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In market after market, Microsoft has followed this strategy successfully. Text editors. Drive compression. Screen savers. Disk tool software. 3-D graphics acceleration. And soon, speech and handwriting recognition. If Microsoft wins against Justice, add Internet browsers to the list of conquests.
This method of time compression is effective in that it provides apersonal connection to history. The events of the past 200 years are not described as affecting faceless numbers of peasants and aristocrats but as affecting individuals with names and, occasionally, faces. At the same time, however, the book does...
One of the repercussions of the potentially dangerous neck compression, which turned out to not be serious, is that the insurance company will not allow the cheerleaders to perform stunts until they have a coach. Although she points out, "It's not like a coach is going to catch the...
Faculty members say that the continuing inflation of grades has led to a closely related phenomenon--what they term "grade compression"--since academic marks at the College can only go up so far.
The major problem of grade compression is the resulting difficulty in distinguishing very good academic performance from excellent academic performance, according to Faculty members.