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...Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer time behind what has been perceived as the ephemeral public life of RSIs. "In the past," she pointed out, "it was a bigger deal in grad schools." While the RSI Action Group, an undergraduate organization, was founded this year, its graduate school analog is already four years old. And now that many undergraduates are already dismissing the disease as old news, Podolsky reports meeting first-years who are recovering from RSIs developed in high school. Perhaps the sudden rise and fall of RSI was simply a measure of the rapid decrease...
...should invest in professorships in Women's Studies rather than the Radcliffe Institute. The Afro-American Studies department is known for Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West, William Julius Wilson and other high-octane academics. It is not known for the W.E.B. DuBios Institute for Afro-American Research, the analog to the Radcliffe Institute...
...thought of him last week when people were comparing the mass murders in Kosovo to the Holocaust--how inept the comparisons were, vile as Slobodan Milosevic is. The Holocaust has no analog; this is why, almost 60 years after the fact, it is still impossible to fit it into the rest of history...
That's where Sony's recent introduction of digital Hi8 cameras comes in, I explained to my wife. The cameras are backwards compatible and can play 8-mm or Hi8 tapes. You can even connect your old 8-mm camera to the Digital8, convert your old analog Aunt Sonya movies to digital and inflict them on future generations. The new Sony cameras have CD-like sound recording as well. And the four models are relatively cheap, starting at $799 and running as high as $1,299. The high-end unit, which features a nifty still-image feature and comes bundled...
...Digital8 may be lost on us. But the benefits of digital video cameras are still compelling. You can create a huge variety of special effects and generally enjoy far more control over how images look. Also, digital tapes are much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well put pressure on Canon, Sharp, JVC and Panasonic to drop the prices of their standard digital cameras...