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From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: What's a megapulse?
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 12:19:36 EDT
In a message dated 5/27/98 4:21:18 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
gurth@******.NL writes:

> Also be prepared to find out that if these methods were to give "right"
> values, people tend to write absurdly long essays in decker comments in SR
> books. Lots of times we see things like "12.5 Mp snipped" -- which would
> equate to a text several MB large. I dare you to write that much text in a
> few minutes, or even days :)
>
I know I snipped stuff on both sides of this paragraph, concerning sound, DVD
memory values, etcetera...

However, something that I should point out is that we as the gamer are only
barely getting the full impact of a truly *Interactive* medium. We have books
and text, what if -all- the material was in VRML or higher mediums? Every
written word actually becomes Phonic, with full color and frame-imaging
comparisons. Suddenly, the UB book(s) memory comparisons are NOT that out of
the ordinary in comparison to say, a DVD disk if we take this into thought.

Remember, "typing" does still exist in the SR universe, the but the vast
majority of stuff in symbolic representation and/or Full-X Interactive.
Everything IMO is a recording or a macro, and even macros can be direct guided
by voice/mental controls.

-K

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