
I live on a mountain. Or, at least, a high hill about as high as those in San Francisco overlooking a mile-wide valley. There's something wrong with almost everywhere anybody considers liveable. I'm not so much worried about the storms of Florida but the bugs and sink holes are far…
Yes, it's just more of the usual panic. I thought the "what to do if the big one hits" spots on the local news were hilarious. My wife and I almost died laughing at them. I guess they're terrified in Columbia that they might get a really big one, like…
Most laws, like most taxes, aren't designed to do what they claim but rather something else. Just as taxes are used to control behavior more than raise revenue (or at least as much), most laws like the speed laws and much of the civil code are used to raise revenue–not…
Radar trap types tend to be tall and thin and seem to be manufactured in the same factory worldwide (sort of like taxi drivers, who come from a different factory). It's the parking ticket issuers who tend to be small. State Police here do all manner of police work, but…
You must have a heck of a CI$ bill, I'd say! Sorry about the slang; I don't think "bum" is the proper comparative, though. Up the kazoo means generally up to your neck or not only more of something than you needed but more than you ever wanted, usually applied…
Actually, I've got two slots open since I was able to consolidate some cards. However, with two EISA FastSCSI-2 boards in the system, that's 2; LPTs take 2 more, COMs 2 more, sound board 1, 5 are reserved for BIOS use by the EISA chip set, and I forget what…
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