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...fade even further when and if TV takes the next step, toward video on demand. Today media companies dream of using the technology to sell new shows like The Sopranos; tomorrow they could use it to make every TV into an a la carte TV museum. (If they don't, someone else might: already hackers are swapping digitized video files, raising the prospect of Napsterized TV.) The flip side is that we may lose the common experience of having watched a few agreed-on classics: as TV becomes more like books, we may find that access to the complete Keats...
...freebie. I ramped up to Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 ($99), the best-selling burning software for PCs. It had one truly tantalizing feature. You could blend tracks into one another like a true DJ. I dreamed of making nonstop party discs without a nanosecond of silence or fade-out. Alas, this is no good if you can't preview what the transitions are going to sound like--which, 9 times out of 10, Roxio's software failed...
...Krista Kafer: There's some weaknesses in the program that need to be addressed before any such expansion, and more research needs to be done. What existing research shows is a fade-out effect - whatever gains are made early on fade by the second grade. There are some programs, primarily those who have those pre-reading skills that have been very successful. Others are basically just expensive daycare...
...freebie. I ramped up to Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 ($99), the best-selling burning software for PCs. It had one truly tantalizing feature. You could blend tracks into one another like a true DJ. I dreamed of making nonstop party discs without a nanosecond of silence or fade-out. Alas, this is no good if you can't preview what the transitions are going to sound like--which, 9 times out of 10, Roxio's software failed...
...This is something that is mainly foisted on us by the media. You'd think that with the explosion of information in our society, when you can find out whatever you want whenever you want to, that the reliance on anniversaries as catch-all containers for news would slowly fade away. In fact, the opposite is the case. Not a week goes by when we're not all commemorating the 20th anniversary of this or the 35th anniversary of that. It's as though we can't think of things to write or broadcast about unless it's some kind...