Word: compressional
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TO THOSE FEW SOULS ON the planet who haven't yet wrestled with giant computer-operating systems like Microsoft's Windows 95, memory compression probably sounds like something that starts to set in around the fourth margarita. To the rest of the computer-using public, though, it sounds like a...
It was on the promise of such memory-compression technology--and a single product, SoftRAM 95--that a small Southern California company called Syncronys Softcorp rose this summer from start-up obscurity to the top of the software best-seller lists. Its glittery success in software sales was matched in...
So far, committee members are looking at the issue from two angles: grade inflation and grade compression. Basically, the grades' upward trend (inflation) leaves professors a smaller range of acceptable grades, making it difficult to differentiate between students.
Glaser's new system, called RealAudio, solves that problem. Taking advantage of the latest advances in digital compression, it delivers AM radio-quality sound in so-called real time. Click on an icon representing the show you want to hear, and you will hear it immediately, broadcast through your computer...
After the last song had been played, the final bottle of Poland Spring water drunk, hordes of sweaty tuxedoes and sore high-heeled feet stampeded to the trolleys heading back to Lamont. The mad rush resulted in massive compression of cummerbunds and corsages and even forced literal break-ups between...