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The company notes that UnGame can detectand remove games under Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, DOS and all major network operating systems.

D VD Software I nc . h a s released UnGarne 2.0 for Windows, the first Windows

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Reporting from Tokyo, the French Agence France-Press International News Service quotes Nintendo as saying the product has "the top-level power of expression which is impossible for conventional ones" and is able to display "glisteningtranslucent water" and "metallic objects and characters."

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The wire notesin a report from Mountain View, Calif., that Microsoft this week is expected to outline its plans for future Internet products.

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music, photo images and video clips. The disc also will feature original handwritten notes by Townshend, a variety of "surprise guest celebrity" performances and interviews with The Who's John Entwistle and Roger Daltrey.

way, there will be seven "dirty" words you can't say on the Internet.

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Market researcher IDC says Microsoft's new Internet strategy amounts to the firm becoming a par of the Internet community rather than trying to take over the global network and its major technology

I DC notes that t h e m o s significant example of Microsott's attitude is its announced intention to license Sun Microsystems' Java anil support a runtime version of Netscop Communication's JavaScript Worl< Wide Web programming tools.

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Windows 95 (or -96 or -97) will probably become the primary desktop operating system over the next few years... but these years will be one of a slow transition. Tens of millions of computers will continue to run older versions of the operating systems, just as an estimated 70 million computers just run DOS even today.

For the next couple of years, smart software (and hardware) developers, will continue to make their products compatible with DOS and Win 3.1, while perhaps including features that will require Windows 95 for full use (as is the case with the new Adobe Pagemaker 6.0).

One of the emerging software tiends that Windows 95 demonstrated was the extent to which CD-ROMs had penetrated the market.Microsoftwas surprised by how many Win 95 purchasers chose CD over floppy versions; in some places, there was a shortage of CD versions, while the floppy packages cluttered the shelves. It's been pointed out that the early-adopters of Win 95 were likely to be the same people who'd added CD-ROMs onto their computers, but CDs have clearly become vitally important, for games and educational solbvare, but also increasingly for large operating systems and business applications.

Even though it will be several years before Windows 95 fully reaches its potential, Microsoft's operating system competitors will have few opportunities. IBM is withdrawing from the desktop operating system field — choosing instead to focus OS/2 on the corporate market. Apple seems to have missed its chance to broaden the Mac's base through licensed clones... while their customer base remains loyal, their percentage of the growing market is slowly shrinking, outside of the education and graphics/publishing strongholds.

At the high end, Microsoft's NT continued to slowly creep up on both Uiux and Novell Netware; while both of these competitors continue to hold the largest share of their respective markets, neither seems able to demonstrate any faith in their own futures.

Even Unix's new-found advantage as the natural way to launch an Internet server may prove short-lived.

There was little new and exciting in applications this past year — software developers seemed cautious — waiting for Windows 95, and unwilling to commit themselves to projects that might have to be changed dependingon late-breaking news. (Developers, perhaps, were remembering what happened in the late '80s, when many developed for OS/2, only to

be caught unprepared for the popularity of Windows 3.0). Even the first generation of Win 95 products seemed cautiouseven from MicrosoA, products like Office95 offered evolutionary improvements over the previous generation, but no 'musthave' applications have yet been unveiled.

Instead of innovation, most of the software news in 1995 was in the area of high finance. Merger-mania continued, highlighted by IBM's purchase of Lotus, but also with California's Symantec buying Canada's Delrina. And the opposite happened at year's end, with Novell backing out of its purchase of Word Perfect (and UnixWare), to concentrate on its key networking business.

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And of course, CD-ROMs and multimedia extendedtheir reach— now about half of all computers sold for the home m arket include these features,asdo an increasing (though still minority) of the computers sold to the business market. Increasingly, the home market is being driven by the needs of game players, and that includes a fast CPU, tots of RAM, and a fast CD-ROM and good sound.

Look to next year for the new wave of CD-ROMs... at year's end, a new format was agreed upon, promising multigigabytes of data per disk (compared to about 600 megs right now), along with more easily writable disks. Of course, these new disks will be incompatible with the current generation of hardware, making for a combination of problems, and a new upgrade opportunity.

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More andmore users,m ore andmore Web pages. Internet Service Providers advertising on billboards along streets in Vancouver. What's happening this week on the Web appearing alongside TV listings in the newspaper. The newspaper itself appearing on the Web. At the same time, concerns about whether financial transactions on the Web would be secure. And concerns about bandwidth — whether the Internet would collapse under the weight of increased use and increased expectations. My predictions? The days of munetered Internet access are limited — right now, I can read

Time Magazineforfree every Monday on the Web, where the complete text appears sooner than copies reach subscribers.

Clearly, as soon as Time can find a way to bill be for the service, they will. Similarly, it is only a matter of time before users get billed for e-mail... right now, it costs virtually the saine to send one e-mail message as tosend 5000 copies...and the same to send amessage to a useron the same system as in Australia. enjoy it- it won't last.

The hot technology currently being touted is Hot Java, a programming language fiom Sun, Cunently, Web sites are passiveusers read information, look at graphics, maybe fill in a form. Java enables Web sites to become interactive; Web servers can house Java applications that can run on any

cotnputer that's logged in, regardless ofplatform. The speculation is that could make operatmg systems and platforms irtelevant, as anyone could log into a Web site, and tun the same applications.

Sun, Oracle, and other big companies are currently discussing the prospect of a $500 Internet connection computer — a minimal machine, that will run Java applications &om Web sewers. But the big problem is bandwidth again, and transmission speed. None of this is practical as long as you and Ihave to rely on modems and phone lines to access the Net. Cable modems? Fibre optics? Wide Area Networking? Not yet, I'm afraid.

Despite this, Internet browser company Netscape is being hyped as the next big thing — the Microsoft of the next ten years, if you will.„Maybe, but not right away. Despite their wildly successful stock offering this past Fall, they remain a company with miniscule sales, and according to founder James Clark, ifthey turn a profit next year, it will be by accident.

Personally, I consider the Internet wildly over-hyped, and suspect that we' ll see the beginnings of a reaction in the next year, as users (as with Win 95) find a gap between the hype and the reality. Another shakedown is looming as the big cable and phonecompanies make amove on thecurrently lucrative, but primarily local Internet ServiceProvidermarket.

Despite all this uncertainty, the Internet reinains an itnportant emerging frontier for computing. It is quite possible that we won' t see much in the way of innovation for standalone personal computers... there's only so much that can be done with word processing or spreadsheets, after all. The Internet is where the action is going to be for the next while — but don' t expect that problems with security and bandwidth will be solved any time soon. 0

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AbOut the authOr: Alu7t ZiSma7t iSa teacher and art associate editor of Computer Player,he can beneadted by e-mail alan zisman@computer-player.corn

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Buyingyour dream computer with a poor monitor is like bu)dng the ultimate stereo and connecting it to your kitchen radio's speakers.

Before buying, we usually cover the bases. 1st Base: A fast enough processor 2nd Base: Enough memory. 3rd Base A good solid video card.

But to truly hit a home run, consider the monitor. Let's face it. you will be staring at this item for the rest of your natural computing life and it's your only window into your systemperformance.

to know if I can SEE IT, and if I CAN' T, I'm not paying more. And if I can...Show Me. V-COM Computers, on the corner of Marine Drive and Kerr in Vancouver is a great place to do the comparison. The l arge computer retailer, ha s a m agnificent VISION WALL O n e computer is driving 8 different monitors of varying sizes,makes and models. T o do a true comparison, this is the only way to go. Here are some of Terms a brief Explanation, and the " Cun I SeeIt" 5 Star Rating

Seeing Is Believing Vse a great monitor once....and you' ll never wantto return to average page layouts, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics.

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V-COM Computers has provided this short guide to the terms used in monitor descriptions.

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minute demo you' ll leave V-COM educated, informed, and confident in your purchase.

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Visual Basic's built-in database functions are provided by Microsoft's Jet database engine. This is the same databaseengine used by Microsoft Access. The Jet database engine is supplied

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$300-$400 more than the Standard Edition. We highly recommend this product forboth beginning and advanced database application developers. The documentation is some of the best we' ve seen and early reports confirm that this upgrade has finally added robustness and speed - ttlements missing from version 3.0.

The Professional Edition is required for programmable access to the database functions.

For an additional $500, the Enterprise Edition has all the features of the Professional Edition and includes supplementary databasefeatures specifically designed to allow developers to create clientfserver applications. It also i ncludes M i crosoft V i s ual SourceSafe, agroup project-oriented version control system.

Documentotion The Standard Edition ships with the excellent 850 page Programtner'0 Guide. The Language Reference and the Professional Features books are only available with the Professional or Enterprise Editions. Since we are not reconunending the Standard Edition for databasedevelopment there isno need to comment on the lack of documentation for this edition.

The documentation supplied with the Professional Edition is superb. The Language Reference is over l000pages long and provides excellent programming examples for every function, method and property. The online help system duplicates this book and therefore all these may be cut and pasted into your own forms and modules.

The Professional Features book is another massive effort combining three books under a single cover. These are Creating OLE Servers, the Guide to Data Access Objects, and the Custom ControlReference. The Guide to Data Access Objects is well presented and particularly i to the database application developer.

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The underlying programming language in this version has changed to Viries, forms, reports, macros, and modsual Basic Applications Edition, version ules. Replicas that belong to the same 2.0. This is the same language that is replica set can exchange updates of data built-in to the latest versions of the apor replicated objects. This exchange is p1ications of the Microsoff Office suite called synchronization." including Excel, Project and, yes, Access What's Missing) 95. This has resulted in many This prodSass Ssss ea Seta minor changes ni ress nsa tees,na. e • uct, particularly tn,seassass to the language. the Professional t h T his coul d Edition, is a very cause some irri~s nearly a comaaseeaaa~ aeeaeeea Ssea~ tation to users plete package. cs ~ of earlier verThe only thing Ocee4seae S sees SsiaeaeS saSsiaa sions but overeeNeolasaa as Rgb': ereseese missing is a true ceasss01sse eesasss0aeeae all the change is caansssss asoas compiler. The lasssaaenNssssasnssstsssnsslssrss sanss.ss for the better, lt blinding speed had to be done that users love sooner or later but rarely see m —seatses sea ~aaeeaases. Iesas' as. and the changes ~ cesar ~ s s aa~S s sa Windows appliare really quite cations is only few. attainable in code. Borland's e

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Rushmore optimization, purchased several years ago along with Fox Software, has finally been added to many types of queries to speed up results.

Delphi is still the ortly product which can deliver in this respect.

Visual BasicversusDelphi While Visual Basic 4.0 doesn't have a true compiler, it is here now and Delphi for Windows 95 is not. Visual Basic has leap-frogged Delphiin many respects such as OCX technology, database replication, and now with the improvements to therobustness,speed, and ease of use of the Jet database engine it makes a good candidatefor the database frontend of choice.

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The Visual Basic .mdb data file format is so extremely convenient. Onefile This feature is fairly new to deskcontains the all the data tables and intop databases. lt allows remote users to dexes as well as all the query definitions keep their data in synch with a master and many other types of objects. copy. RepliT his i s c ation c a n ~ a~ a t he sa m e h ave m a n y .rndb file for~ne ~ta u aeS Orl e mn.--r. at that A h might be sirncess u ses. ply to k e ep Access and SeeesaSSS asees sS aeaeehassh etaaen the home and i' ttatsateessaaSa a Visual Basic the laptop vers make a near sions of a daunbeatable teehnh t abase in pair. Access s ynch w i t h can help the Oaeses s~ tasse the offic e verd evelo p e r s ion. Thi s w ith da t a

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Today, a notebook can replace desktops in virtually ail applications. Personally, I use a notebook for everything including photographic manipulation, 3D animation, and wouldn't trade it for any desktop. When you' re looking to buy a notebook, there are a few things you should know besides the price and brand name.

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PROCESSOR Most notebooks today (with the exception of most brand name products) are capable of using CPU's found in desktops. Most entry level notebooks use custom CPU socket mounts or surface mounted technology. Proprietary CPU's require special daughter boards t hat have l i m i ted av ailabil it y an d a

MEMORY A s notebook manufacturers strive for smaller and lighter solutions, space is limited. Standard RAM modules are bulky and require a lot of room; as a result manufacturers have to develop special memory boards that use less space.

There area sinall number of manufacturers of SIMM modules found in 386

or 486 desktop systeins. Standardizing memory has inany advantages to both the user and reseller; some are turning to PCMCIA memory cards, but they lack speed,cost effectiveness and memory accessibility (since most are virtual memory and not true DRAM). There is hope though, Hitachi has developed a standard 64-bit DIMM memory module for notebooks. The DIMM module, al-

though new to the market, will have a significant impact on sales of notebooks as pricing drops and capacities increase.

HARD DISKDRIVE Hard drive technology is moving towards more portable solutions, major manufacturers have moved production to the 2.5" form factor, closing the price gap

higher cost. A surface mounted CPU cannot be upgraded to comply with newer L im i ted

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The MegaBook 770 multimedia notebook was designed to run today' s most detnanding multimedia applications. Available in 10.4" TFT active or STN passive LCD colour screens, the MegaBook utilizes 1MB of local bus video and provides simultaneous video display on both the LCD and any external device. This notebook offers optional processing power with the Intel DX4/100 microprocessor, storage (featuring 540MB, 81DMB or 1.3GB removable hard drives} and expandability (froin 4MB to 36MB).

Additional features include 2 PCMCIA Type II slots or 1 PCMCIA Type II and I PCMCIA Ty3ie II slot, a

CableMaster II port, external monitor hook-up, an external Keyboard or PS/2 tttousefport and when fully loaded weighs only 6.4 lbs.

Megalmage has just announced the Pentium MegaBook 880. Offering all of thesame greatfeatures asthe MegaBook 770, the 880 model has been enhanced with th e l a test t echnology. The MegaBook 880 features an Intel Pentium 75, 90 or 100mhz microprocessor, 8MB of RAM (expandable to 40MB), an infrared port, Microsoft Windows 95, an 810MB removable bard drive (expandable ta 1.3GB) and is available in a 10.4" TFI' or DSTN LCD display.

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The systems are priced ranging from the IPC 575 at $2999.00 to the IPC 5IOOt at $3900.00. All units are shipped standard with an Intel Pentium CPU, SMB RAM, 16bil sound cards, PCMCIA Type II rtc Ill slots, Track Stick pointing device, IMB local bus video, External SCSI P ort, R echargeable NiMH battery, carrying bng, car cigarette adapter.

G VC, l h e well known mod em n aker, i s n ow o ff e r i ng notebooks with the GVC Green 740 Notebook series. There are 3 models and offer the following features, approx. 6 lbs, CPU and LCD upgradability, removable HD and floppy. Options include l6-bit stereo sound system or battery, trackball or stick pointer, PC Card slots - 2 Type II or I Type III, exchangeable keyboard for other languages,Advanced Power Management for long battery life. RAM is 4MB expandable to 20MB. Power Management features includenormal, doze, sleep and suspend.

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ECP is designed for external devices Rnd may transfer at 1,000kb/IL

DISPLAY Currently there are three basic s creen types fo r n o t e books: M o n o -

chrome Cathode Cadmium Florescent Tube (CCFT), Dual Scan Passive Triple

twist Pneumatic (DSTN), and a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) active matrix screens.

LCD screens don't generate dangerous magnetic fields found with all CRT monitors. Even low radiation models produce radiation )evels that are unhealthy with prolonged use.

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Cyrix based notebooks from CTX at 486 prices C TX, a supplier of color mlott r s and notebooks introduces Cyrix processor based notebooks, There are two models: the EZ500T, using the Cyrix SR86100 MHz processor and the Ez520T using the Cyrix Sx86-120MHz processor.

The new EZBook Sx86 series notebook computers offerhigher performance thanthe 486 DX4/1 00 based models but are comparably priced. Estimated street prices beginning at $2,699.

The new notebooks provide writeback cachesupport to perform higher CPU benchmsrks, along with 8 MB RAM expandable to 32MB and an 810MB HD plus many other highly advanced features.

Display upas: TNLCD(Twisted Nernatic Liquid Crystal Display)

are made up ofPolanzing Filters and Liquid Crys-

tals, that twist 90 degrees. Twisling the crystals lets the light pass through the Alters, untwisting the crystals allows the polarizers to block light.

This is a lowcost solution and is easy to manu-

facture, the probk.*mls it does notwelk with pas-

sively driven screens with highmultiplexing rates (lots of rows), low contrast, and the colors may bleed. To overcome the problem with high multiplexing rates, the STN solution was inspired by Dwight Berremen (AT&T) ScheNer 8 Nehling of Blown Boveri.

good for static images or slow moving video (8

frames per second).

Nits: ale the measurement of light from the display. The higher the nits the brighter the screen (average 85-100 Nits), need 21 0 Nits to work in direct sun light, The problem is the higher the nits the greater the power drain drastically reducing battery life and increasing cost, The trade is a paradox since users who need touse the displays oulside also need better battery life.

The lighting mechanism may also difl'er bshed displays, single tube and dual tube displays. A dual tube is a higher cost but will provide better

curve, resulting in a much greater contrast on high multiplex displays.

TFT activeor Thin Film Trutslstor displays (active matrix) are the best display on the market currently, providing the highest contrast ratio and faster refresh 80ms. Which is gleet for most video (16 frames per second).

Single Scan1/480 duty cycle (scans 480 rows per cyde), poor contrast and slow response.

300ms refresh rate.

Dualscan 1/240 duty cycle (scans 1-240 and 241 ~ silnuianeously per cyde), fast response and good contrast. 150ms refresh rate which is

ing graysca)es,the notebooks can display color on external monitors. Most manufacturersare no longer producing notebooks with monochrome displays.

Color passive screens have had many improvements since the Single Scan Passive Matrix came out and now approach the brilliance of active matrix screens. Dual Scan screens redraw in two different directions simultaneously, producing R laster re&esh and clearer picture.

A faint horizontal line in the middle of the screen, caused by the dual scan process, will be apparent until the display warms up. The Triple twist Pneumatic is a better Dual Scan screen. DSTN screens have large viewing areas and greater contrast, which is better than other Dual Scan screens. DSTN screens are approaching

brightness at0 reduce battery life.

A new active display is being developed called ASM, this display will oNer a true high speed video or 32 frames per second and higher nits forbetter brightness.

t)Ie clarity of active matrix displays and it

is sometimes difficult to distinguish screen type when viewing a static image directly, but DSTN still does not have a fast enough refresh to display a smooth moving image.

The best display screen is the TFT active matrix screen. !t has a perfect edge-to-edgepicture and no focus variations give a clear and sharp image that is better than most VGA monitors. A fast refresh allows for easy cursor tracking and for viewing kinetic images such as video. TFT screens are made up of 307,200 transistors, each with its own RGB and light source. Active matrix have superior display quality, but also have higher power drain as the colnputer must drive each of the transistors sepaCALlaa SEND rOR FREECAIALOGUS

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STN LCD(Super Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display) are made up of crystals that twist 180-270 degrees that use twisted ctystals as a light frequency retarder". The STN LCD has a

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A slide out allows users to swap drives easi)y. II also features built-in Sound Blaster Pro-comp atible l6-bit stereo sound card along with a built-in speaker and mic, 3.5" 1.44MB internal floppy drive, 2 PCMCIA slots (one Type Il and one Type III), EZGlide touchpad pointing device. EZBooks come withWindows 95 and a carrying case.Options include PCMCIA 2x CD-ROM drive ($299 SRP), PCMCIA fax/modemand Ethernet card.

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The optional Desk Station V's external PCI expansion bus supports 32bit PCI and 16-bit ISA as well as Plug and Play and simplified card configuration. A built in SCSI-2 port, 5.25" halfheight bay and 2 Type III PC Card slots.

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The 4.8 pound Smaribook Compact is 486VL-bus system that includes a PCMCIA type 2.0 or 3.0 slot, integrated floppy, front-centered 19mm trackball and NiMH battery. An ergonomic design includes wrist-rest and regularsized Igmm keys.

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Starting with mutual responsibility.

Client and developer alike want a product that has been e6'ectively created with regard to quality, time and cost, It never hurts to do a little investigation about the developer and his reputation and experience. If you are hiring the developerbecause of specif(c representations made to you, or assumptions that you

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Assuming that the developer has checked out, the foundation of the contract

should be the developer's proposal to youand how the proposal is translated into detailed specifications during the project. This can be one of your best opportunities to ensure that your needs are met.

All of this begs the question of whether you should build a custom solution or just modify an existing application. Experts differ on the answer to this, but it is a question well worth asking before committing.

"And how can I evaluate if I am getting a well thought out and designed product?" you might ask. In the absence of industry standards, you might want to have an independent software engineer review the developer'sdevelopment plan and design. There are also tools available to the developer such as ProDoc, developed by the Software Productivity Centre, a non-

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You will want to provide for an evaluation andapproval process, not just for the finished pmduct bufor each part of the planning process. A well thought out agreement will also provide for quality assurance through testing to agreed standards. It is becoming more common to tie progress payments to quality assurance instead of simply the production of work product.

Good documentation can also be critical to proving a claim for Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credits. Currently, software development in general continues to qualify for this tax incentive, with certain exceptions. Advice from an experienced tax professional at the beginning of the project can increase the chances that your project will qualify.

Ownership of property rights is more ofien left to chance than to discussion and agreement. For example, did you know that your independent contractor will own the copyright in your work product in the absence of an agreement to the contrary.

Some rules are obscure and can resultin unintended results, and you are well advised to get professional advice to ensure that you get what you bargained for.

Additionally, you will want to ensure that the developer is able to document your rights, and assure you that no one else has a competing claim. Thisis an opportunity to check the developer's internal procedures, and whether the appropriate legal agreements are in place with employees of and contractors to the developer.

Ownership issues can also be important if your product includes content that belongs to others - pictures, images, sound, and other copyrighted material. Obtaining the required clearances can be time consuining and expensive. %hile this concern most commonly arises when creating multi-media products, it deserves a place on your checklist.

To understand the developer's perspective, he will normally prefer to license rather than transfer copyright to the client.

This is often because the custom sofbvare is build on portions of software previously built for others - routines which the developer considers part of his library and intends to use in future projects.

Ownership goals might be better understoodand expressedasa desireto create barriers to competition. The outright ownership of the software is just one way to express this desire. Your goals may vary depending on whether the project is to develop sofhvare for internal use or for resalethe former being much more common.

A common ways of resolving this is to negotiate an agreement with the developer restricting him from developing a competitive product during an agreed pe-

riod of time. These negotiations can often be difficult, because the developer cornmonly does not include a Price in the quotion on his ability to conduct business. You may enduP Payingmore foryour Product, or at a minimum having to make some hard decisions about the extentyou will go to tiy and restrict competition.

Oiten overlooked is the need for ongoing maintenance and upgrading of the software. You willlikelyneedsomeformof

access to the developer's documentation and the source code in order to do this.

And one last hint. During the course of development, you will most certainly disclose details about your business which are confiidential. Some of this information will be important enough to you that your competitive position could be substantially effected if the in f o rmation is disclosed. Apr operly cr a f ted non-disclosure agreement will co m p lete your project documentation.

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The modem performs well, supporting all the standard 14.4-level modem specifications — V32bis, V42bis, and so forth, and operates as a Group III fax, for sending and receiving. It can be configured to work on any of the four standard COM ports, and supports the stan-

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It represents good value in a modest package.

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Neiahertz 14.4 X Jack ftheriiet No<lcm This offeringfrom Megahertz is a step up in features, packaging, and price from GVC's card. It's just one of a series of PC Card modems and netw orking a d apters f r o m Megahertz, now owned

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Unlike GVC's c ard, which r equires a proprietary phone cable (lose it at your own risk), the current line Megahertz models feature a trademarked XJack adapter — a thin phone jack that fits into the body of the PC Card when not in use. Simply press on the end, and the XJack pops out. That means you can plug any standard phone jack into this card. Some fear that it may be easy to break off, however, a charge that Megahertz denies. At thesame ti me, use ofan X Jack and phone cord may make it impossible to use some second PC Cards at the same time.

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The included software allows connection to several popular cell-phone models at speeds up to 14.4 (which is pretty go o d , con s i dering t he unreliability of cell connections in general), and includes a nice feature — it notices whether or not the network adapter is in use... if not, it powers down that side of the card, providing dramatic savings on notebook batteries.

The company claims compatibility with DOS, the entire Windows family (including 3.11, 95, and NT), OS/2, and several varieties of UNIX (though not the popular Linux). As with the other cards in this review, I used it with Windows 95,which again, successfully recognized both the network and modem functions, and automatically installed the appropriate software.

T he documentation aids in t h e sometimes complicated configuration of the modem for your telecom softwareespecially necessary since no telecom software is included with this package.

It lists a number of different modems that can be chosen if your software lists modems by model, and also includes sample initialization strings for a wide

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oftenaccompanied by spectacular visuals and/or a soundtrack. The bad news

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Newsgroups: Notorious for making the string of characters "alt.sex" famous, Newsgroups allow written opinions, essays, discussions and file sharing (or "posting") on an ongoing basis with people from all over the world who share similar interests. There are currently over 13,000 Newsgroups out there - and growing, organized by categories and sub-categories. The bad news f or parents:A very small percentage of these Newsgroups involve blunt and explicit discussions on sex... of all types and variations (ex: alt.sex.pictures .children, alt.sex. beastiality). Some of these more controversial Newsgroups contain encoded (though easily decoded) photographs that are often borderline illegal (under local laws around the world) for the authors to post as an alreadydecoded and formatted photo on the WWW (above). Let it be known: Free speech reigneths here, indeed.

Chat Rooms: Though it might sound like a step backwards for communication, this involves a group of Internet users taking part in "live" conversations, sort of like the party telephone line except one doesn't speak for all to hear; one types for all to see. They can be quite good fun for all ages. The bad news for parents: Like any conversation where you aren't present, kids will say the darndest things... and quite a few that would get your eyebrows raised, too!

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to expect certain things - like communication. Though it is still in many ways a seller's market, there are hungry ISP's out there. As the connection prices can' t likely drop much further, product differentiation will likely occur along the lines of two way dialogue and additional s ervice. If a l l y o u a r e g etting i s impersonaltelephone access,consider switching.

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Either way, it's better to know what you' re dealing with.

6. Monitor the time kids (Big kids, too!) spend on the Internet, especially if it' s only for entertainment. There is no substitute for fresh air and exercise. If you are using an on-line service like CompuServe,or an Internet ServiceProvider (ISP) which charges by the hour, this is another reason to stay on top of over-usage.

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Frame Relay and T1 Lines

By Sean Eirington verthelastfew years,Frame Relay technology has become the transmission medium of choice for companies replacing expensive dedicated leased lines. Unlike leased lines, which are private, point-to-point connections,Frame Relay sends your data through a public data network.

Data sent through the network is packagedin 'Frames' and 'Relayed' Rom

The idea of public networks devoted solely to data is not new - in the 1970s the telephone companies introduced the X.25 standard as a way of sharing public data networks. The trunk lines in those days were nowhere near as reliable as they are today, so the X.25 standard included a lot of overhead for error checkingand correction. This was done at each switch as the data packet

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protocol required a lot of extra information sent with each packet to ensure that it arrived at the destination intact.

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and leaves error detection to the computers at either end of the link which actually receive the data. If a packet is corrupted in transit, the applications running on your computer will detect it and request that the sending computer re-send the packet. This means that Frame Relay does not need the elaborateerror checking mechanisms of the old X.25 networks and is able to handle much more data more quickly.

The public Frame Relay network is often referred to as 'the cloud' and is usually shown as a cloud-like shape in network diagrams. In order to access the cloud Irom your office you will need to buy a dedicated connection to the nearestpaint-of presence (POP) provided by your phone company. (Unlike ISDN, which is a local loop service provided only

by BC Tel, the market for Frame Relay services is hotly c ompetitive with Fonorola, Sprint Canada, Unitel, Westel and BC Tel all providing service), This dedicated line is usually a 56,000 bps line, although you can get faster access lines ifyou need them.

Frame Relay is very scaleable and thereforevery cost effective. You buy a Committed Information Rate (CIR) Irom the telephone company which is the amount of data that your carrier guarantees will always be able to get through the network. Eventhough you might have a 56 Kbps line into the cloud, you might only need an average throughput of 16 Kbps through the cloud so you pay only for the amount of bandwidth you actually use.

The Frame Relay cloud is not terribly busy in Canada so you can 'burst' up to 56 Kbps and still take a chance that your data will get through. When a Franc Relay packet enters the network there is a bit called the 'discard eligible'(DE) bit which is switched on or off. If the cloud is temporarily busy, any packets you send in excess of your CIR aremarked DE and arediscardedby thenetwork, This doesn't happen very often (although it might as the cloud becomes busier over the next few years) but if it does then you will have to retransmit your data.

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FECN and BECN are packets sent by the cloud to your router telling it that the cloud is congested. Yourrouter should slow down the rate at which it is pumping data into the cloud, and if it doesn' t, then it will continue to pour out data which may be earmarked to be discarded.

A router can also prioritize your traffic by allowing some packets to have precedence over others. This can be very handy when you have many users competing for bandwidth. Database lookups which directly affect customer service, for example, can be given a higher priority than file transfers or email.

When choosing a Frame Relay router you should also look for an easy to configure interface, a fairly fast processor and a migration path to ATM (asynchronous transfer mode). Frames used in Frame Relay vary in size depending on the protocol beingused, ATM frames arethesame size regardless of the protocol. Just as standardized containers make shipping more efficient, standardized data packets can move through the network more quickly.

ATM holds a lot of promise and you will want to have a migration path from Frame Relay to ATM as it becomes available.

If you just need to connect terminals or PCs to a Frame Relay network you can use a Frame Relay Access Device (FRAD) rather than a router. These units cost about $1000 and up depending on how many ports you require. FRADs are very useful when dealing with unroutable protocols likeSNA because ifyou usearouter,these protocols must be encapsulated in another routable protocol like TCP/IP which significantly increases the size of the packet.

Recently, severalvendors have come to market with 'voice over frame' units which allow you to use your data network to also carry voice traffic. A company with an under-used Frame Relay network can save a lot of money if the spare bandwidth isused to send packets ofvoice data.The savings can be huge for companies with international networks and lots of overseas telephone lines, Because voice traffic is time sensitive (ie, we can't have large gaps in the middle of a sentence) a voice over fiame unit must have a fairly large bufferand fast processor to avoid delays or latency in the transmission. Look for more of these type of products to hit the market soon.

transmitting data at 1.544 Million bits per second (Mbps). The Tl connection to the Internet means that your ISP gets his Internet feed at 1.544 Mbps. Your ISP may also be bringing in user's calls via a Tl l ine rather than having several individual phone lines.

By the way, a T2 line is 96 lines combined into one physical phone line capable of transmitting data at 6,312 Mbps.

A T3 line is 672 lines combined into one physical phone line capable of transmitting data at 44.736 Mbps. Tl lines are quite inexpensive and common in the United States. In BC it costs more to get a Tl line than it does to get 24 ordinary phone lines so there is no t m uch incentive to do so.

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he child's eyes were wide open, with a combination of horror and excitement, watching the glowing screen.... you may have seen that cover of Time Magazine, early in the summer, a part of the media bouncing back from its uncritical exaggerated hype of the Internet, with an equally one-dimensional attack on so-called

cyberporn.

Time, forexample, based its June 26th cover story on what it described as "an exhaustive" study on the pervasiveness of online pornography, by Martin Rimm, originally published in the Georgetown Law Review, Among other claims, Time quoted that in "Usenet groups where digitized images are stored, 83.5 percent of the pictures are pornographic.*' Response to the cover stoiy was immediate, and critical of its methodology and results. Take the statistic about Usenet groups,for example. Usenet groups, on the Internet, are online public discussion groups...covering over 4,000 different topics from highly technical, to pop culture, to business, to

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Buried in the fine print of both Rimm's study and the Time article was another statistic, suggesting that only 0.5% of Internet traffic could be considered pornographic.

The harm, however, has been done — the public impression of the Internet as a den of pornographers will be hard to shake. (Readers with Internet access interested in a detailed critique of Rhnm's study and the Time article can check http: //www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.

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for cyberporn on the Internet, you' re going to find it. Playboy's World Wide Web site is among the most popular single destinations on the Web. Or go to a general interest site like 'Downtown Anywhere', which aims to be sort of like an online mall. You' ll find a wide range of businesses located there, such as the Icelandic National Tourist Agency. But check the list of the ten most visited locations there — the week I checked, seven of the ten were sexually oriented.

It's not surprising. Sex has sold other new technologies — the first generation of video rental stores, for example, were

almost all specialists in x-rated movies.

And even with the broadening of the Internet's user-population, a large percentage remains University undergraduates (predominantly male), with free access through their academic institution.

Parents, businesses, and schools have a legitimate desire to limit access to sex on the Net. And so there has been increasing interest in a technological fix to the problem created by the uncontrolled technology of the Net. One of the most well thought-out has been created

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Many parents, for example, are uneasy about their children giving out their phone number or address while on-line.

Adding these to Net Nanny's dictionary will make it impossible for your child to share this information with cyberstrangers.

The Net Nanny folks are including sample dictionaries with their software, and are promising to make updated lists available for downloading. This is important, because adults can include the Web addresses or UseNet group names that they want their kids to avoid, simply by adding them to the dictionary... getting a ready-made list from Trove saves hours on the Net looking for the places where you don't want your kids 'to go.

There are lots of benefits from letting children explore the on-line community — but like any community, physical or virtual, cyberspace has its bad neighborhoods. Net Nanny allows a parent to set some limits, while allowing their child the freedom to wander where they choose within those limits.O About the author: Alon Zisnaon is a teacher and an associate editor of ComputerPlayer,he can bereached at e-mail at alan zisman®computer-player. corn

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Modems ems, modems, modem!!! Wh bu? y. There must be hundreds of modems on the shelves and they all boast o o f be'ing the best.

the lau augh to read about what the have do lf I do n't teach you an hin new technology. If you' re a technician and you want to review old material thi r ight up yo ll (Kinda I'k i e e p eople we vote for). Lets get ac to the real world.

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That will be to increase revenues and reduce expenditures in order to average their stub period income over the next ten years.

Initially your response may be why would I want to increase this year's taxes? We must be cognisant of the fact that any increase to income in the stub period &om the business's former year-end to December 31st will qualify for the reserve and the income will be brought in over the next ten years. Consequently, you may pay slightly more tax in the current year but less in 1996 and bringing that income in spreading and over ten years allows for deferral of tax.

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